skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The New York Times did a report on it [0]. It's important to note that not all of the increase in deaths is necessarily due to the virus itself, the lockdown could be causing more deaths due to people being resistant to going to the hospital, in which case lifting the lockdown would reduce these deaths.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/05/us/coronaviru...
> ...but coronaviruses make up ~40% of what we know as the common cold.

Up to 20%, and I've seen numbers as low as 15% [1].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_ca...
If by "funded by the US govt" you mean funded primarily by the Chinese government, with additional funding provided by the US and EU, due to the nature of the lab's work...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52318539
Strange it is all software like. Any hardware to see, to buy one or few times try, emulator to see etc. both the video and the YouTube by another guys seems no such thing.
Schadenfreude for billionaires definitely seems to be driving some of the vitriol.
They ask for voluntary compliancy as any court challenge against their orders would see the orders revoked. The county will not push Tesla on this as they know they will lose the court case.
You can get a huge number of full-text articles via PubMed/NCBI now. Basically everything funded by the US (and several other) governments needs to end up in PubMed Central within ~12 months of publication.

As for the closed-access venues, it's a thorny chicken-and-egg problem. The top journals (Nature/Science/Cell) carry a tremendous cachet; having one on your CV makes you 2-5x more likely to get a tenure-track job/interview. This makes it very hard to opt-out.
Less wasted time and lower pollution.
Note that installing youtube-dl from your package manager will likely give you such an old version it won't work with the current YouTube site.
I drive a regular hybrid and it's great on hilly terrain with many ups and downs.

I would buy a PHEV just so that it wouldn't switch from regenerative to engine braking mode so soon.
It starting to bother me that the US lockdown does not appear to have a clear goal. In some countries, it is clear that the goal is to eliminate the virus from the country. Contact tracing is key as well as regional lockdowns. In the US, I don't see much evidence we are heading towards a sustainable elimination of the virus. In the well discussed Sweden example, the goal is a managed herd immunity strategy. I am curious what every else believes the goal of the lockdown currently is:

1) The elimination of the virus. If so, do you believe this is likely to happen given the current implementation?

2) Maintaining a hospitalization rate below the number of available beds while heading towards heard immunity. If so, do believe these metrics target this, or simply attempt to minimize infections.

3) Minimize infections while buying time for something we don't currently have. A vaccine, better medical treatments, more masks, something else?

Does anyone feel like they understand what the current goal is?
I work for a city, I think you can be pretty certain that they are doing both. Hell, the team that’s working on unemployment benefits probably didn’t hear about this project before they read about it here on HN.
They already got wiped out in early March when the price dropped 50% in one day. Trust me—I was there at 2am when BitMEX suffered a DOS attack right when the price bottomed and rebounded $1000 in less than an hour.
There's construction going on next door to my apartment building in Brooklyn, an area code where 50%+ are testing positive for covid antibodies. There's no reason that would be safer than an auto plant, if anything it is less so.
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From the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Nothing you are saying is legally correct. These issues can only be decided through litigation, which has not occurred.
> "Those are all AWS services you can't use outside AWS"

What does that mean?

You can absolutely run an application hosted on Azure or GCP that uses DynamoDB or SQS as it's backing database, or queueing system?

These are just APIs on the public internet...

> If you design for those services, you're locked into using AWS.

Is that not the case with any software - including open source?

If you design for Active MQ, you're "locked in" to MQ interfaces. If you design for Kafka, you're "locked in" to Kafka interfaces.

Now, your argument about imbalanced data transfer rates MAY have aspects of lock-in - AWS does make it easier to onboard than offboard. But, that's also the case with any service provider, and I don't even mean software. Stock brokerages charge a fee for transfering portfolios out of their management, and the stock brokererage you transfer your stocks TO will usually cover those fees.

Data transfer isn't free, it makes sense that AWS would charge for it, and it would make sense that it would charge more for one direction.

Unless your expectation is that every software or SaaS company's API is open-source and interoperable with every other provider, I just don't see how you can avoid the kind of "lock-in" you describe.
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For the cherry on top, it links Medium as a main source.

No, I link Medium as a good explanation. Is there a reason an easy to understand explanation can't be on Medium?
You assume authors are losing revenue from this effort. It is likely this revenue would never have been realized regardless of the Archive’s efforts. A piece of content copied doesn’t mean someone would’ve paid for it.

As an aside, many SaaS products have given away their product for free due to COVID and widespread forced WFH.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/347840
It should apply equally to all other similar businesses in the same area. Elon has been complaining that Tesla is the only automaker under these restrictions, but no other automaker is in California so the comparison makes no sense.
Then you can make the same argument for opening up, since a business will become insolvent if left closed indefinitely and we're back into the same situation (unemployment).
I am reading between the lines here but I think he is saying that the 'trend' you are talking about is a figment of your own and the imagination of some marketing folks from some companies -- combined.

I.e. it has no substance from a user's pov a priori (his point) and it has no substance from the pov of someone looking at the numbers of this a posteriori (my point, elsewhere in this tread, which I am happy to actually back up any time).

I mean a Quadro 8k RTX can stash 48GB. Standard on 3D artist workstations is 128GB today. Even my freelancer friends have this in their boxes now at the very least.

Go figure what is standard RAM size on render rigs on farms these days based on that ...

And that's not even considering compute restrictions on these GPU rigs that make them simply unfit for certain scenes.
"A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be..."

Actually home is a much safer place to be.

"not an evidence-first safety driven approach."

Not true, staying home is why so many place have 0 new COVID-19 cases. That's evidence-first so Musk is selectively ignoring it because he wants to make his cars.
No, if you have the salt and the client side hash then you do a dictionary attack and you have their plaintext password, the one they presumably use on multiple sites.

All you've done is move your attack from the server to the client. It's the same attack on both ends.
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He's actually not willing to go to prison - he has infinite money and lawyers, he'd never do a day. What he is willing to do is sacrifice the health and safety of his workers for a little more money. If he could get away with hiring Pinkertons to break the knees of striking workers he absolutely would.
Civil disobedience is typically, but not always, punished. We will have to see how this plays out.

There is also the question of which branch of government gets to have a say in the enforcement of a law. Consider California's approach to marijuana use vs the Federal government's. Or consider how there are numerous sanctuary cities that are in defiance of Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

These things are complicated.
Thanks. I'll take a look at it.
So three decades total? That’s not a revolution. That’s a reaction to slowly evolving government policies. Thank the governments of the world for the change you see.
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I love that Tesla has been seriously pushing out ICE cars, and hope that continues.

I'm just disappointed that Tesla is run by someone who I see as erratic and crazy. It's worked out so far, but it'd be a shame to see Tesla lose out because Elon finally snaps too far.
Pretty much the only reasonable explanation here. His twitter mentions are full of conservative types showering praise at him. I think its brilliantly cynical
The NYT[0] has some neat graphs, but it's not a primary source. EuroMOMO[1] is a source for Europe, but I don't know what the equivalent would be for the US.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

[1]https://www.euromomo.eu/
Elon Musk restarts Tesla factory in defiance of county orders
Last I checked there wasn't really any movement at all. If anything, the price has dropped.
> A Tesla factory is a much safer place to be than a Home Depot or a Costco, and many other businesses open in California today. We aren't talking about sporting events here: we're talking about some of the lowest risk and unavoidable interactions.

> This is locking down for the sake of locking down, not an evidence-first safety driven approach.

You are stating that like it was a fact. It's NOT. Where is the evidence to support that Tesla factory is lowest risk? Now perhaps if all of the original KUKA robots are on and assembly lines are automated then it would probably be a different story. But apparently it's not, is it?

We still haven't fully grasped the full cause and damages SARS-CoV-2 will bring to people (for instances, originally we thought children are extremely low risk, but they are NOT, they could be infected and DIE too!). We still haven't even near the order of magnitude of CODVID testing AND contract tracing programs needed to reopen economy, what on earth you think reopening is a good idea?

What about the healthcare workers sacrificing their lives to save selfish people like Elon Musk? Those ICU doctors and nurses are EXTREMELY fatigued. Premature reopening will most likely bring another big wave of infections and deaths, and then we are back to square one - wasting all these past 2 months of hard physical distancing measures.

As a long time EV driver and a big fan of Elon Musk, I am deeply disappointed at him on this.

PS: Tesla's Return back to Work playbook has no mention about doing daily testing for its employees, we do know asymptomatic transmission accounts for huge percentages. How does he plan to address that? What kind of hero he is to calling for his employees to go back to work and die for capitalism?
We're essentially trying to do the minimum possible in the US, with the hope that if we cut enough corners, we won't have to rely on legislation, cause that would never take place in a timely manner.
Flights right now are unnaturally cheap.
> But I do support the ability of the government to set policy without convincing every one of its constituents of the validity of its evidence.

To claim that the environment is unsafe (or safe for that matter) one must _test_ their beliefs against empirical evidence, not just _illustrate_ such theory with selected facts. Has the government done that in this case?
I tried to give an answer here. Does this help?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23147150
The ability to earn a living is a human right that no government can deprive you of without a good, specific reason and due process.
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they do have SEVERE cash flow issues, but like pretty much everything Elon does, it could have been handled better. Considering the days where Tesla was small enough to be managed by an inexperienced CEO are way in the past, I really wish Tesla got some more professional top management. They REALLY need their own Satya Nadella to right that ship.
A team for tasks,
like the Air Force for air and Space Force for space?
Okay, any one of the other CDNs then. It seems like the bandwidth costs and equipment are prohibitively expensive for them. There must be a reason they don't use them which is what I want to know.
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But this isn't long term. A few months is a far cry for long term.
Sure, but the point is there would have to be a Gilbert-like mechanism for every subsystem of the body.

And Gilbert isn't "free" -- it comes at cost. The body is a machine, and engineering is full of tradeoffs.

People with high abilities in one area (geniuses) often have low abilities in others. Optimizing some protein for your heart isn't neutral for the rest of your body, etc.

The point about the stars is that evolution has "determined" that it can be optimal to take a ton of risks and die early than to live safely for 200 years (in some cases, of course evolution favors diversity too, which is why you see centenarians).

If you could get reward without risk, then it wouldn't work that way -- the "stars" would live forever creating great music and not drink themselves to death. But life is full of tradeoffs and reward involves risk.
> I still think there's a possibility this virus was already in the US before 2020.

Yeah, I don’t understand why people are so against the idea of it being in the U.S. before 2020. There’s no possible way we can trace every American who may have traveled within the China region or interacted with another person who was in that region around the start of COVID spreading. Just because there were no official cases of COVID does not mean it was not here.

I had a roommate visit Japan in November. He came back and was extremely ill for about a week. No hospitalizations but he was out of commission and isolated by himself.
Oh yes, billionaires and corporations figured highly in Thoreau’s _Civil Disobedience_. From Walden Pond to Elon, it’s a straight line of coherent thought.
Governments aren't the only ones overwriting old information with new either. The BBC has developed an annoying habit of completely overwriting old articles about Covid-19 with new, semi-related ones, meaning that the only way to see what they were saying earlier in the pandemic is through sites like the Internet Archive.

There's also at least one outright correction that only seems to exist on the Internet Archive now: https://web.archive.org/web/20200428214306/https://www.bbc.c... "Correction 25 April 2020: An earlier version of this article incorrectly said that France had conducted just under 140,000 tests a day by 21 April. The figure of just under 140,000 refers instead to the number of tests it had carried out weekly."
I wonder if SpaceX could realistically live with a new CEO. I believe Tesla is doomed anyway, but SpaceX seems to actually have a future. What I cannot understand, though, if it is succeeding because Musk is its CEO, or despite Musk being its CEO...
Yep, in a Niemöller-ignorant, selfish manner.[0]

And "Russian roulette" would imply suicidal gambling of one's own volition so that is an improper metaphor.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
Cal OSHA is great. We once had a pressure vessel delivered and I discovered a small ding in it. We called the mfr and without looking they said "don't worry about it". We called the cal osha pressure vessel unit about it (they had issued our permit after all) and 5 minutes later had a call from the manufacturer asking what the hell was going on. 45 minutes later someone from cal osha showed unannounced (from Oakland to Redwood City in 45 minutes in the middle of the day -- he must have hopped in his car as soon as we got off the phone wit the receptionist). He decided it was safe and gave us a ticket as evidence.

As it happened we were being sued by a welding contractor company who'd sent us unqualified personnel who were not making safe steam welds. We had to cut them all out and we all had them around the shop as "trophies". It was an expensive lawsuit -- hundreds of $K. Since he was a nice guy and clearly knew his stuff, when he asked about them we showed him some and told him about firing the contractor. He said, "give me a copy of that lawsuit". And a few days later that was the end of it!

Funny thing about steam pressure vessels: there's no safety barriers against them blowing up (just tons of rules to try to keep that from happening). If that vessel had exploded it would likely have taken out the entire city block, and possibly the elementary school across the street. So we were delighted to follow all the rules. When I was perched on a ladder tweaking some instrumentation I was comforted that that if anything went wrong I'd never know.

Some of the California county toxics agencies on the other hand....some too strict and some, IMHO, excessively lax. Word to the wise: f you want to run a (legal!!) drug lab do it in San Mateo county not Santa Clara County.
> Why don’t you compare to China’s neighbours such as S. Korea and Taiwan?

S. Korea and Taiwan handled the Covid19 situation much better than China. Much better than everyone else.

When Musk is criticized for being upbeat about China, the implicit comparison it with the US though. In this context, the comparison with the US is not irrelevant at all.

> Start at 10 and take 1 point off China’s score for each of bananabreakfast’s points.

Starting at 10, you can indeed take points from China's score. 1 for each of those points is a bit too much. If your goal is simply to win an argument and get to negative score, I guess you can do that. If you want to do an objective assessment, you do add points for the low number of total deaths. A lot of points.

In the US we had the debacle of the tests, the PPE's, the "masks are useless", the "it's safe to travel by plane", the "I don't personally go on cruises, but if you do, it's safe" , etc, etc. And lots of deaths.
Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines the right to work.

I'm not interested in casting Elon Musk as some sort of heroic figure, and if it turns out he has coerced his workers or endangered them in practice, not just theoretically, he should pay for that.

But the freedom to work is absolutely a human rights issue.
and it has mattered zero.
SuperGenPass[1] is a refinement of this idea. The code itself has been dormant for years[2], but the bookmarklet and mobile web versions still work great. In fact, adding the mobile web page to my iPhone home screen with Safari makes this a pretty straightforward way to make passwords accessible on mobile without worrying about syncing.

1: https://chriszarate.github.io/supergenpass/
2: Since 2016 :( https://github.com/chriszarate/supergenpass/commits/master
Fair. The article I read said he was anonymous but I do see his name is available in other sources.
C'mon it's insulting to cabals to say they don't coordinate. How can they cabalize effectively without that?
Well, the UN definition of "Human Rights" includes the "right to work"[1]. So one could argue that this is, in fact, a Human Rights issue. Just because this guy is a billionaire does not mean that these rights do not apply to him.

[1]https://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/human-rights/
60 Gbit/s of continuous traffic is a lot. If I'm reading the graphs right, Wikipedia "only" has 13.4 Gbit/s of outbound traffic [1]. Of course still well below the single-digit Tbit/s traffic of large internet exchanges [2] [3], but still unexpectedly large.

[1]: adding up the outbound numbers for each datacenter: 1.888 + 8.003 + 810 + 1.958 + 807: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/000000605/datacenter-global-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_poin...

[3]: Not 100% correct as thanks to Corona, ix.br now has passed 10 Tbit/s peaks. https://ix.br/noticia/releases/ix-br-reaches-mark-of-10-tb-s...
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Exactly. Nothing about Bitcoin has changed... except the supply flow. Demand might adjust but it certainly won’t magically drop in half overnight.
And what of the employees of Hobe Depot and car manufacturers who depend on their income to purchase said groceries?
Finally. So many college students I know have tried building this but none took off because it really does need to be in the Spotify app.
Looks like the site is demoing the altimeter reading changing as the setting is changed. Note the altitude is changing properly with respect to altimeter setting.
And when it's the employer who "doesn't care" the employee rarely has a choice.
I mean, tragically, testing capacity in this country may never be where it needs to be, because we don't have an election coming up soon enough to replace our incompetent leadership in time to help.

But that doesn't mean we shouldn't push back on the claim that the only two options are uncontrolled spread and never ending lockdown. There is another way, it isn't hypothetical, it is being executed elsewhere. We just aren't taking that path.
Yep.

angle = k (wavelength / diameter)

And the diameter is going to be limited by the launch vehicle. But multiple satellites could improve this.
Those factory workers are going to be in a lot more duress if the factory does not open or eventually moves to another state.
I wasn't addressing whether bitcoin is or isn't a good currency. I was explaining why I downnvoted a comment that argued to that effect.

Are you saying that every comment whose conclusion happens to right should be upvoted (or at least not downvoted)? If so, that would be a mistake. If you present bad reasons to believe correct conclusion X, you are hurting the discussion just as much as if you argued for not-X. And the reasons given in that comment (fixed quantity implies zero-sum utility over such transactions) are bad reasons to believe bitcoin is not a currency.

Furthermore, there's still the fact that the commenter was latching onto a minor, tangential point and blowing it up to be the focus of the discussion. That's also an anti-pattern.

If you want to argue that bitcoin makes for a bad currency, great! I would just encourage you to bring it up in a place where it's actually relevant to the article or comment it replies to, and do so with reasons that pass simple sanity checks.
That's not what the Federal Government is for, though, even in theory. The Federal government handles foreign affairs and interstate disputes.
I was curious about that too. The US Treasury thinks that $300bn is laundered every year. Then ciphertrace thinks $2.5bn is laundered through crypto currencies.

While BTC is tracked between wallets and that's easily measured, it's unclear how to measure wallets being transferred between people.
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The county of Alameda is overriding the state of California's rule that would allow them to open and the federal classifications that would allow them to remain open.
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It's not a complete list. For example, The Rock of Travolta aren't on it, despite having done a Peel session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QsfPJKbAtc
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Good documentary on spy satellites: https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.1678526