skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bill seems ill-thought out since as a general stimulus there was not enough to go around. For the amount they offered they should have targeted those that needed it or increased it so that it actually has an impact.

Even the EIDL which was meant for affected businesses ran out and there was a paltry amount in there too.
I don't believe it was until early April when the full force of support was evident.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22822869
It is a dispute in ontology. Do mathematical objects (say, numbers, sets) exist in the world? Some say, yes; others say, no; some others say, they exist in another world--called Platonic world.

We see similar disputes in philosophy of (natural) sciences: for instance, instrumentalism doesn't subscribe to the ontology of realism.
It would be great to have a higher-level explanation that included this. I read through the first 4-5 pages of the docs and saw it mentioned these, but didn't pick up (until the code examples) that it used them.

I'm not a Rails programmer, but I'm keen to learn about all the different approaches being used & tried, to see what I can make fit with my language.
Any opinion on ROCm?
> non-Amazon warehouse workers are treated worse

Source?
It's even worse. They have raised funding to build a batch of these saying the project is open source. That's an actual fraud.

https://www.donio.cz/CoroVent#obsah
Imagine an interview with a great painter. The painter is asked about the nature of painting and he responds that when he sets out to work in his studio and his brush strokes a canvass, he is discovering the fundamental nature of reality. He doubles down and exclaims that, in fact, reality is actually JUST lines and curves and shades and colors, and his proof is, well, look at how accurate his paintings are! Let's pretend that he actually is a very skilled painter, and many critics have marveled at the extent to which his paintings are indistinguishable from his subject matter. Still though, the interviewer clears his throat after an awkward pause and continues on to the next question.

To me, math is a medium of description much like painting or writing. It's units are not colors or words but points. A point, or "that which has no part", is much finer and carries with it far less baggage than something like a word. Points can be assigned numerical values and played with in clever ways. You can even sprinkle a fine dust of them over anything observable and create a copy of it to arbitrary degrees of precision.

I know math is far more than just the study of points, but I'm not convinced that math is anything more than our capacity to distinguish and describe extended to its limit. I also don't mean to belittle the accomplishments of mathematicians and theoreticians, I just think it's more reasonable to say that math is JUST the limit of description than it is to say that reality is JUST math.

After reading through some of the comments, I think many of us are on the same page.
This is insane. 5x markup and federal seizure of privately procured masks that will then get given to private companies to give to hospitals. Instead, the government could institute price controls and distribute directly to those in need or allow all private purchases to go through while controlling part of the market. Absolutely crazy. Not to mention having to hope your governor praises the federal government to get their masks back.

You could not have invented a worse scheme for this, but somehow they have, AND they’re using federal manpower (in N95s, naturally) to intercept these shipments.
It's not a typo. The promotion is intentional. Have seen it an umpteen number of times before and those pinched by it are also downvoting their hurt with it. ;-)

Thanks for your explanation though.
I know. People have this idea that "socialism is when the government does stuff," if you'll excuse me in referencing a meme. They think Scandinavia is socialist because it has those things, but it is not: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland are really social democracies. That is, they're capitalist countries with strong regulation and a social safety net.

I'm not entirely sure whether full on socialism will ever happen in the US short of total collapse and reconstruction, but we can certainly take steps toward social democracy. Unfortunately, the major parties in power don't want to do that, instead pushing forward their laissez-faire neoliberal agenda.

The real problem here is first past the post voting, and the way election law is structured to keep the 2 major parties in power. We need to get rid of first past the post and reform election law before we can make any real changes.
It's an incredibly naive project. I can see that it probably has been done with good intentions, and that's blindsided them.

All of the people in Berlin, Germany on the list can fly right off, probably a GDPR violation to list them.
And last, but definitely not least: you can't draw the conclusion that presence of antibodies equates immunity. It will correlate but there is no guarantee.
Nitrogen variations in the mantle might have survived since Earth’s formation
Only talking about where we are in terms of progress to herd immunity. Edited it to say “presumably [now] immune” which hopefully is clearer. See my other comment below for elaboration.
Image on Github is JPEG made from RAW. Since RAW file has more dynamic range and contains a lot more information than JPEG you can take that photo in an editor and crank up the brightness. You will get a noisy image but it will be a lot brighter and will probably resemble the image with the high ISO in the middle. Then in an editor you can apply some de-noiser to get results similar to the last one.

So presumably this neural net more or less does it for you.
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Exactly. Furthermore, there is no evidence that quantum processes are at all salient to what the brain does. There is nothing in the I/O behavior of a human brain that provides any evidence of quantum processes going on. There are also good theoretical reasons to believe that quantum mechanic is not salient to the operation of the human brain. The brain is thoroughly thermalized, so it decoheres in time scales that are vastly faster than any of its interesting behaviors.
I recently-ish wrote a GPU based renderer for a GUI toolkit. I haven't put a ton of effort into optimisation, so I wouldn't be surprised if for smaller windows with lots of elements the GPU renderer was slower, but once you get to high-dpi displays with larger windows the CPU approach hits its limits. I don't have hard numbers, but we went from an unusable ~15fps at 8k resolution to hitting our target of 60fps with the GPU renderer.
I think the charitable interpretation of the comment you're replying to is that we may need ~50 different implementations of "access to clean water," etc.
Things I wished developers knew about databases [WIP]
There's a lot of companies that won't come out of this, but some will, and they'll be in the position of having to hire again.

I'm sure that a few companies may have tried some way to keep their furloughed employees "close to the back door," so they can get them back, when things open up, but a lot of companies will be in the position of having to start over from scratch.

I saw an ad for a "Senior React Native" developer, in the SF area, for $25,000 -> $80,000.

Oof. Different world, indeed.
Love it! Very cool!
Wells Fargo is just awful. Mechanics is a local community bank so not for everybody, but we moved our business checking out of Wells Fargo and to them in 2017 and have never looked back.
It’s really just using CSS to animate regular HTML elements. SVG is used for the icons (the laptop, server, cloud), but the grid lines, connection lines, and packet animation are all just plain `<div/>`s :P

But you’re totally correct about the JS only toggling between path="happy" and path="sad"
They use the correct tests, but they use them on a group that isn't even close to a random sample of the population, which is what you'd need to do to get to their conclusion.
I was certain by this point in the crisis we'd be seeing video akin to WWII/"Rosie the Riveter" stuff of PPE flowing out of factories around the country.

Is the U.S.A. simply not capable of this level of production any longer? What the heck is going on? It's sobering.
The courts & hopefully the jurors should be aware that humans are fallible & capable of lying, but may have hard time believing that cameras can lie as well.
This double ring may be the instrument that discovers a market for itself, or a visual/tactile aid to remind oneself of something, but in itself this invention is not a discovery of anything that can be said to have existed.
traffic != sales

The whole industry is experiencing a surge in online-window-shopping. Amazon is probably seeing a few blackfridays increase.
People used to cook a lot more, in the last 30 years or so they are eating out a lot more.

Some people are learning to cook during the epidemic, as much for entertainment as anything else, and some of them will keep cooking. Also some eat-in business will go to delivery.

It isn't hard in principle to hibernate restaurants since the main cost is labor. You give the workers enhanced unemployment insurance, the restaurant stops paying the rent, the landlord and/or mortgage holder might get a bailout the same way the employees get unemployment insurance, etc.

Some would say that we are eating too much as restaurants and it is making us fat, causing diabetes, etc. Women entering the workforce has had a number of ecological impacts on the society which are rarely discussed (Liz Warren's "Two Income Trap" is a counterexample.) Dual income couples are not just paying more for mortgages and restaurant meals but for also for insulin and payments to their morticians are coming sooner.
The USA is a single country with what's effectively two demographics, and one-and-a-half breeds of politician.

"50 countries with different demographics geography culture and needs!" is a complete fabrication. Wyoming doesn't even have a million people in it; implying Wyoming is a country is like implying a go-kart is a jet.
What matters is SBA approval, the bank’s approval is a separate matter and can lag behind SBA by a few days, due to the massive backlog of applications.

I received notice my application was submitted to SBA Wednesday morning, right after they ran out of money. I thought I missed the cutoff, but was approved Thursday afternoon. So there’s a lot of uncertainty.

The whole process is a mess and everyone is suffering, I really expect additional SBA funding will be approved soon. My understanding is that members of congress are holding out for hospital funds before allocating more to SBA.
I totally agree. Some of the same people who roll they eyes at homeless people asking for change and fire employees for a couple weeks of low productivity are the same people who are now taking free money from the government without any guilt.
Babylon Health has furloughed 5% of its staff in response to Covid-19
https://youtu.be/pT6hEQ-ktNQ
And, annoyingly, that requires those parties to lose at least one election so they are incentivized more strongly than ever before to cast the current system in concrete. It pretty much guarantees the see-saw two party system for the foreseeable future. Imagining how America would look under a coalition government is an interesting exercise.
they dont need to be efficient, but effective. likewise the enforcers of law must not act unlawful.
If it's a debit card they'll have to convince me that I can use it to buy gas without blowing up my bank account.
Hurley is going to be the "Spacecraft Commander" as mentioned in the article. The parent comment also indicates that they will be bringing the flag/memorial/token back. I'm not sure what "large implicit assumptions" you are referring too.
> pruning

Do IT workers really need legs?
Any plans on releasing an android or, more preferably, a desktop app using this?
I knew several employees at the Lexington, KY facility and none described the job as fantastic relative to other options. Proof is that all of them have moved on to other jobs, some of which pay less, because the conditions are better. I've heard packing is the worst job, mainly because of ~100 degree indoor temperatures in the Summer months. Another commonly cited issue was that there were many meth addicts working there, presumably because it did not show up on a drug test. Not sure if conditions have changed since then, or if they're different at each warehouse; just another anecdotal data point.
The general public, maybe, but elected representatives certainly are not, at least going by their actions. Take a look at the pathetic levels of benefits UI provides, and the limited duration. If we were providing people with a reasonable percentage of their former income, along with support in finding a new job, all for as long as it took for them to find other employment, then I wouldn't have a problem. There are some practical issues in implementing this, but this is essentially what a real unemployment insurance scheme should be. The system we have now unduly punishes people who lose their jobs, and serves only to keep workers firmly under the thumb of employers.
We added on the landing page the images so it is more straightforward what it does.
For the position you are right, nose should be covered, we are working on it.

Thanks for the feedback.
This is a naive question...but let's just say we do have the DNA, is Jurrasic park possible with today's technology?! I remember reading that someone was trying to inseminate an elephant with mammoth sperm a couple years ago but failed. Not sure if it was because the sample was super old or it just doesn't work.
Coronavirus Ravages China’s Economy–and It’s Just Getting Started
Yes, soon! Please subscribe to my email list on the app page. I will try to post on HN again, but I am not sure it'll reach the front page again :) P.S. Please upvote.
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Submitted EIDL for last week. Not sure what our chances are but have not received any update as of yet.
I love how not only the time of existence but also its size and appearance are presented as undisputable facts.
Once we saw chase was moving so slow we switched our application to smaller bank and got approved right before they ran out of funds. We were lucky to get our money, but the process seemed to be a mess.
Yes, and look at the way they corrected for this. They rebalanced for demographics, and that doubled their estimate. This is exactly the opposite of what they should have done. For example, zip codes farther from the testing sites were less likely to get tested, and more likely to be positive.

What you see is that certain groups were less likely to go get tested, UNLESS they had a good reason to think that they were positive. This should cause them to want to underweight the data from the underrepresented groups, but instead they overweighted it.

You can almost say that there were two populations that they were testing: White women who lived near a testing site who thought "what the hell, I'm bored with this quarantine so might as well get my finger pricked", and people who thought "I wonder if that thing I had a few weeks ago was COVID." The number you want is the prevalence from the bored white women. Bored white women might be somewhat skewed from other demographics, but probably not by that much. People who thought they might have had it is a massively skewed group. Effectively their correction removes the bored white women near a testing site, and only counts the people who have reason to think they had COVID.
- mission not being scrubbed for a variety of possible reasons

- mission commander not being changed

- rocket not blowing up on the pad

- rocket reaching correct orbit

- mission not being completed, for instance docking issues

- everything that could possibly go wrong on the return flight

Really, the ease with which everybody seems to assume that this will go off without a hitch is impressive, this is not exactly walking to the corner store to pick up a small parcel.
In Czech robota means more along the lines of "manual labor" not slavery. It has a connotation of drudgery and tedium though.

Edit: The related word Robotnik (like the villain in Sonic) means something like "serf" though
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies
"Participants were recruited using Facebook ads targeting a representative sample of the county by demographic and geographic characteristics."

How is it representative when it's only Facebook users in this sample?
It is worthwhile to notice that there are as of April 13 there are 11k weekly coronavirus related deaths according to the CDC out of 600k tested [1].

In a normal flu season there are 8k daily flu deaths [2].

The ones that are the worst affected should be in the hospital. The cumulative rate of hospitalization is 12.3 per 100k, which adds up to 39k. So that puts an upper bound on known risk. [3]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6826a5.htm

[3] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html?fbclid=IwA...
So there's been 14 posts on that site since Jan 2020. I clicked through a few of them, and it's things like someone complaining that their boss asked them to be a self-starter and get started on work without having to be explicitly told what to do. It's hard to take that seriously. There's one in there about being denied an MRI after getting injured, which doesn't sound ideal, but it's also only 3 sentence so I feel like I'm missing parts of the story.

And even if I did take all of these at face value and was outraged at them, an average of 3 complaints per month from a workforce of nearly 1 million is... well... makes it seem like Amazon is doing a stellar job treating its employees well if there are so few complaints. Of course in reality this website only captures a subset of employees, but just based on this site alone, my opinion has not changed.
curious FF / Safari through up security warnings for archive.is and archive.today. going at them from a roundabout way gives me a CloudFlare DNS error page. this's been going on the last week or so. wonder what the problem is?
Super dope, would be great for DJs today.
This is a great article on the basics of RAID. Outside of consumer grade RAID systems it's a bit out of date. There are some perceptible performance differences between enterprise and consumer storage systems.

I manage a small (<100TB) storage system for our office. We have servers using RAID10 SSDs and we have other servers using RAID10 10k SAS HDDs. The read performance on the SATA SSDs is great but the writes are atrocious.
He means that flight or its currently designated commander may not make it to the ISS for various reasons.

I don't think those are "large" assumptions, they're pretty standard things that can go wrong with every flight. Not that useful to have to enumerate them every time anyone talks about spaceflight.
(Designer here) YES! `currentColor` is amazingly useful and supported everywhere https://caniuse.com/#feat=currentcolor
This is just bait-and-switch nonsense.

People aren’t shitting on the jobs themselves or the people doing them. They don’t like how Amazon, the company, is treating these workers and the HQ employees acting in solidarity with them.
Right, but the article doesn't really talk about that aspect of the role. So to me it seems to just describe the role of a manager and part of the role of a director.
It's also difficult to return items.
I've ran it (from London) and you seem to be right -- nothing significantly different from the other results.

https://gofile.io/?c=vRdxAZ
> Yet first, paleontologists need to confirm that these possible genetic traces are the real thing.

As is common with science articles, the headline doesn't quite match reality.
He's good for entertainment, but his videos almost always amount to "Here's a cool thing I bought on Yahoo! Japan, and here's some advertisements about it I found on Google Image Search." Followed by a tedious walk-through of the product manual.

Occasionally he does a repair video, but they're only the most basic of "repairs" like replacing a belt.

It's chewing gum tech. Not exactly high-thinking.

And then occasionally he talks about stuff he knows nothing about. For example, when he called the United States backward for still having FM radio stations, completely ignoring the fact that in his own country, the vast majority of radio broadcasting is on FM.

Then in another video he talks about digital radio in his country is sparse outside of the major cities. Meanwhile, the United States has continent-spanning satellite and terrestrial digital radio.
I disagree with the part that there is always an alternative to building strings for SQL statements. Yes, all client libraries support prepared statements. But none of them support placing prepared statement fields in any part of the SQL statement.

Prepared statements work fine as long as you just have simple SELECT statements with a few WHERE values as parameters. They completely fail if you need to do any advanced SQL with anything dynamic. Like optionally add more sophisticated calculated properties to the SELECT fields, conditionally JOIN in extra tables, use any of the DB engine's more advanced XML or JSON parsing features in a conditional way, support choosing <, > or =, etc.
We applied within 15 minutes of our bank, First Republic, opening up applications on April 3rd. Just today we got a notification they were unable to submit it before funds ran out. Horrible experience and terrible customer service.
If you look at the Italian data, their % positive level never crossed ~30%, and overall averaged <20%. That might indicate that susceptibility for this agent is well below 50%.

The more likely explanation is that social distancing was implemented early enough, and tests were given to people who might or might not have had it.

There is no reason to believe that we burned through most of the vulnerable people in the population.
The Web-based version of Apple Music has officially launched
Stanford did a study looking for Coronavirus cases in Jan and Feb in the Bay area.

http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/04/testing-pooled...

> The researchers found that the burden of COVID-19 in the Bay Area prior to mid-February was low. Only two of nearly 3,000 people with respiratory-disease symptoms who were tested in early 2020 at Stanford Health Care or affiliated clinics for common respiratory viruses were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
We applied the opening day with The BoA, got nothing.

It’s all very frustrating.
Samsung’s new TV packaging can be recycled to make a cat house
It's on there. You have to scroll.
I just got an email from Chase saying they are out of monies. :[
Most content on flickr for example, has a non-commercial CC license.

By your logic:

1. train a model with A-list actors' tabloid photos

2. make a CGI feature film

3. ???

Profit!
> So we are still a long way off herd immunity. But at the same time closer than we thought we were.

Yes and no.

A disease is endemic when R0 x S = 1 [0]. R0 for SARS-CoV-2 is estimated to be 2.5 to 3.5 and some models predicting a much higher 5.7 [1].

The herd immunity threshold is given by (1 - S)%, which implies when R0 = 2.5, 60% of the population would need to be immune; similarly 71.42% and 82.45% for R0s, 3.5 and 5.7, respectively.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_(epidemiology)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22817942
Really neat project! Loved watching the video. Do you have the code in a Github repo?
Oh yeah, I'm not sure either are true legally as I'm not a lawyer - just my opinion.

The reasoning I follow for point 2 is:
That if a neural network is not derivative of its inputs, and given a sufficiently large gan, you could "launder" inputs into copy-write free outputs. That's also not been done as far as I know, but I know it's starting to be an issue in NLP.