skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on shipping! I've been thinking about building something similar to scratch my own itch. I think ideally it would generate availability for an arbitrary time span, e.g a week.

Also, I didn't end up trying it due to the sketchy consent screen you mentioned. Maybe there's a lower friction way to get someone's schedule, e.g. screenshot?
You can manually set a status :)
Sweden has >10% deaths out of total cases. They handled it quite irresponsibly compared to Denmark.

WHO leadership should really resign after this major screw up.
And people are dying from other causes while we sit and wait.
They were doing similar kinds of triage, from what I can tell: https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/were-bringing-covid-19-patient...

NYC has had 12,774 deaths to date, out of 9 million people or so.

Lombardy has had 13,679 deaths with a total population of around 10 million.

So broadly, they're fairly similar, although Lombardy as a region is much larger than NYC.
Yes. Stop absolving adults of responsibilities they’re well capable of owning. You don’t get to hide being big dollar signs and claim ignorance.
There's a problem with that. Lots of people who regularly drive cars but never cycle see cyclists flagrantly ignoring the law on a regular basis. It's easy to come to the conclusion that the reason cycling is so dangerous is because cyclists would rather throw themselves into oncoming traffic rather than dealing with the inconvenience of having to stop at stop lights.

And when there are pushes for regulations to make cycling safer, they roll their eyes and vote against it, even when they're simple, effective, cheap measures.

The seemingly widespread belief among cyclists that they don't need to follow the rules of the road is, in my opinion, a large part of the reason Americans are so opposed to changing said rules to make cycling safer. There are a very large number of Americans who believe the primary reason cyclists get hurt is because the cyclist was doing something dangerous.
Steve had personality flaws at least as severe as Elon. The difference was Steve was a much better showman and had a laser focus on the nuances of messaging. Whereas Elon embodies the age of Twitter.

Yes, there are plenty of specific events where any sensible person would have slapped Elon on the back of the head and told him to stop being an idiot. Ultimately though, Elon's "irresponsibility" is largely a problem within the press, the short-sellers and with regulators who are lobbied by aforementioned short-sellers. Whatever. Let them sook. It's not like any of Elon's failings have affected Tesla sales or SpaceX successes.
You mean more evidence than Cuomo's own account of him being outside his residence that he gave on his radio show?
Har. You must be from Zerohedge.
I don't think it was malice in this case, though I get your point. I think the people that did the models were just incompetent and also shaded them to be overconservative because they felt it would be better (so slightly fraudulent, perhaps).

But all evidence points to the IHME to just be terrible at their jobs and influenced a country to massively over-react.
> The final nail in that coffin is that a significant portion of the web is accessed these days via phones: which, by Google or Apple mandate, are extremely locked down ecosystems.

How is that the final nail in the coffin?
Why is so hard to read an article from someone that is developing containers?

Quote: "Again, containers were not a top level design, they are something we build from Linux primitives. Zones, Jails, and VMs are designed as top level isolation."
As an American I find it very odd that they blame the angles of the roads for making it dangerous. Until recently that intersection had no stop signs. One road had a yield, meaning most of the time no one stops in any direction, on either road. That gets drivers in the habit of not stopping.

Maybe if varies by state, but I grew up in a rural area of California, but every intersection I can remember has had at least one road required to stop (either a two-way stop sign, four-way stop sign, or traffic lights).

I get that stop signs are nearly illegal in the UK and some other parts of Europe, but that is the problem. In the US a driver on the minor road has to stop, look both ways, then proceed. It is to much safer than the driver on the minor road getting in the habit of not stopping and just plowing through a road that has the right of way.
Do you use microservices? Is there a GraphQL API? Do you have an engineering blog or newsletter so we can keep track of updates? Are you hiring and do you have a “careers” page describing your company’s values and how diverse and inclusive it is?
I feel like they are random pictures rather than Zoom backgrounds.
> So no, I don't think the idea that Apple and Facebook are doing well (thus keeping hte S&P numbers inflated) holds weight.

The easiest, and best, comparison for this is to look at the S&P 500 vs an S&P 500 equal weighted index (where all stocks are weighted equality, instead of weighted based on market cap). Over 3 months (i.e. just before the market peaked) the equal weighted index is down almost 15%, while the market cap weighted index is down just over 10%. This is clear evidence the larger companies are significantly outperforming the smaller ones.
Method for Calculating Carbon Sequestration by Trees (1998) [pdf]
I'm so curious what it must be like to have that kind of mind. Just did a quick Google and his IQ is around 230. I mean, it's hard enough to really understand what anyone else's subjective experience is like, but I think it's literally impossible to get a true sense of what it would be like to be that intelligent (for those of us who are nowhere close). With that great a difference it's got to really be a difference in kind, not just degree.
Ask HN: How do I find ML consulting clients?
I want to make the move from in-house machine learning work to working as a consultant. I have a good grasp of how much I should charge, but I'm at a loss for how to find clients. My expertise is in medical computer vision but I have experience working with many other data types. Should I limit myself to one small niche?

What is a good way to start finding clients? I have attempted to make a list of potential companies from LinkedIn, but it also occurs to me that companies I find through LinkedIn are more likely to already have a sizeable ML/AI team. That in turn means it is less likely they have a need to contract some of their ML work.
Apple Knowledge Navigator (1987)
It sort of depends on the candidate. For a new grad, I'd be asking interview questions that are a little more textbook. Write something to traverse a tree, sorting, etc, i.e. theoretical stuff.

For someone with experience, the expectation is less about data structures, and more about architecture and practical problems we'd have to solve day-to-day. Of course there was a coding question, but it weighed a little less.

This was the standard process at a medium-sized company in SF, and I thought the process was far from perfect. I'm sure the sentiment is shared by many, but focusing on one's ability to write an algorithm within 45 mins did not necessarily mean they'd be a great developer to work with.

But I digress. To answer your question, we used coderpad for phone screen coding interviews.
Taxis were super expensive before Uber.
Testing and tracing is still very much the strategy, just that we still don't have the capacity for it.

The head of the federal government has utilized the defense production act to force people to work in meat processing plants where the virus is rampant - but has done much less to get testing, tracing, and PPE unblocked. States appear to be struggling as well. Hard to tell about a lot of the details; there's definitely a 'fog of war'.
Unsealed FBI Notes and Emails Reveal Agents Plotted Perjury Trap on Flynn
The addiction to nicotine is nothing to scoff at, but they were taking a page out of the big tobacco brands' play book. The same people that go after Juul and disregard regular tobacco brands is something, seeing how they are just doing what big tobacco has always done. There are a lot of people angry over those kids being targeted by Juul, but fail to see big tobacco next door, causing as much, if not more damage due to the nature of their product. Both should fail, but I would rather have an ecosystem of Ecigs(for adults) vs the waste and carnage that big tobacco has done for decades.
Is it? HN seems very pro-free speech and EM compared to places like Twitter and Reddit.
Gmail Showing Facebook Favicon?
On Safari, I'm getting the Facebook favicon when I run Gmail. Did Facebook buy Gmail? Are they now partners so much that Google would prefer to show the Facebook favicon?!
> “Mathematics used to be a much more individual activity,” Minsky said. “Maybe in the next year or so, we’ll be back to some solo projects.”

Seems that most research used to be more individual. I'm not sure why research has shifted towards being collaboration-heavy and I don't think that this has necessarily improved the quality of science. In my experience, papers with many authors tend to be worse. (Could be field specific.)

A few months ago I got reviews back for a paper I wrote which had only me as the author and one of the reviewers was suspicious of this and brought it up in the review. They didn't say what they were suspicious of but I'd guess that they assumed that the work couldn't have been done by an individual. I replied that the work was done one my own and anyone with a small contribution not worthy of authorship was mentioned in the acknowledgements. I'm still waiting to hear if that would satisfy the reviewer.
I too assume that surgeons wear those masks for funsies.

Of course the “masks don’t work” was pure, transparent, bullshit from the very beginning. It didn’t even pass the smell test. Now if the argument was “please save masks for healthcare workers first, they’re higher risk” that would be fine. But “they don’t work”? Fuck off.

Edit: I’m referring to the CDC here, not you personally, dear HN commenter.
Another lesser known tunneling trick is that SSH will happily act as a SOCKS5 Proxy. I've been using this trick for going on 20 years now.

Just do:
ssh -D9090 user@remote

Then, in Firefox, set it to use a SOCK5 proxy of localhost:9090 and "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5".

Now, when you use Firefox it is as if you are using Firefox on the machine you are SSH'd into(including DNS resolution!). This is really handy for things like accessing otherwise unreachable resources or other internal resources externally. I use it for accessing iDRAC/IPMI/ESXi (you can also tell Java to use the proxy so VMRC works as well). It is also handy to be able to put all your web traffic as originating from a remote VPS with no advanced setup required.
Virgulator – Simulator for Virgule, a minimal RISC-V processor
I'm from Australia where our government is slowly easing restrictions because our daily case count has been in the single digits for multiple consecutive days now, and even then it is very gradual. Reopening resturants and bars is still very far on the horizon.

In the US, even with full lockdown restrictions for several weeks now, the daily death count has hovered at 2,000 for almost two infection cycles (first >2k death day was Apr 7th).

If 'full' lockdown only achieves stabilisation of the death rate, how is easing restrictions, which as far as I can see only rationally relies on the still-shaky evidence from serology studies, what exactly is the plan?

I genuinely ask this in a state of disbelief at the current "end lockdown" narrative circulating in the US. Here in AUS/NZ the Gov didn't fuck around; we locked down, had brutally strict measures for 6 weeks now, and at this point nobody is rushing to re-open (except for a few regional cities that haven't even had cases), while the US has been at 2,000 deaths a day.
The FAQ gives more info: https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/cu...

In short, it says users have to specifically enable the feature and can opt out at any time. Isn't that completely sufficient to eliminate it as a privacy issue?

If it was opt-out, I would certainly feel very differently.
And it will probably never be known because the CCP is not allowing those investigations to take place.
No, they did not. It's probably just a transient bug with safari.
Historically, Germany has had issues with crackers.
Oh yeah, they can spread malware for months, but I submit one fucking app that allows you create signs for your business for COVID-19 and all of a sudden I get a 'Sensitive Events Violation Suspension' and get a ding on my Google Play account.

Google has become Apple except worse because at least Apple is reachable.
One, I really don't. And two, you're the one making a positive claim that it's not addictive. If you don't want to back your claims, I can certainly live with ignoring them.
Yeah, you can't start by saying your personal obsession with misunderstanding this contact tracing scheme is more important than the worst crisis of both security and prosperity most people have witnessed in their lifetime...

...and then, in the very next paragraph, disown that comparison you just made to insulate yourself from any criticism.

Adding that disclaimer is tantamount to acknowledging that this is indeed a political question. In doing so, the author has preemptively refuted his own attempt in the next paragraph to claim that it is preferable to argue this issue on purely technological grounds.

This is a public health crisis that is killing hundreds of thousands of people and setting every economy on the planet back by maybe 20% to 30%, or the equivalent of close to a decade of typical growth, at least for the richer countries. "Politics" isn't a dirty word here: it's how societies try to chart some sort of sensible path through this. Because balancing competing objectives is the essence of politics, anyone single-mindedly focussed on just health, or just prosperity, or just "the open web" is guaranteed to be disappointed by what will happen, and will become even more cynical and prone to disparage the idea of "politics" in this manner.

But it is so blatantly obviously impossible to ignore these issues that even he making that argument failed to pull it off even before he got started.

Specific to this article, I can confidently predict that "politics" will matter to it in a very practical sense, in that the political process is going to completely ignore it.

I mean, I kind of understand privacy concerns, even though I find them somewhat unwarranted, considering the rather elaborate scheme Apple and Google came up with to preempt them. And I do, in principle, care about the "open web".

But even after reading this article, I haven't the foggiest idea what this contact tracing scheme has to do with the "open web".

Last and definitely least: a similar, but lesser, point:

Signing/crediting your pull-quotes
with your own name is cringy as hell.

--IAmEveryone
I was looking into building something very similar right before I saw this post!
I think calling it a miscalculation is beyond extremely generous.
> What I don't understand is, what are the consequences are?

The consequences of the 2008-2009 financial crisis were the defacto nationalization of large US banks as Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs). Basically in exchange for taking on more stringent regulation and capital controls, and the separation of prop trading and deposit banking through Dodd-Frank's Volcker Rule, large US banks were declared too big to fail and would be backstopped by the Fed going forward.

I think what you're seeing now is perhaps something similar for all large US corporations. The Fed is essentially declaring the S&P500 as TBTF by opening the trough to all of them. The Fed maybe doesn't want to do this (they are economists after all, and they know this isn't a good path to start heading down), but they're also the only governmental entity capable of direct action without political blowback in this crisis.

I think the market sees this as the Fed setting a floor for equity prices, and maybe it's right?

In the end, the music can only keep playing for so long while chairs are slowly removed from the room. The market can stay irrational for a long time, but it must eventually face reality. The Fed can print money so that companies have working capital (which they will hoard) but can't print a vaccine or your mortgage payment or the customers your neighbourhood restaurant needs.
I have a couple of questions that I hope you would have insight in to.

* Why did the CDC decide to develop their own diagnostic? Was there some issue with the WHO test that they were trying to avoid? Or just internal politics

* What was the core issue with the CDC's tests? (It's possible that I'm not equipped to understand this, but an ELI5 would be great)

(Edit - I have tried to research this, but for #1 it seemed kind of murky and #2 looks like either poor quality control or poor design - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mkpx/how-the-cdc-botche.... I'm hoping for some clarity on these)
I believe that the taxable event happens when the option is exercised, whether any shares are sold or not. Actually selling the shares doesn’t change the amount of tax due.

I don’t know that he will sell shares to cover the strike price or the taxes, but I can say certainly it is explicitly permitted for him to sell shares only for that reason. Otherwise they must be held for at least (EDIT) 5 years post exercise.

He can simply hold the vested option but not exercise it. All options expire by 2028, and all vested options must be exercised within 1 year if he loses the CEO title. He does not gain any shareholder rights from those shares until the options are exercised. So this delays the payment of the strike price and taxes, but does not alter the basic math.

In short, a 2% bump in his equity position is below the noise floor of the daily price change of the actual shares. Frankly it almost makes you wonder what’s the point. Once you own double digit percentages of an asset that could appreciate more than 10x it’s more important to focus on the size of the pie than the size of your slice.

The vast change in Elon’s wealth was through achieving an IPO and getting the share value upwards of $800. An extra few million shares to him is the same as the difference between selling on a Monday or a Tuesday.
Beauty Can Wait
Risks Digest was on my daily reading list for years. I've been in computing since the early 70s, the history of computing is fabulous background to inform e.g. debugging, or SRE.
Hopefully some of it remains after. Car centered cities are awful for human beings, we should reclaim some of this space for us.
You read and watch the media that gives you the data you need. Ignore the others once you can verify the information. Wash, rinse and repeat. It’s supposed to be a free market. There’s no guarantee that government mandates will make the data any better
90% asymptomatic cases isn't surprising?
Hospital layoffs aren't necessarily because they have overcapacity. Elective procedures were canceled, and all non-covid departments were basically shut down in NYC at the peak. In NY, the plan is to start reopening on May 15, with frequent testing, with the metric being the replication rate (trying to keep R0 below 1.1). There are plans. The US did not approach this crisis in a centralized way which we probably should have, so opening up is going to be a collection of 50 plans as well, but that's not no plan.
Canon now lets you use its cameras as a webcam
Indeed! saljam asked me about a month ago what PAKE he should use with a Go implementation, and since there isn't a canonical one I put together a CPace implementation on top of ristretto255: filippo.io/cpace. It's a wonderfully simple algorithm when instantiated with a prime order group such as Ristretto.

There are some implementation notes in the README: https://github.com/FiloSottile/go-cpace-ristretto255
Yeah, maybe the email provider should think about how many tons their equipment causes. Shoving everything on the consumer is silly. Consumers almost never have the data to make informed choices.
Doesnt this basically explain the real reason for why flu is worse in winter.

Less sun exposure in general.
If you tell people to save masks for healthcare workers... then the hoarding would have been worse.

At least by telling people masks don't work... peer pressure would keep them from buying them?
If anything, it should be a reminder that the web is really the only open system that we have and it's mostly just a quirk of history and luck that we have it at all. And it's too ingrained in our society to, say, release a phone that simply refuses to have a web browser. And I don't think we truly appreciate it enough.
The problem with preventative measures is that if they work, people always thing we overreacted. The curve is staying flat because we are staying in lockdown. If we opened the curve, the infection rate would start going up again on its S curve to herd immunity. It'll be worse if we open up and then have to go right back and shut down again. That'll probably hurt the credibility of future efforts to open up if anything, since if someone you know in your community was one of the fatalities after the governemnt said it was safe to open up and the pandemic roared back, why would you trust the government when they say that this time you can actually open up for real?
Trade policy: Why turning inward won’t work
Keys seems to have taken the `back to the basics` approach and follow KISS to solve the original problem(s) Keybase was trying to solve (key & user ID management for human beings).

Obviously Keybase has strayed away from its original heart, added all those unrelated elements like social chat, Dropbox like (fuse) filesystem (this is actually OK), team collaboration, SCM, and even crypto currency wallet, so bloated [1], hmm... Do we really need all those? No for me, but I don't have a choice if I want to use the core bits and pieces (good part) of Keybase.

Glad to see Keys, gave it a try on Linux (thumbs up for packaging it using `AppImage` instead of snap or flatpak). However, it had gnome-keyring dependencies (wrong assumption that people use GNOME Shell or variants as default Desktop Environment), issue reported [2] and being worked on. I did run it in a Windows VM and it seems to be exactly what I need for key & user id management, looking forward to its development and adoption.

[1]: Keybase GUI for Linux https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EW0wKs4VcAAL3Qi?format=jpg

[2]: https://github.com/keys-pub/app/issues/6
I agree. Per capita we are doing exceptionally better than most European countries. My European friends think it’s like a warzone over here but outside of pockets in NYC and smaller pockets around the country the hospitals aren’t full. Whether or not that is due to our response or certain characteristics of our nation (e.g. very spread out, lots of space) is up for debate, sure. But we are doing very well.
I agree. And that's just one example from the article that seems to play into what amounts to a vigorous pitch of various dark, yet still subjective, perceptions. We just don't know the future, and we have a LOT of really talented, creative people working on it right now, and most of those people work within not just one, but a variety of social frameworks that encourage or enforce ethically commendable behavior.

I also personally love it when authors / technologists / etc. put in the work to describe the tools needed to 1) put the problem into perspective and 2) create around it. Either bringing the _spirit_ forward if it's a difficult technology-arena problem, or bringing the _technology_ forward if it's a difficult social-arena problem.
The problem with stop signs is that cyclists also need to stop and on a bicycle you really notice all the wasted energy.