skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the world is heading into a deflationary crisis. We're just starting. Corporations seem to think they are immune. Governments cannot do much to stem this crisis. People should be ready to brace for more shocks. When we reopen, we'd still be in recovery mode for at least a few years.
> We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet.

And the "traditional" media scrambled, falling all over themselves, desperately trying to become relevant as their business model disappeared, moving their content online, competing in the cacophonic nightmare of screaming known as the internet. Little did they know that adding more signal to the noise just tricked us into believe that noise was signal.
This would be more analogous to Google removing those types of pages from search, which they already do en masse and have for years
Just to be clear I think it's a terrible idea for Americans to go to another country, because here in America our founding fathers realized it 243 years ago that a democracy cannot be given all the power at once and that it must be curtailed, that's why they created a Bill of Rights.

> I presume that the reference poster is...

I don't think that the comment I was responding to was talking about New Zealand oh, but a general Democratic principle.
I actually think that it wasn’t so much the fact of Russian interference, the us does similar things all over the world — it was that a domestic political party collaborated with them.
Unfortunately, that only solves the case of printing strings with newlines, not the case where I might want to continue the line with a space instead, where I'd normally just add "," at the end and call it good. There are absolutely ways around their poor decision, but at the end of the day, the print function instead of statement is a bad fit for some use cases.
anybody know how many barrels were actually sold at that price? $0 is one thing, but I'm shocked at the minus $38. It could not have been large.
Huh, that sounds reasonable.

I'm guessing you would need to wait for immunization to be developed for restrictions on high risk people are loosened?
Why can't it be our regular domain squatters?

No need to see a super consisparency. People are upset for real. And the withdrawal of rights everywhere is indeed concerning.
And yet many of us will still buy the next macbook pro 13inch refresh when it comes out with a "good keyboard" and a substandard processor. Why is that?
For me - its the total package.
The software/the hardware/integrations that just work/the arguably best track pad in the industry.

CPU is one piece to the puzzle. I read on the message board to unlock the top tier AMD mobile processors you had to guarantee it wouldn't be paired with other crap hardware like vendors done in the past. We will see - hopefully next microsoft refresh breaks this trend for amd.
Just because a robot can do the same job doesn’t make an activity dehumanizing - you seem to merely be justifying a negative view.

You’re also ignoring that the point of pointing and calling is precisely to keep you from responding robotically if something deviates and to maintain your attention on active control/correction. It’s when you don’t point and call that you respond robotically. Your comment about “cog” gets to what I was calling demeaning: most of the jobs people refer to that way require intelligence and active response that machines can’t really master — they’re being done poorly if you’re just being a “cog in a machine”.

Robots are okay, but they’re not really useful for certain jobs (yet) because they’re either not smart enough, not flexible enough, or too costly to respond intelligently to deviations from the norm. Pointing and calling amplifies that human capacity.

Using motion and language to amplify our natural faculties for best effect at a social purpose sounds pretty human to me.

I’m curious, what activity do you view as not dehumanizing?
Many of the numbers have denominators in the underlying data: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/facebook-covid-survey-data-f...
Why is "suggesting that nearly 2% of the population has been infected “under the radar” even remotely shocking ?
In Washington state, there are threats of fines for using facilities like parks. Most of our outside activities either take place in a private destination (like work or some other business) or a public one (city parks, state park trails, national forest alnds). When the private businesses are ordered closed, public lands are closed by the government, then the citizen has nothing left to go to.

You can claim that isn't coercion because you don't have to stay in your home and could aimlessly walk outside, but to most people, it feels like coercion. After all, private businesses and individuals can make their own voluntary risk assessment about staying open, and public lands belong well, to the public who front the taxes to support them.
More specifically, West Texas Intermediate Crude futures for early May delivery are sub-zero. Late-May delivery is more expensive.

This is in part a reflection of the fact that the oil producers have already been paid for the output and are contractually obligated to deliver it, but no one actually really has a use for it once it is there, and it will cost money to transport or store it.
Being cited for coordinating and organizing specifically prohibited (sure, we can debate the merits of this) public gatherings in confined spaces is still several steps removed from "confined in home by force".
>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.

Wait, are you talking about the people who want to send everyone back to work now, even though we don't even have masks for doctors yet? Are you saying they are trying to minimize death and misery? Or are we talking about completely different people here?
“oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory”
The Federal Reserve is not misleadingly named. It was created by an act of the US Congress. The board is appointed by the President and the Congress sets their salaries. It’s completely appropriate for it to bear the word “Federal” in it’s name.

The conspiracy theories are because people make up stories to fill in what they don’t understand.
Australian recyclers have been been caught shipping to Malaysia, where the receiver is not a recylcer and illegally received the trash and just dumped it there.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-29/malaysia-to-send-tonn...

Yes, it has happened and is happening.
It’s not a question of ‘more data’ as I could take 50 or 50,000 samples from a single person and I gain nothing about the overall population.

Similarly if I sample 50 or 50,000 people from a single city I learn nothing about people outside of that city. But, by sampling N random locations I at worst have N samples to work with.

PS: At the extreme, if I sample every single member of a population then ‘more data’ solved any bias problems. Smaller samples are subject to a wider range of biases.
> Can u run proxmox on a single developer machine ?

Yes. Proxmox is built on Debian (or was, last I played with it) and you can actually install it on a Debian host, if desired.

> (so that you boot up your machine into one of the virtualized OSes)

No.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_America_(radio_network)
The most promising way to prevent politicians and criminals from trying to censor through killing journalists is to retaliate the killings by investigating the initiator and their allies until every crime they have committed has surfaced. As soon as it is clear that a flood of investigations are consequence of violence against people who speak the truth the risk of speaking should diminish greatly.
Gasoline is one of many products produced from crude (others include kerosene, diesel, heating oil, butane, propane, plastics, etc...). You can also get a different mix of products depending on the grade of oil and refining technique, so gasoline has its own supply/demand dynamics which partially intersects with demand curves for the other products while crude is merely the input.

So cheap crude does allow more room to lower the price of gasoline and cheap crude is often linked to lower demand, however they're not in lockstep due to the many other factors.
No demand, surplus inventory already out there, so taking possession in May requires storing them indefinitely.

Investors decided to factor that cost in when buying these.
Also known as being wrong
> anonymity

It's not anonymity per se, it's lack of consequences. Big platforms tried to make Real Names (tm) a thing, with the explicitly stated faith that that would make people behave better. It doesn't. It opens a whole other can of worms, where now people's egos and emotional investment only increases, yet the negative consequences don't necessarily. People still behave like assholes. Because they get away with it. And are even lionized for it!
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Futures prices are significantly higher than $0. This is less noteworthy than it seems.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...
Epidemiological studies are known as “models”. Those are being produced at a rapid clip, and are being updated daily as we get more data. As with most models, they start out with huge error bars and get better over time.

Every epi would LOVE to have widespread test data, but we don’t. Oh well.

These antibody tests only became feasible in the past two weeks, when the tests were actually developed and validated, and then this test was run.

There’s a ton of science being done, if you stop and listen to what is being published.
>Forms of human behavior survive because they have a competitive edge against other behaviors. Self-interested groups naturally tend towards what works, so bad drives out good (in a moral sense) if it causes superior practical effects. This is one large reason why forms of regulation and policing are needed in human systems, to prevent the Law from working its magic.

I don't think that a requirement for regulation and policing follows from that. Regulation and policing can also be caught by these bad practices. Regulatory capture is an example of that.

In my opinion, this suggests instead that we need irregular resets to the system. Wipe the slate clean and start building it up again. That does come with enormous cost, but it seems to me like it's the only way to truly stand against constant degradation without finding a way to counter the degradation.
Matt Levine's explainer https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-20/there-...
Spot price = $18.10 (close)
Aren't console GPU chips on the same die as the CPU ?
VMware Workstation runs on Windows and Linux and supports the same "Connect to ESXi" functionality that Fusion does on macOS.
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Hi, author of PhotoStructure here.

If you've signed up for beta access, know that I'm sending out invites in batches, and hope to send out another this week, with the release of v0.8.0 : https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

(sorry if you've been waiting a while!)

Briefly, there are 3 builds of PhotoStructure: a desktop build (packaged with Electron), a Docker image, and a git repo you can pull, `yarn install`, and run directly. More details about why I felt the need to quit my office job and work on it full time are here: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

If you've got any questions, feel free to ask them here or email hello@photostructure.com.
> Being purposefully combative, negative, divisive, and awful just to make money is not a great look. How? Why? Why do people do these things?

I actually came across a BBC article[1] several weeks ago that examined the motivations behind one of the sources of fake news.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_godfather_of...
You really don't want to virtualize unRAID.
Right, but the - operator requires prior knowledge that the search engine understands boolean operators and that a -b is an alias of "listings with a on their text that don't have b in their text too" whereas "a without b" is inmediately recognizable by whoever is writing the search as "I want something of kind A without property B"
Personally this ventures into the same area of "baker refuses cake for gay wedding". Facebook does not want to profit from what they see is a "bad event". But do they have a right to refuse service on such bases ? (Of course there are legal differences such as protected class vs unprotected class. But either ways the moral principle is the same.)

I personally would side with Facebook on this one.
On the other hand, are people going to crowd into busses and onto trains right after a pandemic?
I'm curious what would currently be the statistic for the level of death I cause as a consequence of choosing to socialize? Surely we should have some idea by now?

I just think it be an interesting metric, if I decide to go get a hair cut, did I also just decide for 2 person to die?
> mix their own cleaners

Links to a page with ingredients of vinegar & isopropyl alcohol, both of which come in plastic containers.

I've been trying to find bath soap that comes in a non-plastic container, but no luck.

I just found this link about creating liquid soap from a bar, so I may give that a shot! https://clark.com/family-lifestyle/make-liquid-hand-soap-bar...
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You can look up the volume: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/cl.1/charts -- between 2:20-2:25, EST, for example, volume was 748 contracts (748,000 barrels) at -$37.11.
I disagree with all these reopen protests, but I wonder if suppressing them will have the desired effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

This action will "prove" to some people that the tech industry has a liberal bias. I don't know that there's a good counter action to these protests, though.
So I read all of this and to me it sounds like much ado about nothing. Can anyone explain, without loaded language, what is wrong here?

"People I don't like (gun rights, republicans) are organizing in favor of a cause I don't support (reopening)". Is there any more to it than that?
We won't really know until it happens, of course, but perhaps the glut will be new cars, not used -- if a lot of people change their purchase decision from a new car to a used one to save a few bucks.
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Definitely there is more of the virus in hospitals and in the ICU. The virus is also probably on the floors of subway cars, elevators, and other public places if someone infected emits droplets in those areas.

Of course, I'm only suggesting that the idea of shoes as vectors might be something.
Tom+and+Jerry+director+Gene+Deitch+has+passed+away+at+the+age+of+95
I dug through the source code and extracted the JSON files and converted them to a tabular/CSV format for use outside.
https://observablehq.com/@thadk/facebook-covid-survey-data-f...

If you're one of the creators, please release the data files for this kind of thing. Google started releasing only PDFs of mobility, its data was scraped through much effort, and only later did they begin releasing the official CSVs.
You'd have to come up with a new architecture to make this work, but perhaps you could have CPU/GPU on the same chip with dedicated GDDR memory lanes.

PS4/XBOne have an APU with powerful (ish) graphics - how does their memory work?
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They've dropped the "hangouts" and are just calling it "Meet" now (in some places, at least).
It's not reasonable.

You can't quarantine vulnerable people completely. If everyone gets it, every bag of groceries is going to be covered in COVID and an enormous number of quarantined people will die.

You can't tell who's going to die from it.

You can't have everyone getting sick at once. The death rate will go up tremendously if nobody can get treatment when they have treatable symptoms. This is what "flattening the curve" means.

We don't have enough protective equipment, medical supplies, hospital beds, healthcare workers, or even morgue space. The only tool left is staying inside, and so that's what we're doing now.

"Herd immunity" uses the word "herd" because we don't normally use it to describe actions taken toward human beings.

Sweden absolutely bungled their response and have 10x the number of deaths from this as compared to their neighbors who shut shit down.
> They are in their 50s and they started small and it's snowballed into this.

What's the force of nature that's pushing this snowball down the hill? Sounds like joy of hurting others, amplified by feedback and validation from like-minded people online.
A non trivial part of the economy depends on oil prices staying above a certain level. Producers and Services companies in particular. That's a lot of jobs. We are likely looking at further lay offs and mass defaults on bonds.

Also possible environmental impact from abandoned wells, or defaulting on cleanup obligations.

Probably more I'm missing.
Wouldn't that be true of anyone participating in a study? Something about this isn't making sense to me. If a study is voluntary, isn't it biased towards those who want to participate?
The FRB is often described as "private", but it really isn't, certainly not in the way that FedEx is. It:

1. Has the website https://www.federalreserve.gov/
2. Seems to be considered a federal agency, given that it is subject to FOIA request
3. Was created by the federal government
4. Is run by a Presidentially appointed chairman

...etc....etc...
Tom and Jerry director Gene Deitch has passed away at the age of 95.
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So they start off the article with this statement:

"That means oil producers are paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands over fears that storage capacity could run out in May."

This statement is actually totally false. Producers already got paid for this production a long time ago when they initially sold the futures contract. What has actually happened is that as the expiry of the May futures contracts arrives, the traders who bought those contracts are now trying to unload them at all costs. This is because if they're stuck holding the contract at expiry, they have to take physical delivery (each futures contract represents 1000 barrels of oil), and the cost of storing that oil is getting really high since the storage facilities are nearly full.

Later they kind of explain this in the article:

"The severe drop on Monday was driven in part by a technicality of the global oil market. Oil is traded on its future price and May futures contracts are due to expire on Tuesday. Traders were keen to offload those holdings to avoid having to take delivery of the oil and incur storage costs."

But I think it's pretty irresponsible journalism to kick off the article the way they did, and imply that producers are paying you to take their oil today.
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Your calculus has no numbers in it.
There's a sizable minority of the younger generation with a sense that the world as is offers them no purpose or worthwhile future, and no control over the institutions that have guided it to this point.

Increasingly large numbers of them seem determined to topple the Apple cart, if only for the opportunity to experience anything else.

Certainly, it's self-serving. But with enough momentum, it may end up working.
Your ad hominem on the other poster is unnecessary, violates the HN guidelines and not an apt comparison.

Pointing out the obvious: Google is an advertising company. If the cost of producing an accurate result outweighs the advertising income on a given term, there is no incentive for Google to produce better results.
They don’t have the power to control behavior arbitrarily though. If they tried to shut down business last year for no reason at all, you can bet there’d be push back, protests and eventually they’d be voted out of office and laws would be changed etc.

However when there is a pandemic overwhelming hospital systems around the world, they do have the power to shut things down precisely because most people agree with that decision. Clearly right now there is a vocal minority who disagrees and has chosen to protest. And as far as I can tell they are suffering no consequences besides being ridiculed and called “stupid” by the folks who consent to staying in for the greater good. The us government only has the power to shut things down when most people agree that they should have that power.
Diamond Princess was a very old population, and started off this whole scare campaign that this was going to be Spanish Flu Part 2. It's like doing study within just a nursing home. It won't be representative.
If the first sentence of your response doesn't tell you that it is about a certain brand of politics that is following that narrative, the second part should. Nobody has excluded Taiwan from anything, but they are not a member state of the UN and therefore not part of the WHO.

Just because they lost the war against Communist China and lost their seat, it does not mean it is alright to smear the WHO just to achieve some sort of international recognition, which in the end feels more like a cheap shot.

I don't know about you but the main thing that worries me is the long recovery process from this or getting permanent damage from this stuff if I get sick, because after you get ebola for instance, who's going to care that it started in Africa.
Some applications that don't need a complex GUI use web browsers as a frontend because they are cross-platform and they come with a bunch of 'free' UI elements like buttons, text boxes, sliders, etc. You can also style things pretty easily with CSS and JS, to a point.

It's a flexible way of writing one-off applications; you can run them locally, remotely, or on someone else's machine in the cloud. One useful example is Tabula[1], a browser-based utility for extracting tabular data from PDFs. As it is often used by journalists and other organizations that don't want to leak the data they are analyzing all over the place, it is easy to run locally instead of uploading files to their website. You just point the browser to 'localhost:port' while the server is running.

[1]: https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula
I think the anti-quarantine protests are motivated by the most idiotic non-goals and were started by the Proud Boys before they were boosted by Fox News and the administration which are desperate to reopen the economy at the cost of any level of blood sacrifice on the altar of the DOW.

That said, allowing Zuckerberg to simply silence protest movements on a whim is insane and will bite all of us incredibly hard in the future. He should not have this kind of power.
Agreed, it's not that weird of a search. Other, similar queries like "shirt without buttons/collar/pocket" seem to work just fine.

The only difference is that those are all physical properties of a shirt while stripes is a type of pattern.
From the page you linked "public events and gatherings" are banned. That sounds like restricting freedom of assembly to me.

Clearly forcing many businesses to shut down is restricting the right to work, and forcing schools to shut down or go online restricts the right to education.

Outside of individual states, the travel bans being instituted around the world are definitely restrictions on freedom of movement.

Disclaimer: I don't live in the US and the lockdowns in my country were (and to some degree still are) far more draconian than this. However, I can still see why people in the US are upset about what their government has required of them.
Id say that Australia isn’t. A dictatorship
Then, Like I said, its nothing like salary, which is absolutely an obligation.
This sucks, but also means we’re inching closer to the 70-80% necessary for herd immunity so maybe a silver lining?
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