skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should know that this is not a grass root movement rather someone astroturfing.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/04/whos-behind-the-reopen-d...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/coron...

Also take a look at this Reddit comment

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/comment/fn...

If you don't trust BuzzFeed you can go look at the domain registration information for open[enter state name].com domains.
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4 of my top 7 images (the top line) are Greta Thunberg in a search for "person". First viewport is 11 men, 11 women, 1 stick person, of which there are 4 Thunbergs, 4 Trumps, 2 Crews. People seem to be if they got major "person" awards like "most powerful person" or "person of the year".

There's not much diversity, assuming Terry Crews is from USA, then all the first viewport full of images are Western people; except Ms Thunberg they're all from USA AFAICT [I'm in UK].

The first non-Western person would be a Polish dude called Andrzej Person (the second Person called Person in my list after a USA dancer/actress), then Xi Jinping a few lines down. The population in my UK city is such that about 5/30 of my kids primary and secondary school, respectively, classmates have recent Asian (Indian/Pakistani) heritage. So, relative to our population, there are more black people, far fewer Indian-subcontinent no obviously local people.

Interesting for me is there are no boys. I see girls, men and women of various ages but no boys. 7 viewports down there's an anonymous boy in an image for "national short person day". The only other boys in the top 10 pages are [sexual and violent] crime victims.

The adjectives with thumbnails across the top are interesting too - beautiful, fake, anime, attractive, kawaii are women; short, skinny, obese, big [a hugely obese person on a scooter], cute, business are men.
Re: Roman Empire, here’s a nice list of graffiti from Roman bathrooms: https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
It's rough because it's simultaneously very mild in the vast majority of people, but a horrific, suffocating death in a tiny minority, and highly contagious.

I don't know if there is a "right" policy answer on what to do with something like that.

As someone else said, the lockdowns are probably illegal, you can't just throw away freedom of association over the flu. But if we didn't have them, we might have seen another 100k dead..
Not if a competent government provided leadership and managed the process, including the period of isolation and financial support for those in need. Instead we have the bumbling Trump administration and the GOP sycophants, which is providing no leadership and directing billions of dollars to those who least need it.
I guess, even in the original results, the problem is not really that Google search was not understanding the meaning of the search term (which is possible with today's models). Rather, it was a bit confused about what you are really searching for here. Maybe a comparison of shirts with and without stripes? The search query was just unusual, and it is not too unreasonable to guess that the query was not meant literally. At least this is a valid possibility, that the query was not meant literally. So it is reasonable to just return some results which might be related to the query, which will also be shirts with stripes.

If you argue this is bad behavior: Maybe we need a web query which really only takes the query literally. Putting the query in quotes will not quite have this effect for Google. Maybe some other syntax?
As for the ruining your friendship with the founders, not sure you can avoid this. To me if they de-friend you for pointing out facts, then they were not your friends in the first place. I am still very close friends with one of my ex-cofounders.

Maybe that my comment is pessimistic, but from my perspective start ups are an experience in failing.

The difference here is, if you choose to continue failing with these 'friends/cofounders' or make a call it quits. 13 months is a short life of a startup, but really this is the decision that you and only you can make. No one but you has the perspective and knowledge to make such a call.
They overapproximate. This means that may say something probably doesn't terminate even if it terminates. The idea is that if it says it terminates, then there is a proof it does.
That is what is great about having a good test setup. You would know pretty quick if stuff broke. Which has been basically nothing for me (3.6 -> 3.7 -> 3.8)
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I must admit it’s never a good look when a week-old company receives a sizeable federal contract. Especially when the founders are political insiders.

There could indeed be perfectly innocent reasons - but it smells funny.
I'm pretty sure that interference pattern from a sum of two waves is the sum of individual interference patterns. This should follow from how the wave equation looks.

The real physical solver doesn't do FFT, though. It makes the boundary circle vibrate with the input sound wave and effectively solves the wave equation where the boundary condition is u(0,t)=f(t) - the input sound.

I've run some calculations that solving the wave equation in real time would be infeasible. The convergence depends on the Courant number, which basically says that the grid step dx must be c*dt, i.e. the sound must travel on grid step per one time step. Since sound travels at 1.5 km/s in water, the grid needs to be super dense and 1 second of sound would need around 1 petaflops of calculations.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ right now shows 12850 cases per 1M in NY, which is 1.2%. Which is pretty close to what the study shows for LA. So it's not actually suggesting NY has much more than it's already known, if we assumed overall percentage would be similar for both. It does suggest California - which currently lists 853/mln - undercounts it by more than 10x. Of course, provided that the study is true.

Also, having antibodies and being hospitalized is a very different thing. If a lot of the cases are asymptomatic or very light you won't see hospitalizations and you'd never know the person had an encounter with the particular virus until you do mass testing. And NY is quite different from LA, as far as I know, in terms of how dense population can be and how much people use mass-transportation and other high-risk scenarios, and the probability of being hospitalized may also depend on that (in other words, it may matter not only whether you had any contact with the virus, but in which circumstances and how much of the contact you had).

That doesn't prove the study is true of course, but I don't see anything from comparison with NY that makes it implausible on its face.
Has any of these talks been published?
It's probably worth considering the number of former Python developers who were bit by this or other breaking changes in 3.x and have moved on from the language entirely.
> As you should know, poverty carries a much higher mortality rate.

But it needn't. They could be advocating for social safety nets, but instead they want the right to put others at risk.
Ya, that's exactly what I thought when I read that. I guess if that one single company had been an amazing success, they would have just dropped everything, shit down the offices and gone fully virtual at that point?
I am be very cynical, but as long as there is power to consolidate there will be a struggle for it.

This is a constant game being played on the populace. Not from Russia to the US. From those seeking to control to the controlled.

> openness, freedom, independence are just tools

tools are only are good as the user. I had a friend in high school that lost 2 fingers to a tablesaw. I don't anyone thought it was used against him.
I am using my own docker image though.

I control what is installed on it.
I suspect most people notice a bit of a cold or "allergies"

Like you said, probably only 10% to 15% truly asymptomatic.
You have no data to support this.
So halfway to herd immunity?
Yeah, 2% is the standard and more plausible in many ways than 0.002% [edit, WRONG ,missed a decimal point, should be 2% & .2%]. My comments above are about what this study implies, this something new.

Italy has had 24114 deaths. If take those as being in Northern Italy with a 27,000,000 population, that's 0.8931 % of the entire population. Even adjusting for age, that can't squared with 0.002% death rate [wrong wrong, it's 0.08931%, which is possible but with a huge infection rate, which maybe].
Would you mind refuting specific points rather than disregarding my entire argument?
Just listened to an interview [1] with a doctor that claimed we probably over-estimate the risk associated with the seasonal flu.

[1]: https://reason.com/podcast/we-make-the-weather-why-voluntary...
If you read the federalist papers you'll note that the intention was literal, not to be reinterpreted for the times. That also makes the thousands of gun laws illegal. If you start reinterpreting the constitution that is how you go full banana republic, and everyone knows you never go full banana republic. You are supposed to change the law not reinterpret.
Looks like you have no data supporting this argument. You also have to look at the economical impact of doing nothing. Hundreds of thousands of member of society dying/crippled/in hospitals (who's paying for that?). Add to that, regardless of shutdown, tons of people would be so scared of public interactions that they would stay home anyway, and also end up impacting the economy. Making the argument that there would be no economical destruction from doing nothing seems a bit weird.
And I think they would just say it was "reasonable" given the information known at the time.
What happened was people knowingly sharing far from mainstream views demanded that they were defended/protected from the government (per the first amendment) and privately owned online platforms (not covered) equally. I wish for everyone to be accurate and treat these situations differently. Censorship hardly ever happens because it ends in a first amendment court case. Deplatforming happens all the time because the law permits it.
About 1500 people in the US died yesterday of covid; year-to-date, about 1300 people died each day of the flu.

So it seems like there should be no possible way to frame it as less severe than the flu, even only comparing to when the flu is at its worst and even assuming 100% of the population has covid or whatever other extreme things you want.
You'll want to keep in mind that the death rate spikes if the medical system is overwhelmed and there are medical shortages, which has not been the case in Los Angeles. There is plenty of examples globally and in NY that this virus is capable of overwhelming metropolitan areas.
If you're sure about that, I hope you're investing accordingly...
We could fix the things that cause the poverty mortality rate to be so high, if we wanted. It's a lack of will, leadership and compassion that holds us back.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revival-red... is the page you really want to look at along with the battery life at https://www.anandtech.com/show/15708/amds-mobile-revival-red... which just destroys the i7-9750H.
Is there a firmware available for these that can disable the AMD version of the Intel ME like the Purism/coreboot ones do?
Either we successfully manage to educate the majority of Americans on how to apply critical thinking skills to what they see on the Internet, or we balkanize the 'net and try to keep the bad actors out (or at least force them to attack from a location we have legal jurisdiction over). I feel like this is just one more nail in the coffin of the free worldwide Internet.

I really don't see any good solutions. It is super difficult to defend against entities acting in bad faith when their cost of their actions is essentially zero.
That's a horrendous argument. 'Nefarious activity' is a vanishingly small fraction of how dollars are used. Not so for crypto. And the reason for the discrepancy is obvious: it's much harder to identify and counter illicit activity conducted via crypto.
I mean, one tweet called her out, and the left wing media and the ADL came out specifically to defend her, specifically calling out that it needed more context to be white supremacist symbol. Ie. what I've been saying this whole time.

Also, it totally is an OK sign, she's just playing the circle game.
WFH gonna be short lived.....too many troglodyte managers must SEE butts in seats......
There is always an 100 different stores when corporations break up.

The reality seems to be that MS kind of wanted something more lightweight that could be sold to existing pc owners, where as IBM was happy to just push the requirements to the point where OS/2 would require an fairly high end system(preferably an PS/2 from IBM to run).

For some markets where the expensive PS/2 systems were not considered too expensive as in the case of banks and the like OS/2 sold well enough for IBM to profit off it. But the wider market went with the less hardware hungry and at least initially less capable windows.

If i recall correctly NT was slow to mature into an mainstream OS and did not really start replacing OS/2 until the late 90ies and only really took of for consumers when XP were released.
Nah, my calculus is basically as follows. The disease is not bad for people who aren't old, and who do not have pre-existing conditions. The data is pretty unequivocal there. The number of deaths under 20 worldwide rounds to zero. It's incredibly contagious (and contagious while no symptoms are shown), and a vaccine is 12-18 months away at a minimum. There's no way we're going to be able to contain everyone indoors, with no jobs, for 18 months while we await a vaccine that may not arrive. And that's just here in the US -- the weakest link dominates.

If we don't develop herd immunity ASAP, and instead pursue a course of lockdowns, as soon as we lift the lockdowns (either voluntarily or because people just walk out -- see the midwest), we'll immediately start playing rolling lockdown whack-a-mole as China is. The first contagious person who flies in from a foreign country (or domestically) without perfect lockdowns will re-ignite the wildfire.

We should do exactly what Sweden is doing and what the UK proposed: isolate and provide support services to those who are at risk, and let out those who aren't. I think it speaks volumes that Sweden's new infection rate stabilized at the same time as the rest of the world but without lockdowns.

It's really the only path forward. Is it perfect? Of course not. People will die. However, there's no world in which about 70% of the population won't get the disease before the vaccine arrives, so we need to control who gets it, when, and in what order, to minimize harm.
Choosing to not work now at Amazon based on a current weighing of pros and cons, moral or otherwise, is a rational choice.

Choosing to never work at Amazon is not based on reason, but prejudgment. One cannot rationalize the unknown. This is what my original statement was in reply to.
What if "huge applications" is a bad pattern and Go is pushing forward in the right direction? :)
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The effect of such a combination of laws would be to make it unlawful to go outside. The effect of a law as stated in the tweet would be to make enforcement impossible, as nobody would be both wearing and not wearing a mask: each perp would be doing one or the other.
The effect could be the same regardless of source, and the attribution could become fractally difficult depending on how many channels of influence are available to the perpetrator.

Personally, I'd recommend that people focus on the results of the actions that are taking place, and devise measures to lead or redirect those towards positive outcomes.

The time spent attempting to attribute nefarious outside actors -- even if you end up being correct -- could end up essentially wasted relative to the real-world impact that has occurred.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that attribution or recording provenance are not worthwhile. They are valuable, especially in future. But focus should remain on what is going to happen in the near-term as a result of real-world actions.
Link to the reddit thread explaining things here. Alright there is most likely more than one astroturfing actor right now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_c...
How far do you want to take that argument? If successfully predicting it would mean that prices dropped to zero on Friday then shouldn't that have also been successfully predicted and impacted the price on Thursday? What about Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday?
This is just weaponized public relations. The public will become educated. It reminds me of the Flintstones brought to you by cigarette brand x.
> utterly floored at how obvious this is but almost everyone has missed it

It's a combination of the confirmation bias of addiction and not being skeptical upfront about technology.

It's sad, but empowering once you realize it.
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Almost no one gets an antibody test yet, unless it's some special controlled study.
That's a blank page.
How does Python3 suck?
> The 200 participants generally appeared healthy, but about half told the doctors they had had at least one symptom of COVID-19 in the past four weeks.

The total sample size is small and this doesn't seem random enough?
Perl does it as well, but then you've only got point releases because it's stuck at 5.
A third of a random sample taken in Chelsea, Massachusetts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea,_Massachusetts

>Chelsea is [...] directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston. [...] It is also the second most densely populated city in Massachusetts behind Somerville.

A random sample in a highly affected and extremely dense area is not a model for the whole state.
Late to this discussion, but witnessing the amazing community support is uplifting and I thought I'd drop a couple of links I don't think I saw in any other comments:

1. Talon - Writing code by voice:
https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/writing-and-coding-by-vo...

2. Gordon Gund - Blind later in life, conquered the market by speed listening. Quote: "Meanwhile his (acquired) blindness seemed to pour gasoline on the fire of his life, and he began to flourish in unexpected arenas."
https://vimeo.com/296637627 (TED-style inspiring video, speed listening at ~8:45)
https://n-magazine.com/blind-curing-blind/

3. CRISPR holds promise, never stop hoping for a cure. It's an amazing time to be alive, keep building amazing tech for the world, and perhaps even learn to program the big data tools used to find the solution.
https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/methods/fullte...
Unfortunately, can't link directly, but search for jobs at "Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard" with the title "Bioinformatics" or "Python" in the query.
They also have a bot kicking around somewhere to buy stocks on Trump tweets. Pretty interesting stuff.
IME DuckDuckGo has all the same problems people are talking about here. I uses DDG as my primary search engine.
Like, when was the last time this was considered ideal?

“Yes, I would like an unstriped dress shirt please”

“How about this striped shirt?”

“No thank you, I would like an unstriped dress shirt please”

“I have some lovely jogging pants”

“Ok, I need to be clear here, I would like a dress shirt that has no stripes”

“Can I interest you in a white undershirt? People who buy dress shirts usually buy undershirts”

....
You need to account for positive second order effects, e.g. reduced deaths from pollution. That pushes "extremely doubtful" firmly into "we can't even guess if quarantine will be a net plus or minus" in the 2020 death rate. It also heavily depends on how long quarantine goes on for -- would the mortality rates be changed from a 1 year recession? Or would it take many years?
I always read & as "at" mentally when reading code :)
For some people, I think it's away of dealing with feeling isolated and alone... hurting others makes them feel better, less alone, in their unhappiness.

Also probably scratches an itch for ignorant/powerless sociopaths.
I'd definitely call it widespread. In many places across the world, hospitals faced bed and ICU shortages and had to go to heroic efforts to prevent them. But most of them were successful, remediating their shortages before anyone had to be denied care.
> don't try to recycle it, put it in the regular trash. It's not the end of the world

The batteries are going to pollute the landfill.
If you think social distancing is important and are taking the virus seriously, what exactly would you be protesting? You wouldn't be going to restaurants, or theaters, or crowded parks, or shopping for non-essential things. You probably wouldn't be sending your kids to schools either.

I think a lot of the problem here is that people have been led to believe these "lockdowns" are hugely invasive, when they're really about as minimal as is possible. There are no police-enforced quarantines, as there have been in many nations. The definitions of "essential" businesses have been VERY liberally interpreted, to the extent that large numbers of routine office workers are still going to work every day.

What, exactly is the policy you think needs a protest to be enacted?
It's worth noting that there is a lot of discussion in serious circles (including here on HN) about the balance between too much and not enough with respect to quarantine, lockdown, etc., both in terms of where we are now and what we should do in the near future.

I see little reason to doubt that all involved are trying to minimize general death and misery, even if they may disagree radically about how to do that.

It'd be pretty wild if (say) Google decided that Chrome would no longer display pages that were "too far" in their discussion and advocacy of the options.
The original comment of mine that started this thread:

Why isn't there a public open-source fund [...]

I know it doesn't exist. The non-existence thereof was what prompted that question. I have no idea what point you're attempting to make.
> assumed perfect liquidity

too bad the oil market is ... viscous.
http://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap-...

What proof do you want? I figured everything I said was common sense. 30% unemployment isn't outside the bounds of possibility and poverty has been repeatedly proven to have a much higher mortality rate.
Leaving aside the bugfixes they've kept publishing for Python 2.7 (and it's rather massive standard library), how is your stack of ~100 external dependencies holding up? In my experience, most libraries are dropping Python 2 support too. Many dropped it a while ago.

Your locally running, toy projects will continue to run under Python 2 indefinitely. Large [esp network-facing] projects will start to fall apart.
What is more likely: Jeff Dean negotiating his salary and perks with whichever company and living where ever he likes or whining about salary inequity across different regions in the world?

A-level players will try and get compensation what they think they deserve by negotiating discreetly. However most of the CRUD peddlers who are not in tech hubs remain aware they are not going to get Silicon valley salaries while living in some remote Indian town.
One can play this game a lot and most results will return expected cultural biased results. A "kind person" is apparently a white girl. A "good person", a white woman. A "bad person", white men. A "evil person", white men. A "honest person", equal mix of white women and white men. "Dishonest person", white men in suits. "Generous person", hands of white women. "Happy person", women of color. "Unhappy person", old white men. "Criminal person", Hispanic men. "Insane person", white men. "Sane person", white women.

Is it surprising that very few of the result surprises me?