skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone explain to the uninitiated what halving is?
> We’d be ‘short’ high-tax markets and ‘long’ low-tax markets over the long-term.”

This seems really silly. My wife and I are considering leaving the city we love but tax rates have nothing to do with it. The reasons we want to live in the city (public transit, activities, social lives) have evaporated overnight. With no schools, no parks, and no office to commute into, there's an obvious appeal to buying a bigger house with a big yard. But for a family that's fortunate enough to be able to choose, the choice is about what kind of lifestyle we want, not the delta in tax rates.
i think what many people don't understand are how many other layers will block re-opening once the gov. gives a green light.

plenty of businesses are closed in states where the Governor has given a green light to re-open.

It can be plain common sense by the business owner, food handling rules, city laws, office buildings enforcing impossible rules such as 1 person per elevator, liability from lawsuits and the insurance fees that come from that, office layout that needs a complete rebuild, workers scared for themselves or people they live with, and many more
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I don't think much is gained from chronicling every episode in the saga of Musk's opposition to the quarantine.
There always seem to be bitter flame wars in the comments section, and I don't think there's anything "deeply interesting" about Musk's week long rebellion.
The difficulty of the task adjusts periodically, based on the amount of computation provided by all miners.

What matters to an individual is their percentage of the overall mining power, not their computing power in absolute terms.
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All the employers need to know this information so they know when they can reopen. It's not like they all have some direct hotline to the governor that will call them when they can open.

This is a good way to keep workplaces up to date so they can let their employees know to come back. Especially since the governor is letting every one of these regions handle reopening themselves, so it won't be some statewide announcement on TV.
just gonna to chime in to say: yea, this is a defensible position IMO. where FB falls is debatable (they have a ton of features / different UI elements / etc), but I can see where you're coming from.

tbh I think the vast majority of this engineering absurdity is to prevent teams from stepping on each other unknowingly, not for any direct end-user benefit. a lot of work goes into "make it so I don't have to work with X to get my work done" in all businesses, and... I dunno. it's not always a bad thing, but it does feel like quite a lot of waste.
A manager 1:1 or immediate-working-team video call would have been more respectful way to end a working relationship, no? Something that includes some amount of personal communication/conversation rather than a mass broadcast anonymous message?

Treating someone as a person, rather than a resource. If it were happening to you, what would you hope for?
What if you left HTML alone?
A new space telescope will not be subject to Starlink interference. SpaceX will be happy to launch it for you at very competitive prices.
I always forget about yuv420p, I'll try it thanks!
recent Twitter insanity?

I'm a huge fan of what Musk is trying to do, and I realize to accomplish the near-impossible like that takes someone a little crazy to begin with, but that doesn't give him a free pass to act like a total dick. Heck, I even support a lot of his gripes against California, but his behavior is leading me more towards a "despite my past excitement, I will never buy a Tesla" stance.
If you have not seen the movie The Man From Earth, I highly recommend it.
As a business owner it might let you plan around how likely it will be that you'll still be allowed to be open next week and get an idea of how safe potential customers are feeling.

I think it doesn't do a lot for folks that just work in an office - but there are a lot of people, business owners and HR folks, that are trying to help their employees get a better grip of what the situation is and how it's trending.
This reminds me of the Kurt Vonnegut novel Galapagos, in which the human race evolves beyond the era of really big brains since they weren't doing us that much good after all and made our heads less streamlined for swimming after fish.
These responses happen after people encounter me first, then see my kids come up to join the conversation (in their 20's) getting introduced as my kids, at which point the person I'm talking with realizes I am way older than they thought and they freak out. "Routinely" doesn't mean daily, but it does mean it happens often enough to be a thing.
Welcome to cancel culture, and by product of infinite data retention
Side issue, but if someone is going to bullshit me, I really appreciate it if they do a good job. Put some effort in. Make it believable.

Otherwise, you're insulting my intelligence, and maybe it's just my ego, but having my intelligence insulted offends me more than being lied to does.
I am not the most qualified to talk about performance differences between something like React/Vue or Jquery when it comes interactive applications but I can surely tell you that frameworks like React/Vue with state management concept makes it a lot easier to write interaction heavy web apps.

Jquery still has a place I think but React/Vue etc are definitely not a Fad even though in some cases, devs try to use it for the wrong stuff (like building a website with React when u could just throw static HTMLs with some jquery on top).
FYI, dietician > nutritionist. Dietician is a protected term, like doctor, or dentist. Nutritionist is not. Any joker can call themselves a nutritionist.

Going to see a nutritionist rather than a dietician is like going to see a toothiologist rather than a dentist.

So it is rather an insult to your sister to say that she is "not even a nutritionist".
This reminds me of PasswordMaker[1], a neat tool that you can easily self host (or run offline from your filesystem) and customize. The basic idea is that you don't have to store any passwords, but you can still easily have a different one for every account. You generate a hash based on the domain/hostname and the master password.

It worked really well for a long time, tho eventually I ran into enough corner cases that I had to switch to a traditional password manager anyway. I still use it for some stuff however.

[1]: https://passwordmaker.org/passwordmaker.html
> Calling an objects methods with parameters is tied to that execution context.

Not necessarily - this depends on the language, or rather, on the object model. But consider COM or CORBA: you call a method, but the object might be on a different machine altogether.
> come across as unprofessional

Why should a free tool need to come across as "professional" though. There's enough boring "professionalism" in the documentation of commercial tools where the legal department makes double-sure that nothing slips through.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the authors putting their personal opinion into the documentation of their tool and voicing their frustration about shortcomings of "professional" platforms they have no power to change anyway.
It was built from scratch at the NSA and open sourced a few years ago.
I considered going down the ML route, but didn't know where to start. I'd love to hear how you would approach it.
> Almost every protein in the human body has multiple unrelated functions

That is why the phrase "DNA is the blueprint of the cell" is terrible. In a blueprint, one can move a door 6" to the right without affecting the rest of the structure, add or remove a window, etc.
That excerpt about your experience almost felt like a post mortem of my last job. The only differences are that we went from Typescript > Go, and had absolutely no time to stop and learn the language.
None of which have wifi, as far as I can see?
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>BTC is no exception: if it costs $1 to make $2 in BTC, you can be sure a lot of people will be 'making' BTC until the cost of making BTC and it's market value start to merge.

Bitcoin is weird though because no matter how many miners there are, it's still minted at the same rate globally. If it cost a miner $1 to make $2 in Bitcoin, what would not happen is new miners joining and flooding the market with more Bitcoins until the price of Bitcoin falls. Instead, new miners would keep joining and the miners would be cutting into each other's profits until it cost them all approximately $2 to make $2 in Bitcoin.
A lot of companies won't last a year when their business operations are effectively ceased overnight - whether they were sustainable beforehand or not.

Uber certainly had cash flow problems before this started, but even companies with healthy cash flow that operate in heavily hit industries are going to feel this. For example, Expedia recently laid off 3,000 if I remember correctly.
Uber has $8B in cash.
I wanted to add that this sentiment is not new. Here it is from 2016:
https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...

Web development clearly has a problem. I don't know enough to say what we have to do about it but I look at the current state and my face curls up in disgust
As a game master, it's basically an infinite source of NPC portraits and some are even PC-worthy.
These were late-70s era KENNAN satellites. I wouldn't say they were "revealed" as much as they were declassified and donated.

There have been 4 new generations of imagery platforms since, up to the current MISTY system that started launching in 1990.
Look at the NetBurner products. For the most part they Just Work, and their uCos-derived OS is a pleasure to use. It has a distinctly simplistic old-school vibe, but they have updated it to support WebSockets and numerous other new(ish) features. The end result is a good compromise between LwIP and full-blown Linux/BSD.

No association with the company, just a satisfied user.
If you compare crashes per flight by year, the entire industry has become safer over time. The expected number of crashes given their operating history assuming an average airline would likely be zero. In fact over 20 major airlines currently having a clean record. So, on it’s own that’s really not enough information to say anything.

If we are trying to find ‘the best’ airline in the industry you need to either consider only current practices/equipment etc, or look for airlines with zero crashes despite higher expected lifetime risks.
This is fun to play around with!

A UI request - in testing different scenarios, I want to delete & retype the first digit or two only (what if I want 60000 per year? 75000 per year?) but deleting only the first digit empties the whole text box and I have to type out the zeros every time. Would be great to be able to edit only part of the many long numbers instead of the whole thing.
Indeed. Everyone is spouting populist talking points (yeah! screw foreign money!) without explaining how Canada is going to fix its anemic productivity growth and compete globally, particularly as we're actively destroying our own resource industries.
It seems extreme but I think we should give everyone a chance to learn.

He changed his opinions on a range of subjects. If everybody has to step down from a CEO position because of opinions and affiliations they had 30 years ago we will severely limit leadership options to a more narrow group of people than we should.

I think zeitgeist and thereby society is moving quicker than we realize and thereby we shouldn't hold people accountable for every thought they had for an eternity. We should narrow it maybe down to a maximum of decade or so.

The boom of data recording on individual level is otherwise going to hunt people down into infinity.

Especially around the most controversial topics like sexism, racism and other bigotry people will make mistakes and what we are doing today is likely to be seen as immoral by a majority of the people living next century.

In 1901 a woman was sentenced 30 days to jail because she smoked in public in New York City.

In 1958 the government of Belgium decided to invite 500 people out of a colonial of Africa , to put these people on display next to the chimpanzees.

Today both examples from last century would at least end in a career suicide.
Some of us wants to see further than the local neighbourhood man, why you gotta be so salty?

In any case it's not like NASA funds ground based telescopes, so I'm not sure what you would want to happen instead, just more rockets in space with blinkenlights to mess up the Rubin frames?
In general, it's still true that denoising a higher quality input will yield a higher quality (closer to resolved) output, so all you have to do is wait a little longer.

Denoising is typically applied in interactive environments where you don't get a static result, you get a new denoised result that includes more samples every frame. Undersampling is easy to spot because the denoised image jumps a lot every frame. Once it stops moving a lot, you can have a lot more confidence.

So the problem you're citing is not one that you're stuck with, and it's not a problem in practice.
If you still have to use Zoom, at least uninstall the desktop Zoom and take advantage of some private browsing instead:

"With this change, you can now join Zoom calls on Firefox without the need for any additional downloads." https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0/releasenotes/

"Zoom Redirector transparently redirects any meeting links to use Zoom's browser based web client." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-redirect...
I don't live in a suburb and don't really like them. But I am in the orbit of a major city while being pretty rural. I don't really anticipate en-mass movement. A lot of the people already living in cities will just accept whatever restrictions and risk. But I do think some on the edge might reconsider living in places where you don't need to be in elevators or share transit with a lot of other people,
From https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page I compute 0.23% of NYC's population has died of Covid-19, counting confirmed + probable deaths and dividing by 8.399 million people. That's 1 out of every 421 people.
These are gamechanging. Anapurna labs is the team that Amazon acquired to design the custom silicon. They have a track record of amazing innovation, including powering EC2's 25gbps network stack, and the Nitro accelerator cards that offload critical security functionality from the CPU. Since Anapurna designed these from scratch, they've built higher levels of security into the architecture, including fully encrypted DRAM.
People hold gold in order to protect themselves against “unprecedented times”. You don’t need a full monetary collapse to make a profit. They are volatility harvesting and cashing out many times over a long period of time and rebalancing into other assets.

Modern portfolio theory says you can’t predict the market; however, you can be absolutely certain people in a group will overreact and over buy or sell an asset group. This is a well studied fact. You can capitalize on this. It’s called volatility harvesting. Look into risk parity portfolios. That said if everyone did this, the hard stance on modern portfolio theory would hold true. At this time humans aren’t capable of acting rationally as a total group.
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>Given this all-caps disclaimer, I wouldn't exactly be reassured that USDC would be worth anything in the event Coinbase went out of business:

But every line in the disclaimer are probably applicable to bond/USD ETFs as well, but people aren't exactly fleeing from those.
Not sure what you mean. PrestoDB is an analytics data store. The only correlation between NiFi and Presto would be if you wrote data to Presto using NiFi.
I hope they picked the title of the article in the physical NYT paper release, and not the nytimes website, since the website is known to change the title.
> Have you studied how the specificity of antibody tests is validated, like on blood banked before the emergence of the virus? Why don't you think that validation is adequate? I agree that the correctly-calculated confidence interval for something like the Santa Clara study is near-uselessly wide, but I don't see any reason to doubt serology from harder-hit areas.

Yes, my understanding is two-fold. One, that independent verification (like https://covidtestingproject.org/) found less specificity than the manufacturer reported results. And it found that some tests had false positive rates of well over 10%, which is just completely useless. The Santa Clara study is useless with pretty much any test, but even some of the NYC numbers have error bars down to zero, depending on the serology test used.

> in a particularly hard-hit neighborhood. So I'd guess its results are correct for the people sampled, but not representative of the overall city.

I can and do also totally believe conclusions like this are possible: I'm sure that there are population subsets that have achieved near total immunity. I don't particularly doubt the conclusions of the Boston homeless study, for example, although I expect if we check back in on them, many will have reported symptoms and some will be hospitalized. But again, drawing conclusions about "we should reopen" from that kind of thing is irresponsible.

> I believe that's very, very false--NYC's official numbers are around 4x that already, and those imply an IFR consistent with (and even higher than) estimates like Verity's. To claim even 2% IFR seems borderline-irresponsibly high to me, let alone the >4% that implied.

It looks like you're correct, the data I was looking at was wrong/outdated/I can't read or something. Given that, I would agree that NYC basically has to have 5% infected, and 10% is reasonable, although 20 and 25% I'd still have doubts about (and even more doubts about them given that the data is from ~3 weeks ago). So yes, I'd agree that an IFR of 4% plus is irresponsible to suggest, and I didn't intend to do so.
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If starship becomes a real-go-to-orbit rocket, the cost to put this telescopes up there will go down, and they can likely use larger heavier materials to make the telescopes themselves, also reducing the cost a lot
I would like a response from the MODS on this as well
Read more about USDC and then come back. USDC is literally backed 1-1 with USD in a bank - by definition.
Also @humansofflat on twitter. Although the tweets are now protected, so I don't know what the current status of the account is.
Not disagreeing, but don't forget how fast this thing can grow. It was doubling ... every 2 or 3 days? Smaller infected population buys you weeks of time, but that's all.
1. Broader observation spectrum (IIRC JWST is visible red to infra red)

2. Machine time for researchers (I don't know how congested Hubble is but humanity could use more than a single telescope)

3. Redundancy in case JWST goes up in flames and we're left without a space telescope
And... they're gone. Starting to be DCMA'd one by one.
"Weird cold" in February checking in. Fever, back pain, chills, post nasal drip. Felt bad for ~3 days and then felt better. Getting antibody tested tomorrow, will report back.
I bet activities and educational environments that correlate (for whatever reason) with higher-than-average intelligence train for bullshitting, directly or indirectly. Improv, verbal sparring games (e.g. "Questions"), debate, small-group discussion-driven instruction styles (as the Harkness method of Phillips Exeter Academy)
"The man from the earth" movie comes to mind reading this. Should have ctrl+f 'ed before commenting. It's a great movie.
Are you saying there are big innovations in the optics for the newer ones?

I mean, we saw what the current capability was last year, and it that didn't seem like it's hugely better than the picture they put in the article.
> We are (or are suppose to be) a free society, not serf's of the government

The analogy fails because serfs couldn't vote for their king. We have a democracy here, albeit an imperfect one. So far California has a low COVID death rate, especially for a state that was hit early with outbreaks in its two biggest metropolitan areas: LA and the South Bay. It's almost certain that our early shelter in place orders (from our elected government) has saved hundreds of lives.

The reality is that, for many Americans, our boss exercises more power over our lives than our government. Billionaire CEOs like Elon Musk threaten our health and livelihoods by pressuring workers to come back to unsafe work environments early. Elon spending a day taking selfies on the assembly line notwithstanding.

> Quantify and prove that risk, and prove that Tesla's mitigation are not effective.

The burden of proof is not on me to to show that an auto assembly plant is safe for workers during an epidemic. The burden of proof is on the owner of the plant. The US has a long history of sweatshop, factory and mine owners coercing employees to work in dangerous conditions. Elon telling his employees to expose themselves to COVID to keep his plant running on time is keeping in that shameful tradition.

https://www.google.com/search?ei=vM-5XtjsIJLM-gTIm6CIDw&q=ca...
Yeah - everything is fucked so why do anything? Lets just sit here and criticize everything. And that is the life we choose to live.
The Fed determines monetary policy. The president of the United States appoints the Fed board. Ergo the fed is accountable to the people of the United States. [1]

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed46.html
How about a proprietary lower-resolution FP16 floating point instruction set that might speed up your AI inference?
Also related: The Ubiquitous Matrix of Lies by Charles Eisenstein: https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-ubiquitous-matrix-o....
Now is a perfect time for people to bone up on the rabbit hole that is binomial confidence intervals!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_proportion_confidence...

TLDR: whether you're a frequentist or Bayesian, the Jeffrey's interval is pretty good. Use Clopper-Pearson if you're a frequentist who is scared of undercovering.

I get 0.011% for the 2.5% quantile and 0.46% for the 97.5th quantile.
Yes.

I think it's b/c our server(s) are in Dallas... they just posted a notice now

> Network performance issue in the Dallas datacenter

> Investigating - Cloudflare is investigating issues with network performance in the Dallas region. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com