skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An option to mirror the backgrounds would be very useful. Some of them are mirrored, and some of them aren't.
>Light always has to reflect or radiate off of a surface from the front.

And in the case of the Kindle, the light reflects off of the pigment layer from above, rather than radiating directly from a light source behind the pigment layer. GP's comment just contains what amounts to a typo.
The light guide is in front of the text, not behind it.
15% seems to be an average number for an area with known community spread. It was in Korea, it was in Germany.

If you are getting less than that, you aren't testing enough people. ALso if your number is far higher you might be only testing dire cases.
What are you even talking about? Amazon is paying them $17 an hour at minimum (double federal minimum wage), with benefits, with double overtime pay. This is for totally unskilled and undifferentiated labor. Among warehouse jobs, Amazon is industry leading in wages. Walmart pays, I believe, a minimum of $11/hour. If people don't want to work in either of these places, they don't have to. It's a voluntary system. But clearly people want to work there and prefer that to the challenge of (for example) starting their own business.

I also do not believe that there were no changes made at Amazon's warehouses in response to the coronavirus. Their blog mentions many of these changes and the seem reasonable and practical: https://blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/how-amazon-priorit.... Obviously, there are limits to what a company can do with a physical operation like this. There are limits to the distancing that can be practiced. Equipment like PPEs are facing huge shortages right now and so obviously it isn't reasonable to expect that Amazon magically can summon up hundreds of thousands of N95 masks that should likely be going to healthcare workers first.

Ultimately, if people don't want to take the risk of working during this time, that's up to them - they are free to leave voluntarily. All this outrage seems falsely amplified, and it comes off as opportunistic activism to leverage this crisis to push a nakedly leftist political agenda.
Serious question: If the FBI and DHS are seizing PPE, where is it going? Why can't this hospital be a beneficiary of seized PPE, rather than an (almost) victim?
Network Scalability (2018)
No worries. It's always a co-creation.
This quote from Munger is what I find most interesting:

> I do think, sooner or later, we’ll have an economy back, which will be a moderate economy. It’s quite possible that never again—not again in a long time—will we have a level of employment again like we just lost. We may never get that back for all practical purposes. I don’t know.

There are roughly 2 ways this could go if what he says actually happens. One is that a lot more people are going to suffer economically because of a lack of employment. The other, which is what I'm hoping for but not expecting, is that we take this opportunity to acknowledge that Keynes was right, and we don't have to work as much as we do. If we can strengthen our social safety net so that being out of work does not necessarily imply falling deeply into poverty (not that being unemployed should necessarily be a great deal, just that folks shouldn't be losing their homes and their health insurance, and should still be able to lead a fairly basic life), then I think this whole crisis might have a silver lining.
I just love this tip! Thank you. I just set up right now and gave it a go on your comment. Game changer.
That's a kind of vague assertion as I don't know to whom specifically you're referring as "people," but the same phone at 449 would be another 12% to margin so "in the same ballpark as what some people were hoping" is not the same as "pricing that the market anticipated."

Let's assume there was a speculated range. In a world with COVID-19 demand pressure and the speculated range is reasonably accurate, Apple is more likely to target the low end of that range than it would in a "normal" world.

I think people don't like the sarcastic nature of my earlier comment but that doesn't mean the underlying notion is wrong.

I find it hard to believe that Apple ignored reality and just priced the phone however it felt like doing prior to a major shift in their consumer base's economic habits.
Amazon is not paying an average of $15/hour. They are paying a MINIMUM of that. Glassdoor is not a good source for compensation figures.
Especially if the infectious dose also affects severity, as is the case with other respiratory illnesses: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25416753

Basically, if you're in a suburban area and pick up a few viral particles from one coffee-shop counter, it's possible that you're not in nearly as much danger as someone touching handrails and inhaling subway air all day long.
Italian continues to test positive, 47 days later [translated]
In raw, mathematical black/white terms, yes, I grant that image with my name next to it is technically public. However, uploading a profile portrait is typically intended for someone who searches for your name to determine whether or not a particular URL represents the person they met offline. I have to walk past a security camera to go through a store checkout - my image is in that camera because I want to buy stuff, not because I want my image to be public - and I might present my ID to the clerk because I want to be identified as of age to legally buy alcohol, not because I want the camera to link my face to my name (and my purchase list) or anything creepy like that.

When a person uploads a profile picture or appears in a security camera feed, they typically have an intent that doesn't match Clearview's use case, and an expectation that the stuff that Clearview.ai is trying to do with the image was humanly impossible. Historically, it has been impossible. True, some people are good with faces, and I'm sure some of them work in law enforcement or advertising, but no one can cross-reference 7 billion profile pictures to every security camera on the planet, and remember who went where at what time.

I'd argue that there's a fundamental difference in whether a right does or does not apply based on scale. A human looking at one data point needs to be approached ethically and legislatively differently from a machine looking at a million identical data points, because the use cases are different.

Clearview.ai is trying to make a land grab on human rights, asserting that because the things that they're trying to do have not yet been prohibited (because they're complicated, and because no one realized they were feasible) that they ought to continue to be allowed to do them.
I found him years ago looking for Dashcam Reviews.
Groupon is retailer lead. These other services were consumer led, like "I want to buy this -- will 50 people join me so we can collectively pay wholesale?"
I applied the day application opened as well as for the EIDL. No luck with either.
Not concluding prior immunity but concluding that they now have immunity after having been infected. That is in progress towards herd immunity this number of people actually infected being revealed by these antibody studies is what is interesting. And based on my hacky heuristic described above that is currently around 2.6%. So we are still a long way off herd immunity. But at the same time closer than we thought we were.
"Your request cannot be accepted because that link is still public." got this message when trying to deindex my image.

Sadly for general public (the rest of the world), you can only "opt out" if your image source was removed.
Law and pharmaceuticals change substantially faster than technology does, so that strikes me as a weak counter-argument.

Contrarily the bed rock of most web technology standards were solidified 1998-2001 and yet most web developers have no idea how these things work without a mountain of abstraction to do it for them. This indicates speed of change isn't a considerable barrier in that example.
This. I agree with.

I have to force myself to only check my phone at certain times, and ensure that I don't use it too often. Ever since I have enabled night mode on my iPhone I find myself less distracted and getting better sleep. I also put apps like instagram, snapchat inside folders on a different page so they are always out of my sight.
Agreed. Getting payloads to interplanetary orbit is a decades-old trick now---still tricky, but we've become exceedingly good at it.

Having the machine that does that work realign with the angular velocity of the surface of Earth under its own power in any way other than "catastrophic disintegration" is arguably the harder task, and this new method of doing it is still very novel.
Someone I know recorded a video of the normal view from their camera, and at some point they walk in, pretend to notice that they are walking in on a video conference, and slink out.
I don't see anything in the methods about potential crossreactivity with NL63, OC43, or HKU1 coronaviruses. Presumably this was done by the company, but crossreactivity is an extremely important control when it comes to this type of test. It is common, and if it's not vetted thoroughly, you may be measuring something else completely.
You're living under a rock. Folks have been turned away from the hospital and told to come back when they're dying.
https://pixabay.com/videos/ has some great background videos
I believe the tax lawsuit is still pending, the most recent documentation I can find from the NY AG is a summons from mid-November of last year: https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2019.11.14_nyag_v._bh_.... There is a corresponding press release from the NY AG office: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2019/attorney-general-sues-b...

The 2017 case was settled (https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20170814), with B&H agreeing to pay $3.2mm in back wages and "hire a workplace consultant to correct its employment practices and conduct"

They settled a similar 2007 case by distributing $4.3m in monetary relief: https://compensation.blr.com/Compensation-news/Performance-T...

My point is not that B&H is bad, but that "support small business" doesn't mean that you're supporting an ethical business.
Saw this comment [1] on Reddit that outlines the limitations of the study well:

This is the most poorly-designed serosurvey we've seen yet, frankly. It advertised on Facebook asking for people who wanted antibody testing. This has an enormous potential effect on the sample - I'm so much more likely to take the time to get tested if I think it will benefit me, and It's most likely to benefit me if I'm more likely to have had COVID. An opt-in design with a low response rate has huge potential to bias results.

Sample bias (in the other direction) is the reason that the NIH has not yet released serosurvey results from Washington:

We’re cautious because blood donors are not a representative sample. They are asymptomatic, afebrile people [without a fever]. We have a “healthy donor effect.” The donor-based incidence data could lag behind population incidence by a month or 2 because of this bias.

Presumably, they rightly fear that, with such a high level of uncertainty, bias could lead to bad policy and would negatively impact public health. I'm certain that these data are informing policy decisions at the national level, but they haven't released them out of an abundance of caution. Those conducting this study would have done well to adopt that same caution.

If you read closely on the validation of the test, the study did barely any independent validation to determine specificity/sensitivity - only 30! pre-covid samples tested independently of the manufacturer. Given the performance of other commercial tests and the dependence of specificity on cross-reactivity + antibody prevalence in the population, this strikes me as extremely irresponsible.

This paper elides the fact that other rigorous serosurveys are neither consistent with this level of underascertainment nor the IFR this paper proposes. Many of you are familiar with the Gangelt study, which I have criticized. Nevertheless, it is an order of magnitude more trustworthy than this paper (both insofar as it sampled a larger slice of the population and had a much much higher response rate). It also inferred a much higher fatality rate of 0.37%. IFR will, of course, vary from population to population, and so will ascertainment rate. Nevertheless, the range proposed here strains credibility, considering the study's flaws. 0.13% of NYC's population has already died, and the paths of other countries suggest a slow decline in daily deaths, not a quick one. Considering that herd immunity predicts transmission to stop at 50-70% prevalence, this is baldly inconsistent with this study's findings.

For all of the above reasons, I hope people making personal and public health decisions wait for rigorous results from the NIH and other organizations and understand that skepticism of this result is warranted. I also hope that the media reports responsibly on this study and its limitations and speaks with other experts before doing so.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/g32wjh/covid19_ant...
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Very interesting paper, thanks. It was time someone looked into it. I can't take these equally populist and unsupported reports anymore that some neural network is doing better than a medical specialist with decades of experience. It may well be that this applies in individual cases. But obviously there is a lack of proper studies and unbiased evidence.
To be fair, it is true this year that there is more malware on MacOS than on Windows.
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This one can be quite complicated, but I wonder how much of it is actually related to the quote that goes something like “science progresses one death at a time”. Which is talking about a bigger problem in science, which is that tenured scientists have either too much invested in their careers or too much vested in their models to allow the spread of upstart scientists’ ideas. There’s often a generational aspect (though don’t confuse this with age, since someone new to a field at 70 would be a younger generation) where newer scientists pick up on some thing that older scientists ignored and they start spreading it’s importance, then 20 years later, once the last of the old guard leave the field, it’s no longer downplayed and science can ‘advance’ (there is some risk that said thing wasn’t actually important, but for hard sciences data tends to trump all else).

So then the question to your question becomes more, are these contrarians representative of some new wave? As a trained economist, I’ve been trained to be skeptical of entrenched establishments, usually people will fail to believe that which threatens their paychecks. So the other question is, are there big incentives to encourage the established field to continue believing what it believes?

I will say there are a lot of crackpots out there, and novices tend to be wrong a lot, so the way science is currently done isn’t such a bad thing. But it would be wise to at least listen occasionally to cross discipline contrarians. They will often bring up arguments that are strong from their primary field, without being weighed down with baggage from the other field. You get an occasional Eli Whitney, or if you’re really lucky a John Nash.

One last thought. Hard sciences are hard for a reason, reality keeps them in check. And experiments allow for falsifiable hypotheses. There are a lot of sciences that rely primarily on observation, with little to no experimentation. This makes falsifiability tricky. This also means you’re going to see more general dissent associated with these fields (and if you don’t see it within the field that might be a red flag).
> I'd watch court proceedings, that try to figure out if the auto-encoded version of a picture still is under GDPR protection.

That’d be a fascinating case!

If these were people rather than computers, I don’t think you could ask them to forget a face. But they could be asked to destroy notes or derived work.
I wonder if that means Berkshire's recent bond offering was a mistake: https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/04/12/this-warren-buffet...

Berkshire has always held a ton of cash for just such an occasion. They can just buy up equity on the open market and take substantial control of a company. But, did they need even more money?
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While I'm glad that Amazon corporate employees are doing something to show solidarity, this seems more like a feel good activity for the corporate employees.

This is similar to the Google walkout, what difference does it make if you leave work for one day, when everyone knows you're going to be at work the following day?

If you do work at one of these companies, I would love to hear from you, I don't mean to be snarky/rude, but I sincerely don't see how walking out is helpful to anyone.
Sorry for the clipped, translated title, but this is the only link I could find, and the raw translation is too long.

In summary, apparently this guy has been in isolation for 47 days with minor symptoms and is still testing positive for COVID-19.

If this holds up, it could be a game changer, in a bad way. That is, there could be spreaders walking around, all but asymptomatic, and there's no way we can isolate a lot of people for months (?) at a time.
You may be right, because there are rare cases, but I find it unlikely. Not many human beings go into life aiming to just rip people off and not achieve anything, or aiming to fail at a lot. Especially someone who becomes the CEO of a huge corporation. You have to be quite drive to succeed, not just at your bank balance, to get there. You don’t become CEO of boeing overnight, it probably took a lot of work.

I doubt the CEO feels all that good about life right now.

And even if you are right, that fact that you’d want the same says a lot about you.
> Now I'm reading reports that the program is already out of money

Correct, I received an email from Intuit today stating that the loan volume has been hit: https://i.judge.sh/ashamed/Derpy/chrome_YyblB6Znpm.png
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you opt-out, they agree to stop adding to stuff they can identify as yours.

That doesn't stop another company from doing the same. And that's the problem. There are so many companies that we don't know about.
"We need to be specific..."

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Shopify is hiring. https://www.shopify.com/careers
“mild” symptoms has been used to mean flu-like, i.e., not something I would call mild and certainly not the same as asympotomatic, but not requiring hospitalization.
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You might be interested in a project, doing exactly that: https://voice.mozilla.org/

Audio data of people reading prompts is quite common, what is missing for robust voice recognition is plenty of data of e.g. people screaming it across the room. There is only so much physics simulations can do.
I think I might have the same thing tough if I reduce temperature I can tolerate white allright. It actually removes all the blues and starts to look pinkish. I use the f.lux app with a slight color temperature reduction at all times. Sometimes I accidentally turn it off and what a difference on my eyes!
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Where did you find the quick install and what OS were you using? I was trying so hard to find a Jitsi server install for Windows but the only thing I found was a jar+batch file process that I couldn't connect to once I finally got it running.
Assuming a species is intelligent enough to discover math, if they have some significantly different way of experiencing the world I think they would take a different path but would eventually reach the same destination we are heading towards, likely merging with us by the point we are at now.

I could see the layman understanding of geometry being quite different than ours, limited by their own visual system. But their mathematicians and our mathematicians would discover the same math, through different paths and perhaps with different strengths and weaknesses and a different path of educating budding mathematicians from the grade school level to the post doc level.
* Offline.

* Open source.

* No telemetry sent.

* One-time fee, no 'subscription'.

* Linux-compatible.
To me it looks like it's sorted by company (but not alphabetically), then by job function (also not alphabetically), then by first name alphabetically.
Regarding other platforms, Sony is still on LibGNM (and LibGNMX) and most Switch titles actually make use of NVN or middleware engines.
Luckily we already have such group - but they need tools like this to be efficient against the unlawful people wielding that technology. What now?
That stack should lead with system-ui.
I submitted our application on April 6. I got a confirmation number from my bank on the same day. My bank put up a status system on April 10. I check it every 4-8 hours. It's always "In Review". They did ask me for more details on our payroll, but it didn't apply. I sent an email with that update. Nothing since. My bank is PNC. Very unimpressed with their efforts/communication on this. But, it sounds like most large banks have not been very good about it.
Here's an easy way to send them a GDPR / CCPA erasure request: https://yourdigitalrights.org/?company=clearview.ai
Lots of reasons I don't think you can extrapolate meaningful death rates from this yet. One big one is that time from infection to death covers a very wide range: in Wuhan time from hospitalization to death had both a mean and a standard deviation of about 2 weeks, and time from infection to hospitalization isn't well known yet, but is likely at least a week. Add to that the fact that some cases are diagnosed post-mortem and you might not know about all of the fatalities for early April cases until well into May.
<I’ve contemplated buying a mill.

As in a business or the machinery to use at home?
Python profanity filter uses most up to date bad words dataset on the internet
It was the right decision at the time. It's unlikely anyone could've predicted the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Dept would've stepped in with unlimited support before the recent self-imposed economic collapse.
Most of what I've seen suggests that at time of positive test results, 40% to 70% of people have not experienced symptoms. Have you seen numbers very different from that?

[Edit: 'No symptoms experienced at time of positive test results' is intended to mean the same as 'no symptoms experienced yet at time of positive test results'.]
Mastering checklists doesn’t make you a pilot
Yep, I almost inherited a Rails application which uses SQL Server. It's the first time I saw it paired with Ruby and I found many deadlocks in the logs, which are basically not existent with PostgreSQL and MySQL. I didn't investigate it deeply because hopefully other people will take care of that project (not a nice technical setup, not because of SQL Server) but I immediately thought of the database driver.
I agree that it is weird if it's coming from a secondary source rather than the engineer themselves. It's a violation of their privacy.

Getting data from public lists, blogs, etc seems perfectly fine.
It's his second false fallacy in one comment section.

Dunning & Kruger states the obvious: idiots not only don't know they're idiots, they think they're smaaaart.

Next, they're going to say we're mean.
Are restaurants basically a memory now?
Closing in on two months into COVID 19 lockdown and I personally can't wait for everything to re-open. However, when that happens, the same restaurants I used to enjoy going to won't be there.

Restaurants are already a mostly risky/low-profit margin business. Will restaurants like the ones we used to go to still pop up, or do you see new services forming to fill this gap?

People still need to socialize, and socializing over food has been a key aspect of being human. How will we adapt?