skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably not. Case fatality rates don't accurately show the "deadliness" since many people have likely been infected but been asymptomatic or had mild illness that didn't cause them to seek medical advice.

I agree with this point but would also like to point out the possibility that way more people get infected by SARS-CoV-2 than the flu.

I also want to note that the flu also has the same asymptomatic or mild illness factor and that the deadliness would be only comparing people who sought medical treatment.
could you please elaborate on why you think it may be more mild?
... "will be used to offset costs for pensioners."

Our carbon tax worked at reducing emissions, and at being low economic impact. It was removed because we are a corrupt banana republic, not because it's unworkable.
> How can average programmers write code that is sufficiently abstract that it hides the complexity they can't handle?

Well said.

Hiding complexity is harder than handling it. Designing an effective way to expose it for use amounts to (part of) a "programming system" [Brooks].

So it's library writers who hide the complexity for average programmers, with a "programming product": stdlib, open source project or (rarer these days) commercial "engine".

When there is no such library, we get the current state of our art: many projects failing.
It might be the contrast that makes it so striking to me. South Korea is in full-on alert mode. As I said, in comparison, it seems like business as usual here.

Going from airport (ICN) to airport (HND) amid this really drove it home.

But yes, I am definitely noticing some measures happening here. Mask shortages, a few companies shifting to remote work, etc.
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Had the same or very similar issue .
My domain registrar dropped all name server settings on an 'update'/whois update requirmet change
Luckily I had an old export of DNS records so most were there but not all the settings were retained like DNS only or full proxy.
Those were not mission critical, so not that bad but I bet some emails went to the void because there was no real warning from both my domain registration service provider and cf so I found it very 'upsetting' (I was pissed on them both)
AFAIK tree sequestration is marginal compared to the amount of co2 to be captured. Also, trees rot, and the decomposition process reverts a chunk of the process (releases co2)
the WHO has taken some not entirely transparent actions during handling of this epidemic and there are allegations that it's boss has a conflict of interest (his country apparently takes a lot of investments from China) and also that there are some pandemic-related financial instruments from which certain parties stand to benefit June 2020 if pandemic isn't declared. these are all hearsay but would explain trying to appease China and their choice of words in their press conferences. both are of course consistent with trying to not spread panic and make sure WHO has access to China, so I'm inclined to think that this is half politics, half good high level medicine work.
It is not and has never been, see https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/issues/12#issuecommen...
The efficiency of photosynthesis isn't all that great.

There's a reason energy based on organic matter has gotten a bad reputation. It's just not a very efficient way of getting energy from the sun compared to e.g. solar.

The calculation for carbon storage will be a bit different, but not by that much.
> One of their charts shows a breakdown of closed cases into % cured and % dead. That is currently at 92%/8%, with the recovery rate continually improving, but flattening out. That graph makes it look like the mortality rate may end up higher than 2% -- but still probably not radically so, and we really are extrapolating from very little data.

I think there's a really large number of people who have been infected who will never be a "case", so I think 2% is still really high. Just look at e.g. Italy where there was no awareness of it spreading until people were already dying - meaning that it had been spreading for some time. Given that a large number of people seem to be asymptomatic or have mild illness, it's highly likely that many other people were infected in the same "cluster" and never knew.
End users here means user-space application developers
The parent mentioned Zika, any such list including Zika would be incomplete without Malaria as well.

I agree that covid-19 seems to have a larger potential breadth, and didn't intend to downplay its significance.
Thank you, feels like 50-cent army found this thread or something, it's disturbing.
You might waste some money, but at least they're not creating value for the other players. Is that their strategy?
> I think when this all comes to an end, China will be one of the countries that dealt with the virus the best

Not when they are doing things like manipulating the numbers, as you mentioned at the beginning.
Ohh. Thanks for the recommendation. Just reading about the Wikipedia article had me entranced.
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Now, don’t be such a proprietarian!
There’s ample evidence “going to church” is one way, and that’s not much different than the others.
Didn't work on Ararat. False in unum, false in omnibus. Anyway, he went to the wrong hill first. But overall yes, myth informs reality sometimes. Shame he didn't find the bones of the giant wooden platypus the Greek ice cream salesmen hid in.
Ok, now that is fascinating and completely unintuitive to me -- that just one day a month made that much difference. Do you think many other homeless people would benefit significantly from such a small dosage, or do you think your particular constitution allowed you to take advantage of it better than others would? I'm assuming your kids were with you... did it do them as much good?
2% may be still too high, it might even be high sub 1% (e.g. .7%), but the big problem is how many of cases require hospitalization and especially intensive care. if number of ICU patients grows 10x in one month, we're all in trouble and that's seemingly what happened in China.
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I was under the impression CRISPR can actually be used for testing purposes as well? Are traditional test methods more accurate?
I'm not sure if it changed, but last time I checked kiwi was not open source. There is a GitHub repo but it contained only part of the code
I agree there is a gulf of difference between modelling based on physics and mere empirical modelling fitting functions to data
It's interesting to consider that people who look for a feeling of one-ness with the world can find it through Mathematics or through religion, even though they are considered almost diametrically opposite approaches to understand the Universe.
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Learning to Retrieve Reasoning Paths over Wikipedia Graph for Question Answering
To achieve state-of-the-art on HotpotQA, this paper learns graph-based recurrent retrieval method for reasoning paths over Wiki graph.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10470

Listen: https://youtu.be/flBlTcLVErc

Authors: Akari Asai, Kazuma Hashimoto, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Richard Socher & Caiming Xiong; University of Washington Salesforce Research Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: Answering questions that require multi-hop reasoning at web-scale necessitates retrieving multiple evidence documents, one of which often has little lexical or semantic relationship to the question. This paper introduces a new graph-based recurrent retrieval approach that learns to retrieve reasoning paths over the Wikipedia graph to answer multi-hop open-domain questions. Our retriever model trains a recurrent neural network that learns to sequentially retrieve evidence paragraphs in the reasoning path by conditioning on the previously retrieved documents. Our reader model ranks the reasoning paths and extracts the answer span included in the best reasoning path. Experimental results show state-of-the-art results in three open-domain QA datasets, showcasing the effectiveness and robustness of our method. Notably, our method achieves significant improvement in HotpotQA, outperforming the previous best model by more than 14 points.
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Wearing a mask wont stop facial recognition anymore
the best part in this all might be that chloroquine, an anti malaria drug, apparently is effective against covid-19.
I have to agree here with robomartin. Stores might be open or they might not. Even though there is large chance they might remain open - they will almost certainly be overrun if this were to go into panic mode.

I can't even buy dust masks at my local home improvement store as they are out of stock. And that's not even a necessity!

Nothing wrong in being prepared for an emergency.
I'm wondering if the CO2 stored could be optimised through coppicing. Historically this technique was used to maximise the amount of wood for shipbuilding.
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Human behavior changes like... staying inside because of a quarantine? I fail to see any behavior change that could be more impactful than that.
Updated - now whole python code is MIT, however some parts of C libraries linked with this code are AGPL. Not sure how it "infects" python code, but if necessary, I'll update AGPL to something more permissive
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That won't remove the co2 already in the air. And we also produce gases that alleviate warming, not only greenhouse effect ones. Stopping all emissions today would probably result in a temperature increase, not a drop. The facts are, there is no magic today to capture the co2 in the air. To reverse the process, you'd need at least to put the same amount of energy as the one dissipated when co2 was released. So, imagine producing at least the same amount of energy of burni g 100years of fossil fuels.
"a worldwide planting programme could remove two-thirds of all the emissions from human activities that remain in the atmosphere today" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting...
I wonder how this compares to wasm-git[1], which is libgit2 compiled to wasm for use in both the browser and node. At face value it seems isomorphic-git has been around for longer, and wasm-git seems hot off the press, but the latter seems like maybe it's got more eyes on the prize given libgit2's developer base?

(I have no affiliation with either project, just looking for options to use git in-browser and in node.)

[1]: https://github.com/petersalomonsen/wasm-git
I would hope that the WHO director’s personal politics doesn’t have a huge sway over WHO’s official stance.
The epidemic curve[1] makes a pretty compelling case that the quarantine was effective.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762130
The Case for Permissive TypeScript
Hi HN,

I’ve been leading development on a large-ish TypeScript codebase. We’ve been having a lot of success with an extremely permissive compiler configuration, and I wanted to share my thoughts.

1. Writing types slows down development, particularly if you’re using lots of local ad-hoc data structures that aren’t reused throughout the application.

2. The best part of JavaScript is its usefulness in rapid prototyping, so it’s important not to smother this with policy.

3. Types are useful, but only sometimes. Forcing types makes the tinkering/experimentation process harder. Not enforcing types at all allows the programmers to exercise discretion, and rapidly prototype workable code.

4. Programmers having discretion over whether to use types is a good thing. Not every data structure needs a type def. TS devs understand that function parameters and reused objects need types, and they can choose to use them when it’s convenient.

TL;DR: I believe TypeScript should be viewed as a set of features to compliment the mature, powerful, and dynamically typed JavaScript language. Types are useful, but shouldn’t be forced.

What are your thoughts on this? Agree? Disagree?
Isn't the story circulating now that Trump eliminated the infrastructure set up to specifically deal with global health emergencies and pandemics?
What a crock of shit. The failures of the latest Star Wars has nothing to do with a diverse cast. We get it; old, white males (ie. "fans") are pissed. There are good reasons; diversity isn't it.

Note, The Mandalorian is full of diversity and breaks the mold of what old, white males consider as "good" for fathers' parental role or emotion.
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How many people do you know with malaria? It's a tropical region disease.

No. The name is Italian. It predates Italian colonies in the tropics. It's a disease which was endemic in marshlands believed to be caused by bad air Mal aria and was in Scotland amongst other places.

Malaria is not exclusively tropical. Nor is dengue or mosquito borne encephalitis. Tropical wet regions sustain mosquitos. So do cooler climates.
> Poor people will be hit harder and there will probably be some famine

I wonder how the extreme wealth distribution today will affect this. Although looking at statistics [1] it seems it was even worse in 1922 (no numbers for 1918).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth
> and not what the average viewer wants

Episode 9 made $1.072 billion in box office. You're wrong.
> AFAIK tree sequestration is marginal compared to the amount of co2 to be captured

Nope. Tree sequestration is extremely effective on a global scale. That's why it's so important that we prevent deforestation.

"Intact forests and those re-growing after disturbance (like harvesting or windthrow) sequestered around 4 billion tonnes of carbon per year over the measurement period — equivalent to almost 60% of emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production combined."

http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-much-carbon-can-the...
if you give a million monkeys a typewriter and wait a million years, you're bound to get all works of Shakespeare by chance alone. yes, bad luck, but the fact it happened illustrates the scale.
Perhaps if your church likes to pack in people so closely that they're touching and thinks that it's your duty to God to repeatedly drag yourself to church no matter how sick you are. (The likely index patient apparently attended services 4 times after symptoms started.)
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Unfortunately, for a lot of people, including undergraduates, the dopamine hit they get from watching a video or passively reading a textbook makes them believe that these are adequate substitutes for doing thousands of exercises.

In my university, undergraduates have admitted that they have done fewer than 50 questions throughout the entirety of my math course. Their grades obviously reflect that, but they will do the same next semester.
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go read the treaties before commenting about this topic.
> Linux

> in a container

> a nice developer environment

Golly, the things you'd read on the Internet...
Look again. Topmost paragraph. I'll quote myself:

>> Because that's something that OS vendors could easily and trivially deploy with only minimal effort.

"OS vendors" aka "distribution creators"

And then in the 3rd paragraph, I wrote (sic!):

>> Just put that as out-of-the-box setup into default Linux distributions' installation:
From my point of view translated software often just means that googling errors is harder
I don't understand it either. Am assuming we're both looking at the wikipedia article, unless you have another source/are going from something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether#Tethers_...

> When the tether intersects the planet's magnetic field, it generates a current, and thereby converts some of the orbiting body's kinetic energy to electrical energy. Functionally, electrons flow from the space plasma into the conductive tether, are passed through a resistive load in a control unit and are emitted into the space plasma by an electron emitter as free electrons. As a result of this process, an electrodynamic force acts on the tether and attached object, slowing their orbital motion. In a loose sense, the process can be likened to a conventional windmill- the drag force of a resistive medium (air or, in this case, the magnetosphere) is used to convert the kinetic energy of relative motion (wind, or the satellite's momentum) into electricity. In principle, compact high-current tether power generators are possible and, with basic hardware, tens, hundreds, and thousands of kilowatts appears to be attainable.

Maybe cosmic radiation interacting with the magnetosphere is adding to the "wind" in the analogy; not sure. Agree that the explanation makes it sound like you'd basically just be turning launch energy into electricity, which doesn't sound useful for generating power to send back to earth.

Nudging space rocks into orbit to generate electricity is a cool sounding idea. I've heard similar proposals for space mining if and when it becomes a thing just to make transporting the material a lot easier. Not sure how plausible that is either.

Regardless of what form it takes, I really hope we get some serious and practical space infrastructure at some point. I think having a practical reason to go into space beyond just gathering astronomical data and doing experiments will help keep space programs from stagnating. Plus it'd be super cool.
You really need to keep up with the literature. A paper recently came out which says it can survive ten days at ambient temperature a on most plastic and steel surfaces. And others have reported it is aerosolized. It spreads through cough, sneeze, and breath.

This one is different.
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Has anyone managed to log in to Facebook or Instagram using it?
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Given that I have a genetic disorder that significantly impacts all epithelial tissues, which includes the skin, I would guess that others could potentially benefit as much from even less -- assuming they followed some of the same practices I followed to avoid grime, which is not a given.

It's possible other homeless could get similar results from a hotel stay once every six weeks, just as a wild ass guess.

Edit: it's also possible I'm guessing in the wrong direction. 0_o
No, the virus appears to be quite well contained in Singapore. The number of new patients in the last three days was 0, 1, and 1 respectively, all tied to known clusters and found through aggressive contact tracing and testing.
Do you really think it will be any different in the USA or Europe? Will the governments ban conventions? Close restaurants and bars? Shut down shopping malls? Or will instead, in the interest of "the economy" (ie, money) keep too light a hand on things.

Basically I don't expect the west to be able to react to this any better if it gets big. Their populations are uncontrollable (for mostly good reason) but in this particular case that feature will turn out to be bug.
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Ah, true. Somehow I glossed over that
/r/covid19 in particular is very good, highly recommended.
Oh well, I just hope this enforcing new third parties to my internet browsing doesn't catch on.

Guess I will disable it.
That is not true. Of people officially diagnosed in Wuhan, the death rate is the 2.3% being widely reported:

http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
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If the technology is something that could be useful to the company, then I would talk to the team & superiors and discuss with them whether we have time for that and how important it could be.
In the case they agreed, and I gave them an explanation for why and what I am doing (and how long is it approx. going to take), then I would feel comfortable learning new technology at work. I believe good communication is the key here.
I absolutely agree with not passing a judgment on a class of people because of variability of how they respond to help. I've never heard of any reason that all 'schizophrenic meth addicts' as in GP's example will not respond well to help. If hypothetically they all show no positive outcome from the help they have received, then it is indeed fine to say helping them this way is a waste of time and resources, until a new method of helping is devised.

The part 'vs another solely because of the circumstances they were born into' from the parent post does not reflect what the GP post actually says. The GP was solely arguing on the practicality and the costs and benefits of doing it; solutions to problems have trade-offs, it is no good wishing them away.

That said, how the homeless are treated in a lot of rich nations today are a complete disgrace. Increasing a well off persons well being is worth far less than increasing a not so well off persons well being IMO.
First of all we are not talking about the trustworthiness of VPNs, that's a separate discussion entirely. And no, I don't trust my ISP more than I trust my VPN, but I understand your mistrust as VPNs are indeed not so private as they are marketed. But imo this is throwing the baby with the bathwater.

Go to Germany, download a movie either from the Pirate Bay or see one from one of the many illegal websites streaming content and prepare for a letter (delivered to your home address) with a huge fine and a legal threat within a month.

Not that I'm a huge fan of pirating content, even if some cases like Sci-Hub have the moral high grown, but this goes to show just how trustworthy an ISP is, in an EU country with some of the best privacy laws ... and in such cases a VPN is absolutely mandatory.

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DoH hides your DNS queries — if you visit an HTTPS website, the traffic might be protected via HTTPS, but the domain name is clearly seen.

Of course, the ISP still sees the IP you're communicating with, but due to SNI and industry practices nowadays of putting websites behind CDNs, IPs don't necessarily reveal the website you're communicating with.

DoH also makes it harder for ISPs to block or redirect your access to certain websites. For instance it makes it harder to block Pirate Bay based on the whims of your local government. Now certainly Cloudflare can also be compelled to block websites like Pirate Bay, but the DoH service you're communicating with is customizable, you can pick whatever service you want and just like VPNs, I predict there will be plenty of privacy respecting services to choose from.

And DoH is not foolproof, it doesn't solve all of our privacy needs, it's just a piece of the puzzle, but a necessary one.
It depends what they mean by "inactivation" : is it dead or does it "reactivate" at cooler temperatures ?