skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fixed the formatting, typos, and expanded the jargon:

From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:

I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do.

First, Lumbardy is the most developed region in Italy and it has a extraordinary good healthcare, I have worked in Italy, UK and Australia and don't make the mistake to think that what is happening here is happening in a 3rd world country.
The current situation is difficult to imagine, and numbers do not explain things at all. Our hospitals are overwhelmed by COVID-19, they are running 200% capacity.

We've stopped all routine, all Operating Rooms have been converted to Intensive Care Rooms and they are now diverting or not treating all other emergencies like trauma or stroke. There are hundreds of patients with severe respiratory failure and many of them do not have access to anything above an oyxgen mask.

Patients above 65, or younger patients with comorbidities, are not even assessed by Intensive Care. I am not saying not tubed, I'm saying not assessed and no staff attends to them when they arrest. Staff are working as much as they can, but they are starting to get sick themselves and are emotionally overwhelmed.

My friends call me in tears, because they see people dying in front of them and they can only offer some oxygen. Ortho and pathologists are being given a leaflet and sent to see patients on ventillation. PLEASE STOP, READ THIS AGAIN AND THINK.

We have seen the same pattern in different areas a week apart, and there is no reason that in a few weeks it won't be the same everywhere, this is the pattern:

1) A few positive cases, first mild measures, people are told to avoid the Emergency Department. People still hang out in groups, everyone says not to panic.

2) Some moderate respiratory failures and a few severe ones that need intubation, but regular access to Emergency Departments is significantly reduced so everything looks great.

3) Tons of patients with moderate respiratory failure, that over time deteriorate to saturate intensive care first, then intubation equipment, then CPAP hoods, then even O2 masks.

4) Staff gets sick, so it gets difficult to cover for shifts, mortality spikes from all the other causes that can't be treated properly.

Everything about how to treat them is online but the only things that will make a difference are: do not be afraid of massively strict measures to keep people safe. If the governments won't do this at least keep your family safe: your loved ones with a history of cancer or diabetes or any transplant will not be tubed if they need it even if they are young. By safe I mean YOU do not attend them and YOU decide who does and YOU teach them how to. Another typical attitude is read and listen to people saying things like this and think "that's bad dude" and then go out for dinner because you think you'll be safe.

We have seen it, you won't be safe if you don't take it seriously. I really hope it won't be as bad as here but prepare.
For some version of forever that, to my recollection, doesn't include working with mysql 4.0. (Which was a long time ago, but still, Perl has had parameterized queries since forever via DBI, even on databases that didn't supprt them).
Subset sum is something that comes up quite often when bookkeepers need to reconcile accounts and there's some transactions missing. And indeed, the Excel solvers work well enough. These days I'm no longer surprised to find out that a classic selection problem has an Excel plug-in to solve it. There's even one for the multiple knapsack apparently.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

Markets can grind lower and lower for decades, each new low triggering bargain hunters to buy, only to drop more.
What you really proved is that $1M is not enough to retire.

If you can’t live off the dividends, you don’t have enough to retire.
It might not be. Lower population density and a lack of public transportation. I would worry about NYC though.
PSA: "silicone" lubricants usually contain various hydrocarbons instead of silicone and are more health risky than the name would lead you to believe, see eg. https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/specialist/wd-40-specialist-w...
Mainstream media tends to target their audience. Their audience is Americans who by popular vote are left of the government on average, and a higher percentage of them that live in cities, which adds to the left bias yet again. So no big surprise that most of the big MSM outlets appear left-leaning if you personally are right of center at all.

That doesn't mean Trump is doing a good job.
Are you including the portion the big companies pay (DD line on W-2?)

$25-26k a year for a low deductible family plan seems about right. I have a HD plan through my company and it costs roughly that including my HSA contributions.
N.italy, all ok. Less people around, shops ok: i withdraw cash every day, rather than waiting for the gov to do it for me. Which they will, then they'll find a away [o line their pockets with it. Nb never voted, never will, but italians are already being political about this. Seen a few comments here, too.
The real impact will be when the rest of eu gets hit. At least day2day italians know you can't blame any single person/ location as you don't know how you'll get infected.
Salt water does lubricate, too, FYI.
Sarcasm is lost on you...
The alarming link between C-sections and hospital design
Aspirin isn't an effective treatment.
Or, you know, the supply lines of food, medicine, etc. that make modern life possible.

What's the phrase? Something like a country is never more than a week without food from revolution?
Sure, let's look at Australian states then.

South Australia uses just over 50% renewables [1], thanks to being endowed with natural solar, wind and geothermal resources, but still operates 15 natural gas power stations [2] - exactly as I said in the part of my comment that you chose to quote.

Tasmania uses 93% renewables [1] thanks to being endowed with natural hydro and wind resources, but still runs three natural gas power plants [3] - exactly as I said in the part of my comment that you chose to quote.

Both states are in a first-world, already-rich and already-developed country, also as per the part of my comment you quoted. And they both have tiny populations.

These conditions obviously don't apply throughout India and China. Yes they both use plenty of renewables and continue to expand their renewables investments. And they both use some natural gas but can't use much as they don't have large local gas reserves [4] (particularly relative to their population sizes), and it's costly to ship/pipe in. So, coal it is, however much you and I might wish it to be different.

If you have any independent evidence to demonstrate otherwise, I'm keen to learn, so I encourage you to share it.

[1] https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/south-australia-hits-50-as...

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Tasm...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_g...
Good related article, in case anyone still thinks well of NordVPN:

https://medium.com/@derek./how-is-nordvpn-unblocking-disney-...
Personally yes, I think that'd be fair. Similar to how I don't pay my patent lawyer or even accountant monthly. Presumably many things change as a business grows, but this is a (very) small business perspective.

Related, what happens if I decide to drop Savvy?
Universal Code Search: A New Search Tech for the Era of Big Code
The US case growth and death growth curves are same as Italy ten days ago (Feb 28 & 29 respectively for March 9). I wonder if the US will take as drastic actions, or perhaps individual US states.
3B1B to the rescue

https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg
This is much more practical than learning maths.

Hopefully, it has support for imperial numbers one day
In my opinion, this is really the main reason why this virus is spreading globally. In fact, the average incubation period seems to be 5 days, which is already a lot.
But apparently, some subjects had an incubation period up to 24 days, if correct, this is huge and the main reason why it suddenly raised in Italy.
Imagine only one relatively social person in Italy, in 24 days he/she can probably meet at least 50 person directly and much much more if he/she goes to some public activities. Like SARS, it just need a few super-spreaders who aren't even aware of being sick, to start an epidemic.
I was wondering the same thing! I think you're right that subscription services are the future. I think it'll help Spotify consolidate more of the bigger shows under exclusive contracts (not all big shows, but more of them). On the flip side, more smaller shows, which never made much money from ads anyway, will finally be pushed into joining Patreon, which will ultimately be a good thing for them.
Far more than just outbound web traffic.

Cable, broadcast TV, live streaming, web conferencing, personal videos, blogging etc. Most of those will be using H.264/5.
T9 if you’re good with paraffin based product.
Hackers are targeting other hackers by infecting their tools with malware
Nope. The fact is after you purchase something you are still in market for that product. So keeping you in a marketing segment will always be more profitable to the advertising team. Yes, you might be finished shopping now that you have finally decided on the best toilet seat, but the marketing segment that you fall into will always convert higher than a control group. There is just way too much data to confirm this.
I'm not even sure who are the "mission-focused bureaucrats" and who are the "administration loyalists" in that thread. But for the love of God, can we please stop politicizing this issue? Can we please have a moratorium on blaming the other side for whatever measures should / should not be taken?

Frankly, nobody knows what to do. Here we are, pondering what to do with the kids.

* The school district is open for business in spite of being the ground zero of USA outbreak. Because no kid has tested positive yet. Meanwhile, the testing scale is tiny [thousands, in a nation of 300M] and the latency is horrendous [5 days]. Most likely the virus is already endemic in the kid population.

* OK, so let's keep the kids at home, as SPS will eventually have to face the obvious and close the schools. For how long? A week? A month? Until summer? Until next year? Send them to school and pray for the best once everybody in the family eventually gets the disease?
Excellent!

It's about time the public started to take an interest in their own privacy. Even Snowden wasn't able to wake up the lobotomized masses.

Hopefully the techies will come up with more and better solutions to work around around brain-dead power grabs like this.

Incidentally, Matrix seems pretty damn good.
What we've seen throughout history is that economies are typically ruined by two things:

1) Governments or central banks printing or issuing (often not physically) too much money, resulting in inflation that spirals out of control.

2) Governments, central banks, individuals, businesses hoarding money due to fear or other reasons, resulting in deflation that spirals out of control.

Those two are a form of check & balance. The thesis that most central banks now use is that if we can keep inflation steady, then we will have relative economic stability. The interest/lending rates are simply tools through which inflation can be moderated.
What's more, they'd be well within their rights to sue her straight off the bat for damages/compensation, which would be much more than $36k.

They're not even doing that. They're saying "We gave you money not to talk. You talked, so give the money back". That is an incredibly accommodating position. Overly generous, in my opinion.

If this is all there is to the story, then Lambda School is doing nothing wrong here. Seems like a lot of people (media?) are just looking for the flimsiest excuse to keep piling on.
We've had police guarding TP in Brisbane for a few days.
but the outspoken ones are quite vocal

see infosec twit, fintwit (financial advisor twit)
In such a situation you might not be able to afford a lawyer.
A much younger and more productive workforce..
Fuck.

I wrote this before and then edited, without realizing that now my main argument has become for the opposite of what I intended it to be for. Now I can't edit it. Original post:

"Wow very selective mind you've got there. Please tell me this is a joke?

In the digital age, information is everything. And information usually precedes action, so in my eyes your argument is wilfully ignorant to the larger reality of a complex globalized world.

I think the US and other Global North countries have a massive shadow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j800SVeiS5I

Guide to Jung and the shadow: https://highexistence.com/carl-jung-shadow-guide-unconscious...
It's not about doing things that you're not doing. It's about delegating some of what you do so that you can focus on a smaller set of tasks and do them better than you currently do. It's about elevating the quality of everything that's going on from the small to the big and making it easier to grow if that's the trajectory you're on.

Scheduling meetings and aiding in calendar management for everyone. Running meetings and taking notes. Collecting and assembling agenda items in advance for any and all meetings. Setting up and handling logistics for team events. Managing team-related documentation on the company wiki so it's always up-to-date. Helping schedule any phone calls or meetings you need with candidates, partners in industry, customers, etc. Catering food for customer meetings. If someone's going to give a presentation, making sure everything is in order, setting up and running A/V, recording the presentation if desired, etc. Keeping track of annual review, six-month, and quarterly check-in cycles and helping you make sure you're hitting every single checkbox for all of your people. I could keep going but after a certain point many of the duties end up being specific to your team or organization. In general, though, there are probably many things you do that don't necessarily require your specialized expertise and knowledge.

There's some overlap with what PMs do, but generally this person is focused on the team itself instead of specific projects. You might feel that's what you're supposed to do, but once the team is big enough you'll find yourself in a situation where you don't have time for the people on the team anymore -- or at least not as much as you feel like you should.

Offloading this stuff frees you up to focus on people, hiring, retention, unexpected urgent things of a variety of natures, and engineering (maybe not writing code but working with folks to make sure everything that's going on makes sense, meshes together, is aligned with broader objectives, etc.). If you run a larger organization and have managers under you, it frees up your managers to do the same. They'll spend more time with their people and less time on logistics.
>Do you memorize all the time whether you grabbed two or three bags of chips or exactly how many cans of beer etc?

Honestly, yes. What I worry more about is how well the names of items on the receipt actually match up to the products. From the summer I worked as a grocery cashier, I can tell you that people often end up confused at items on the receipt that they actually bought.

Combine that with mistaken items on the receipt and some number of more trusting people will just assume it's just a weird labeling of something they did buy and move on.
It's a solution for content filtering.
> ... How many of these things install root certs where even after you've canceled your subscription you're still accepting their bullshit?

It does seem like a bit of a flaw that removing the app on iOS doesn't automatically remove the profile such apps install: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT205347

I'm pretty sure Apple will remove the VPN profile, which is why leaving a root certificate seems dangerous for users who don't know what they're for.

There can, of course, be legitimate uses for this tech. https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/ or maybe opting out of certificate transparency reports, but they do seem like edge cases.
When? I keep hearing that, but where is the evidence?
> soviet arctic light-houses

I had heard these used Strontium(/Yttrium)-90 (β), but I might have been misinformed. Do you know where I can find more information about this subject?
> oxylabs (NordVPN), luminati (Holla)

Wow that's misleading.

Oxylabs and Luminati are both residential proxy networks.

Hola is a VPN that sells access to Luminati.

NordVPN is a VPN that does not sell access to anyone. It is not sending anyone else's data through your connection. There's an accusation that it shares ownership with Oxylabs, and that's about it. NordVPN might be buying, not selling, residential proxy access from someone, but it's very unclear if that's true and either way doesn't have a negative impact on their customers.
What percentage of cashiers are employed at stores big enough to install this tech?

I would think the majority would be employed at little restaurants, small shops, etc.
That article isn't good at all. It jumps to conclusions that are not at all justified.
I can see the sense in slowing the spread to help the medical system cope.
Did you read the conclusion of that article you linked?

>Most health outcomes did not seem to have differences between the NSS exposed and unexposed groups. Of the few studies identified for each outcome, most had few participants, were of short duration, and their methodological and reporting quality was limited; therefore, confidence in the reported results is limited. Future studies should assess the effects of NSSs with an appropriate intervention duration.
It's Amazon, to me it seems more likely they are tuning their ML with human input than they somehow need an hour to spin up AWS for their shiny new baby.
>> it will lubricate it and loosen it up immediately, but then dust will stick to it overtime

I learned this the hard way when I started lockpicking. Bought a huge box of old locks, some were really sticky and I asked online and people said, "Use WD40, it will loosen the pins right up for yah!"

Sure did and then about three months later, they were all gummed up from dust and other particles that stuck to the WD40 like velcro.

It was a good lesson to learn though.
WHO's legitimacy is declining after their approach on china and the general covid19 situation. people seem to think the WHO tried to downplay the severity
Mainstream media has a blinkered center-right bias that on CNN and MSNBC rewards the center-right democratic party and punches left. They don't care about the well being of the population, only about selling ads and preventing reform. On Fox, it's borderline fascist, actually fascist if you think about immigration and the concentration camps.

I don't actually know why the ruling class in the US is taking this so easy. There's some kind of brain disorder they have that is located between American exceptionalism, raw stupidity, and a complete disregard for the welfare of the people. I hope they all shake hands with a COVID patient like they did at CPAC.
I mean, considering Sequoia's net worth, $21M is tip money for them.
With 1 MW you can fast-charge 10 at a time. Doing that for 10 years is on the order of 100000 charges.

It'd be perfect for supercharger stations on the Alaska Highway.
This is a common misconception; both were recommended because they performed equally well on available data at the time [1]. While CIELUV does have the advantage that additive mixtures fall on straight lines in its chromaticity diagram, it does poorly at predicting color differences and has a flawed adaptation transform, so CIELAB is generally preferred.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1002/col.5080150308
probably this is also why other natural sweeteners arent that widespread, since the problem is not the calories, but the actual sweetness
Not GP, but:

I think the point is more that even the (massive) concentrated effort it takes to patch the IDs will be less than the collective impact of not having those IDs at all (in terms of the convenience it would add to peoples’ lives) OR having the IDs without the patches at all.
Step by step OpenSSH+U2F (Ubuntu 18.04)
Author of the post here. Thank you so much for reading and for your comment! I learned a lot.

100% agree with you that documentation and API stability is a topic worth discussing more, so I might write a separate post on that in the future. I'm personally a bit obsessed with good documentation (most vendors big and small don't invest enough time and resources on documentation). It gets into both the reliability and usability of the cloud.
Modern C and C++: Important Facts To Know
"Exponential growth" in itself isn't really the issue. If every week you have 10,000% as many cases as last week, you're screwed. If every week you have 105% as many cases as last week (i.e. 5% more), that's exponential, but after a year there would be less than a 13X increase, by which point there could be a vaccine or other measures that cause the weekly number to go from 105% to 95%.

You can also have non-exponential growth and still have many new cases, if people are getting over their infections faster than they're infecting new people. If a million people were currently infected and every week 500,000 new people were infected but 500,001 of the existing infected people recovered, that means the number of currently infected people declines over time, but you'd still have 500,000 new cases every week and just about everybody might eventually get infected before it dies out, even if it eventually does. (This is similar to what happens with the flu, except that it has exponential growth in winter and then below exponential growth in the other three seasons, so the actually dying out never really comes.)

To really get rid of it you want to have something like 100,000 cases last week and 75,000 cases this week and so on. But even then you might have 25,000 fewer cases this week because 50,000 people recovered but 25,000 new people got infected.

So whether it has exponential growth or not isn't really the issue. It's what the growth rate is. A small exponential growth rate isn't catastrophic -- the number of cases grows but not so fast that everybody is infected by the time they have a vaccine or other more effective countermeasures that get the growth rate back below exponential.

Most importantly, the growth rate isn't immutable. It's affected by things like people washing their hands and having effective testing and quarantines. So will things be fine? They will if people do the right things. Maybe some of them have been and some of them haven't. Maybe they'll get better at it going forward, maybe they won't. As a result there is a significant amount of uncertainty.

But panic is useless. Even if all they can do is reduce the growth rate from 150% to 130%, that still buys more time to respond. Even if everybody ultimately gets it, better that it happen over five years than five months. And if some people are doing it wrong, try to help them do better. Everybody likes to see the bad orange man look stupid on the television, but maybe this is a situation where we come out better off with everybody working together.
Request to Indian State Govts: Stop treating other state vehicles like refugees