skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Slack chart is horrifying because unlike most cases of "features are more complicated than they appear", everything in this chart is user-facing. No Slack user is going to be able to follow all of this to know for sure how exactly their notifications get filtered.
It amazes me that the entire strategy of the U.S. government is "Everybody stay inside and wait until this goes away". Two months into this, that still seems to be all there is.

"And what if it doesn't go away by itself?"
"Then we stay inside for another month!"
Ideally, yes, it's too much to ask - ever - since people should just brush off the bullshit and get on with their lives. However, society in general has developed a really thin skin over the past couple of decades, so realistically, no, it's not too much to ask - right now.
In reality it does work quite like that if someone dies and you are judged to have driven dangerously (危険運転致死傷罪).
We turned off the flags. I haven't read the article, but it seems thoughtful enough, and the thread substantive enough, to count as on topic here.
I am not great at markets, startups, business ventures, etc. But I feel like these things are broken:

* Governments and only governments can and should prepare for national emergencies, because saying Hospitals don't have enough PPE for pandemics is like saying your local farm doesn't have enough stockpile of rice to server the public during a famine/war. Private institutions have no incentives to serve the greater good of the country.

* Manufacturing is an industry every nation should invest in. If labor is expensive, the government should subsidize it so that the essential skills to manufacture and the infrastructure to do so remains functional even though market forces tells consumers otherwise. "Made in Switzerland" marketing can only do so much when the T-shirt costs CHF 120 vs. CHF 11.99 on Amazon which is probably made in Bangladesh. I am not saying govt should subsidize T-shirt manf, just trying to make a point.

* Dismantle short-term capitalism that exists in the stock market. Public companies should disclose their financials on a yearly basis or even every other year. Capitalism needs to be refactored to orient itself for long-term gains. Also making it illegal to not act in the interest of share holders is an insane law - CEOs should have the ability to put moral, environmental and other concerns in front of their priority list and not just creating value for the shareholders. This whole system is messed up.

* Executives sold off their country's soul to China, made a bank, cut corners, fucked consumers and went to the bank laughing. They paid off senators and govt officials, created a greater divide in the income distribution around the world. Limit executive pay for public and private firms.

* Reliance on China needs to change, diversify manufacturing supply chain. Just making sanitizer in US doesn't help if 90% of the ingredients are shipped from China.
I am actually kind of interested in the problem of surfacing, high signal content on fediverse.

Currently I built a few simple aggregators:

https://pixelfed.club

https://mastodonia.club

But I am thinking of adding features to filter and surface, high signal/quality content.
> This is just crazy to me, this public servants takes unprecedented risks and take lower pays so they can take stable retirement.

I didn't realize I was signing up for an "unstable retirement" by working in the private sector.

Perhaps you mean "stable jobs", which indeed was historically supposed to be biggest selling-point of govt jobs, and the trade-off for lower pay. Though now when you count benefits, apparently they get the best total compensation too.
Poll: Half of Americans won’t trust contact-tracing apps
This is blog spam. The original article is

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2020/04/17/studio-ghibli-video-c...

Which points to the actual images located on

http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013251/
Macromedia Fireworks, I liked that one!
Rebuilding James Bond's Apple IIc – A Software Forgery [video]
I'm just letting you know this is where I drop out of this debate.

You are not being consistent in your arguments. You are criticizing me for not making an apples to apples comparison and in the same paragraph you are doing exactly that by talking about all the preventive measures that reduce flu deaths while ignoring that the country is currently shutdown to prevent COVID deaths.

You are cherry picking statistics to support your point while ignoring data that conflicts with it. For example the data coming out of New York suggests a higher fatality rate and the numbers you are using from the Diamond Princess are either out of date or flat wrong.

You are both putting words in my mouth and pretending I didn't say things that I did. No one here ever said "this disease is a "death sentence" for an asthmatic 20 year old". I already admitted that the only group that has less to fear from COVID than the flu is the very young, yet you are still bringing up that point when I am talking about overall fatality rates.
I'm sure you're getting weary at this point, but I really need your help understanding what you're saying here, because to me it seems supremely untrue.

First, `1/1-R_0`. This is exactly what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics

And it makes intuitive sense that once you infect <= 1.00 people, growth is no longer exponential. So I don't think that point is wrong at all.

> The idea that vaccination and epidemics need the same percent of immunity is completely 100% wrong. An active epidemic is going to infect way more people before dying out than the simple, naive herd immunity calculation will give you. In fact, while an r0 of 2 indicates that you get herd immunity with just 50% of the population, a typical active epidemic with the same r0 would infect 80+% before dying out.

This doesn't make any sense to me. Vaccination is just an artificial way to build immunity. So I don't understand your active epidemic point at all. Or put another way, as the proportion of % recovered goes up, we start approaching the eventual limit where `1/1-R_0`->1. That is to say, in your example we start with R_0 = 2, then as people recover that value slowly starts decreasing until it hits 1 at the herd immunity threshold. It's not clear to me what the discrepancy you're detecting is here.
Investor fraud isn't just whimsy nonconformism.
I my experience most houses and apartments in Japan, and SF only have 1 bathroom.
The thing about rate limits is, there are often hard limits. Try querying the site a bunch and see what the data transfer rate is. if it's consistently incapable of going above say, 128K/sec, you've got your rate limit.

Other times, they'll allow for bursts but sustained get rate limited - these can be detected just the same depending on their approach; if it's per connection (and not IP) you may have to find a big file to download.

It also helps to establish that traffic to other sites is not rate limited, and to use 3rd party checkers that check for connection rate across the globe. Or DIY and spin up a bunch of EC2 machines that are geographically diverse.
Okay now I'm wondering if I should go get tested for vitamin d deficiency. I live in Colorado and therefore we have a lot of ultraviolet light and I do get outside as much as possible. However I'm wondering if that's still not enough.

Seems reasonable that it's not based on your experience.
You're wrong about the religious extremists.

Canada was home to a large number of devout Catholics and Protestants, and has had many important internal conflicts between the two. Read up on Louis Riel for a good introduction.

What we lacked was homogeneity in the religious extremism; thanks to an early balance between French and English settlers there was never long a period when Catholic or Protestant were dominating.

We also enjoyed being the home to English loyalist refugees during the American war of independence... And the destination of the underground railroad.
There have also been many articles by experts. I'd be careful about making general conclusions based on what you remember, because most of us are far more likely to notice and remember the things we disliked (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

More importantly, though, there may be a misunderstanding about what HN is. It's an internet watercooler, the purpose of which is gratifying curiosity and having curious conversation. Inevitably that involves dabbling, speculating, and getting things wrong. That's part of what people do when they converse. Does that have downsides, especially in a crisis? Of course it does. But I don't think it would be a solution to try to stop the community from hammering this out.

More here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22973700
Spain reveals four-stage plan to de-escalate from Covid-19 lockdown
> I hate praise that feels forced, and it seems like this kind of practice would make it seem quite forced.

This is a really good point.

Yeah, the `praise` comment is a call to find something to sincerely praise. If you can't find anything to praise (which is probably a warning sign that your head isn't in a happy place) don't leave a `praise`.

I updated the description with a little warning about this. What do you think? https://gitlab.com/conventionalcomments/conventionalcomments...
While we're throwing rocks at teachers and firefighters, would you consider the trillions of dollars that the GOP made off with during the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" smash and grab job fraud and theft?

What about the pensions of workers (many unionized) which were obliterated by corporate restructurings during the financial crisis?
I'm curious what about Bing made it specially suited for this?
The worst advice hardly, you’re exaggerating. Your credit will take a hit for 7 years, which is definitely a long time but the worst of it is you will pay more up front in deposits and pay high interest rates from loans. I’ve walked away from more than $18k during the last crisis and here I am today with a great credit score and am looking at buying a house potentially soon (or at least was pre COVID). The worst thing you can do is to continue paying on something you know you’ll lose anyway, causing even more financial problems for yourself.
"There would be no Tesla brand without him."

> Founded as Tesla Motors, Tesla was incorporated on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
"Very few foods in nature contain vitamin D. The flesh of fatty fish (such as salmon, tuna, and mackerel) and fish liver oils are among the best sources [1,11]. Small amounts of vitamin D are found in beef liver, cheese, and egg yolks. Vitamin D in these foods is primarily in the form of vitamin D3 and its metabolite 25(OH)D3 [12]. Some mushrooms provide vitamin D2 in variable amounts [13,14]. Mushrooms with enhanced levels of vitamin D2 from being exposed to ultraviolet light under controlled conditions are also available."

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...
This one was fantastic tho

https://i.imgflip.com/3z3opl.jpg
Freedom of speech is not right for freedom of criticism. He stands on the "It's just a flue" side of the things and people who don't believe that are not happy about the things he says and pushes for. Nobody is putting him in jail or anything like that, therefore his free speech rights are not violated.

A useful guide from XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Strange Geometry of Thought
> This is maybe the strangest section. Why does this just talk about a hero culture related to real scientists? Do we think that people are more likely to think some nerdy scientist is a hero rather than our heroic manly president? This seems like it should be a point in support of lockdown to me (tbh, it seems like it shouldn't be a point at all, it's just an attempt to discredit experts).

Sorry to bombard you with replies, but I realized I never addressed this.

I think you might have a different idea of what "hero" means, basically all I meant is that we tend to elevate these figures (Fauci in this case) up as "heroes" and therefore act like they are infallible and thus you cannot express an opinion that contradicts them. That is what I was arguing against.

It's not about "hero" in the sense of, like, what a young child would imagine a hero is. So in the sense I'm using it, people totally do view the "nerdy scientist" (Fauci) as a hero. And I understand why they do.

> This seems like it should be a point in support of lockdown to me (tbh, it seems like it shouldn't be a point at all, it's just an attempt to discredit experts)

No, it's not discrediting them, it's just saying: evaluate policies and statements on their merits, not based on simply who said them.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks again for all your thoughtful feedback. You clearly put time into it (and a good bit of frustration, understandably :P)
Adding some information for those interested in more precise numbers.

This paper [1] has the recommended exposure time for a few cities in Australia. If you live in the same latitude, as long you live in the same latitude, this can be used as a guideline.

https://staging.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/194_07_040411...
Do you have an example of where it's incorrect? I'm pretty sure it's the right index.html. Note that it's still very similar to the blog post.
The real value of the currency is supposed to (at least theoretically) be hurt by this. Printing money to solve problems either leads to hyperinflation in the extreme, a deflationary trap that Japan has been in or some new thing we are creating. Maybe because the whole world is doing it all at once it’ll be ok?
> How does github not have an AAAA record in 2020?

Yeah, it's hopeless, and it goes as if [0] they explicitly decided not to support it, incredibly frustrating!

> The faster people move to gitlab the better.

A lot projects will always host their master repository on GitHub for better or worse...

[0] Not meant to be an accusation, I don't have any evidence.
I don’t think you and I are talking about the same thing. I’m talking about a societal/governmental decision to sacrifice the quality of life of the entire society for the benefit of some vulnerable group. Not civil wars or ethnic cleansing or other atrocities.
In my own personal experience, some aspects of that list may be indicative of, or lead to mental health issues that may indeed have a substantial negative effect on the ability to seek out such opportunity.

Irregardless of the truth each aspect of that statement, its commonly understood that beautiful people have easier access to opportunity than ugly people; we as humans are biased based on appearance.
We're not waiting for it to go away by itself. We're keeping the rate of spread below the threshold where we overwhelm our hospital capacity. This buys us time to scale testing and develop things like contact tracing, drugs, and vaccines that will be our weapons in the next stage of this fight.
you might find the books I linked in this post helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16929156

There are a few different types of roles in the quant world, and number of different types of funds:

alph/signal research: apply quantitative methods to come up with profitable trading ideas and strategies. This is kind of like "Data Science" coming from tech - finding the insight in the data

quant development: build the infrastructure for the data and strategies. This is kind of like "Data Engineering" coming from tech - a lot of ETL and general development work.

portfolio analytics/execution: figure out how to combine different alpha ideals into a portfolio that can be traded. Involves trading and monitoring the live portfolios.

risk management: Thinks of all the possible "risks" the portfolio can be exposed to and ensure they're properly addressed/hedged/accounted for.

This is a broad generalization which can vary greatly from place to place. Typically the smaller funds will have more blurred lines and lots of roles that involve doing multiple of the listed above. At the larger funds, the roles will typically be more well defined and segmented.

Lot's of quant funds are happy to hire people with no finance/trading background if they're strong enough in other key areas. A lot of the "finance" specific stuff can be picked up on the job. Also ML is quite in demand right now.
The very first car in _that video_ fails to stop.

You don't know how many times they recorded the intro.

I'm not trying to imply Tom Scott is being dishonest. We just don't know from the video.
This is exactly what the Visionect Place&Play does: can display HTML5 content on E-Ink displays (see https://www.visionect.com/products/place-and-play/) and is packaged in a neat casing.

Disclosure: I work for the company
Don’t forget leases! Many of the luxury SUVs are leased and traded every 2-3 years, putting further pressure on prices.
A lot of it depends on scale. At facebook's scale (user base and revenue), it's worth paying 10 engineers to make little tweaks in a narrow area of the product because that little polish, while not worth doing for a smaller company, may bring in an additional 10s or 100s of millions in revenue. Similarly for tooling. Most shops can and should use stuff off the shelf. But when you have thousands or 10s of thousands of engineers, making all of their lives even a little bit easier is worth putting together a team.
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It's a sonic, electronic romance
I eventually gave up without finding the issue, but somewhere deep inside one version of the Sphinx full text search software was a bug that would sometimes switch query got what result set. It only happened sometimes when queries were within a few seconds of each other, but it wouldn't happen with only one front end process even in multithreaded mode and would disappear if requests were _too_ close together. If I'd found a way to reproduce it I'd have submitted it to the Sphinx team, but after a few days of potentially private info leaking I gave up and moved to PostgreSQL's FTS.
Would you say that to the police or firefighters who responded to 9/11?

There are outsized risks involved in both occupations.
Not for vitamin D production.

Vitamin D is produced on UVB spectrum [1 Fig. 1] that decreases with the solar azimuth degree [2].

[1] https://www.direct-ms.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Vit-D-s...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285056396_Vitamin_D...
I don't think limiting executive pay is the answer, that would punish people who did nothing wrong. It's treason to sell out your country under foreign influence and it should be tried as such. China figured out our weakness is decision makers can be bought or coerced and we don't have the backbone to do anything about it.

A good place to start would be enforcing the FARA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_...
I still don't understand the reasoning by Chelsea there - any Liverpool fan watching the previous year knew he wasn't the same after that injury. Carragher says basically exactly that here (though the Andy Carroll buy was interesting as well): https://youtu.be/58hK8XnwJVQ?t=1050
It's called Intercom
That's a good way to look for a person in a crowd too. Think of what, exactly they were wearing and look for that, not their face.
tbf 37.5k miles really isn’t a lot. in my area in the US it’s common for people to push 25k - 30k a year just on their commute
Dream: Can we please get this on YouTube. User comments there are a disaster and they're making the entire platform worse.

Thank you for making this...and to the naysayers, suggestion: Do it better or stop blocking. This is miles better than doing nothing. And downvote, like always, if it makes you feel better...
Oh wow that's interesting, I live in Washington State and I didn't know that we're getting the Idaho stop in October. It'll be an interesting change...
Adding to the list of CDC failures was their utter failure to procure masks. You know, those things that would be absolutely vital for just about any epidemic or pandemic (never mind the respiratory variety that we knew would be the most likely). It’s not like preparing for an epidemic is the raisin d’etre for the CDC or anything. I’m normally not this snarky, but I too thought the CDC was the one functioning agency but it turns out that it’s closer to the opposite. And not only that, but their utter incompetence killed tens of thousands.
Are you serious? You expect a 22 year old firefighter to know how well funded the pension system is?

Give me a break.
Society? You think the desire for children is something cooked up by evil capitalists? How exactly did humans not go extinct before 1800?
The HN community doesn't think anything. It's a collection of millions of people. Some of those people think highly of HN, while others think poorly of it and are not shy about saying so, including on this site. I'd caution against making generalizations based on what you happen to notice here, because it's mostly the things we dislike (for example, people thinking too highly of themselves) which stick in our memory and our craw.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Maybe most equities are so hopelessly valuated and there is just so much funny money in the stock market that it hasn't made sense for a long time and this just demonstrates how useless it is except for those who know how to game it?

I'm not saying I believe this entirely, but there needs to be some better explanation for Lyft is up > 2% today after that news?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/new-wa...
How Eggs Are Made
It would be nice if this didn't function like a virtual panopticon. Being able to manually set your status, just in case you haven't typed a character on your computer in the last 5 minutes, would be a nice feature to bring back from the dark ages.
Climate change is bad but the federal debt is good. It allows the private sector to be net savers and creates overall stability. It’s also clearly sustainable, hundreds of years and counting.
I live in Canada and our response between January - mid March was in line with the U.S. where the government said things like "the risk to Canadians was low" and "asymptomatic people are not main drivers of epidemics." That laissez-faire attitude perpetuated the belief that we didn't need to screen people at airports, or force people coming in from hot zones to self-isolate for 14 days.

Meanwhile, a country like Vietnam which doesn't have the same technological or financial resources as North America managed to quell the spread through mass quarantines and aggressive contact tracing done as early as February. They literally fenced off a village that had one known infection.

Taiwan acted quickly and decisively throughout the key time periods of the crisis. Things like stockpiling and producing more PPE in January, making quarantine taxi's ferry potential infected to their homes instead of allowing them to take public transit, using technology to aid with contact tracing, mandatory use of masks in public spaces, thermal screenings at airports and stations...

Looking back, I think we both woefully under-estimated the potential for asymptomatic/pre-symptomatic individuals to spread the virus. As a society we looked at the low numbers and scoffed at the idea of doing proactive preventative measures... until it all hit the fan and we had to hard stop.
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