skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When the term exponential heaves into view then we should quite rightly shit ourselves and do as we are told.

And yet we didn't collectively shit ourselves to nearly the same extent for any of the other novel viruses that have popped up in the last couple decades and spread exponentially.

Exponential spread is the default state of things. It's only when a virus becomes widespread in a population that the exponential spread ceases, as you indicated in your reference to R.

To use a contrived example: Imagine a new virus SARS-CoV-1337 with an R of 250 and an infection fatality rate of .00000001%. Would it warrant the response we've made to SARS-CoV-2? Clearly not.

Therefore we need to look at the actual outcomes associated with the virus, and then counterbalance those against the externalities introduced by suppressing spread. Implicitly everyone in favor of lockdown is assuming that the mortality avoided by hunkering down until a theoretical game-changer (vaccine, highly effective antiviral, monoclonal antibodies etc) is available at scale, is a bigger benefit than the negatives incurred by trying to prevent spread (lockdown/containment).

My personal opinion is that the externalities of our current approach (I'm speaking from a US-based perspective) far exceed the cost of COVID-19 itself.
Here's another one: "some of our old tweets were wrong so we just quietly deleted them lol":

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912
> Arbitrary line on the map.

Not arbitrary at all. The eastern ridge of the coastal mountain ranges runs along the border, and the border region is far more sparsely populated than the borders between the more urban counties to the west. The closest city to the border, Livermore, has far more commuting traffic in normal times to the Bay Area counties than to San Joaquin county.

What is arbitrary is the border between Alameda and Santa Clara counties, which coincidentally runs right by the Tesla factory.
>(Very) bad developer API (actually ABI). Having being in N64 emulation, you truly see they have no idea how 3D rendering was supposed to be exposed.

I'd be very interested in learning about the N64's 3D API and ABI and the issues with it, if you'd like to expand on that. Or maybe you know of a blog post or article already covering the topic?
You could add that even winning strategies can be unceremoniously smashed against the rocks of market execution failures, especially in an unregulated space like crypto. I had to learn from personal experience: roughly a years’ worth of hard-earned arbitrage profits were wiped out in the aftermath of the 50% drop back in March, despite holding offsetting positions, due to uncontrolled liquidations plus a DOS attack on an exchange.
That's no indictment of California, though.

As companies become larger and more profitable, as a general rule they move as much of their workforce as possible to lower-wage locations, whether less expensive states or less expensive countries.

Business in California is booming, which is precisely what drives wages up. Companies leaving allows other new vibrant businesses to hire the old workers.

The state isn't losing out at all. Compared with other countries, California by itself would have the 5th highest GDP in the world. It's a roaring success.
> the world needs precisely one digital store of value

that's an assumption, not a fact. The existence of an object doesn't automatically prove that the world needs that object's existence.

May be the world _never_ needs such a method, given existing mechanisms already fullfill such a need (e.g., a bank account/credit card).
Optical interferometry means you have a wider telescope. Same limit formula.
It's more likely that website owners are blocking the ASNs of hosting providers since those are often used for content scraping and exploit type attacks [since they're cheap]. There are public and private lists of hosting provider ASNs you can use to block them all if you generally only want visitors with a business/residential IP.
It won't stop being a risk until we have a vaccine, but the risk may be smaller, and once the risk gets small enough we may be able to keep it that way through testing and contact-tracing.
One thing I love about the internet - a couple of years ago I googled some half-remembered lyrics to a song I'd heard a long time ago on John Peel's show, and eventually found it was called Hey Gravity by M.A.S.S., and that someone had uploaded it to YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SOTqFNDhYI).
This is great. I made a similar product at No Nonsense Recipes https://nononsense.recipes because I was also tired of dealing with all the dreck on recipe sites. I did scrape some recipes to seed the site with but haven't integrated it as a feature yet.

I did ignore the photos though, since while recipes are not subject to copyright, photos are.
Sure, that’s why we have the Federal Emergency Do-Nothing Agency and the Centers for Disease Non-Control.
I keep hearing people assert this, but never seem to provide a legal explanation of how it would work. My understanding is that the US has upheld the longstanding use of the police power to preserve health, safety, and the general welfare. I’m curious what you think the court’s rationale would be.

I guess I have a hard time believing either that the court would entertain the idea that the county has no legitimate interest in its residents’ welfare, that they would reject legal precedent older than the US constitution, or that they would take up a challenge based on a factual disagreement about epidemiology.

My mind is open to a reasoned legal argument!
Hence the "necessity" component that is weighed against it. Building additional housing, especially in expensive cities such as NYC, is considered extremely necessary by society.
There's no single central development (aside from HW) effort, AFAIK. There are various individuals that work on particular aspects of the SoC/Phone support in the Linux kernel with some cross-over with linux-sunxi community.

And there are distribution/userspace efforts which I don't have much insight into, because I'm more focussed on the Linux kernel side of things. But from the edges it looks like a fairly small group of people pushing things forward.

I got originally interested in Linux kernel programming through various Xunlong Orange Pi boards (probably since Linux 4.6 times), Allwinner tablets, etc. I spent some years on it, and got to know a good bunch of Allwinner SoCs, and Linux driver development quite well. So when PinePhone got announced with Allwinner A64 in it, I was immediately interested. Pine64 community founder then offered me the developer unit, after noticing my interest. That was the start of it. ;)
How technology and subscriptions brought skeuomorphism back
I mean, I'm in SF so it's pretty aggressive here, but it's extremely not ended here.

I also don't really see your point.
The geographic distribution benefits for archive.org seem minimal to me - for the actual content high latency isn't a big deal.
His son Tom is on 6 Music (John Peel's name was John Ravenscroft) and has a good ear.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5gqg7lDzj9n7mJWsJs...
I was more talking about the hard data, like the number of COVID deaths of Tesla employees in China (zero) and the wide delta between the projected flattened curve here and the actual flattened curve.

Also, misquoting is a thing. I don’t think you can find the original source of your quote. He did say something similar prefaced with “my best guess.” When I used the word “data” I did mean data, not misquoted guesses from months ago.
We don’t have a public health crisis. We have a billionaire crisis.
There's quite a difference between 10000 people who come together in the same place every day and then return elsewhere. Let's assume it is more like 3000 people on three shifts consistently. Then they all go home, shop at dozens of different grocery stores where the rest of us are trying to buy food, and so forth. It adds a lot of edges to the contact graph at the moment when we are trying to sever the edges we don't need.
Do you have any examples of government sites that are doing this?

I have a side-hobby of setting up scrapers which pull scraped data into a git repository, precisely for this kind of thing. I'd be happy to set a few up.

Some of my posts about this technique (which I call "git scraping"): https://simonwillison.net/tags/gitscraping/
I totally get what you're saying.

Although I'll add that Linux has it's fair share of networking bugs and quirks (less now than before, but still plenty.)
Its value is circular. Bitcoin miners provide social proof that someone, somewhere, is willing to burn $X to acquire a Bitcoin. That how intrinsically worthless items gain monetary value—social proof.
"autopilot" as well.
Interesting test of the bill of rights isnt it ?

Where is the balance ?

Individual not being able to work and feed his family vs some of society getting sick and those who had pre existing conditions sometimes dying.

How do you predict what is worse ?

If you read about the impact of the great depression it makes covid look rather trivial. Do we repeat the great depression and is that for the benefit of society as a whole ?
Civil disobedience for some gets policy changes, and others get blasted with firehoses.
The company was backed into the corner because whether or not he was right, he created a hostile environment by starting and continuing the conversation where everyone in the company could read it.

There isn't a debate to be had in a public forum (even internal public) because the law has already decided the question.
> I had my toe in the door

Heh, I had almost my entire body through the door, but stubbed my toe on the threshold! ~50 hours logged, a handful of "cross country" solos, did my night landings etc. Got sick for about a month, holidays, wedding coming up, just never got back into it. I actually lost my logbook for a number of years but I'm looking at it now on my shelf.... one of these days.
You probably have a higher risk of dying driving to the factory than you do of dying of COVID that you caught in the factory given the size, ventilation, and PPE measures in place.
I recall the quote from Thoreau, saying we must also stand up to those "who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity."

The point of the essay is to exhibit disobedience to government when that government is perpetrating injustice. Somehow halting the production of luxury cars for a few more weeks, with the explicit intent of trying to save lives, doesn't seem like an injustice to me.
To answer your question, he has pretty direct information about his employees and his suppliers in China.
> These are just APIs on the public internet...

I could run my load balance on GCP, send traffic to applications hosted in Azure, which use AWS services to talk to each other. Sure, that's something I _could_ do. but that's drastically more expensive then if I run everything inside of AWS.

They're not just APIs on the public internet. You also need to worry about latency and cost. Talking to/from an AWS service from outside AWS is more expensive from talking inside AWS.

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

Being locked into a paid product, vs a free product are two completely different things. I can take the Kafka code base and do whatever I want to it. It's an open system. I can't do the same with DynamoDB or SQS. You can't cut ties with AWS and still have your DyanmoDB dependent systems function, while I could cut all ties with Apache and still have a functional kafka cluster.

> But, that's also the case with any service provider

Yes. That doesn't make it a good thing. Having to pay to move stocks from one broker to another isn't a good thing.

> 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.

I'm not presenting a way to avoid it. I'm stating that AWS offers a bunch of vendor lock-in type products. They're like Oracle. Oracle DB is an amazing piece of software, but they know this and charge an arm, a leg, and your soul for it. The only difference between AWS and Oracle is that AWS havn't asked for your soul yet.
Bad example. BofA besides having the federal government to prop it up works on fractional reserve explicitly.

Tether works on explicitly the opposite principle. One banked dollar for every minted Tether. Since they have no government propping them up, the certainty of those dollars is the only thing you can hold onto as far as Tether’s reality. Once they’re gone, the music stops.
Did your symptoms came and went in waves too ?
BTW WinForms (and WPF) is now open sourced.
https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
The "9/11 content" is also literally four sentences long. One sentence also introduces the recipe contributor, while another describes the original source she adapted it from.

It's not particularly gratuitous, especially given the date and location.
> Damore was aligned with the purpose of the diversity groups

I'm curious your source on this information.
Every item has a torrent file, and can be retrieved with a BitTorrent client.

https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360004715251-Arch...
Despite Recent Bets, Fed Isn’t Likely to Consider Negative Interest Rates
The CDC has a page about it [here](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm).
> Imagine if we were still selling boxed software and they decided that in light of COVID-19 they just hand it out with a two week limit.

I think that is a fair comparison. As a software developer, I would JUMP at the opportunity to do that. Partly because it would be an opportunity to help sustain the world through this time of crisis at no real cost to myself (perhaps some opportunity cost). And partly because it would serve as free advertising.
We are hit as bad with the government lockdown, or at least in the ballpark. And bigger economy too, so it's more impactful overall.
I don't foresee use of a CDN saving them much or any money. Cache hit ratio would probably be relatively low and the amount of storage required at the edge to cover an appreciable portion of traffic would be very expensive. E.g. their Akamai bill would be in the five figures per month if not six figures, depending on what kind of volume discount they could arrange, just based on outbound bandwidth. They're not the cheapest but also not the most expensive.

Serving up that large of a media library at mid scale just isn't really a great use case for a CDN, those that have to due to transit costs becoming truly enormous (e.g. Netflix) make an enormous investment in hardware at the edge that probably isn't affordable to IA (or necessary at this point).
I share some of my stuff on my website https://xnux.eu
How does a great depression level event benefit society ?

When you tell everyone to stay home its not an individual you are impacting. You are damaging the entire social structure to prevent damage to the social structure.

Is the cure worse than the disease ? Prove the disease is worse because you are supposed to have due process to remove rights.
"As an aside, many SaaS products have given away their product for free due to COVID and widespread forced WFH."

I'm sure a lot of authors would have contributed their work to the effort, if they'd been asked. But they weren't asked. It's difficult to imagine how you'd similarly force SaaS companies to give away their products for free during the pandemic -- lucky for them -- but if you found a way to do it technically, how do you think they'd react?
I think the name you give it mostly depends on whether you are inside or outside the group or stand to gain or lose from it. So one person calls the same exact thing a cabal and the other calls it a coalition. It’s dependent on the biases of the observer.
I don't think you realize how common drunk driving in in rural areas. 20% of the people on the road after 6-7 pm could be drunk in certain areas.

Edit:
Found this as a support source, while not 20% roughly 2x the rate in rural vs urban areas
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30160320
I'm not saying other cities, especially in Texas, wouldn't jump at the opportunity. I just think it's a bold move.
The underlying assumption is that your utility of the burger is greater than $1. Which is true because MacDonald is very, very efficient at making burgers (compared to you).

With bitcoin, it's a speculative trade. Everybody is "equally" good at making a coin. So the trade is happening purely due to an expectation of future utility, which may or may not come.

So therefore, speculation is zero sum.
I'm just mad at Twitter, because they should know better especially with their interface and how simple it was.
> There are open source replacements for most AWS services, but that's like saying Wine under Linux is the same as Windows.

That kinda feels like moving the goalposts. If the alternatives aren't good enough, perhaps a company that cares about avoiding lock-in should fund them and help them get better. AWS isn't obligated to help competing products work better, or even to open-source the stack that is a big part of their competitive advantage.

If you don't want to get locked into SQS or DynamoDB or whatever, then don't use it. You can build a queue out of kafka or redis or whatever, and a DDB-workalike out of cassandra or something similar.

I'm just not really sure what it is you're objecting to. If someone adopts an AWS hosted service and then later complains that they can't move off of it, that's on them for not thinking it through at adoption time.

The only alternative here that sounds like it would make people happy is if AWS didn't build anything interesting at all, and instead only gave us EC2 on commodity hardware running Xen. If they did that, they'd fail as a business to other companies that actually build things customers want.
Many people make the claim that the fundamental problem of the US is wealth inequality, or no social safety net, or disdain for the poor. I believe these claims are much more common (and in my opinion could be considered more fundamental) than the claim that nepotism is the fundamental problem.
Except that oranges are consumption goods and can be produced in whatever quantity is demanded by expanding production.

Bitcoin production is perfectly inelastic, and Bitcoin itself has no consumption value. You need a different analogy.
> It’s not a false dichotomy

You are creating a false reality where people can only be for "urban" gangsters and against the white CEO. Reality strongly disagrees with this and I suggest you join us on the other side instead of constantly trying to find things to be outraged about.
The Bay Area has high testing and contact tracing ability. As an extreme, Santa Clara County (just south of Tesla) is at a 1.5% weekly positive rate and contact tracing every positive.
I'm always fielding JD's from recruiters. I don't live in SV so I don't get absolutely inundated, but I get quite a few quality opportunities come my way which become useful during negotiations.

My recommendation to everyone, unless you're like the guy above me: Even if you're in a stable FTE, right now you should be practicing and fielding job interviews - just in case. If you're made redundant or caught in a spreadsheet, you'll be better to take the package and jump straight into work somewhere else before culture turns toxic.

You'll be up against far, far more people than you were when you last applied for a job. This will be stressful.

So get in front of it.
> Just go out in the American country side and there is so much beauty

did you think the rest of the world didn't have that?

> Europe has no such luxury due to the density of people cramped in tight corridors and old (but beautiful) architecture. There it makes sense to have a well organized city life.

Come visit the countryside in Europe.

Bonus: if you don't want to live in the city (due to work) you can work outside of it and use public transport!
I'm inclined to agree with OP here on the point that a factory is inherently safer than a grocery or retail store. At the former, the same set of people are working in a rather insulated environment where you can establish strict rules and protocols employees must follow. At the latter, there is a new mix of people going in and out everyday and it's much harder to force them to adhere to your rules.

Not saying we should "reopen" ASAP but if we can identify and implement low-risk solutions that let people get back to work, then we should - and sooner rather than later.
Ah. Sorry about that. That's a lot more reasonable.
No spot for baldness ?
Covid-19 is changing how we date
Teensy audio adapter has SGTL5000[1] running on the board and in my opinion it is highly customizable. It provides up to 96KHz sample rate (44.1 KHz with teensy's clock I guess) with 16bit sample size for ADC and DAC so I don't think it's low quality.

[1] https://www.nxp.com/products/audio/audio-converters/ultra-lo...
But that's because a company is extending credit to you, the customer, that money is being deposited next day or a few days at most into the merchant account. Without someone willing to be left holding the bag (credit card company) it's a bit of apples and oranges I think.
Dude read the legacy section then the follows up is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

The atlantic has a decent write up https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim... or the ACLU https://www.aclu.org/other/speech-campus under the "Q: But isn't it true you can't shout fire in a crowded theater?" header.
It certainly depends but for websites bulma and nextjs and strapi for backend
I don't have the sources right now, but I once watched (not attended!) a presentation that talked about how JS was initially intended to be a language more like Lisp or Smalltalk, but was changed into an OO language to appease the heavy marketing at the time.
Creating the Kedro-Preflight Hook
Honest question: how do you propose a non profit online library ask every author for written permission, while also considering the legal interests of their publishers?
Its indeed drag and drop but as soon as you want to do something that's slightly a little more complex than the regular processors in place, you need to use regex filters, branching, AVRO converters, and non-tech users will be lost very quickly.

I see it very useful to automate certain operations (watch S3 storage, take action as soon as object comes in and store in into a DB), as for such use cases it's pretty much drag and drop.
According to bitcoin experts, the price was supposed to go up due to increased scarcity and harder mining. Didn't happen.

Its only use case is trade of other useless cryptocurencies.
Does psychology have anything to say about how to effectively rescue people from conspiracy theories and other damaging memetic infections? If not, it feels like we need more research into this area
> The problem is that we can’t just snap our fingers and make tens of millions of tests appear out of thin air.

You are correct - but we (or rather the government) can snap it's fingers and compel some private companies that are well positioned to be able to manufacture tests to do so at a higher priority than other business concerns - or we (again the government) can issue generous contracts for testing supplies that guarantees payment to private companies manufacturing them even if the original quota of tests requested by the government is above the level we end up needing.

I think that large countries actually have an advantage here - a small country might not have any internal industry that'd be capable of manufacturing tests without heavy retooling - or that industry might be so small and specialized that scaling it up is infeasible. But even in that sort of a situation they can use market based solutions to bid on tests in a manner that motivates private companies in other countries to feel confident committing to test production - and that's only needed if there isn't any sort of altruistic world-banding-together-to-fight-the-issue effort.