skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am utterly impressed ##
this is a person's point of view; they want to be heard, and perhaps as an influencer

> For your safety you will do what you are told ##
it is true, that safety line is common to talk to civilians by enforcers, even when that is not at all what is happening.. and also when it is partially involved, such as evacuation orders due to fire danger

> I thought the brainiacs in silicon valley could do math ##
the person is not a math person, and is somewhat embarassed by that, as Silicon Valley math people are clearly a big deal for the society right now

> forgot how to stand up for your rights ##
the person is trying to emphasize your own volition here, not following orders blindly

> I expect all you young sheltering in place ##
this person feels older than most readers here

> do exactly what your government says ##
this warning is central to the emotion and appeal to individuality

> says next time ##
this is not an isolated thing, it will come up again and perhaps a lot, over the next years+

> do something for your safety ##
safety is an excuse for removing liberty

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It is not well-written or even good judgement necessarily, but I took the time to annotate it because these are serious things over time, from a legal rights point of view, and also huge landmines emotionally for those that deeply value self-determintation.

This reply does not support or reject the post content -- it is more to say, look at this, do not dismiss it quickly.
You can host the code on on your own server if you don’t trust someone else’s. The code is BSD licensed. It should work on a static website like GitHub pages.
I wonder if cities will also start designating streets (or as a softer approach, significant amounts of parking) as EV-only.

A city that wants to electrify the vehicles driving there could do that very easily by converting a certain percentage of parking spots to EV-only every year. This will roughly ensure (at least) the same percentage of cars in the city being EVs (since if there's more, using a non-EV becomes extremely unattractive as you can't find parking).
Interestingly, LA county is nearly at that target. The public health system (excluding internal test capabilities at hospitals etc) can do 16K tests/ day for a population of 10 million. So about 160 tests a day/ 100 K.
The website uses Google's.

On command line it's an option and Google's is default. I'd like to make the signalling server also a STUN server at some point.
Some things like vitamin K and magneseum help absorbtion.
> Would that make the internet conscious, for example? I would think not.

The internet is governed by consciousness and consciousness emerges from it, in the same way as our neurons or brain parts are not conscious per se but are structured by consciousness and provide the mechanism for it.
Well not all of the government said it was a bad idea
the certificate at https://loopholelabs.io/ has been invalid for almost a month
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The area's residents are generally treating the order as a strong suggestion, which I think is the right model. I don't know anyone who hesitates to go visit family or a close friend when they feel they really need to. I was a lot more concerned about overreach before reading the linked post; if the government has specific goals they're working towards, and they're willing to loosen things up for safer businesses in the meantime, I'm pretty okay with the status quo for another month.
Excess iron appears to be more of a risk factor for heart disease than diabetes. This is suspected as a reason why pre-menopausal women have a lower risk of heart attack than men and post-menopausal women. This is still an area of active research and not really proven.
It is likely that due do the NIAID trial, remedisivir will be granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to allow the use in the clinic.
That just depends on what you mean by 'smart'. Plenty of people are intelligent, competent, have great ability at something, but lack the wisdom to recognise their limits.

It is indeed arrogance, but it is absolutely common in smart people. At least for some kinds of smarts.
There's a linked response from Hampshire County Council [1]:

"We are working with partners at New Forest District Council, the National Park Authority, English Nature, The Verderers, The Forestry Commission and the police to explore what can be done longer term and are currently carrying out a review of the junction, which we hope to finalise in the new year. The land beyond the paved road surface is Crown land and this will require permissions to be granted to us for any realignment of the road to be carried out."

Crown land (part of the national park, presumably) means it "belongs" to the queen, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Other comments on that discussion say the same offset junction has been done in many other places.

The best thing is probably for anyone who lives in Hampshire to write to their MP.

https://beyondthekerb.org.uk/collision-course/#addendum
I agree with you.

People have this weird condescending view towards smokers. Like they see themselves as morally superior beings.

It's quite infuriating and you can see that mindset reflect itself in how people approach these topics.

Fuck me for enjoying a flavored vice.
It's because the tree is upside-down, growing from the top (root) to the branches and leaves (the tips) below.
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> I'll take the bait.

Don't. The Bay Areas infection numbers, despite their early exposure, are excellent. Early and aggressive shelter in place orders are to thank.

Everything else is noise.
That’s fair, but then focus on that and not the flavors.

I’ll happily continue drinking my fruity loops flavored vodka and enjoying its taste.
I think it is a mistake to assume that Elon's opinion on this is uninformed. People were dragging him and Tesla for supposedly procuring and distributing the "wrong kind" of ventilator a couple weeks ago and it turned out that the type they were sending out was the one that was delivering the best patient outcomes. Asked later he said he chose to focus on that type after talking to doctors in China about their experience.

The Tesla factory in China has been open for almost 2 months now post outbreak so I imagine their experience with that informs what can be done safely and effectively at their US factory.

It's ironic the number of things that Elon Musk and his companies have pulled off that many claimed were impossible and yet people's first assumption when Elon Tweets something w/o explanation is that he must be uninformed and talking out of his butt.
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" but these seem to be relatively rare nowadays "

AT&T 5G uses Symmetric NAT. It's not rare if you have an iPhone or iPad with cellular. No way to do P2P without relaying traffic unless you want to "guess" the randomized port number, and, on that front, there are NAT-device-aware algorithms that can make that process faster.

We were promised IPv6 will make NAT's not necessary but I believe service providers use NATs not simply to conserve the IPv4 space but to actively discourage using the service to host your own servers.
I don't believe a 'wet market' is any worse than a confined animal feeding operation in terms of breeding pestilence.

CAFOs have continued to exist through indiscriminate use of antibiotics, but the potential future impact of their practices seems like it's even bigger than the impact of bush meat in a wet market

(Also, the wet markets are not the definitive source of sars-2. I thought the pangolin-as-pets trade seemed to be the more likely source?)
Lol where does the 5% of yearly deaths from TB factor into all this? You mean the millions dead in India over the past decade is still happening, but they stopped this brand new considerably less deadly virus right away?
Who pays for the stun and turn servers?
> You said that HFTs jump out when things get volatile. But then I show you evidence that they trade more in high volatility. Do you not see the contradiction?

We should distinguish between volatility at different timescales. An HFT might well be very active over a volatile month, but may still turn off over a very volatile second. I've always assumed that the "HFTs jump out during volatility" complaint was about the latter; it means that when some shocking news hits the market, the HFT firms providing most of the liquidity pull it, and so the manually-entered market orders wanging around end up moving the market further, exacerbating the volatility. Maybe that's not what people are actually complaining about, though.

> HFT firm equipment costs are a few racks of high end servers and some expensive networking equipment

And FPGAs. FPGA development is really not cheap.
My takeaway is more that the entire security model that Apple is pushing for the Mac just doesn't really make sense. E.g., here's a quick list of apps that aren't sandboxed: Logic Pro, Final Cut, most of Adobe Creative Cloud, Visual Studio Code/Atom/TextMate, Xcode, and Sketch. If I were to make a list of the main apps people buy Macs to run, it's pretty much the same list.

The particular case highlighted in the blog post is specific to code editors, but similar types of problems arise in all of the most important app categories for Macs.
Do you have a citation for that for adults?
Is it legal for a state to declare bankruptcy or would Congress have to pass a law? It doesn't seem like the House would be interested.
Why only let blue states go bankrupt?
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It would be interesting to see the demographic changes that come with Facebook.

I have a feeling younger users are leaving and older users (especially now that they're more isolated than before) are joining.
> how were shares exercised into stock before they vested?

Early exercise.
You and parent comment are both right, but it's interesting because I haven't heard this feedback before.

Part of what makes these games so playable is that they're quick and don't require a whole lot of thought. It's a compromise. The intention is for players to focus more on improving the technical aspects of the writing presented instead of thinking too deeply about the message because more context and more text to edit might add too much friction to the experience (i.e., make the "game" into more of a "task").

I know it might not help a whole lot, but each game has a tiny bit of context to help...the context for the current game (shown right above the game-play box) is "Opening sentence of a research paper by a think tank."

Anyway, I'll think about ways to address this. Thanks for the feedback.

However I will also add that while these games are meant to be more fun than serious...the "courses", on the other hand, will take message, content, audience, etc into account and generally be much more thorough.

anchpop - your response wasn't considered valid because it did not include the term "cybercrime". In hindsight this was a bad decision on my part -- each game has a small set of strings that a response must include to be considered valid (to avoid spam responses from messing up scoring). "Cybercrime" probably shouldn't be one of them (sorry).
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Vermont and Montana are sparse states so not surprising. Hawaii - that is interesting. Are those numbers accurate?
Interesting that the author is not a Democrat: David Frum was a speechwriter for George W. Bush.
Maybe in NA. In the UK the likely solution would be to install a roundabout. You can’t ignore an upcoming obstacle, in which you’re forced to give way.
i like the approach of encrypting locally, uploading to the cloud and sending the decryption key via a link.

that's the way firefox send does it

https://send.firefox.com

it's open source so you could run an instance of it if you wanted to.
That sounds awfully like a nod towards developers and REITs that you'd get property tax breaks and/or credits if you hit LEED certification levels.

What is the problem with that? It's already a thing, just not nationally. You get that pro-jobs angle for contractors, provide a stop-gap when new construction slows servicing existing owners looking to reduce costs.

You're reading the proposals with an ... impractical eye.
I would argue Apple’s earbud commercials absolutely targeted the young enjoying music and looking cool with the white string earphones.
I added you to discuss, based in Europe so offline for 7h now
Judging by the entitlements, it seems that a script can save an executable file. Would it be possible to ensure that any file written by a script remains quarantined?
Yes, I'm greatly overstating the costs involved. But reducing the fuel cost from $35/ hour for a Cessna burning 10 gallons/ hour to burning $3-5/ hour worth of electricity would be a pretty big deal.
If you're driving defensively, or riding defensively, you can never assume that they've seen you, or that they'll give way.

Difference is when this assumption is proven false in a car, it's generally more survivable than when you're on a bike or motorbike.
How long did it take for you to notice a difference?
> Also, the LD50 dosage of caffeine is ~150-200mg/kg while for nicotine it’s in the range of 0.5-1mg/kg and for children it’s much lower, at 0.1mg/kg. Given these numbers, nicotine is a far mor[e] pernicious substance than caffeine.

What? That doesn't follow at all. You want to compare the LD50 (and other effects of consumption) to the amount normally consumed, not to the LD50 of some other substance. "LD50 is 1 mg/kg" is completely meaningless if you can't consume more than 0.005 mg/kg.
It really is too bad that all our front doors lead directly to beaches, parks and hikes. How many people could have been saved if we had gardens, roofs and streets?
No, Juul openly and deliberately advertised to children. It used to run ad campaigns featuring high-school age models vaping, and as recently as last year paid hundreds of high-school age "influencers" to peddle their products.
Uber reported profitability in their last earnings statement with high confidence of being fully profitable this year, before the pandemic happened.

Various regions have been profitable for years and the company has spent a lot on growth and marketing. It seems they're finding an optimal price that is sustainable but still much better than anything that we had before.
Many pensions are not the "have $27k/yr starting at age 67" kind, but the "have $100k/yr + benefits starting at age 55" kind. Its the latter that people find upsetting - nothing close to poverty level.
But that's because most people don't go to elite institutions. The only way to know this would be to build as data set of all the hires at FAANGs, for example, and then compare students from elite institutions to non elites. I would imagine these companies are not keen on sharing this data though.
This is a very weak study because it is retrospective: they just looked at existing medical records. And they only found 20 COVID patients that had vitamin D levels recorded. But the finding is compelling enough that we should demand better studies.

Actually there already is a better study where they actually tested vitamin D levels of many COVID patients [1]. It found vitamin D was strongly associated with less severe outcomes:

> Only 26% of the cases had 25(OH)D in the normal range, and virtually all of them (86%) had a mild outcome. ...
Just over a third (38%) had 25(OH)D in the insufficient range, and only one of them (1.3%) had a mild outcome. ...
Just over a third (36%) had 25(OH)D in the deficient range, and their distribution was pushed further toward severe and critical outcomes. Only one patient (1.4%) had a mild outcome, while 26% had an ordinary outcome, 40% had a severe outcome, and 33% had a critical outcome.

Now we should demand a controlled trial where they actually give a vitamin D intervention: this would provide causal evidence. However, avoiding vitamin D deficiency is already very well studied and has so many benefits that I think it is worth everyone's time and effort to do so.

Many people are advising high levels of vitamin D supplementation. However, there is reason to not overdo it on vitamin D supplementation and take just 1700 IU/day (or to just get sunshine) [2]. Of course, getting your vitamin D levels tested (with the help of by a doctor) is the safe way to go about this.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3571484

[2] https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/update-on-vitamin-d-...
Not sure why this post was flagged or taken down. It follows the guidelines and is something I made.

Feeling quite bad about this situation.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but as someone who has literally said that on several occasions, you've perfectly summarized ( 90% of :) ) what I generally mean.
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Actually, you can pass instances of it around just fine, if you know how it works. It’s not any different than a view subclass on Android, or a widget in Qt.
For the tech savy that like to use the CLI, checkout: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
There are some terminology confusions here possibly. Usually options have three associated dates: grant, vest and exercise.

The grant date is when stock options are granted to an employee - this is usually the first time the employee will have heard of their access to the options but if they are fore-warned of the options before a formal grant and schedule is release then they may be ineligible for any immediate vesting (generally immediate vesting triggers must happen after the grant date). The vesting date is when an option becomes eligible to exercise - on that date the grantee receives the ability to purchase shares in the company according to the strike price laid out in the options grant. Lastly you have the exercise date, that's the date on which you actually exchange some cash for some real shares in the company - after this point those shares are you personal property and are fully owned by you with no obligations to sale (though obligations around the manner of sale usually remain) - a company could declare bankruptcy but you can retain those shares forever.

Just as a note - I'm not a lawyer or an accountant, none of the information above should be construed as financial or legal advice and might just be wrong... if you're actually dealing with an options grant speak to a lawyer.
I left California long ago because it’s so polarized towards blue. I share different ideals and tend to get ostracized for them - not a community I want to be part of.
Isn’t some sunlight exposure good in general? I think it’s going too far to declare sunlight as genealogy dangerous. It definitely helps me with my mood.
If they don't get a verification / instructions email, they'll know an account with the username they typed, existed?
Article re: the above: https://www.businessinsider.com/juul-congress-e-cigs-target-... . There's nothing accidental about this.
I believe there’s a feature that allows others to take control of the screen. It could be related to this
Living in a half-finished renovation, I have to disagree. The permitting and inspection process needs to resume so that I no longer have to shelter-at-a-construction-site.
The Bay Area counties included here are all pretty dense, so it makes sense that they'd want to have more test coverage per capita than a full country might need.
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If you're paying another company for hosting, and they're using containers natively, then they're just pocketing the margins by packing you onto busy hypervisors with other users.
I don't know to what degree normal is possible going forward: were seeing massive unemployment amongst an already highly economically precarious population. I think the only thing I can really see is a rebirth of mass politics, likely going in the rights favor in 2022 midterms and 2024 election. It's the only thing that makes sense to me for an empire in decay. Either that or pulling a British empire and becoming a lamprey on whoever the next hegemon is, but I think we've already seen what that looks like in regards to all the outrage over american companies, Hollywood, etc "cow-towing" to China and Americans don't like it.

The wheels of history are in motion, so not one of us really knows anything.
Many service providers, e.g. CloudFlare or AWS, among others, will offer sufficient resources for smaller sites for free, in hopes of capturing larger returns if that company scales. This largely negates the specific benefit (cost for small orgs) that you're referring to.
I suspect the inherent sin involved was rapidly forgiven. Given the percentage of monkish enterprise dedicated to creating fragments of the true cross, there was a lot of sin to go around.

(I like the Umberto Eco comment in "the name of the rose" about the head of John The Baptist as a child being on display at another church)
The JavaScript implementation is creating a blob with a URL pointing to it so the user can save the file. I might be wrong, but I think that the all the data is in browser memory before it is saved.

Browsers are pretty restrictive about writing to the file system.
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People give too much weight to overall sparsity/density, discounting how much human behavior has a role in creating personal density even in seemingly sparse areas. You can see massive infections in very sparse rural areas so long as people are congregating and not taking precautions. That seems to be what's happening in Nebraska.

Behavior matters more. Here in Manhattan we're past the peak solely because of changes in behavior. It doesn't matter how sense the built environment is when most people are barely leaving their homes.
> JUUL has more nicotine than a cigarette and there’s less friction to using it: a 10 second hit instead of a 10 minute cigarette and there’s no need to find a lighter or go outside.

They chose the nicotine concentration to mimic the delivery of a regular cigarette. Not less or more, but the same.

A pod will deliver the same amount of nicotine to a user as 20 cigarettes.

A 10-second hit is nowhere near the same as smoking an entire cigarette. It has the same feeling as an equivalent drag on a smoke.
"And of course government workers have a strong reputation for not being incentivized to work very hard or do more than the bare minimum."

This reminds me of my friend who got an engineering job for the government after university. He was motivated at the start, going above and beyond to make sure his projects were completed on time and in good order. One day his boss called him in and asked him to change his schedule. The boss said he was making his co-workers feel bad. So the new schedule was to be take a 2 hour lunch and do something else for 2 hours, like play video games, to align his work output with the rest of the department.
"Drop.io was nominated for the Technical Achievement Award at the South By Southwest 11th Annual Web Awards in 2007."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop.io

It keeps happening.
Bay Area has dropped significantly: https://covid-19.direct/metro/BayArea

Santa Clara has dropped even more significantly: https://covid-19.direct/county/CA/Santa%20Clara. It's at 10 cases/day/million now (3% test positive rate), below even Germany who is opening schools.
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Nice. The fact that it can be described by a diagram that fits on a single screen and could be absorbed by a new hire in 20 minutes is neat.

I wonder if there are ways to design software such that we can get visualizations like this generated from the code "for free". It could definitely be really useful when diff'ing code, or even just for general communication in meetings etc...

Perhaps there are some academic/esoteric languages that do things along those lines?