skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a rather high mortality rate for hospitalized patients.

People with the new coronavirus have a very wide spectrum of symptoms which can be harmless, remain almost unnoticed up to very deadly syndromes. How can you justify that people spread the virus with almost 0 symptoms, killing basically other people. People respond differently to certain diseases, its normal. I had a relative early January in Bangkok hospitalized due to the coronavirus. Some patients do not even develop fever, where some other have to hang on artificial respirators for more than a week. Although my relative survived the illness after a very severe situation for 10 days on artifical respirator, he also now has permanent damages of the lungs. Would've probably died without rapid hospitalization rather quickly. After seeing that in real life I feel like many more people actually died without proper diagnosis of this new type of virus.

For now, take these WHO-stats with a grain of salt and wait for stats in European countries. Currently it is roughly above 2% fatal. Which is similar to the Spanish Flu from 1918. FML. I don't want to know how SARS-CoV-2 would have wrecked in 1918 compared to healthcare in 2020.
I think the rule is that the other conferencing system always works better than the current system until you buy it. Then they all seem to fail :)

Right now we are using MS Teams which so far has been reliable. I am just waiting for the day when it becomes flaky too.
Great for buses, bikes, taxis, cars that accidentally make a wrong turn, and bikes running red lights to slice through crossing pedestrians (sometimes avoiding collisions sometimes not).
New FAA drone rule is a giant middle finger to aviation hobbyists
>A few month later, sales went out and bought 10 mf’ing Zoom licenses without consulting anyone because some client hadn’t heard of UC and asked if it was the budget solution.

They have a point, the more things you need a client to do out of the ordinary the more friction you will get selling them. New UI for them to figure out, new permissions, etc. Depending on your business model as a startup that can be a bad thing.

It seems like you try to enforce a rigid structure but don't provide a quick process to changing or appending to that structure. So intelligent people work around your structure and you have no idea. Seen it at many companies. Generally tied to an inability or in-desire to delegate decision making. Which is different than letting people make decisions, rather it involves creating a structure under which they can make decisions.

Employees have the most view into what would make their job more efficient or engaging. You want them to think of optimizations and you want them to feel engaged enough to try and improve the business. If you don't listen then they will work around you rather than with you. Or just find another job.

Employees want something? Delegate to them the responsibility of building a business case and give them a structure on what that needs to look like. Then they can present it and the team can discuss. Make sure to say yes sometimes even if you think it's sub-optimal since otherwise they'll feel it's a pointless process.
The Covid-19 coronavirus and its economic impact
I also appreciate the ability of alt-righters to the question the status quo; but I am unquestionably sure about the lack of their intelligence (which is usually the same thing that feeds their confidence).
I enjoyed the list too and think about a lot of these things when I encounter them in my daily life too. But the major downside I see is that a lot of these improvements are coming via an escalating consumerism. Things like disposable clothes are probably more the product of exploiting labor and externalizing costs like polution than they are the product of technological improvements increasing efficiency. The same thing is happening with larger items like applicamcea which are increasingly being replaced due to part failures rather than repaired.

Counteracting this though is my personal favorite innovation of our times, secondary markets for everything! eBay, Postmark, Amazon, surplus resellers like Marshals and Ross etc have made it so much more possible to connect a good with its buyer rather than hording or junking it.
This is a good point and I was thinking about this as I read the article and wrote my reply. I've also never been the victim of violent crime and I admit that if I had been I would likely feel differently about this.
The article is fine, but you're not reading it correctly.

> Here is the list of complications: -ARDS in 29% (Acute respiratory distress disease, this needs mechanical ventilation to survive) -acute cardiac injury in 12% (this potentially kills your heart tissue which leads to arrhythmia and then a heart attack) -secondary infection in 10%

Those percentages say how many out of 41 admitted hospital patients have those serious complications.

But of course they have serious complications, that's why they were admitted to the hospital.

Those percentages say nothing about the health risks to the average person who is infected.
This story is really interesting to me.

Clearly, it’s to give people a sense of security and calmness given a potential virus outbreak. But also feels like government PR to other governments, with a message of “If you’re trying something, watch yourself.”

Not trying to insinuate propaganda or elevate conspiracy. But anyone with a security background or who worked in disaster preparedness have any insight as to why an article like this would basically reveal a bunch about our national security? Seems to break most of my understood “Rules of Operational Security”.
I am not aware of any architecture which allows for 128-bit multiplication.
Always wondered that myself. I can't "get it" since I'm not a Slack user (nor a Discord user), though I interacted with both
Ask HN: Pros and Cons of going remote first on a startup?
Hi there. I was wondering if I could get some of the community's thoughts on the benefits and costs of going remote first on a new startup. I am starting a venture with 3 other people. One of us is a city away while the others could work out of the same office . We are considering going fully remote since we already have one remote guy and we believe it might one day become a competitive advantage to be able to recruit from anywhere. Having said we do not have a lot of experience with remote work and we are concerned about the possible loss of internal bandwidth and cohesion that might come from going remote only. What experiences have folks had with going fully remote in an early stage startup?
No such thing as a stupid question :) I believe it's possible with the number of seeds in torrents being real connections and location-based tracking so maybe along those lines?
The White House then followed it up by saying that Trump's comments were referring to a vaccine for ebola, not nCoV19[1]. At this point, I don't think it is worth listening to anything that Trump says, and to wait until the fact checkers and corrections from his handlers strip everything out.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/white-house-says-trumps-vacc...
Here is the author's demo version:
https://tokyoma.de/linkalot/

He is a colleague of mine on the documentation team at SUSE.
I worked with C for nearly 20 years, and it is everything but simple. It is complicated, not "low level" as many thinks, full of weird edge cases, compilers will happily compile non standard code, fragile (hard to refactor), full of implicit conversion you didn't expect...

Rust has a good design, it still have a few rough edges but the syntax is great and improving.
And this is the government that HN posters routinely want to “legislate big tech”.

But why is this the minority opinion at a conservative conference:

I can't believe I'm doing this, because I'm here to convince you at a conservative conference that government shouldn't regulate speech,"
Its not what you say, its what you do.
I was speaking from the perspective of a US citizen who has health insurance which will cover me internationally although I may have to spend out of pocket initially. If you live somewhere that won't cover you for health expenses in other countries then, yes, it makes sense to buy travel insurance. However, note that in many cases, travel insurance mostly just pays to get you back to your country of origin as quickly as possible with the minimum of medical treatment.

See e.g. this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17548285
If you are going to flex your (yet unearned) credentials, I will flex mine. I’m a statistician, and your source is a perfect example of an egregious statistical fallacy: sampling bias. Yes, it says 30% had ARDS, but it was based on the first 40 cases, all of whom were identified before January 2nd. It’s literally just a sample of the the cases that were so severe that they popped up on the radar before people were even aware that there was an epidemic of a novel virus occurring. Even now many of the mild cases may be being undercounted. Back at the beginning of January, all of the mild cases were being missed.

Being a medical student gives you no authoritative expertise, especially when it is clear you need to hit the books a little harder. That you will be part of a care team diagnosing the disease doesn’t make me trust you more, it makes me trust the competence of our medical professionals less.
Exactly. Make it apply to all current and future presidents.
Peter Thiel on three images of the future [video]
Note the article is from April 2018.
To underscore your point, it's actually the single busiest airport in the world.
People dressed more formally, but 'most people' did not dress 'better', they simply couldn't afford it.

Almost all North American men in suits looked like fools wearing brown paper bags because suits were never fitted tailored properly. Even less expensive suits nowadays can at least have a decent cut and fit close to reasonable, even if there is still a huge variety of 'weird stuff' that people invariably buy anyhow.

Now there are more ways to look crazy but at least if you want to dress kind of properly, it's within grasp for most people.
Why is “on hold” music/audio so bad?
Why is on hold audio sound like a cassette tape? Are they trying to get rid of me?

Why is the music they play so dated?

Etrade on hold is the same music for the last, I don't know, 15 years.

Missed opportunity or is this on purpose?
One doesn't have to be conservative to see an issue with world-straddling tech companies flexing their ability to shape public discourse.

People use Facebook/Whatsapp/Twitter/Reddit for many of the same things they used to use email and personal blogs to do in 2005. But with centralized control and the ability to shape what messages get broadcast to whom, it's far too great of a concentration of power.

Google is probably the most extreme. Consider the "Evil Larry" thought experiment. If Larry Page woke up one day in 2016 while he was still CEO and decided to use Google and YouTube purely to further his own goals, how many national elections could he tilt while maintaining plausible deniability from the outside?

My guess is, it would be quite a few. It wouldn't have to look that different. Counter-narrative results would still show up in search. They'd just be down-regulated. Links and videos supporting EL's preferred candidates and positions would be up-regulated and be shown up perhaps 10% more often than previously. With plausible deniability, election after election could be tipped by a few percentage points. That's often enough to change the outcome.

There are almost certainly some internal company safeguards that would have made this kind of crime a difficult, uncertain proposition and I do NOT think the real Larry Page would ever have done this. But being completely unconcerned would be a grave mistake. Giant tech companies already lobby extensively in nations all over the world and do not have goals perfectly aligned with each of those nations—e.g., Free Basics in India.

It's naive to dismiss concerns about such extreme concentrations of power being wielded to suppress speech along political lines simply because we're currently benefactors of the action.
Of course they will believe in cannabis legalization the minute it is good for big corporations.

Also see how drugs became a “disease” and not a “moral failing of culture” the minute it start hitting “rural America”.
Why not? Presumably the vast majority of HN readers can easily afford to pay for the news.

I didn’t even need to sign in to my wapo account to read this article, so presumably you’ve just hit some quota.
This should be set as a function of how much they made, and damages incurred. 10x amount they charged + $200/victim/incident (so, $200 for each record sent) seems reasonable to me.

The latter part of the fine should go to the victims, I think.

If this bankrupts them, the executives, then board, then shareholders should be the ones to take a bath. (Not pensions, etc). After that, the fine should be reduced until it leads to a net zero valuation of the company, with the difference being given to the victims by issuing stock at the resulting stock price.

I’d like the fines to be applicable to anyone selling location data (app developers, linking shady libraries, I’m looking at you), and enforceable via class action rights that can’t be waived, as well as small claims court.

The rules should also apply to data returned by any non-mandatory compliance with government requests.

For class actions, consumers should get at least $190 of the $200, regardless of any pre-trial settlements.

I think these are minimally adequate steps to end this behavior.
My Covid-19 Story in Brooklyn
The pied pipers of the Dirtbag Left want to lead everyone to Bernie Sanders
C99 has effectively identical types in the standard library (uint8_t ... uint64_t, and ditto for int8_t ... uint64_t). There are very few modern C codebases where I haven't seen these used (personally I use them because it's much easier than remembering what is the minimum guaranteed size of unsigned long). The Rust ones have just slightly more terse names (which it's understandable to dislike, though I personally find the endless _t suffixes in C type names to be a bit annoying as well). And Rust's usize is basically uintptr_t.
At least we won't be blowing up our infrastructure. "Rebuilding" afterwards should be quick.
I figured, I'll give an update to anyone who's still interested. I managed to fix a few issues and and some major functionalities (eg: * symbol to select all) over the last days. The next thing I'll work on will be type queries, so that the user will be able to use queries as strings but also as a chain of method calls with a type parameter representing the model returned from the query. Something like: from(jsonObject).where(list of filter functions).select[CaseClassType]() . Stay tuned!
China compels Uighurs to work in shoe factory that supplies Nike
Show HN: Coronavirus Spread Animation/Map
The goal of this app is to show Coronavirus spread over time. Through all the sensational headlines, I couldn't really see how the virus was developing over the globe. This should give a better feel for both the infection rate and affected areas.

A side goal is to create a responsible interactive virus map. For that I took some notes from the ArcGIS post the other day about responsible mapping. Mainly using a blue color scheme instead of red tints.

For a more detailed motivation as well as design considerations please see the blog post. Or feel free to ask of course.

I hope this is of use to some of you.

* Code: https://github.com/RRMoelker/corona-time-series-map

* Motivation and design considerations post: https://dreamonward.com/2020/02/28/coronavirus-spread-animat...

* Data by by JHU CSSE: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19
You can open it in a private tab.
You are downvoted by fanboys but you are exactly right. I am surrounded by researchers working in DL and I have say at least 40% of them have never heard of FastAI or Jeremy Howard. However folks who are active on Twitter, listening to popular podcasts, popular media, HN etc would be very familiar with name Jeremy Howard and what FastAI is and need no introduction. In research world, an astonishing number of good researchers have little to none online presence. They have little to no time other than keeping track of research papers in their sub-field. It also surprises me when authors sweat for months to churn out 100s of polished pages but couldn’t spend 15 minutes to write a paragraph of introduction in readme.MD.
I cannot tell how is each company organized, but I am working in a $250 billion company and I had the occasion a few years ago to find out in detail how this works when our CIO had to approve some IT purchase and there were some technical problems with the authorization system: our CFO does not have the authority to sign or approve any IT contract and nobody in the company will ever execute the payment. We are not organized as military, but each of us have spending limits (from $10,000 the lowest to a few hundred millions $ for CxO) and we cannot override that. Yes, we had people that bought stuff in their spending authority but not in their domain authority (that is much harder to limit in a system) and they were fired every time it happened.
The dust is settled and the fight is over. Which monad tutorial won "best monad tutorial?"
If this line of argument is true, then a quick glance at r/talesfromtechsupport makes me think there's no such thing as a CIO.
Creating valuable drinking water from mist
#1 got me and I had a good laugh. I wonder if there's a faster method for #2 using AVX and bit tiddling, or if the optimizer is smart enough to find the most efficient code for a particular architecture.
AMD Threadripper 3990X Scores Another Win: We Test New SPECWorkstation 3 Update
Wow!

Was all that the result of excessive praise during childhood that made him unable to self-criticize in adult life?
The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing–but things may soon improve
Everyone knows where the fire stations are. Civilian protection isn't usually secret. What's secret is the US bioweapons program.
Seems like you'd want to look into eavt databases for a universal schema, Datomic has a lot of resources explaining it's schema
I've had both.

Identity theft takes longer to resolve. Physical altercation is usually more immediately resolved, though the adrenaline and residual stress can take a long while to overcome.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.OsString.html

I'm puzzled what you think is missing. What should be part of the stdlib that isn't currently?
Companies have always supported candidates and political parties of their liking with political contributions. What's different now is that these companies can now contribute not just with money, but by influencing the online discussion we see and the search results we get.
Decent examples. I'd like to toss another in that, years ago, a colleague gave a candidate. He thought of the question that morning in the shower.

Morse Code. All letters are combinations of one or more dashes and/or dots. Here is a sentence of Morse Code where the spaces are stripped. Decode it to get the original ASCII sentence.

He gave it and failed the candidate. Sounding like an interesting problem, some of us in the office tried it. Turns out that it is a very hard problem. You have to make a tree of possibilities and it is easy to accidentally make your solution O(n!).

Moral of the story is never give out a coding question that have not personally solved. Second moral: be open to out of the box solutions.
Show HN: Codejamsol: Quickly browse Code Jam best solutions
Something seems strange. The woman was in a traffic accident on the 6th. She attended church services on the 9th and 16th. On the 17th she was confirmed to have the virus. Then "days later" "hundreds of people" become ill at the church. I'm under the impression that the virus has a long incubation period. As it isn't clear where she got the virus, isn't it likely that she isn't the original carrier, but contracted it from some other connection to the church? I mean it seems like the first opportunity to infect people was the 9th and something like 10 days later hundreds of people are ill.
I’m assuming you’re talking about draw.io. What’s your business model?
Negative stigma?

I personally don't use it because everywhere I've seen it previously is in gaming/twitch communities.
Let me try to rephrase what you're saying just to understand where you're coming from. "these are cool numbers, but what's the chance that the average person is going to actually have any of these complications?". I don't have any cogent numbers on that, but the current deaths/(deaths+resolved) percentage is 8%.
I agree. All those tools support more roles that two people could reasonably cover. Might they need some of these tools eventually? Of course - once there two or more additional team members.

As it is, they need a tool for keeping track of all these tools.
I've worked with both sides of this argument and I find that "new shiny" is a perpetual problem. Anyone that proposes new shiny should be responsible of showing trade offs, integration feasibility, impact, etc.

I'm not against new technology but so many people want to adopt new technology X just for the sake of it being new technology X. I see this on developer teams I work with every day and it makes me want to gouge my eyes out sometimes, especially when I end up being forced to use their nonsensical choice of new technology X which makes my life harder.

Part of the problem I believe is that everyone is focusing on their own self-interest. Many developers for the most part don't care much about the business interests/growth. They're already looking for their next higher paying gig and want paid training in technology X at their current gig. Since many businesses provide little concern for long term talent retition, loyalty or investing in professional development that falls outside their business adopted technology preview, I completely understand the developers choosing themselves over the business. At the same time, going overboard shoots yourself in the foot because it strangles the business in the process.

There certainly needs to be a balance and a lot could be gained by giving developers freetime and resources for continued professional development.
Smartphone sales are collapsing in China. They could plunge 40% in Q1
My two-person startup only uses one SaaS - Twilio, to send Prometheus alarms to my phone, which costs just a few cents at this volume. We use Freenode IRC instead of Slack, but that barely counts. For meetings we set up a Mumble instance, which is the most reliable setup I've tried. All of our infrastructure is on owned hardware, colocated. For taking notes I use text files.

More to the point of what these folks are using: Mixpanel, Fullstory, Hubspot, SalesQL, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator are unethical and you should not use them. It's not "growth hacking", it's spam. You are a spammer. Drift is annoying, no one likes your chat widget. Seems to me like these guys are drinking the kool-aid pretty hard.
Is it still required to have a phone to sign up for discord? That's what puts me off.
Ask HN: Shouldn’t you want Corvid-19?
If you do not fit a high risk profile shouldn’t you want to get corvid-19 when you’re young and healthy and build immunity. Just how mothers want their children to get chicken poxs? What are people’s thoughts on this? There has been countless epidemics in human history and that will continue. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger right?
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You must be joking. Try to scrape off the paint and keep the plastic, see if it works.
But the distribution of resources is significant - who they go to and what they are used for means that the value derived is very different.
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traits + "constexpr if" replace SFINAE.