skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In other words, when you recover from covid-19, you are immune to it.

Probably not.

It seems [1] that in humans and animals, there's no long-term immunity arising from infection.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-other-coronaviruses-...
I do not claim to have all the answers, but in the equation of Liberty vs Safety, I will come down on the side of liberty every time, for a life with out liberty is not a life worth living at all.

Personally I would like to see some check put on governor and mayor emergency powers, limit them to 30-45 days then require a committee, judicial or legislature approval to continue to the orders. There also needs to be some kind of Due process or appeals process for individuals and business impacted by the orders, and IMO if the government is going to mandate a business close that should be considered a 5th amendment taking and the governments assumes liability for all lost revenue for the business.

I am not an big proponent of allowing a single office to have unlimited unchecked power even in a pandemic

The way that Emergency powers are written today is terrifying or rather should be terrifying to anyone that believes in individual liberty
> where they bump pay 20-30% in their last year to get that pension benefit for the rest of their lives

I've heard this claim many times before. Is there data supporting this or did a handful of people do it and word spreads like it is far more common that actual.
Epic launches health research network
I saw that a hundred times at a small school district in Southern California. As retirement nears (age 55-59), take a promotion from the classroom to the district office, and a $50-75K pay raise. Three years later, that is the salary used to calculate your pension payments... For life.

I live in a neighborhood with two firefighters who were captains, retired at 50, and make over $100K a year. It's totally unsustainable.
Wow, I figured there was more to it than the article was saying. This is insane!
You do know he almost went bankrupt awhile back - starting companies is incredibly expensive and his wealth is in the ownership of the companies - not just an investment portfolio.
So how should we evaluate the quality of a paper on trading AI? I mean the authors might not have access to real data, but their ideas might still be good.
WebRTC has built in mechanisms to check how many bytes have been buffered (RTCDataChannel.bufferedAmount), and you can register a low water mark (RTCDataChannel.bufferedamountlow) that fires an event handle when the buffered amount goes below that threshold (RTCDataChannel.onbufferedamountlow) where you can resume sending.

WebRTC is sort of a combination of low-level and high-level APIs, but the ability to control backpressure ends up being very useful.
Thanks, I do follow the news. If you read the threads above again you will see that both posters are fully aware of elevated volume, and the distinction was between HFT melting away during short periods of vol and wider "liquidity" from HFT.

So what seemed like a quick drive by wasn't actually correct.
Would it work on any wifi-enabled e-reader to just take the browser in full screen and point it at a custom web page (auto-refresh) and be done with this?

Would it work?
I think a lot of other replies are missing the nuance.

It depends on a lot of things. Time of year, time of day, skin colour, where you live, if you're under an Ozone hole, UV index, personal sensitivity/medications, etc.

This is a good summary[0] for the situation in Australia, possibly the worst in the world when it comes to the sun being deadly. Their strongest statement about avoiding sun:

"During summer in Australia, all states experience long periods during the day when the UV Index is 3 or above (see Table 1). During these periods, a combination of sun protection measures (broad brimmed hat, covering clothing, sunscreen, sunglasses and shade) is recommended when outdoors for more than a few minutes. In summer, most Australian adults will maintain adequate vitamin D levels from sun exposure during typical day to day outdoor activities."

So a few minutes in the sun without protection is enough to raise your cancer risk during the worse times on the worst days and you shouldn't be seeking any sun intentionally for vitamin D during these times. Growing up it was easy to get sunburned in 10-15 minutes on some days, and the advice was that if you burn you definitely raised your cancer risk.

[0]: https://wiki.cancer.org.au/policy/Position_statement_-_Risks...
I don't think it's quite that black and white.

The deal that was struck was between the government workers and the voters at that time. That deal, more or less, said that future tax payers would pay for their pension. As a group, those then future and now present tax payers don't have much of a moral obligation to follow a deal that they never agreed to. And the workers don't get to act indignant that their pensions are in question. Their unions negotiated the agreement and chose to let the buck be passed instead of insisting on pensions being fully funded.

The bargain was, at least in part, corrupt. The various public unions would campaign for and help elect those that would give them more money. An obvious conflict of interest that raises questions on why a shady deal should be upheld.

The pensioners are, in general, gaming the system. They artificially inflate earnings at the end of their career to pump up their pension. Nepotism is rampant and there are plenty of positions with absurd salaries for what they do. They've sold out new entrants in their field to protect their own pensions. In general they're a bag of dicks. Fuck them.
Reddit adds chat rooms for subreddits
Maybe the Porsche Taycan. The Porsche 911 was the most profitable car in 2019 with a 47% margin:

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/porsche-911-most-prof...

Porsche is Volkswagen's most profitable brand.
Sure tens of thousands buy gas guzzlers because they can afford it / don't care. But there are also tens of thousands more that don't because they can't afford it.
Unfortunately I think that in the US at least the decision to lock down or reopen has become very highly politicized and we are starting to see virtue signalling enter the equation. People now have a vested personal interest in seeing Sweden's approach fail or succeed, in order to reinforce their own political opinions and/or sense of morality.

I find it very frustrating to see the way it's being spun. Firstly, social distancing is not a binary thing that you either do or don't do. Sweden has certainly implemented some social distancing measures and will continue to make adjustments to their strategy as new data comes out. And second, what works for Sweden may or may not be applicable in other countries. The virus spreads differently in different places, and different cultures may have differing attitudes about what constitutes an acceptable risk. I suspect that if Stockholm saw the same sort of explosive growth that was seen in New York, they would have reacted with stronger social distancing policies.

It's certainly good to look at what other countries are doing in their response to covid-19 and ask if there are things that are worth adopting. But I think it's much more important for countries (and states and cities) to be paying attention to their own data... and that is what should be primarily driving their response.
‘Called “Start Chatting,” it randomly matches small groups of up to seven users in a given subreddit who want to chat and creates a group thread where they can exchange messages, share posts or swap GIFs.‘

“Start Chatting is a new feature that matches you with other redditors who have similar interests as you and want to chat too. To get started, visit a community you’d like to chat about and select the Start Chatting button.“ [0]

[0]https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/using-reddit/chat/s...
The NYC subway system has me concerned. Not only is it filthy, but there is zero air circulation. This means that anything airborne will stay put, possibly in high concentration for a long time. Given the amount of people going thru these spaces, there is a high chance your going to be exposed to something. My concern is that I haven't heard anything on making the stations and cars cleaner or safer.
The link is a rambling mess. What exact are we supposed to learn from it?

Germany was against monetary union in Europe, they saw it as giving away their ability to be fiscally conservative. This is of course what happened with the ECB finally printing their way out of the Euro debt crisis.

The fact that Germany retained their manufacturing capacity and still takes pride in it is the reason they are an export economy. The economics of the Euro are just working for them rather than against them.

Other countries threw away their manufacturing capacity for a service sector, most notably Britain which centralised their economy in London.
I doubt this. Initially when Uber arrived there was no regulation around here - the prices were ~30% lower and people driving Uber were actual part time drivers with clunky old cars - this was the ideal Uber time for me because in my smaller hometown I could get a ride almost instantly in any part of the city and I didn't care about ride quality if I didn't get dirty or smelt bad after I left the car. After taxi protests the government stepped in to basically enforce rules where part time driving became really hard - you have to have a car newer than 5 years, need to have some sort of work contract - not necessarily with Uber but a lot of forms of started small companies that then partner with Uber - but you no longer had limited taxi licenses - anyone can get a car and setup Uber. This resulted in prices eventually rising by 30-50% depending on the city, more importantly it resulted in lower availability in smaller places because it blocked small part time drivers. At this point local taxi companies are still complaining but there are now taxi services cheaper than uber depending on mileage. So in a way this Uber market transformation already happened.

Like even at current prices an average taxi ride is 2-3x cheaper than it would be 10 years ago when it was basically a government granted cartel. And you were at the mercy of the driver randomly quoting you whatever he though you would pay in a lot of situations. Uber brought a lot of consistency and availability to the market.
One only has to wonder; why not to deploy and benchmark there's "novel" methods against learning models developed over 20 years at least in 2d environment, but instead choice to develop new environment and call it novel.
Although of course the people supplying your "real" Magic Wormhole might have surreptitiously altered that software to capture the file too...

I think these are similarly likely and have similar (but not identical) mitigations if you're worried you would really be a target for such shenanigans.
With the current disaster that many states have for an unemployment system, dwindling funds and ramping job loss I think that is going to shift. People are actively running out of money, they are waiting in food lines for hours by the hundreds.
The federal government has indicated it has no inclination to resolve this. People need money to eat. I think that sentiment is going to change soon. We should have implemented a massive stay at home order across the nation in early March and funded it with a UBI for 2 - 3 months and the situation would have been resolved. Now its too late and people are truly suffering. The only thing that is going to resolve that suffering is income.
Yeah - I am reminded of MoanMyIP.com.
Is that always true?

Melon Usk (say) wants to make cars, but he can’t pay for the factory himself, so he forms a company, sells shares in it, and uses the proceeds to build a factory. Now he and his shareholders can make cars, so the shares are worth more.

Who lost money?
I feel like a there is a large percentage of the population that doesn't realize just how dire things are getting as a direct result of these lockdowns.

It really is frightening and there are some strong responses, both rational and irrational on many sides.
Thanks for the reply. I did the following for you:

1. Opened about:webrtc, clicked "start debugging".

2. Opened a WebWormhole on one tab.

3. Copy / pasted the code into WebWormhole on another tab. Got something like "invalid key".

4. Try again steps two and three. Got endless "connecting" message this time.

5. Stop debugging. No log file /tmp/WebRTC.log was created, so I clicked "save page". Used sed to replace my public IP address with x.x.x.x and uploaded here for you:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmTM1ZSRk1xqfMd2FF23YzWxHpqjJ2B6kGFQqPd...

I hope this gives you enough information to fix the problem. I'd like to be able to use these tools too. I suppose it could be addon related, but another user confirmed the problem for Firefox / Linux. It would be useful to be able to detect various problems and report them to the user instead of hanging on "connecting".
I think those "special laws" harm me as an investor. Corporate speak does not make my job as an investor any easier.
On the contrary, that is the refreshing part of 4chan, the unpretentiousness, a guy can talk about Nietzsche using memes and somehow make a good argument. Reddit is pretentious without any reason for it to be, at least here in HN there are competent people. And I was comparing the lists of recommended books of r/books vs its equivalent in 4 chan, as far as an apple vs apple comparison goes.
I have fiber with carrier grade NAT for some reason...
Damaging high doses can be as little as a few minutes in the Australian summer so I think it's fair to keep that in mind.

On your evolution comment, most Australians don't have dark skin, but the ones who were here before Europeans do. I think that is a good indicator that the body is adjusting to something harmful. On the other hand, many dark skinned people in Britain aren't in a climate they evolved for either. We all have to be mindful that people move around the world faster than evolution now and may need to adjust our habits.
Even when all words removed and only the punctuation is kept, it is still visible, by the amount of question marks.
That `tmux` bit is clever. Wonder if you could do that in a `ForceCommand` or something like that so you don’t need to type that part either?
mosh + tmux for sessions of uptime length

ssh-copy-id to never enter passwords again

~/.ssh/config add servers to never write hostnames etc again

and repo on gitlab with bash script that installs all of this and sets up own config of zsh and tmux for me on any new ubuntu server machine.

what else to dream about? curious
I can describe one inefficiency from sports gambling. There is a famous NBA Gambler named Haralabos Voulgaris. He realized that the points total prediction for a game, let's say 100 points scored for Team A, was merely sliced in half to represent the half-time score. However, the pace of the first half is markedly different from the pace of the second half, thus points are scored at an uneven clip. He exploited that inefficiency for a while to great success.

Like sports gambling, a lot of the financial products we trade are obviously built by humans using rules, and arbitraging the intrinsic rules and regulations around said products. Think about Forex trading where you convert currency into currency. One of the key strategies is to find and identify brief negative cycles, for example, in the hope that converting US Dollars to Euros to Yen back to US Dollars leaves you with more dollars than you started out with.
Thanks for the breakdown of "profit" definitions, but I still think that all of these observations are largely missing the point...

> I would expect that normal profits would probably be above the raw costs of disks and electricity, since it takes some effort to purchase and administer all that hardware

No, it doesn't. Most of the people selling the idea of distributed file storage (Filecoin, Storj, Sia) are thinking about getting the excess capacity of everyone's disks and turning into a marketplace. Getting the hardware and administering are sunk costs. Participants are only supposed to download a client, indicate the payout method and ensure that they don't turn off their computers. It's a one-off effort. Even understanding (or pretending to understand) all of the crypto-babble in order to get paid is something that people are supposed to do only once.

This is the part where these different projects are working out their market dynamics and where I get lost about Filecoin:

- With Storj (and Sia, I believe) the price of the data is determined by the governors of the network. Storj last rollout was paying $5/TB-month for every client. There is no bidding war. As long as you could prove you held the data for that period, you would get the money. This makes sense for me - no matter if I am some dude in a basement with a disk on my laptop or if I am a datacenter and I get to charge more than $5/TB-month from my usual customers, my excess capacity can be sold for $5/TB-month and this becomes a simple matter of waiting for the demand to grow.

- With Filecoin the idea is to have a completely open market, where each node says how much they are willing to charge for the data, and what are the constraints (availability, time to retrieval, etc). This leads to possible (inevitable?) bidding wars. No matter the demand curve, there is always someone who will be willing to put the lowest price possible that gets them "something". For excess capacity, this "something" can be effectively zero or whatever is the lowest price possible in the bid. And if it can be zero, the only thing I see helping them would be if the nodes starting cooperating with each other and acting like a cartel.

To be honest, even Storj and Sia are hard sells for me. I wouldn't bet on these projects for a long run and I don't believe that they will actually threaten the current players, but at least I understand the incentive structure. With Filecoin, it can only be profitable when the demand for data storage grows faster than the storage capacity from the network, but no so profitable as to attract people from the demand-side to the supply-side. It's crazy.
Circling back: https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/nfhugo/-/commit/1a8ead81ff65d7...
To a first-order approximation, and from far enough away, a collision with the Earth is a collision with the Solar System.

Our motion within the Solar System is relatively small if the asteroid is a very long way away; it's easy to find scenarios where a fast moving asteroid will appear stationary over a 6 month period.
that's a noble attempt, but your argument boils down to "we don't know what we don't know" and "anything can happen", and that's true as far as that goes, but it's unhelpful in answering why viruses can't spontaneously reform from fragments. basic biochemistry and thermodynamics provide foundational knowledge in answering that question, not epistemology.

if you could run your argument through that foundational knowledge and form a coherent theory for how virii might spontaneously reform, we'd all be open to it.
That's like vaccinating the virus itself.

Interesting idea - what's to stop the harmless one from mutating back though?

Presumably it'd be engineered to be both a) harmless to humans and b) spread better than existing SARS/COV strains.

If that super spreader then mutated to become harmful to humans we could end up in a worse spot, no?
Thank you for that. Funny my comment still got downvoted. I’m pretty sure I made some enemies with my COVID opinions and someone has a bot downvoting all my posts at this point.
Miscalculation at every level left U.S. unequipped to fight coronavirus
People don't like to allow discussions about things they disagree with anymore. Everything has become so polarized, it's as if simply allowing the conversation to happen risks bringing in new evidence that might prove a person wrong.

I'm not saying I personally think everyone should head back out on the streets, but I think it's important we a least begin to discuss the pros and cons of doing so.

In all of this, I've still never heard a single logical or rational discussion about what the hell are we going to do in the medium-long term. Even if we "flatten the curve" now and go back to "normal" in 3 months, what will happen when cases skyrocket again? same thing all over again?
I made a minimal web API for some experimental stuff I was trying:

https://github.com/jimpick/magic-wormhole-service

Not really hardened for production usage.
I stumbled upon patchbay the other day and I thought it was really cool, now I just need to find a good excuse to toy with it.

Just a heads up: the homepage still references the old index.html which you say in your blog article might have the wrong paths. Indeed looking at the docs all paths require a mode
Maybe the next step is testing and generating docs, right?
Out of curiosity, do you know if it being flagged means it's now invisible to others? Or is "flagged" the intermediate state between a normal submission and a dead one?
The difference being that Steve Jobs wasn't up at 2 am in the morning ranting about taking his company private at 420.

The reason why there's a pretty compelling reason to point out that Steve Jobs was a good leader was because he actually did good things, and the company struggled in his abscence.

What has Elon himself actually done that looks like good management? Put an adult in charge of the company and see if they can't do better.
Boiling it all down, when prompted, these models just regurgitate a similar sentence to what is observed in the training data for loosely that same input, using some glorified curve fitting. This does not necessarily imply the model understands the meaning of what it is spitting out. So the uninitiated will be really impressed with this kind of toy.

The researchers here appear to have placed particular emphasis on cleaning up what the model is spitting out, but I think it's lipstick on a pig. The area begging for more research is parsing out the meaning of anything but the most simple sentence.
Already 0.2% of NYC has died of COVID19. That's completely consistent with the very initial, very dire infection fatality rates of 0.6%-1.0%. (Which is different than the case fatality rate.)

When you combine this 10x increase of the IFR along with the 5x-8x increase in suspected attack rate of flu, one would have to quite ignorant of reality, and perhaps an unknowing tool of others, to somehow look at the NYC study and think that it supports the silly "flu" conflation.

(And for that matter, flu kills a ton of people every year, are we going to add another flu to the world without fighting back at all? What sort of wimpy, defeatist person looks at the world that way?)