skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been willing to be frustrated with moving the goal post, but there is new information that mayors and governors know that the general public doesn't have a good way to know:

The low mortality rate and managed ICU capacity isn't the whole story. there is a large population of recovering and recovered that have serious complications, that seem random and are unproductive to our society. Blood clots resulting in amputations. 90 day recovery time periods. Other unknown and randomly targeted blood oxygen issues.

The mayors and governors and public health ministers are reacting to that in their own municipalities and countries. The outcomes are not equal, the variables have many different names between jurisdictions, and therefore the stats are not easily collectable. But for people on the front line and getting briefed by those on the front line, they see something horrible that they need to move the goal post to "cases" instead of just deaths and ICU capacity.
A place I worked as an information security analyst about 8 or 9 years ago had a policy against various streaming technologies on the corporate network because it often overwhelmed or blinded the security monitoring technology we used back then. Spotify had just launched in the US right around that time and I had to spend a couple of days visiting various desks and asking the employees to stop streaming on the corporate network.

We were just completely and utterly blind as soon as two or three people started streaming.
The article is not pointing the blame toward discrimination, it addresses the hypocrisy of those with the means to affect change, who are glad to denounce while remaining passive. Apathy while in a position to influence is a form of tacit approval of the status quo. Basically, the article denounces a common form of virtue signaling by these people/organizations when it's convenient (like right now); They publicly plaster donations as flares to deflect attention, but then go back to their color blind ways once the storm has passed. If you're part of a community that has no valid reasons to be delineated along racial lines, at some point you have to wonder why people of a certain minority are underrepresented in your (tech, business, friends) circles. Do they ever ask? Do they care at all? Your stated explanation, incarcerations and lack of education, tends to be the quick goto. But it doesn't explain everything. It's rather increasingly becoming an excuse since, as the article is pointing out, there are instances of talent striving to emerge from those under-favored minorities despite the odds, yet the underrepresentation persists. If anything, the custodians of communities that supposedly transcend backward concepts like "race", should make efforts to encourage more forward-thinking notions such as diversity, as everybody ends up winning from the enriched perspective.
This idea that there was historical disadvantage to the Irish comes from a single photograph of a sign that says "Irish Need Not Apply". This is the equivalent of putting an individual Tweet from 2016 saying "Kill All White Men" in history textbooks as some sort of meaningful thing.
US states can impose mandatory quarantines on people arriving from other states. However as a practical matter that will be difficult to enforce in any state with a long border.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-in...
I feel like Tegnell’s original mistake was his disbelief that asymptomatic spreaders existed. His entire strategy was based on this and worse, he loudly and publicly criticized other countries that chose to lockdown because unlike him they were fully convinced about the existence of asymptomatic spreaders.

Once his strategy to protect the vulnerable failed dramatically due to asymptomatic carriers (and the fact that people make bad decisions), it was too late for him to back down and it’s been Iraq war all over again. One day he is criticizing other countries saying that what they are doing is not sustainable and then in the next breath complaining that his strategy has been misrepresented and what he is doing isn’t different from what the rest of the world is doing.

It’s been unfortunate to watch his inability to admit his initial mistake lead to so much unnecessary suffering and pain.
> I don't really see how this is any different now.

Right now, blocking a video will lead to Google being unable to earn money from it. Their incentives are aligned with those of the video creator.

> What you're arguing would happen is already happening

No, right now you are not pressured into giving Google money to review their automated decisions. With the suggested system implemented, you might fork over $10 individually for each of your 452 videos and get humans picking mostly the same useless text block in response, not really helping you to understand their decision. You will feel kind of like now, except you notice that YT actually made more money by banning your videos and start to wonder if that is by design...

Courts are great, but have to be independent. Even arbitration can be skewed in favor of bigger companies, since getting their recurring business is in the arbitrators interest.

I'd still be in favor of setting up something like that for lower level decisions, but understand this can only happen if Google finds a way to stay out of the line of fire. And still keeps a way for them to overrule those third party decisions...
You act like this type of mentoring isn’t being done. It is. I work for a Fortune 200 company in a city having several Fortune 500 companies and they all do this.
Does the key to anti-ageing lie in our bones?
What is Google's 10 minute "minimum"?
depends on your definition of "the economy" -- the average american and small businesses are suffering quite a bit, but the stock market is definitely doing well. it would be interesting to see how many jobs were saved by PPP.
Something I've wanted to do for a while is build a library to parse and generate use lines / documentation that adheres to the posix useline spec (can't find the link at the moment) while also being able to idempotently (de)serialize and be descriptive enough to define arguments and flags in a way a human could easily understand. iirc the spec seemed probably too vague to just work with all the currently existing man pages, but it would be nice to have a spec all programs can follow that machines can parse on my os.
People repeat this a lot but it's not entirely true and it's not even close to 10x faster. More like 10%.

Freelist based allocation is actually very nearly as fast as bump pointer allocation. Like 10% if you compare the allocation function in isolation and 1% if you benchmark the whole object allocation path.

http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~steveb/pubs/papers/mmtk-sigmet...

Some older malloc implementations like Hoard have bump pointer allocation into empty pages but the newest allocator impementations found that the branch prediction cost of having both paths outweighed the benefits

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...
Sex is assigned too. Most people are born with distinctly male or female genitals and just assumed to have the chromosomes and reproductive potential that usually go with them.[1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Definitions

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_assignment#History
The exchange rate for the most successful lock-downs of corona is about 60 years of lock-down for 1 year of life.

Edit: Note that USA is doing much worse since so many are dying there even though you lock down.
The article says the existing ones cost >$400/month to keep running and replacements would cost >$40K apiece? Really?
This looks great! I made a while back a library[1] to do this, but of course you still have to code on top of it (which is what I wanted). Your project makes it very easy for everyone to get started and not only those who know how to code, props on launching it.

Are you using Node.js? Would love some feedback on my lib since it seems we are doing the same thing for different user types!

[1] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db
You are hit with popups asking for permission.
> only to be outsold in days by Fortnite upon its release.

I'm not sure it was days, but the part that's kind of galling is that Fortnite was a wave defense game that had some pretty lackluster reviews, so the developers instead turned it into a battle royale game because of PUBG's unexpected popularity, and it was the battle royale version that made waves.
To save you the click:

> We have not received $5,000 in AWS credits. But now the good news: We have still received $1,000 in AWS credits.
I wonder why the real number isn't known.
Opened this on a 3 year old iPhone 8 and it loaded quickly and generated super smooth 60 FPS renders. Looks great!
It’s so simple. (1) Your economy will be hit whether or not you lockdown. People are gonna reduce their activity due to the threat of the disease.

The lockdown affects behavior at the margins. And at the margins, the economic gains are linear to the additional activity due to not having a lockdown, but the growth of the virus is exponential.

Then the fact that the virus persists longer means places without a lockdown that did not drastically reduce the spread of the disease continue suffering economically.
This is why automated content takedown doesn't use the DMCA. It's a system designed by the content cartels.
Here's the most disturbing bit:

> A female militia leader ... cut the genitals of 5 men and soaked them in alcohol which she would drink later, claiming that these organs were beneficial to her health.
At age 65 (or any age) I'd evaluate my risk and modify my own activities. I wouldn't even dream of asking others to give up their work or school or favorite activities because of my own frailty.
What do you do professionally? How do you use automata there?
"Failing" is more nuanced than you might think.

In a very large number of cases, the startup closing its doors after two years is not considered a failure by the VC fund. The startup successfully spent the money the VC firm was contractually obligated to invest, may have employed the VC's choices of officers for a significant period (providing them income and experience), maybe purchased a great deal of tech from suppliers the VC officers are themselves invested in, and may have left valuable assets that could be snapped up.

The biggest problem a VC firm has is the five billion dollars of others' money they have to "place" in 30/60/90 days. What happens after placement is much less their problem. They know most of the placements are duds, but they and the actual investors knew that up front. Once the money is "placed", though, much of it can be siphoned off for the benefit of the VCs' cronies or one or other non-dud. Maybe a non-dud or non-startup buys up assets of a dud for pennies on the dollar, and extracts something usable, like patents or equipment. Sure, the investor lost that money, but somebody got it, and somebody got what it bought.

None of this is good for most people who do a startup, unless they are chosen as a non-dud. The chosen duds are valuable for money laundering, which few startup principals really meant to sign up to be. Some did.
> There's always an understanding with services like this that credit offers come with a lot of hand-waving and "caveat emptor"-ing: notice founders "have access to" free credits (emphasis ours), which could imply that some founders have the capacity to call on those funds, but not all. But still, the language does seem very direct and makes it easy to believe signing up includes $5,000 in AWS credits.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction between why they got $1k vs $5k. Is there some clause in the contract that states that it's "up to $5k under certain situations?" It seems like a lot of information is missing here.
Wow you're good at history. If you would like to moderate both the Transformers site, and Lord of the rings, send me an email. Subscribed! <3
I don't you understand, he's saying it exists and its hacker news.
All preventable deaths should be prevented - this is the gold standard. In reality, of course, things don't work out that way. The analogy with a flu season is deeply misleading. The coronavirus has, in half a year, killed more people than the worst flu seasons, with extraordinary measures in place all over the world. It's completely reasonable to assume that without lockdowns we would have had millions of deaths already.

> The reality is that everyone is prepared to allow others to die for their own convenience.

It may be so. Those people are morally wrong however. This is a deep point that I have insisted on in other comments as well. Casually weighing human life against economic cost is not acceptable in what we might call a civilized society.

> The only difference between believing 70,000 is okay, and 700,000 is not is a gut feeling about how much preventable death is worth it to maintain our living standards.

That is not true. Deaths caused by the regular flu are deeply regrettable and should be prevented as much as possible. If you dig into the data however, you will see that the coronavirus not only kills many more people than the flu, but it also kills people who would otherwise have many more years left to live. Diabetes, a heart condition or age > 65 yrs. shouldn't be death sentences in a modern civilized society.
I think DVC (+CML) is a good solution for this. It "wraps" artifacts that you store into Git. And Git repo abstracts access to the cloud. In your case of the mounted storage it will look like `git pull` + `dvc checkout` after model is "merged" in the production/master branch.

CML can automate and make the process of preparing the model to be merged into that branch reliable, visible, robust, etc.

I'm happy to help with this flow, ping me on Twitter - @shcheklein in DM or ivan on DVC Discord.
>What we might call civilized societies have however strived to reduce those numbers as much as possible

Unless you're claiming that no civilised society exists, that's not true at all. A civilisation built around minimising death as much as possible would look very differently to any that currently exists.

Resources are always a trade off. People working at those festivals and cinemas could have went in to medical care pre corona virus. People building festival stages and cinemas could have been building hospitals. If festivals and cinemas didn't exist then that would be less driving and less road deaths.

At some level festivals and cinemas existing is putting some peoples fun over others right to life, corona virus or no.
Xerox PARC Is 50
They are specifically saying that the fact that the epidemic has ripped through the country is because the government intervened too much. Not the economic impact, simply the progression of the epidemic.

The economy did not collapse in the vast majority of countries, due to governmental intervention. Those countries also have much less infection.
Got it, and that sounds perfectly reasonable. I'd describe it entirely differently from an MVP, but it is reasonable to make a demo to judge reactions and see where points of confusion are in how the product will work.
Pandemics of this scale of infection rate, hospitalizations, and deaths?
I think you either only get paid for, or get paid a great deal more for, videos that are at least 10 minutes. Even high quality YouTube produces often make videos that are exactly 10 minutes and 30 seconds, and it's sometimes fairly obvious.
An MVP has to be able to satisfy some user demand with a feature. A signup can’t do this (but it can facilitate market validation, which you may be thinking of.)

Here’s the definition of an MVP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
wow that is pretty funny.

I thought they were philosophically opposed to government handouts?
played it on the sega genesis first!! before i even knew a pc version existed.

the soundtrack and the sound effects were particularly amazing to me. i can still remember most of them clearly in my head after all these years... "yes sir, moving on!" "construction complete" "reporting... acknowledged!"

this game inspired command and conquer in my opinion!
Competition for reproduction and resources between groups of genetically proximate organisms is the history of "life".
Appreciate the link to a newer version of the paper at a non-paywall source and didn't know this had been previously discussed here. However, I disagree with classifying today's discussion as a dupe of a 9 months old post.
This will get a lot of well-deserved criticism.

However, I think there’s potential in this idea to overall benefit the consumer.

The cost of options sometimes includes the fact that the carmaker has to provide a separate SKU. Does a heated seat cost a lot in raw materials? No, not at all, but a carmaker might have to lose time on the assembly line changing the line to build a different variant. Or the dealer might lose a sale if they don’t have the customer’s desired trim level in stock

Not only that, differentiating optional features are revolving more and more around software (e.g. autopilot).

As long as this doesn’t become confusing or excessively expensive for the customer, it could actually be a win-win.

Presumably, the base model could be cheaper, and the consumer could upgrade the car later. Or, the consumer could pay for subscription features when their job situation is good and cut them out down to basic transportation if it’s not so good.

The consumer would also not be stuck with options that they decide later that they don’t use often. Maybe they wouldn’t be stuck with entire options packages that they have to go with just to get the one thing they want.

The devil is always in the details, so it could go either way, it just depends how fair the pricing ends up being.

If you don’t think people will buy it, might I interest you in purchasing my new TV show for only $3 an episode? You’ll own it forever!
I recently applied for the 5k too, got 1k. A bit misleading, but sure... credits are credits.
I can see the appeal of doing this, and for things like UI design it makes alot of sense, but it seems too easy to cross ethical lines. Theranos basically did this, though of course on a vastly larger scale and over a longer time period. In the beginning, it's easy to tell ones self that filling in the gaps will come naturally once funding and interest are available. when there are difficulties executing on promises, it creates a choice between perpetuating the dishonesty for a low cost, or coming clean for a much higher cost. As time goes on, the feedback continues until there is some kind of breaking point. If you're going to do this, you had better be damn sure you can deliver, and have some sort of pre-determined go/no-go points to prevent things from getting out of hand.
Also, World Barista Champion 2007.
Don't forget that deaths are just one measure of the damage covid brings.
My wife is/was a fit and healthy 40yo no underlying conditions - she had covid 4 months ago and has barely been able to climb the stairs some days. The 'crazy' thing is that her actual covid infection wasn't hat bad and she had no shortness of breath etc at the time. But here she is with symptoms very like ME some 100+ days later.

Obviously that doesn't happen to everyone but it appears a significant proportion of those getting ill have serious symptoms some time after the illness, with no clear end in sight.
> Any death is unacceptable.

This is not how society works. We could drastically curtail the number of deaths by outlawing cars, alcohol, and social interaction indefinitely, regardless of covid, but we don't. Refusing to understand that tradeoffs are involved is not helpful.
Isn't it a miracle! It's fantastic, I've been reading old computer magazines from the 80s and 90s on archive.org, and the costs to set yourself up back then were just astronomical. I remember seeing C compilers priced at $300, or even more.
I read that as "Flight of the Fine Arts". I guess "r" is just a subset of "n", so they're easy enough to switch up if you're not paying close attention, especially if they're both in the same phrase, and if the switched up phrase is more common.
I really dislike this paternalistic direction. I do not want my data backed up in the cloud, theirs or anyone else's.
Since when a belief does something real? Where is Manitou? Zeus? Iupiter in the age of the Ancient Rome? Where is Gilgamesh?

I see no Zeus throwing rays in Athene's sky nowadays.

And the Roman Empire with the Greek/Roman Gods was VAST. Huge. Hu-ge. Europe and a good chunk of Northern Africa.

Have a look on the Parthenon, please. Those are the scraps of their beliefs. That's all what's left. Marble, and ruins.

The only usable things from the Romans/Greeks were the practical ones:

- Greek/Latin

- Math

- Philosophy

- Arts

- Pillars of science with Aristhotle, even if he was wrong. Science allowed the world to correct his failures.
Remember that IFR (infection fatality rate) is the (total number of deaths / total number of infections). You can't use 10 million as the denominator because not everyone in Sweden has actually been infected.

An antibody study[1] indicated that 7.3% of Stockholm has been infected, but that number is 1) from April and 2) is going to be higher than average because Stockholm was harder hit than the rest of the country.

[1] https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/nyheter-och-press/nyhets...
Using unicode: https://yaytext.com/strike/
I think it was implied that we try to reduce deaths as much as is reasonably possible, not at the cost of everything else.
I use Caffenol LC-C for Agfa Copex Rapid (a microfilm stock that needs very low contrast development). With other microfilms I use dedicated commercial developers, but it's hard to source the Spur one for Copex Rapid.

https://i.lensdump.com/i/WNPsAx.jpg (Leica M6 TTL, Elmarit-M 90/2.8, Agfa Copex Rapid, Caffenol LC-C)

https://i1.lensdump.com/i/jY29hM.jpg (Leica M6 TTL, Elmarit-M 90/2.8, Agfa Copex Rapid, Caffenol LC-C)

https://i1.lensdump.com/i/jY2qCQ.jpg (Leica M6 TTL, Voigtlander Ultron 35/1.7 VM, Agfa Copex Rapid, Caffenol LC-C)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Can Fight Future Pandemics
Those 1980s desktop environments with ther big meaningful icons were perfect to grow up with.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Later_years

"after her initial objections, she allowed social worker Evva Pryor, an employee of her attorney, to enroll her in Social Security and Medicare"

I do not think it was wrong of her to take government handouts in her later years. What was wrong, is wrong, is how her acolytes continue in the modern day breaking down that same system for others.

Evil evil people. Confused and and sad old lady.
> But you cannot meta-dot syntax.

You can C-c M-e the macro form to have SLIME expand it for you inline (read-only), and then navigate around it, using e to expand and c to collapse back. Super useful.
Have you seen https://www.relive.cc/ ?
I learnt the same trick some years ago, from an article called Shell Scripts Matter:

https://dev.to/thiht/shell-scripts-matter

So I took some of the advice and tips offered in there, and wrote a template file to be used as a baseline when writing scripts for any project that might need one:

https://github.com/j1elo/shell-snippets/blob/master/template...

Other resources that I link in the readme of that repo, because they were a great guide to write better and more robust scripts, are:

- Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts: https://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-s...

- Common shell script mistakes: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/shell_script_mistakes.h...

- Bash Pitfalls: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

- The Bash Hackers Wiki: https://wiki.bash-hackers.org/

EDIT: -for anyone who would like to read some actual examples- I have to manage a bunch of scripts so actually a slightly more up to date version of the template is put into practice by means of a common bash.conf file that then gets sourced by all scripts: https://github.com/Kurento/adm-scripts/blob/master/bash.conf...