skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Views still need to be backed by solid data and in this case, the Stanford study the article is highlight has a number of issues with its data.

That articles backed by solid data is certainly the desired state, but it is very far from the current state of affairs on COVID. There are many articles that tout opposing views that are pretty liberal with data. Requesting an official apology (which, in science is almost unheard of) is simply an attempt at harassment. Mistakes happen, you refute errors and move on.

Scientists must be allowed to explore and advocate non-traditional views. Otherwise (and very quickly if you let hecklers in) you create static beliefs that live on for a long time, whether true or not, because the bar for challenge is very high and an error ruins a career.
It doesn't seem like there really are unknown unknowns in this case though. You can just fix all your non-quantifiable assumptions at current levels, and set some numbers for the quantifiable ones. The problem is that any numbers you set that way either involve many deaths, or many months of lockdown, so no politician wants to say them out loud.
I do this somewhat by choice. I have a mildly damaged old phone that I use as my "proprietary app device" with Spotify, Discord, etc. It allows me to sandbox their access to my life, to some extent.
SSDs are already raid devices internally so they're really no point as whatever you can do the vendor can and do faster and better in hardware/firmware.

That's why all the hyperscalers all have their own custom SKUs.
Wait.. for Google at least, that was always offered. At least since 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4NI5o-WUw
The prefix micro- in microwave is not meant to suggest a wavelength in the micrometer range. Rather, it indicates that microwaves are "small" (having shorter wavelengths), compared to the radio waves used prior to microwave technology.

Microwaves are a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths ranging from about one meter to one millimeter; with frequencies between 300 MHz (1 m) and 300 GHz (1 mm).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave
I have a Casio CMD-30 that can ‘learn’ codes; its a fun watch.
As somebody who was always annoyed by the weird amounts of odd attention that Ioannidis' "standards of evidence" papers got, I hope that this makes people reevaluate them.

The "standard" he set up was a straw man, and not how any practicing scientist I know actually looks at papers.

And when he allows his name to be used to push highly politci contrarian takes, all the weird attention his other papers received starts to make sense. It's not about the science, it's about being contrarian, at best, and at worst ways to subvert the public's view of science by deriving them on what it really means to publish a peer-reviewed paper.
host.docker.internal does not work on a Linux host.

For other OSes the hostnames provided by Docker are inconsistent, i.e. docker.for.mac.localhost

This just provides a cross platform hostname that you can use on any OS.
The US actually can keep printing money for a long, long time, and they've been doing this for quite a while too:

https://jeremiahjosey.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/money-supp...

Of course inflation will eventually eat away at its value, but at the moment we have the opposite problem, namely a deflationary spiral, because people aren't buying.
Covid symptoms detected from a safe distance using infrared light and microwave
DJI Mavic Air 2
Also pay on delivery, make the delivery guy wait 5 minutes and open the package -> test 5 minutes for obvious flaws. This is the best way and cheaper.

Do treat the delivery guy with something though, I usually offer homemade sweets and/or free alcohol beer. They deserve it.
It always feels like the mods are against you. You can be sure the other side feels just the same.
Ah yes, the argument that protective measures are succeeding and therefore they are no longer necessary. Completely irrational in a scenario where the danger being protected against hadn't gone away.
Chiming in for an anecdote to say: I'm boycotting Amazon because I am pro-labor and Amazon treats their employees and contractors like almost-literal shit. Even back when I first entered the workforce all the people I knew who went to work for Amazon had absolutely hellish descriptions of their times there. Employees regularly sobbing at their desks from pressure, PIPs being weaponized to assuage paranoid delusions of mutiny from middle management, etc. It sounded like that description of an experiment with monkeys who beat each other for trying to get food. My housemate drives delivery for Amazon sometimes and his depiction of their health standards and SOP during this crisis are atrocious. If there would be a Geneva convention for employment, Amazon would be most of its raison d'etre.
And? That was the point. It's better than 40% of the population becoming infected at the same time AND the hospitals totally collapsing.
I'm uncertain why the assumption is that GDPR was actually meant to appease advocates. It's pretty obvious that the law as it exists impacts foreign companies far more than EU companies. If the point of these laws was strictly for the benefit of European consumers then there'd be more dialogue around the value to consumers of having cheaper digital goods and services vs. the often abstract and vague benefits of GDPR's regulations. From this perspective, the ethical concerns seem mostly like a smokescreen to justify protectionist measures that will defend less efficient EU businesses in a manner similar to their current agricultural laws which exist mainly to protect the EU's wildly inefficient meat and dairy industries.
You blame the shelter-in-place order which actually improves over an uncoordinated economic shutdown that the epidemic is fully capable of generating on its own.
You can't separate the effect of the shelter-in-place order from that of the viral epidemic. With a raging outbreak, even without a shelter-in-place order people will still not go to most businesses. You could have the same economic downturn without the benefit of a shelter-in-place order where people's actions are more coordinated. And this is without accounting for the cost of a possible social breakdown if enough people panic about not having fair access to healthcare when the hospitals are overwhelmed.

If we could coordinate a perfect shelter-in-place the outbreak would have been gone by now. If people don't cooperate with each other we will have a much prolonged outbreak.
Everything I say here is scoped to the relatively trivial context of an internet forum. You're talking about someone taking a principled stand at personal peril. Those are not comparable situations.

I don't think what I said is so controversial. Cheap name-calling doesn't have good effects on discussion here, and HN readers whose minds might be open to a thoughtful argument are turned off by it.
It’s hard to beat Amazon on prices though. For comparison, look at the prices of best sellers. Sometimes the difference is as much as 40%. Trying bookofthemonth.com for a change.
It’s not just that it was a faulty study.

It was a study that was about an ongoing crisis that has led to hundreds of thousands of dead people in a couple of months that had a contrarian result, had not been through peer review, had not been double or triple checked and was still promoted heavily through news media.

That it happened to also be faulty made it a tragedy. It’s farcical nature had been established earlier.
> Switzerland actually started reopening with haircuts and manicures.

I've been saving a ton of money without going for dye jobs, highlights, root melt and cut every other month, monthly esthetician and biweekly manicures.

I'm almost considering growing out my greys during this, although would be subject to ageism in my industry so sort of on the fence for now.
On the other hand, what are the economic ramifications of no shelter-in-place during a global pandemic? Will people still be going to restaurants, movie theaters and malls?
I don't think not having enough time is the cause.

I think it's because people have relatively less purchasing power and buying in to the productivity craze.

People don't value leisure as much anymore.
"Laws are enforced by threat of violence."

If you don't believe this, try to leave the area after a cop wants to detain you.
Many poor Americans can’t afford to isolate themselves
And you know they don’t have those rights?
I really like hooks. I previously spent a lot of time in HOCs, and I find hooks much simpler. But I also have problems with #5 (control flow):

The main issue I have with hooks is that I can't easily trace why updates are being triggered in my app; this makes it hard to debug performance issues. For example, my app once got really slow, and the profiler told me that a root(ish)-level component was causing a lot of re-renders. Unfortunately, that component used multiple hooks, and the only way I was able to isolate the problem was by binary-searching, deleting hooks until the re-renders stopped.

Anyone have better ways of dealing with this?
Accessing "localhost" in a Docker container will send you to the loopback address of the container itself.

docker.hostip.dev points to the default bridge network adaptor address which will access your dev machines localhost. It does not replace accessing localhost/127.0.0.1 on your dev machine directly
The null hypothesis is exactly that it acts like other coronaviruses, which don't seem to create immunity in people. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long...
Since the UFO footage is mainstream, lets see what our best theories are
As if anyone is arguing this.

Your comments mark you as one of the people politicizing this. As if small business owners who have seen the data change and question why liquor stores can be open and they can't are all right wingers.

By the way, your comment is naive and foolish. Grown-ups in hospitals make the decision on a regular basis that yes, a 25 year olds life is more valuable than an elderly persons.

The right wingers deny science on climate change. Now I'm seeing left wingers deny science on covid19 antibodies. (They already do it with nuclear power)

I've seen 5 antibody studies all say the same thing, and the left wingers just attack all of them reflexively. Sweden was right. We were wrong.
Would be cool to read about how the 6 mil was split—i.e. ratio between spend on YT ads and say, Google display, over 3 month span
by enacting these rules they create distancing in society by default. At least way more of it. Yes costco may be 'crowded' but generally MORE people are staying home and not going out because many places are closed.
Alameda county flat out does not allow evictions for non payment of rent for covid-19 related reasons. The landlords can get back rent on a 12 month payment plan, and they can pursue small claims court if this is not paid.
Bashtop: Exquisite Top Replacement Written in Bash
I love Arch. It seems to find a sweet spot between the boring business world of yum-based distros and the wild, wild west nature of gentoo.

Just the right thing for the academic pursuits.

Mileage is wildly variable, of course.
I like the concept of persistent B-tree, can you share about the storage mechanism?
Calling is a waste when you have to navigate phone trees and the people at the other end are only trained to answer the same questions that can be answered with Google. Whenever I call it's because I have a specific question that I couldn't find the answer to on their FAQ or elsewhere... and I can never get the answer.
The science on children not being significant vectors of COVID (and, by extension, school closures not being very effective) is actually reasonably well established:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/06/school-clo...
Though note that React.memo(Component) gives you the same behavior as React.PureComponent which is what people were tending to default to anyways.
Not all licenses are contracts. Some are deeds instead.

("Contracts" and "deeds" are different – contracts require consideration, deeds don't – a deed can be completely one-sided; deeds have far stricter formality requirements than contracts.)

There may also be cases of licenses which are neither contracts nor deeds – such as the concept of a "license by estoppel".
If you truly believe that productivity would not have taken a massive hit by letting the pandemic burn through the entire population then I don’t really know what to say. You’ve got some very skewed beliefs.
> PPE is good but hairstylists aren't usually trained in its proper use.

Higher end salons use PPE for keratin treatments and offer them to their clients due to the straightening chemicals (allegedly not formaldehyde but many products still contain).

Also, nail salon techs had been starting to wear masks and even face shields due to powder coating and dust from dremeling gel coating and acrylics.

I don't think there would be a high barrier to entry to transition wider PPE rollout across the field, because it's already implemented among some of the treatments.
> Why Nations Fail

This is actually the inspiration for my blog title. And I agree, it has a lot more data and is more thorough than what I've written so it's hard to be offended by pointing that out.

> I'm sensitive to it being characterized as irrational

My bad. This is the language that she came up with as a way of describing her behaviour to me (i'm probably a bit too far on the rational side and less on the empathy side). But we definitely agree with the causes you point out - her idea of a peaceful life is escaping society altogether
I also worked through the pre-Javascript world, the jquery world, the backbone world, and now the react world. And while I'm productive with react-like stacks, I've rediscovered how much more productive I am with HTML-centric SSR.

The problem you describe is solved by frameworks like Rails, and has been for at least 10 years.

It turns out there's no need to bring in hundreds to thousands of JS dependencies to implement your frontend. SSR gets the job done in a superior manner, both in DX and UX.
yes but not to the extent it cripples our healthcare system. That's what they're dealing with here. Addiction isn't contagious.
Reading your comment again I see what you were trying to say. I guess having depression makes you sensitive to people saying "just go out and have fun"...
We can't control the spread until we can test people for the disease. As multiple leaders have stated, the lockdowns need to continue until we build up testing capabilities. For instance in WA, the governor said they are waiting for "widely-available testing, quick isolation for those who may have the virus, identifying people who came into contact with a positive case and getting them into quarantine."
i think what you are missing is it's a game of "whack a mole" way more than a game of a perfect puzzle where if you just do the ethical thing, and just be nice, and cure this and stop that, THEN, THEN everything will be... ok. But the reality is you plow 2 billion dollars into fixing one thing and this displaces something else and you can't get to this desert mirage utopia society we think we see just down the road if we could just get people like Jeff to fork it over.
The further you get from the true representation of the
thing you’re trying to model, the more difficult reasoning about it becomes. I’m all for abstractions that result in a net positive... I simply believe that FP is less about improving computing and more about ego.
There were about 320 overdose deaths in San Francisco last year, so close to one a day.
There's a very strong aversion towards anyone with different views on this subject. I'm not convinced its solely due to a lack of data. Low sample size studies have been around for a while, but the aversion on this is so much stronger, and has an effect. In China, it's explicit. If you say there's human-to-human transmission, the police will arrest you. If you research the origins of the virus, it's illegal to publish that. In the rest of the world you're allowed to express such views, but there's a very strong chilling effect (and on social media its banned if it contradicts the W.H.O.). An example of the chilling effect would be when scientists arguing for masks had to do their work in secret: https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1244038605078757376
The reason why +years exists is mostly for the case of inventors who die prematurely, so that their family can still reap the benefits. It's the same reason why widows can collect their partners' pensions.
Wow, that's beautiful and hilarious.
I checked with a friend who has a PhD in statistics specifically about this Twitter thread (which was referenced in some of the articles about this): https://twitter.com/wfithian/status/1252692357788479488

One claim Will Fithian makes is:

> The errors are not debatable and can be seen in these two screenshots of the supplement: 0.0034, the standard error meant to measure uncertainty about prevalence pi, is not the square root of 0.039, and the variance of a binomial estimate of proportion depends on the sample size.

My statistician friend says:

> In fact the math checks out in favor of the authors. Square root of .039, then divide by square root of 3330. .= 0034 just like reported.

> So the error is debatable.

> Now, sometimes you should be using the standard deviation, not the standard error, but that isn't his claim. The .0034 is absolutely the correct standard error, unless there is a difference in terminology for the field or something.
I'm being specific about the framing and the narrative that is constructed when well-meaning users parrot corporate talking points in an organic setting like a public Internet forum.
I understand that B+ trees made relational databases practical.

Is that true? How are they used (sorted, according to link)? How do B+ differ from B trees?
"These are 128-bit cryptographically secure numbers that rely on thoroughly battle tested primitives".

Oh, wow! So that's like 128 / 8 => 16 bytes? As in 16 ASCII characters? And what crypto has to do with them anyway in this context? Do explain please, I'd love to hear that. And also tell me about those primitives as well, I really need to hear their names.

If dang didn't warned me already not to feed the trolls in the past I'd say that you're full of "you know what", but since he did I'll just stop here
Mistakes were made, but it's a lot easier on an island.
The answer for both is still "diet."
Texas is about to start opening up some businesses. the flower shop example we see below would fall under that.

time will tell, though.
To expand on why this is bullshit: Disney's terms of use state among other things that: "[...] you may not submit or upload User Generated Content that is defamatory, harassing, threatening, bigoted, hateful, violent, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, or otherwise offensive [...]"

So Disney is claiming that if I reply to their tweet and use the hashtag, and if my reply contains content that is ok according to Twitter's terms of use, but not ok according to Disney's terms of use, I am magically violating Disney's terms of use. Despite me not using an actual Disney service, despite them having zero control over my tweets, and despite me not accepting their terms of use in the first place.

Hell no.

I'm not saying you all should reply to that tweet with your best Chewbacca furry porn. But you totally should.
Why do you think that wouldn't just start a new exponential spread?
A List of Colleges’ Plans for Reopening in the Fall
It certainly sounds like you're pooh-poohing someone who is advocating for paying human beings enough to survive and be happy.
I hate how the idea of reopening has split down political party lines. This is definitely not the time for partisanship. Now that Republicans have come out as pro-reopening, San Francisco will be the last city to reopen in the country. 0 COVID-19 infections will be too many.
Actually, your kind of wrong.

The USA didn't lock down. Individual states locked down, at different rates. Some didn't lock down at all.

Take a look at the data and see if you can find a difference between the early and late lockdown states, particularly the ones that border each other.

I'm amazed at how blind people on HN are to the fact that the entire nation didn't take a homogenous approach to this at all. We have 50 different strategies that we're deployed.
Copyright in unpublished works is an entirely different matter than in published ones. Unpublished works get much stronger protection, that can extend for as long as 120 years from creation in the U.S. So I don't think your scenario is very relevant.
Asimov’s Golden Age
AFAIK there is NO C++ in the Linux kernel. It's all C code.
What's your point? Can you eat flowers?
I said "if", didn't I? Also my prediction is the same as what you said, but in different words.
Scaling CMOS Image Sensors
Anderson Localization and Complexity
Oh, it will be more than 100K deaths if there are no measures at all. Once you run out of healthcare capacity, you're on your own.
I installed it thinking I'd install ducting if necessary. But as you might guess, in the winter in Vermont there aren't a lot of available sources of warm air other than the those you create through heating. And if I vent to the outside, the resulting depressurization will just cause the rest of the house to suck in even colder outside air. The basement itself derives enough ground heat to stay above freezing, but heat pump efficiency drops as you get close to freezing.

Currently, I think I'll probably connect to an intake floor register from above, so it has better access to warmer air. I'll be trading off more firewood for less electric, which is probably a win. I'll probably also exhaust the cooler air back into the house level, on the theory that this will help a little in the summer. I'm guessing the downside will be increased noise. It's a quiet house to begin with (woodstove with no forced air) and I'm loath to make it noisier.

Do you know if there is any benefit to going with the model specific ducting kit? Or can one just buy off the shelf?
Also donated. Hopefully the shelter gets some visibility with your post :)
Wouldn’t they have made it clear if they did? Isn’t that traditionally how using someone’s work under a license works?
thalia is running a lot of dodgy business practices focused on strong-arming smaller print-shops (see German Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_B%C3%BCcher#Kritik), I'm really fond of zvab.com where you can order from many if not most antiquarian bookshops of Europe. Cheap used books abound for 2-5 euros per book, a lot of them with free shipping depending on the shop.

EDIT: TIL: zvab is abebooks, which in turn is a subsidiary of... amazon. All roads lead to Rome.
I agree. If anyone has nice combinations of delta background colors and syntax highlighting theme for dark backgrounds, please send them my way! (Here, or PR/issue).
Gdpr.eu has er a data leakage issue
My smartphone is never going to have any of these apps installed. Pandemic is not an excuse to give up liberty and privacy.
Thank you so much, stay safe!
People occasionally suggest this but in my view it's wishful thinking. It would lead to a lot of bickering about reasons for downvoting, and we don't need more meta noise here.
People also create technology or adopt technology because of people, most of the time. You have a point there with messy organziations, but that is not mutually exclusive with the software stack, usually up to date with the fashion. And it is amusing that older technology almost always can get the job done okay and efficiently only because its problems are already known and there are already boring but understood worksarounds. Yes, boring but works. Versus cool and solves this problems but causes other new problems we know nothing about. It’s been so far just like a game of whackamole
I came here to post about that, and you beat me to it. I was provoked by the article's title, "coffee...a modern necessity." Unless of course you consider Bach modern!