skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hedging a bit...

Even assuming it's true, it might actually be preferable to allow them to come up with some face-saving "clerical error" and reverse course. That's assuming they are at least somewhat spooked by these stories coming out now and have belatedly realised the trouble they are in otherwise. Yes, I know that isn't likely to happen.

That's not because I have any sympathy –- it's the rare occasion where every fibre of my being is yearning for the pitchfork. It's like the logic where you catch your spouse cheating, and they kinda know they were caught. But you somehow muddle your way through with even implausible deniability because you both want the relationship to survive and the standard playbook just doesn't allow that.

Assuming it's true, the normal result, and the only result that would allow reconciliation, would be impeachment/resignation and criminal prosecution. The charge is somewhere between thousand-fold negligent homicide up to (but not including) something not entirely unlike Genocide?

But given recent experience, none of that would happen. Imagine Biden becoming President and a second or third wave hitting in early 2021. Then what? People will be out for blood. Would the new admin have the grace and political capital to resist calls for retribution? Or would that just be seen as rolling over, chumps doing good-governance as if nothing had happened, setting themselves up for even worse next time around?

This is a road that leads to only very dark places.
But they have to figure the amount, and it's lobbied down or out. So it won't be an effective measure.
I believe this is true of most such viruses. The flu is also contagious the day before you show symptoms, then most contagious 5-7 days after [1].

[EDIT] Actually, it says as much in the graph in your article.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/spread.htm
If I could upvote this a million times I would. If 50% of those tested positive are asymptomatic, then a good first-order approximation is that the false positive rate is 2x the actual prevalence, and the results say very little about prevalence that actual hospitalizations don't say.

People, and to a large degree the media, are putting a huge emphasis on testing, not always in a way sensitive to the essential difficulty of evaluating test accuracy, especially in epidemiological settings.
I use the vim plugin and various jetbrains commands in IntelliJ.

Multi-cursor select is taken care of by vim's visual block.
Basic editing/macros/navigation within a single file also done with vim.

For more IDE/multi-file specific tasks I use IntelliJ's shortcuts:

* cmd+shift+f for global search

* 2xshift for symbol search

* cmd+b to jump to method declaration

* cmd+shift+left/right is also useful to jump to previously navigated cursors

refactoring:

* cmd+alt+v/c/m for extracting variable/constants/methods (good for refactoring after prototyping)

* shift+f6 for renaming variables

* alt+enter for suggestions

EDIT: formatting
People do take delivery on commodities obviously but you don't want to go through a speculator for this.
Fidelity allows one to do so as well. The interface is a bit different from trading stocks (no intraday charts, additional fundamentals like YTM/YTW) but not exactly obscure. You search for a bond, type in a bid, quantity, and hit buy. The coupons show up in your account every few months.
Yes, all effective socialized housing programs which serve the homeless have integrated mental health services. It's impossible for such treatment to be effective if people don't have a home. To restate: without housing & mental health support, many homeless people will never regain capacity. Again, I don't know what your point is. You might be interested to learn this media focus on the prevalence of addiction in homeless populations is commonly used along with an outdated model of addiction-as-moral-failure to portray people experiencing homelessness as unworthy of support, fit only to die.
Arguably the latter is happening at the lowest rate in history, and for the first time we’re seeing the opposite.

The average number of children that a woman wants in the western world is now about 1-1.5 higher than she will have on average, which means that women want more kids and choose not to for other reasons.
It literally is, though. If the denominator is three times larger than we thought, that makes the virus three times less deadly.
I keep trying to talk about the general problem and people keep focusing on this one example. I give up. :)
That doesn't mean you should assume I don't know the difference between Denmark and Holland.

Tax haven is not an official title for any country or place but a definition and Denmark is by definition a tax haven for holdning companies.

Just because it's not well known doesn't mean it's not a tax haven. That word is quite ambiguous. Most countries have some sort of setup to attract foreign investments.

"Back in 1999, Denmark allowed Danish companies to hold shares in foreign subsidiaries. In 2009, the Danish government enacted the Danish Tax Reform Act allowing international corporate investors to use Denmark as a holding company jurisdiction. The 2009 Danish Tax Reform law improved Danish participation exemptions applied to dividends and capital gains realized on the transfer of shares by abolishing the holding periods of one year and three years respectively.

Another benefit is the ability to receive dividend payments subject to little or no taxes. Other tax haven jurisdictions often do not provide such benefits. The condition for a no tax status on dividends is that an entity owns at least 25% of the Danish company.

PepsiCo and other large international companies have established over 500 Danish holding companies over the past few years. PepsiCo Investments, the PepsiCo Danish Holding Company, is managed from a small Copenhagen office by one tax lawyer. Such international demand created a dynamic holding company industry in Denmark.

In essence, Denmark allows the registration of completely tax-free holding companies. Dutch holding companies can receive income from numerous different sources and simply pass them to other corporations in different countries. This is why holding companies are globally famous for their tax free funds “pass through” capabilities."

https://www.offshorecompany.com/company/denmark-holding/
Print is not the only difference between python 2 and 3.

Strings, most things are generators now, exceptions are different, relative imports changed, division, etc. On top of that, moving to python 3 requires updating your dependencies.
> That's so far beyond the pale it would never even be considered possible in normal times.

Isn't this the other way around? Allocating government resources to swing districts and party constituencies is politics as usual, with typically no real exceptions even for life-saving resources like funding for emergency services.

What's unusual is to see it happening in the middle of a crisis when that is usually the sort of thing to bring people together and put aside party differences. But that's what happens when you destroy all the moderates and make everything into a tribal war.
I've asked this before in other conversations but, what makes VS Code so popular compared to more mature IDEs with a more full fledged set of features like IntelliJ?

I have tried VS Code and the minute I couldn't ctrl + click navigate the code or get contextual ctrl + space bar method or input parameter suggestions I abandoned it.
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IMHO a large-enough selection of big towers is still around, internal upgrade space is fine, you can get front panel jacks etc, but they indeed have almost universally lost the 5.25" slots. The aim seems either to be a sleek front or space for the biggest possible radiator, with only 1-2 spaces for optical drives etc left as an option on some models.

RIP Caselabs :/
> Requiring that all implementations intended for all kinds of task handle corner cases that won't be relevant for most kinds of tasks would needlessly degrade efficiency.

Yes, that's what undefined behaviour is for. Eg requiring that implementations handle integer overflow needlessly degrades efficiency of the overwhelming majority of tasks where integers do not if fact overflow.

> The problem is that there's no way for programs to specify which corner cases they do or don't need.

Wait, are you just asking (the situationally appropriate equivalent of) `(int32_t)((uint32_t)x+(uint32_t)y)` and/or `#pragma unsafe assert(p!=NULL)`? Because while it's a shame the standard doesn't provide standardized ways to specify these things (as I admitted upthread) programs are prefectly capable of using the former, and implementations are perfectly capable of supporting the latter; I'm just arguing that the defaults should be sensible.
The singular of data is "datum", for those out there wondering.
My grandfather loved ghee, and I'm sure it contributed to his good health in old age. As a youngster, he could even drink a cup of ghee neat!

For some reason, that same love has not been inherited by his son (my father) or his grandchildren. Strangely, however, we shared very similar tastes in everything else!
To think this way is to misunderstand exponential growth.

If you're concerned with personal risk, the biggest thing that matters is the current spread. Of course if everyone is concerned with that, nobody will be concerned until it is too late to prevent a large portion of us from getting it.

However if you're concerned with the trajectory, all that you care about is whether R is less than or greater than 1. For both 2 and 10 it will hit a large part of the population, all at once. But 1.01 and 0.99 is the difference between "we all get it" and "only a small fraction of us get it".
This just sounds like Python 3 with extra steps.
isnt this just eventsourcing with projections?
Here is a basic question: how are the sensitivity and specificity (false negative and false positive rates, IIRC) of these tests determined?

It seems like a learning problem with noisy labels. Does anyone know what they do in practice? Especially chaotic situations like this where there aren't reference tests? Are there reference positive and negative samples?

One concern also referenced for the Stanford study was that, as mentioned in a USC popular writeup on this study linked elsewhere on this post,

> Premier Biotech, the manufacturer of the test that USC and L.A. County are using, tested blood from COVID-19-positive patients with a 90 to 95% accuracy rate.

They must be factoring this into the 2-5% infection rate number somewhere?
Didnt most Chinese bike share companies went belly up like a year ago? most were investment scams anyway.

yep https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/31/a-billion-bicyclists-ca...
Great site! Thanks Tim.
I still feel very wrong whenever I have to use print(), it was so much better without ()
It seems to me that the problem isn't so much that this search performs incorrectly. Rather it is that many search engines have removed the tools that allowed a user to specify exactly what they are looking for (e.g. shirt -stripes).
Earlier small-dish satellite systems sort of worked around this by showing each I-block as it came in (something like , instead of waiting for the full frame to be available. You still had to wait for enough macroblocks to show up, but audio was instant. Later receivers (last time I used one a long time ago) waited for a full frame to be available instead of showing the blocks as they are displayable.

I have been trying to look up what this I-frame-less encoding method is called, but it's impossible to find niche topics like this on Google or DDG these days (tried intra sweep, iframeless, progressive intra, without iframes, etc).
"The smallest large display would be projected straight onto your retina"

Bosch, yes. I am 100% sure I have read about it before on Ycombinator.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gad...
> Do you know how many "Trump admin seizes masks" and related corruption stories have been quietly retracted in the last month?

I assume you threw the "quietly" in there to be safe in case someone asks for examples?

Well, I doubt you can do anything "quietly" on the internet these days. Have any archive.org links for stories that were later deleted?
NYC has 20x the deaths / 100k people, so under the assumption that number of deaths are on comparable trajectories (due to both locations being under lockdown, maybe not as unrealistic as a few weeks ago), NYC's prevalence could be 56%-112%. This could be one explanation for why numbers are going down in NYC, or the 112% being larger than 100% could suggest that either the situations aren't comparable or that the LA study's numbers are a bit high.
I know this is a dumb thing to complain about, but why is their CGI so bad?
Agreed.

So two cities then?
AFAIK, it's solar powered and not wind powered.
Python 3.7 to 3.8 broke some stuff. I was pretty annoyed to discover (the hard way) that e.g. this wouldn't run anymore:

python3 -c "import ast; print(ast.arguments([]).args)"

It seemed completely unnecessary too. They could've just kept the structure the same across minor versions...
> ...how Go getting generics will change its position in the landscape.

I think it'll have minimal immediate effect. It'll quieten the vocal ones, but being a pragmatic bunch of people, most golang users just won't care much, at least at first. No doubt libraries will adopt it over time. Other golang projects will slowly follow.
My impression was that investments in US entities requires, kind of, a lawyer. So not that much different, if you ask me.

With Germany being in the EU, you can also incorporate in whatever EU country you want. The UK is obviously out for now, but take Estonia for example. Makes taxes a lot more complex for the company, but much less so when compared to YCs way of transforming into a US Inc. with a German / EU local entity. Especially when there are now US based operations.

That being said, there is nothing wrong with sticking to one market. Not the last reason being to avoid the above mentioned entanglements.
https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gang_Solves_the_G...
That is what I am interested in too.

I have 3 diopters astigmatism. Or more, the optometrists have trouble measuring it, their measurement fluctuates between 2.5 and 3.5 diopters. If the glasses just slip a little, I can hardly read anything.

I hope I do not develop anything worse. My father had keratoconus.
They report people who tested positive as cases. The testing is quite limited and almost never done for people without symptoms. It is typically done for people with strong symptoms. Existence of asymptomatic infected people is widely known at this point.

So I would expect undereporting in cases. So the additional 2-4 factor from study that is supposed to figure out underreporting is actually big deal.

Because reported cases where never assumed to be everyone sick (or infected) and I never seen anyone pretend they represent all infected people. Meanwhile, this study presents itself as estimate of immune people in population.
> Last time I checked

pygame supports python3 since 2016, python-opencv since 2018 at least
Report: 20M coronavirus tests per day needed to fully open economy
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
There is a separate note about criminal violations not facing “enforcement discretion”, which unless I'm mistaken covers pretty much any intentional release.
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> Moreover, for some very common things in signal processing, like working with evens/odds or left/right parts of an array, the parallel numpy operation will create lots of temporary arrays and copies.

iiuc, this shouldn't be correct. given an ndarray A, `A[::2, 1::2]` will provide a (no-copy) view of the even rows/columns of A. Same with A[:len(A)/2] to get only half of A.

> And for what it's worth, your version of mandel should work with PyPy. So you can have your cake and eat it too.

Indeed, most of the scipy stack works with Pypy, it's great.
I would go in a store and search there. Not everything has to be solved by tech and AI. This is a prime example of a problem that requires insane amount of work and yet provide absolutely no value to the world.

People still think we will have self driving cars "in two years" yet here we are talking about dumb shirts. AI winter is coming
Yeah, but have you ever taken a final test, finish it early, go to the front desk, return to proof read it, place the paper in your back pack and just walk out, without submitting your test?
It has gotten more fixes in the last couple of releases. I now in situation where it works in vscode as it used to with gopath. But yeah that was very painful
Also of note, Premier Biotech, the 'manufacturer' of the antibody tests in the Stanford study, has been accused of distributing non-FDA approved Chinese antibody tests. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/unapproved-chines...
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I'm not sure what you're arguing. Rewarding loyalty to the company typically takes the form of profit sharing, wherein employees would be incentivized to ignore management abuse (for instance) because they know raising the alarm will detract from the company's profits and, thus, their own profits.

Are you advocating for profit sharing/wealth redistribution in a really indirect way?
One time I ordered from stitch fix and asked for “a shirt which is not red, white, and blue” and got a red, white, and blue shirt.
It will take more time then you think.
Some more information about the study here: https://pressroom.usc.edu/what-a-usc-la-county-antibody-stud...

Population is supposed to be representative of LA county. Tests are from Premier Biotech with some preliminary data on false negative/ false positive rates shown. I suspect assumptions related to the test itself, rather than population, may be a bigger factor for any inaccuracies. There's also the question of whether antibody response implies immunity for SARS-COV2

Another interesting aspect of the result was 6% of men showed antibodies but only 2% of women tested.

Also:
--2.4% of people between the ages of 18 and 34 had antibodies to the coronavirus
--5.6% of people between 35 and 54 had antibodies
--4.3% of between 55 and older had antibodies

Edit: The key assumption that really, really needs to be triply checked here is the specificity of the test. They're assuming 99.5%, similar to the Stanford study I believe. If it's closer to 98% then prevalence estimate confidence intervals should include 0%, I believe. Also should be noted that the same PI on the Stanford study, Jay Bhattacharya, is also involved in this. Same criticisms likely apply here - more caution needed!

Second edit: On further reflection, I think these studies could do serious damage based on how the results are being announced by press-release - in this case, afaik there's no pre-print. In our current environment this isn't just science. Policy is being enacted and people may die because of poorly framing results. Everyone involved needs to take a step back and think through this carefully. Also - did anyone figure out why a hedge fund guy was an author on the Stanford pre-print? And why that same guy then published a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the study without identifying himself as a co-author? Shady stuff.
It does have the effect of shutting them up by obscuring the comment, though.

Reasons for disagreement could be many. Doesn't seem right to shut them up and leave them to guess what the problem was.
Imagine if somehow it would be possible to pick any release and search with that.
To be expected. They don't come with a tin foil lining. The CIA perfected their mind control tech that was being trialed on Obama's diplomatic missions.
I generally don't bother setting up bug trackers, as I get so few bugs.

One reason is that I keep my scope fairly humble, so it can be argued that software that doesn't do that much doesn't have room for bugs.

But I like to avoid dependencies, if at all possible, and have a number of habitual practices in my coding that I think result in exceptional quality.

Problem is, it's not valued at all. I'm in a semi-retired status, and have found that no one wants decent quality.

It's been rather depressing, TBH.

One of the open-source systems I designed is becoming a worldwide infrastructure, and they have more bugs than ever (I don't code it anymore), and that means they have maybe 20 issues, in all; across about 50 subprojects. When I was doing it, it was a single-digit count, but only about five projects.

It's still of remarkably high quality. The folks who took over are good, and follow good practices. Also, the substrate is very strong.
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I wrote an algebraic equation systems solver to compute KPIs from user text equations.

The user would upload a spreadsheet file that contains hundreds of equations for different "KPIs", and the solver would go through them, look for the variables in database tables and columns, and then solve the system.

Example:

kpi1 = sales.clients + marketing.last_year_accounts – kpi2*legal.billable_hours

sales, marketing, legal being database tables, and clients, last_year_accounts, billable_hours being column names. kpi2 is another KPI defined somewhere solved iteratively.

I squinted my eyes hard looking at one equation that used to be solved that raised an exception. As a matter of fact, I don't know if you have spotted it in the equation above.

The problem is the dash[0] instead of the - (minus). It would be "minus", then somehow Excel would transform it to an en dash if I recall correctly. Since I used abstract syntax trees and parsed the equations, it threw the solver off.

I remember at some point, I just noticed a difference in length compared to the - sign.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash
What happens in the event of a default? I would have thought that your broker would zero it out, but I remember hearing about someone buying a worthless bond from a friend for like $1 once as a favor.
She'd clearly be a bicycle, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc
If you define "want" to include "have to be close to work to have a shot at career progression".
Also Microsoft already gave up on WSL1's subsystem approach and just made the VM-based WSL2, focused on fixing the UX issues with VMs.
IntelliJ IDEA's commit dialog already offers checkboxes to "optimize imports" and "reformat code" ("run gofmt" in case of Go), among others.
I couldn’t care less about support for libraries and builtins. If my boss came up to me and said “Hey, I think we should use this Python 3.x library”, my response would be “Great, let’s use Python 3”.

That said, I understand there are certain applications that are not compatible with 3.x and the company does not have the resources to dedicate to rewriting it. So let’s suppose there is a valid reason someone is forced to use Python 2.7. In that case, the number one priority of this fork should be back porting the security fixes.

You can live without async, type-hinting, and f-strings. But please be responsible when it comes to security vulnerabilities.
I imagine the reason for not upgrading from Python 2 is the same reason you don't upgrade your car just because there's a new model out. (Or maybe you're the type who does, but I guess you can hopefully understand why others don't do that.)
> I’m not sure where that belief came from

I vaguely recall (possibly correctly) that I once read it on Scott Hanselman's blog.
You can't just take numbers and multiply them like that.

What about average age? Number of icu beds? Effect of temperature/humidity on the virus? Population density? &c. There are so many variables
"Maybe it's a Buddhist swastika that was accidentally flipped and rotated 45 degrees, I have no possible way of knowing."