skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finally, I've been waiting for someone to write a proper response debunking that original article. I was surprised when it got as much attention as it did, since it clearly seemed out of date.
This is extreme nitpicking but I'd recommend seeing it as a reliability of a product of constituents.

A sum of constituents is more likely to be a situation where you're fine if at least one of the options works (e.g. a cluster with redundancy).

This will actually get you a semiring (easy to check), although whether that is really useful remains to be seen. It's nice to have anyway.
Noob here with a question - is this in any way a competitor product to Segment?
We certainly have enough information now. You don’t need to know the total number of infections to know the trend.

Positive cases have stayed roughly the same since April 4th while testing increased. For R0 to be greater than 1, we would have to be worse at testing.
'Threat blocker' launched in Canada as successful Covid-19 scams multiply
> I think we'll eventually find out COVID-19 has been around way earlier in 2019 than we thought.

Perhaps, but if it was, it was certainly happening at a significantly low rate, although that's probably how they all get started given that's it's expotential.

Since this has a higher fatality rate than traditional, common viruses I'd be most interested in the death rate of the population versus the normal average. Much like the NYTimes did for NYC[0], although much of data for 2019 seems to be absent unfortunately.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...
Used to be the case with certain CC companies that after they put a note/status in my account, any call I made to the main line would immediately route me to their security/fraud department once I entered my abbreviated auth details (last 4 of card# + zip or somesuch).

So it's definitely possible.
It has to be noted: it's quite a strange approach all round - this framework reads all the data into memory. So if you have a 100GB genome it will read 100GB into memory. Presumably it stays in memory uncompressed so we are talking hundreds of GB to process even a single whole genome sample.

This may indeed have some performance benefits, but it's a very impractical approach from a hardware point of view. Few places doing processing of genomic data will have many compute nodes with > 256GB memory, yet that would barely process 1 sample with this framework. God forbid you have a family of samples or tumor/normal comparison samples to analyse and need several genomes in memory together.

Genomes are for the most part massively parallelisable and nearly every other toolkit I have seen has put that first and foremost in its design approach. Ensuring tools process data in a streaming manner and pipe between each other is a basic expectation of most genomic data tools.

Which is all to say ... this is a very strange beast and I'm not sure a lot of conclusions can be drawn from it that generalise to other activities or approaches.
The problem is they give one body the ultimate authority on what is truth. Science, epidemiology & politics is more complex than that.

For example some in the Chinese government think coronavirus was released by the US Army while some in the US intelligence community think coronavirus leaked from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan. Another example, some US government officials think chloroquine is a COVID cure, while others disagree or remain undecided.

Google should instead have a list of allowed sources (e.g. WHO, CDC, NHS, etc) and explicitly disallowed sources (states owned media organizations, politicians and intelligence agencies).
Public health is the problem with them ignoring data from Taiwan.
You are missing the point in that if nothing was done in terms of trying to (at least temporarily) contain COVID, then the economy would be just as bad off.

We're currently at 50K deaths in the US, largely in a four week period. I think it's safe to say that the shutdown has cut the death rate in half, if not more. If 100K people die in 4 weeks in the US, the people will shut the economy down whether the government initiates it or not.

Either way we're screwed. And I think your data is far off in terms of IFR and CFR. Imagine the IFR being a magnitude higher for COVID versus influenza. I personally think this is a safe guess based on what we've seen in a wide variety of environments, complicated by different testing methodologies etc etc. So we'll use 1% for the IFR.

Now current thought is the R0 is between 2 and 5. Hopefully closer to 2 since R0 dramatically affects the percentage of infections required to reach herd immunity. But to be simple, we'll assume we need 50% to reach herd immunity. So we'll use 164M as the number of Americans needing to be infected before we can "return to normal."

With 164M cases, and an IFR of 1%, 1.6M Americans will die. An additional 9% will need hospitalization, but survive. That's 14.8M.

Say we're off by a lot and "it's just a flu" with an IFR of 0.1%. You'll have 164K fatalities, and we'll still have the 14.8m hospitalizations. Say the hospitalization rate is off by a magnitude, it's still 1.48M.

There's no way our country can operate "normally" with these types of numbers.
I mean, we can just update the legislation to accept the competent ciphersuites, or the government can publish that once-in-a-century whitepaper where they demonstrate that DJB has been a brilliant CIA shill this whole time and the nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers have something up their sleeves.

Like, I get that that is not likely to happen, but the resistance of the state to competence is not an excuse for resistance to it outside the state.
Aha. I just loaded up the Samsung Health app for the first time in forever and it would crash everytime it tried to grab location for a tracked run. I tried rolling back and and reinstalling and presumed it was an app bug. Ended up uninstalling because there wasn't much info to investigate.

Reluctantly installed Strava and they mentioned an ongoing issue with Google maps - but it seemed to display and record fine.
>Since intelligence must be a one-sided distribution it's probably right-tailed, which means the mean is higher than the median.

There are a lot of people with physical injuries or disabilities that skew things to the left.
ClearType is strange. I've gotten used to the way that my Linux system renders text, which is part of the reason why I like it so much. Using small fonts on macOS is always super blurry, while small fonts on Windows look like bitmap fonts and have clear subpixel hinting artifacts. On a HiDPI screen, they all look pretty similar.
Zoning laws and property values are two reasons why people don't live close to shops or work.

Also, with the pandemic and the high number of deaths in major cities with high population densities, people who are spread out due to property values and zoning aren't going to really want to move into an urban environment for some time to come.
Much like frames, iframes and window.open are really useful features... advertisers and abusers made it bad. I remember the first time I saw a popup in the 90's, my first thought was, "oh this is going to get bad." And I would never buy a product from X10.
Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized.
As for talking to journalists, I didn't leave with any ill will and don't want to complicate my life. I personally know a friend who got involved with journalists... his past employer came to know about it, sued him... and he became almost unemployable in the valley.

Edit: fixed a typo
I have some golden memories from university playing Unreal Tournament 2004 on my laptop in bootcamp, the added difficulty was that if you touch the metal between the keys it'll burn your finger tips.
That’s exactly right

There were enough surgical masks

You could double or triple them up if you thought they were not effective enough

The velocity of a particle that could get through that would not be enough to infect a person two feet in front of you

This should be obvious
Every time you tell a doctor to go to work treating COVID patients, you're doing a challenge trial, except he has no chance of being vaccinated, and the risk he's taking doesn't contribute to the most important thing for the world, which is a working COVID vaccine.

We are allowing "essential" workers to be exposed to COVID. Who could be more of an essential worker than a vaccine trial participant right now?
@dang The actual policy does not say that anything that goes against the WHO's recommendations will be removed. That looks like it came from a quote from Wojcicki as an example of something that might be risky. The title is misleading. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9803260?hl=en

The article itself references this interview, which does not announce any policy changes: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/04/19/inside-yo...
We love Lambda. And we love Redis.

The real pain with using both is the VPC requirement.

I'm actually hoping something like lambda.store can remove the EC2 NAT gateway overhead.
I mean, this is essentially how capitalism has always worked. Mountain bikes were invented by tinkerers in California, the blues was invented by slaves or former slaves, none of those people died rich. The big guys have all the money and power, and if you dont like it, well, this is how capitalism is designed to operate, so I don’t know what to tell you.
Last time I just opened the door and spoke first: "Sorry I don't have time to talk to strangers right now" and closed the door before he could say one word.

I'm thinking of preparing an mp3 of a chaotic household (think 10 kids screaming and fighting) for improved effect in the future.
Can't remember which, but I think Telemate also had programmable macros that I used to jump in and out of hyperspace in one of the multiplayer door games..
> reports of fake UL certs.

When I visited Shenzhen a few years ago I marveled at how any certification label you needed (UL, CSA, ESA) were being openly sold by the roll by dozens of vendors.

They even had "PASSED" and "TESTED" labels with what appeared to be hand written (blue ink) signatures/initials - making them look like ones that a QA person on the line would stick onto the product after testing.
AFAIK many (most?) Node devs completely ignore the version that comes with their OS and use something like nvm to manage their Node version(s) anyway.
Seek out your local public darkrooms! (private is okay too)

Printing is a craft, and practicing with others is a great way to get better, have fun, make new friends, all that good stuff!

In San Francisco, we are blessed to have Harvey Milk Photo Center (harveymilkphotocenter.org), one of the largest public darkrooms in the world. Once this is all over, drop by and make some prints!

(feel free to shoot me a line! i am a long time member there but otherwise not affiliated)
SHA1 was already found to be weak when git was made. Linus would have done better to use a strong hashing algorithm to begin with than to try to incorporate cryptographic agility. It was only found to be weak a few months before git's release though.

Regardless, I think cryptographic agility makes a lot more sense for a storage format like git than it does for a wire format. A shared repo being upgraded from gitv1 to an incompatible gitv2 would need everyone to switch versions at once. With WireGuard, a server could offer support for both v1 and v2 clients, then both v1 and v2 clients can connect to it at the same time, and clients can upgrade on their own schedule. The protocol doesn't have to make any special allowances, like making any data structures interpretable by both, besides to have both v1 and v2 on different ports or have different initial connection messages.

WireGuard was developed in response to protocols like IPSec, OpenVPN, and TLS, which emphasized configurability and cryptographic agility to a fault. Not only were they hard to use and easy to misconfigure, but each one of them were at times vulnerable to downgrade attacks because of subtle bugs in their ability to be configured. It's better to be able to have few code paths and verify they all work as expected, than it is to have many code paths, only verify the happy path, and hope that there's no way for users to fall down an unstudied insecure path by their own fault or because of attackers.
That's 2CAS. A true DCAS works on two arbitrary sized locations, cmpxchg16b acts on two contiguous pointer sized locations.
I am confused, Fivetran obviously has more sources than Segment, but in the end, they both are pipelines, right?
IMO, institutional review boards in charge of trials would not let this pass, for a good reason. Especially because you can't (obviously) use a control group.

It's different from a phase 1 study when you are testing on healthy volounteers. This would mean deliberately infecting people with a largely unknown virus after vaccination with a vaccine whose efficacy is still not yet determined fully (in fact, it would be to determine its efficacy).
The tech companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al.) have taken for themselves the power of censorship, and they have lost the credibility to claim that they are neutral carriers.

I believe it is now justified to call for their algorithms to be made public, by legal means if necessary.
I am sympathetic, don’t get me wrong, but this isn’t the only industry and this isn’t the only time this has happened. It happens every day in every industry and has been happening forever and will continue to happen forever. The old example is buggy whips, someone might have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars making or collecting whips for horses only to have thar investment disappear when cars came around. Or making/collecting spears just as the Roman army switched to swords. Or medieval turnip farmers when suddenly everyone wanted to eat the newly discovered potato. Or people who bought all their favorite movies on Betamax and can’t easily watch them anymore.

There are very few creators who actually create the things they rely on to create, ultimately we are all consumers even inside our professions. And like any consumer, we are all at the mercy of a market we don’t control. Either you have to accept that everything must come to an end and plan for that eventual end, or you have to dig deeper into your creativity.

Everyone has something they rely on that will disappear before they’re ready to lose it. It’s a reality of life and as much as humankind has experienced that loss for thousands of years, we never seem to get any better at accepting it or planning for it.
They might need an obsfuscated compilation contest.
No it's not. I know hundreds of photographers who use it to share photos of landscapes, models, and other things and have never posted a picture of themselves.
I didn't mean to imply that "the rich" created this pandemic, but the part about being able to buy up assets on the crash and be the only ones to prosper from it.
How does one find bankrupt businesses to purchase?
A clearer view of the status of Covid-19 in the US – Positive vs negative tests
But a large majority will be exposed to the virus eventually anyway, if things keep going as they are. So what's the added risk if you're exposed earlier rather than later?
That's really bad.

In my country (Germany), the government changed position so many times. What was yesterday "a hoax", became official government position few days later, etc

Treating WHO positions as "the only truth that may be publicly discussed", seems rather authoritarian and dangerous.
i'm on the fence about this... i don't love type coercions, but (!!x) is nice because you don't have to stop and check - was it (x ? 1 : 0) or (x ? 0 : 1), (x !=0) or (x==0)? i think arthur whitney said something in the vein of "less characters - less room for typos" :)
Data Analytics Tutorial with Dremio and Apache Superset
Agreed; it's a lot more like a really weird iPython than it is a drop-in bourne shell replacement with quirks.
Agreed on i3. Are there any Ubuntu distributions that have i3 OOTB with reasonable integrations?
Cheap LG LGABB41865. They are low discharge, but since I have 2kWh of capacity I'm not going to be going north of 1C so it is well within spec.
Perhaps not as a state, but it seems as likely that they would recognize data and observations given to them from Taiwan as they would data given to them from Hong Kong... or from Hubei.
Yeah, Twitter is never going to get my number, like ever. anybody remembers when Twitter announced in September last year that they would remove "account that didn't post enough"? WTF was that?

But Instragram/Facebook,Pinterest and co simply hate the web. I mean they like it when it comes down to user acquisition but their goal is to make you download their app. If they could do away with the web they would. They are no better than Microsoft Balmer era.
Those companies aren't around anymore. There's no one left to update the software, and like vintage gear, it's irreplaceable.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2418804
>Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days.

That assumes China is finding almost all cases and is able to track almost all cases. If they only report cases that are serious enough to require medical attention that statement is worthless. Of course, that line of thinking would require questioning China's data which the WHO would never politically do.
It definitely won't work in the bin.
I think yes, all these products -> https://segment.com, https://rudderstack.com, https://snowplowanalytics.com, https://fivetran.com, https://stitchdata.com, https://www.alooma.com, https://singer.io, https://www.holistics.io, can work as a pipeline, but some have more features than others.

This is a bit simplifying answer.
Trello's the one that rolls random people's personal accounts into the account of the business they work for, right? And refuses to give them back when asked?
> spends power just getting through the wire. Eventually its all gone.

No, transmission losses for such concentrated power generation could be kept acceptable single digit percent by building a proper power transmission system. Just use higher voltage, thicker wires. It would be expensive, but if Nevada was a great energy source, it could be worth it long term.

> This is why you can't just cover 1/3 of Nevada with PV solar cells and power the grid from that one state.

I can think of more substantial problems with that - fragile panels exposed to harmful environment, manufacturing and maintaining panels generates too much waste per kWh, unreliable operation dependent on weather. If Nevada was to be used as a primary center for energy generation, I suggest uranium/thorium reactors. They are better in every possible way.
Bear in mind that the CDC estimate of 45 million influenza cases[1] is the number of symptomatic cases, and therefore it doesn't really make sense to directly compare that with Covid-19 IFR rates calculated from antibody studies which include both symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
Most people in NYC are almost certainly not shopping monthly because of storage constraints. Even bi-weekly shopping is likely to exhaust storage space for city-dwellers in small apartments.
On that note, with the iPad Pro becoming more like a laptop (mouse support, external drive support, rumors of XCode coming to the iPad soon, etc) why would they bother moving Macs to ARM rather than expanding the iPad lineup and phasing out Macs?

It seems pretty clear that Apple doesn’t care about the Mac market anymore, and they already have a version of OSX running on ARM in the hands of millions of end users: the iPhone and iPad.
Ultimately, youtube is a website and not a utility. If someone posted something bad on your website, you'd probably delete it, too.
I've hung out in onsen for about an hour at a time. Sometimes I raise my upper body out if I start feeling dizzy, but it's not completely unbearable. I also took sizzling hot baths all the time as a kid and don't feel the heat, although I'm sure I'm probably being cooked.

This could be why I have no kids.
I like that it passes objects instead of strings, I could see that being really useful. Get-Member will list all methods and properties of an object.
Of course it involves some risk. But the alternative is that millions of others, many older and with compromised immune systems, would get the virus involuntarily because the vaccine trials took longer to run. Is it ethical to ban research that saves thousands of lives?
I bought some N95 reusable children's masks from a reputable seller (5 digit feedback, 99.9% positive, all the "eBay verified/premium seller" crap)... 4 for $80. They ended up being BLATANTLY fake, basically 1mm craft foam cut out in the shape of a mask. I sent in macro photos and a full description demanding a refund, they said "nope, you opened them, they're used now".

eBay sided with the seller.

I've been on eBay since it first came to my country, I've bought/sold many hundreds of items, but eBay has noticeably become an utter mess in the last couple years, and their support is non-existent. I'll never use eBay again, for anything.
Oh, well.

Google Docs is simply not capable of business level work. Sorry.

I thought you were talking about Office 365, which is significantly better, but still not up to par with the native applications.
Just sell a "variant"
Amazon has some of the best uptime in the world, especially for basic services like EC2, even if you’re only considering the least reliable regions like US East. Their last major event was in 2017. There are few providers in the world that can compete with them in that respect, and there’s nothing that you or I or anybody else could build with 6-10 servers that could come close. If you were planning to try exceed their service levels yourself, there is no conceivable use case where a small to medium sized company could justify the requisite expenses to provide the redundancy and operational coverage necessary. What you are actually talking about is that you can meet your own needs without AWS, which is entirely plausible, but completely different from the absurd claims that you can build a low budget infrastructure that exceeds their service levels. That claim is so ridiculous, you might as well be saying that you can make a car faster than Toyota can, or that you can run a two minute mile.
Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, is a city with 11 million people. About the same size as Wuhan or New York City. According to [1] there were only 25 deaths due to Covid19 in the whole country. Why so few? 21 million people live in Lagos, Nigeria, yet the whole of Nigeria has seen only 31 deaths. On the other hand, I have to admit, there were quite a bit more deaths in Sao Paolo, Brazil, but it's still an order of magnitude less than in the New York State.

Maybe Africa and Brazil are faking the numbers, but Australia most likely not. Only 76 deaths so far. Argentina has recorded only 159 deaths.

You could say this is only circumstantial evidence. My point is that we are not trying to prove things "beyond any reasonable doubt". We are trying to form the most informed opinion. And there are quite a few factors that point in the direction of reduced infectiousness during the Summer. Schools closed? Check. People away for vacations? Check. More UV light which kills airborne viruses? Check. People having more vitamin D in their bodies? Check. Air more humid, so the tissue inside your nose is better protected? Sure thing. Better immune systems due to less stress due to the ambient light? Sure thing. Etc, etc.

You can question any of these things. But in a Bayesian framework they tilt the scales little by little. But that's just me.

[1] https://news.google.com/covid19/map?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:e...