skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not that screening is ineffective, it’s that the initial kits sent out by the CDC were defective. That isn’t true everywhere (places where patients have been evacuated to have testing capabilities, like California, Chicago, and Omaha), and samples can still be tested at the CDC, it just leads to a delay. It’s not ideal but it isn’t like testing simply isn’t working.

As for the man in Denver, it would be very unlikely to be COVID. There is some evidence starting to emerge currently of transmission now occurring in the US, but it’s still very early and concentrated to where you might expect. It takes a while for coronavirus to kill (about 7-14 days after symptoms appear), and so if this dude was sick with it, he would almost certainly have to have had either traveled out of the country (to China), or been close with someone who had. That is something any competent medical staff will ask, and if it were the case, they could send samples to be tested to the CDC.

It may be possible moving forward that if community transmission starts spreading here in the US, things could start slipping through the cracks, but at this point it’s highly unlikely that anyone in Colorado who died a week ago was sick with COVID
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Isn't this something you can only get if you are in at risk group? I can't go to my doctor and just get a flu shot, I don't think?
This page only has death rates, not number of cases for each group, so it only tells half of the story. See Table 1 of the actual paper for complete stats (source of the stats on the linked page).

http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
"It would be irresponsible to go to a doctors office where elderly people could become infected."

Yes it is. But it is usually required.
Required madness.

The concept of herding sick people in a waiting room in close distance is the best way, to get all the slightly sick people really sick with various other diseases.

I probably would have to be half dying, to get me into an doctors waiting room in the flu season. And then I would just go straight to the hospital.
Because

>Didn't miss it.
I use it on business trips if I’m not scheduled to go out with customers. Uber back to the hotel, order some Grubhub and enjoy a quality meal without having to go to a restaurant by myself. Much better quality/variety than room service.
That's impossible without someone else subsidizing your delivery as it wouldn't pay the delivery person minimum wage.
It has been considered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft
Sorry I might have overcomplicated my response and missed the point which is that those doing the tracking prefer when you’re not aware
Then you'll be pissed when you take a look at the issue list...

Again, like others said it's more likely you are just upset about the emoji.
Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Action – Idris2.pdf
Now I want to see people wearing QR codes makeups. Imagine if someone found a way to attack facial recognition with a QR code-based payload.
Anti-vaxxers wage war in Conn., lawmaker calls vaccines “witches brew”
I really would like to know if smoking is implicated. Are there any smoker/nonsmoker stats anywhere?
SnowShu is an open source data warehouse testing tool
If the virus was so benign then why the Chinese authorities put half the country in quarantine ?

There are about 80k confirmed cases around the world, but since this thing can be asymptomatic for weeks and hospitals don't have the resources to test everybody there are probably many many more unknown cases.

And let's not speak about the trustworthiness of Chinese gov stats.
You don't say what type of visa your friend has, but if he's on a H1B, he (and you) should be aware of the reasons for its existence, and how it's abused.

"The H-1B visa program should help U.S. companies recruit highly-skilled aliens when there is a shortage of qualified workers in the country."[1]

"Examples of H-1B fraud indicators may include:

..There is a wage disparity between H-1B workers and other workers performing the same or similar duties, particularly to the detriment of U.S. workers.

..The H-1B worker is not performing the duties specified in the H-1B petition, including when the duties are at a higher level than the position description. "[1]

The H1B visa was designed to fill talent gaps but has been used to keep wages down. Your friend isn't the only one getting screwed.

[1]https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/combating-fraud-and-abuse...
> That's a fair criticism. But that is what I've called it for a long time.

I think many people would agree that "sanitization" is loosely defined and I think that's exactly what led to the misunderstandings that the OP's article is trying to address.

> that's why I started off by saying "Sanitize your inputs so that it can be safely stored in your data store"

That could be interpreted like "escape quotes at the start of the request if you know that you're using a database where quotes have a special meaning" a la PHP magic quotes, which I'm guessing is not what you meant but it is what the OP is criticizing. The key is that the sanitization (or whatever you want to call it) shouldn't happen until you're ready to insert into the DB, otherwise that data will be coupled with database logic through the whole flow of your app
Or we could just... stop linking to properties owned by Michael Bloomberg altogether. That's also an option.
YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
Performance tuning Cloudflare's AMD-based GenX servers
Everyone except very young children are encouraged to get the vaccine. You can get them at clinics, hospitals or chain pharmacies.
In a historic first, one private satellite docks to another in orbit
You lead me down a rabbit hole, thank you!

Do you know whether ingress controllers like nginx-ingress-controller honor the readiness status of pods from a service and so only sends traffic to ready pods from the concerned deployment?
I wrote a very similar piece six or seven years ago. People responded here that I was just making sematic arguments or otherwise fell over themselves to ignore the point I was trying to make.

It is good to see from the responses here that we've learnt absolutely nothing.

Shameless plug: https://blog.hackensplat.com/2013/09/never-sanitize-your-inp...
> Using those languages comes at a tradeoff: the community isn't as a whole likely to know them or want to use them.

You don't have to use Rust or Go to use a tool written in it.
You can in normal countries
I think the title would be less confusing if it specifically mentioned that it supports more USB-C cable and power supplies.
>Officials say 2 of the 15 new cases are children under 10 years of age.

>The latest cases bring the number of confirmed infections in Hokkaido to 54, the most in Japan.

How were they supposed to know last week that this would happen? Or are you proposing be can stop the spread of the virus for a week to give people chance to get ready??
Archive.is works: http://archive.is/GbUIH
People survived the Toba supervolcano’s global winter after all
That tends to only be the case when there's some limit on flu shot production. The normal case is that you can walk into most CVS or other pharmacy, ask for a flu shot, and walk out having been immunized within 15 minutes.

Even if you're not a high risk, getting a flu shot is an important preventative measure for any high risk individuals you may come in contact with.
Looking for evidence of a high burden of COVID-19 from influenza-like data [pdf]
As far as I’ve seen, the only papers have been on permanent organ damage in SARS and MERS. I don’t know how there would be a paper out on COVID19 given that it’s barely been a month since it started infecting a large number of patients.
Yes, though that's mostly rolled up in the gender statistics. Men are far more likely smokers than women in China.

Mentioned in TFA.
Well, I can't find a running version of Metomic on any of your reference sites (maybe you can point me to one), on your own site the script sends several GraphQL queries to your backend when I consent, and also communicates with that before I do (not sure if this is due to other scripts on the page not related to the manager).

Again, this is totally fine, I wouldn't call it "privacy first" though, as it does not systematically minimize information exposed to third parties.
> one plane landing every 5 minutes 12 hours a day is how much additional CO2 emissions

That's quite a reductionist view point. Operating Heathrow at something near 100% capacity, as it currently does, means that aircraft spend a huge amount of time queueing on the ground (burning a surprising fraction of the fuel they'd use in the air), going around a holding pattern or being vectored all over the sky.
Ask HN: Engineers, how do you decide when it's time to quit?
I've been at my company for a few years, and I've become a domain expert in many areas of the business that people rely on. I enjoy my coworkers and have great hours as an engineer, but I'm paid 20% under market rate and feel like I'm not really being challenged (unless I go out of my way to create a challenge for myself).

I feel as though I'm growing content with my position, and don't want to leave unless I find something perfect. Am I being naive in my desires?

How do you decide when it's time to leave a business that you, for all intents-and-purposes enjoy growing with?
(this is a throwaway account as my coworkers know my normal account)
I know you're exaggerating here a bit, but come on, a hash table not able to do lookups in micro-seconds is just garbage. I expect better of any language, not just C++.
I would hazard a guess that 90%+ etsy sellers are hobbiest getting nowhere close to 10k/year
Indeed. The mpg per person for a modern passenger plane is better than the average US car (assuming a single-person journey by car). The most important factor here is miles travelled, not the mode of transport used.
I mean, it’s factually correct. It’s just that we (HN readers? web users?) would assume that it’s about preventing them as a web user, and the author is talking about preventing them as a creator/hoster.
You and every government in existence.
Lacc – A simple self-hosting C compiler
Cannot upvote this enough. Swine flu, in addition to covid-19, raises risk of complications from 20% to 70%.
In NL, I literally did just that: I walked in, asked if it was still worthwhile and the doc said “sure, we haven’t peaked on the flu yet. Want one?” I said “yeah” and we were done in 5 min max.

I guess it’s somehow got to do with living in a country with some leftovers of the Socialist hellhole it used to be... /s
I've thought about that before, too. One of the issues with a light syntax helper atop SQL is that SQL is often used as snippets in other languages or with SQL tools, etc. It seems hard to shim a layer in there.

However, I think what would make a ton of sense is a coffeescript-esque PL/pgSQL, complete with runtime. Basically an easier to use psql shell (or equivalent for another DB). Postgres is incredibly powerful, and I feel like could be a much more useful interactive tool for loading up CSVs, doing some querying, modifying, etc, with a little friendlier or more programmer-familiar environment.
I think their over-reaction is hilarious.

Language and UX are important. English words have different meanings to different people in different parts of the world, so it's important to localize to the various regions by using slightly more appropriate words and use congruent iconography with it to convey exactly what would happen with the "least surprise" principle. It's difficult to say what they thought that word meant at the time.

For example, in a real estate game:

The British "Let" and American "Rent" mean the same thing in their respective countries. However, in America, "Let" means only to allow or suppose, not sign a lease or rental agreement.
Any actually decent RDBMS isn't stupid enough to first escape parameters, then parsing the query string to find placeholders, then do a bunch of string concatenation and then run the concatenated string through a second parser. It is really simpler and more robust to parse the query string once and grab the actual data value from the parameter array once a placeholder is found.

However, a lot of client side libraries are cheating and embed the parameters into the query string before passing it to the server instead of implementing the proper parts of the protocol. This is about as safe as doing plain string concatenation in the first place. I don't trust the library authors to actually get this right.
There seems to be many cases of young patients dying in Iran. Either because there are way more cases than being officially reported or (hopefully not) the virus has mutated to affect the young more, or both.

The first hypothesis is likely based on the number of infections found in international travellers who went to Iran. We still cannot rule out the second hypothesis though.

A 23-year-old woman soccer player:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/faadg4/a_23_ye...

A male nurse talking of 8 deaths in one night during his shift. 23-year-old female (same case?), 29- and 30-year-old males, 50-year-old female among them. (1-minute clip)

EDIT: It's just n=8, but 37.5% dying at age 30 or below is most likely drawn from a different distribution from 0.6% among the 70,000+ cases in the largest Chinese study (where the worldometers data comes from).

EDIT 2: Based on a link in a sibling comment, only 7 deaths among 20-29 yo and 18 deaths among 30-39 yo in the n=44,672 Chinese report.

https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1232779487647031302

http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...
See, this is where the stats are wrong. Example; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/daily-bed-census-does...
In the US, you don't even have to go to your doctor. Pretty much any in-pharmacy clinic will give you a shot as a walk-in and it's covered 100% by most insurance.

(There's a special version you get if you're in a risk group but most people over a certain age can get the standard one.)
Previous submissions didn't get much attention sadly but here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13477028
Do you know if there is a resource similar to your link that is written in English?
Part of the problem is the use of a general "String" data types in many languages. Libraries that deal with SQL or HTML or anything similar shouldn't use String in their APIs. Instead they ought to have more specific "EscapedString" and "UnescapedString" types so that there's no ambiguity about which is which.
Most new biology papers (in general, not just for coronavirus) are posted to bioarXiv.

Bear in mind that these are unreviewed and, given the importance (and trendiness) many of them have been rushed out. There are also strong career incentives to make sensational claims that go viral.

Definitely worth reading if you've got some relevant background, but keep your skeptical hat on too.
Related; how to get Passcrux to compile? I couldn't find instructions on the repository, and would love to try it out. Thanks!
Many applications were written 5, 10, or even 25 years ago. They haven't been updated to current standards.
Another case but similar: https://www.fokus.se/2016/02/robotdodaren/
The biggest issue with C++ for me is the confusing memory model. You have smart_pointers, you have move semantics, and then you have libraries like OpenCV doing their own refcounting (and also using std::shared_ptr). The C++11 features like lambdas are definitely welcome but at this point C++ epistemic footprint is just too large.
Don't assume theirs is the only delivery.
lol at "greedy" used as a slur by a capitalist source like Bloomberg.
Oh. Refactoring UI is by the tailwind folks. Did not know. This gives me some extra confidence.
Judges do sometimes have agendas. But that is exactly why higher courts exist. This particular case is shaping up to be appealed all the way to UK Supreme Court, these initial hearings are just practice sessions for both sides to hone their arguments.
This article literally is data.
That is literally what they do. We used OraDocs which is a comically awful version of G sheets/docs or office 360.

Oracle has “beehive” a god awful outlook extension that ruins most functionality by taking core features from outlook and forcing them through oracle servers.

Rather than sales force for a CRM they have a god awful oracle sales cloud from decades ago with 10% of the functionality.

They moved all acquisitions software from AWS to oracles cloud... but oracles cloud couldn’t handle the load and a few had to be temporarily returned to aws.

The list goes on.
Rise of super-fast genome testing for diagnosis&treatment of infectious diseases
Dude, they are literally releasing videos from officials telling some businesspeople that they're still open for business. Don't shoot the messenger, I know it's a dumb idea, but how surprised can you be that the CCP is trying to do something dumb after all the dumb things they've done?

Maybe instead of declaring something "FUD", which to me sounds like you're saying I'm here in bad faith, consider that I meant what I said.
The general issue with this measure of mortality (dead/(infected + dead)) is that you're assuming that the infected won't die. In a disease that is exponentially growing, a better approximation of evaluating your survival chances is to look at the death to recovery rate (dead / (recovered + dead)). Based on the available data [1], we are closer to 7.8% than 2% mortality, which is closer to the final mortality rate of SARS of 9.6% [2].

Nevertheless, I think all these statistics need to be taken with a grain of salt - I doubt that the numbers we are seeing are of very high quality, given the political and cultural pressures in China to underreport, the lack of test kits, corona virus deaths being attributed to other diseases, ... On the flip side, it's very likely that mild cases will never be reported, which in turn would decrease the mortality rate.

[1] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[edit: corrected the formula - thank you @anhner and @11thEarlOfMar for spotting the mistake]

[edit: indicated that there's also a chance of under-reporting mild cases - my edit coincided with @Tenoke's post - sorry for noticing this late @Tenoke]
Gross. Also, the bad guys are generally the most interesting characters.
In the US you can stroll into Walmart and get a flu shot. Covered in full by most insurance and Medicare and so on.

Sometimes if the vaccine supply is impacted by something they will try to give it to at risk people first. I don't think there is any such restriction right now.
I'm excited anytime a technology comes along that makes for great user experience AND developer experience. I can demonstrate the value that Hasura provides to either side in minutes.

The subscriptions are particularly interesting to me, I've never seen anything else that makes web sockets so easy to implement. I'm very optimistic for their future.
Early Stage B2B Founders – Insights from Author, James Clear
Early-Stage #B2B #Founders ...

We highly suggest following @JamesClear on Twitter.

Below are some of his short and sweet tweets over the past few months - and - our attempt to share its relevance to early-stage b2b startups.

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️ "Broad ideas influence more people. Specific ideas influence people more"

Avoid herding cats. When you have limited/no brand equity in marketplace & seeking to close early-adopting customers, specificity/narrow focus work in your favor to build trust & unlock repeatability.

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️ “Concentration produces wealth. Diversification protects wealth.”

Solve a very specific problem (single use case - and - target market) and then leverage current customers to understand additional services/products to create stickiness and expand TAM.

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️ "The most dangerous items on your to-do list are the ones that look like opportunities, but are actually distractions."

Be very selective who you seek to learn from and sell. We've seen venture-backed startups turn into consulting company building to company-specific needs - VS - product company solving market-specific needs.

#gotomarket #customerdiscovery #startups #targetmarket #b2bsales #enterprisesales

- Jen Abel, Co-Founder, JJELLYFISH (www.jjellyfish.com)
Is it really that surprising? Tendies and autism are popular on HN, as are investing discussions.
Microsoft's Base24 has a much saner alphabet as it avoids ambiguities between 5 and S, 7 and Z symbols while the alphabet suggested by the OP falls into pitfall.
The cat is out of the bag so to speak. On a personal level all we can do is hope we recover well and quick, if and when we are exposed. Every day you breath in millions of viruses. You don't die because you have an immune system that has earned you the privilege to survive on this planet. Short of a vaccine we're just waiting for the battle and the reward of a new skill in our immune systems armory.

That said, getting sick is terrible and it'd be great if we could nerf nature. I pray for everyone's health and recovery.
And, IoPO: Internet of Planned Obsolescence.

And, TaaS: Things as a Service.

Because those three are the real reasons companies put radios in consumer widgets. Getting a data stream that can be resold to marketers, getting people to buy more garbage more often, and getting people to pay a regular subscription fee to avoid having to care about buying and disposing of garbage products.
This is surprising given this epidemic seems to mostly affect people over 30. Not saying it's wrong, I'm not a public health expert. Just surprised.

Is it because they might be likely to carry and spread it without ever showing any symptoms?
I don't really understand what this article is about. There is a market opportunity. Companies see it and move into new market. More people's needs are fulfilled than before.

Market economy works! Not news.
Having built and maintained large Django apps for the past couple of years, I personally prefer Hasura's admin console over Django's one, not least because you don't need to write any code to get it started!

Hasura also ships with websocket support, something that Django has always struggled with.
> The only time it is helpful is if you want to get a specific person across many different platforms.

There are surely other uses. For instance, I might want to know if my ad is being shown again to a return visitor or for the first time to a new visitor.
n.b. This is being described domestically as 要請, which is “ask” in the sense of “The IRS asks that you not lie on your tax return.”
Dr. Li Wenliang, who warned of Covid early on, was also only 34 years old.
Why Shouldn’t Prisoners Be Voters?
Isn’t working on desktop Safari (13.0.5).
I blame PHP. Many webdevs active today started with it, and the standard library's solution to injections was escaping everything half a dozen times just in case. Because PHP being PHP nobody saw any red flags when they implemented a function named "mysql_real_escape_string". Apparently they've deprecated these functions since then, but the damage is done.
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