skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"someone's poorly trained ML system is making false assumptions about you and then labeling you with those assumptions"

That IS the internet these days...

While some ads could be targeted at anybody, I've recently seen ads that presume I'm

- Jewish
- Muslim
- a woman
- a millionaire
- Black
- have HIV
- am schizophrenic
- am diabetic
- am bipolar
- am a musician

...none of which are things I have reported about myself or verifiable facts.

I am a lot more annoyed by people who say "stereotypes exist because they model people pretty well" than by the AI systems going haywire.
Is there anywhere I can read more about your project? Seems tangentially related to what I am using it for, actually!
1) Liquor stores are kept open because a (surprisingly high) percentage of the population are severe alcoholics and sudden withdrawal can kill them.

2) No public health professional has time to list and quantify all of the routine processes of every profession to create a complex matrix of risk. And 99% of the public would ignore that matrix if it was created and published. The simpler and more effective public health communication is "stay home."

3) Your hypothetical pair of gardeners might not see their clients that day, but they still get up, get breakfast, get supplies at the store, fuel up their truck and equipment at the gas station, drop off a check at the bank after work, etc., and they can interact with other people at each of those stops.

4) Articles about young people that die from the virus are not trying to hide "simple math that the risk is low." They are trying to convince young people that the risk is non-zero, to prevent them from spreading the virus while pre- or asymptomatic.

5) "Children dying from a virus" and "children going hungry because they can't get two free meals a day" are BOTH public policy issues. Dooming an extra hundred? thousand? ten thousand? people to severe illness and death to avoid having to deliver emergency rations and meals to a million people is a false dilemma. In my medium-sized US city, schools and other community agencies have been distributing meals and rations for seven weeks now and we have zero cases of death by starvation.
nginx and lua is great. I just used it for a project POC and it's very cool to have that kind of flexibility for a load balancer.
Everything as a Service in a Post-Covid-19 World
We have been in Vietnam since March 8th. Prior to that we were in Thailand. The response of these two neighbouring countries is night and day.

Authoritarian governments can shine during the crisis. In the meantime, Thailand is in a messy political situation and has lost control of the situation.

When we arrived, on March 8th, there were stations at the airport doing temperature checks. Immediately quarantining anyone with a fever. They also collected extra info on all arrivals for contact tracing.

Majority (~ 80%) of locals were taking it seriously and were wearing masks voluntarily. And they were really adamant about us wearing masks. Our condo had free masks and sanitizer in the lobby.

They were also doing home visits of people who have arrived starting from March 8th. But we didn’t get a visit. I’m guessing they were working backwards and just never made it to these earlier arrivals.

Overall I’m very impressed with the way Vietnam handled the situation.

But at the same time, I can’t believe these numbers. I have no concrete evidence, but just feels too low.

There was A LOT of contact. Many businesses continued operating. I know of a software office that continued asking people to come into the office and the last week, when permission was given to work from home. Construction was in full force. Most didn’t wear any masks. Many other businesses remained operating and didn’t shutdown.
Check out https://www.cs.rice.edu/~alc/comp520/schedule.html . That set of papers (most of which are not too hard to understand; and most of the interesting discussion is not so theoretical, but rather logical) is an excellent guide to thinking about distributed systems.
I originally created a Twitter account back in 2007 for this same reason. To this day it's still my only account. Having great insight and vision, I could foresee no usefulness or future for "social media", except as a way to send free SMS messages, and only Twitter had that.
> Give people money to replace what they're not making.

Count yourself among those who do not understand the difference between money and wealth. What they're "not making" isn't money; what they're not making are goods or services. That's the point you're attempting to respond to, and you've missed the point.
SpaceX Starship prototype successfully passes pressure test after three failures
Sure, but the implementation was still absurdly bad. For example, by imposing a harsh lockdown on cities with no plan for migrant workers, the only thing they could do was head home to their villages, ensuring the virus would be distributed widely across the country.
> What would it take to get this social aspect of cafes back?

I'm not sure it can ever come back. That was a different era. Perhaps "the cafe" is not the right setting anymore?
It's only immoral to question the validity of a good cause on the pretense that there's something worse happening out there somewhere...
(And toilet paper, laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, etc.)
I hear what you are saying, but I am glad I am not the one making the decisions about this.

It is clear that sheltering does reduce the speed of infection growth, but it is also very clear that sheltering puts enormous stress on individuals, families and companies. I have empathy for those who have to work at home while simultaneously home schooling their children, or families that are in economically over-stressed situations where they don't have an option to work at home, or for communities that don't have adequate running water and other resources.
You could wrap the events in some sort of loose permissible schema / encoding and then dump them into ElasticSearch
How to remove the first character of a string in Golang
Haha. I recall watching a video of one of your D talks when you talk about your car. Was it a mustang, charger, or challenger? I guess I can see where a love of jet engines would come from.
What’s not sound science about separating people to slow down the spread? It’s the only real option for anything like a quarantine with such a long incubation time (and as recently discovered asymptomatic infections) and the absolute lack of tests we had at the beginning of this outbreak...

It’s simple math that reducing the number of people in contact with each other would reduce the number of people that got infected.
Being an island means nothing with air travel. But being remote certainly helped some countries a lot.
http://www.textfiles.com/food/recipe.002

This french soup recipe is a gem. I didn't know that I could use "3/4 cup of COCA COLA" to make onion soup.
Is medicaid a good option? I think you should qualify in California. Also, I don't know your situation, but has your health needs changed recently? I know Kaiser is trying to limit unnecessary office visits.
Not sure if this helps or is relevant, but I like to think of a component as a physics function.

For example, at t = 0, the output is one thing. When t = 1, the output is another. The same way of thinking can be applied to hooks. Some hooks only execute at t = 0, and at that time, variables x, y, and z also have specific values.

Hopefully you can think this way and your values won't intertwine so much that it becomes hard to trace.
Unemployment benefits are taxable income.
Right though I'm not sure it proves much without broader testing to gauge spread in the community at large.
Mschf: The ‘structured chaos‘ company that sells out viral products in minutes
I'm not sure, but depending on how micro your dose was, it might have had a similar wakeful effect. Anecdotally and based on experiences of people I've spoken to, psilocybin tends to keep people awake. Some even say they couldn't possibly fall asleep for anywhere from 6 to 12 hours after taking a dose intended for psychedelic effects. Perhaps in micro doses it has the same effect but more mildly.
> When you neuter an economy, as we have done in the US, you destroy real wealth. There is no way to counteract that by injecting money.

Yes, part of the economic damage caused by a lockdown is production lost in businesses that cannot be operated safely at the time. That production cannot be restored with money.

But a big part of the damage is caused by knock-on effects of businesses and individuals reducing consumption as a result of the primary economic shock, and that part absolutely can be mitigated.

> How large of a spike in suicides, opioid overdoses, and psychosis are we going to see?

Maybe less of one than one would intuitively think. Ultimately, mortality went down during the great depression:
https://jech.bmj.com/content/66/5/410.abstract?sid=5c77edc9-...

> And the biggest joke of all is that eradication is impossible and therefore we didn’t prevent any mortality, we just postponed it

That very much remains to be seen. I see it as a virtual certainty that in a year, we'll have a much better understanding of the efficacy of various currently existing treatment options. I see it as quite likely that we'll have additional treatment options. And I see it as entirely possible that we'll have a vaccine within the next few years.

And even if not a single death from covid-19 itself in the primary at-risk group is preventable, overwhelming the health care system causes preventable deaths from other causes, as well as preventable deaths and burnouts among exhausted health care professionals.

> In any case I encourage you to check out [See URL above]

You will note that your own source estimates a large benefit of maintaining a lockdown until June 1, and considers maintaining the lockdown until July 1 essentially a wash. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of your views.
Was this your own personal setup or part of some product? Because you would have had problem if end user really had a real Twitter account with the same number. right?
Archive.org snapshot for visitors from the future curious as to context:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200428040212/https://www.tsa.go...

Year-over-year numbers running ~10% of previous.
The expected lifetime value of a 60 year old is around 5 million. So one million sixty years dying is a cost to the economy is about 5 * 10^12, or five trillion dollars.

The US GDP is around 22 trillion a year.

Therefore each million >=60 year olds saved is worth completely shutting down the US economy for around three months.
Australian Government CovidSafe Admin Panel Source Code
Got this from the JS source maps when the admin panel was still publicly visible.

edit: link seems to be dead, here's a direct pastebin
https://pastebin.com/pStF5pjw
> And that's what Tolstoy was going for, perhaps. No ham-fisted morals. Just carefully crafted vignettes of grim life.

Which is great and a meaning in itself. Much of what’s grim in life happens without deeper meaning. Terrible things happen to those that don’t deserve it and terrible people don’t get what they deserve. The only thing is to accept that that’s how it often is. Which is not a bad thing to expose children to IMO
How do you handle time with such small code size? I see a timer interrupt for the music, but what about the animation? Is it dependent on the speed of the underlying CPU?
Sometimes the scientific process isn’t an option and intuition is required. Look at the results and tell me you would have preferred they waited in the name of science. SF could have been much closer to the situation in NYC...
I don’t believe it makes sense to expose each individual person to “raw market forces” such that without a job they would die. At least not in a society as wealthy as ours.

Much to your surprise you will find that I believe this can be done through libertarian means. This is an area of study and great interest for me.

But if you follow my theory to it’s conclusion you would find that nobody would be willing to work a shitty job for a low wage. And so, to make things work, the market would balance to higher wages. However it wouldn’t hurt anyone for Amazon to raise wages now. It seems inhuman to me what amazon workers are expected to go through. (I feel this way about other and more exploitative labor situations too.)

So the market would require higher wages if we weren’t all individualized. It’s my greatest hope to help bring us all closer together in a libertarian way such that no one wants for food or shelter.
Foucault's Pendulum
> The thing I haven’t figured out is... why would people find this hard to understand for chat, but not for email? Everyone uses email, and everyone knows they can send an email to whatever email address they want no matter who their provider is.

I see you haven't worked in corporate IT very much. You're missing the comparison too, Riot isn't the service, it's the client, and there are a crapload of people in the corporate world who "aren't computer people" and for whom Outlook is email. Or AOL. Or Gmail. Whichever email client they encountered first, that is email to them.

They know they can email people at different companies, they just don't know or care that many of those people are not using the same client.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21858093

(I know there were more, but can’t find them atm.)
Navy unclassified three videos with unexplained UFOs
Can’t Accomplish Your Goals? Learn to Love Yourself First
Well to produce a Blue Whale trucks loads of krill need to die. How do you think the krill feel about that law?

Replace krill with humans and sooner or later Jeff the Blue Whale needs full time protection in a special sanctuary. In Nature if the Whale gets too efficient the eco system collapses and then reboots. Stability trumps Bigness.

Book reco - Serangeti Rules - Sean Carroll.
My prediction is if more cities around North America did post-mortem Covid tests of people who passed away in February, there's a good chance we'd find some deceased actually had Covid-19 similar to what California revealed earlier last week. Because of those findings, some researchers are now thinking community spread in places like the Bay Area may have started as early as January.

I say this because reading this article, they mention that Vietnam quarantined an entire district in Hanoi back in February when the entire country only had 10 cases at that point in time. They also banned travel from and to mainland China in early February. Those measures done early may have saved them from tens of thousands of infections. Vietnam has essentially relied on aggressive contact tracing coupled with strict lockdowns/quarantining.

Here in Canada, we brushed off suggestions of forced quarantines of incoming travelers or banning flights to/from Mainland China. We solely relied on travelers telling authorities if they experienced symptoms, which bit us in the tail when March came along and hundreds of new cases were popped up by the day.

We didn't reverse our stance on restrictive measures till the virus had gotten out of a control. Even now as the growth rate has flattened, we're still dealing with the fallout in long term care facilities as hundreds of elderly people have passed away due to caregivers/visitors unknowingly infecting them. That coupled with the growth of the virus in the homeless community has made it very challenging to sustainably contain the virus.

I think what frustrates me is that we knew we had weaknesses in our system, yet we decided to go with the non-proactive solution anyway. Even recently we didn't bother with random testing asymptomatic caregivers until after hundreds of people died. It's a lot harder to undo the damage than it is to be overly pre-cautious and prevent the worst case scenario from happening in the first place.
The people talking about it generally complain about it. Those comfortable with it generally aren't talking about it. I don't know what else to call that than bad PR. Just the nature of the beast.
Does this include commercial leases or just residential?
That’s the rational calculus, yes. But humans have a really hard time balancing suffering today against hypothetical suffering tomorrow, especially when successful intervention makes it appear like the problem was never there in the first place.
This is a follow up post to a previous post on mine on how we might look for a natural attenuated (mild) strain of SARS-CoV-2 by genome sequencing [0]. While the COG-UK has not been looking directly for such a strain, their data does show that strains with the right type of mutations do exists.

While it might be possible to use a natural attenuated strain as a vaccine directly, the real value of having such a strain may be in using it as a safer test strain in a human challenge trial of a conventional vaccine. This could shave many months off us getting an effective vaccine for COVID-19 [1].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/05/a-solution-to-covid-19/

1. https://www.tillett.info/2020/04/24/it-is-unethical-to-not-s...
I think they both share the same codebase, but not sure if there’s a relationship between the two app publishers.
> This implicitly makes all methods in an Object that depend on or modify an Object's internal state impure functions

Note that you can have methods which do not depend on mutable state. In ES6 you can FREEZE objects, which you could do in the constructor. Freeze the object after having set its "instance variables". Now all methods of that object are "pure functions". So you can choose. Choose to create pure functions or impure.

Creating a new immutable instance really is equivalent to creating a set of immutable ('pure' if you like) functions.
> Especially for developing, backward economies (early-19th-century US, late-19th-century Germany, and contemporary China), ignoring foreign patents is very useful for speeding up technology transfer from more advanced economies

There is no doubt that copycats would benefit enormously from an absence of patent protection, but innovators would doubtless invest less capital in innovation if they could protect it.

Germany, U.S., and Chinese copycats were about to free-ride on the license fees paid by English manufacturers to patent holders. If the English never established a patent law, then there would be nothing for them copy and the overall welfare of society would be reduced.
I think they were attributing that argument to the people you described "rebelling", not to you yourself.
Does anyone have further CD (or FLAC) vendors they'd recommend for uncensored music? I often have a hard time finding CDs outside of Amazon or FLACs beyond Bandcamp. For example, Con by Tegan & Sara, The Jungle Is The Only Way Out by Mereba (which even Amazon doesn't have in CD), and Blueprint by Ferry Corsten. I didn't see them on Very, Zavvi, or Hive mentioned in the article.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DI5SXM6
https://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Only-Way-Out-Explicit/dp/B07NZ...
https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-FERRY-CORSTEN/dp/B071S3RLL3
I agree. Unfortunately, it is really looked down on by judges when you cite to an annotated statute because the annotation it isn't generally considered law. Obviously, this case may change that in Georgia (maybe elsewhere). I'd certainly try to cite to annotated statutes if the US supreme court said the authors were legislators.
Just wanted to thank you for this submission. More uptake on a resubmit.
Hint: there is always something worse somewhere.
Wow, it’s been more than 10 years since twitter was born. Can’t believe they’ve been running txt based version for this long. Does it mean the mobile web has finally penetrated enough countries where browsing is as cheap and accessible as text?
More importantly, do they want the masses to get back to work, now that funds got their chance to buy the dip, or no?
Its complicated, as at first you ran as how as you could to maximize the amount of hot water you had, then there was a period where it was seen as more energy efficient and prevented burns running at lower temperatures. "Modern" practice in this case started somewhere around 1970 where you have a termostatic valve (also called a Tempered Water System) to regulate the temperature of the resulting hot water to non-scalding levels.
I was not commenting on whether one should use it or not, just that it is still used and picked as recently as Java 8. We are in agreement for the rest of your post. :+1:
This was my late teens and early 20s on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A long, wet, cold, relentless "winter" can only be beaten by warm drinks and good friends. Actually, they don't even have to be great friends, haha. Just need to get out of the house and remind yourself there's more than rain and grey.
I'm sorry you misunderstood. ~20% was my upper bound, ~0 the lower bound, and my opinion that we should find a middle ground.
This is a Distributed Systems homework project at several universities. In mine, a Jepsen-style test harness was part of the autograder.

This happens every once in a while on HN: some mentions having done one of these assignments, and immediately gets tackled for it.

Maybe professors aren’t doing a good job conveying the limitations. But also this community is gratuitously hostile to people who have no reason to doubt that the code they wrote from the Raft paper, which passed the test suite, was Raft.
I saw the URL and immediately thought _nope_.
I'm confused. You wound up better for discovering they existed and not buying them, or for discovering they existed and buying them?
> Urbus Orbis, says Handley, "fits every criterion of a classic third place--it's large and a little dirty, it's supercasual and convenient.

Interesting. The “Med” had all those features as well. I think they’re all important, but the criterion for it to be “a little dirty” is especially interesting:

Everyone knew this about the Med, and it was in part because so many people practically lived there, including many homeless traveling through Berkeley who might hear from friends that you could charge your phone and wash up there (plus it was on Telegraph which seemed to always be coated in a thin layer of black dust). But I think it was especially important because it acted as a kind of filter: if you were too much on the snobby side you wouldn’t be willing to linger in the slightly grimy atmosphere. (And sure enough, I had the experience many times asking people I met in SF or Berkeley if they ever went to the Med and getting a look of distaste / puzzlement.)
From Texas: "To be eligible for benefits based on your job separation, you must be either unemployed or working reduced hours through no fault of your own. Examples include layoff, reduction in hours or wages not related to misconduct, being fired for reasons other than misconduct, or quitting with good cause related to work."

Also quitting due to significant change in work agreement is a valid reason for unemployment benefits.

Every state is probably different.