skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The early NYC numbers came from a variety of situations:

1) Gov Cuomo sending elderly to nursing homes and packing them in for treatment. This killed thousands (same with Gov Whitmer in Michigan) and yet Cuomo wrote a fucking book about how great he is instead of facing any consequences.

2) Overuse of ventilators. People were putting vents right as they came in, mostly based off bad advice from doctors in Europe. Turned out this was a death sentence. Most of the young people who died, most likely died from high pressure ventilators over anything else.

3) Overflow hospitals in NYC were entirely empty because they were intended for non-covid patients and were incredibly difficult to get into. Many people who didn't have COVID, who were kept for monitoring, were kept on COVID floors of regular hospitals and got COVID.

NYC was mismanagement at every possible level.
"there were no security cameras at the three locations that were hit" <== uh oh
Really interesting article. I find it curious that they didn't get a statement from Doering though.
I appreciate the theory, but I believe that this time really is different:

- Bitcoin is widespread enough that many average people (Coinbase says over 10mil Americans have an account) own some amount.

- There is enormous distrust in institutions and government, which is why crypto is popular in the first place. Banning it would be extremely difficult politically and drive many conspiracy theories and further erosion in trust.

- The Supreme Court, and courts in general, have been packed by Republicans and have enough libertarian-leaning and originalists that doubt the centralized state, I'm unsure if a ban would be upheld constitutionally.

- In 1934 people were simply less educated than they are today with the internet at their finger tips, and news spreads fast. I doubt the gold ban would be possible today given the legitimate outrage vs. 1934.

- Crypto is far easier to store and use surreptitiously than gold is, and on a massive scale. Furthermore, offshore exchanges are extremely popular and are accessible globally. I'm not sure you can ban Americans from using every crypto exchange except US-regulated ones.
"links to download pirated software" hehe you should look at google
I agree, which is why I would rather a legal framework of compulsory licensing. This seems an overly broad interpretation of fair use.
The sense I intended was that it may indeed be an easy fix, but second- third- etc- order effects may actually make us all worse off in ways we never considered.
The idea that the Fed would replace the USD with a decaying digital currency in order to disincentivize saving is pretty wild. People would be furious that their ability to save for retirement is being sabotaged in order to strong-arm them into higher levels of spending as a form of economic stimulus. People barely tolerate tax increases — imagine how angry they'd be if the government literally started taking money right out of their account purely as a way of manipulating their behaviour.
That's in the last 7 days only. Is that what you mean by "at this time"? California is doing better than most US states in the longer term, and even the "best" state long term, Vermont, seems to be worse off than most countries.
It’s not just that the political leadership was lacking; our media and the people of the US also collaborated in this failure. There is no sense of community or duty amongst our people, only selfishness.
Where is that? Can you quote them?

We seem to have read different threads apparently...
Nice dream, but we already wished the genie out of the lamp.
The market did not moved to mobile. Mobile is alongside desktop. People like diversity and mobile offered another one. And people who have only mobile in their homes are poor that can't afford desktop but I see mobile as a gateway drug to desktop. Once people will have enough money, will also buy desktop exactly because mobile hooked them in the first place.
I’m not so sure; I think a _lot_ of people would be interested in advanced in non-ML image analysis tech. While ML has been effective for a recent period in industry, it has a number of issues such as intensive training costs, extreme difficulty in fully understanding the behavior of a model (since we can only do experimental verification, and only on behaviors we know to be interesting already), and ethical issues such as unintended gender/racial bias. Just off the top of my head.

I think what you are pointing is really the most toxic part of tech: marketers and investors have found that tech is a good way to aggregate money, and so they have a thrown a lot of funding at tech that can aggregate for them. However, we haven’t actually proven that that tech is the best solution or a sustainable solution. We don’t understand most of what we do with computers very well, we just approximate until it works well enough (for the marketers and investors, of course).

ML and deep learning are very valuable, of course, but their recent market dominance doesn’t indicate that they are the final or most correct solution to the problems they are being used for. It indicates that people want to spend money on it right now.
Already people are dying of non-COVID disease due to lack of capacity. Is that a fair trade off? We can directly connect the dots from "I wanna do what I want!" who then get sick or make other people sick who then end up at a hospital who take up a bed and someone else who isn't sick but has a plumonary or cardiac episode dies.

If we had perfect information, we could trace the liability back to people's behavior and fine them properly for non-compliance. But that would run up against privacy concerns wouldn't it?

What about a general strike by health care workers and grocery stockers and food delivery service workers? Right now. In the middle of a pandemic. Can you imagine the outrage? And why would people be outraged? Because they think these workers are slaves. They shouldn't have a choice. It's everyone who isn't on the front line who should get to choose whether to comply with public health orders.

It is certainly more civilized for health care workers to just quit en masse right now, than to propose people should just get to flaunt public health orders without any kind of penalty. But I'm getting the strong indication this is not a civil society.
But growing soybeans year after year after year doesn't work very well, ecologically speaking[1]. Crop rotation is essential for soil and crop health. For a whole lot of practical reasons, animal feed is more efficient to add to the rotation than, say, a fruit crop. Good or bad, agriculture does not operate in one dimension.

[1] Source: I grow soybeans for the human market. To which I'll add that human grade soybeans themselves are less efficient to grow than animal grade soybeans. They command a pretty sizeable premium to reflect that added cost of production. It's not exactly as simple as shifting your diet to eating animal feed.
Yeah space really isn't the problem at all. It is nurses and doctors and oxygen. They have nurses - who are supposed to treat 2, maybe 3 at a time - treating 30 people at a time.
The problem with the holiday theory is that the spike started being detected around Nov 1, not thanksgiving. Cases nearly doubled in the first week of the month - and tests are always a lagging indicator.
The "stay at home orders" in the USA were so unenforced, they were jokes. Politicians wanted to seem like they were doing something so they rolled their eyes and enacted these half-assed "orders", making sure to forget to have the police enforce them. In CA, our brilliant governor told everyone to wear masks and avoid restaurants, then went out and had a fun maskless restaurant outing himself.

Most people I know took stay-at-home seriously, but enough people didn't that it was totally ineffectual.
The rich reaction to bubonic plague has eerie similarities to Covid-19 pandemic
Who will hire you to do anything once their needs have been automated?
> There is a material difference

Of course there is. I'm saying poor people shouldn't be judged for buying the $100/$20 versions, and also that it's an unsubstantiated myth that they're broadly wasting money by buying the $1000/$200 versions.
Governments usually have a single official currency authorized for paying taxes, but they rarely ban/criminalize foreign currencies from being used by the general public.
Publishing reliable information that is politically relevant is not a "coordinated attack on American democracy," it's journalism. The only link you've provided is common between the three of them.

>why don't spy agencies burn sources and methods to charge Assange with espionage when he's already in prison for other charges?

We already know that all of his communication in the Ecuadorian embassy were tapped for years, what are they protecting?
We have to highlight that this isn't true. CPU rasterizing is covered extensively in Handmade Hero. Then, eventually, a move to hardware-accelerated graphics.
This is statistics at its worst. How can you conclude from just the last seven days that "those measures that CA took... don't seem to be working as expected"?
>I am not a scientist, but I would expect that the mRNA vaccines would have less of a chance of having an auto-immune reaction since they contain only one of the many proteins contained in the actual virus.

This is the angle that, for me, is suppressing my innate concern for a widescale and rapid application of a brand new immunological therapy. It's extremely targeted and feels like the future. I can imagine a day where the FDA approves the process rather than the instance of mRNA-based therapies, allowing for highly personalized treatment.
You’re both right, the Citizens United ruling said cash was speech according to the 1st amendment if it was an “independent expenditure” ie Super PACs etc. You can’t donate unlimited amounts directly to a candidate, but you can to “independent entities”.

IANAL so I’m not sure why you can’t just donate it all directly to a candidate, perhaps a different section of the constitution?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
That's bullshit, China grew hospitals in a matter of weeks. Though, they are not restricted with all the regulations going on the US.
I'm not sure what you're trying to argue for here, but if we had allowed a huge initial spike, many hundreds of thousands would have died needlessly. We are still doing much better than that.
PiCluster 3.0 Is Out
Are you saying it got to -70 C in the middle of Italy?
See: https://rdist.root.org/2010/07/19/exploiting-remote-timing-a... and Crosby 2007. I got into infosec around 06 and tptacek, Nate Lawson and some others were my heroes. Now I run my own consulting firm with a bunch of cool people :)

Also in infosec: what is old is new. We still find shitty comparison routines (timing attacks) and SQL injection... some day :)
Sure, maybe, and we could spin out dozens of scenarios and approaches that could have been better or worse.

I think one phrase from your comment highlights the entire problem though: “enforce no action.”

You can’t enforce a society wide shutdown. You can only get that from citizens who voluntarily participate in a social order that they trust. We (Americans) are faced with enormous problems as a society as a result of our inability to trust one another.

We may be able to engineer a zero trust replacement for our monetary system. We seem to desire the same thing for our society. Everyone demands infinite verification of everything. Fact check the fact checkers and audit the auditors that audit the election results! At some point though, it’s turtles all the way down. Political debate is starting to sound like epistemology.

It appears that societies that have greater levels of trust are faring better in this pandemic. That cannot become an excuse for our failure. It should instruct us on how to proceed.

EDIT: re-reading this I realize I’m singling out “society wide shutdown” as the sort of imagined best response, maybe it is, but what I was really thinking of was “highly coordinated society wide response where everyone does what they are supposed to based on their role.”
v6 already implements a similar scheme. You set the protocol field in the v4 packet to 41, and then put the v6 addresses at the beginning of the packet payload, with the original packet payload following afterwards.

It doesn't seem to have helped as much as you're claiming.
I agree. There have been many doctors across the US who have been using ivermectin or inhaled steroids with incredible success rates. Meanwhile controlled trails for using it have slowed to a halt (we've been waiting since August) while The Gavi Alliance and gates are promoting an mRNA vaccine of a type that has never been approved or deployed before.

It's a clear money grab too. They want this vaccine out because it opens the door to a ton of other mRNA treatments they haven't been able to get approved.
> I haven't seen mention of his underlying conditions. Very few healthy 41-year-olds have succumbed.

I think that talking about underlying conditions is pointless. Fewer people without any underlying conditions have died but that doesn't really matter. You still can die from it.
I think we can all agree that it's totally bonkers that mask-wearing is somehow seen as political. Imagine if it were the case for carrying an umbrella or wearing warm gear in winter.
> Ground that can grow animal food pretty much always can grow a human food.

Not necessarily with the productivity to justify the human effort, though, which is the important bit. You can let cattle graze low-yielding grassland with essentially no effort. You're not going to bother with the intense labour requirements of picking the scant vegetable crop you'd get off the same land. Not when you can easily ship vegetables from highly productive ground.
Imagine flagging an article about section 230 as off-topic for HN...

It would be a disaster for every website with user-generated content, especially smaller ones.
> Many years ago I would have viewed an official government nutrition document as a credible source

It would be an authoritative source, but just because it's authoritative doesn't mean it is credible or correct.

All the authoritative nutritional sources are backed by corporations. Corporations fight over the nutrition standards and then have the government/NGOs/etc peddle it.
Its called inflation. They do that already, just less honestly.
He seems to have been doing lots of public events without wearing a mask. Photos are making the rounds on Twitter, e.g.: https://twitter.com/EvaMcGreggor/status/1344133556461731841?...

It's not a mystery how he caught it.
It's basically a camo DJI Mini that probably costs fifty times as much.

Cute little drone, the Mini. I keep having to tell myself I don't need one.
Total deaths per capita still suggests that Florida has more numbnuts than California.

The reporting is also partially where stuff is active right now. El Paso was sending people in ambulances 600 miles to Austin because they were out of room.

"LA Runs Out of Hospital Rooms" is more of a headline than "El Paso Still Out of Hospital Rooms".
There haven’t been any reports of fatigue as an underlying condition in this instance. It seems best not to speculate and rather to acknowledge that covid can be lethal even for relatively young and perfectly healthy people without preexisting conditions. Speculating on unproven possible complications from fatigue only does a disservice to downplay the lethality of covid, even for healthy people.
Wonder if this is any way related to the 13 hour outage[1] at Wasabi storage related to GoDaddy?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25567294
But there's not "no way" when people work essential jobs, leave their homes for groceries, touch packages getting delivered, live with other people, etc.
Not this again. Where do you put elderly folks who are recovering but not sick enough to keep in the hospitals which need to freed up for more seriously sick people?

They live in the nursing home FFS, that is their home.
Did they grow doctors and nurses too?
Python has gevent.
Indeed. And while we're at it take things to their logical conclusion; seriously consider the implications of this tek + combined with 'AI' for not only navigation but for policing decisions.

When you remove the human element from policing, there is thus then no human empathy in the decision to use force ie- to arrest or kill, if that is the 'command' said AI internally commands itself to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#AT&T_data_breach
According to this:
https://bb.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html
you'll have to opt out if your card number changes, and every five years even if it doesn't.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-of-the-machines

"If you look at historical data, the vast majority of battle-winners used pre-modern weaponry"

"Thanks to the machine-learning algorithms, the robot apocalypse was short-lived"
> I thought (but I could be wrong) that the supreme court decided that donating money is "speech" and therefore protected.

Yeah and constitution needs to be changed to subject the supreme court to confirmation by the voters every so often.
I've been Calendly user for a while, which addresses the same niche. It doesn't replace scheduling with your internal peers. What it does is enable scheduling with people outside your company without doing any multi-stage dance of listing potential times and getting confirmation, sending out an invite, rescheduling because the even though you clearly stated it, the recipient didn't account for the timezone, dealing with schedule changes and more. My primary use case is coordination with interview candidates, vendors, and customers. A service like this replaces an executive assistant (at least the scheduling part) rather than gsuite.
With these growth rates (doubling every 10-15 days), _doubling_ the number of beds available in an area will only buy two weeks.

Santa Clara's hospitalization growth rate is running at 2-3 weeks.

This isn't something the health system can grow to solve.
That's exactly what you should expect when anything comes into monopoly. When you have no alternatives, any price could be the best offer for you. For the same reason, when I have to use cloud, I would try to avoid anything that deeply binding to a particular vendor by using IaaS or PaaS so that we can bail out when something went sour.
Is Remote Work Viable? No
Exactly.

It’s exacerbated by stimulus spending. Money is printed and spent in areas meant to stimulate more spending. That devalues the dollar and diminishes the value of savings.
Related: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/south-shore-nurse-no...
Here’s a 41 year old who died from the flu:

https://news.yahoo.com/41-old-mom-dies-flu-170521130.html

Death existed before COVID ...
So long as governments exist you will need to pass your data through government-controlled spaces. You may produce your own electricity, you may create your own wireless mesh WAN spanning a continent even, but that continent might contain the US, and the FCC will come knocking on doors and knocking down you signal towers. You cannot operate on any significant scale without touching on something under the regulatory jurisdiction of nation-states. This is not a problem of imagination, it's the current structure of power. East Germans undoubtedly both imagined and were often aware of Trabant alternatives outside of East Germany. But their dominant power structure did not easy allow for home grown competition.
The numbers to this point disagree, and I don't think you'll find a lot of support for your prediction of a change in direction.

https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet...
I've read a few Light Novels (no text bubbles, little to no pictures) that were machine translated, and they've all been horrible to read through - you could barely make sense of the sentences, and the whole reading experience became frustrating rather than pleasurable.
Look up the blancolirio channel on YouTube, specifically the Max episodes and you'll how close we came to crashing them here.
> avoided by anyone who knows anything

Most people don't know anything. The 99.9% of people buying domains don't browse Hacker News or stay privy of news regarding domain registrars.
I mentioned in another thread [1] that COVID-19 was a gigantic game of Prisoner's Dilemma, where cooperation meant staying at home and wearing a mask when you go out, and where defection meant going out and horsing around, and we utterly failed the game.

Since, I don't know... WW2, we seem to no longer have the ability as a country to act in coordinated cooperation for some greater good. It's all individualism, now. It's all about me, me, me! My rights! My need to go shopping! My desire to eat at Olive Garden! Other people are dying? Fuck em... I'm going to enjoy my life and not let "the man" tell me what to do! Wait, I got the disease?? Well, crap! Who could have predicted it? God certainly works in mysterious ways.

2020 has pretty much robbed me of what empathy I had left. It's insane how selfish we have become.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25577270
Not a Google Maps story, but a family died in Death Valley 24 years ago by following a map that showed a similar road that was not passable for their vehicle. Tragic way to die.

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017...
I would not trust a single representative to be sufficiently knowledgeable to draft or vote on legislation affecting cryptocurrency, nuclear submarines, automobile emissions standards, advertising standards, building safety codes, and so many other things.

Instead, the legislation is prompted by those who form interest groups, and the fine details put together either in writing the law or by the administrative officials from the relevant executive office.

These people get their expertise by having worked in those fields, or knowing others who do.

The alternatives are arguably worse- legislation written by people who genuinely have no idea what they are talking about (which does still happen too often) or government so tiny and limited in scope that it may as well be nothing more than a militia.
I know the old novel or heard the story but I'll check it out. Thank you.
Url changed from https://www.gamesradar.com/seamus-blackley-on-tricking-bill-..., which points to this.
>all this energy . . . might be better focused into social disapproval of the portrayals of murder, rape and the rest of the violence we inundate ourselves and our kids with on a daily basis.

I tend to agree, and the "rekt/gore" threads on 4chan strike me as particularly low-hanging fruit.
They probably teach more than the US do per-capita, so most likely yes. You don't need a 10 years general practitioner to attend everybody.
1) Yes mobile moved the market by capturing hundreds of millions of people who would never have owned a computer otherwise, and Microsoft failed to react to this.

2) Do you have any data to back up the claim that mobile usage leads to desktop purchases? I have never heard such a claim before
I only have a few dollars, but I keep mine offline gpg encrypted... when I don't need them
More Americans will die of covid in 2021 than have in 2020.

The newly-available vaccines will help, but lots of people won't take them just as lots of people haven't worn and still don't wear masks. The effective reproduction number won't be less than one anytime in the near future.

The important point is that in January 2020 the percentage of the general public who were contagious was very low. Still, 350,000 people died this year. In January of 2021, the contagious percentage will be much higher. That more people will die in the following year is simple arithmetic.
Why let people do anything if they will make the wrong decisions?