skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "shelter in place" orders in many California counties don't allow for visiting a friend or going to a private residence. This is absolutely a violation of the right to free assembly. Temporarily restricting that right might be appropriate to slow down the pandemic, but it is technically a human rights violation.
You clearly didn't read your own article. It confirms what I said.

Illegal recyclers in Malaysia bought recycling from the UK. But the government wasn't happy about it and forced it to go back.

It's exactly like I said: It's not the UK paying to ship garbage, it's people in Malaysia buying low quality recycling.
Statistical linguistics is older than modern neural nets. Google itself promoted its research into same.
I'm rolling my eyes at your "safe space" ridiculousness and bizarre claim that I think unapproved opinions shouldn't be allowed, but putting that aside....

We should both agree that the real problem is monopoly. That if Facebook (and Google btw) weren't so powerful, people would be perfectly cool with the idea that maybe different people can have different values from one another and that maybe different companies could accommodate those different values.
As flawed as this is, it's in line with other studies around the world. You can nitpick and critique each one for something, but we now have a whole body of evidence using different techniques and different methods that are all stating the number of cases is vastly undercounted, and the IFR is under 1%.

Scotland:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.13.20060467v...

NYC Pregnant Women:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316?query=C19...

Finland:
https://thl.fi/en/web/thlfi-en/-/number-of-people-with-coron...

Germany:
https://www.land.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/zwis...

Chelsea, Mass.:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/17/business/nearly-third...
It’s not really a question of intelligence. It’s a question of is the WHO interested in health or politics. Parroting China’s “findings” was good politics. It wasn’t good for world health.
Doesn't the oil just come out of the oil well from its own pressure? Which would make pumping oil back in the oil field complicated
Why don't we just take delivery of futures contracts directly? Isn't this a great time to fill the reserve?
Good catch, I think I was using global figures from worldometer.
As someone who worked on trading software, I'd reserve the praise for the PMs - who would explain to the programmers why all this stuff is important.
This is also indicated at the bottom of the web page in clear text. I don’t think anything is being hidden.
Well to be honest, although it may not be true for oil, it can definitely be true briefly for electricity, because it’s use it or lose it. Battery storage is still in its infancy.

Negative prices are definitely a thing when you can’t stop production and all of a sudden storage or middlemen are over capacity.

LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING right now in the US food chain! The farmers have to euthanize cattle rather than sell them because the price they get is lower than upkeep. Yet the price of meat at the supermarket is going up and up. What’s going on? Well, the processing plants have shut because they’re sending employees home if anyone is infected, and so the capacity of the middlemen drops. And boom, there is a huge inefficiency now.

Someone in congress is working on a bill to let the farmers and supermarkets disintermediate... as usual, decentralization to the rescue.
After having lived in a corrupt country, this will just get you killed. These people aren't lone actors, they are part of a network of people looking out for one another. If these sorts of crimes aren't investigated seriously by the authorities, then they are in fact part of that network and you are really going after the main power structure in the society. You will need to affect some sort of revolution to displace that power structure, anything else will just get you locked up/beat up/killed/or worse.
Link to the cloud scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GRPArTor7w
I disagree that theorizing and gathering data can be extremely dangerous in this situation. If we're worried the Stanford study is flawed, the right response is to urgently do more studies, not sit on our hands waiting for some ponderous FDA approval process.
It's entirely possible that no barrels will be effectively sold at a negative number. Because even after expiration you can negotiate OTC, it depends. At the very least, the final print likely will be renegotiated.
I saw pretty great results switching a pretty “standard” high traffic Python web app (Flask & uwsgi) over to run on PyPy. We saw about 30% faster response time for HTTP requests, several times the number of tasks/second on the workers, and we were able to scale down the total instances needed. Mostly the typical Python web app libraries just worked, and I spent a couple of days making sure everything was stable, but it was a great success overall.
Law should be objectively decidable. Thousands upon thousands of pages of enigmatic legalistic nonsense make it impossible to predict a legal decision. When there is this much law, it becomes a paradox where the result is actually lawless - it becomes the whim of a judge's interpretation.
arf arf
Already 0.1% of NYC's population has died from COVID-19 - 10k deaths of 8.54 million people. That's... quite a bit higher than LA's current 576 of 10 million.

So either everyone in New York City was infected, or most probably 200-400k infected in LA is an order of magnitude of wishful thinking (e.g. ~2% false positive test rate.)
Long covering, actually. (Here is the long who is forced to sell at a negative price to get rid of their long position.)
That's a lot of internal information. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable publishing that, even if the company was friendly to security researchers.
> If instead of saying "I want a haircut.", they would say like Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." would they be taken more seriously?

Most people sound more like the latter than the former. If people were saying "We have a need for haircuts etc, this is serious", they'd get a lot more consideration than some appeal to "but our freedoms". Most people sensibly realize that a lock-down in the face of a pandemic is not a regression in our fundamental rights as US citizens, but just a temporary measure to save lives.

If instead you argue that you're legitimately going to see more harm done due to closures, and you back that up sensibly, people will care a lot more. You'll probably be wrong, but people might listen and take that seriously. In fact, they very obviously already are listening to this feedback, and it's a huge part of the communications from govt officials right now - how we are balancing saving lives via lockin vs dealing with the fallout of that exact policy. They're hardly ignoring the issue!

> Could facebook sensor this movie since it pictures the lockdown as a evil action?

Sure they could take it down, it's their platform. Would they? No, probably not, that would be really silly?

> Now, the government should inform people with data, and let them take a decision.

The role of our government is not to provide data but then otherwise let people do whatever.

You say "People should be able to take a calculated risk." - how would they calculate it? Most are not capable of making an informed decision like that, and likening this situation to driving is just ridiculous (and ironic, given that car safety was heavily regulated due to huge numbers of people dying while car manufacturers were left unaccountable. The government stepped in with license requirements, manufacturing requirements, etc.).
You are right, my point would have been much stronger with the correct figures.
In regards to:

> Dogs can take in visual information at least 25 percent faster than humans

Something else mentioned in the Blindsight novel, and actually what gives the book it's title, is (as far as I know) a theory about the 'tension' between the conscious and subconscious parts of the brain; that there's the "lizard brain" essentially subconscious which is usually overridden by the conscious part. There's a passage in the book where the 'alien' is psychologically attacking a character causing them to go blind. The character, however, is still able to catch an item thrown to them because, whilst their conscious brain is unable to process, and therefore react to, visual cues, the "lizard brain" takes over and forces an almost subconscious reaction to catch the thrown item. The "lizard brain" is immune to the blindness-causing psychological attack (something along those lines).

Something about the visual bandwidth available via the optic nerve is rather huge compared to how much bandwidth the conscious brain can actually process. The "lizard brain" is basic, but can process the full spectrum of bandwidth available.

The 'tension' between these two systems in our heads is exemplified (in explanatory notes at the end of the book) in the scenario where one drops something hot (maybe from being held in an oven mitt) and the instant, sub-conscious reaction is to try to catch it, whilst the conscious brain has to process the individual scenario and attempt to override the default response because if we touch the thing, it will burn us.

It's god damn fascinating!

* Disclaimer: The above is my interpretation / memory, it may or may not represent what actually happens or what the author intended to convey.

Edited to add:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
In the Amazon app, a search for “shirt without stripes” now get corrected to “shirt without strips”.
A good alternative to this is to run Linux and use Windows in a VM if necessary. Having to use a VM for something once in a while is mildly inconvenient, but it's not that bad, and on the other hand it's just bad enough to keep you on the lookout for ways to stop using it entirely.
Textures of Completion
I get the feeling you didn't read the comment, since this appears to be a strawman. I did cite a study, which you didn't acknowledge or refute.
From what I've heard, at least in some areas, a Covid test is often performed only after a (usually very fast) flu test is performed. So a death resulting from a person negative for flu but also false-positive for Covid would seem very unlikely. As would any death of this sort from a person who came up positive. Much more likely would be that false positives cluster among those with mild or no symptoms (with the mild symptoms instead coming from a more mundane infection)

If false positives were pushing the published death rate up, it's important to remember there are also deaths among people infected but never tested that would be pushing the rate down. I don't know if they would cancel each other out though. I would however really like to see published data from the CDC about reported pneumonia deaths just prior to the "official" outbreak to see if there was an otherwise unexplained increase.
If I’m editing code and I see some code that doesn’t belong, then I delete it. Sometimes a downvote is similar. To comment further is to perpetuate a conversation which is, perhaps, better deleted.

Please don’t take offense, but that includes this post of yours. I don’t need to read this down-vote debate for the 1000th time. This entire comment chain is basically off-topic and breaks the flow of an interesting discussion.
The "fire in a crowded theater" quote is often cited very disingenuously

https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
> and the only drivers were for IBM printers.

It's all about the drivers. No OS will get seats without drivers. People always say that no OS will get seats without applications, which is also true. But because people see that problem, a big company trying to launch an OS, or a migration, will go out of their way to get the important applications.

The lack of drivers is more under the radar. So then people are shocked when their shiny new OS doesn't get uptake because too little hardware works with it.

Speaking of drivers.... didn't OS/2 drivers run at ring 1? The X86 architecture (and only a few others) support more than 2 rings of security. Most OS's don't bother using more than ring 0 for kernel and ring 3 for user space because then portability will be hamstrung. But OS/2 did not have the BSOD problem of Windows. By far the most common BSOD in the Win95 days was a 0x0E exception -- page fault in the kernel, the fault of a buggy driver that forgot to wire down a page before doing a slow I/O operation. A page fault in ring 1 is valid, and the kernel can handle it.
"The ASUS Zephyrus G14 as tested is set for $1449. There is a 4K version with Ryzen 7 for £1600."
I'm not suggesting a vector display. The VT100 had 240 scan lines and 768 dots; half of this would be fine.
No, Wuhan's medical system getting overloaded started the scare campaign, and then Italy's medical system getting overloaded confirmed that this is, in fact, the real McCoy.
There's always going to be some subcategory of experts they didn't talk to. Do medical studies typically include survey experts signing off on the surveys?
Emails out?
It's only "astroturfing" insofar as at least some of these protests are part of an organized drive to protest. I think you'll find that most protests entail some level of organization. Do you think black lives matter protests or women's march protests are "grassroots?" Would you be surprised to learn they are also backed by organizers?
Unnecessary temporary arrays is definitely a major source of inefficiency when working with NumPy, but recent versions of NumPy go to heroic lengths (via Python reference counting) to avoid doing so in many cases:
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/v1.18.3/numpy/core/src/m...

So in this case, NumPy would actually only make one temporary copy, effectively translating the loop into the following:

for j in range(255):
u = z**2 # create a new squared array
u += c # add in-place
z = u # replace the old array
Sweden has about the same per-capita death rate as the US and Switzerland, and lower than the UK, Spain, and Belgium. (See https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/). It's certainly possible that they'd be doing better with more restrictions, but if their strategy is as disastrous as many people seem to think then they'd be at the top of the charts, and they're not.
Why do people make false claims while linking directly to a primary sources that unequivocally and repeatedly contradicts their claim?

> sometimes still don’t quite get it right,

> Even with BERT, we don’t always get it right.

And nothing in the blog is about image search.
You're using quite inflammatory language here that's distracting from your points. Calling the US a failed state, saying we're demanding workers be buried in the ground, etc.

If you want to discuss actual policy, then do so. I'm not interested in following platitudes.
I have an old Intel NUC D54250WYKH which I run ESXi on as my core applications server and where all my inbound homelab traffic gets routed through. There's a single CentOS VM with Docker installed which has all the host resources allocated to it.

Currently running the following containers-

proxy [1] - Nginx proxy host for all ingress traffic, has a nice web interface and works with Let's Encrypt
pihole [2] - Primary DNS server running Pi-hole to block ads
cf-ddns [3] - Client to update Cloudflare records with my IP address (wildcard record *.myhomelab.dev which I run the proxy
hosts through)
unifi-controller [4] - UniFi Controller appliance
watchtower [5] - Keeps the docker images up-to-date
portainer [6] - Web interface for managing docker containers
guacamole [7] - Apache Guacamole remote desktop gateway
postfix-relay [8] - Open SMTP relay on my internal network which forwards everything to Amazon SES, makes email notifications easier

It's a great piece of kit and love the small form factor, it sits in my network comms cabinet and I've had no issues. I pass through a monitoring cable from a UPS in the cabinet to the CentOS VM which monitors if there's a power cut and shuts the ESXi host down safely.

I initially ran PhotonOS with Docker but had some networking issues so switched to CentOS 7. I have larger, more powerful SuperMicro hypervisor hosts which run the bigger application containers.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/jc21/nginx-proxy-manager
[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/pihole/pihole
[3] https://hub.docker.com/r/joshava/cloudflare-ddns
[4] https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/unifi-controller
[5] https://hub.docker.com/r/containrrr/watchtower
[6] https://hub.docker.com/r/portainer/portainer
[7] https://hub.docker.com/r/oznu/guacamole
[8] https://hub.docker.com/r/simenduev/postfix-relay
Correction:

effort = (effort := effort + 1) + 1
> Give us money because this latest news report says they are coming over to your house tomorrow morning to take your guns."

Here is the thing about that. You can’t use that as “crazy” anymore.

This presidential cycle a candidate stood up and said “hell yes we’re coming to take your [most popular rifles in America]”, it was met with studio applause and not one single candidate interjected with a “hey now wait”. Biden was the “most critical” saying he wasn’t sure that would be constitutional but then also said the guy that made the statement would be his chosen “gun tzar”.

The New Jersey NICS (background check system) was off for weeks because of Covid19. Meaning it was ENTIRELY illegal to buy / sell / trade a firearm in the entire state. This is the system they want for the whole county.

The Gov and legislature in VA just publicly floated using the National Guard to carry out their gun ban proposal.

So... I don’t have a stated position on the topic, but that example of “look how crazy these people are! They think people are trying to do exactly what they say!” Isn’t a good one.
Fandango just purchased Vudu from Walmart
The answer to financial ruin is not to force everyone back into contact again, it's to give normal people their fair share of the bailout. We took something like 15,000 dollars out of everyone's future earnings for the bailout, and threw them back 1,200 of it.

With those people taken care of, the protests are reduced to landowners demanding blood for their haircuts and Fuddruckers.
Ask HN: If you suddenly had 20K workers available, what you have them do?
The company I am currently working for is paying approximately 20,000 employees to stay home. These are smart people, most are college educated and smart. Many worked in Retail stores and other similar jobs, they are pretty smart and all have broadband (free from our company) and want to do something.

We are being asked to brainstorm on what we could put them to work doing. Ours is a large corporation and we do not want to lay these people off because they are valuable and smart but they are people who want to do something.

We are brainstorming and I thought it would be interesting to poll HN and see what this HN "think tank" would come up with.

(BTW we are cool with stuff that is not profitable but for the good of society type things.)
I've seen in mentioned in a few articles criticizing unapproved tests, but it was more about the potential for this than actual testing. I think one was on CNN, but a quick search doesn't turn it up. There's just too much noise in the new-sphere right now to easily find a specific article from a week or two ago if you don't remember something ultra specific about it. You get, um, lots of false positives in your search results ;)
It’s getting more likely that the fallout from the response will be worse than the virus would have been.

For perspective, 800 000 people die every year in the world from suicide alone.

Depression/anxiety/hopelessness has real consequences.
Not all French equivalent words take on: Ordinateur is used, true, but not courriel (for email) or planche à roulette (skateboard), for example
> I've seen that all over HN comments

Can you point me to some examples? I've seen it on HN, but much, much less than on any other online platform.
If we're going to talk about the total number of people who have been infected, wouldn't it make more sense to use the overall test rate?
I mean, you're tecnically correct in that the number is no longer accurate. But actually the change has been in the other direction. That link is talking about the CFR, not the IFR, and the CFR is up to 7% these days. (170k dead out of 2.5M confirmed cases).

No credible source that I saw ever suggested that the IFR was 3%, and that is not what any decisions were based on. Everyone knows that some cases will be missed. The early IFR estimates were all huge ranges like 0.1%-2%, precisely since there was so little information early on about how many cases were not being detected. (And it is surprising how little we've managed to narrow that range down).

There are other claims in that WHO link that are obviously wrong in retrospect. E.g. the claim that Covid transmits less efficiently than the flu.
Because when you claim that 2-3% of the population has been infected in an area where 1/30000 of the population died from the virus, it implies that the virus has a 1/600 infection/death rate.

Since ~1/500 New Yorkers have died from this virus, that would imply that 120% of the population of NYC have been infected, and that new NYC cases will drop to zero in two weeks.

Which is, obviously, nonsense. One of the numbers here doesn't fit the facts, and it's probably the one that claims that 2-3% of the population of Santa Clara was infected, with the overwhelming majority not having any symptoms.

Data from the Diamond Princess points to something between 20% and 50% of infected people being asymptomatic - not 95%.
Can you source this is not a grassroots organization? Because I see the claim, and the assumption, but again, I don’t know how it’s scandal that one org can’t represent their topic in two states.

edit: apparently not. Everyone wants to believe it’s true, so it is
I have been developing Android apps since the beginning, although I have cut back my time on Android largely because it is a filthy experience. How many times have we mashed the feedback button and still end up with a terrible emulator? A non-issue for iOS folks.

Flutter represents a great opportunity imho to uplift development capability and avoid needless fragmentation. It reminds me of Adobe's Flex in some ways and I can assure you that I have _never_ had such a productive client-side development environment since! Flex united developers, graphic designers, animators etc. 3 second build times...worked on everything even if the runtime was cough 'sketchy'. I'd love to see Chet Haase move onto Flutter and resume similar videos to his Adobe days.

As for all of the Kotlin noise, like much of Android this is "movement not progress" and yet another example of fragmentation. I certainly like many aspects of Kotlin _but_ Java 14 is very nice AND enables greater participation from different roles (e.g. lower barrier to entry for the Spring Boot camp). I'd love to see Google uplifting the Java / JVM community and support modern Java syntax on Android.

As for Google building a better SDK, clearly the Android and Flutter teams do not see eye to eye...but maybe there will be lessons learned for both. I will be keeping an eye on Fuchsia with respect to developer tooling.
What are some of the trickiest edge cases that you try to account for? I can only assume that this kind of system is enormously complicated, given the high expectations from users and the complexity of the underlying environments.
Google's Head of Quantum Computing Hardware Resigns
People always think they are serving the greater good when they curtail someone’s rights.

It’s not generally people sitting around maliciously wanting to oppress other people.

It’s more often someone who thinks they are doing good, and that “right” is just in the way.