skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what the smart city brings you. Mass surveillance. Billions of dollars in spytech. Police militarization. The destruction of privacy and human autonomy. These people play pathetic PR games with their meaningless snarky tweets while collecting paychecks to create the global smart prison that will be our new reality. A thousand eyes watching you at all times, your car, your watch, your phone, your face. Watching and listening. There will be no escape from the suffering. This is what the 5G network promises to escalate. It is a
surveillance network first and last, by design.
The known precautions are just to slow the spread down not prevent it, at risk people are still at risk, and so is everyone else. That persons R0 is probably lower than 1, which is the only metric we actually care about.

The only solution is complete segregation and sustainable farming. Otherwise you are fodder as an individual and at best helping the R0 rate decline as well as the velocity of spread.

That isn't strange to me.
An array of references. Plus, Python has no way to consume a contiguous array directly.

If you do interoperate through FFI with code in C or similar, you will have to reach for numpy arrays, which are the typed, contiguous arrays of Python.
Your conclusion about cardiac abnormalities is wrong, that's not what the study measured.

They only looked at male patients aged 52-74, who were bad enough to be in hospital, and who had already been given an echocardiogram because there was an indicator, i.e. it's the subgroup that doctors deemed in need of a heart check because they were exhibiting symptoms like chest pain. The study indicates prevalence of abnormalities within those echoes - echoes from very ill people with symptoms of heart failure. They didn't take echoes for the study and they didn't run echoes on a random population.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294v...

The case rate has dropped faster as the restrictions have eased.
Could you stop with the "adult conversation" bullshit? This patronizing tone is not fit for Hacker News. Also it ironically makes you sound like a child who wants to show off how "adult-like" they are.
The git source repo is probably included in the archive itself. So meta.
Not a surprise. The entire fields of system theory, control theory (previously known as cybernetics), information theory and computing were originally developed with heavily influence from wartime problems, especially fire-control problems. Early fire control computers in WW2 were their earliest large-scale computers in practical use. Early torpedoes had control loop stability problems that can make them oscillate up and down between the programmed depth, which needed insights on control theory to solve.

Same for information theory, cryptography was the driving force, see Bletchley Park. Also, one closely related result by Shannon was an analysis of cryptography and ciphers, see Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems by Claude Shannon [0], written in 1945 and remained classified until 1949. In this paper, Shannon proved the security properties of One-Time Pad.

Also, the NSA made a digital computer in 1943 in Project SIGSALY. The computer itself was an engineering accomplishment, but even more, the system was the first implementation of digital audio in PCM, with its own audio encoding algorithm for compression.

[0] http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/wiki/files/shannon1949.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/savedyouaclick/
Let me adjust it: You don’t propose a solution but I infer, given the context of what I said, that you want to prevent people from being able to say things, and maybe given the context of this case prevent people sending letters asking for honorary titles to be withdrawn from members of their society as in this case. Is that right?
Sweden has roughly 80k confirmed coronavirus cases in 10M people. Assuming equal probability of first and second infection (which I believe undercounts second infections, since some people have more opportunity for exposure than others due to their jobs and lifestyles), and assuming equal probability of first and second detection (which again I believe undercounts), we should have something around 10M*(80k/10M)^2 = 640 confirmed reinfections.

So where are they? Are you claiming that these hundreds of confirmed reinfections simply haven't been reported? Note that the number of actual reinfections would be orders of magnitude higher; the calculation above already assumes underascertainment by a factor of ~100x. You can redo this math in any moderately hard-hit region, though I chose Sweden here because their rate of infections vs. time has been more constant (eliminating the possibility that all the infections happened in a brief early peak, after which everyone acted more carefully so there's no longer any opportunity for reinfection). I'm not saying that reinfection is impossible, just that so far, if it exists, it's very rare.

And please don't cite the Vox article. In normal times, it would be criticized as "science by press release" or worse, a single anecdotal case written up as definitive for the popular press, with no case history and no publication to review. Maybe the author's patient really did get reinfected and it's common (but that seems vanishingly unlikely to me per above), or maybe the patient was reinfected but it's rare like getting chickenpox twice, or maybe the patient just had one long infection and tested false-negative (which is very common generally) in the middle. But since the author has disclosed nothing but the shocking headline result, we can't know.

So I believe you are sowing public panic without evidence. While it is impossible to directly demonstrate that immunity for a disease discovered X months ago lasts longer than X months, it is reasonable to expect that in this case. Maybe you think that at worst, if you're wrong, then you're telling a noble lie--but the public health authorities who said masks don't work (remember that?) did too, and look how that ended up. I can easily imagine Trump on television a year from now explaining that because people got reinfected, the vaccine is obviously a scam.

Abandoning the truth in favor of a perceived noble goal has unpredictable but generally bad effects, and I wish people would stop. Or if you actually believe what you're writing, I'm not sure what to say--please read the scientific literature (and not the popular media, which has been horrible in all directions), dust off your high school biology, and make your best assessment based on that. I think you'll find that while the coronavirus is a very serious problem, it's not the near-apocalyptic one that your comments seem to imply.
Wall Street Journal, not the NY Times.

I read that article the other day - it was infuriating in it's poor signal to noise ratio.
I am still pissed about their story on Elemental Technologies.
Microsoft Layoffs Confirmed Across Its Divisions
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Wow thanks that’s pretty neat and I had no idea it existed.
Considering the novel coronavirus somehow jumped over the Pacific Ocean, I reckon modern man's unprecedented mobility might be part of the problem. In light of that, panic flight might not be policy we should embrace. But then again, I hear Wyoming is great this time of year.
The idea that failing to get <5% positive test rate shows that a state has failed to ramp up testing is an... interesting one. It seems to have come from South Korea's goal of 5% positive tests, except their target was about decreasing the total number of cases via partial lockdown rather than increasing the number of tests. However, since that doesn't work so well for the narrative that the lockdown was the result of incompetent Republicans failing at testing, publications like the New York Times instead pushed the claim that the US needed to ramp up testing in order to reach this and catch up with South Korea. (This is almost certainly a stupid idea - trying to play catch-up with exponential growth is pretty futile, and it makes absolutely no sense to use the same target for a lagging measure of a growing epidemic as for a shrinking one. It worked great for stretching out the narrative that the US was behind South Korea in coronavirus testing well beyond the point it was actually true those.)
> You'd get shot back, and you very well might lose the civil suit: In every video I've seen, there's a big POLICE patch on their plate carriers.

If having a POLICE patch is a license to commit violence without the target having a right to self-defense, that’s...a problem.

> OTOH it's not like these are like the Russian Little Green Men in Ukraine, operating without any visible affiliation whatsoever.

It's exactly like that: LGM were armed troops that wore generic military-style fatigues with no identification with a specific accountable organization, though behavior and common sense linked them on some level to the Russian governmwnr. These armed troops wear generic law-enforcement style gear with no identification with a specific accountable organization, though behavior and common sense link them to the US federal government. It's exactly the same thing, except that it's internal unaccountable repression and not an external not-quite-plausibly-deniable invasion.
Ive noticed the clickfarm agglomerated story style has infected what is supposed to be professional journalism.

Some hallmarks of this style include

- paragraphs are one sentence long

- there isnt so much an order or train of thought, just a vomit of quotes

- implying random quotes equate some kind of consensus or prevailing sentiment in group thought

- an article that isnt anything more than the bunch of embedded quotes

- a summary of the article at the beginning, that is really just four of the "paragraphs" below regurgitated up top. makes it really annoying, forcing you to read entire "paragraphs" twice.

- an almost nonsequituresque repetitiveness, where half way through an article it almost starts over with slightly different words. as if the author forgot they already mentioned things, or decided to copy the article again to both trick people who scroll half way down an article, and to meet a word count.

- extremely poor formatting, making it difficult to distinguish the article from the summary, the image quotes, ads for other articles.

- articles that assume the reader has absolutely no domain knowledge, and spend half their words defining basic things.

- and thats all with an ad blocker on, I imagine the experience is 10x worse without one.

Business insider has been a big offender, a place that was already clickbait, but has devolved into something even worse. It's as if BI decided the daily mail was the best exemplar to emulate. Its a strange mix of DailyMail, Buzzfeed, and Vox. Something that gives the illusion of being an explainer, a listicle, and reporting at the same time. I am honestly shocked they purposely employ people with this writing style, it makes me want to be the change I want to see in the world and drop everything and get a job writing better journalism, just to try and displace some of the cruft. Their "editors" are doing absolutely nothing to take quote vomit and shape it into something coherent.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trader-m...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wirecard-sto...

This article is a great example of a weird listical, where the quotes themselves are the h1 bold headline and the body of the paragraph is just a picture of the person that adds nothing to the story. But not consistently, by the last one, the header is just a header, and the quote is the body. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/day-trading-...

(Should listicle/listical look like popsicle or nautical.)
Check out r9y9 on Github. He's doing some amazing work in this area.
Well my dotfile repo was archived, which to my knowledge has never had any viewers other than me. I think it may well be all of GitHub, or at least all repos that pass some measure of uniqueness
Your concerns are real. I suspect x86 VMs will end up being emulated (once supported by Parallels, VMware, etc...) and suffer a performance hit.

I rely on some Windows x86 software for work so I'm waiting to see how all of this plays out. Luckily I have a 16" MBP right now so I've got time to wait and see.
Never had an issue with Firefox and ublock origin.
Prior to the oil embargo of 1973, the cost of a barrel of oil in today's dollars was about $23.

In 1973, OPEC created an artificial scarcity, "economic rents", in oil transferring and over the past five decades "robbed consumers" of trillions of dollars of wealth transferred to oil rich nations such as those in the Middle East.

These "economic rents" not only harmed consumers but they helped certain oil rich nations such as Russia and Iran to invade other nations.

The hope is that with US fracking and oil export, the days of more than $50 per barrel oil is over.

It is estimated that the Arabs spent $1 trillion of wealth to combat Israel. Imagine, if instead of attempting to destroy Israel they had partnered with it investing in the "Startup Nation?" Had that happened, the Middle East may have been a very wealthy region for all of it's citizens.

Historian Paul Johnson wrote an article in Commentary in 2005 called "The Anti-Semitic Disease" along these lines. [1]

[1]
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Anti-Semitic-Disea...
> (carbon emissions correlate strongly with wealth).

Until they don't, and only the poor who cannot afford better energy sources use fossil fuels.

We're told something similar happened with personal calorie intake ...
I really hope we'll reach the end of the Oil Age, but as one gets older it becomes hard not to be sceptical of these claims. Seeing is believing.. more evidence.

Tesla keeps outperforming other car makers, even in a difficult environment: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/tech/tesla-sales/index.html.

VW's electrics are about to hit: https://electrek.co/2020/07/13/volkswagen-vw-id-3-electric-c....

Electric semis are moving towards production, by Tesla, Daimler, and others.

Even electric bikes and scooters are still seeing massive sales growth. If you've not tried you, you should.

The change is happening. Long-haul plane flights will remain on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future but the rest of the world is changing, fast.
Doordash sends it to facebook from their own servers. You can't control it.
And worth noting that there is not a whole lot hospitals can do anyway. The overwhelming majority have COVID-19 that is so mild that they never would go to a hospital. Of those that have more serious symptoms, some will be benefit from being given oxygen. There are very few people who warrant invasive ventilation, and those that do have very bad odds anyway.

The meme around hospital overrun is just that, a meme. Especially given everywhere having at least a small percentage of positive serology tests. I doubt anywhere in the US would get truly overrun with uninhibited spread at this point.
Suspect Is Arrested in Grisly Killing of Tech CEO Fahim Saleh
I wonder if someone will start an enterprising site that summarizes all these articles and then sells advertising. Sort of a Cliff's Notes version.
Somewhat related:

Is anyone familiar with youtube.videodeck.net / pockettube? Aggregates channels into subscription columns like RSS. Like old youtube collections. I've been using the service for years and have yet to see anyone else replicate the feature.
"or"
What it was like learning programming in the early 1970s
Indeed, but it is also possible to lob this accusation of "creativity in statistics" in order to avoid dealing with a figure one finds inconvenient. We're all eating from the trashcan.
Ulysses journalism, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780937
uBlock Origin in Firefox still successfully blocks all ads. Also, youtube-dl continues to work and doesn't download the ads, so media players like mpv can play youtube videos and will never show an ad.
This just seems protectionist to me.

I imagine anything the US is doing is being done by spy/sigint agencies within the EU
The 7 day moving average of percent positive tests in Florida peaked five days ago at 19.6% and looks to be on the descent. Let's hope it stays that way.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/individual-states/florid...
How did the detectives recognize the perpetrator?
To further build off this point, shift changes are incredibly dangerous at hospitals because there is usually specific patient knowledge that isn't sufficiently passed from the outgoing workers to the incoming workers. So if we are optimizing for patient health, it isn't as simple as just having them work less hours.
Popularity, or recent contributions.
The northeast had to plan for a wide range of outcomes because of the uncontrolled covid outbreak that killed tens of thousands. The excess death rate tells the story and lots more people died than the baseline rate from prior years (on top of major decreases across other categories of mortality). The same is happening in Florida: many more people are dying than expected right now for _some reason_. It's reasonable to think it's covid, and all of the reports of ICUs nearing or hitting capacity due to covid cases is pretty hard to square with any other explanation. At a policy level, the NY/NJ/CT area stopped its outbreak with a strong regionally coordinated response that Florida has notably not done.
So in a world where targeted ads are actually useful you would probably opt-in? Would you ever try something like this?

You'd take a survey about your interests and/or things you're in the market for then you would get a monthly email with a variety of targeted ads. Over a year ago I wrote down in my "ideas" notebook "privacy respecting opt-in email advertisements" but then when I looked at it again later on I thought "I don't think anyone would sign up for this" haha.
Me: How do I make easy money?

Bill Gates: If you are looking to make some money, I would look into a job at a grocery store or fast food. These are the biggest growing sectors of the job market.

Me: What steps should I take to make passive income?

Jeff Bezos: Passive income?
The media is trying to make it seem much grimmer than it actually is since it's an election year. I don't really know why, but they push the virus dialogue every election season. This election year it's the coronavirus, last election (2016) was the Zika virus, the 2012 election was the Ebola virus.

I'm aware it sounds crazy, but food for thought.
My understanding is remdesivir is difficult to produce. It hasn't gotten a lot of attention but I wonder about the supply chain for some of these hard-to-manufacture drugs.
What's the current market share of OpenSSL vs LibreSSL vs alternatives?
Google's ambitious BiT (Big Transfer) model is missing from the list:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/open-sourcing-bit-explorin...
Would this be a visual example of Derridan deconstruction?
Been using it for a while now and there's no need to log in with your account - in fact, you can't! You have to import subscriptions over, and easy to follow instructions to do this are provided. The only thing you can't to is comment, but for the few times I actually want to comment, its no hassle to go to the mobile website.

My only major complaint is that the colour of the seek bar is hard to see on black backgrounds.
I had similar issues that I was able to ultimately resolve. PM me if there's anything I can do to help.
The Basque-Icelandic Pidgin
51 Days on a Ventilator: How ‘Miracle Larry’ Survived
ReactJS Kindle .Mobi Docs
I'm not sure why the React community doesn't provide official docs in Kindle format like the Ruby on Rails and Redux communities. Hopefully this .mobi Kindle version will help some people.

Built these docs using this tool: https://gist.github.com/sebastianrothbucher/e2b8220243265705...
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators is a great book
Isn't it against Google's terms and conditions to run such an app that plays YouTube videos without playing the ads too? I remember reading about that.
QM2 is one of the fastest cruise ships but:

> 41 feet for every gallon

Not great fuel economy either. When multiplied by the 3000 people on board at max capacity that extends efficiency but only to a point.
I use the copymethat browser plugin to strip everything but the recipe out of the page - I HIGHLY recommend it.
RSoC Update: Improving Kernel and Drivers
Or don't hire a 21 yr old with questionable background as your chief of staff dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
> Although, I'm not learning grid, I'm using it.

Precisely. What CSS-Tricks calls a guide is actually almost entirely a reference. It makes a tolerable reference if you already know what you’re looking for. It’s a poor reference if you don’t know what you’re looking for because it’s insufficiently structured and takes waaaaay too much scrolling to explore. (It used to be more manageable—it used to be more a guide. It has been allowed to grow far beyond a healthy point.) And it’s atrocious as a guide.
The album "Out Of Season" she did with Rustin Man is really good, all of her tracks on my 64K playlist are from that one.
> All of the measures we are taking: masks, distancing, WFH, these are meant to slow down the rate of infection, not end it.

They are meant to slow down the rate of infection for two reasons:

1. A certain portion of the infected population will need treatment in order to recover. The health care system will be unable to provide that treatment if they have to deal with a large number of cases in a short period of time.

2. To buy time until a vaccine is available. Even with better treatments and a manageable rate of infection, the mortality rate is relatively high. Vaccination is the only effective way to reduce that.

Also consider this: even if the virus is permitted to run wild, the infection rate will eventually slow (assuming that people retain immunity and the virus does not mutate). It will be a prolonged problem no matter how you look at it.
I'd say it's much more likely that the original suggestion of being in the last few thousand alive
Well I grew my audience on Twitter by building open source projects. [1] I didn't really plan or aim for anything. It mostly happened.

As for technologies, I just wrote the book in markdown using Sublime Text. Then I used a markdown-to-pdf library from GitHub to generate my ebook, and voilà. Nothing fancy really.

[1]: https://twitter.com/jgthms
And, if it's going to be 900 words, then in the first 400, you'd better make it clear that you've got 900 words that are actually worth my time to read. You make it clear, not by telling me that you've got something relevant to say, but by demonstrating it.
Well, three of them.
Wow the Russian bot replies on here are phenomenal!
No disorders, No family history of diseases except diabetes in a few older ones. All of us got over corona with just a little fever except him. Well we cant even say with confidence what is happening with him is due to corona, it could be two different diseases coinciding at the same time.
> What about the overwhelming body of evidence showing that specifically children rarely if ever infect adults with COVID-19?

I don't know what you're citing. There are a few papers out there showing effects like this, there's certainly no "overwhelming" evidence of anything in a pandemic that's barely seven months old, be real.

> but learning the truth about spread was quite surprising to me

That phrasing freaks me out a bit. What, exactly, are you reading? This is science, that kind of certainty is a design smell.
Bizarre thought just hit me.

What if they are correct, and stumbled onto the same trail the FBI has, and the FBI gave them an order to not discuss it anymore due to a pending investigation with national security repercussions?

Given how BB has just walked away from this article - no rescinding, no nothing, I think it's a possibility.
It's so blatantly clear they want to cover it up, and lie about the real number of infections.