skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some wealthy Bay Area residents reportedly fled to bunkers
Maybe the voice will be resolved in a future PR ;)
>Maybe I'll have to wade back into actually owning a vehicle if the prices absolutely tank.

I would assume that if used car prices plummet, residual values on leases will fall, making the leases more expensive.

Lightly used vehicles will be where it's at.
My Hollywood movie plot theory is that Covid affects inhibitions.
Regardless of whether or not you're correct, please don't accuse people of lying here.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky... When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names... Assume good faith. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd usually recommend just using KVM on Fedora/CentOS, but if you're not that Linux savy or don't want to spend time fiddling around I'd probably say give Proxmox a go, or XCP-ng if you want something that's easier to cluster between hosts but don't mind the storage not being quite as quick.
Can we change the title?

Article title is "Nearly a third of 200 blood samples taken in Chelsea show exposure to coronavirus"

The sample is clearly not random
There's nothing wrong with Java generics. Reified generics are a design choice. As someone who uses a lot of non-Java JVM languages, I'm thankful interop is easier.
The point was to prove you could implement everything syntax-wise without the rewrite.
I drove by Kansas City International airport today. The peripheral lots were empty, the shuttle buses were parked; probably an indirect indicator for rental car demand.

In the spirit of today's negative crude price, maybe rental companies will pay you to rent a car.
> 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.

Are you serious? You see little reason? What is the logical fallacy where someone relativites and discounts in order to claim good faith? You see this massive coordinated effort to antagonize and concerted effort to obfuscate the leadership of the effort and you think it's in good faith? All for the greater good of the nation's wellbeing?

You might as well claim there's little reason to doubt that the current administration itself is also making a good faith effort to preserve health and well-being.

There are only two conclusions that can be drawn from your comment: you are either completely and utterly naive or you yourself are dissembling.
I think the example was silly, but think about finding the epoch in, say, a log file. With this system you could just click and see the human readable. With the date command you'd have to switch to terminal, type "date -r", paste, enter.
There's a great Podcast by Matthew Caruana Galizia, the son of Daphne & Tortoise Media.

4 Episodes a ~30min:

https://share.transistor.fm/s/81b87c83

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/my-mothers-murder-epis...
It's my understanding that KSA largely buys its military equipment from the US (certainly in regard to Army equipment and its air force). I'm pretty sure they're one of the countries approved for F-35 export, and they're known to be F-16 and F-15 customers. The F-35 is not cheap, the other two are relatively cheap (still in the millions).

I don't think anyone is expecting KSA to declare war against Russia, but they're currently at war w/ (part of) Yemen, and they're not exactly happy with Iran, either. The middle east is set to explode, even without US involvement.
It's just common sense in a system of capitalism. When you have people like Adam Neumann, Martin Shkreli, etc. getting filthy rich off of their non-existent consciences, then it's only natural that you'll have smaller fish like this trying to do the same. Most of them don't even end up in prison.
Peter Beard: reckless playboy photographer whose life was as wild as his work
Yes. An SF Apartment with the Words: “One Month Free”
> Because we disproportionally fund schools for rich people's kids

I was under the impression that such kids disproportionately went to private school. With a some exceptions (disability programs, ...), private schools don't receive funding from the state.

That is to say, taxes don't disproportionately fund schools for rich people's kids.

Many of these schools are better funded than public schools but that funding isn't through tax dollars.
In my experience, random non-whitelisted indie games work pretty great. My guess is that the average small shop is using more 'default' tooling with less custom engine stuff, meaning things are more likely to work under proton out-of-the-box than a giant AAA megabeast.

(I've had very similar experiences in a very different context with OEM Android. Small manufacturers don't screw around with the OS internals, while big shops (eg, the one rhyming with HamStrung) are more likely to change things in non-obvious ways.)
One data point. I attended the local rally in my home town and I've never heard of any of the domains or organizations mentioned in this article.

Blanket condemnation of "astroturfing" and "misinformation" just reinforces the bubble.
I'm watching it all with some amusement. I've worked remote my whole career, first because it was the only option where I lived, and then later by choice after I returned to the developed world.

I'm trying to start a company, and I wouldn't dream of doing it any other way than remote. There's advantages and disadvantages, but I don't want to be paying SF office rent, SF salaries, SF benefits, and competing with the unicorns and tech giants in the area. I'd rather draw from a global talent pool and focus on how to minimize the drawbacks and maximize the advantages of doing so.

Plus neither my wife or I want to live in SF. We much prefer Vancouver. I'd move if it were really necessary for the business, but I'm glad that doesn't seem to be true.
Yes, it's 10% false positive. But it's not "really low" in the sense that it's typical for antibody tests. Which is one reason not to do wide-spread testing.
the collection of arguments being made by the protesters (as reported) mostly seem farcical and incoherent, but we should very much support their right to protest and challenge the authoritarian-prone position that we must be locked down indefinitely to beat this pandemic.

administrative directives need to convince a (super-)majority of the populace with evidence to gain trust and compliance. antagonistic pressure needs to remain so that the implied force behind those directives are removed as soon as possible (no sooner, no later).
Yeah. There's a lot of ads right now for "at home shopping and delivery", etc. I wonder if there's any layoff statistics for car dealerships. It almost has to be terrible, new or used. Financial risk, coupled with "where would I drive anyway" and "I don't want to touch a bunch of used surfaces and sit in a car with a random sales drone".
What would you suggest as reputable news?
We had a thread about this yesterday actually. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914333
I think it's inconclusive if Russia and Saudia Arabia are actually working together to drive US shale out of business or whether that's just a convenient side-effect of their own dispute.

But yes, what you describe is known as dumping and governments have enforced tariffs or quotas to prevent them. I'm not sure if it's ever been done for oil, possibly because in most cases it'd be political suicide in the US to argue for higher gas prices for consumers.
The number of deaths is 0.1-0.2% of the population of NYC.

An infection fatality rate of 1% is plausible (corresponds to a 10-20% infection rate).

The case fatality rate from confirmed cases is 7%, not 1-2%.
Wrong. They were more successful if they had proper supplies of masks, citizens cooperative with lockdowns, enough testing capacity, and so on. Otherwise, no, they were having triage when they normally would be able to treat everyone.
Belgium is doing something similar. They're being more aggressive than any other nation in Europe at labeling deaths Covid. It has contributed to their extreme case mortality rate.

https://www.politico.eu/article/why-is-belgiums-death-toll-s...
A 10% false-positive rate is awful. If the actual incidence is 2%, a test with that error rate could overstate the results at about 12%. That combined with the sampling bias could easily result in overstated numbers.

Randomized household sampling would be far preferable. That would obviously take much more time and would expose testers and the household to more risk. But without good methods, research like this and the surveys conducted in Santa Clara and LA counties are potentially worst than useless since they have the potential of misinforming policymakers and the public.
Protesting isn't illegal if you follow social distancing guidelines. I can't imagine courts would have an issue with that under a time, manner and place restriction framework.
I'm not sure that's true. The more Florence debases the silver florin while Venice stays honest, the more I'm tempted to melt my old florins into Venetian silver ducats. I only get a better and better deal that way.
That doesn't seem right if it says 5 people had it then a false positive would only say that there's a 2% that likelihood that that test is wrong. Its not saying there is a 2% likelihood that 10000 people are sick. Its saying there's a 98% chance that this test diagnosis them right and 2% chance it does it wrong.

This is better than the false positive of other tests like the normal tests with a 10-15% false positive rate.
https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-test-free-testing-update-ac...

Also this
As assemblies of people, corporations have rights. In fact, the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances is explicitly protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
There's a lot wrong with them.

You may like the design choice, but I can find plenty of people who hate it.
Python 2 was my first language and I've spent years stewing over this horrible change. I just don't bother much with python now.

It's supposed to be a convenient, quick language for scripting. There was no good reason to force some academic consistency on the print call. It's extra keystrokes for no reason. It makes me sick every time I have to use the parentheses.
I don't think that's the part that's tripping people up. You're kinda just hand-waving over the link between the newly unemployed facing the same conditions that create an increased mortality rate for those in poverty. Not all who are unemployed lack the means to continue living an unimpoverished lifestyle (savings, benefits, depending on a partner, budget reduction, etc) and presumably many of the unemployed will become employed again when economic conditions improve.

This is the part that isn't "blindingly obvious" and requires a bit more of a substantive argument to backup the statement that "the deaths from coronavirus will be nothing compared to the deaths caused by economic destruction".
That doesn't seem like a reason to disallow necro-replies? The primary reason people write replies isn't communication with the parent commenter.
An uneducated populace isn't compatible with democracy. This is just yet another manifestation of that.
The conflict of interest part is fair.

The "Note that the senior author Bhattacharya and of course Ionnadis were advancing this theory before data collection began" is not. That's how science is done: you advance a theory, then you conduct experiments to validate / invalidate the theory.
I do. There's a huge advantage that print as a construct has: print >>fp, ...

Yes, you can do the same thing with a kwarg on the print function, but it goes at the end of the line and ends up substantially messier in practice. This is the #1 reason that I still write Python 2 every single day; it makes a huge difference for code generation tasks.
"If the government can take away fundamental rights via executive fiat then we never had rights in the first place, we had permissions"

I mean, isn't that the definition of rights? If the government can take away fundamental rights via executive power, then it is called having a penal system. We all live in a state of exception, freedom is always conditioned, during a pandemic or otherwise. There is no principled libertarian stance that is violated now but not status quo ante.
I’m not that into hypervisors, but wouldn’t hyper-v be a good choice here? You could have near native windows graphics performance.
Your never going to have a completely random test. Your randomness comes from you picking for an area and the people who chose to do the test. Saying otherwise is being pedantic to your detriment.
That's basically the
top end of the estimate of what is theoretically possible without a lockdown and infinite time. I just don't buy that it is already maxed out like that.
"The majority of studies, and especially the higher quality studies, showed that those who avoided meat consumption had significantly higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, and/or self-harm behaviors." - there, summarised it.
Ah pardon, I misread. You're totally right.
Depends on what you're comparing. I agree we can't assume that the rest of the country will see similar infection rates. However, it's less clear to me that fatality rates would be incorrect.

On the other hand, there's one very specific way that considering NYC gives us data we can't (yet) get elsewhere. While it's possible that we're underestimating disease prevalence by 50x elsewhere, it's basically impossible in NYC (almost 2% of people already have tested positive, with less than 10% of the population being tested).
This is naive in the extreme.

Surely you can't believe that such a useful technology and data set would "only be used for contact tracing of COVID19".

The data would only be used to "track a threat". What you consider a threat differs considerably from what others consider a threat... but the data collected is the same.

The data is sent over the internet. All internet traffic is recorded somewhere. Search for the discussion of "thin thread" and the abuse surrounding it.

Be careful what you wish for.
Give thingamagig a shot. I think you'll find that voice-control is faaaaaar from a gimmick. I have kicked my feet up and lost hours jamming along from track to track. The frictionlessness of it is really something.

Also, you seem to know quite a bit about the market. Would you be willing to talk? Email me at cyrus@ my product's domain name.
I think there is some demand for legacy Python 2 to be maintained, even if the maintenance is limited only to security fixes, and I think it would be good if some company paid you or someone else a full time salary to continue maintaining this Python 2 fork.

It’s a tragedy of the commons: A lot of companies making good money are still using Python 2, but none of them are willing to pay programmers to maintain an open source currently maintained Python 2 fork.
I've always preferred Proxmox because of its container support. I have a number of Proxmox hosts that don't have any VMs on them at all, just containers.
Court.
Except this aligns with other general sampling. You're not going to be able to sample people with consent.
No, that wasn't my point at all. I was replying to Kaiyou, who couldn't understand how those words could be considered as being associated with the far right. I explained exactly how they could be considered as saying something within the far right. (That it is associated with the far right is shown by who initially said it.)

So, when those words are spoken by the far right, can you see a problem?

Could someone in complete innocence say the same words, and have no ill intent? Sure. But such words are also said by the far right. Do you hold them as having no ill intent?

I've got a problem with the meaning the far right puts on the words. Do you not?

Frankly, the thing you are arguing and arguing and arguing about is not something I care very much about. Innocent whites can see the words as being completely benign? Yeah, dog whistles are like that.
CircleCI raises $100M Series E
In America, corporations are people.

Citizens United v. FEC
I would argue the second amendment doesn't explicitly say you can't own a nuclear warhead for personal amusement, but I would argue nobody's going to challenge the validity of such impositions.
Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic
This isn't random at all, lots of people are staying inside and going out to the store once a week or less, they will be dramatically under tested with this methodology.

Meanwhile other people are going out every day, or they know they previously had covid so they consider themselves exempt from shelter in place, or they have a job that requires them to continue heading out to work despite shelter in place (and therefore they have had far more exposure to covid than average).
I tried my hand at an Android app.. the experience made me feel stupid. There's so much boilerplate and yet none of them guides you towards any sensible app architecture. I'm a systems programmer, but I was able to pick up Vue and Bootstrap and cobble together a functional dev UI in a week, despite not knowing JavaScript. I tried and failed with vanilla Android Studio, then decided to try the "Android Jetpack" guides which led me to third-party libraries with broken codegen.

It's just not fun, you know? Apps should be fun to make.
There are tons of changes under the hood that made webapps development easier in the past 5 years, and not all of them can be polyfilled. For example, ES6 Proxy is something an end user won't even notice it exist, but now used at fundamental level on many webapps. Developers that depend on it won't trade their productivity gain from using the new api with supporting browsers that has less than 1% marketshare.
We're a company coming out of the YC W20 batch working on the product attribution problem http://glisten.ai/.

There's too many products nowadays to be manually attributed (e.g. pattern=stripes), making it hard return good results even with entity resolution for queries. We train classifiers to categorize products, including what something is not, using their images and descriptions.
"Pay us $30/barrel or we'll burn this up in the atmosphere."
This is not intrinsically true. Cooling and power delivery certain have it beat, but it seems feasible to beat based on memory bandwidth. I bet a GPU uses roughly the same order of power/cooling that say half a threadripper does?
Well, back in 2018 I participated in a event for software engineers undergrads in Paraná/Brasil, I was glad to see that there ware a blind girl there. At first I was afraid to approach her with a thousand questions, cause I was curious, just like you are, to know how is her day to day. I got the chance to talk to her and she seemed pretty normal. Her computer had a screen reader and she was having fun at the event. She and I end up taking a mini workshop about Watson (IBM chatbot). Nice gal, she was doing alright and I'm sure you will be alright as well. Don't give up.
Only 35% of people experiencing homelessness struggle with addiction[0], so no I don't think you have. But sure, grant your premise - it's the combination! If house prices go up then people who were struggling to make rent at the lower level won't make it at the higher level, thus becoming homeless. There are many, many people with addictions who are financially functional to a point, but rising rents can finally kick them on to the streets where things get much worse. Boiling things down to a single cause like "oh it's addiction" isn't useful.

[0] https://sunrisehouse.com/addiction-demographics/homeless-pop...
Yep.. I saw a similar headline claiming LA infections are 55x the reported rate. I think the math is likely simpler, and the infection is somewhere between 3x-5x (10x tops). I've read a few reports saying about 50% of people are asymptomatic, 30% show symptoms that aren't bad enough for hospitalization and 20% require hospitalization. I can't find the source I got it from but I believe it was a Chinese study
That's because the methods and authors have major overlap. The USC study reported here is a collaboration with the same group at Stanford:

https://news.usc.edu/168810/usc-covid-19-antibody-researcher...

The participant selection here was done differently, but the same problems arise with the false positive rate of the tests.
It sounds complex. At any moment, you have 3 options. You can accept it, change it, or leave it.

Do you have paying customers? If so, that's not a bad start. Do your potential customers pay to solve the problem you are trying to solve? That's also not a bad start.

Have you considered hiring a consultant to help solve the problem, or to be the bearer of bad news (not having a clear understanding of your customer or the market)? I've helped people / companies figure out their target customer and what would solve their problems. Feel free to reach me at helpthingchat a.t gmail dot com if you'd like.

As to leaving, you can find the best way to frame it, and then do it. If they're really your friends, they will accept it. If not, who cares what they think?
I don't know what it supposed to prove. It was no secret that Unicode was what broke compatibility, the other changes were there to use that as an opportunity to fix warts that accumulated over years (like organization of system packages, print statement, division, classes etc. I don't believe Thauton fixed these things though)

It was no secret that everything else was portable, that's essentially all what python 2.7 was - backporting 3.x features to Python 2. It was a waste of resources for developers to maintain 2 forks of Python so that effort was stopped in 2015. There was 5 extra years to move application to Python 3.

5 years is frigging long time in computer terms, and your project felt still like giving f-you to the core developers for trying to improve the language. Trying to call the project Python 2.8 was very aggressive and would create a lot of confusion if Guido would accept that.

I'm glad you gave python 3 a try, I feel like the people that were against it didn't write any new application in it, and their experience was porting Python 2 code to 3. It can be very frustrating when Python 3 complains about bugs that Python 2 just ignored, but if you write a python 3 application from scratch you don't even notice the Unicode, and that was the goal.
> utterly floored at how obvious this is but almost everyone has missed it. "the information superhighway", indeed.

Interestingly, there was a class of people who never missed that from day one. "Don't believe everything you read on the internet," our teachers warned us. We scoffed: if we could be so stupid. No one believes anything you read on the internet.

Only looking back do I notice the slow change. We have become a people who believe everything they see on the internet.
Has anyone been able to figure out what the number of COVID deaths are in Chelsea specifically?
It has shown to have a 2% false positive rate lower than the 10-15% false positive rate of the general test so its the most accurate test we have.

https://abc7news.com/coronavirus-test-free-testing-update-ac...
It depends on crypto, so lets talk about the biggest one, bitcoin. You cannot money launder bitcoin. Because all transactions are tracked, as opposed to dollar. Bitcoin is not anonymous.

Also where do you base your case though? What % of bitcoin is used for crime?

All i have seen is total amounts, and bitcoin nor other crypto coins don't come even close.

Heck, all major banks were openly laundering narco money and nobody gave fuck. What makes you think that bitcoin changes anything?
Furthermore, a very working class city so I'm sure that a far lower percentage of people are staying home than in many places. [ADDED: Given jobs that don't allow them to stay home.]