skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Along the lines of what others have said elsewhere in this thread:

No one reasonable is criticizing Musk for being a visionary CEO, someone who is interested in taking risks that overcome historically difficult challenges.

They're criticizing him going completely off the handle; calling someone a pedophile on Twitter when they disagree with him, talking completely out of his ass about "taking the company private", or trying to play armchair epidemiologist when he _clearly_ has a vested interest in a potentially risky avenue of behavior.

I'm very happy to see the things that SpaceX has achieved [0] and I'm also happy that Tesla has done such a good job popularizing EVs [1], but I'm blown the fuck away whenever I see people responding to _entirely justified_ criticisms of Elon's character by pointing out what he's accomplished and how lofty the rest of his goals are.

Do we just not have standards for people in Musk's position? Do folks really think it's reasonable for someone to comport themselves the way he _routinely_ does?

[0] Although let's be honest, the company treats its employees pretty damn badly.

[1] Accurately representing the self-driving capabilities of their vehicles, on the other hand, leaves quite a bit to be desired.
Never heard of 'Spectacular Failures', very excited to listen, thanks!
Not necessarily. The flu mutates substantially and often, and new subtypes keep popping up making a consistently effective vaccine elusive (flu shots are 10-60% effective each year based on our ability to guess which strains will dominate). There's no meaningful evidence indicating the same is true for COVID yet, so once we've all had it -- or a vaccine -- it could be over just like that, never to be heard from again. Unlike the flu. In the full course of time the flu may well prove to be much more dangerous.

Time will tell. Not saying one way or the other just that the worst case you've illustrated is far from a foregone conclusion.
> To this day, what surprises me most is that my computer was able to successfully boot and behave normally for an hour or two, even though random bits were apparently being flipped.

Yup. I once had a machine that would freeze up when I ran package updates. I thought (of course), that the package manager had a bug. Turned out, running the upgrade was the only thing memory-intensive enough to use the faulty memory that I'd installed. After all, on a light system you can totally boot and run in <1GB of RAM...
He is the Trump of technology world. And just like Trump, he has his share of rabid fanboys who will defend him no matter what.

Cult worship at it's finest.

I sincerely hope Fremont extends lockdown just around the Fremont Blvd for 6 more months.
> You have to be careful of people standing around because when the master switch ... is on, the motor ... can silently spring to life at an inadvertent bump of the throttle.

The commercial version of this should probably "idle" the propellers at 30 RPM or something... fast enough to notice, without burning much power.
This reminds me very much of manufacturing quality testing, where you do initial DoE and validation builds to develop knowledge of the process. Eventually the knowledge of procc behavior at boundary conditions is known well enough that you can start to use alternative process monitoring approaches, like building a representative mockup of in-vitro conditions that represents the actual use conditions.

It doesnt have to be the same vector, just the same eigenvector.
Please do not take this as an attack on you or your character, but rather as a disagreement with your actions based on my experiences- What you are doing is wrong. While you may believe you hell your children by raising them in a way that suites your ideal of how they best should be formed, they will not be in this bubble forever. Expecting your children to be able to healthily transition to adult life is folly at best and negligent at worst. Homeschooling in many countries needs an increased level of regulation to ensure children are afforded a similar life and childhood as their peers.
That's not an entirely fair way to slice, since only 6% of deaths in any age group are folks without comorbidities. I'll dig up the reference, pretty sure it was NYC data. We'll have to wait for the dust to settle but I'm pretty sure we're looking at an upper bound worst-case of basically everything we've measured re COVID.
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Oddly, this has made me want to try Mass Effect.
Yes, it supports import from Keepass. I did 1Password -> Bitwarden and then settled back on KeePassXC.

The import and export are not always frustration free but it does work. Do keep the old copies around for a while just in case something is amiss.
I think that it is a valid opinion to think that we should lift the lockdown - there is a huge cost to the shutdown, and flattening the curve was originally just to keep the hospitals below capacity, which they seem to be. However in the context of his other tweets, it seems irresponsible. He is retweeting conspiracy theories that hospitals are reporting cases of COVID for profit, and even made predictions they by the end of April we would have 0 cases (which has obviously not happened). He retweeted a YouTube video that was later removed for violating TOS, presumably because it was spreading false info about COVID (I disagree with that particular policy but it still indicates the video isn't something he should be retweeting).

He is not conclusively wrong to say that we should lift the lockdown. However the other things he is saying show that he is conclusively wrong about other aspects of the virus, and is spreading misinformation about it. Given how poor his predictions about it have been, his opinion is useless and dangerous given how many people listen and believe what he says.
Not sure. All I know is I saw the article on the main page, navigated away and when I came back it was gone.
I searched for the title and then found it but it was flagged.

I was thinking of sharing on Facebook but I'd probably get banned, even if i still feel we should probably keep the lockdown for a little bit longer, because apparently the moral authorities have decided it is off limits to suggest we should end the lockdown or even discuss whether we should.
"the fact", "I believe".

Ok.
Thanks for posting Rebecca. I wrote this article. Anyone got questions or feedback? Also, does anyone know if people are doing systems-level modeling on this at the moment?
I’ll keep vigilant of someone potentially pulling out, and usually prepare to brake (eg foot off accelerator, prepared to hit the brakes). This is also roughly what we learnt in a defensive driving class I took (as part of high school).

(Note also that all-way stops are rare outside of NA; it’s far more common to have roundabouts or clear priority, but you always keep an eye out.)
WebRTC is problematic if you're using a VPN service, with the VPN client running on the local machine. Quoting BrowserLeaks:[0]

> IP address detection using JavaScript. Starting work on WebRTC API, the web browser communicates with the STUN server and shares information about local and public IP addresses even if you are behind NAT and use a VPN or Proxy. This tool will show if your real public IP is leaking out.

However, if you run the VPN client on the router, there's no problem, because the local machine has no public IP address, just LAN and VPN interface addresses.

0) https://browserleaks.com/
This comment is going to get very down voted (mine not yours).
The thing though, they don't care about hypocrisy. The democrats are made up of a wide coalition and are generally advocating for an increase in equality, wider access to voting, more equitable income distribution. Essentially they are all on some scale of democratic socialistic polices geared towards helping as many people as possible. Republicans are united in moving more wealth and power to the very top and owning the libs.
It's great for city workers to make a great wage - just pay for it. Stop pulling shenanigans with pension systems. We just had 11 years of unprecedented growth and pension systems only got worse - expanding benefits and maintaining impossible growth targets.

City and state governments don't pay the bills - that's the problems. Any cuts they make will hurt them in elections, so they just kick the can down the road to the next government.
Add Turing to the list, having him around during the naissance of molecular genetics and the flowering of computation would have made those fields all the more lively.
Gotta say, as a biker, I love roundabouts for that reason- and people who don't ignore the obstacle go flying [1]. As a driver, I love the idea of drifting around one sometime when I have the skill and there's legitimately nobody nearby. Also forces people to focus, which is nice.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=car+hitting+roundabout&t=vivaldi
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It’s one thing to protect the minority from the majority; it’s another to allow the minority to constantly overrule the majority. At some point the US will come apart because of our current political dynamics.
I like the "Rescue us from Access" angle. That has good promise. He's never written a line of JavaScript in his life, so I doubt he'll want to do App Scripts, but that's another good one. Thanks.
The 30+ day group has now 1600+ members.

I'm on my 8th week, and some people are on 60+ days.

What's amazing is the wide variety of symptoms.

The original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-recov...
I am an avid book reader and developer. I write book reviews and also try to write good documentation as a means to improve my writing.

The only problem is finding someone or a group to receive good feedback.
Sorry I'm not following the question.
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Thank you! Yes, we are putting these to work on the COVID issue with the Safegraph data consortium
On the other hand, you can't discount the fact that 20-60K Americans die of the flu each year after we developed a vaccine due to its propensity to mutate. The vaccine is only 10-60% effective depending on the year, while early signs are pointing to COVID not mutating in the same way so a single vaccine (or single infection) may be enough to protect you -- potentially for a very long time.

Taking into account the lack of all immunity to and lack of vaccine for COVID to date, and just how much more virulent COVID is (therefore front loading the disease burden) in the full course of time the flu is almost certainly going to take a much, much larger toll.

It's killed 600,000 people per year, each and every year you've been alive worldwide. So far, COVID is at 1/3 of a year's worth of flu deaths -- let alone a lifetimes -- and are approaching 25%+ of the population of some high profile cities infected. Once it gets to 70% or so, it's most likely going to burn itself out due to herd immunity.
I have a former coworker that went to System1 Bio[1] and he described the approach there as something like "using machine learning to reduce the search space of likely pharma treatments". It sounds tangentially related to what you are asking about.

[1] https://system1.bio/approach/
Last I checked (long ago) there is the option for a TURN fallback as well.
It's not a chip like a CPU. It's chemistry and biology.
This is only a personal anecdote, I had two occasions to use it at work:

- I wanted to setup ssh access to some machines in a complicated network in a shared office, over which I had no control. After trying various NAT traversal hacks, I realized the potential of WebRTC to do all that for me, and setup ssh over webrtc. I made it from a bunch of hacks, but some people seem to have built that properly now, ex: https://github.com/mxseba/rtc-ssh

- I built some tech demos that needed to run on multiple OS and use the webcam. Initially I relied on opencv, but I needed to dockerize things and outside of Linux the webcam device passthrough is a pain. Instead I made a simple webpage fetching the video feed and talking to a python backend (using this great library: https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc), and it worked nicely. It also has been surprisingly easy to setup.
It's generational wealth transfer from the young and poor to the old and relatively rich. It should be called fraud and theft, because that's what it is.
Creating a Reverse Proxy in .NET Core
Just run a remote command, via ssh foo the_command

I commonly do ssh remote ‘(cd foo; git pull; make && run)’

Of course with tramp I don’t have to do this as much as I used to.
I mean at least 45% of the country things its totally fine for the president of the united states to 'comport themselves the way he _routinely_ does' so I have to think that many people are willing to overlook how Musk acts. For the most part I am too (in regards to Musk), I don't expect perfection from business leaders. He is a flawed person as are we all. Unfortunately for him he chooses to amplify his flaws to a massive twitter following.

I think the guy is a once in a life time visionary. With that said I would never want to work for him but I hope he succeeds.
probably but not completely discountable.

its because people have been saying "hey what about this" despite the loud banging of the scientifically minded people yelling "NO EVIDENCE THEREFORE ITS AN ABSURD IDEA" that we know of a community spread case in the US that died on February 6th. Instead of a travel related case that died on February 29th.

so then was patient zero in US from travel on January 15th? January 1st? December 15th? December 1st? How many hops are really necessary
I do. It's free in Canada, just walk into any pharmacy and you're out in 10 mins.
Sounds like Chomsky’s main criticism:

https://youtu.be/ndwIZPBs8Y4
I believe this (along with the other warning to not leave the display on because the high voltage may cause degradation) is either a specific characteristic of colour e-ink or the effect of "cost down optimisations" that affect reliability; ghosting is just due to the fact that not all the particles move at exactly the same rate, but I've never heard of burn-in either. Then again, the last time I looked into detail on e-ink was around when someone figured out how to drive cheap Kindle displays without the proprietary controller (http://essentialscrap.com/eink/ ), and those could be refreshed as slowly as desired, even "human" speeds.
What is the point they bring up?

"1. Does the service implement end-to-end encryption"
Do be careful doing this, if your company cares, a competent network admin can tell what's going on.
"Result #1: 20% of the population are in isolation. 20% of your economy is stalled, rather than 100%."

This bugs me, because in this hypothetical, you're implying something as a point of comparison which is nothing like reality. 100% of the population is not in isolation - the only people who are in isolation are those who have had such severe symptoms they've been tested and it came back positive, or they're really obviously linked to such a person. And obviously 100% of the economy is not stalled; it may not be precisely clear what the impact is so far, but people are talking about single digit GDP percentage point declines. If you frame that as the worst economic news since the great recession, or put it in context with the job losses, it's pretty bad, but it clearly could be ten times worse and it's not.

I get that maybe you meant it as just an example and specifics aren't important to your point about statistics, but I feel like I've read similar posts to yours that kind of get the nonsensical scenario out there, that we've shut down "100%" to where people kind of get used to it even though it's not reality.
A vaccine isn't the be-all-end-all. We can still potentially hold out until there's an effective treatment. Famotidine? Remdesivir? Anything that would reduce the severity of the infection would lead to a better outcome than you're facing currently.
Absolutely. That's the flip side of in vitro and animal testing. You might see a negative signal and stop development, only to find out that it can't be replicated in humans.

The cell line assays replicate much of what happens in humans, but not all of it, in particular the interactions between different tissues. For example, a drug might be toxic in a liver assay because a reactive metabolite damages the cells. But in an actual human, you might never see those high of concentrations in the liver or there may be a process (like glutathione adducts) that deactivates the metabolite and prevents cell damage.
We were going to move a server one evening and we told the head of IT ahead of time we needed to move it at 6. He agrees.

At 5:45 we roll into the server room area and he has gone home for the evening. Server room is locked.

Someone as a Hail Mary asks building security, and they surprise us by saying of course we have keys. So they come in and try the doors (the server room had been expanded to fill several offices, so there were 3 doors). No luck with any of them. Which upset the security person because they were supposed to have keys.

So security wanders off before we start trying to jimmy the locks, and it turns out that the middle door accepts Mastercard. It was never mentioned again and the IT dude never asked (which he should have, really).

I don't know that I'd play it the same today. Back doors are put in or tolerated primarily because of fear of, or the reality that, someone isn't doing their job or some group is making a power grab (or typically, both). It costs political capital to call someone out on that but the alternative is to have people lying (even by omission) about known security issues with the system or facilities.

Personally, I'd rather have a couple people who have credentials or keys they are sworn 'never to use', except in extraordinary circumstances.
I bike 3-4 times a week, but nearly ran over a cyclist myself a week ago.

It was a stop with a right turn only onto a one way street with fairly fast (45 MPH) traffic. A large hedge abutted the sign, making it hard to see more than ten feet of sidewalk.

I looked right as I was pulling up to stop, sidewalk clear. I look left and see it’s clear for just enough to get into tragic. I don’t complete my stop, I’m doing less than 5 MPH and decide to punch it and I hear a scream just as a woman on a bike enters my vision passing right in front of me. She yells at me that she had right of way.

I try to tell her that riding 15 MPH on the sidewalk against traffic requires defensive riding skills. Right of way or not she shouldn’t have ridden in front of me when I was clearly looking the other direction. But before I can finish, another biker going with traffic on the road tells me she’s right and to shut up.

And I do, because I am embarrassed that I did California stop and that contributed to nearly running her over. I was also in the wrong. But people California stop all day long and as a biker I always assume they might.
Reminds me of the time I almost died riding on The Embarcadero. This https://www.google.com/maps/place/Embarcadero,+San+Francisco... is the intersection. This is the link to the view you would have as a cyclist https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8051081,-122.4030922,3a,74.5...

Long story short, I was an idiot cyclist thinking I had calculated everything[1], when in fact, I hadn't. Someone in a car going northbound at about 60mph on Sansome had to slam on their brakes to save my life as I crossed from the right bicycle lane to chestnut. I was super lucky they were watching, and their brakes worked, and that they had enough reaction time.

From then on I have never ran stoplights. The problem is that, as they say, the first one is free. You might start out as a cyclist running a simple stop sign on a dead street. But as you get more comfortable, the temptation is to run ever more complex street lights. In my case, I only did it when I didn't see any cars. The problem with intersections like this is there are cars you cannot see.

[1] - Things to calculate:

1. Southeast bound car traffic on Embarcadero.

2. Whether there were southeast bound muni trains on the Embarcadero dividing route.

3. Whether there were northwest bound muni trains on the Embarcadero dividing route.

4. Cars behind you on northeast bound Embarcadero ( I had to cross from the bikelane on the left )

5. Northbound cars on Sansome. This is what I missed.
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I think it might be cause no one really knows what you're building until it's been built. Only until then (or even a little later) does the structure of the thing become apparent. Until you've got something most people agree is what everyone wanted, requirements are basically mush and so the code is too.
He probably knew COBOL at one point. He used to write in FoxPro for the longest time. He had an old CompuServe email before we got Juno. My first email was tagged on with his Juno account in the late 90s.
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The article states that no state receives more than its residents and corporations pays in federal taxes. People pay money to the federal government and the government pays back some fraction of the money per state. So any notion that blue states are subsidizing red states is ridiculous. What's happening is that the wealthy blue states pay a lot under our progressive tax system and receive a lot in return on a per capita basis.
When does your argument show up?
Euler is really the master in terms of sheer volume and mathematical scope. You supposedly could get a theorem named after you if you discovered it in Euler’s notebooks (though probably well picked over by now).
>Porsche is Volkswagen's most profitable brand.

Which is pretty ironic, given the whole mess involved with Porsche trying to buy Volkswagen a few years ago.
> Not only is it (very!) easy to overfit backtests (especially with so little data they are using here), but backtests are nothing like the real world.

I know this, and I ran a company where people should know this, but so many people are so easily swayed by "authority"

like, so and so made trading programs for Investment Bank Co 20 years ago so you know their trading algorithm has to have merit

uh no, they are not retired, they are broke and can't even fund $10k into a trading account to try it

at this point all I would say is just smile and nod.
This one is a bit old:

Pension spiking could cost CalPERS nearly $800 million

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pension-spiking-repor...
Does anyone else see the irony of herding people off beaches to protect them from covid-19?
Yeah for process but there’s no spacex without Elon.
Since you're taking Vitamin D, you might also want to see if you need Zinc. Both Vitamins account for the largest deficits in the population. You might want to consider taking a Magnesium supplement since taking Vitamin D which can lead to a deficiency in Magnesium. Vitamin C is worth taking a few times through out the day.

The Trifecta is D,Zinc and C (with a magnesium supplement a few times a week).
Hmm, my doctor specifically said a few weeks ago:

"During active COVID-19 infection symptoms (fever, cough), please AVOID these common supplements: Echinacea, Elderberry, Polysaccharide extracts from Medicinal Mushrooms and Vitamin D as these MAY theoretically exacerbate the cytokine inflammatory storm. It's OK to take them preventively (if you are already doing so) but please stop at the first sign of COVID-19 symptoms."

Hence I've been avoiding adding Vitamin D to my daily ritual; anyone have any supporting data?
I agree, the people who want “the red tape eliminated — lives are at stake” are nuts. Garbage data is garbage data and getting it sooner doesn’t help.

False negatives can cause someone contagious or sick to go out and infect others; false positives can cause unnecessary treatment and take up hospital resources that should have been spent on actual patients.
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