skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> except for that ~20% reduction in R at best

And following up to note the above is wrong--assuming heterogeneous spread (most patients infect no one, but a few super-spreaders infect many), contact tracers will naturally find those super-spreaders disproportionately, with disproportionate benefit. I still doubt that's the dominant difference, though.
Mostly it looks like the latter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure#Deaths
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I guess it could be way more people carrying guns, but eventually the police will start treating white people with guns like they treat black people (an excuse to kill them because the felt threatened). But the probably far more likely way to change policing is getting control of police forces,firing the cops, reconstituting them with real oversight and no special immunity.
While searching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure#Deaths
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Found by a mysterious man from the east who doesn’t want to be identified?

Sounds like Forrest Fenn’s bullshit will never end.
They say in the article that this toilet does not test the poop, it just analyzes the image.
I suggest finding a therapist and talking it through with them. I feel like I'm in much the same situation - I'm lucky, have more than enough of the things I need, job that makes enough money, health more or less, etc. but feel lost on purpose.

I think talking with a therapist is so great I recommend it to everyone, not just those who are suffering from some kind of "problem." Only you can really find the solution, but that doesn't mean you have to do it alone. Many times I find what to do to be somewhat counter-intuitive.

Sometimes external review is required to make sure the requirements are met for such complex problems as implementing a life. ;)
Let's wait two days, tune in and see instead of jumping to conclusions. No reason to shit on something we don't know all the details about.
Somebody died as recently as March looking for it. I wonder if Fenn just decided to call it quits and claim somebody found it (if there was anything ever to find at all). I find wanting to remain anonymous a bit of head scratcher since being part of Fenn's treasure might add more value to the goods.
An actual credit card is blazing fast too. I don't know how this is immune to inflation.

At best this honestly is a solution looking for a problem.

At worst it's yet another ico scam.

I don't know why anyone would be interested in this. Sorry to be harsh but I worked in payment processing. This is a project going nowhere because it doesn't do anything new or useful
At least one person is bathing in it: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-24/...

Pretty crazy.
I think "single-use missile sled" is actually a USAF project right now, but that's meant to be deployed from a fighter/bomber.
Agreed. Protesting in my country is going on but funerals are restricted and weddings forbidden. Grandparents haven't seen there grandchildren in a long time...
"We can't do any of that until we modernize our ancient child pornography laws."
I can understand the sentiment of the people behind those writings, but it doesn't really answer my question. What will replace the Minneapolis police department if it's disbanded?

Many (most?) of its current responsibilities and funding can be given to social workers, traffic wardens, and other people not armed with guns, but that doesn't obviate the need for officers of the government to enforce the law. Laws can change and become less strict, but we will always need some form of police.
1968 Hong Kong flu killed 100,000 people. (170k population adjusted)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23451560
I'll agree with the article's author - there is a quality to a Forth-style solution that just doesn't compare to other languages' styles or overall structure.

When I first heard of Forth and started trying out some of my own code, I was surprised by the initial effort it took me to adjust to writing small words vs C style functions.

I then started building on the pieces I first wrote, and it took very little code to cover my needs.

So yes, there's a very different experience, and it does take adjustment for anyone only familiar with function-style code. And it is not just what I've described, there's a whole different thought pattern involved.
Trump and Clinton were both impeached too. Neither were convicted, but Nixon wasn't convicted either (he quit before that could happen.)
It's certainly not how I'd word it, but if you read the whole letter they clearly and unambiguously acknowledge and restate the risk. That's the beginning and end of it for me.
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The Mayans did leave lots of stelae around, and recorded a wealth of chronological information on them using a rather precise calendrical system. Consequently, we actually know more about the Classical Maya than contemporary Europe in this regard, the latter being in the midst of the Dark Ages.
The problem is that police often determine people’s ‘culture’ by the color of their skin.
Standing for the national anthem isn’t part of his job. Indeed, playing the national anthem at sporting events is a recent tradition.
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I believe that is the point of the comment. That one day of COVID is equivalent to a whole year of police killings.
When I’m throwing together a quick script, or maybe some minor piece of automation, Python is my go-to language.

For any decently large project, though, I prefer static typing.
Cloudflare already does this (https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-stream/)

I'd be willing to bet that Cloudflare TV is built on top of their Stream infrastructure.
Given the choice between a publicized $1.2M lottery win and a secret $1M lottery win, I wouldn't hesitate to chose the $1M prize.
As an expat living abroad, please don't do this. Your webpage doesn't know better than the user's settings, there are few things more annoying than sites that automatically redirect you to another subdomain based on your location. Luckily, the right thing is the easy one in this case, simply add a language picker to your site.
Kitchen exhaust fans could be behind latest Hong Kong coronavirus cluster
If the author wants their code to survive the apocalypse, they should generate Turing Machines that have a simple shim interpreter for low-power architectures. The benefit of this is you can build an interpreter for a TM in wood or other simple materials. Semi-Thue systems also fit.
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it doesn't mean you have to, but forth is awesome.
I would expect them to use statistical models to estimate probability of kill given the state of the target, drone, and environment at the time of a simulated weapon firing. Certainly not perfect, but you probably won't find many test pilots willing to have a live missile fired at them. Instructors are able to judge pilot effectiveness from simulated firings, so it should be good enough to evaluate a drone.
I think firing the police force and starting from scratch is plenty reasonable, given the things I've heard. However, this reform sounds like it goes further and will change how law enforcement is handled in Minneapolis at a fundamental level. It's blowing away the entire organization, not just the staff.

I'll be very interested in how this works out for them and how similar the new solution ends up being to the old one. I suspect it won't be as different as many commenters are suggesting.

Have they released any details about how they expect the new solution to be different?
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Yes, illogical though it be, the fact that my eyelash dust might be motile bothers me less than seeing live arachnids in my food.
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I thought the same thing!

https://i.redd.it/4deoeuq9e4m21.png

Drones are the game's main theme and it's great.
> I expect that fees with Offset will be much lower than what you get with your banks.

For p2p loans this makes sense. For credit card, my bank currently pays me 1.5% of the money they extort from businesses. I'm paying the same to the business whether I use cc or not, so I take the kickback (my refusal to participate will not hurt the system, since debit cards are the only other option since cash is not viable for online commerce). So advertising 'low fees' really means that I'm going to have to pay money to do things I currently get paid to do.

> It takes about three "bash" lines to set up an Offset node in the cloud, and you have your own credit hub.

This seems insecure in the same way as bitcoin - if a guy gets your private key number thing, you lose everything. Whereas with real CCs your bank will make you whole if fraud happens, since instead of an algorithm being the law we have humans who can can revoke transactions. With friends loaning to each other this is a lesser issue since your algorithm can allow reverting transactions, unlike bitcoin where everything has to be final for the currency to be usable. I guess i can set my credit limit with a merchant to the exact amount i owe for each transaction? But still feels a bit unsafe.

The big issue I see with this is that poor people will always be seeking money and rich/financially reponsible people will never need to get money through this. Aside from rare events like buying a house or extended job loss, in which case they'll end up getting money through rich/financially responsible friends instead of the poor ones they always loan to. So the system will get split into a few 'providers' and many 'leeches.' What do you think about that?
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I've been in several companies that do both Rails and Phoenix. Everywhere Rails is used mostly because management doesn't want to fire loyal and good programmers who aren't interested in learning Elixir/Phoenix. A second, and very often cited reason is that their Rails app is working fine and they don't see why should they rewrite it.

Both are completely fair.

Not going to claim my anecdotal evidence is universal -- just adding a data point.
Why did you assume that's what this would be?
> Yet those were the signs being held.

Those are the signs you were shown, or chose to notice.
> All the constructs required for safety seem to obfuscate the control flow

A couple thoughts on this point, speaking as an admitted Rust fan:

- A lot of this has gotten better since "non-lexical lifetimes" were stabilized. In particular, it used to be somewhat common to need extra pairs of nested curly braces, to convince the borrow checker that some reference you'd taken really wasn't going to be used again. But today that is almost never necessary.

- In some cases, I find Rust's safety-oriented APIs clearer and nicer than their equivalents in other languages. For me, the big one is Mutex<T>. In Rust, a Mutex is a container, and you can only access its contents by locking it. It's impossible to forget to lock a Mutex when you access the thing it protects.
I'm not sure about the severity of its impact, but I toyed with the problem when I was learning knot theory. It's a spot where probably hundreds of mathematicians have tried to itch. Advances have been made in attempts to solve it, but didn't quite do the job. Piccirillo's approach is really quite beautiful, and... sorry, this is where mathematics gets weird: the statement of the theorem is what lay-people consume; the method of proof (not even the actual proof, but the ludicrously high-level abstract algorithm that the proof is a concrete instance of) is what mathematicians consume. In that regard, this seems quite buzzworthy.

But if you're a fan of mathematics but still consider yourself a lay person: this stumped John Conway!
There is sometimes nothing wrong with inequality, and other times a lot wrong with it.
Just want to predict it now - this year's cloudflare birthday thing?
Exactly, distributed systems are hard. Very hard. It's an entire field of study.

Don't opt for something very, very hard unless you have to.
The time I was arrested at a protest, I was charged with carrying a sharpened stick (aka, protest sign). I didn't even have that, though... It was a lie in the report.

The police regularly distort their reporting. There is no centralized collecting of police violence statistics, in large part because they have organized against the collection of those statistics. The 1,000+ number will be far less subject to manipulation.

Here's some additional reporting. The 2014 Tampa Bay Times project to track police violence found 827 people shot in a year. In Florida alone. They spent a huge amount of effort on the reporting because the statistics were sometimes not collected and usually not trustworthy where they were.

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2017/investigations/f...
Yeah, it's surprising. A lot of Python people are in the community too, such as Armin, the creator of Flask.

I can't speak for Rubyists, but I find it a very strong complementary skill to Python, as it allows for writing things that are impractical in Python. And Rust feels friendlier as a Python-complement than C. Especially parallel C.

Receiving a compiler error in Rust is more appealing to me than debugging a segfault or race condition in C, especially since Rust will always tell me when one exists. Or more importantly, I can feel comfortable pushing new fast low-level code to production knowing it's not a risk. There's no ambiguity. "fearless concurrency" is not just a buzzword, it's partly what makes Rust fun and practical (for me). As well as the incredibly-fast start-up time of my Rust code compared to Python.

It is also appealing for Python programmers because of the increasingly-decent support for mixing the two languages without overhead, including publishing pure-Rust packages as python modules^1

1. https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3
> ...it seems like the last 20 years have been abnormally calm and your normal state of affairs is more like the mood in 2020.

There are periods of calm and periods of dramatic unrest. The history of political activism / protests in America touches the civil rights movement, the worker rights / labor movements, etc..., and goes all the way back to the first taxes the newly formed United States federal government tried to levy against domestic goods (in the form of the Whiskey Rebellion [0]). The American revolution itself was the result of a series of protests that started with the Stamp Act of 1765 [1]. It is a truly fascinating history.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
Political statements like that can really hurt their credibility as public health officials, especially if increased transmission from protests causes them to call for another lockdown. Either say large, outdoor gatherings like this are risky or they aren't (or maybe they're just slightly risky). Don't get into "protesting these things is ok, protesting these isn't."
It doesn't need to be created if you don't mind being dominated by an adversary that does create it.
Monitoring a Raspberry Pi with a 5$/month droplet
I've written an article about my setup to monitor a Raspberry Pi which was failing with no reason.

I tried to do it in the cheapest and easiest way, and in the end, it's running Prometheus in Dokku, just by 5$/month.
My thoughts immediately too... there seems to be a link between magnesium tablets and this process as well
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There is much more risk in not taking that stance in the current environment.
I was responding to the question of “professionalism” being somehow devoid of ethics, and therefore medical professionals should not take ethics into account when making decisions.

I would interpret your remark as suggesting, “Professionalism involves ethics, but there is an interpretation of those ethics that suggests these particular people should have made a different choice in this stuation.”

I could agree or disagree with your conclusion, but I can certainly support the form of your argument as sound: Professionals should have ethics, so let’s talk about what those ethics should be, and how to apply them to this situation.

———

It’s the same conversation as, “Should professional work for a social media business that amplifies and spreads falsehoods, violent rhetoric, &c.”

If someone were to say, “A professional just writes code, the effect of that code on society is not their business,” I think that’s flat-out wrong. Not taking a stand on the matter is taking a stand, but lying to yourself about not taking a stand.

On the other hand, people can and do regularly have discussions about whether there is a “greater good” served by allowing people to communicate and decide for themselves whether George Soros is behind Black Lives Matter, or whether the Coronavirus was actually hatched by Bill Gates in an attempt to use a vaccine to inject people with microchips.

I have opinions about the ethics of that too, but I can appreciate that there are people who are also trying to apply ethics to such decisions, even if they are ethics I disagree with or flat-out abhor.
It very much matters if this is the right solution. If it's not, they could make things substantially worse than they already are. This is a serious decision whose consequences should not be taken lightly. Lives and livelyhoods are on the line.

Whether this really is the right solution... I don't know. We'll find out in time. I sincerely hope it is for the sake of all citizens of Minneappolis and the surrounding area.
I agree with this statement. At least here in Seattle the protesters and police are packed closely together and are yelling at oneanother. Very few if any police are wearing masks (I was ~20ft from anyone & wearing a mask but wanted to see things 1st hand).

IMO this will create a level of pandemic similar to NYC unless we really start testing and contact-tracing. It does feel like much of the left is OK with this, whereas everyone was freaking out when the reopen protesters were protesting. This is inconsistent, and unfortunate as I do have somewhat left-leaning views.
We're glad if we're still around after the election in November...
Very true, but to your point, it was a given Nixon was leaving. With Clinton and Trump it was more political than a done deal.
We've heard a lot from black people over the past week or two (and much longer, if you cared to listen) about what typical American policing is like for them. It's not good.

It's perfectly valid to see those issues as important but still not worth the risk of spreading COVID-19, but by boiling this down to a contest of how many people each Bad Thing killed in X amount of time, you miss a lot of the nuances in both issues and really preclude any reasonable, rational, productive discussion about the nature of the tradeoffs that are being made.

If you want to ignore all those things and walk away convinced that it's a political stunt, nobody can stop you.
Good code quality doesn’t guarantee success. However, those two data points indicate it may be necessary if not sufficient. There are only 4-5 tech companies operating at that scale with proven business models. Google and Microsoft being the primary others.
Sure, I dont want to understate the impact that WiFi has - its a good technology, and its great that it can be used without a license. I wish more spectrum was available unlicensed - a portion of my income depends on it! My unlicensed radio experience is largely with 900MHz ISM systems, and I wish "its just physics" was a lame excuse. Fact is, the #1 thing limiting performance on these systems in most urban and suburban places is noise - I've installed plenty of radios capable of high order QAM that were limited to QPSK or even GMSK strictly due to noise. I'd say the noise floor in 900MHz ISM is something like 3-5 orders of magnitude higher than in similar sub-GHz licensed systems. Uncoordinated frequency hopping systems are noise-resistant, but still leave a lot of theoretical performance on the table.

Cellular systems have their purpose too - WiFi is not a good technology for covering a city with internet access, as many attempts to do so should prove. Nor would it be wise to allow unlicensed use at high power - ask anyone who's ever lived in an apartment how their WiFi is, then imagine if power levels could be increased by an order of magnitude to or two.
Another example of a relatively successful go at this but for a whole country - Georgia.
https://www.u4.no/publications/police-reform-in-georgia-crac...
Yep, the real problem is conservatives/right wing.
I believe it's important to note that public healthcare itself has disproportionately worse outcomes for black people. To indicate that being a black person is a health risk in the country and supporting movements to resolve this is, from what I understand, pretty in line with what a professional healthcare personnel would be advocating for.
Bribing the software engineers of an independent private business behind the owner's back, and/or showing up without announcement at private residences of major stake-holders is "arm-twisting" for all intents and purposes. Admittedly it's more subtle than the typical approach the Russian or Chinese governments would follow, yet the essence is the same. In rare cases, where bribery and coercion fail, there is the institution of FISA courts in the US and the lack of control over secret services in other countries.
The potential of a private business to say "okay we do it for money" is exactly the risk at hand and the reason for more than a handful of "accidental" security breaches in the recent past.
Is she a journalist or a social/political activist? Shouldn't she pretend to have a bit of objectivity and not become part of the news itself?

Twitter has been the greatest tool to expose the news industry and journalists for what they are. Propagandists and political activists with an agenda.

That said, I agree with those recommendations. I'll add one more. Police departments should almost exclusively hire from the communities they "serve" and/or require police officers to live in the community that they "serve".
I feel like you can say this about pretty much anything. When the system being thought about gets to a certain size, most people default to 'I think how the people who I trust think.' And most people do not vet this chain of trust because they don't want to or are simply unable to. After a while, they end up with convictions they cannot defend rationally.
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Patience :)

From my experience the answer comes when you least expect it, you might not even recognize it unless you keep an open mind.
I would think raising animals on top of the antennas sound analogous to what people would experience given difference in body size and how the inverse square law applies.

Even so I can't imagine this kind of study actually showing anything while wasting multiple years during which we could be moving forward. How about you raise money to fund the study virtually nobody wants to do and if you find something you can watch smugly while everyone tears down towers.
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Yes, and I think they should support subsidies for the affected, rent and mortgage moratoriums, etc., not support spreading a serious disease to reopen Applebee’s and other indoor dining.
What point are you trying to make? Systemic racism is way bigger than just police killings.

Do you want to ignore the (non-lethal) evils of prejudice, and just play a numbers game with fatalities? From some back-of-the-envelope math, the average POC in America will still lose more years of their life from simply living in a racist society than from COVID-19.

Life isn't a pissing contest of "my problem is bigger than your problem".