skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. The goal with more successful efforts like the one in Germany isn't just "flattening the curve", it's containment. Once the infection rate is low enough you have enough testing capacity to test everyone who gets sick, and all their contacts, and thus you can find and quarantine new outbreaks before they start spreading generally.

But this only works with a very low infection rate. Once your testing capacity (which is still, basically everywhere, much smaller than hospitals' ability to treat the same outbreak) is overwhelmed, you lose control and end up back where everyone else is.

People are watching this closely.
A lot more people than you realize are willing to sacrifice them to get the economy (and normal life) running again. They just don't talk about openly in stark terms, for obvious reasons.
Personally I'd rather just hold my knife by the handle end rather than trying to sand down the serrated bits!
Chevy was also a big EV/hybrid player in the mid to late '00s.

I think the sort of individual that buys an expensive vehicle to, at least in part, broadcast that they are an environmentally-conscious person would be turned off by a company strong-arming a county into relaxing regulations, especially when such deregulation is perceived to put that company's workers at risk.

While the facts of what public policy is best can be debated, it seems inevitable that Tesla's brand will suffer from this.
To the skeptics, read Stapledon’s Last and First Men.
A loan word with two different spellings!
I personally find it astonishing that we are accepting >100 deaths per day.

Who is we? In the UK, for example, the baseline expected death rate is around 2000 per day. Sure, adding another 500 to that is a big deal, but it is maybe not as big a deal as everyone seems to think it is.
That's not the point I'm making. You're saying Spain ran out of hospital capacity. I'm asking, did it actually increase mortality rates?
The word "parse" breaks it
Not 100 per day?
To be pedantic, Covid is far more fatal to the elderly whose statistical "worth" is significantly less.
One factor that is under examined is the role of subjective Wellbeing in mental illness. All disorders are highly correlated with feeling bad...!
1. No. Simply impossible. Experimental aircraft maybe, but no aliens.

2. Somewhat. The cabal is there, thankfully they dont control everything yet. See: Rothschild and sons; communism.

3. No. A technical miracle, but they happened for sure. With a very high power telescope you can see some tracks the rovers left.

4. Definetely. Theres enough circumstantial evidence to take to court and win. Biggest obvious one is Al Franken admitting on Congressional record that he got "the Jew call" (his own words) to not go to work in the towers on that day.

5. Only through negligence and bad science. Fluoride at the end tap cannot be measured en masse effectively, so it is often overused. It is a potent neurotoxin, even at low levels. There is a chicken-egg problem with measuring many contaminants present in recycled water.

6. Again, only through negligence. Insufficient standards in medical supply and waste disposal, needles being reused is how HIV got out.

Keep asking, I can do this all day. Ive been to the bottom of the rabbit hole and back. We have such sights to show you!
Does anyone actually know what Alameda re-opening criteria the Tesla plan doesn't satisfy?

https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachments/T...
Ah, interesting! Thanks for your response. What do you use to get this work flow going? Would be really interested in the underlying infra. Do you have any pointers to get me deeper in this subject?
This is exactly what is taught in https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
The pneumonia, for sure. It’s easy to get lost looking at rare symptoms and forget that we have millions of examples of what the disease typically looks like.
The plan is to almost beat it, get the new infections down to almost zero by strict lockdowns. Then commence contact tracing and quarantine for each new infection and all first, second and maybe third order contacts while general restrictions are eased. This continues until a vaccine or cure is found. If you want to know more, google Hammer and Dance.

Flattening the curve just below hospital capacity is shown to be dangerous because you cannot control the infection rate with sufficient precision, causing slipups and second, third, fourth waves necessitating repeated longer lockdowns. All in all this damages the economy more because of the panic it periodically creates, repeated longer lockdowns (albeit maybe not as strict) and the uncertainty. There is always another lockdown looming just a few bad numbers ahead. Flattening the curve is sooo March 2020 ;)
This headline is a bit misleading. The R factor calculation in Germany by the RKI is rather volatile. They explicitly stated in their report that this needs to be monitored carefully, but that it is too early to make strong conclusions from this data yet.

There were also 2-3 larger clusters discovered this week. Looking at the nationwide numbers might be not as useful in this case. I'm not saying there is no case for concern here, but right now these are very few data points on a noisy curve, and a similar spike that turned out to be nothing happened a few weeks ago. We really have to wait a few days to actually get some reliable numbers.
As of this writing, 281,057 people have died from COVID 19. 2 months ago that number was < 8,000. Forgive me if I don't advocate for massively increasing the transmission rate during an active, uncontained, global pandemic.
I saved up for a used Tesla this year and have decided to hold off. I asked on another HN thread whether musk believes in climate change and didn’t hear anything. But to me, the covid tweets going against science makes me think he doesn’t really care for a low carbon footprint. So I guess I don’t know now if it is really a net carbon benefit to owning a Tesla versus another sedan over the next five years.
You mocked the worst possible straw-man interpretation of your parent's comment. Smileysteve clearly meant his tour of the plant indicated relatively few workers in the plant relative to other plants, and work could probably be arranged to keep them a certain distance from each other.
> I personally find it astonishing that we are accepting >100 deaths per day.

Close to a million people die in Germany in any given year, we're always accepting >100 deaths per day. The question in 12 months will be whether the death rate significantly increased or whether it primarily moved the cause of death, so more people died from Covid-19 and less died of atypical pneumonia, old age, cancer, heart disease or the flu.
I'm honestly not familiar with most of the services mentioned from a user perspective, the AWS service I worked on didn't consume them at the time, and I work for another cloud platform now.

That said, this point gave me particular pause, because it brought in to question the other assertions:

> The application collected small json records, and stuffed them into Kinesis with the python boto3 api . On the other side, worker process running inside EC2/ECS were pulling these records with boto3 and processing them. We then discovered that retrieving records out of Kinesis Streams when you have multiple worker is non-trivial.

Yeah.. because that's really not what Kinesis is designed for. They even, rightly, point out that SQS is a better fit for that purpose. That hardly makes it a service to avoid.
100 per day in the US alone in 2018.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_...
> I think there are maybe four propositions to think about.

> Is it true that we are essentially almost there, and a bit more iteration of the hardware and the developer ecosystem will get us to a tipping point?

> Are we where smartphones were before the iPhone?

> Is there a fundamental contradiction between a universally accessible experience and a device that you put on your head that shuts out the world around you?

> Or, by extension, is this the point - that ‘real’ VR needs some completely different device and that’s what would take it to universality? VR as HMD is narrow but VR as, say, neural lace is not?

In addition to his four propositions to think about I would add one more. There's technology to represent other humans in VR (eye tracking, face tracking, body tracking) that basically doesn't exist yet as part of consumer VR systems. But with those technologies already present outside of consumer VR (and continued massive R&D spending by Oculus etc) they seem realistically achievable in the medium term. Will this make a significant difference in the VR adoption rate or enable new applications?
I don't think there is anything that political office could offer him that would be worth the bother. The only scenario I could see potentially being appealing to him is a Trump-style takeover of the Presidency.

Edit: As someone pointed out, Musk isn't a natural-born citizen and therefore can't run for President. So there is no political office that could be even remotely worth the bother.
From the Gen leads Marco and Alex: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-the-difference-betwe...
Actually, a little more.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

38,000 a year ~= 104 / day
Can't believe Cloudwatch wasn't mentioned here. Could be such a useful product that is so messed up that there is probably multiple billion dollar companies in this space.
It is not possible. The number of active cases peaked 2 weeks ago and is dropping ever since. What do you suggest? Keep everything closed for a minimum of 18 months? What do we do if we never find a vaccine? It is absolutely the right move to open up carefully once your healthcare system has enough capacity.
Apples and oranges

Worry about invisible death from a cube neighbor sneezing is not going to generate the sanity needed to be productive

If you all are so uninterested in having to cope with the reality of this, the 2nd amendment puts relief within arms reach for yourself alone

You want to consider it the perspective of ratio alone? Ok.

You’re just 1 in 7 billion+ right? Why should I care about your existence... is effectively the narrative you’re peddling by clustering humans into an abstract math object?

Ok well I don’t care if you are one of those people in the math object you think matters

Annotate the math as if you’re inside the object. Then grow some nuts and live it

Typical American, throw everyone else at the fight

Edit: Oh no my fake internet points! An online community that is a minority of the populace doesn’t like what I put before them! But even as a collective their value to humanity as a whole is statistically unimportant so who cares?
$10 million is the current value of life, with the article ending by suggesting it’s probably worth less by now.
I think a smart approach will be to deploy these “emergency brakes” as TFA mentions, but preferably far before it seems necessary, because of the cryptic transmission and long incubation period.

And a lot of comments here talk about restrictions deployed simply to avoid an overwhelm of the healthcare system. While that’s important, the longer we can prevent the disease running through the population, the lower we can make the case severity and fatality rate due to advancements in treatment.

A lot of commentary on COVID-19 recently presumed that we can’t control outcomes, only the rate of spread. That may be true at a point in time, but the longer we hold out, the better the outcomes will be on the tail end with advancements in treatment research.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who figured out what the universe is made of
I think you're missing the point of the project, which is for the author to have lots of stars on his GitHub profile.
In case you are looking for Pose estimation network with “normal” license https://github.com/vita-epfl/openpifpaf
We don't, though! Automobiles are heavily regulated by a staggeringly large bureaucracy that works at all levels from driver training to equipment design to collision analysis science to traffic pattern analysis to infrastructure maintenance.

We spend enormous amounts of money because we "don't accept" the high fatality rates seen in automobiles. And it works. Check out the charts here for very clear proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

And now we're doing the same kind of thing (in, obviously, very different ways) to fight the covid pandemic. And it's working too, though better in some areas than others. Germany in TFA is worried that maybe their R0 might have slipped above 1.0 and started growing again. Outside NYC, the US epidemic is still large and still growing.
Having been in some calls with reps/solutions architect folks recently, the push hasn't been super hard. I don't think the CFN vs. Terraform discussion has ever come up.
> That being said, the government response and the media has certainly ratcheted up the fear.

This is not brought up enough. There's a family of immigrants in my neighborhood from Sierra Leone, and the mom is so terrified of covid-19 that she won't let her kids go out and play, or even go to the local elementary school for free meals (they are on government assistance). We've delivered them food because of this fear. I've tried to explain that kids are at low risk and that it's probably worse to keep them locked inside for months vs. letting them play out side, but alas, the fear is too strong...
> "I have to bring back every single employee to convert my PPP loan to grant and also, use it within 8 weeks. None of them want to come back [...] But the business is dead."

There's no business, which means employees are paid to do nothing. And in return, business owners get up to 25% of the grant for approved expenses. That's the deal, and it's not a bad one.

I keep hearing phrase 'come back' in this context from business owners, and it confuses me. No one has to physically return to the workplace to be paid from this grant money.

Now, I have heard the stories about employees who 'receive more money on unemployment' than when they were working, because of the additional $600/week Cares Act benefit. With the PPP employees are paid the average of their weekly pay (PPP stipulation), or more. These individuals may certainly not wish to 'come back'.

There is also the potential awkward situation for the employer, where they have a reduced staff expected to perform some job each day. The PPP requires you to return to 2019 levels of full-time employment. Now, you re-hire furloughed employees, but they have no job to perform (because they can't do it from home or something else). How is that fair?

I get it. There are some difficult issues here, but saying simply that employees are just not wanting to come back is confusing the issues.
Why not import all those consts from net/http?
The 'economy' is not some abstract entity. It is us, the people, going about our business every day. A hard lockdown is destroying all of the economy. No accounting tricks can mask that. We should not play accounting tricks to begin with. If we want to stoop at the article's level, note that the numbers are flawed, as they don't account for age distribution of the risk.

https://twitter.com/AndyBiotech/status/1241741127205572609/p...
> this is an abuse of workers (more blatant than before).

I don't know if I'd personally use the word "abuse", but a post in another forum noted some OSHA statistics:

> In fact, data collected by Forbes shows that Tesla has accumulated more than three times the number of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations that its top 10 competitors amassed from 2014-2018.

* https://www.thedrive.com/news/26727/tesla-had-3-times-as-man...

> A review by Forbes found 24 investigations by California Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors from 2014 to 2018, resulting in fines for 54 violations. These include new penalties that haven't yet hit the national online OSHA database, and they nearly double Tesla's fines over the last five years, to $236,730.

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...
I can't speak about California specifically, but in Canada, if it can be reasonably be proven that the illness was obtained at the workplace, the employer is required to pay for the sick leave by the local health benefits service (State/Provincial/Federal level), which in this case would be two weeks.

The employer can fight the filing, but in the situation of COVID-19, it's reasonably easy to prove it was a workplace based infection (multiple people will get sick).

Side note, when you get payments from the local health benefits service, there's a %90 chance it's being paid by the employer to the health benefits service, which then transfers it to the employee
The fact that some specific attributes or options cannot change after creation is hard too. Other than that, it's not too bad. But like you said, setting it up takes effort, but a lot of programming is getting to a non trivial hello world.
It wasn't from "day one". The name Racket is only about 10 years old. It started life as PLT Scheme.

A racket is a kind of scheme.

EDIT: You've edited your post to include more ridiculous assertions.

Python was literally named after Monty Python.

You know what, whatever, I'm not playing this stupid game.
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I don't think it would take very long for a child to learn that f_ck and f___ and "the F word" are all alternative spellings of "fuck".

Hm, HN elides asterisks in in-line text. Maybe they still work in code blocks?

f*ck f***

Yep. <irony> Whee, what a fun game. </irony>
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cursing in english, for me at least, doesn't feel... real (compared to my native language).

in english, i swear like a pirate while on my native language, i try not to do it.
(German here. 100 deaths per day is more than any all terror deaths over the last couple of years)

The death toll due to covid is already is visible on all averaged yearly death per day/week charts and we have not even gotten to 1% of population having gotten the disease. That is a big deal.
Don't fear Phobos.

It's small enough that we'll be able to move it (if we haven't mined it apart by then).
What concrete advantage does a desktop environment offer me over just running a window manager like dwm? I've tried it both ways, and all the desktops seem to do is take up resources while offering little in return. Can you describe a significant way that your desktop improves your computing life?
A source:

> A review by Forbes found 24 investigations by California Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors from 2014 to 2018, resulting in fines for 54 violations. These include new penalties that haven't yet hit the national online OSHA database, and they nearly double Tesla's fines over the last five years, to $236,730.

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/03/01/tesla-sa...
Yes HC didn't exist and 4000 CMOS was slow. Plus the pcb, assembly and test cost for 40 DIP packages is significant.
If he's talking about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, then there's very little you can do on your own unfortunately. It all depends on having access to a training partner.
>> How can you be sure that the new science won't have any practical applications?

Nobody is sure about anything. Nobody denies that high-energy physics might one day bring great things. The problem is cost. Other areas of science are much more likely to bring great things with far less money. If tens of billions are to be spent on a bigger microscope, let it be one that will give us better solar panels, or a direct treatment for viruses. Polishing the details of the standard model can wait.
I think Riot did ok actually, at least when I used to play LoL you can disable the filter. That means those who do swear can just use their normal vocabulary and not have to invent ways around the filter, and those that haven't disabled it get a still decent censored experience.
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No career politician would want to work with him. Musk says the things like they are, without regards of "party position" or what his fans' ideologies see as "okay to say".

Pretty funny to watch it on Twitter, when he calls for a re-open and the leftist environmental crowd gets all outraged, because they consider that a "right wing" position.

And then he talks about UBI and welfare state, and all the liberals and right wingers get upset.

Reason and politics just aren't a good match.
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> Fanfuckingtastic > fantastic and is much more impactful than "most fantastic"

I’ve always heard and used that “word” in the sarcastic sense, rather than as meaning more/most fantastic. Using in context to illustrate:

Friend: I broke the part we need to finish the project.

Me: Fanfuckingtastic, guess I’ll get busy making another one.
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Yes of course if it had not been excerpted and retitled as "Anti-diversity memo", people would have been less primed to have a knee jerk reaction, or to even click the link in the first place.

>How does the fact that people criticized the memo without reading it in full speak to OP's point about the memo having been taken out of context?

Because you can't begin to know what someone meant unless you read what they wrote.
Yeah, even the Moon's gravity well is huge compared to metal-rich asteroids. They're the low-hanging fruit of space mining.
> The question is if treatment capacity is overwhelmed.

It eventually will be if R0 is greater 1.0. The government's position is that it needs to stay below one. The official metric to that effect is the number of new infections per 100,000 people. If it crosses above 50 for any administrative district, lockdown measures ought to be tightened. As of today, there are four above that threshold.
You might have never experienced the intersectionality of being both. In any case, is it really yours to judge? Anyways, your comment is precisely the point I'm making: most people working on these projects are not necessarily aware of the underlying issues that people actually suffer from. They under play some, simply because they have not experienced it. Not complaining though, this is better than not doing anything, but we need to setup better ways to pull-in more diversity on these projects.
I don't like Apple's business strategy of overpricing. A linux laptop is much cheaper and for my purposes just as suitable.
And my work wants me back on site in an open office...

I calced a bit and saw about a 1% chance of getting infected within a month at the office. Maybe acceptable for a month, not for a year (>10% risk than).
I’m really hoping that Oculus improves the weight balance of the Quest headset for V2. It seems to put all of the weight on my cheekbones no matter how I adjust the straps.
Not quite the same, but in the 1990s Neville Brody released a font called ‘Autotrace’ that consists of several variations of a badly traced sans-serif https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-autotrace
Another interesting read: Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

It’s a bit dark, but a fun jump down the post apocalyptic bureaucratic wormhole where everyone is spying on everyone and nothing is safe.
I don't, and I doubt it (there would be an announcement), but it will be great when it does.
AIUI he can't become (US) president.
In Germany? You have probably the biggest, best coronavirus testing program out there right now. Your program is the one that our press in the UK always points at in order to convince us that our government has failed us on testing. (Not all of their comparisons are actually true, but that's another topic.)
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