skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious, while I agree discrimination is wrong, deeply impacts everyone in a number of ways, why at the very least would you not want to know prior to interviewing, being hired, etc - if a company was biased?

If it’s not clear, there are ways to detect this, it’s legal, and if I thought there was any opportunity to easily detect biases that might impact me, I would do so.
Ligthbend is behind the Akka and Lagom
Restaurant recovery plan built on fast food, neglecting independent restaurants
That’s really the only reason to favor BEVs over hydrogen. Everything else, from weight, cost (eventually), range, raw material requirements, are better with fuel cells.
It's only partially true. While many could walk across the street and work for another Fortune 1000 company tomorrow or a well-funded startup in particular areas.

But, I think the point he was trying to make is that because of these mega-companies coalescing their people in certain cities, the economics of that takes a toll on everyone but the top executives who are already getting paid big cheddar + their enticements for being at the company: their stock awards which if there for even 5-10 years can amount to a huge amount. Enough for said ~managers~ [executives] to do the same sorts of hops globally as ~managers~ [executives] are interchangeable regardless of the product they produce.
I'm struck by how many of them have seemingly ethnic-Japanese facial features.
Quarantine Burger
tl;dr: You use this any time you want to have mutable data shared across a peer-to-peer network.

I wasn't there at the beginning but I believe the project came out of trying to achieve said mutable state within IPFS (which, for other readers is content-addressed and therefore append-only)

http://orbitdb.org lists all of our current users, the biggest one is Metamask by way of https://3box.io. https://tallylab.com is building with it for remote encrypted backup and shared tallies. https://github.com/dappkit/aviondb is a MongoDB-like interface for it.
> In the given example "driving in a parking lot +rain" it's completely reasonable to pass the buck to the human driver.

People like me are only looking forward to completely autonomy -- I am forbidden to drive, you see.

And it gives me some perspective... I believe society would benefit enormously if it didn't treat "everyone can drive" as a truism. If you were to break down what the concept "drive" means in terms of simultaneous tasks a human most be capable of performing you would quickly see how utterly ridiculous it is -- with devastating results in how urban environments have transformed and how many deaths are on the roads.
Physical distancing is a costly measure. It would be economically cheaper for the young and healthy to self-infect and then self-quarantine. Their chances of dying or even hospitalization is basically a rounding error in that demographic. That way, they can't spread it to other people. Herd immunity should be accelerated, not decelerated.

The evidence so far seems to show that there is immunity to it after recovery (as well as the rest of the corona viruses). Immunity is not permanent, it last 6-18 months from what I understand.

Physical distancing is another alternative but is enormously expensive to the economy.
I think 300 miles is a realistic minimum for viable EVs. At least in America. Because honestly, almost nobody gets anywhere near that except when they're trying to win Internet points. A 300 mile Tesla Model 3, depending on trim, is more realistically a 150-200 mile car, and some days won't even make it that far.

Source: I own a Tesla Model 3 Performance. For efficiency, the worst of them. Love the car, but saying it has 300 miles of range feels pretty dishonest.
The restless extrovert's outlook is super bizarro. I'm personally looking forward to wearing a mask long after this pandemic has passed, to defend my privacy against ubiquitous facial recognition.

I want to live in a world where these things aren't legally mandated, but everyone does them because they're good ideas. Apparently that world is impossible.

It's similar to the people that don't wear their seatbelt to somehow stick it to the government. Apparently their driving is so lame that they've never appreciated the seatbelt while cornering? Sigh.
Knoco stories: Keeping a decision log as an aid to learning
This analysis won’t work well because people will compare the what happened to the what happened. “It wasn’t worth 100,000 deaths to kill the economy” will be the stupid refrain.

Never mind that what kind of economy would we have had with 2M deaths and bodies buried in Central Park?
Can you please recommend software for this? which screen reader should I use? how should I configure it? how do you code with it?
No advice, just offering moral support and letting you know that you're not alone. I have macular degeneration so I'm not going completely blind, but I'm losing my foveas so that still presents some significant challenges when it comes to coding. At the moment I'm compensating with larger fonts. I don't know what I'll do when that's not enough any more.
Cool project! I've done similar things with Kurento acting as a WebRTC peer to proxy WebRTC --> RTMP before but this is a lot more lightweight.

One thing I'd love to see at some point is a project that compiles FFMpeg's transmuxing code to WASM such that the WebM --> FLV conversion could be done client-side. That way the server-side portion would be as simple as proxying the WebSocket to a TCP socket for the outgoing RTMP traffic.
Relate as well and agree with this approach. I'm still working through it. Even right now, as I watch the minutes countdown to the hour when I will begin again. I found the works of Dr Gabor Mate to be quite helpful (talks available on YouTube and I found a lot of value in his book When the Body Says No, especially the second half which I think you could just pick up and read). He primarily focuses on drug addiction but in doing so dives deeply into dealing with trauma. Another source that has been helpful to me is Oprah, her Super Soul Sunday podcast is great (browse the titles and pick any that seem interesting to you). And of course I wholly second the recommendations for therapy, understanding that one's perspective may not be the full picture can be life changing.
To author: please include a date and changelog in this document, assuming it will be updated to reflect new data and comments on the doc.
I would prefer more regulation to make sure prices are transparent. The current system is set up to make prices as opaque as possible. The employer has a lot of information, the provider has information, the insurance has information, but the patient is being kept in the dark. That is, until the big bill comes in the mail.
Bering Strait
> Driving to Los Angeles from San Francisco is extremely difficult for either a fuel cell or ev vehicle (that’s not a Tesla, and it’s also true for cng vehicles).

Maybe true for hydrogen, not so true for BEVs. There are plenty of CCS charging locations in the US and California in particular has many of them:

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/fi...

You can try out routes using Plug Share and A Better Route Planner:

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/

https://www.plugshare.com/

San Francisco to Los Angeles is an easy drive in a Chevy Bolt, for example.
> 3) Anton Treuer (the subject of the article) teaches at Bemidji State, while his brother David teaches at USC.

I was desperately hoping you were going to tell us about Dave from Bemidji [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrM-lwQ5so
From the same article: If that testing shows the virus has slipped into the country in places federal officials don't know about, "we've got a problem," Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told USA TODAY's Editorial Board Monday.

So when the situation changed, his view also changed.
> "Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure of imagination. But the other part of the problem is what we didn’t do in advance, and what we’re failing to do now. And that is a failure of action ..."

The case of being reactive vs proactive.

1. No one is rewarded pointing out problems. Thus no one wants to be that guy.
2. Reward constructive ways to points out issues / problems.
3. Listen & Acknowledge or disregard. Rewards solutions, goals, and resources (e.g. timeline) for resolution.

Accountability — management/upper leaders fail when failing to document the decision (brush away complaints with no record of decision and does not welcome hearing the issues through the management chains). Document the decision making.

Must have positive culture that every issue/problem pointed out is welcomed so that it can be looked at. Someone should be accountable / responsible for those issues whether deferred or not.

Was it a failure to imagination? Or a failure to take action on such conceived idea, once upon a time? Leaders must lead which includes partnership/collective efforts outside their own organizations...
Yes. The Navy experience (60%+ asymptomatic) and others (almost completely asymptomatic homeless shelter with large percentage positive tests) indicate we have been given hugely false or misleading stats about this virus.

Once we can beat proper stats out of the government with large-scale testing, it may become clear that we are already well on our way to herd immunity, and that the vast majority of healthy people without serious secondary issues will be fine (perhaps unhappy and hurting, but will survive).

Of course, encourage any fearful or ill people to continue segregation.

But, this segregation of otherwise healthy low risk population just has to stop. It is nuts.
You can find the full .pdf report by googling "Crimson Contagion Functional Excercise Key Findings"
> No, it hasn't.

Yes, it has. Citation needed, because I provided data and you didn't.

> You're not counting covid-19 deaths and flu deaths using the same methods so you can't compare yet. The method you're using for flu is inclusive and will tend to overcount. The method you're using for covid-19 deaths excludes some deaths and we know it's undercounting covid-19 deaths.

[citation needed]

> When we get the figures for care home and nursing home deaths included we'll see large increases in covid-19 deaths.

That's a totally dishonest way of approaching this when we know for a fact people under 50 have basically no risk from COVID and that folks who are over 70 have easily two orders of magnitude higher risk. In Italy, 99.2% of people who died were age 80.5 and had an average of 3 underlying diseases.

Age 30-39 they had 5 deaths, under 30, 0 deaths at the time this article was written [1] as compared to 852 deaths aged 80-89.

You and I both know the young aren't affected meaningfully, and for them, they won't go to the hospital with a mild cough or with no symptoms at all and so aren't counted in the denominator. You're advocating growing the numerator without growing the denominator to make your case seem stronger than it is.

> It is dishonest to point to a severe flu season and talk about "flu killing 60k people per year". The range is 12k to 61k. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

I don't think it's crazy to compare a "bad COVID year" to a "bad flu year" do you? Our response to a bad flu year is exactly the same as our response to a good flu year. Most people don't really know there is such a thing.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...
This was inspired by "I've been writing TILs for 5 years" from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908044
https://archive.md/2eyP2
That sounds like pure speculation. We should be relying on data, instead of fear, for motivating our decisions.
I figured. I just find it super cool to see contemporary signs of something so far back in history.
He was also anti-mask, as I pointed out, as was the CDC/WHO despite a decade's worth of use by Asian countries who didn't wait on RCTs.
What I've seen epidemiologists recommend: lock down long enough to build up testing and tracing and reduce infections to a point where tracing is practical, then you can open back up and isolate individual cases.

Trouble is, we haven't ramped up testing enough and we're heading toward opening prematurely. According to Harvard we need about three times as much daily testing to open safely: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/17/us/coronaviru...
If you talk to old school CW operators, they will all tell you that you need to go beyond the letters and into the words and sentences like you skim over a paragraph. In fact, if you operate morse too slow, many of these old schoolers don't want to talk to you as you break the "flow". Which is the exact thing you're wanting to achieve in morse fluency.
Some better charger resources:

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/locate-charger

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/fi...

https://www.plugshare.com/

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/

https://www.petro-canada.ca/en/personal/fuel/canadas-electri...
> We had several months, needed to react with urgency and failed.

That's a rewrite of the actual history that occurred and what people understood along the way.

They had a realistic four to six weeks max to start production of ventilators. A herculean feat in fact. Even less time if you were going to judge it based on understanding the severity and particular intensive-care heavy effects of the virus.

It was not a certainty to the outside world that it was human to human transmissable until the end of January. There was a lot of confusion due to the total lack of access to China and its data.

From February 1st (China's reported numbers begin to spike here) to the point where you understand it's a high global risk, capable of a large scale outbreak that could threaten the US, it's another 1-2 weeks minimum based on the rate of expansion in China's reported numbers and their inability to contain it properly (and better yet, with China you watch what they do more than what they say; during that first and second week of February, China took what seemed like wild action domestically while playing down the danger of SARS-CoV-2 to the rest of the world, including regarding travel restrictions).

Taking the decision to push billions of dollars in spending to jumpstart very early production of PPE and ventilators, is a big decision that you better be right about when you make it. You were going against the behavior of the entire developed world by producing ventilators in February, so now you need to be prepared to look like a paranoid lunatic, along with being called a racist and xenophobe while you restrict travel and close borders.

It's February 7th and you need to coordinate with domestic industry, local governments, international agencies, and companies around the world.

It's February 14th and you've got your first partnership together, they've agreed to produce ventilators.

It's March 7-14th by the time they are able to produce their first ventilator after preparing a factory for it, preparing any necessary design changes to accomodate rapid scale production, and putting together a supply chain that can scale for the hundreds of specific parts in a ventilator.

You need to build a scheme that can produce more ventilators than the present total global annual supply.

It's mid to late April before they have consequential volume of production. Assuming things go well.

Having closely followed all the ventilator efforts around the world, please show me a faster timeline that is realistic. You're only going to beat our present timeline by a matter of weeks, and that's if you aggressively jump out in front of prevailing 'wisdom' at the time.

It's an extraordinary short amount of time to accomplish the ramping up of producing ventilators.
Trees see the world as we see time-lapse photography. There's a line from a Terry Pratchett (I think) book that says something like "The trees wondering who keeps switching the lights on and off".

(I can't find the actual darn quote).

It's poetic. Our time scale is trivial in the scope of the universe, whilst quantum time scales are trivial to ours.
Actually, it's this, I think: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/HannaBarbera
By hurt, do you mean competed with by effectively utilizing technology to help people find information about the world from multiple sources.

There are very many news aggregators and most do serve ads next to the headlines they index. I assume that people typically link out from news aggregation sites more than into vertically-integrated services.

Perhaps the content producers / information service providers could develop additional revenue streams in order to subsidize a news aggregation public service. Micropayments (BAT, Web Monetization (ILP)), ads, paywalls, and public and private grants are sources of revenue for content producers.

I think it's disingenuous to blame news aggregation sites for the unprofitability of extremely redundant journalism. What happened to journalism? Internet. Excessive ads. Aren't we all writers these days.

Unfortunately they killed the "most cited" and was it "most in-depth" source analysis functions of Google News; and now we're stuck with regurgitated news wires and press releases and all of these eyewitness mobile phone videos with two-bit banal commentary and also punditry. How the world has changed.

So, as far as scientific experiments are concerned, it might be interesting to see what the impact of de-listing from free time sites X, Y, and Z is.

Do the papers in Australia and France now intend to compensate journal ScholarlyArticle authors whose work they summarize and hopefully at least cite the titles and URLs of, or the journals themselves?
To avoid hostile takeovers amid Covid-19, India mandates approvals on Chinese
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account because we're trying for something a bit better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>These are the things your brain goes towards automatically as an easier "win" than in facing the harder problem. Cutting them out will leave room for you to face harder challenges.

This completely changes my perspectives as to why I get up from my desk to go grab a snack, look at my phone, etc. Thank you
For anybody who comes into this thread in the future, I've closed off public signups for the iOS beta. I've hit a critical mass of testers and want to make sure the app isn't overrun by trolls and predators. Reach out to me if you really want in [0]!

To know what's on the roadmap, checkout my public trello board [1] for more info.

[0] Email beta@gentle.app

[1] https://trello.com/b/65BxuxBa/gentle
>Are there blind frontend engineers?

I'm sure this has been mentioned, but front ends need to be usable by blind users so I would imagine a blind front end developer would be extremely useful in that case, at a minimum.
I keep a small whiteboard by my desk. When I have to get 'unstuck' on some problem (I am a software maintenance engineer, so I solve problems all the time) I start to sketch the problem.

Works for me. Things get unstuck.
Beat me to it. It's really egregious how many disingenuously flawed graphs (one even suggesting that the death rate passed up heart disease!) and faulty mathematical models (dY/dt=kY) there are floating around. This is why education is important because ignorance is placing blind trust in the media (whose narrative of fear helps to glue more eyeballs). There's plenty of indications we've already hit the inflection point:

Nature: Antibody tests suggest that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01095-0

SFGate / Stanford: Study investigates if COVID-19 came to Calif. in fall 2019
https://web.archive.org/web/20200408180013/https://www.sfgat...

From the very article you linked (did you actually read it?): "'At the moment, we think there is no danger of further secondary or tertiary transmission,' Kwon said." We had 8 new cases today, and 6 were from Americans/Europeans entering the country. Given that I lived in Korea for two years and have a fair amount of friends and family there, I am a bit familiar with their situation.
I want to build a reddit like community using orbitdb. But orbitdb can't freely add and remove user permissions. When will this feature be implemented?
Wow that’s a much worse outlook than I’ve been hearing. Do you have a source on the zero buffer areas? I’ll have to read up more.

I know in Florida we had to furlough a lot of medical staff because they didn’t get as many cases as expected and elective procedures are banned.
Me, a pro? Never. But I learned from some serious whitewater freaks. I quit because poor impulse control got me almost killed, too many times.
Uh, OK. We're N years into the Hydrogen Revolution and the only problem is that people are ignorant?

It was the 2017 Mirai that was supposed to be powerful and cheap. Now it's 2021. The old model had 151 hp. The new one has... ? neither a price nor a performance?

The low end gas X5 has 335-456hp. So far the BEVs that have sold well have much higher performance than the minimum.
I think this is 100% buildable in WeChat, not to mention its existing location-based services. I'd argue it's easier to build that feature into WeChat than all the other features into Fortnite.
Mini Cooper iRacing Simulator, living in a basement
I’m not following your logic. If Sweden ups up not being too bad it would seem to imply we wouldn’t have had two million deaths (especially in NYC alone. I don’t think anyone thinks a 25% IFR)