skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
-$37.00 is a distress price, just for the unwitting investors who agreed to play “Hot Potato: Bloodsport.”

By definition, you’re looking at the price for people who wouldn’t want to play, if they could avoid playing. They are literally over a barrel. If they don’t get out, the broker gets to screw them even worse at the deadline.

Volume was up, because some people were going through heroics to close their position at all costs.

But the end of day price is for those who got screwed: the truly unaware who didn’t realize they were out of time, or didn’t think about it going past $0. It’s probably relatively few people, despite today’s volume. When you lose control, someone agrees for you that you’ll pay $37/bb to get out.
Helping Survivors Become Heroes
It might be the total package or it might be inertia. While Apple had a head start on polished hardware, all of the producers are catching on in some ways.

If you can do your work on another OS (and, generally, you can but habits are strong and you are just so used with your favourite brand) then another laptop doesn't seem so far fetched.

I think this is getting closer to the truth. We are creatures of habit and staying with Apple feels cozy.
> Results indicate that over 50% of infected are asymptomatic.

If infections double every five days, and it takes 5 days for symptoms to show, then a huge number of samples will be presymptomatic.

The same thing happened with the Diamond Princess, where initial testing showed there were many “asymptomatic” people, but they then got symptoms and the true “asymptomatic “ number dropped to a much lower number.
The main reason should be that speculating on both this and the exposed-and-maybe-immune isn't that relevant for the more responsible approaches to managing the situation - isolation, quarantine, safety equipment, testing and contact tracing.

This kind of speculation is relevant to the more irresponsible approaches; "developing herd immunity" and "immunity certificates" but it mostly should be a reminder to "don't do that because you really don't know what you're getting into".
Side note: common air duster can be used as refrigerant in old R12 systems used in cars until the early 1990s. there's a cheap "clamp" available online that punctures the duster can to tap it for the refrigerant. As far as i know, no modifications are needed to the old R12 system besides vacuuming out which any professional air conditioning technician can do.
Why give up all of your equity ? As a founder you created something, shouldn't you insist on a buyout?
Considering that the more data we get with regards to fatality rate, it's looking more and more along the lines of the seasonal flu (which has a vaccine, generally). The drastic measures taken to protect a tiny minority of people are looking to be more and more pointless. We would not tolerate shutting down the world economy to protect people from the seasonal flu, and we should not tolerate it for this.
In Zizek's words, white coffee without milk isn't black coffee.
I want to. They're all closed here (SW Ontario).
> Note that the senior author Bhattacharya and of course Ionnadis were advancing this theory before data collection began.

Declaring a hypothesis publicly and then gathering data to see if it’s supported or not is good science, not bad.
Yes, one group of people can represent the same interest in two different states. The objection is to "sites that seemed to be engaged in astroturfing, which involves masking the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants"
'Here's how criminals use Bitcoin to launder dirty money' (https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/11/26/bitcoin-money-lau...)

'Bitcoin Money Laundering: How Criminals Use Crypto' (https://www.elliptic.co/our-thinking/bitcoin-money-launderin...)

'Bitcoin Has Lost Steam. But Criminals Still Love It.' (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/technology/bitcoin-black-...)
In Seattle it's much higher.

Keep in mind that if you just ask people if they're on drugs, many will deny it. Many will cite other reasons for being homeless. You have to dig a little deeper to find that those "other reasons" are often a consequence of drug abuse.

35%, while very likely an undercount, is still a huge number.
> spend 30 minutes undoing 5 minutes of damage

Cache.

If there are 100 trolls posting: "all birds are blue" you only need to refute it once and link "Are all birds blue? No" article.
5 minutes of damage * 100 vs 30 minutes of undoing
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The iPad Magic Keyboard
Rejecting delivery would be no different than any other contractual arrangement, like buying a car or selling stock. If you decide to not follow the contract, you'll be sued.
In an arrangement with the US Government it could be put into the ground, elsewhere. Doing it without state permission would be an entirely different matter however. I'm not aware of any very large, privately owned underground storage caverns (such that they could make a dent in absorbing the over-supply).

This is being discussed:

"The U.S. Energy Department is negotiating with nine companies to rent about 23 million barrels of oil storage capacity in its Strategic Petroleum Reserve as part of a Trump administration bid to help drain the country’s growing glut of crude."

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2020/4/14/doe-working-to-lease...

Here is what the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve looks like (it can absorb some of our over-supply briefly):

> Four underground salt caverns on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico store the oil. That's a central location. The oil can be distributed to nearly half of the U.S. oil refineries either through interstate pipelines or via barges. It only takes 13 days for the oil to enter the U.S. market from the time the president first gives the order.

> There are two cavern locations in Texas. As of September 30, 2018, Bryan Mound held 235.3 million barrels in 20 caverns. Big Hill held 153.4 million barrels in 14 caverns. The other two are in Louisiana. West Hackberry held 199.5 million barrels in 22 caverns. Bayou Choctaw held 71.88 million barrels in 6 caverns.

> The maximum capacity of all four caverns is 727 million barrels.

There is also a good FAQ on it:

https://www.energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves/strate...
Rules of Thumb for a 1x Developer
>Constitutional Republics

Very important distinction and thank you for making note of it. While our government is inspired by democratic (rule by the people) values and allows representation through the Legislative branch, it is also designed to protect basic rights and to delegate much else to the States.

I think direct democracies work in small, culturally homogenous countries like Norway or a place where everyone is "on the same page" like Switzerland which really does have a direct democracy, but in such a large and heterogenous federation like the US it could get pretty scary pretty quickly. There is a mysteriously frightening dimension to crowd thought and mob rule that I think individuals don't think about until it's too late, too late to consider what the long-term repercussions of 51% suddenly agreeing on one thing might have.
This can become a problem if your judiciary is corrupted.

I mean, it ought to be fine, but if a country were to let politicians pick the judges, that would be a problem right?

Like maybe one elected politician just gets to pick anybody he wants, friend of a rich donor maybe, and they're now a judge even though they've no relevant qualifications?

Not mentioning any particular North American countries whose name begin with the letter 'U'.
Seems like a nitpicky distinction to make. If I could buy a small cheapish device that would replace a large 4k/8k monitor that costs thousands I'd buy it in a heartbeat even if it didn't track which direction I was looking in.
The Director-General says "trust us", after they just spent 3 months repeating CCP propaganda and spreading misinformation on masks, travel bans and other measures.

WHO stated on multiple occasions that the coronavirus had no human-to-human transmission, blindly trusting CCP sources while having zero access themselves.

They also made moves to put China's enemies in serious danger, including by refusing access to data to Taiwan and ignoring Taiwan's warnings of the virus in December.

Why should anyone trust this organization?
Sadly I am lazy about playing video games. Have a baseball sim open for a week but I keep choosing a nap.
That's actually a really good point. I've gone through plenty of contracts that are 20+ pages in length and wondered if they really need to be that long.

It's times like these that those contract clauses protect you, in a big way.
Also happening in one small section of the Mission in SF: https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Why-everyone-in-B...
This strikes me as classic, Reddit-style conspiracy theory. I have no idea who Andrew Bogan is, but he didn’t play a major role in the execution of the study. I’m sure on the paper’s published the contribution section will specify what he did. Remember: this is a preprint!
This is why you don't compare the current situation tothe known fatality rates of another pandemic for which the dust has settled and we already know everything. A better (not perfect) method is the CFR, where you compare the current CFR to the CFR of the other pandemic when that pandemic was ongoing.

If we take something like H1N1, the CFR during that pandemic was significantly lower than what we face right now [0] and was highly dependent on healthcare infrastructure. We're getting CFR rates, e.g. in NYC, far in excess of those seen in even the worst places with H1N1.

[0] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...
Hm, death as a practical solution.
>Frankly, I'm not sure why so many on HN are surprised by this. The scientific data on asymptomatic carriers coming out of Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Iceland has been very clear on a majority asymptomatic frame for this virus. I think that maybe authorities and responsible people are concerned that this information could lead to people flouting lockdowns more.

Because people on here panicked without thinking and don't want to admit it.

No one wants to say "Oh yeah, I ignored second year calculus and never bothered plotting logistic growth curves with the full spread of expected fatalities. Because of this I supported legislation that's started the next Great Depression. But I meant well!"
We sure can do it technologically and i imagine you want something like project Haven.

But considering the usecase of streaming for teaching, like other comment mentioned there are other ways to do it and if there are more requests for this, we would be happy to add
The "reopen" campaigns are simple strategy for recruiting members. The states will reopen, eventually and inevitably, and your raw recruits will claim credit for forcing a change on 'the establishment'.

Making an assumptive sale that they are cohesive group by registering many domains seems like a valid tactic.

What am I missing?
Without doing a real bailout of normal people, no we can't go more than a few months.

If we're going to demand grocery store workers get buried in the ground for the sake of keeping things running, we can afford to radically shift the distribution of wealth toward the people we're literally condeming.
The 'Undertaker of Silicon Valley' Stays Busy as Startups Lay Off Thousands
This one was good too, especially because the screenshot definitely gave many some heart palpitations.

https://opnsec.com/2018/07/into-the-borg-ssrf-inside-google-...
That is not the same as survey experts.
The Influencer Economy Hurtles Toward Its First Recession
I don’t think it occurred to me that one day I would have to choose between CI and code reviews, and yet that’s where I’ve been living for years.

I think I’d rather have CI.
I don't think the point being made is that they can't share the same interest or the same organization but accusing the creators of astroturfing (Dorr brothers, Freedom Works, In Pursuit of LLc), being opportunists, and even foreign bad actors / agitators (Russian "Valentine Sons").
OS/2 was tied to the PS/2 hardware and IBM had it way over priced. We had one in the office and when we needed a new card for a peripheral, we realized it was never going to cut it compared to compatibles.
Given this the number of people even on hacker news who are throwing very dubious arguments around and completely ignoring the fact that these protestors are obviously either acting in bad faith or very ignorant is a bit concerning too.
> We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet.

Speak for yourself. I only believe things I see on the Internet if they fit my preconceived ideas.
> There should be reasonable targets of X transmission rate, Y available hospital beds, X masks, etc. that we can aim for and achieve.

Is that what you think the protesters were agitating for? That doesn't sound like the complaint upthread, either.

I think that's a great idea, by the way. I just don't think that such a policy would satisfy the people in question.

> Nobody is willing to discuss an acceptable number of infections and deaths that we can aim for

Alright, that's just silly. People, very serious policy people, are arguing about that stuff as we speak.

> they just say things like "health/lives at any cost"

Who is "they"? Who says this? That sounds like a strawman to me.
Show HN: Political news aggregator that contextualizes bias and reliability
Python 2 had a great run but python 3 is more than ready for prime time. It was pretty bad for a while but since 3.6 it’s been awesome!
I guess it depends on what you mean with statistical methods but as you said "not anymore in NLP" then yes, statistical methods are in NLP. Both language models and transformers use statistics to predict.
> I only want to belong to a social network that values science and public health. Why shouldn't I be allowed to be a user of a website that has those same values?

I think it's a problem of expectations.

Some expect Facebook to just be a social network. Others, like you, expect it to be a safe space where unapproved opinions aren't allowed. Neither kind is bad per se, but I don't think most people expected Facebook to be of the latter kind.
Then I guess we'd need to build roving datacentres :)
You're misunderstanding the methodology. They tested a sample and multiplied to get the overall infection rate, under the assumption that their sample was representative.
What criteria was used for testing? Completely random? If it was volunteer, their method of obtaining and screening the volunteers is very important as well.
Nonsense. Because they've been around for a decade or so (in numbers), they'll be with us forever? That's like saying, hey why police crime, criminals are a fact of life, they'll be with us forever. How do we make society more robust against crime? Answer: we do it by cracking down on criminals.
Trolling is not victimless.
> However, it's less clear to me that fatality rates would be incorrect.

Depends on whether mortality rates can be variant on environmental conditions, such as viral load, population density, access to healthcare/ICUs, population socio-demographic profile, etc.
> Are you advocating for profit sharing/wealth redistribution in a really indirect way?

Why not? I would support mandatory stock options based on the number of employees. In reality though, I think it would be defeated by creative accounting just like taxation.
Out of 1680 residents is nobody declining to be tested? I find that really surprising.
There have been reports of tests giving up to 30% false positives
ah, thank you. That clears that up. Though tattooing your blood type on your skin seems a good idea.
This is way overthinking it. The search engines aren't semantically analyzing the images. They are just matching nearby text.
I’m guessing that BERT understands that ‘without sleeves’ and sleeveless means the same thing, and there are images labelled as sleeveless shirts.

But there probably aren’t many images labelled as stripeless.

I’m not sure why BERT doesn’t try shirt -stripes.
Why is it double speak? Yes, I think that healthy 29 y.o. male with wife, kid and mortgage should have the ability to make a decision between going to work or losing his home.

To make this decision for him looks unethical to me. And why exactly poor? It might be solidly middle class person.

EDIT: I'm pushing forties, can sustain myself for 1.5 years without working maintaining the same lifestyle, and I would go to work if I could. I'm damn tired working from home.
It's about people being able to trust their currency. Let me explain: suppose that your government was creating a huge amount of money out of nothing. It would result in a massive inflation and, with the value of money being completely unstable, people would resort to alternative ways of paying for thing: a more stable foreign currency, gold, crypto currencies, or even barter. You can see it happening in countries with a massive inflation (Zimbabwe, or Argentina in the early 2000's are the examples that are on top of my mind). So, this is a scenario the governments have to avoid at all cost, and in theory they should create just enough money so the inflation matches the growth of the country.

However, the growth of the country is very hard to measure (directly taking the growth of the GDP would not necessarily match it), so there is no consensus on what the inflation should be exactly, which gives the authority in charge of creating money some leeway on exactly how much money to create. If this authority was the government, it would be tempting to have the inflation be slightly higher than the country's growth, in order to "trick" people into believing that they got slightly richer and have them spend more. And this could work for some time, but at some point people would become wary of the government and as a result would spend less, slowing down the economy. So it becomes a game (in the sense of game theory) between the government and the consumers, and the solution is to have an independent entity in charge of money creation, so people can know with more certainty that the "right" amount of money is being created.
This would predict that a query that has no advertising income will return no results, which is clearly not the case.

Having a search engine that people go to whenever they want to search for things is incredibly valuable, because they will come to you when they want to buy things and you can sell ads. But unless you consistently give the best results for all queries, people will go whenever does. It's worth investing strongly in all queries, not just highly monetizable ones.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
I mostly don't use ear buds, but when I do/did I'd wipe them with rubbing alcohol before using. Not, like, constantly, but after putting them down for more than a moment, every trip to the gym, etc.
> In my opinion, it'll be significantly worse.

Ah, so it's an opinion unsupported by facts or evidence. Got it.
SEO would just pay people to surf bad sites on the web, in order to feed the data into Google’s engine.

They already do this today for any venue where they can link “traffic volume” to “ranking increase without human review”.
Shirt without paisley - fails

shirt without buttons - preety much fail.

shirt without red button - as already expected, shirts with red buttons
I've done all of that on XenServer, or rather XCP-ng now. (pfsense (nic passthrough), freenas (SAS controller passthrough) and windows 10 with gpu passthrough)

It doesn't have the same hype as the others but far more open. Biggest drawback is that the configuration software is windows-only (you can get it running in wine but it is a bit hacky, also xen-orchestra is a free (for personal use, if you build from source) web-configuration utility that one can use).

Would not want to be at mercy of vmware. Also don't want to invest time into a system with such restrictions on use.

Proxmox might be a decent alternative but I have a few systems and the cost would be prohibitive for hobby use.
Covid-MobileXpert mobile app: Covid-19 Screening using Snapshots of Chest X-Ray
The GP post can be incorrect without lying. Such accusations are not conducive to positive discussion, and run counter the the guidelines under which HN operates.
> it may end up working

Said every revolutionary ever, just before the new tyrants take over* from the old tyrants.

* with incredibly few exceptions (before you quote the American revolution at me; and please don't equate trolls with the American revolutionaries).
Yeah, I see that, but I’m not sure there is an assumption that the demonstrations are “grassroots” and also ... define grassroots?
The biggest one is claiming that these people are protesting because they're actually in financial trouble - all the protestors I've seen seem to be well off people complaining they want to get haircuts or go out to eat... There's also a large number of conspiracy theorists in these crowds claiming that the virus doesn't exist, or it's some kind of hoax.
Covid-19: Why Aren't We Randomly Sampling?
Individuals want to be tested for Covid-19 but only a limited number of testing kits are available. We can't test everyone.

Shouldn't government officials randomly sample populations rather than testing whomever volunteers? What use is testing if we don't stick to proper statistical sampling methodologies? How can we know how good or bad the situation is if we don't have decent statistics? We _do_ want to know how good or bad the situation is, don't we?
I think the view that the infection fatality rate is significantly lower than the case fatality rate has already been factored into public policy.

Because even if the IFR is around 0.5% then that still works out to > 1,000,000 people dead in the US in an uncontrolled spread scenario.

It would have to be another order of magnitude lower than that to be comparable to the seasonal flu.
Issuing a contract is bearish or bullish depending on the price.
> I'm not defending a troll here.

But that's exactly what you're doing.

> In that case, just silly trolling has the potential to destabilize a system, then it's not very robust.

Just because we live in a non-robust system at the moment, doesn't mean it's wise to destroy it, or let it be destroyed. I've lived and worked in failed states, and I can assure you that the alternative is assuredly to a non-robust but at least functioning state is much, much worse.

> Also, I would say that this is only possible on the internet.

Yes, and for most of us, our political life is primarily lived on the Internet these days, for better or worse.

> What does that say about the internet?

Perhaps the only thing you've said so far I agree with. Yes, I've gone from an Internet utopian to an Internet dystopian in 10 short years.
I've dabbled in a tiny bit of Clojure and Racket. Thus far I'm enjoying Racket more. The two things I dislike about Clojure:

1. Running on the JVM means that you can use Java libraries, but the syntax to invoke them is messy. The errors you get are also often rather opaque, and as someone who didn't know Java going in, I ended up having to learn how Java works as well to actually use them.

2. It produces Java artifacts. That means slow start up times, which is annoying for CLI tools. I know there's Graal, but last time I tried there were some issues using the stdlib CLI parsing library. You can also do ClojureScript, but it doesn't support everything Clojure does.

I like that Racket produces native executables, and having so much stuff built into the stdlib removes a lot of the "I need a database connection, what are people using for that now?" questions.
No, because I use a stylus which does not have a middle drag.
That was quite a thorough and interesting post, I was pleasantly surprised! :)
And how do you know the fatality rate of flu? That stat is not even reported. Even CDC only has an estimation of flu deaths.

Besides, many strains of flu has a vaccines available. Nothing of that sort exists for corona.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.ht...