skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change ideology is speed bump in Trump’s $142B R&D budget proposal
On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%. In another article in the Journal, Guan et al. report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity.

If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.

This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.

— New England Journal of Medicine, Feb 28, 2020

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2002387?query=rec...
Admission dates are PHI, and this gets pretty close to that.
I'll say it again every time OCaml is mentioned here: there are programmers who are eagerly awaiting for it to become more friendly to the modern hardware realities and then they'll use it a lot. Like myself.

(I am mainly waiting for multicore but SIMD/AVX would be nice as well. Transparent parallelization of code without the programmer doing anything about it except supplying a compilation flag would be a game-changer but eh, we can dream right? After all, pure functions can be detected part of the time so I don't see why not.)

I get the vibe that the current community that's driving it forward is small, dedicated and overworked. Sad to hear that but rest assured that the community will grow once OCaml has multicore support. People will want to contribute once they can suddenly replace their Python or Go codebases with OCaml.

(I'd probably also ask to throw away the C strings and only leave the UTF-8 ones in but I am aware that the OCaml developers are very committed to backwards compatibility so likely not going to happen.)

Great work and progress! Keep it up! <3
I disagree that those are doing the same thing. I propose that the actual answer is c:

use std::cell::RefCell;

fn mystery_c() -> i32 {
let x = RefCell::new(1);
let capture = || x.borrow();
x.replace(2);
return *x.borrow() * *capture();
}

fn main() {
println!("{}", mystery_c())
}

Which is what I meant when I said that Box<T> might be the analogous thing (I guess it's actually RefCell, whoops!). And note that in this case, x is immutable :P

That said I accept your broader point, the effect is that python names act like mutable rust names, although the reality is slightly more complex (my final example is, I believe, the closest to actual reality).
The Dairy Farm of Your Imagination Is Disappearing
this is outdated by something like a decade, at least. reach aside, the whole draw of internet advertising is that you can actually quantify the effect of your ads and tie them to real revenue events

I suppose it's fun to think that billions yearly are being thrown into the bonfire, but that's just not the reality
It seems to me that all agreements and other documents that describe the Hotchalk arrangement must be examined, confidentiality be damned.
It looks as if a massive fraud has been perpetuated on Concordia with the connivance of many of their staff as well as whitechalk staff.
I am sure they have documented all payments as fees for services - look clean and closed, but were not. This fraud was performed by people who wanted it to stand up against an audit, so a true work preformed audit is needed. Count their hours, examine their travel logs, looks for cheats at all levels. I do not know if Concordia can be saved - those documented fake debts need to be expunged.
Audit thos fees for services, ask if these service were performed to a proper standard - my bet is they were not, they were documented but not performed.
He's literally saying that the Democrats are politicizing it and that it's a hoax.

The moment that the numbers take a turn for a worse (and they will, because we are not at all prepared for this and are doing nothing to prepare) he'll call them fake, made up and continue down the line of a democratic hoax.

He's doing the exact same thing he did during Hurricane Maria and I would hope that people would learn quickly from the way he's behaved in the past.
It's meaningless unless we know how much wireless carriers stand to make by selling customer location data.

If they make $20 billion and the fine is $200 million, then it's a small business expense and a tax write off.
I assumed this was a doctor working in China when I read the title. It’s actually the Trump administration.
C++17's std::filesystem is awesome.

One of the benefits of C++'s minimal standard library is that when something finally does get added 20 years after it's an established technology the OS primitives have already solidified. (threads and mutexes in C++11 for another example)
It's not a hospital
I had to look it up:

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

Irony meter would break off if an outbreak happened there.
This is really bad for the construction industry. Spraying oil based paints, environments with asbestos, dealing with lead paint, spraying insulation, and other really chemical heavy operations require protective gear.
In what form will Multicore OCaml support the, you know, multicore stuff? Will it be native OS threads? CSP? Actors? Something else?

I am very excited to use OCaml with multicore abilities but lately I realised that I have no clue how will the initial support even look like in terms of a programming API.
Ranges are far easier to find in urban areas. I live in a town of about 10k, and there is only one pistol range nearby. It opened last year. Before that, you had to either have land or have access to land to shoot.

Hearing gunfire isn’t at all uncommon here. I live right on the edge of city limits, and I doubt a day goes by without being able to hear someone shoot if I’m sitting on my back porch. I totally get that it’s a cultural difference, but it’s very common throughout the US. The only exceptions are very dense urban areas, really.

I’ve heard it said that there are two kinds of places in the US, and they’re categorized by what sound makes you worry. In some places, if you hear an emergency vehicle’s siren you ignore it, but get concerned if you hear gunfire. In others, you ignore the sound of gunfire but get concerned if you hear an emergency vehicle. I definitely live in the latter kind of place.
It’s about smoothing the curve so the healthcare system can absorb the influx of patients. If the healthcare system is overwhelmed then it’s a problem.

Here’s a link to a great article.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-...
Every single ad seller's been caught by companies selling these dangerous ads. Google, yahoo, etc.
They usually catch it within 3-5 days. That's too long.
Does the sun kill the new coronavirus? Expert explains
F# is an ml inspired language running on the .net clr.

Use the SAFE template if you are interested in doing web development with this language.
Has anyone written a wrapper algorithm to encode/decode "obvious repeating patterns" to be used by common software that uses cryptography?

Call it something like "crackpot.js"
In other thread, people commented that "it's becoming real" because now we have TWO cases in US among the population over 300M. The current economic damage is at least $50M/death due to COVID-19 virus! I'm not sure if this is the most dangerous disease but its certainly most expensive diseases the world has seen so far. So yes, the hype is real.
Without context your can't tell. He obviously doesn't believe coronavirus is a hoax, so it appears what he said is the Democrats attacks on unpreparedness is "their new hoax". The full comment is:

Now the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. They have no clue, they can't even count their votes in Iowa. This is their new hoax
If someone cares about your gender on HN or gives you a hard time over it or your choice to use it they're probably not worth communicating with anyway. I get your point about people maybe feeling a bit better about someone if they openly put up their real identity or link their pseudonym to a real public ID like a blog , twitter, or other account. I think that's probably just human nature but I don't think gender would come into that except maybe sexist persons who you are superior to anyway because of their choice to be an irrational person.
> It's not a free market or anywhere near

Right, agreed.

> implying such is dishonest.

/me raises eyebrow.

Making utilities into something that consensus opinion would label a "free market" is incredibly difficult. Without regulation, you get monopolies. With regulation, you get monopolies.

Implying that a "free market" can solve the utility problem is (I won't say "dishonest" because I don't believe you're arguing in bad faith) facile.
Pompeo won’t say that the coronavirus is not a hoax.

https://mobile.twitter.com/owillis/status/123341176640054067...
DFW for Dallas-Fort Worth is common

Ed: "The ATL" for Atlanta is also a thing
You might like Elm if you're looking to do a fun web project and you enjoy MLish syntax.
It 100% is better to get it early or not at all.

One of the biggest risks is running out of ICU beds, ventilators, ECMO machines due to the 10-15% hospitalization rate.

If it goes wide enough then there will not be treatment available and the mortality rate will skyrocket.
> The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization by national security adviser John Bolton.

Not sure how much more explicit that 2018 WaPo article can be.
There are plenty of events still going in.
I've suspected the same in SoCal. DW and I have been feeling kind of bleh over the past few days, and as of today both of our families haven't been feeling great either. It could be something else too, but I wouldn't be surprised either way.
I've always wondered if the assumption, they're never using the same one twice, would suffice to practically always use the same one then (assuming data-length never changes).
Why can't the CDC make a working test kit? After China, every other country seems to have been able to do it in like 2-3 days after a few cases were discovered.
> Plus, docker-compose doesn't really offer command discovery. Looking at a docker compose file, I don't know how to run the project's build steps, or run their linter or tests. Having to look that up is, in my opinion, annoying.

Shouldn’t this be in the README at / of the project?
You’re right, I should have mentioned that as well.

I didn’t go into those details because I was strictly talking about the project in the article and the compute time limit would not be exceeded for this project either.

400,000 GB-s is free every month, and even if the Lambda function ran for 2,592,000 seconds (equals to a month, way more than enough) using 128 MB of RAM (again, more than enough for a task like this), it would only use 324,000 GB-seconds.
The over_reaction to this is utterly ridiculous in Europe.
It’s easier for Amazon; they’re so cheap they hate employees traveling even in healthy times.
If I could afford to do that I would. I remain an observer, I'm concerned about remaining solvent through whatever the next few months bring.
Apparently the CDC has screwed up the “test kit” in numerous ways.

First, they made it needlessly complicated by trying to make it test for other SARS-like viruses, and those tests were flagging a large number of false positives.

Secondly, labs that are developing their own tests to mirror the CDC are being prohibited from using them due to onerous and absurd requirements like demonstrating their test wouldn’t falsely identify MERS as COVID-19, when MERS samples are nearly impossible to obtain.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cdc-coronavirus-covid-19-...
If intel would actually make fast chips. Instead of merely talking about them.
0.5% absolute points or by 0.5%? Chance of cancer is already really low. Multiplying it by 1.005 doesn't make much of a difference. Adding 0.5% does.
When he says the coronavirus is a hoax, he's explicitly referring to the numbers and the people infected. Because again, he's already done this exact same plan before!

At that point it does not matter if he believes the coronavirus is fake or if he believes that the virus is a complete non-issue because the end result is the same.
So they aren't predicting anything, are relying on manufacturers to self report, already have surprise shortages, and are monitoring and mitigating? These statutory authorities and responsibilities to assure blah blah blah, that doesn't give permission to prepare or ramp up requirements?

"Implementing critical infrastructure monitoring" is giving out an email address? Hmmm.
I'm c/c++ over 20 years, go 1 year,
Python 5+ years. I work at a company with a guy on the c++ standards committee with the internal sdlc and engineering training for large scale, commercial systems to boot.

This article is a rant. Not an engineering take down of go. There's just not much of substance here. Were I to care about windows (I don't) for serious cross platform os interaction, go isn't your hammer of choice.

I've turned to go recently for some I/O heavy apps of a micro-service type which it is fine for. I also turned to go because of God awful c++ build times and bad build systems in the sense that they assume all code is in a single branch. By switching to go I also prevent less experienced programmers from linking in legacy c++ libraries and the evil that comes with them.

Go has delivered. My needs are such that protobuf/flatbuffer are good enough for types and go's lack of generics is irrelevant. I'm pushing bytes across a network pipe in which each message admits simple transforms/operations.

Now I am keeping my eye on three things that I think go could burn me on:

- garbage collection

- channels ... cool but slow

- something unixy/multicore/close to the bare metal ... Like kv store

Those things I'd be reticent about doing in go.

Folks, we need 2-4 languages with their connections to libraries and tool chains in our toolbox.

While we remain dominated by c++ (a complex beast of a language) I am looking to add a functional language to my kit (ocaml/Haskell).
Btw good engineers need a formal language too. I recommend tla+ and there's a guy in hacker news here that's got good books on it. Recommended! Highly concurrent code ought to modeled in tla+ first before leaving your app language gun and taking the canolli.

Cheers
Yes, and the FFI friction maps to my main concern with Go as it stands: it's a bit like Python in that it wants to be extended rather than embedded. That always creates a "hollowing out" of its core over time as users exceed the capacities of its standard library and try to push it into new environments. In contrast, Lua, for example, has a parasitic quality to it: make the host more powerful and then you can easily give Lua similar powers.

However, the other half of that is that in a lot of cases, the libraries are chosen, not the language. And then why would you choose the janky "worse is better" libraries? Well, there is a reason: at some level all your code is still a prototype or draft and the "real thing" is yet to come. And then Go looks rather successful on that front in that its primitivism works at the outset and ships a lot of software, which in turn creates the demand for the heavier "big-boy" solutions.

That's a thing I often don't see addressed in this kind of rant.
Keep in mind that this is about the length of recorded human history. Surely they wouldn’t be fixated on what is currently a small outbreak.
how are you measuring economic damage?
Use the text based secret and save a copy in an encrypted file and keep it on a usb memory stick. Put that in a safety deposit box if are paranoid enough. Either way, you lose your phone you have all your auth secrets available to re-enter.
Pence only has control of federal government employees within the administrative branch. Their nominal boss is President Trump, so he has the authority to fire them if they disobey him or his deputies.

Private citizens and state/local officials can say anything they want - subject to HIPAA restrictions, which I suspect is what this thread is about.
South Korea tested on the order of 10,000 people today alone and found roughly 300 positive cases. The USA has managed to test around 500 in the past two months.

I'm extremely concerned this isn't being treated with an appropriate level of hair on fire urgency. They said 2 weeks ago they were going to start expanded testing in 5 cities and they are still developing a testing procedure?
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That data looks it's from this Chinese CDC article in English:
http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

Lot's of useful data: Age is very significant: 0-9: 0%, ..., 60-69: 3.6%, 70-79: 8.0%, 80+: 14.8% i.e. the kids will be fine, but watch out for the elderly. Men are more affected (2.8%) than women (1.7%). The regional breakdown is apparently a useful approximation of mortality rates when the healthcare system is overwhelmed (Hubei 2.9%) vs not (outside 0.4%). "Health workers" (all employees in a hospital setting) is 0.3% which amongst all the occupational buckets is the lowest. 81% of cases is mild symptoms.
>Except those are not the alternatives. The alternatives are consistently rendered websites or inconsistently rendered websites. If browsers had strictly enforced HTML syntax from the beginning, noone would ever have built websites with "little issues in the markup".

Thats not reality, if everyone got perfect formed input we wouldn't be having this debate, the reality is it occurs, so what do you do, reject it or accept it and try and do something with it. XHTML simply rejects malformed markup and you get a blank page, HTML tries to make sense of it and render something.

>IP stacks do not accept randomly misformatted IP packets. The result is obviously not that you constantly encounter internet services that you can not access because your IP stack is picky about broken IP packets, the result is that noone ever sends you broken IP packets.

So you never heard of ECN? The ECN bits being set where technically incorrect depending on how pedantic you where in the interpretation and some stacks rejected packets if the bits weren't set to zero. Due to he robustness principle most stacks ignored these bits allowing others to use them for ECN, allowing a graceful update to the spec. The stacks that took your stance however and rejected where simply roadblocks in the adoption.

>No, it just isn't. You are just looking at a very small part of the consequences of this implementation strategy that indeed happens to be positive, but completely ignoring the big picture of all the externalities and other indirect damage that result from it.

I'm not ignoring anything, I am just pointing out reality, the real world is messy and the stacks that try to keep working under messy conditions seem to be prevailing. Its not pretty and I don't deny the issues that arise, but here we are communicating on the largest most successful computer network ever built using a protocol and a markup language built with Postels law in mind.

>Erm ... no? The reason why XHTML was abandoned was because people are incompetent at writing software, and there existed an alternative that allowed them to keep their idiotic practices, including all the vulnerabilities and interoperability problems that result from those, so that's what people did.

I think most who know the history there would disagree with this opinion [1], it was obvious to me at the time why XHTML would fail even though I thought it a cleaner solution, I realized thats what was holding it back. It was much better to see your page come up with maybe a weird rendering artifact than just have the browser render nothing and throw an error if some small part was malformed.

>How does that follow? And what does that have to do with anything?

Because complaining about security vulnerabilities found in some of the most used software in the world while comparing to something that no one uses doesn't help your point.

>Relevant ... for what?

Uh gee I don't know maybe Postel's law is kinda relevant when discussing TCP because Postel wrote the spec you know like what you asked in the post before? What kind of game are you playing here?

1. https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/when-standards-divide/
The nice thing about indexes is there are so many of them...

I read somewhere there are actually more ETFs now than individual stocks.
People can only change when they themselves want to change. To make them want to change, you have to find a reason for them to want to have already changed. If you find a good enough reason, they will then slowly convince themselves that the change is good.
Long distance tracks are mostly already electrified in most places. In Germany & the Netherlands, diesel trains are limited to the edges of the rail network and there have been plenty of experiments with replacing those with hydrogen, gas and even battery trains. Mostly those trains service short routes.
A Yubikey is what you are looking for.

https://www.yubico.com/
I tend to agree with something to this effect. It should also be relative to specific company's financial factors. Something like Finland's progressive fines where speeding tickets are actually based as a percentage of one's income.

Maybe based on revenue, profit, market cap, and/or something a lot more well thought out than what I throw together on my phone at a whim. Obviously when you specify certain factors like "income," they end up being gamed to minimize those factors and therefor minimize punishment so whatever factors you use need to be difficult to adjust around. Probably also need to account for recovery rates.

Earning 1% back for one person may be trivial compared to the another which makes them more likely or at least financially capable to repeat the offense.
Or, why do we think the value of everything is known to a precision of less than 10%? Maybe both prices are equally accurate.
This isn’t true of all academic conferences. I have a close relative who’s a researcher and lecturer in global nutrition and her next 6 months of travel have effectively been paused due to the outbreak.

Ironically, the only major organization in her world that has allegedly pleaded to keep things running as normal is the Gates Foundation.
I have the coronavirus – So far, it isn't that bad
Sun burns are known to significantly increase cancer risks vs similar exposure over longer periods. Sun burns are rather similar to accuse radiation poisoning suggesting similar issues.