skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Famously, the disease hit soldiers in basic training hard before they were deployed. These were not malnourished people. It's entirely likely that malnourished populations suffered greatly under Spanish Flu, but it's clear that completely healthy young adults were highly vulnerable to dying from the disease.
This hospital as about midway between Microsoft and Amazon headquarters.

The governor just declared a state of emergency and authorized use of the national guard:

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/department-health-confirms-...
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Overview for Startup Founders
>A few medical schools have integrated a module on biostatistics and epidemiology into their curriculum, but it's not common (or at least it wasn't ~20 years ago, if that's changing I'm happy)

It is changing, I had bio stats and epidemiology. How much I paid attention to it is up for debate. I can say that epidemiology from my experience is easy to have a grasp on what's going on, but to understand the nuances of data you have to go through rigorous training.

>such as specificity and sensitivity, much less positive predictive value (also very important to know when interpreting test results like doctors do every day)

This is the only thing I think physicians are getting good at. although the older ones may not have the palate that younger physicians have for this kind of thing. Compared to epidemiology sensitivity and specificity have daily implications on patient outcomes so it becomes imperative whereas epidemiology isn't as important for day to day tasks. I like your part on how lay people, such as myself, have little idea of what a computer scientist does and how that can cause frustration. I'm finding as I get older the less I know about what other people do and the more I should listen instead of speculate.
Cost is the not the only issue. My first impression was, do you really need all that. And is it making your life as an entrepreneur worthwhile.

You could easily overdo if you only think about $227 a month. "Well, $227 is nothing. We could easily allocate $1000 a month on tooling. Therefore, let's go on a 6-month adventure of finding the best of the best tools, that are the hottest trend in the market".
That is incorrect. At least some of the people were tested for coronavirus and the tests showed positive.
This results in a 64-bit kernel, but 32-bit userland, whereas the arm64 Debian is entirely 64-bit.
That's fairly normal for older or more basic digital watches - they don't know anything about the year, so every four years you have to manually set them back the 29th of February. I think that people see this as a bug says something about changing expectations. Pre-digital watches generally didn't know about months either, so required manual date adjustment every other month. The framing of this manual adjustment as a bug feels like it comes from our experience of dealing with computer software all the time.
> Suddenly the time runs backwards

It is my understanding that the way NTP deamons work is that time is never adjusted backward. Instead, the ticks are "slowed down" on the local machine until it is in sync with the NTP time. However, if the difference is too great then I think NTP deamons might refuse to correct the time all together. So then, if my understanding is correct, your machine is "stuck in the future". But it will never make a jump backwards because of NTP.

However, I am not familiar with the intricate details of NTP so do take this with a grain of salt.
Slate is in beta and isn’t stable yet last time I heard.
I tend to do my homework – system programming language is not some narrowly defined concept with an universally agreed on definition. People frequently put Go and Swift in that category (see the wikipedia). Are you suggesting Swift is systems programming when Ocaml isn't? If you run docker on Windows or macOS you are running a tcp/ip stack in ocaml (unless something has recently changed).

I assume you mean 105% and 300%? And what are the 105% that are a major deal – the runtime relative to what the hardware could theoretically do? Or 105% relative to what you can get out of C++?
Wow, that is twice as expensive as Apples pricing for a battery change:

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...

Why would anyone do that instead of getting an official replacement?
They were sharing their email address because upstream commenter asks "is there a way we can chat?"
That’s a misquotation. The original source says “additional positive cases are expected”:

https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/news/2020/February/2...
I've taken some great pictures and videos in the pool with my son.

BTW, I do mean in the pool, as in submerged.
Gingko Biloba.

https://www.ideal.es/granada/hojas-gingko-biloba-hojas-grana...
I'd like to suggest one refinement to your idea. Being able to write the entire build process in your language is great. Having to write it in your language may be not so great. Allow the option of using alternate build systems without the build process being crippled.
China didn't know what it was dealing with, how to assess it, or who to test. It did the legwork on all of that, for which the rest of the world should be grateful.

Test-kit availability has been constrained throughout the epidemic, and yes, that means that full confirmation has been only partial and lags outbreaks. But information I've seen is that once China was aware of what it was dealing with, it was testing as broadly as it could.

South Korea seem to be taking this even further, with many thousands of tests within a few days in outbreak areas. The US CDC have refused doctors' requests to test suspected patients and control the availability and use of test kits. That's simply fucking insane and stupid. (Again: the UC Davis Medical Center instance: https://health.ucdavis.edu/health-news/contenthub/novel-coro...)

Amateur hour is over.
And probably because signed integers are a default choice in certain languages and/or maybe on certain architectures.

Java, for example, famously doesn't even have an unsigned 32-bit integer primitive type. (But it has library functions you can use to treat signed integers as unsigned.) Ultimately not a good design choice, but the fact that it actually wasn't that limiting and relatively few people care or notice tells you that many people have a mindset where they use signed integers unless there's a great reason to do something different.

Aside from just mindset and inertia, if your language doesn't support it well, it can be error-prone to use unsigned integers. In C, you can freely assign from an int to an unsigned int variable, with no warnings. And you can do a printf() with "%d" instead of "%u" by mistake. And I'm fairly sure that converting an out of range unsigned int to an int results in random-ish (implementation-defined) behavior, so if you accidentally declare a function parameter as int instead of unsigned int, thereby accidentally doing an unsigned to signed and back to unsigned conversion, you could corrupt certain values without any compiler warning.
It is still speculated to be more contagious than the flu, and the flu itself is no joke. Many people will die if the coronavirus gets out of control. However, it is certainly not the end of the world others are claiming either. Being aware of it and taking certain precautions (e.g. washing your hands more often and staying home if you feel sick) is a good idea.
IMHO still the best there is, at least in the React space. But yeah, stuck in beta for what feels like forever.
We all have Social Security Numbers too (in the US). Doesn’t mean we should share them with anyone who asks.
That was a pretty verbose version of Ok, Boomer.
I recall seeing a documentary where who was most probably the creator reddit claimed reddit to know about the things the users don't necessarily share with anyone else though their behavior on the site, but ok
People have been predicting the end of the world based on inference from their faith in a priori positions for a long time...
Concerning Unicode reversal, the author's statements "This has not been done", "there is no genuine real-world need", "The algorithm doesn't exist" are wrong (see UAX #29 §6.4), "suitable metadata might need to be added" has already been done, and "what a 'string' is considered to be" is well-defined and requires no deliberation or reinterpretation. His text is surprising to me because I know the author programs in Perl, JS, Python, so he should really be knowledgeable about this topic. With the following code samples, all the edge cases written about in the article are taken care of.

https://docs.raku.org/routine/flip

$some-str.flip

https://p3rl.org/unicook#℞-32:-Reverse-string-by-grapheme

join '', reverse $some_str =~ /\X/g

https://php.net/grapheme_extract

...

https://github.com/dart-lang/characters

...

https://grapheme.readthedocs.io/en/latest/grapheme.html#grap...

from grapheme import graphemes
"".join(reversed(list(graphemes(some_str))))

https://npmjs.com/package/grapheme-splitter

const gs = new(require('grapheme-splitter'));
gs.splitGraphemes(some_str).reverse().join('');

Rust deserve special mention because the language implementers did the correct thing and put it in the language: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.3.0/std/str/struct.Graphemes.htm... … only to take it out again for no good reason, thus rendering the programming language not Unicode compliant in the process. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! m-(

Other languages: try to find a binding for libpcre or libicu.

http://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2pattern.html#Exten...

http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis#TOC-Charac...
oh that's just straight up racism
CT changes did not occur before disease progression. In one study it occurs after 3-5 days after being admitted to hospital.(I could not find the link right now sorry.) Therefore cannot be use for 'quickly diagnosing'
Even if you replace it with another leap year?
Personally I think the media is downplaying this, if anything. I hope you are right though, honestly.
Okay. I see what you mean. Take care.
2. https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-rasp...
GoldenDict now support Lojban locale
From another story on the nursing home outbreak:

> "If we had the ability to test earlier, I'm sure we would have identified patients earlier," he [a Washington State health official] said.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/485302-officials-annou...

This is a pattern playing out with striking regularity:

1. Local authorities can't test for themselves.

2. CDC adjudicates testing requests, rejects many (most) of them.

3. People likely infected with COVID-19 are sent back home, to infect others.

Consider this case, posted to HN today:

https://abc7ny.com/5974999/

This pattern of apparently deliberate suppression of information can only fan the flames of what looks like a rapidly escalating problem.
You are making my simple statement really complicated.

I'm not walking around demanding people change their communication to accommodate me, I'm suggesting that trying to speak precisely can be a useful exercise.
> It would still be their head, because it's their promise to their liege-lord.

In a way working at Google is like that. If your project doesn't have "impact" your manager isn't promoted and nobody in the team is.

And engineers are generally free to change team.

It does have some inconvenients and it doesn't remove politics.
That's crazy, my mom who lives in the Seattle area got sicker than she's ever gotten with that bug. I knew it was going around, but I had no idea it was THAT rampant.
Boeing vows to fill the gaps in Starliner spacecraft testing
It looks a terrible design to me.
I'd rather go for minimal changes to economy seats to improve the "low hanging fruit" problems that humans have when traveling.

An example? Staggered seats to avoid "elbowing" or "shouldering" - common problem in the US where people are "bigger" than elsewhere, compared to e.g. Asia.

Who am I? A CS engineer with ~1,000 flights in the last 12 years, ~97% in economy, all over the world except Antartica. My comment here is simply based on some common sense. No specific skillset.
^ This. Even just on a linguistic level, personifying technology creates a subtext of: "The details are not relevant to my point or is too complicated to explain."

For example, talking about bodies of water "wanting" to be level.
Media which doesn’t have advertisers to care about, what’s their job?
> Your phone didn't recognize the object, you relied on a cloud service to do that for you.

In iOS 13 (which I am running), it is indeed my phone that does this.

https://www.apple.com/ios/photos/pdf/Photos_Tech_Brief_Sept_... (page 4) says:

> Photos is enabled by powerful machine learning to deliver unique features
like Memories, Search Suggestions, and For You. Photos analyzes every
photo in a user’s photo library using on-device machine learning that delivers
a personalized experience for each user. And this analysis is designed from the
ground up with privacy in mind, with all of the processing done on device—and
the results of this analysis are not shared with anyone, not even Apple.

> Photos uses on-device processing to analyze each photo and video in a number
of ways, including:

> • Scene classification

> Identifies objects, like an airplane or a bike, and scenes, like a cityscape or
a zoo, that visually appear in a photo, using a multilabel network with over a
thousand classes.

> [...]

The training itself as you point out, happens not on the local device but on the servers that Apple own. So that part you are right about, but that is to be expected. Otherwise, manual tagging by each individual user (as well as significantly more processing power) would be required after all in order to train the models in the first place.
If your theory can't stand up to someone looking at it askance, you're probably being intellectually dishonest.
You're assuming a source of monotonic nanotime is easy to get and will always be available. This is not the case. As far as I know you have either "wall time" as usually defined, with all the problems associated with clock drift, NTP syncs, computer going into sleep mode, etc, or "nanotime" which is some time delta from some arbitrary reference and which can only be used to compute time differences and not arbitrary instants in time. One can not be converted into the other easily, or at all.
I hear this is a firmware bug, and should automatically sort itself out once we hit March (but there is a bugfixed f/w due too). My pet theory/guess was that there was a misimplementation of some algorithm like Zeller's congruence (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence) for calculating the day of the week, which works on an adjusted year starting in March, because I couldn't come up with any other reason why a leap year bug would manifest for all days before feb 29 and then not thereafter. But there is probably a duller explanation :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_chemical_weapons_in_the...
A real bad influenza swept through here. I was laid out for at least a week with a 102 fever.
Instead of forcing companies to make removable batteries. Slap on a 20% tax to companies that have batteries that don't retain 80% charge after 4 years. If the device is to new to have real world testing, company can forgo the tax by allowing free battery changes for 4 years.
Are you just referring to far-left like Sanders supporters, rather than mainstream liberals? Which ones exactly get banned?

I'm positive Twitter would allow a mainstream-supporting liberal (i.e. someone who vocally supported Clinton or supports Buttigieg or Biden or Bloomberg) to slide on this, like any time someone would jokingly pretend they're part of Fox News. Stephen Colbert, if he had a Twitter account that was equivalent to his satirical character on his Comedy Central show, would be adored and absolutely allowed to get a nice fat bluecheck on his hypothetical Twitter.
> Do whatever you want, bud, because your actions will only get the people around you killed.

So you say you lacked tact, I shouldn't treat you poorly, and then a paragraph later say this?

> The transmission rate is astounding, the fatality rate is also looking like SARS 2002-2004

The fatality rate is not looking like SARS 2002-2004, its looking far less. Again, you are spouting incorrect information.

> this is something you should take very seriously

I am taking it seriously. Part of taking something seriously is relying on accurate information.

> And no, I don't need a medical degree to recognize a pattern

And what pattern is this that you are recognizing? So far you've only cited dated medical papers and interpreted them incorrectly.

> I just want to say it's making me laugh to myself how ignorant people are as to what my education actually entails and the nuances between every step of the medical education hierarchy. Like how in a few months I'm going to magically know what I'm doing because I have a piece of paper.

You are right, at this point it seems safe to assume that even if you receive your medical degree you won't actually know what you are doing. Pity for your future patients.
This not relevant at all to this thread but I was very pleasantly surprised to see my hometown and a church I am familiar with pop up here.

OP: If you can, do go there. I am not at all religious, and you don't have to, but this is a solid place to start.
I mean, there’s always wishful thinking. That seems to be the US’s current response.
And arbitrary armed violence is "world police". And militias we decide to back are "rebels", the ones we don't are "terrorists". And governments we don't like are "regimes". And acts of terrorism from our side are "targeted killings". And killed civilians are "collateral damage". The list is endless.
China's Bookstores Band Together to Survive the Epidemic
Why not have the recruiter apologize to the candidate and offer another interview?

When it's a minor screw-up -- sure, have the recruiter apologize.

When it's a major fuck-up of this scale -- reflective of both arrogance and incompetence on the company's side -- then the CEO needs to apologize.

It's really quite simple actually.
I expect there will be many more refugees. Once the Taliban regains control of the country I'm sure there will be many reprisals against those who supported the elected government.
Are other professionals subjected to the same scepticism during interviews?

Are lawyers given tough questions and expected to come up with a clever response on the spot? Doctors given a list of symptoms? Teachers given a difficult student and told to teach them some concept from physics?

Serious question (albeit a bit facetious in my examples).
I’m starting to take some precautionary measures even here in Virginia. Stocking up on food and other emergency supplies, avoiding public transit and walking everywhere, wiping down all surfaces I come in contact with with Clorox wipes I keep in my backpack. Hopefully I’m just going insane and there’s no reason to panic, but a respiratory illness with no treatment protocol besides quarantine, an r nought of probably no less than 2 given lack of testing, and untraceable infection paths for new cases domestically sounds concerning to me. This isn’t Ebola or Zika. This doesn’t even look like SARS. It looks more like the first wave of Spanish flu. Second wave of Spanish flu made it land in the history books.

I really, really hope I’m just going insane and nothing will happen.
Again, hard to say with counterfactuals. Obama made the red line quite clear and he backed down anyway. In my view, Russia isn't going to start a nuclear war because they lost a few servicepersons in a unimportant regional ally.
Just for comparison, C++ running the shortest, simplest possible quicksort does 100,000,000 32-bit ints in 8s. Three more lines, and it's 3.4s. That's 1.3ns each time it looks at an element.

So when you are already giving up an order of magnitude or two, another doesn't matter so much. It pays then to steer the conversation toward other merits.
Useful Git shortcuts to streamline workflows
I read through the article, twice, before checking the byline. I was suprised to see her name. Though I think the phenomena are closely related.

Adam Kucharski's new book, The Rules of Contagion looks like it will be an interesting addition to the genre as well:

https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2020/ap...
Can you actually buy a consumer ventilator? I would see myself paying up to 10k for a ventilator to have at home just in case...
This is because 1900 is the default year in datetime. 1900 was not a leap year.
That's very location specific. Heat waves kill more people in Australia than any other natural disaster and they're worsening and becoming more frequent.
A Dart Runtime for AWS Lambda
Interesting observation.

I played around with it a little on google maps. It says it pulls route information directly from the King County transit website[1] which lists routes by the day of the week, not by the date, and seems to be displaying the routes for today just fine. My guess is that it's a Google issue, but maybe the King County transit website was broken earlier today and gmaps is just serving the cached routes now.

For anyone curious, this is what it currently looks like to get from Bellevue to Redmond in google maps.
https://i.imgur.com/wMTIzBL.png

[1]https://kingcounty.gov/depts/transportation/metro/schedules-...
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Too little, too late.

After years of ruthlessly milking us I just hope they loose a big market share and become equals with AMD.
The consumers can only benefit from that.
You’re sending the poor newbie on a journey of self-discovering of picklable-non-picklable, passing of arguments back and forth, working with Queues (which have well-known yet undocumented race conditions), missing exception stack traces due to dead processes and all sorts of useless garbage they don’t need to know about.

Also what exactly would that newbie be building that starts and stops threads depending on the system load? What kind of a contraption is that? What are you doing?

Finallizing all of the above: under the circumstance you mentioned, you should check whether you have just seriously over-architected the solution.
An original battery change (at an apple store) in expensive Sweden is €77 and that's for the new/more expensive models. Previous models are even cheaper than that. Buying an original apple iphone 11 battery is almost that much for the battery alone (if you can find one). Quick googling shows they are around €70 though it's hard to say how "original" a battery really is online.

So you really aren't paying much for the replacement work itself and that's what matters. One needs to factor the battery cost out of the cost of battery+replacement to discuss the benefit of user replacement. You can buy third party batteries for as low as €30 for some models and you then have to replace it or find someone to do it. No matter how you do, you'll likely never be paying more than say €30 for the replacement (work). and this replacement service is something that is needed either zero times or once for a product that costs around €1000 new.

(Edit: original replacement by apple is €55 or €75 in Belgium too - same prices everywhere effectively)
https://support.apple.com/nl-be/iphone/repair/service/batter...)