skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point, and would explain how there could be a threshold effect on initial dosage. On the bright side, if this is true, it would make inoculation against the disease fairly easy: give a measured light dose, and reliably generate a mild case. On the not-so-bright side, while it is a theory, I don't think it is anywhere near proven. If you've come across it, I'd love to see more evidence that this theory is true.

I'm starting to double down on my "just plain wrong" interpretation. The author of this article says repeatedly that one can be safe by simply avoiding extended exposure: "Again, assuming every virus is inhaled, it would take ~5 minutes of speaking face-to-face to receive the required dose." "In these situations there is not enough time to achieve the infectious viral load when you are standing 6 feet apart or where wind and the infinite outdoor space for viral dilution reduces viral load." "You would have to be in their airstream for 5+ minutes for a chance of infection."

I think this article is full of bad, dangerous, and unproven advice. I think the author has confused population level statistical risk (where reduced exposure can reduce R0 below 1 thus preventing epidemic spread) with personal risk (where exposure to a deadly disease can be deadly).
python has ellispes in the grammar set but I don't think it's used yet.

Also I'd bet a dollar that there are 100 lisp libs with this (published or not)
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The crypto scams seem to have died off, so there are probably plenty of used ones on the market.

The demand right now has also fallen dramatically even from regular customers.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/coronavirus-motherboard-gr...
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My go to question is usually how does a code change go from my machine to production and I’ve noticed different people focus on different aspects. Recently I asked what can I do to help if I get hired and the interviewer actually gave me an honest answer about scalability and I realized I was grossly under qualified for the position. :(
> Let's just say the 'fringes of free speech' took the upper hand...

Luckily for you that blurry line between mainstream and "fringe" is rapidly shifting, and the list of permissible opinions continues to shrink. More and more people will be forced to decide how important guilt by association is to them, and will either make use of the stigmatized tech - or simply shutup.

> But some kind of control is unfortunately needed.

To what end? Are we protecting the children? Are we preventing the rise of Turbo-Hitler?

> Otherwise a platform like this will always spiral out of control and kill itself.

How do you imagine that happens? Shaming from people saying exactly what you have just said, leading to reduced uptake, justifying censorship - because only bad people use the dark web.

Here is a clue: look at what has happened to lesbians, they are already going through this. I know this because I frequent a thoroughly demonized site run by a free-speech absolutist (well, almost). One day a whole bunch of these women showed up to complain about some insane pre-op transsexual who had succeeded in getting them censored on every major platform. These ladies absolutely hated the site and everyone on it, but they had no alternative.
I love Stanislaw Lem's work. I particularly enjoyed Futurological Congress. It was so absurd but I loved how it explored how it is never possible to be 100% sure that what you are experience is "real". The trippiness of all of the drugs and absurd situations was hilarious. Highly recommend.
Did not realize it can be exploited against clients as well. Thanks! Unfortunately, looks like it is not vulnerable to it. Perhaps at some point they upgraded libraries.
It's not just the sick and elderly who die of heatstroke
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It's obviously essential, critical work to fill up giant parking lots with new cars no one is going to buy. That's a great reason to resume work during the pandemic. I can't believe they even got shut down in the first place. If there aren't at least ten teslas for every American that can't afford them, we have failed as a society.
I used to use AutoHotKey several years ago. It provides remapping hotkeys, text expansion (snippets), macro on operating system level, etc. But it only runs on Windows. :( It's the very few tools on Windows I miss.

Now I use Spotlight/Alfred/Dash/aText instead.
This is great. Would love to see this for the original space shuttle lego sets.
>There's nobody to tell you it's too short, or it's too long, or this section is not detailed enough, or this one is boringly full of details. If you write only for yourself, you can focus on the best things in writing : imagination, and having fun.

You say this, and I agree, but if vanity published books such as the amazingly 'high quality' Fairasia, which I have no idea how I was unfortunate enough to end up with, say one thing,.it's that editing is important and you should be ready to cut out ideas because not everything you write is good.

I keep it only as an aspirational example for any other book I buy or even stuff I write myself, I can always say, no matter how bad it is, it's not Fairasia.

https://books.google.ca/books/about/Fairasia.html?id=nRMKAAA...

I'd really like to take the time to scan this book, I feel like many memes could be created from it.
> You won't see it unless you get rid of the login manager and login at the terminal. Or, use the server edition.

And even though you don't see it, it's still there -- on every Ubuntu install (by default) -- phoning home to Canonical (every 12 hours, if memory serves).

(Some users may not mind, of course, but they certainly don't go out of their way to let you know about it beforehand, which is my major issue with it.)
Hasn’t Tesla already presold most of its vehicles?
There's nothing wrong if, as an interviewer, you get bored of interviewing candidate after candidate. The process is pretty repetitive by nature.
Yes? It was how I learned web development and as a beginner I found it tremendously helpful. Every other website took me through a bunch of canvas painting exercises which frustrated me because they never taught me how to actually build a website from scratch. The poster asked for the "best most creditable source" and in my opinion that website fulfills that criteria. Besides, the poster wants to pursue a career in this field so recommending them something "easier" would do them a disservice and waste their time.
And from the same article

"is bold and brilliant, and he swings for the fences."

and ...

"People like that get some remarkable results,” Munger continued. “Sometimes they get some quick failures. I haven’t the faintest idea how Elon Musk will turn out, but he has a considerable chance of success and considerable chance of failure. He seems to like it that way."
Cops should receive less consideration for split second decisions than random citizens. They’re trained, armed, and given authority by the state; with that increased power comes increased security and expectations.

Also, cops make far fewer split second decisions than they talk about. Being a cop is far less dangerous than being a garbage truck driver, and far more cops die from medical issues and car crashes than violent encounters. Pregnant women have a much higher risk of being murdered than a cop does.
more context pls
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I would not say this is a fair interpretation of events.

At Sun, the effort to merge BSD and System V was called the "lulu" project and the end result was System V release 4 from AT&T and Solaris 2 from Sun. I was part of that effort and responsible for the transport independent RPC piece amongst others.

The Spring project was, in my opinion, an aspirational project to re-imagine UNIX according to Mike Powell and others at Sun, as opposed to Plan 9 which was re-imagining UNIX according to Rob Pike and others at the Computer Science Research Center (CSRC) of Bell Labs.

There were interesting rivalries in AT&T about who "owned" UNIX. On one side was the staff at CSRC who had invented it, and on the other side was Murray Hill which had commercialized it. For nearly identical reasoning, AT&T would not let the CSRC folks call their new OS UNIX, and Sun would not let the Spring folks call their new OS SunOS. Both groups had, at their core, some of the original architects of the OS that their respective company had become known for.
The Nasdaq is up for the year. Everybody panicked around March 13th, and the market bottom appears to have been within a week of that. It's been nearly straight up from there.

I don't know if Wall Street was right yet, but that was its verdict.

Now, it's true that my IRA is down a little, but I'm not really "the investor class".

You say "very few had the wherewithal to time it right", but I'd question that, because all it took, in principle, was doing nothing. Not possible for everyone who's unemployed, for instance, but not something that takes large amounts of brains or capital.
civil forfeiture, its a way law enforcement steals from citizens that have not been charged with a crime. Abused all the time! Congress does nothing. I hope this case splits this abuse wide open.

https://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/03/civil-asse...
Lem hated it. He said Tarkovski turned his book into a Dostoyevsky novel.

The problem is that it focused almost exclusively on the relationship drama and jettisoned the science fiction.
The blog he linked, Slate Star Codex, has a lot of good posts on predictive processing theory. I'd recommend checking them out. (The author is a psychiatrist, and in my opinion a semi-polymath.) Basically a theory positing that the brain fundamentally works, at least in part, by continuously updating a model of the environment and the self based on successful and unsuccessful predictions.

Although this may not seem like a crazy idea, some proponents suggest that essentially everything the brain does works in this way. For example, that the cause of schizophrenic symptoms may be due to them holding a very loose predictive model with weak priors; basically that they don't have pre-existing high-confidence predictions about anything, on every level. You and me likely would predict with very high confidence that we are not and can't be a god, but someone with schizophrenia may not predict that with as much certainty due to a general issue with neural prediction.

I am oversimplifying it and may be partially wrong, but I think that's the general. I'd highly recommend reading that blog's series on predictive processing for a much better explanation. The linked post also discusses schizophrenia.
Yes, just imagine Tesla if there were zero government grants, the regulatory credits vanished, and they removed all incentives.

Tesla would have gone bankrupt like 10 years ago. I mean just last quarter Tesla barely made a "profit" and it was due to selling credits to other auto-makers and posting incredibly suspicious financials (e.g. doubling the number of factories while posting no change in their OpEx).

For someone who has built all of his companies thanks to government funding, Elon sure has been biting at the hand that feeds him.
I was playing with OpenFrameworks and Kinect years ago, and you could pretty much do this, so I am curious why you would TF.js instead of simple OpenCV or other libraries that don't need to to use ML or DL. Or am I mistaken, and it is using simple bits of TS.js?

We had a large, flip-disc (or dot) wall at the site in Macau in 2012 that we purchased from a company that was a wall of black and white discs or dots that would flip to create a cool effect by tracking people in front of the wall with Kinect units in real time. It also made a cool clicky sound like old train/airport physical arrival/departure boards did.

I had a feature on my HTC phone or early Skype over 10 years ago where a cartoon cat mimicked my mouth, eyes, and head movement live on camera, which I can't find the reference to, but I have a screen recording of it when talking with my kids in the US from Macau.

I also remember using animata, a software that animated 2D puppet-like cut-outs to the music, I played with over 7 years or so ago, that was really cool [1 YouTube].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8OMxB8m_M
Specifically, Laplace's method assumes the uniform prior. If you do the same thing and apply the Beta Distribution to this problem, you can answer the question "what is the probability that the coin lands on heads more than X% of the time. The answer, assuming a uniform prior and 9 heads, is that there's a 65% chance, for example, that the coin is biased more than 90% in favor of heads.

If on the other hand you choose a different prior, for example "the coin may have two heads, and it's difficult to manufacture a biased coin with two different faces that still favors one side more than 90% of the time", then you might instead reach the conclusion that there's a 65% chance that the coin has two heads. But we don't usually deal with weird priors like that in intro stats.

If, as GP suggests, you know that the coin is somehow biased, you should seed your beta distribution with a non-uniform prior. That is Beta(.5, .5)[0] or something instead of Beta(1, 1). Then you'd be 84% sure, instead of 65% sure that the coin was biased at least 90% in favor of heads.

[0]: https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~mbognar/applets/beta.html Play around with this, in the Beta distribution, a=success, b=failures, X is the mean of the underlying dataset, and P(X>x) is the propbality that the mean of the underlying dataset is greater than the provided value. Look at

- Beta(1,1): the uniform prior

- Beta(10, 1): Laplace's method

- Beta(.5, .5): A prior where you believe the coin is weighted, but aren't sure how much.

- Beta(.1, .1): A prior where you're very confident the coin is weighted, but unsure in which direction

- Beta(9.5, .5): The coin after 9 flips

- Beta(9.1, .1): The coin after 9 flips when you're really confident it's weighted

- Beta(8.1, 1.1): The coin after 9 flips when you're really confident it's weighted, but both sides aren't in fact the same.

Those will give you some intuition about the distribution itself.
“People in another country who are less fat will be fine” might be technically true, but it’s less than helpful when you’re trying to decide what to do right here and right now.
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I have a similar story. It was first day in a machine learning class in a computer science majors (not real ml, baby ml class) and the professor made a point to tell us to ask questions and how there are no stupid questions Bla bla. Just about fifteen minutes later, he was deriving an expression or something but my calculus was rusty so I asked him to elaborate how he went from one step to the next. I vividly remember him saying that is the most stupid question he had ever heard. I don’t think any student asked him any subject matter question all semester (only administrative questions like what’s on the test, project grading, and so on).
I don't think this really covers manufacture of general consumer passenger vehicles.

The intent is clearly to maintain transportation capability for genuinely critical workers (healthcare, food distribution and sales, police and emergency, etc). If their tesla breaks down, there is no need to manufacture a new one, they can just grab one from the sales lot.
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That leads nowhere. Everyone's sharing their opinions, the only solutions are to limit their freedoms or stop reading what they write.
Not sure what you mean. You can buy GPUs anywhere.

You can even buy Tesla V100s that power AWS accelerated instances.
I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks for the details. Do you happen to have a link handy for more information? If not, I'll see what I can find scouring the internet!
I would like to see some of those comments, thoughts, and opinions, as well-sourced as possible.

As far as I can tell, people seem to be reacting to ... a lot of translations, cherry-picking, inaccurate summations, and strawmen when it comes to this Damore deal.
IANAL, but I don't believe stating a price has any impact on whether it is anticompetitive or not. If the behavior is anticompetitive, it doesn't matter if other people do it too and state their price as well.

Giving you an option to only bulk egress is not the same either, since the most common scenario for egress would be operational day-to-day inter-network scenarios.

If there is an unreasonably high fee for exiting a provider's cloud, to any other network location, on an operational basis, it is actively discouraging exiting the provider's services creating a kind of price barrier that could be cost prohibitive for operational inter-networking.

Operational inter-networking, to me, encourages competition not discourages it.

For example, perhaps I want to use Microsoft Azure's Data Factory to move data from AWS S3 to Redshift. It is not possible as far as I know without egress from AWS to Microsoft's network, and then back again. But surely these clouds are connected with peering relationships making the cost of ingress/egress negligible, so why is this not allowed? That would allow users of the cloud to freely mix and match services from among many clouds.

The world I see today does not seem to encourage such competition.
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And then the dump. Pump and dump.
> you can always get AWS to transfer it to you via a Snowball for $30/TB + a $300 fee.

1. That fee is in addition to S3 retrieval costs.

> Q: What does it cost to export my data?

> In addition to the Export job fees detailed on our pricing page, you will also be charged all fees incurred to retrieve your data from Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/faqs/

2. $30/TB isn’t even cheap by itself.
It currently has problems with some classes of models on the GPU, but this is just due to memory management and is going to fixed soon. Julia is natively compiled, so doesn't use a tape, tracing, or for memory management simple ref counting (in this case not as good).

This is slated to be fixed in the short term with an abstract tracing framework which eliminates memory allocations. Given Julia's type information and ability to manipulate IR from third party programs, this is more general and powerful than pytorch's tracing system. Works on a larger set of code (the whole language), doesn't require actually running the code (abstract tracing), and allows for other program transforms/ analysis like compilation to XLA, shape inference, compile time errors, source to source prob programming : https://github.com/MikeInnes/Poirot.jl, and other things.

That's in the short term and should bring flux up to SOTA for speed (it already is on CPU). In the medium term, a general framework for optimizer passes will allow for more general compile time memory management.
"The customer is always right." was a marketing slogan used by retailers in the late 19th century to convince people to shop in their stores. It doesn't mean anything.
> China is freer economically

Freer economically as long as the Party wants you to be free. Otherwise they'll bankrupt you overnight.

I am incredibly curious to see how the Tesla Shanghai project plays out, given some of the extremely favourable clauses that China got out of Musk. I would bet that the factory is not really Tesla's any more within 5 years, and that Tesla Shanghai begins cannibalizing Tesla Proper's sales this year.

For reference: money earned by Tesla Shanghai cannot leave China, so every sale they make abroad is money that will be in China for a long while.
The US meat market is effectively a monopoly
I guess I’m not clear what you are looking to achieve. Were you hoping the op would stop providing amateur opinions online?
What I didn't see mentioned that concerns me (although I admit it might be a concern born purely out of ignorance): No mention of whether employees would be provided with a minimum of 2 weeks paid sick leave should they show symptoms of COVID-19. Any employee who has a reasonable chance of becoming ill with COVID-19 at their work, and who does not also have a minimum of 2 weeks paid leave, should, by all logic I can think of, refuse to return to work. In a situation with no paid sick leave or less than 2 weeks of paid sick leave, the options are mostly reduced to 2: First, return to work, get sick, then get fired for absence while off sick. Or, second, remain home and get fired for absence while remaining healthy. I suppose there is the third options, the danger-face economic kamikaze model that most Americans will likely be expected to endure - go to work, hope you don't get sick, get sick anyway, get fired for absence. Then you can't even file for unemployment. There is no winning play.
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That's no excuse. This is just another event where Tesla's uninsured Board is demonstrating they did not comply with the SEC's requirement to have a Twitter nanny on Musk.

This also should have been released in an 8-K.

At this point the SEC may as well cease to exist because it has shown itself to be utterly spineless.
"[Jimi Hendrix] was a star! When I got him, he was a star!"

Easy for Little Richard to say that after Hendrix blew up, but apparently the reason Hendrix quit LR's band was because the band hadn't gotten paid in five weeks. There's a letter from Hendrix that he wrote to his Dad from the road where he talks about this.

OTOH, LR's brother claimed that Hendrix was fired because ‘he was always late for the bus and flirting with all the girls and stuff like that.’ So who knows what the real story was there.

I think it's closer to the truth to say that Little Richard could not tolerate anyone else getting the spotlight and diminishing his star power, while Hendrix was too flamboyant himself to settle for being a sideman and already had his own original ideas and ambition to go solo.
"...crash from $9.5k USD to $8.5k USD in the past 30 minutes..."

what's this? quality bait? BTC was up and down all the time, this is normal. Say OP, do you have bitcoins? Because it seems to me you're trying to stir something
the best form of competition will be simpler distributed compute, with the ability to more seamlessly process workloads across end user device, edge compute and cloud.

of course, AWS will play there too, but doesn't mean the overall ratios won't tilt towards the edge (although plenty of data "left" for the clouds since overall data will continue to grow).
oh, yeah. Thanks for reminding me. Disclaimer: My needs are not for crypto currency :)
Link is dead? Getting a 404 here...
It's a fantastic piece of c++. I've been using it for a year or so and it's still impressive and an immense time saver. The only thing I could think of as an improvement is the documentation. There is a lot of it but it's in many different places and not easy to find. There's an article series on his blog, there is some in the readme but most is in different pages on the GitHub wiki.