skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on use case, I would expect the Ryzen U series to end up on thin and light business notebooks. 8 cores, 15W TDP, expecting fantastic battery life. But I'm still wondering when one of these OEMs will tackle Thunderbolt ports. From what I've read it's not as easy with AMD, but certainly possible, and up to the OEM's discretion.
all three of these search engines offer "voice assistant" platforms that encourage you to speak to them in natural language, and send your query to the search engine verbatim under a broad set of circumstances.
I was on the fence about attending a protest an hour away. Ended up not going. But I would absolutely be wearing a mask, at a distance from everybody else (look at what they did in Tel Aviv), and in the camp of "take this seriously, stay at home when you can (not ironic, I consider the protest important), take personal responsibility to save lives AND make room for people who have to work to maintain their livelihood, wear a mask and otherwise maximize safety when you do return to work". (Hard to fit that all on a sign, of course.)

Reasons would be: 1) Don't you dare tell me protests are "non-essential" activities (see Raleigh PD) 2) Let people decide if they want to work. People are already quite cautious at this point. (I say this with some hesitation, which is one part of why I didn't go)

There are important issues of health, economy, and government power grab. Most people on all sides of the issue seem to pick only one or two.
Paywall-free link: http://archive.is/A9DZT

(Because why should I have to reset my cookies to read the news?)
July 21st was when I had the "ok I have to pursue this for real" moment and it's been 24/7 coding and tinkering since then. I really need to go for a walk or something.
There are ample discussions about the change in `print x` syntax in Python all over the web.
Thanks, I appreciate the context links

(friendly note: code blocks break clickable links)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144713

2: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomm...
That's a correct understanding of specificity.

That would imply the correct rate is closer to 22% than 30%, as of the 64 positives out of 200, we would expect roughly 20 of those to be false positives. (So the remaining 44/200=>22%).

Article says there are 40k residents and 39 deaths.

If 22% of 40k are infected => 8800 infected.

37/8800 implies .42% IFR, broadly consistent with figures elsewhere, especially given that there is a lag time for deaths. (Which will cause the IFR to increase.)

Any bias due to selection etc would basically decrease the denominator on that calculation, increasing the IFR.

(This is all just back of napkin, based on numbers in the article, please check my calculations.)
January. February. March. April. It's been almost 4 months since we know about Covid-19. From the rock I'm living under, it appears that the scientific community at large has produced remarkably little reliable data. Where are the epidemiological studies?

Producing reliable data is the highest priority.
"shirt -stripes" works, wtf?
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It’s not poetic, it’s just fucked. Like laughing at a train wreck because someone you didn’t like was on the train.
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You need to stretch the definition of "almost" quite a bit in order to achieve that.
As someone who was more or less forced to move to southern New England for his career I love northern New England but I have less than high opinion for people who talk it up as though it's the greatest thing ever. People moving to Northern New England for the taxes (after counting government fees and other taxes it's not really that low when it's all said and done) or the low prices or other shallow benefits and don't understand that these are different places with different cultures (though if their only experience is the I95 or I93 corridor I can see how someone might miss that) will be the death of it. I have lived in ME, NH and VT, they all have distinct cultures that are different than the culture you get in MA and CT (haven't lived in RI). I'm not gonna say they're wholesale superior (obviously it comes down to personal values and preference) but I find the things their culture does right very important personally and the things it does wrong very unimportant so naturally I like them all a lot better than MA and CT. If you're gonna move to NH, ME or VT do it for the culture fit, not for the shallow crap like being able to buy beer at Walmart. Also, to anyone from NH, ME or VT reading this, sorry for lumping you all together but I think we can all agree you have more in common with each other than you do with any state to the south.

So yeah, it's a great place to live but please stop broadcasting that or it will stop being that way.
Carvana still has thousands of cars.

Disclosure: I work there, I think we’re pretty neat.
Sometimes the buyer doesn't have much choice: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars .
the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" quote is not a particularly good example to bring up for this topic.

see this article [0] for a longer discussion, but tl;dr: it's from an ancillary opinion (ie, not part of the actual ruling) from a case that was overturned many years ago.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
I saw a lot of hostility right here in 2019 when I pointed out some Python 2 programs are nay to impossible to port to Python 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21258527
It’s normal to randomly sample multiple locations. Random samples from even 10 random locations are much more useful.
RFI:

I'm interested in learning more about an alternative strategy to the lockdown.
It's one thing to advance a theory in academic papers during normal times. It's another to pen widely-read op-eds advancing said theories in the middle of a pandemic. Their theory and op-eds have already, and are, influencing policy - and it's clear they want to influence policy. Hence, it merits more scrutiny than the average study. These results are being used by policymakers to make decisions - skepticism and criticism is most definitely warranted.

I'm in no position to conduct studies, though I am certainly doing things in my wheelhouse to help. Other studies will clear up matters, but results may be weeks away. And these results may be used to end quarantines in the intervening time.
Both do actually.
Do they know beforehand a value of N so that the proofs have depth < N?
Not a constitutional issue because FB, Google, etc. are private companies and can tweak the search results however they see fit.
hey all, author of the previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22595782) here, and I'm happy to answer any questions about the system! I think the author isaac is here too.
Yeah, I'm not an epidemiologist but I think the principle is simple: it's just a matter of getting the actual transmission rate below 1, so that any outbreak will naturally die out. If in the absence of any immunity the average infected person infects 3 others, but now 2/3 of people are immune, then the average infected person will actually only infect one other. Ditto for a transmission rate of four and 3/4 immunity, and so on.

It's worth noting, though, that the natural tendency during an epidemic is for the total number of infections to exceed the herd immunity threshold; I think the phrase to google is 'herd immunity overshoot'.

(It's also worth noting the serious problems with this study, as pointed out by other commenters.)
According to the Q&A it is the same test as the Santa Clara study, so concerns about false positives apply equally to both.

It seems like they should be doing multiple tests, as independent as possible, per blood sample, and seeing if they agree?
The legal questions of what FB’s rights are to control their platform are irrelevant to a discussion on the merits of how they choose to do it (and I’d suggest aren’t as clear cut as your implying).

If you’re isolating, then you also can’t catch coronavirus from somebody attending a protest. If you’re out in public, then you could also be randomly struck by a car (unintentional injuries are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US). Do you have the same view on advertisements for Ford?

These people are exercising their constitutional right to petition their government. Facebook is trying to prevent them from doing it because they don’t want them to. No matter how justified you think that is, it is anti-civil liberties, and anti-democracy. They are also doing so (at least according to the reports I’ve read), under the guise of preventing misinformation. Again, no matter how justified you think it is, it has nothing to do with misinformation, and is a clear signal of how they intend to apply “misinformation” moderation.

The problem that underlines all of this is that no private organization should have the power to control citizens to this extent. Regardless of what you think of these protestors, Mark Zuckerberg should not be the final arbiter on whether or not they’re allowed to organise themselves. HN and many other communities like it are very vocal about what services people should have access to, things like housing, transport, healthcare... but for speech all of a sudden we need a central authority to determine who’s worthy of access.
since php6 was never released, it cannot be a failure.
cars were now too expensive for common people to begin with. now they're offering 84 month payment terms. when I arrived in america in 2012 car terms were 36-48 months. & when you look historically at car prices compared to wages, the situation is even dire
You can choose to offer people some incentive to take the test. If you offered $50 per person you would probably eliminate most sampling bias.
8 cores in Cisco rsp880, released a few years ago so not that small back then.
I think you've misunderstood the comment by zucker52: your post is using 0.002 and 0.002% interchangably. It's quite hard to figure out what you mean when the numbers are off by two factors of magnitude in places.

For example:

> So a 0.002% "fatality rate" relative to total exposures,

You appear to be deriving this from the computation 601/221000. That gives .27%, not 0.002%.

> 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

No it's not. 1% of 27M is 270k, not 27k.
Not really... more data can't fix sampling bias.
How does saying "What does the saying say to them?" demonstrate that the words could be considered as being associated with the far right? Please be specific.
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I sense an undertone (in your friend's quote) of, "why should I care if people are too dumb to realise that someone is just trolling the?". Would that be a fair assessment? If so, that's pretty tragic. It means that people who aren't as smart/savvy/wise are fair-game. In a jungle that law holds true. So perhaps, this is humanity reverting to type.

Personally, my hopes have always been that we would continue to build on ideas of society that flourished post enlightenment (oh the irony when people rabbit on about protecting "western values" by offering to subvert them).

I guess, I can't see that it's possible to hope/work/strive for a better world, and be a troll. One is constructive, the other nihilistic at best and actively destructive at worst.
And it’s a random sample of people on the street, at some particular place, which may not very representative of the population of Chelsea either.
n I won't even mention the lemon market i.e sub prime market for used cars. were lemons are shifted amongst poor people like a dirty dollar bill through repos and crazy terms
Not necessarily, leases are determined by the difference between the residual value and selling price, not MSRP. Automakers will likely pile on incentives to reduce the selling price.

Since car makers have their own finance arms, the residual prices will likely be kept artificially high. This allows them to kick the problem down the road until lease expiration.
There's some interesting videos of giant parking lots just filled with cars for sale right now -- randomly found one the other day:

https://youtu.be/AzD5u_fLo70?t=1400. (23:20)
Does anybody how these antibodies are being identified and how distinct they are from other, similar viruses (like the flu)?
We tend to want to lump people into camps so we don't have to go through and see all the various sub-categories and determine if they are OK or not.

Some states are restricting fishing and hunting... That's not a team sport and if I use a lure (edit: as in I don't even have to go to the store for bait) I'm not going to affect anyone else.

Some protesters want to get haircuts.... GET OVER IT.

I feel like both sides have some valid and various levels of invalid points. In the expedience of not needing to sort the chaff, i'd side with the stay at home crowd, but there really is some shit they closed down that seems.... a little too far.
I think a good rule of thumb is that if the official number is n, the true number is something in the neighborhood of n to the nth power
What explains the difference between NY and CA if it isn't lockdowns? The difference in death per capita between the two is staggering (nearly 30x more people per capita have died in NY than CA).
I'm pretty much a single player gamer, but lately i've been getting into the multiplayer side of dark souls. Personally, I think it's my new favourite multiplayer system.

It's focused around co op and invasions and is built into the story enough that it just feels like part of the game, while again not being forced in any way.

It's entirely optional to the point where being able to invade more than a limited number of times is locked behind an obscure, difficult route in the game that's missable and entirely unlikely to be discovered the first playthrough.

There's a few different invasion mechanics based around in game covenants that provide different game experiences, both in single and multiplayer that are a lot of fun. Coop's pretty fun too. It's a pretty awesome feeling helping out another player with a boss or area they've been struggling with and I'm not ashamed to say I needed to summon a bit of help for Ornstein and Smough the first time.

But, my favourite thing I think is the asynchronous multiplayer. The notes and specters. You can leave notes with predefined phrases for other players that can be helpful, or not as well as getting small glimpses of other players 'ghosts' as they play the game, or die horribly to something.

There's no other actual interaction between players though. You can't message people, there's no lobbies, it's all very ephemeral and unnoticeable and just feels like part of the game. The only thing it really reminds me of is the counter-op mode from perfect dark, which was a hell of a lot of fun, even if it seemed a bit lacking at times.

Personally I'd love to see this system recreated and improved in other games. It's the first time i've been interested in multiplayer gaming since I was a teenager playing StarCraft and diablo.

I know someone who regularly plays grand theft auto online. Whenever i've watched them play lately I can't help but think how much better it would be if they'd built a similar system. The game would be perfect for it. The online mode it has seems pointless and pretty lazy by comparison.
Last paragraph of the article:

GM and Ford’s captive-finance
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I suspect this is likely legal, but when I read it, I got this feeling like "that doesn't seem right". How can it be acceptable for a single private entity to control that much of the market?

It's certainly manipulative. The reality is that cars should be less valuable right now and for some period of time after an event like Covid19.
I've only discovered Proton recently and I'm very impressed. I'm no stranger to using Wine to get games running in Linux, but Proton makes the whole process so easy. And Wine itself has come a long way even in the past few years. GTA V was the reason I kept a Windows partition when I played it a few years ago, and now it works amazingly with the latest version of Wine/Proton.
Shell access is seldom required, and using it to manage your system is frowned upon

Hipster alert!
I guess we'll find out tomorrow
Yeah, but not the one my wife wants. :) I check your site every week, but as far as I can tell, the inventory isn't turning over much right now.

I don't know if you can share publicly, but if you can, I'd love to know what the inventory turnover rate is right now, or at least how many new cars are added to your platform each week.
So interestingly, those results from the research paper with more details ( https://www.biomedomics.com/?fldl=3050 and also https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.25727 ) credit a different manufacturer called Jiangsu Medomics Medical Technologies. I wonder if that's their subsidiary, or if they're buying the tests from them.
I don't see the link here. Yes there are 22 million laid off. But given a choice between being alive and being jobless, I think people would choose being jobless. The people protesting are not the same people lining up at food banks.

I have seen wapo video of Michigan protest. People there were angry because they want to get their hair done or buy paint and fertilizer. They want others to go to work to they can stay home.
It’s a well known effect that for big-ticket items, liquidity drops before prices fall. Given a choice between selling at a big loss and just sitting on the asset, people will choose not to sell. That’s what happened with houses in the last recession.
My mistake, I didn’t realize that I’d done that. Anandtech seems to set each part of a review as a separate page, which I didn’t realize when copying the article link to post.

Maybe dang or someone else could potentially change the link to point to the beginning? I don’t think I can edit anything on my end anymore unfortunately.
> At least I haven't seen a number of "people who died because they couldn't receive care" - do you have one?

No, that's impossible to provide between people dying at home because hospitals are full and the general chaos of those situations. And then there's the big difference between quality of care in various countries, death rates of just about everything will be much higher in Mozambique than they will be in Sweden, it's nonsensical to think that quality of medical care will not have an effect.

> It seems possible that once health care systems are overwhelmed, more people die. But how often, if ever in this pandemic, has that point been reached?

Many times in many countries, look at the national totals somewhere like here (https://covid19info.live/), the trend is nearly always that more cases at once translate to much higher death rates. Partly due to not knowing the true number of infections, but mostly due to the availability of medical care.
Fast response news and 24 hours news are different things. "Fast response" also covers things like Twitter, which, while rife with its own problems, is at least theoretically capable of giving you an immediate, succinct news bulletin and then shutting up.

24 hour news stations can't do this. They have to blather and overanalyze rumors and twist words and sometimes lie because they need people to watch all the time, even when nothing is happening. Plus, since they are so mass-market focused (they have to be because of the revenue demands of the medium), any in-depth analysis is off-limits. Thus, viewers come away with surface-level, emotionally-charged and largely inaccurate ideas--flaws which are inherent to the system.
Infamous tweet from Raleigh PD indicates how police feel about it:

https://twitter.com/raleighpolice/status/1250111779574894594

(No qualifications about distancing)
It gets even harder than that: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge

For example:

"The city councilmen refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated violence."

Which party is "they"? There is no lexical information that can possibly answer this question. It depends entirely on an actual understanding of what "city councilmen" and "demonstrators" (in the context of city councilmen and permits!) are, and which one would be more likely to be advocating violence (and in which case that would lead to a permit denial).

Background: Until recently I worked at a symbolic AI company who was tackling this problem. I myself didn't work on this problem directly, but I became 100% convinced that their approach, while a long shot, was the only conceivable way of solving it in a fully generalized way.
Google is aware of this problem in their search approach. It's a business problem, not a technical one. You're saying the same thing in suggesting they base their decisions on some measurement set. If solving the problem adds complexity, which it certainly will, and there is not enough improvement in accuracy for the majority of cases in their measurement set, why bother? You sound like the kind of person that attacks people for their opinion. So weird, dude.
I think there's a difference between postulating a hypothesis, and then testing it, which is what I believe you're referring to, versus going around advocating a particular position as being true and then "testing" it.

When people are strong advocates of a particular position, they tend to find ways to design or process experimental data in ways that support that position. The ways in which bias can seep into the experiment are not always easy for outsiders to see.

So it comes down to whether their "advancing this theory" went beyond what a reasonable scientist would do in postulating a hypothesis that needs testing.
Follow up question: If it had ended at zero dollars, then the next day jumps to $5, what's the percentage change?
I’m enjoying your stories here and on your “Raising Future Adults” blog. You mentioned other parenting blogs – are they still live? I’d love to read more of your work.
Or increased their political power.

Note well: I am not just talking about one side here.
People will not be educated because they see right past “truth” and look for their “group” or “tribe”. Like a deeper truth. (Autocorrect suggested deeper trump.)
Sure, that's a reasonable definition, in which case it's untrue that more than a handful of places around the world have had a shortage.
Uh, tons of modern verifable languages exist. See idris or f* for example.

They are actually quite good.
Not like you can force people to test so it's impossible to get full randomness there.
Based on these studies I think >90% of people in California don't have it, and how much higher is unknown.