skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but if all you can think of when there's an incredibly contagious virus for which there are few treatments and no cure is "BUT WHAT ABOUT MEEEEEEE?????" then I know all I need to know.
To be clear, he tried to destroy an innocent man/hero's life because said guy dared criticize his attempt to take the glory for himself. He then doubled and tripled down on it and hired a fraudulent private investigator to prove it (he did not). There are those of us that care very much and find actions like that horrific, but we're in the silent minority apparently. It struck me as the actions of a sociopath.

Why do you feel like that is appropriate behavior?
that was perfect. thanks for that.
Any others you know of?
US’s isolation started very late in Q1. It requires a very large decline to average out to ‘just’ 1%.
I would love to know why you think it's a conspiracy theory that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit. It's not like healthcare has never gamed the system. Not saying you are wrong, but it's a possibility that they indeed gamed the system. If he has made predictions that we will have 0 cases by end of April, that's just clearly brain-dead of him and it's fine if we are lamenting him for those stupid predictions.
Ford for their current ICE lineup does rely heavily on volume and does appear to be in a hard spot.

Ford doesn't sell EVs yet. They have the Mach-E starting at $44k for 230mi launching in 2021. That does seem to have higher margins than a $40k Model 3.
Sounds like maybe ~C could do it? Too lazy to try it out.
You mean the state of New York did absolutely zero due diligence? I understand they were grasping in grappling with trying to get all the ventilators they could, but did no one think to Google the company?
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the driver who gets mad at you for running a light might be a fellow or former cyclist.

There is nowhere you gotta be that is so important that you should be committing moving violations to get there. The rules of the road apply to you ever bit as much as a car, and you have absolutely no moral authority at all if you won't even follow the goddamned traffic laws.

You are not only risking your own life, you're making the rest of us look bad, and creating hostile drivers that other people have to deal with.
Maybe not to the degree that Microsoft does (did?), but look into 'calibrations', which is similar.
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.

This uncertainty is an avenue for bias. I don't think you understand the dangers of giving a handful of people the power to censor and curate the material that reaches a majority of the eyes in the US. You'll change your mind when they bend against your own leanings though, I guarantee that. It's the spirit of the first amendment, because this is an enormous power that affects all of us, without our consent.

The CDC and the WHO were in conflict at one point regarding mask usage. 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. So what now? Will you be expecting YouTube to remove any videos from the WHO suggesting people adopt the policy of Sweden?

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? And you think YouTube is in a position to choose? It's bad for society.
Ask HN: Hosting my startup on Individual Droplets
Hi,

I am starting a company where users can self-host my application or use a cloud-hosted SaaS version. For the cloud-hosted version, I am considering hosting each application on an individual DigitalOcean Droplet and completely isolating the database/app/redis, etc.

Has anyone ever done or seen this before?
I abhor the idea that learning to communicate effectively is "a waste of time." Rather than try to avoid learning an incredibly useful skill, people who CAN'T communicate effectively could use code review as a learning/skill building opportunity.

If I switch "communicate," with "program," do you still think it's a good argument that people shouldn't obtain any more programming skill than the most rudimentary level, because it would be a waste of time?

Conversely, I think clear communication will probably help you write better, clearer, more concise code.

It's a win-win.
I'm not moving any goalposts, goalposts remain in tact. And I'm using the same source: both numbers come from the CDC. So for your reading pleasure:

"It's killed 20-60K people per year, each and every year you've been alive in the US. So far, COVID is at about a year's worth of a bad flu deaths in the US -- let alone a lifetimes -- and are approaching 25%+ of the population of some high profile cities infected. Once it gets to 70% or so, it's most likely going to burn itself out due to herd immunity."
My Car Is Allergic to Vanilla Ice Cream
btw the creator of Vine launched a new TikTok competitor called Byte recently.. it's basically the same thing but clips are limited to 8 seconds and less press...
We produce enough food to feed 10B people. So why does hunger still exist?
Things I wish I knew about Svelte: error handling is fragile and/or non-existent.
Ark's 24k/share translates to 4.4 Trillion. Would be worth more than most of the currently most valuable companies on earth now combined.
Classic strategy, over promise and under deliver
It is absolutely fraud. The whole idea of public service is that you make sacrifices on the front-end, the public takes care of you through benefits and retirement. There were kindergarten teachers making $120K a year for 6.5 hours per day and ~180 days year. True, they had a masters and 15+ years of experience.

EDIT: The often worked much more hours.
> A state official, speaking on background because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the terms of the deal, said New York entered into the contract with Oren-Pines at the direct recommendation of the White House coronavirus task force.

I've run into vendors who don't have websites or any appreciable presence, where you wind up going "holy crap, I had no idea you existed and you serve like half the industry". (I've also been one of these.)

It's plausible they assumed the White House had one of these sorts of vendors.
Opening vs. Closing Is a False Dichotomy
Short term insurance is now a viable option for many. If you dont get rated up its significantly more affordable than an aca plan for most people. Ironic isnt it.
Would he be working at a FAANG trying to get more clicks for advertiser dollars?
All parts of plane are optimized to work with jet engine.

For plane designed from ground up as electric fact that jets land lighter than take off is not relevant.

It is only relevant if you want to retrofit electric engine on jet engine optimized chassis - which is not only possible way.

Bit more info on how thought process goes:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-i-designed-...
One of my most used commands is Ctrl+d for closing the input stream and causing a remote or local shell session to exit

https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/110240/8692
Any scale where you get good utilisation of the metal. You can rent a dedicated 8 core server for $100/mo or so, 1Gbps unlimited usage. If you use it at full throttle it is literally under 1/10'th the price, often under 100'th of the amount you will pay for a cloud host and the thousand little cost addon's.

But the trick is you have to actually use it and need it in real time. An AWS instance costs you nothing if you don't use it, and almost nothing if you let them kill it at their whim.

Zoom's strategy looks pretty optimal to me. Take the 100 fold price reduction on your predicable load, farm the rest out to the lowest bidder.
For me, it just means that when you are just saying "them" (or "they", or "their") the group of people your are referring to doesn't exist, and you are on your own.

"they are going to fix my problem": no one is working on your problem

"I told them": the message went nowhere

"It is their job": if it is someone's job, that someone is you
Is it somewhat ironic that at :15 seconds into the video a car hurls through a stop sign?
Except the President doesn't run New York state, the governor does.
It's not a death sentence by any stretch, you're substantially overreacting.

CDC data puts the US flu fatality rate at 0.1% (up to 20-60,000 deaths for 45,000,000 annual infections ~= 0.1%) and serology studies are putting COVID at around 0.3% -- not adjusting for comorbidities. So it's worse than the flu overall, but massively skewed older so for young and especially young and healthy people it's not materially different than the flu. For kids, its better than the flu -- which kills both the young and the old.

And yeah, the flu kills seemingly young and healthy people, too, we just don't really talk about it.

For old folks, it's much worse. We need to keep them safe, but that doesn't mean we need to freak out about children catching it when they're gonna be just fine. [1] Remember 99.2% of the folks who died in Italy averaged 80.5 years old with an average of 3 comorbidities. Zero health professionals under the age of 49 died in Italy despite constant and repeated exposure. [2]

Not everyone is equally affected by COVID and for the overwhelming majority (99.7% of all people), it's by no means a death sentence.

I strongly suggest you read [2] for perspective. I know all the breathless screaming on television has colored your perspective on all this, and yeah, it's not great. However, allow data to be your guide. We're gonna be just fine.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/consensus-is-emerging-that-chil...

[2] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-...
My current company has toyed with running cybersecurity breach propagation simulations, but I'm not sure if we've productized it.

I personally think there should be a "human genome" sized project to create an accurate physics engine and a chemistry engine (almost an operating system) on top of that to unlock material science and the pharma subset of that.

I hope at some point there are more companies following the path of DeepMind (Go, Starcraft) and OpenAI (Dota 2), but also developing the platform for others to iterate upon (like OpenAI's Gym). Perhaps even converting it into a revenue-sharing model where game enthusiasts can donate some of their idle GPU time to helping run the simulation would defer some of the setup costs.
If I take the headline on HN literally, then I can imagine that there are more fatal crashes and fewer fatalities, because more people are driving alone when they crash.
I'm not equating Covid-19 to the flu, but ground glass opacities are common among people with influenza. They're also not uncommon in older folks with no history of smoking etc. Right now the evidence of long term or permanent damage to lungs is very muddled and often anecdotal.
> 2016 US elections showed western education doesn't help much in defending against misinformation campaign.

How exactly did they show this?
There is a simple recipe:

1 part arrogance.

1 part optimism.

1 part naïveté.

Do not over mix. Bake half way.
God I love science
20%. The other 5% is from selling credits to other automakers.
What do you want? President doing the background check of the company from which NY is buying few thousand ventilators from?
It's such a breath of fresh air coming on HN where most people are numerate and capable of understanding data.

I actually agree that most parts of the US should carefully open up - the lockdowns have a significant portion of the population in dire straights. Our society can't survive a long-term lockdown intact, I'm convinced.

But that doesn't mean the virus isn't extremely dangerous. It's far worse than the flu. It's irresponsible for folks on social media to insinuate that it's "not even has bad as the flu" based on a few memes they've read.

We have to take great care, or more areas will end up like the Tri-state area. As the GP pointed out, the viral load is extremely important in determining mortality among the younger ages. If there is tons of the virus everywhere, the < 60 mortality rate will increase, possibly dramatically.

Glad to be on HN where most people understand things like CFR vs IFR (as opposed to a vague "death rate" most of social media talks about) along with issues of bias, etc that can affect any of these studies.
This is a fascinating look at a perfect storm of a junction. For both vehicles to be unaware of each other just seems unfathomable, especially that this occurs in a place where you’re effectively on an open plain with good visibility in all directions.

I’ve stayed down the road from here (East Boldre) on a number of occasions so I’m familiar with the junction having both driven and cycled through it. I’ve even cycled through there with my kids in a bike trailer, which makes me feel a little sick.

A number of comments are suggesting larger engineering endeavour to fix the issue so it’s probably worth pointing out a few things about the environment, as it’s a fairly unusual place. This is a national park that’s been fairly untouched for a long time. There are a lot of large animals wondering around but rather than being fenced in, they mostly roam freely. They often just have reflective collars to help stop collisions at night where they frequently congregate on the road.

Furthermore, in the Uk in general, intervention seems to be strongly discouraged. Certainly compared to NZ, where I grew up, over here there seems to be more of an expectation that people should do the right thing without being nannied. I was told that when it comes to road intervention, it’s only post incident that changes will be made to prevent future situations from occurring.

Another anecdote. Where I worked in south London there was a junction on a hill where traffic coming down the hill wasn’t allowed to turn across the traffic coming up. There was a sign, but it wasn’t especially obvious. On a weekly basis there was a surveillance van with a camera that sat the fining people (later, through the post) if they broke the no turning rule. We complained to the council a number of times about it because we often saw near misses. It wasn’t until the day a motorbike went through a car windshield that a change was implemented. And, even then, it was only a chance to the signage.
I don't need to prove that Facebook isn't addictive. You need to prove that it is.
The 0 cases tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/12407546572631449...

And to expand on the reporting of COVID for profit, I think it is possible for hospitals to be over reporting COVID cases, but I think it borders on conspiracy theory to suggest that it is a significant contributor to the numbers we are seeing now. Deaths don't lie and the increase in deaths we are seeing lines up with the positive test results. So in the context of arguing that we are overreacting to COVID, I think it is a poor argument.
We actually don't know that. Korea has avoided it, for now. People were saying the same thing about Japan and Singapore. But both had outbreaks that flared up. They'll have to keep doing what is working until a vaccine occurs or the disease dies.

But even if its possible to prevent an massive outbreak that doesn't mean its possible to undo a massive outbreak. Korea has prevented large scale community spread by testing and tracing. That has been a successful and preventing an outbreak. But nobody has ever successfully used it to remove a virus from a population after it was already widely in the population.
Manager's Playbook: Heuristics for effective management
ok will give it a try :)
It's worth reading the article. The subtitle adds a bit of necessary context:

> The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators.

The article has a direct quote:

> “The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force because they were doing business with him as well,” said the New York state official.

I don't think the state government expected that the White House would recommend a scammer.
Replying just in case you get an answer, those are cool.
or just sshuttle
There are a lot of useful interventions that we're figuring out that will help even before we get a vaccine. Lots of antivirals are being studied and those that work will probably be best given in the first few days after symptoms show up, which requires more testing. Figuring out when to give steroids or IL-6 inhibitors after the first week when the virus starts to fade but the danger of cytokine storms gets worse. Figuring out when to flip people onto their stomachs (proning) and how low blood oxygen levels can get before intubation is actually necessary.

If we can keep this thing suppressed for another month summer might provide us with a bit of breathing room to figure out what works and stockpile supplies. But even if not I'd rather get this thing with the medical state of the art a month from now.
The article states the White House recommended the vendor to New York.
Why We're All Baking Bread During the Pandemic
That death rate would be significantly higher if hospitals didn't have the capacity to treat patients. Mortality rates for non COVID19 related cases would also go way up.
CBRN Products
I think it's from IDA. For example see screenshots here: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/6_0/.

There are similar reverse engineering tools that are open source such as:

- Ghidra: https://ghidra-sre.org/

- radare2: https://rada.re/n/radare2.html
"The guy was recommended to us by the White House coronavirus task force"

If the Task Force recommended someone, yes you expect that they aren't recommending scammers.
I wonder if it’d be better with him more removed from the CEO role. I really like how innovative their designs are. But being abusive is a damnation.
Elon Musk does not have $38.5 billion in unencumbered cash. Almost all of his cash is from loans taken against his Tesla stock.

If Tesla stock loses value, Elon Musk faces the risk of a margin call. In fact, this almost happened last year and the year before. It's one of the reasons that he wastes so much time going after shorts; it's not for fun--it's a matter of personal financial survival.
I am going to weaken my argument a bit and say that once something gets to be a large enough part of status quo, you have to learn it, at least enough to get by. Back then it was C, now it is JavaScript, Python and Kubernetes.
I was struggling a while ago, too. A couple of Google searches later and I found the issue. I updated twice in the last few weeks -- they were published within 5 minutes.
There are some interesting stories on this. A lot of deaths are occurring that are outside of the 'normal' and not accounted for by deaths attributed to covid alone:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/corona...
No but they're one of the biggest I know in this space and I know a few people that have worked there.
> Altria Group, Inc. (previously known as Philip Morris Companies, Inc.)

The distinction you're making is meaningless because it's all the same group of assholes. They decided to play cute tricks with their branding because the general public came to recognize them as assholes. It's no different than the mercenary company 'Blackwater' rebranding itself to 'Academi' after it became notorious.
What's the point of even writing a comment like this? Comprised of completely obvious platitudes. We all know that we don't have to buy Tesla stock or can sell it if we decide we don't like the CEO.

The point that people are making is that Elon is being highly irresponsible outside his management of the companies he is running (where he is doing a stunningly good job). He is also a public figure with a massive twitter following and the comments he is making on Covid-19 are misinformed and blind to existential & systemic risk and therefore dangerous. Even he has realised that with some, as shown by his deletion of a few of the stupider tweets. But as yet he hasn't apologised for or recognised the harm he has done. Fine for him to have an opinion, even a stupid one, but as a public figure there is responsibility on him to be much more circumspect in publicly sharing it.

Where is Elon acknowledging that if he hadn't been part of the crowd who were downplaying the risk through January, February, March and even now, the US may have acted sooner and thus limited the need to shutdown or, like Taiwan who started acting on December 31st last year, not have had to shut down at all?
Yeah that's the number I used.
With New York's view on the white house and their capabilities - not doing due diligence is on them.
It already went away when I tried to print out the address of the variable, so that I could watch it in the debugger (because, in order to take the address of it, it had to become a stack variable).
Iran issues license for biggest Bitcoin mining farm: Report
https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6
Really, the state government that thinks these people are criminals and frauds? Remember NYC has known trump and his ilk for a long time.
I've more than "heard about" RTGs, and I'm well aware of the kind of reactors that have been shot into space. We can argue the level of "intend", but in the Cold War, the reentry of a nuclear reactor was considered an acceptable cost of doing business.
Or building a algo to price futures and options
You got me thinking, so I looked for some numbers.

Hydrogen has a specific energy of 120 MJ/kg, while Kerosine has 46 MJ/kg. According to the abstract of the paper being discussed here, the new material has a deliverable capacity of 14% by weight, corresponding to about 17 MJ/kg - only a bit better than 1/3 that of kerosine, but considerably better than lithium ion batteries, which apparently achieve less than 1 MJ/kg, while the best-performing lithium-sulfur batteries are at about 1.8 MJ/kg.

In addition, we must deal with this material only losing 14% of its weight as its hydrogen is used up, while kerosine loses all of its weight - a combustion-powered airplane becomes more efficient as its fuel is consumed.

Furthermore, to get that 14% deliverable capacity, you have to start with it at 100 bar, so the tank containing it will have a substantial weight.

So we have progress here, but not yet a substitute for liquid hydrocarbons.
What business was the WH doing with this scammer? Stealing from NY?
Strong sense of deja vu. I've seen something about this before, and I think it predates the Bez article this is based on.

https://singletrackworld.com/2018/01/collision-course-why-th...

I don't recall the colors on the pavement.

Constant Bearing, Reducing Distance, mentioned farther down, is a naval concept, and if memory serves this is part of the protocol for lookouts (people standing in different places have different CBRD blind-spots).

I've seen this with my partner a few times, where some object is not exactly behind the A pillar but just close enough to it and maintaining a constant bearing, meanwhile she can't understand why I didn't see them coming (once in a while the shoe is on the other foot, and I yield for someone that she didn't see until the last moment).
To be sure, yeah, but if you've tried a bunch of things with no success, and then one thing works despite your having no real optimism for it, that's pretty suggestive of a non-placebo effect.
I can't agree with this enough. People are failing to account for viral load. I think that's part of what may be happening in areas like N. Italy and NY where the health system gets overloaded and the death tolls are high. People are getting such high initial inocula that they get really, really sick.