skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because in the past I've been held responsible as the bearer of bad news. And I don't want to jeopardize my friendship with the co-founders.
'More subway' doesn't really capture it. NYC has ~70x the daily ridership on metro rapid transit.

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

Overall population density is much higher as well:

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

NYC also has the lowest car ownership in the nation, so you're basically left with walking or uber/taxi/public transportation just to get to the store/doctor/etc.

https://www.governing.com/gov-data/car-ownership-numbers-of-...

Also ~25% more airline traffic hauling bugs in from everywhere.

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

Combined with a long transmissable dwell time before symptoms, wouldn't surprise me if 90%+ of the people in NYC were materially exposed.
Swift is probably the easiest language I came across, it's a mix of python and C++. Nothing to be impressed here, if you're already doing well using rn, swift is much easier! Thanks for the love
So there is a 21% chance according to that study that Tim Cook is a psychopath :)
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For a more recent critique:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21308192
Nontheless, that's still a highly biased sample of the actual population.
I’m very skeptical. Why were they so few hospitalizations in LA vs NYC if such a large % in LA contracted Covid? Is this suggesting that a much, much higher % in NYC have it (and the number of those with any serious symptom and thus need for hospitalization was higher)?
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It seems very improbable since the positive rate for tests in general are around 10% (at least in San Mateo county).
Daunting? Sure, but it's also daunting jumping from branch to branch trying to find somebody to support your rusty old Python 2 installations. Or deciding to actively run on unsupported Python.

Modern software isn't fire and forget. Developers who have grown up around security exploits understand that. Higher management and FORTRAN77 programmers don't. To them it's developer busywork.

The real judgement being made is money and resources.
Thanks, just sent an email. Hopefully this post can remain unflagged.
Notice the difference between saying "A new normal" as GP did and "THE new normal" as you did.

I, for one, would be happy for it to become "A new normal", where I get to take advantage of it, but understand there are people who prefer going into the office. No need for it to become "THE new normal" because there are all sorts of different kinds of people.
That might have been true 20-30 years ago. Today, all of the easy oil has been tapped. They're going out farther, deeper, and under much high pressures than before. Oh, and they're less regulated.

> You don't drill a $100 million deepwater well without all the bells and whistles. <

You will if you can make a couple $B off it. It's a risk. The deep gulf has mudslides that take out rigs. It happened to Taylor Energy in 2004. All the tech in the world couldn't prevent that spill.

https://www.nola.com/news/article_a55f87c0-8253-11ea-9f24-23...
Junk checking is important; gotta make sure the bits didn't teleport away.
China's economy has shrunk for the first time in nearly half a century
The proxy should maintain a copy of all dependencies (public and private), so only one should be necessary.
Yes, unfortunately. See "Assholes, a Theory", by Aaron James, a serious book on this topic.
Suprised to see Vim usage decreasing every year. Presumably most are defecting to Goland
Some people measure their worth and the worth of others based on their bank accounts.

They want to increase their self worth relative to others, which means making their bank account bigger.
how many products are chemically dependent on hydrocarbons to exists ? I know a huge amount is based on them but some can be done without petrol.. some can not.
Looking forward to what the science heads on my twitter feed say about it. They were positively withering in their criticism regarding the Santa Clara study.
Areas with More Air Pollution Have Had More Covid-19 Fatalities
Few things to consider

1) are users spread out geographically?
2) are you expecting high traffic?
3) are you ok to spend more for performance?

If your answer is “no” to any of the above, then probably, there is no need of a CDN.

I have tested azure blob and s3, found both to be acceptable for small projects.
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Congratulations, team, and thank you for a magnificent gift to the world. I think this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on HN. Utterly amazing. I’m now feeling very bad that I have never cared about video cards because I just do back end/front end dev work on machines chosen solely for their lightness and portability.
Spain & Italy have very similar weather to California, but have been hit really hard.
I saw a sneak preview of Pi in Westwood, CA after finding a strange rack-card at Tower Records. The front of the card had the symbol pi and the digits printed in microscopic text in the background. The back had two showtimes, one that very night and one the next. This was 1998--the fledgling Google had no information on the film. I went to see it and was absolutely gobsmacked. I forced my friend to come to the second showing with me.

The math was fascinating to me but the thing that really made an impression was that computer. I could find no information at the time but later searches turned up that New Yorker article on the Chudnovsky brothers.

Given that Aronofsky grew up in New York, I would not be surprised if he heard about the Chudnovsky brothers in the Russian Jewish community.
1M doses of Covid-19 vaccine by U.K. scientists to be made before proven
How do you explain the low number of hospitalizations and deaths in LA vs NYC? If these numbers hold then you’d expect NYC to be close to herd immunity given the difference in fatalities.
I honestly wish sites like HN would get rid of downvotes. It's generally only useful for generating an echo chamber. If a comment is particularly disruptive, it should just be reported. Otherwise lack of upvotes will naturally send it to the bottom of the page and comments giving reasonable responses if the comment is wrong about something are more than sufficient.
You need to factor in that some of the currently infected are going to die.
Yes, that is the implication. And if this is the case, that is very good news.
Some of the authors are the same, so most likely yes.
> which in turn made it VERY difficult to get any advanced degree.

Absolutely false for STEM fields. Except for Stanford/MIT your flagship public school is probably a better tech school than any other private name-brand school. Yale is an ordinary tech school, with several public schools (Berkeley, UCLA, UCSB, UWash, UIUC, UMich, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisc-Mad off the top of my head) being significantly better and cheaper. And all will allow you in from community colleges.
Hijacks back button so you have to click a bunch of times really fast to get out of there.
Wow, this is the post I wasn't brave enough to write. Been developing in android for ~3 months for school and I still do not fully understand how to load listviews, and not for lack of trying. I want to know who this guy is so I can shake their hand.
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Scientists find genes can determine if you are at higher risk for fatal Covid-19
Death rate higher could be due to an overwhelmed health care system, so it is not linear. Once that threshold is hit, it will probably edge close to rate of severe cases among the patients.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22928754
I think it's really unlikely because the primary reason people are still on Python 2 is that they don't have development time to upgrade. If they had enough time to support a community fork, they could just upgrade to Python 3 and spend the saved developer hours on something more important to their projects.
They do it as a direct response to the fact that they know they don't pay their workers a living wage.

I suppose it's nice of them to help their workers get access to public benefits, but in general they're just a terrible societal citizen for not paying their workers enough to live off of.
Yes. The consensus I've seen forming is that at least 15% of NYC has had it by now - a variety of questionably random samples have suggested numbers near that.
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It's for sure true that a huge number of people in NYC got it, way surpassing the confirmed cases count. The state is currently doing a serology study here and results should be published next week.
Certainly, but I don't think anyone was assuming 5% fatality rate. There were concerns about it being 1-3% fatality, but even those would be worst cases.

Worth noting that .36 is roughly 3x as deadly as the flu.
Downvoting is for cowards.
Boolean queries aren't statistically analyzed; they're parsed and algebraically evaluate. So your point seems to support the opposite thing you're supporting.
> Google doesn't "know" what you're trying to search. It's a giant pattern matching game that slices and dices and rearranges text to find the closest match.

I'm not disputing that, and it certainly explains why it's "good enough" for somes search queries whilst being totally gimpy for others.

My understanding was that Google does prioritise what it's classified as local search results though, on the basis that they're likely to be more relevant.
The answer is, literally anyone with cash could sign up today and have an oil contract tomorrow. It is extremely easy to take part in oil contracts trading and those people who basically just have an office can't actually keep the contracts now and must unload. Contrary to what people think, you don't have to be an expert or have any special knowledge to trade physical contracts.
Did you read the part where I wrote, "there's no place to put the stuff?"

I also specifically said "front month contract".

June oil is barely over $20 today and will probably drop under that mark by week's end.
More questions than answers. It hasn’t been hot in LA so suggesting it has to do with heat doesn’t make sense imo.
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I feel a bit like you’re trying to rewrite history here.

When you launched it, you called it “Python 2.8”. You posted it everywhere to gain traction, and didn’t rename it until the PSF and Guido got you by the ear, so to speak. There was no mention of “everything but str” or whatever, as far as I recall.

It was an outright (and hostile) attempt to fork - something that, going by your words here, I guess you now recognise as a mistake. I guess saying “I screwed up” is hard.
First off, cool project Naftali! One of the issues that ultimately became more common as Python2 became EOL is that a lot of libraries began to release only wheels for Python 3.x variants. When there's C/C++ extensions this means that even running a compatible fork wouldn't suffice.

Do you think it would have been feasible to make wheels compiled against the python 3.x C APIs also compatible with Tauthon?
Lexical analysis is surely clever enough to make "no evidence" and "no cancer" the atoms used and should even differentiate "no cancer" from "no, cancer" pretty easily? Are we really still at 80s chatbot level functionality when it comes to string parsing?

Related aside: It frustrates me no end that spellcheck still doesn't appear to use any probablistic considerations, like Markov chains, to determine the intended word. And that when I click the next to last letter to make an adjustment it doesn't then change the suggestions to alternate endings, etc.. Perhaps newer devices than I have do this.
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Is this the whole story, though?

The truly wretched coins, and the governments that issue them, tend to exit circulation, too.

Perhaps Gresham's Law has some relationship to regression toward the mean =>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
The headline as written is unfair to the FBI, yes. To DHS, not so much.
Whether it's a dumb category or not, it is a category that people use for the reasons you describe.

Starting off as AnimalMuppet did (basically, trying to make white people feel bad for merely wanting for people of their category something which numerous institutions openly, explicitly, and unapologetically try to provide to people of other categories) is a pretty good way to convince white people that you can't be trusted to look out for their children without bias.
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Having worked in the finance industry my entire career, most (responsible) firms have means for dealing with taking physical delivery. Less responsible firms, not so much and may be royally screwed if they have to take delivery. I've heard anecdotally of a firm that had to take physical delivery of a shipment of coal. They didn't have plans in place, but because they had an address on a river, the coal arrived via barge. No, I don't recall the name of the firm, and yes, it's just an anecdote/hearsay.
Judging by plenty of comments here, it's clear that there are too many people who actually are. And if they do question something, they'll question the people who bring this despicable behaviour to attention, because it doesn't fit into their world view - obviously, nobody could ever be that corrupt.
I think NYC almost certainly has much large prevalence than LA given hospitalization data alone.

One factor could be the nature of transmission. Regions where transmission occurs with high viral loads entering at the point of infection (for example, hospital-acquired infections) could see more severe disease progression. You would therefore expect a high hospitalization rate relative to prevalence. It's possible in other regions, including CA, hospitalization rate as a function of prevalence is lower because acquisition is largely at lower viral loads resulting in less rapid and severe disease progression. This is, of course, a hypothesis and very likely not correct. Time will tell.

Other important factors include age distribution of infection, as well as weather conditions and prevalence of pre-existing conditions.
anecdote with sample size of one:

I finally switched to Linux (Pop_OS 19.10) after realizing Proton was good enough for all the games I enjoyed.
It doesn't seem that unlikely to me (I live here). I know so many people, me included, who had it but aren't included in any official count for lack of testing, and so many others who must have had it (e.g. my cohabiting SO) who were asymptomatic.
Well maybe positive but not necessarily able to infect. If they used PCR tests it could give positive on broken up inactivated viruses for awhile after you cleared the infection
fs is great. I just finished listening to

Episode 72: Happy Habits with Neil Pasricha

Much recommended
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More about how the antibody tests aren't doing what one would want to believe they do:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/uk-government-...

"None of 3.5m home tests ordered have so far been accurate enough to detect coronavirus immunity"

UK got 3.5 million(!) unusable antibody tests.

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1449

"John Newton, Public Health England’s director of health improvement, said:"

"A number of companies were offering us these quick antibody tests, and we were hoping that they’d be fit for purpose, but when they got to test, they all worked but were just not good enough to rely on.

“The judgment was made [that] it’s worth taking the time to develop a better antibody test before rolling it out, and that is what the current plan is.”"

"Newton told the committee that the tests trialled so far had lacked sufficient sensitivity to identify people who had been infected. “We set a clear target for tests to achieve, and none of them frankly were close.”"
& isn't even the dereference operator, right? That's what gives you the pointer. * gives you the value at the pointer. I guess that's why it's preferable, in English it reads nicely and describes exactly what it does. `val arg = @(argv + 1)` reads like "val arg is the value at argv + 1"
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Did you miss the part where a congressman had to get involved to get this past DHS agents?
Keeping in mind though that if that means it's more contagious in turn, it also makes it that much harder to achieve herd immunity.

Not that we should be considering "natural" herd immunity under any circumstances. It's a horrible idea.
> astro-turf an influence campaign

So, forgive me, honest question. I understand that to mean Russian puppets. Is that not the reality of the NRA at this moment?
The fact that Walmart trains their employees on how to get public benefits is an implicit admission that they know they aren't paying them enough. Maybe defining "enough" is hard, but they're not even trying, and are instead explicitly pushing the burden onto taxpayers. That's reprehensible; I personally do not care to subsidize their workforce just because they want higher margins.

Even just raising wages and watching how much attendance at these "welfare training sessions" declines would be an improvement.
Of the things the human brain does, I wouldn't say walking is very interesting.

The most amazing property in my opinion is the fact that it trains itself. (Whereas neural networks are trained by external systems).

I suspect it's related to imprinting. To take the example of filial imprinting, the brain must have some hardcoded notion of what a parent looks like. Then this is used to to build a parent detector, and the hardcoded notion is thereafter discarded. Then the newly learnt parent detector is used in reinforcement learning (near parent = good). Keep in mind that this all happens just after birth or hatching, before the visual centres of the brain have had any chance to train.

Really cool stuff.
> The AI has no morality. It simply reflects and amplifies the morality of the data it was given.

Key point right there. Unless Google is deliberately injecting racial and/or gender bias into their code, which seems extremely far fetched (to put it kindly), the real fault lies with us humans and what we choose to publish on the web.
Not really. Antibody tests like this one measure the total number of people who've been infected at some point in the relatively recent past, whereas the diagnostic tests New York is using only detect current active infections, so it's easy for the percentage of infections measured by the former to be higher than the latter.

When articles like this compare the number of known cases detected with the PCR diagnostic tests with the higher estimate based on antibody testing, they're comparing the sum of all cases detected since the start of PCR coronavirus testing with a point-in-time estimate of the proportion of the population that currently has antibodies for exactly this reason.
Well, it's the price for a different contract. The June contracts already exist, and their price is more or less continuous.
> -Former dumb oil trader

+1 just for admitting it. :)
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3x as deadly as the flu, in a population of people who have already been exposed to the flu (and some even taking flu vaccines constantly).

The evidence will continue to build that this virus is pretty benign compared to all of the fear mongering has been suggesting. Of course, HN downvoted me when I suggested this last time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685457
A rather superficial discussion of COBOL and its use in American corporate IT. Nothing very interesting or new here.
Doesn't sound like that is a sufficient difference, however, if they also screwed up the stats and the analysis.
As someone else said you don't know that's wrong for what Amazon are optimising. If they find people [with your background profile] who buy shirts are susceptible to buying sweatpants, they might also find that if the seed you with "sweatpants" as an idea up front that the repeated presentation of sweatpants in "people who bought X also bought Y" sections is more effective.

That's the sort of thing I'd expect Amazon to be doing?
WebDev is as simple or complex as you want it to be. You can write clientside software in a single file that will run on almost any computer or phone in the world without needing the user to install anything. And you can guarantee that breaking changes to the language will never render your app unrunnable.

As apps' needs and the community of programmers gave grown, we have developed abstractions to make hard things easy. For example, you can build APIs in the language of your choice, often in a few lines of code. What is simpler than a Flask app?
Add blue collar people to the mix and it acts like a NIMBY rage multiplier. I'm picturing the movie plot now:

A bunch of gulf coast fisherman, effectively unemployed by Corona hatch a plan to make a buck by taking advantage of the negative price of oil futures. They pool their resources and somehow get their hands on a derelict Venezuelan tanker, cheap because of favorable exchange rates, in order to take delivery of some obscene amount of crude as part of a scheme to make money on futures. Being on a budget of course they crew the thing themselves, it's a ship after all, just a little bigger than the ones they usually handle. Things don't exactly go as planned when they travel to Venezuela to take possession of the ship. Their journey from there to the Port of Houston to pick up their cargo is mired by an incompetent coast guard, environmental activists and a vengeful ex-wife turned local politician.
Yes, Vulkan is awesome, but its biggest benefit apart for performance is DX11+ support.
Wine had DX9/10 for ages now, and many Proton games don't depend on Vulkan to run.
NY has 17x more deaths than California. That would mean if 3% of CA was infected (yes this is LA only but for ease of comparison) it would be 51%+ of NY was infected. Far more than just 15%.
There were still mechanical failures all over in safety devices. We're drilling much deeper than under higher pressures now than Deepwater Horizon.

To imply that deepwater oil production is safe, is crazy. Storms happen. Mudslides (underwater) happen. Pandemics happen. This is why majors contract out to the offshore drillers. They want nothing to do with it.
"The Federal Government is not a shipping clerk". The biggest complaint in all of this is that the Federal government is not handling the allocation of these scarce resources, instead forcing states to engage in bidding wars that only enrich suppliers and brokers.
GoLang seems pretty popular.
Offline Reinforcement Learning
There must be a browser extension for hiding selected words (an "F-block" or something).
It would be horribly naïve to think that Russian propaganda outfits aren't taking advantage of this situation. And this is indeed one of their regular channels.

Whether they are involved in any specific one, though, remains a mystery for now.
A lot of this is besides the point because what matters is hospitalization rate, and we've already reached the point where some hospital systems are stressed. Beyond that point, people die that otherwise wouldn't. So I'm not sure there's a big difference in appropriate response.
What bias? Who is biased? Quick duckduckgoing indicates there are far more male than female doctors in the US. So statistically, it would be correct to return mostly male doctors in an image search. If you want a photo of a specifically gendered doctor, it's not hard to specify. Not really seeing a problem here.