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> claim to hate

Please don't fall prey to the emo journalism of the day. And don't rachet it up even farther. For the most part, these are professionals doing their jobs. There's been a lot more failure than typical, on both sides, in the face of an historical pandemic. But let's not demonize either side here, or assume that others do.

For the record, Trump does run the executive branch, and if one of its people pushed this through, it reflects horribly on his leadership and whoever eventually gets thrown under the bus.

But, this article doesn't bring much to the table in terms of sources. Doesn't make sense to point fingers until someone involved in the purchase does, without anonymity.
It's true that things with shorter half lives have more decays per second for the same number of nuclei. However, the type of and energy of the decay is very important to the type of health impact it has, as well as how/how long it's retained in the body. Tritium is relatively safe because it emits a very low energy electron (<18 keV), which almost immediately ranges out in most materials, especially water. The only way it can get you is if its sitting right on top of your dna when it decays. Since it's hydrogen, it freely exchanges with the hydrogens in the water in a persons body, and is excreted quickly as a result. It doesnt accumulate in any particular place, which is also a plus. The treatment for tritium is lots of water and a few beers.

Contrast that with actinides, some of which decay by neutron emission, alpha emission, and spontaneous fission. This page has a good breakdown https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiationionizing/background.html
alphas deposit alot of energy per unit length traversed, so alpha decay happening inside the body is pretty destructive. Alot of actinides also concentrate in bone marrow, which leads to leukemia.
You need to explain the problem you're solving first, not how the product works. Is it a product that collects events? Even with your explanation above, I still can't tell.

Use this for inspiration:
https://imgur.com/a/TH8I5rs
Because they are richer. This is the very same principle employed by both states for their internal taxation - the idea that the more you make, the less you get from your taxes relatively speaking ("the rich" pay higher tax rates in both states).

It's just progressive taxes applied to the entire country, where NY and CA are "the rich" among the states.
I mean, I guess I read the comment from my own personal perspective, from which I have always seen what I would describe as lots of hate and lots of rumors (or wishful thinking more like) that it was going to go the way of myspace. I wasn't thinking about the press (and mainstream sentiment has never been against it). But rereading it, I can see where that is perhaps the more obvious interpretation than my own.
There are many potential sources for serious zoonotic diseases. As long as we keep large number of pigs and chickens in farms there'll be the possibility of a flu pandemic caused by viruses going from humans to animals and back.
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I understand they purchased and supplied a cache of existing CPAP machines, which are neither useless nor newly manufactured ventilators.
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"After this article was published, a spokesperson for Pence, Katie Miller, said in a statement that "The White House Coronavirus Task Force was never informed of this contract and was not involved in it at all."
I watch these intersections closely, yes. And make sure I have time to slam on the brakes if necessary. I've seen far too many cars blow through residential-area 25mph stop signs as if they don't exist, and it really only takes one to give you a very bad day. And that's in residential areas - in higher-speed quieter-area intersections like this, hell yes I'm extra paranoid. I've seen multiple cars plow through intersections like this at triple the speed limit since I started driving.

As a biker, this all applies doubly so, because one mistake like this can pretty frequently be fatal. Be paranoid or you risk death, there's no alternative.
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Thanks for the perspective. I have been asking this question for a few years now, and I think Deepmind's marketing has been pretty deceptive on this. What examples do you have in mind where the research from playing games with RL has carried over into solving a real-world problem? Probably the state of the art has advanced as I have focused in applying supervised learning on some applied problems that interest me.
Leaded glass is just doped with lead; a relatively small percentage of lead to glass. That works for purpose, but I think you'd need a lot more lead in the glass that CRT tubes have to effectively block the various radiation types and energies you're going to get from waste encapsulation.

Interesting idea tho. Someone should do the science.
"can we get AI to play deceptive strategies without being explicitly rewarded"

Haven't we seen quite a bit of that? I think there have been multiple items on HN about instances where ill-defined goals led to AI finding bugs in a simulation or unintended solutions. Deception is really just about human expectations.
It's equally impossible for humans to know objective truth if all information is presented with no way to determine authority. If I present you with all possible 25 word sentences containing "covid-19", you have all of the conceivable information at your fingertips, but you can't draw any conclusions.

But that's mostly beside the point. No one is preventing these two doctors from determining the truth. If they think they have a breakthrough, they can present it in a paper, to other experts, who are capable of analyzing it.

> I don't think you understand that in a reality with limited information, it is impossible for humans to know objective truth. And further you underestimate the degree of uncertainty regarding lockdown measures.

Conventional news is far worse than Google both in terms of the things and, at least currently, in terms of reach. I'd much prefer if Fox news presented actual experts on subjects, instead of political pundits or "Dr. Phil" when discussing COVID-19. I am not and have not taken any political side anywhere in this conversation. I've been on the side of scientific consensus. I don't expect that will change.

> As it happens, they are arguably in conflict today, as the WHO has praised Sweden's model which, in case you're not aware, is not a lockdown.

Let's talk when the WHO releases official guidance to end lockdowns. Until then you're just trying to create conflict where there isn't any.

> How can you even put faith in authority right now after so many nations, organizations, hospitals, the world over, totally failed in responding to or preparing for this pandemic?

Because I trust the institutions of government (and their access to experts) more than I trust hucksters on the internet. While I don't expert the average person to be able to discern an expert from a huckster on the internet, especially due to the actions of certain politicians.
"Turning off" the screen seems like an invalid concept as the screen has no "off" state, white pixels are just as much off as black. Seems like all you need to do here is to just blink the screen every now and then. Even one blink cycle per day should be enough since ereaders usually go longer than that and are just fine.
Compared to Trump, roughly half of the Republican party is to his left by varying magnitudes. Obamacare, for example, was originally a Republican proposal.

But yes, the entire Republican party line eventually toes the party line. Same for the Democratic party, as long as the party line strengthens the class interests of the elite.
But that's what the theory has been for years. At some point if it's actually become only for older people like we all keep saying, you'd see that in the growth numbers, and that keeps not happening. Which is what the parent meant about how we've been wrong on this for a long time.
This is very real life. Government procurement is often a mess in the best of times; the crisis has just made it much more so (because they're in a rush) and more visibly so.
If you check the article, there is now an update where a spokesman for the white house denies there was ever any contact or recommendation from the coronavirus task force.
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I really enjoyed using Explain Everything on the iPad when I was making videos for my math classes. You can have prepared slides, with what you've drawn out pre-recorded but still edit in realtime. Show or hide features like webcam video, easily bring in outside resources like images, graphs, videos, etc... and record the live session and play it back later.
There are wild differences between flex and ride sharing.

Amazon already had an internal project that was going to compete with Lyft and Uber. It was called Rides and it was abandoned. Rex Tibbens headed that project and subsequently left Amazon and went to join Lyft as their COO.
We had a sys. admin who did exactly this to access his home computer to play World of Tanks. :)

He still works there in a Government Agency riddled with staff who are perfectly adapt at doing enough to stay hired and doing little enough to describe their job as a paid hobby.
It's not degrading the Tesla brand though. Tesla is the second largest automaker in the world by market cap. Toyota, the only company larger than Tesla, was founded 65 years before Tesla. What Musk (and all Tesla employees) have built so far is nothing short of astounding. To imply he's leading them to ruin with his unfiltered twitter account could not be farther from the truth.
Another API trap, yawns
It would be more accurate to call it authoritarian as opposed to fascist (I just learned about the distinction the other day).

Not sure if it's faux pas to drop a link in a different thread than the original submission, but my thoughts on the "shelter-in-place" orders are captured here:

https://www.ryankemper.io/post/2020-04-29-the_case_for_endin...

A few select pieces:

> There is an ironic parallel to the concept of cytokine storm. Just as our immune systems sometimes get overzealous and destroy the body, so too has our response to COVID-19 ironically ended up damaging the stability of our economic and socioemotional systems and made us less resilient in the face of future crises.

And

> We as American citizens need to fight against this worrying trend of censorship and mass surveillance. Other countries do not even have the concept of freedom of speech/assembly embedded into their founding documents. Thus we are in a unique position where we are fighting not just to save lives, but perhaps more importantly, to save the soul of our country.

--

Focusing on what Elon said:

> "Frankly, I would call it forcible imprisoning of people in their homes against all of, their constitutional rights, in my opinion," he said. "It's breaking people's freedoms in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why they came to America or built this country.

I agree with this, although I would probably soften the language around forcible imprisonment slightly.

Along that same vein:

> "If somebody wants to stay in their house, that's great and they should be able to," he said. "But to say they cannot leave their house and that they will be arrested if they do: that's fascist. That is not democratic; this is not freedom. Give people back their goddamn freedom."

Yup, no argument here.
> but EM may be a different story...

My bet is no; he's just as asshole.
But like you said, we'll have to see.
It seems far more likely the WHCTF gave a blanket recommendation like "get ventilators where you can, ASAP, don't focus on due diligence" and that statement is being used as cover for bad picks.
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No one is pretending that.

Now, does anyone care to address my point, rather than brigading down something because you actually don't have a response?
Worse is people thinking they are immune based on a false positive and then engaging risky behavior.
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I guess the answer is no, then. I've noticed, though, that everyone who thinks other people should "do their part" is still getting paid.
For coronaviruses subsequent infections seem to be less severe. Some scientists speculate this coronavirus might not be intrinsically any more virulent than the 4 common cold coronaviruses, it's just that with this one we weren't able to train our immune system to handle it in childhood.
And of course that note is at the bottom of the article.

This is a perfect example of fake news. Deep down there is a story of incompetence and duress on the part of NY State, but instead it’s presented to the public as yet another made up anti-Trump circle jerk.
If an assembly or class of assemblies pose a significant threat to public safety, then it does not violate the right to peaceable assembly for government to limit or prohibit them (if the targeting is discriminatory on religious or other content grounds, there may be issues with religious freedom or free speech aspects of the first amendment, but that's not an issue here.)

That's why the right to peaceably assemble doesn't mean you can, e.g., freely blockade hospital entrances. Public health quarantines have been recognized as a legitimate state power by the US Supreme Court consistently, in cases running back to 1824 (Gibbons v. Ogden.)
I posted the correct test and got down voted. The other Vitamin D test is not accurate. If you ask for the test from your doctor, he has to specify the one I linked. You can decide for yourself what level you want to target. The other test is not accurate so you can't manage your levels...
I agree with you, my friends and I were discussing this a few days ago on how the valley has become synonymous with being the area where everyone knows what's best for the entire country, probably the entire world.

It's gotten so bad that some of us are refusing to start startups in the valley, and moving to other areas where free speech is more accepted, and any idea is tolerated, unlike the bay area, myself included.
But while the second year, the "word had gotten out", how many students may he have seriously harmed the careers of to make his "point" in the meantime? Would a subtler corrective action been equally effective at outputting successful students without harming others?
The diffing is very fast. It would take a ridiculously large tree to start running up against the limits of v8.
It should be noted, with respect to acquiring immunity, that with SARS-CoV(1), the amount of time after which immunity theoretically could be lost would be => 3 years. If SARS-COV-2 offers a similar level of immunity, that may not be a ton of time, but its not insignificant either, especially if a vaccine could be developed within that time frame.
This is not a great place to start...

> I’m a software / site reliability engineer
> based out of Santa Barbara, California.

Given the stakes, we should have a preference for Coronavirus articles written by experts. It's fine for authors to trash the WHO or to disagree with the government, but they should have the chops if the rest of us are going to upvote them.

I'm disappointed with the HN community. The past few weeks, most of the medical articles to hit the front page have been written by dabblers.
No new news about Tesla assembled Medtronic ventilators so far since April 10
If you wrote the client then they couldn't alter it, but then if you wrote the WWH site then they couldn't alter that either, so there's no difference.

If you're running code from a clone of somebody's git repo you're vulnerable to anything they did to that code, just as if you're running code from a web site you're vulnerable to anything they did in that site.

There are marginal differences, and I'm guessing the one you're really excited about is maybe the web site changes moment-by-moment to introduce and remove betrayal mechanics whereas your git clone doesn't change moment-by-moment. Of course that cuts both ways - bugs can be fixed in the site immediately and your clone doesn't magically get bugfixed.

But mostly I'm arguing these are the same problem: Do you trust some well-wisher who has seemingly no reason to betray you? You probably should, life is too short.
>but to argue that Elon is not a good manager of the companies he runs is completely in conflict with reality

it's really not because there are plenty of reasons why those companies are successful, none of which can be traced to Elon. If people want to fawn over someone they should pay some respect to Tom Mueller who actually builts the engines that make those rockets fly.

Again, if he is such a good manager, which of his moves were that great? In concrete terms, rather than just giving me some argument from correlation.

I would really like to be convinced why i should believe that those companies are successful because of, not despite of him running them. History has more than enough examples of horrible managers in charge of great businesses.
> Most people intuitively know that learning to write more effectively isn't the best use of their time, and so most people don't try.

Funny. I decided that about coding, perhaps 40 years ago.

But I did later learn enough SQL to crunch data. And I've picked up enough bash to automate stuff.
What a magnificent yak shave.
> Do you not realize that Fauci is the one who sent a $3,700,000 grant to the lab in Wuhan to continue testing on this virus when our Dept of Homeland Security deemed it to much of a public health risk to keep testing on this virus in the US like Fauci and his team were doing under the Obama administration. If Fauci wouldn’t have outsourced the testing of this deadly contagious virus to China, maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Do you not realize how confused and misinformed you are on this topic?

The 2014 ban was a ban of "Gain of Function" (GoF) research (i.e. research that deliberately makes a virus to virulent to study the possiblity for future mutations to cause an epidemic) on a number of diffurent corona and influenza viruses. It was not an overall ban on research into these viruses and was not specific to corona virus. [0]

The 3.7M grant was not given to the labs in Wuhan. It was provided to the EcoHealth Alliance, the president of which says that while they had collaborated with the lab in Wuhan on research funded by a past grant, none of the 3.7M grant money went to the labs in Wuhan. Sure, he may be lying, but I'd like to see some evidence to back up that claim. [1]

It is true that there isn't non-circumstantial evidence on if this covid outbreak started with a containment failure at a lab or jumped directly from bats (or possibly through an intermediate animal). However, the evidence against covid-19 being engineered (i.e. the result of GoF research) is more conclusive and getting stronger. [2]

When US officials visited the lab in 2018, they noted the importance of the research given the labs findings (which showed that transmission from bats was easier than previously though) and recommended that the US pay more attention and provide support to the labs in Wuhan to help improve the management and safety of the labs (which they found concerningly lacking). [3]

So, ironically, if the virus did escape from one of the Wuhan labs, it seems like our good way of reducing the risk of this mess would have been to provide funding and support for those labs when we were warned about the risks in 2018.

[0] https://www.nature.com/news/us-suspends-risky-disease-resear...

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/trump-cuts-research...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/03/17/covid-19-co...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
Basically every kind of ML of this kind has pissed me off. It never knows exactly what I want and every time it gets it wrong it leads to a very negative experience. I much prefer dumb and predictable UI vs black box ML UI that doesn't know exactly what I want.
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Four hours a week? Non-consecutive?
The author dismisses the question of why the cyclist shouldn't check the cross traffic by implying it's onerous or unexpected to do so becauseof the angle. IMO this intersections real problem has little to do with visibility acronyms and everything to do with simply two roads intersecting with nothing to adjudicate the intersection. I bet $100 the are even more car-car crashes here than car-bike crashes.
Considering that there are 40,000 unaccounted for deaths[1], it is far more likely that hospitals/municipalities are under counting COVID19 deaths.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Tennis elbow, I'm guessing.
If you've thought about the entire workflow, all edge cases and the spec is 100% complete then you've written code, it's just a matter of whether humans or machines will compile it.
>If you're using an older SSH you can do this with a `ProxyCommand` (requires netcat on the jump box, but that's pretty standard)

Even without ProxyJump, you can do something similar with ProxyCommand without netcat:

Host final
HostName host.example.com
ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%p user@jumpbox.example.com

(Granted, this is still more recent, but I think ProxyJump was introduced later than this.)
No. Not for a long time in fact
> The first amendment has no limitations

The right to assembly has a significant explicit limitation in the text.
Do customers really believe the current exceptionally low oil prices are going to be a permanent feature?
Thermodynamic laws are of limited use in biology and notoriously useless to describe life being's behaviour. Third law in particular is useless here. You can't put both concepts of life and zero absolute in the same room. They are mutually exclusive. Either you have one, or the other, or none of them.

Claiming thermodynamics here is a false argument. Viruses can pass over thermodynamic laws all the time. They live in a bigger system that provides an unlimited source of materials, metabolism, energy and constant temperatures and where events like frost, ebullition or spontaneous combustion are just banned. The host pays the thermodynamic bills for they
Yeah, I was extremely confused at not finding a way to sign up with just email, and was about to leave when I saw this comment.
Note: I'm not affiliated with Insight in any way.

I'd be interested to hear what people think about:

1. Income Share Agreements in general

2. The messaging around this price increase (from $0 to ~$18,000) premised on funding a new feature/experience. Why not just say that they need to charge for the program?
You can see some of the even more colorful stuff Elon said on the investor call covered here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/29/tesla-e...