skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
okay, now it is true, ready for a discussion?

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Exclusive-Autops...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/23/us/california-woman-first-cor...

tl;dr

first covid death (feb 6) is nearly a month earlier than previously official first US covid death (feb 26), and also from community spread. suggesting it was in the bay area at least half a month earlier than that.
Right now we are being propagandized with an intensity never seen before.

I have yet to see a single person in my neighborhood suffer from this virus in any noticeable way.

What I do see is propaganda, marketing and social engineering. A massive campaign.

On Reddit I see a Coronavirus subreddit that has become an almost supernaturally airtight echo-chamber.

I see the moderator of that reddit. Some anonymous fellow who was handed control over the subreddit for no apparent reason. Who is using an account he obviously bought 3 months ago. Shutting down any discussion that begins to stray from the official narrative.

I see the usual propaganda buttons being pushed. Tribalism and fear.

This smells like a dang fish factory.
I don't think we've fully solved the navigation problem, but I think we're close and it will certainly be solved before the power problem. A quick google got me this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOrtZ38olvc

and I suspect there are dozens of other similar projects out there.
> Not to mention I don't know of _any_ real-life executable that does this...

Basically everything at Google is built this way.
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There are three main stages about RSM.

1. log replication (m)
2. log consistency (n)
3. log execution (k)

Then you will have m * n * k ways of achieving your goal based on different requirements on the three stages.
I think OP is specifically looking for something they can self-host.

Besides, Google Groups is borderline abandoned. It's stuck awkwardly between being a Usenet client, a mailing list archive, and a web forum, and I don't think it's seen much interest from Google's side in a long time.
TXT2MOB IS DEAD!

LONG LIVE TXT2MOB!
> everything is a drug except my drugs
It doesn't allow you to replace the signal strength indicator anymore, unfortunately (you have to check the strength yourself). Although it now supports dark mode!
A few things I try to remember about Reddit as someone who has used the site for 10+ years:

1. I keep getting older, and Reddit doesn't just stay the same, they get younger. There are a lot of kids on there from age 10-16, and these kids don't just stick to Teenagers and Memes; they will actively comment and discuss politics, capitalism, society, etc.

2. Upvotes mean agree, downvotes mean disagree. In this way, any opinion with even a slight majority will always triumph. If I took 45 Redditors who were liberals and 35 Redditors who were conservative, and both used the upvote and downvote buttons on opinions, then every liberal comment would have +10 and every conservative comment would have -10, which amplifies the 10 person difference by 20. Every opinion you see is one that the majority of the user base agrees with or likes.

3. In both age and other demographics, redditors lean towards young, liberal males with low/no incomes. This causes a lot of bias against certain schools of thought, the role of government in our lives, and people who are on the opposite end of the spectrum - old, conservative (women?) people with high income. It's just a product of the site demographics.

4. The last point I'll make - since Reddit creates this echo chamber of a certain set of ideas and opinions, people who have differing opinions tend to stop posting those opinions or participating in discussion regarding those opinions. What you're left with are the people who are actively frustrated/righteous/feel like wasting time who are spouting against the grain opinions, making those opinions seem even worse to most Redditors than they already were perceived. (For example, if you were wanting to discuss how great you thought Donald Trump was on Reddit, you were most likely not looking for a productive and informative discussion)
There's a reason... to wreck the economy so Trump won't be re-elected.
You might enjoy the book _Blitzed_.
LG makes a multi-zone mini split system that can use the waste heat from air conditioning to heat water.

https://www.lg.com/global/business/hot-water-integrated
> They can not claim it is for the benefit of the people

Why not? Amazon dodges taxes everywhere it operates, which directly impacts us, the citizens. But it is so convenient that people use it nonetheless.

So the government is trying to help make local shops a bit more convenient to use in response, wihch would benefit the people.
I completely agree that the response may have been overblown, but I don't think it's right to look at Sweden for evidence. Just as we may have overreacted, it may be another overcorrection to say that we were completely wrong. In fact, in some ways their response may have been more drastic when you look at the numbers below. There are some opportunistic pictures of Swedes basking in a park, but I don't think that tells the whole story.

Swedish representatives have repeatedly called it a "myth" that there were not drastic changes in their lifestyle. The truth is, the Swedish population was extremely compliant and conscientious of recommendations, so that mandatory lockdowns were never fully 'mandatory' but the change in behavior was voluntarily taken.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_S...

-50% of Swedish employment is now remote

-Overall, travel from the Stockholm region had decreased by 80-90%

-85% of ferry bookings for a popular ferry had been rescheduled or canceled

-Popular holiday destinations reported a 90% reduction in patronage

-50% drop in public transportation usage in urban areas

-Stockholm streets have 30% less vehicle traffic and 70% less pedestrians

-All travel abroad recommended against until June 15

Laws enacted:

-Gatherings of 50 people or more were banned, with threat of imprisonment

-Expansion of sick leave protection

-Reduced access to bars and restaurants(although table service allowed)

-Banned visits to nursing homes
> With class components, my state/props are clearly defined within the constructor and/or PropTypes.

What do you mean? PropTypes work just as well with functional components as they do with class components.
This is a very good intuitive explanation.

For a quantitative explanation one can make use of the fact that angular velocities or infinitesimal rotations compose like vectors. Earth has an angular velocity that is parallel to its radius to the North pole. When you look at the movent of the surface of the Earth around an arbitrary point, then you can decompose this angular momentum to parallel-to-radius and parallel-to-surface components. The former describes how fast Earth's surface "twists", the latter describes how fast it tilts under your feet. The former is the relevant component for describing the pendulum.

Interestingly this angular-momentum approach has a deeper connection to your car analogy. It can be used to solve the following problem: The Little Prince buys a little car that can turn around on radius r on Earths surface. He brings this car to his home planet, which has radius R. On what radius can this same car turn around on this planet?
You're probably not the target market.

For people for whom this fills an important use-case (there are a few really really killer ones, ask your designer friends), there's literally nothing else like it.

If you're happy with your laptop and mostly just browse the internet or consume media then you're probably just fine with the regular non-Pro iPad and it probably just acts a supplement rather than a critical device.
I'm not sure if you intended that to be positive (ie tracing might be more complete in some cases) or negative (ie concerns about not wanting to reveal certain data). I'm going to go ahead and respond to the negative interpretation in case any future readers interpret it that way.

This is true, but I think a DP-3T like protocol (ex the Apple-Google spec) doesn't actually pose much risk here. The hypothetical drug dealer or other illicit contact can receive a notification that they were potentially exposed to someone that was infected, but in general no one else (a police officer, a spouse, etc) will be able to determine who was in contact with who.

In order to link someone to a particular location, you would need to observe their broadcast identifier while they were there and also link their diagnosis key back to them (this is likely to be quite difficult for most actors to accomplish).

In order to reveal a contact between two people, you would either need to do the above for both of them or to observe at least one of them at that location and time in some other manner.
The munis and banks all have a direct IV funding line from the Federal Reserve, they mostly have absolutely nothing to worry about. The gloves are entirely off for this one, the Fed can snap up trillions of dollars in toxic mortgages if needed, they've got the greenlight across the board for any and all actions.

The Fed keeps lowering the thresholds (and they'll end up doing a lot more than that in the coming months; most of this won't be short-term credit, they'll switch it to long-term out of necessity):

"Fed expands muni-debt program to cover smaller cities, counties"

"The Federal Reserve expanded the scope and duration of the Municipal Liquidity Facility, a $500 billion emergency lending program aimed at providing short-term credit to state and local governments as they endure the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The U.S. central bank lowered the population thresholds under which counties and cities would be eligible to sell short-term debt to the facility. The new levels are at least 500,000 for counties and 250,000 for cities, down from 2 million and 1 million."

https://www.bondbuyer.com/articles/fed-expands-muni-debt-pro...
As I noted:

> (And in fact, Apple and Google aren't following this protocol, they're coming out with their own joint system that they claim is DP3T-inspired.)

Criticisms of DP3T should be separated from criticisms of the Apple/Google system.
But he was given an implicit license grant with no commercial restriction.

Technically speaking Disney can give you rights to murder anyone, it's just won't hold in court because:

- It's not theirs to give
- Law > contracts and licenses

Only argument I see if that book owned by some small company, probably and LLC, that couldn't possibly give you rights to Disney IPs since they are licensing it themselves.
I have two commercial leases. Neither landlord is offering a break. Construction is stopped due to government mandate. There is no bailout from the state due to this intervention. There is a high liklihood of mass layoffs and potential bankruptcy.

I'm past the point of annoyance or despair. I've gotten used to the fact that not only do governments do whatever they want, but people like authoritarian action and don't care about externalities.
io_uring is a fantastic development for the kernel, and I really can't praise it enough.

However, there's still lots of reasons to use SPDK. Performance is still significantly better[0], and you can directly access all the of the NVMe features on the device without going through any abstraction layers.

[0] https://spdk.io/news/2019/05/06/nvme/
Ask HN: Amazon bought Alexa.com just so that it could use the name?
Alexa.com seems to be on a downhill, it used to be the canonical site for finding traffic ranking info, among other metrics, of other websites. Did Amazon simply buy the domain not because of the functionality it provided, but because they needed the name for their Siri-like Alexa device?

Such a shame if true.
It’s lost revenue not lost profits. Amazon can sort orders by profit and thus have profit increase as a larger percentage of work goes undone.
Who said anything about being stuck? If you were there, you were there because you wanted to be.
I see; because the sixth argument (BOTH_P) in that macro call is true.
Pentagon officially declassifies and releases UFO video
To quote Jessie's blog post [0]: "containers were not a top level design, they are something we build from Linux primitives [Linux namespaces and cgroups]".

cgroups can be used without namespaces, and the reverse is also true. Both of them are part of linux container implementations (like lxc and docker), but for an easy example, systemd uses cgroups for every service, and only uses namespaces for ones you very explicitly turn them on for.

Don't quote me on this, but I also think cgroups landed in the kernel many years before namespaces did.

[0]: https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/containers-zones-jails-vms/
It's good to have numbers, but given the wide disparity in testing rates and protocols, it's difficult to come to any significant conclusions based primarily on day-to-day case count.

Death count is at least somewhat less subject to such complications, and even there, it'd be much better to compare 7-day averages to smooth over reporting quirks.
My books from Amazon almost always arrive bent, dirty, etc. I order from the publishers whenever possible.
The way that most industries solve this problem is through accreditation and branding. If Apple made a test that was endorsed by Consumer Reports, you can bet good money that it's effective.

The FDA & CDC shipped their own tests that were bogus. What's worse: They threatened researchers who invented their own tests that worked.[1] Thanks to the government's incompetence, testing was delayed by a month in the US.

1. From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...: Later that day, the investigators and Seattle health officials gathered with representatives of the C.D.C. and the F.D.A. to discuss what happened. The message from the federal government was blunt. “What they said on that phone call very clearly was cease and desist to Helen Chu,” Dr. Lindquist remembered. “Stop testing.”
Also sector divide. Small business owners are getting killed. PPP and EIDL will be a drop in the bucket. Mass conglomerations are coming and in 12 months we'll wonder why Amazon and Walmart and other multinational corps bought everything up.
Or it just spread on the West Coast much earlier... which is why Gavin Newsom is autopsying bodies of people who died in Dec and Jan, after it turned out there was confirmed community spread in the Bay Area in late January resulting in a Santa Clara county death in Early Feb..
Europeans have the right to free speech, to protest, to assemble (covid excepted), etc.

What they don't have is an army of low paid people, who have no choice but to deliver services cheaply to those who can afford it. I suspect many in America like this part of "capitalism".

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reply to effie below as I've talked about something that the HN police don't like and have the fake "you're submitting too fast".

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It's a reasonable point, but as you say they have some protections, and this enables them to refuse low pay and bad working conditions, up to a point.

Also although all human life has great value, we are comparing immigrants (and agreeing they have better protection) to citizens in the USA, who have weaker protection.

Really quite incredible.
inadyn works well and supports a bunch of services (it’s been around since 2003 at least..).

https://github.com/troglobit/inadyn

A lot of domain registrars offer dynamic DNS for free using the original protocol or variants supported by inadyn. I’ve been using domains.google for the past 5 years and been pretty happy with it.
In rural areas, where propane is common, with some density (1-5 acre lots), lots of places converted to natural gas after the fracking boom.

That’s not to say that propane is still not common.
It sounds to me as though you do not trust your leaders to have your best interests at heart.

The idea that everybody will go and pick apart the underlying data to support their favorite little theories may have something to do with the decision to keep the inputs confidential.

You get one chance every so many years to vote in a government that you trust, you're going to have to accept that.
Tai's "integration" method also has references to previous, similar work, and has 293 citations. You can buy the paper for $35.

Academia in a nutshell.
The rates staying flat rather than going up is already a success, not a sign that SIP has failed.
holy hell. thats more cost than our whole house of two adults and two (just) pre-teen kids every month... JUST for the pool.
in fact thats more than our bill every two months (AU$400 every two months), and that's our new place which has some 80's design issues that i need to resolve. our bill should be nearly half that.
Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees
Their conformist culture is upsetting, as is the rampant institutional sexism, but a lot of the issues with their justice system are overblown. 99% conviction rates are more likely a result of cases being dropped below a high confidence threshold, not a result of kangaroo courts.
It won't replace my laptop, but a touchscreen PDF reader with an excellent stylus and build-in cellular modem is a compelling piece of kit already.

Add in a keyboard and touchpad that's good enough that I can fluently type on it, and I can imagine a lot of scenarios where I'd want to bring just it. Unfortunately most of them involve being able to leave my house and go somewhere else :/

I do need more control over the keyboard layout (see my other comment if curious), but will probably get this when that becomes possible.
“Sadly”

https://usa.kaspersky.com/blog/spam-through-google-services/...
Okay boomer. Just stating my Kool Aid opinion.
I don't think your neighborhood and a couple random people on reddit of all places offer a full glimpse of the world at large, especially considering the disease has hotspots with high infection rates while other people are mostly avoiding those places.

Conversely, I've never had influenza in my life, and I don't recall seeing anyone close to me ever actively suffering from a bad case influenza. I still believe it exists and people who got hit hard by it are probably at home.
That might end up being a reason why they would never come back, but that doesn’t explain why they weren’t still around two months ago.
You can't legally store the tweets per twitter's tos. You can store the tweet's id

Supposed to at least

Edit,

I was mistaken. Looks like it's only if you redistribute to third parties,

> The best place to get Twitter Content is directly from Twitter. Consequently, we restrict the redistribution of Twitter Content to third parties. If you provide Twitter Content to third parties, including downloadable datasets or via an API, you may only distribute Tweet IDs, Direct Message IDs, and/or User IDs (except as described below). We also grant special permissions to academic researchers sharing Tweet IDs and User IDs for non-commercial research purposes.
I'm a little skeptically of the Swish implementation after looking at Table 2.

Method | Top 1 | Top 5
No-op | 78% | 94%
Swish | 64.5% | 86%
Mish | 79% | 94.5%

Swish is the only value that decreases performance (and by a huge magnitude) but a very related methodology improves performance hummm...
Just figure out what to test in a weekend probably would be worth some Lamport-level smartness...
>will only alienate

>No one is convinced

Those are some pretty broad generalizations!

I've certainly been convinced on various topics by people who were correct and also rude about it.

Do you think laywers and police are always nice when trying to get to the truth? Have you ever seen the movie Erin Brockovich, or read about the events that inspired it? Would she have had the same results while being polite the entire time?

Rude comments may break forum rules, sure. But I'm not sure sweeping generalizations about efficacy, such as the above, are needed.
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Using loaded words in poor taste is how journalism works these days, and I attribute its prevalence to...the influence of the tech giants.
Ordering from Apple or Samsung directly, as suggested by the article, even is something to avoid, unless you like paying a premium (usually you can find their products about 10-30% cheaper somewhere else).
I don't know how the details will actually shake out but the Canadian government this week announced a commercial rent program that seems to make sense. If I understand it correctly basically you pay 25%, your landlord eats 25%, and the remaining 50% is split somehow between federal and provincial funds.

It will be interesting to see how it actually plays out (and now long it lasts) but it seems pretty practical, given the situation.
I think chocolate is the one most people forget contains caffeine.
Yeah, the lack of pencil protection in first-party Apple cases is baffling to me.

I wonder if they figure everyone just carries a pen roll and Moleskine everywhere they go? I don't get it.
Particularly when we can't (easily) have disposable or non-identifying phone numbers in Australia: https://www.acma.gov.au/acmas-rules-id-checks-prepaid-mobile...
Absent another side agreement, I don't think Disney has more or less rights to content posted on Twitter by other users than any other user.

Thus, if they intend to launch a multi-million dollar commercial project using content posted to Twitter, they need to do some work to clear the rights.

The Twitter TOS allows Twitter to do stuff with user posted content. It doesn't allow Disney have unlimited rights to do stuff with content posted at @DisneyPlus by other Twitter users.

Absent licensing the content directly from Twitter, they could have asked for the rights for the few tweets they end up deciding to use. Thinking outloud -- I guess that wouldn't work if they wanted live stream tweets...

edit: fixed - somehow my third para said the opposite of what I meant
SPDK's RocksDB integration really hasn't gotten a lot of love. There's really two main challenges we hit and then never revisited.

First, the IO threads in RocksDB are a thread pool that assume they perform blocking operations. That doesn't jive with SPDK's async model (nor io_uring's). We're having to message pass to an async thread and block on semaphores in the IO threads.

Second, RocksDB was heavily reliant on the kernel page cache to make it fast.

Both of these things could have changed since we last worked on the integration. I haven't kept up with RocksDB development recently.

source: am SPDK maintainer
The example this article uses doesn't help drive the point. Ioannidis was heard, and the majority of the attacks on him came from outside the scientific community. Within the community science played out how it's supposed to. The paper was looked at critically and flaws in it's data uncovered and thus correctly discredited.

Meanwhile, his hypothesis is still held by many prominent figures outside of the scientific community. So it's very hard to claim this is an example of valid ideas being at all squashed.

Worse, in this case we have hard evidence of some pretty catastrophic results from this virus. So trying to argue that the overall outcome isn't going to be so bad is proven false by counter example. We already have situations that are bad enough to warrant extreme counter measures.
That's not how real life works though. There is lost profits in unfulfilled orders beyond just the original profit, in terms of customer service overhead and warehouse overhead.

Also, paying someone to work overtime to serve the same orders is most definitely lost profit, because it costs more to deliver the service.

Amazon's systems aren't designed for this type of sudden surge. They usually have to ramp up and prepare for it (like around Christmas).
Nope, Disney makes money from other people’s IP all the time.

Perhaps you meant something else.