skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leading edges might be better served with deicing boots rather than special paint to constantly wear off. Or, if there were some abrasion-resistant film that is transparent to the laser light, then it might work.

I would think 3+ lasers would be needed to cover all aerodynamic surfaces.
Testing failures allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S.
With the amount of economic upheaval from the coronavirus scare, I fail to see how there are no prospects for profit.
The magic hand of the market will get poor people killed. That's what the magic hand does. If wealthy British are willing and able to pay more for Irish agricultural products that Irish peasants, the invisible hand does not intervene to prevent the famine/genocide. It just ensures Irish agricultural products fetch the highest profit in the open market. A large percentage of the population of Ireland dying as the result is none of the concern of the hand as long as profits are made in the process.
I guess all I can do for this poor comment is vouch and upvote. Sad to see that fearmongering and bad data compounded by bad math is ruling the day.
That whether you've won or lost is subjective does not mean it doesn't matter.
Most of your comment makes sense to me, except this bit:

> Then, there’s the ethical aspect. Unlike heart transplants, a hand transplant isn’t life-saving, but like it, it condemns patients to the life-long use of immunosuppressants, with the side effect of a weaker immune system. Prosthetics may be the better choice.

Surely it's up to the transplant recipient to decide what will be best for them? I'm sure there are many people to whom the trade off will be worth it. How exactly do "ethics" come into play here?
behold, the supply and demand curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand

Yes, increasing price makes it so less people can afford it, but it also makes more supply available so more people can buy it. What use is cheap masks when only a small portion of the population can actually get their hands on it because of shortages?
What is your email exactly sir? Might have some information that you would appreciate.
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At a glance Python looks like Algol with nicer syntax but it's stuff like this, listcomps and decorators that let you do some very fun and terse tricks.
What's needed is a new payment model for anti-infectives. This already happens at a small scale with grants from institutions like BARDA. The DOD of also does this for vaccines for biological weapons like anthrax where there is a high likelihood the drug will never be used, but a vaccine is needed because if there is an outbreak, the consequences are severe.

Basically, rather than paying for drugs on a per unit basis, you pay a lump sum for access to the drug. This solves the issues of spending $100M to develop a new treatment for some disease where there is never a outbreak and you cover none of the cost of R&D.

There have been ideas to have X-Prizes for new antibiotics. Discover a new drug for a anti-biotic resistant infection? Great, here is $500M as long as you agree to produce as much drug as needed for free or some nominal cost.
In the 1960s big increases in regulations on new drug development led to big cost increases, and hence less interest in non-blockbuster treatments.
Creating value is one part, capturing it is another
SARS vaccine was abandoned after the epidemic died out because the funding was cut. Pharma is being perfectly rational knowing that in 6 months all of the funding may be cut.

What's not rational is cutting funding to supposedly disappeared diseases. They do re-occurr. The Spanish Flu died out at first, only to re-emerge in WW1 trenches and wreck absolute destruction.
I imagine it downloads binaries and libraries, which would be less than a hundred megabytes. All the art assets would still be transferred from the disc
Italicizing platonic is rude and I have no right to insinuate anything about your personal life nor do I expect you to share anything further. I regret the tone.

Since you shared a meaningful experience with me/the world, I responded in kind, because to me, my experience is also essential truth.

However, I'm not sure that I was trying to be "sincerely helpful" to you. That's not how I would automatically think of it when I respond to some random non-gendered username on the internet.

...I also don't think asking if you were in an undergraduate program is such a personal question.
Mask manufacturers could raise their prices as well if they felt so inclined.
I'm not the developer, but I came across this app and wanted to share.
> So maybe not being an asshole will get you ahead in the middle but it won't get you all the way to the top of the foodchain.

On the other hand, you're much more likely to get to the upper-middle than the top, so it's reasonable to optimize for that more-readily-achievable goal.
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code via Terraform
As long we don't touch our face we should be okay according to officials in charge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sscoRb11wDw
What use are available masks if only a small portion of the population will buy them because of the cost?

Now apply the same market logic to a future vaccine and you'll have a situation where herd immunity will never be achieved because it won't be profitable to achieve it.

Edit: It's even worse than the above though. Those that won't buy expensive masks/vaccines are also likely to be those most exposed/vulnerable to the disease in the first place. Then, when they're on death's door they will need much more expensive emergency care at the nearest hospital. Letting the market make these kinds of decisions is how the US achieves such dismal health outcomes despite spending a fortune on healthcare.
If you don't follow the markets and don't know the various commentators record and reputation just buy index funds and focus your attention on something more enjoyable.
"Neglects" implies that they're ignoring their responsibilities. How is this the case?
Sure, but as a result we don't have problems like thalidomide popping up every decade or so. There are benefits (and drawbacks) to having a much more stringent approval process.

And probably worth adding that in public health emergencies, the FDA is more than willing to pull back on regulations in the interest of the public good.
What exactly did you eat, and in what quantities?
List all that you ate, if possible.
Unfortunately keto has such a broad definition that a lot of harmful stuff (like seed oils) can be considered part of the diet.
Hi, author of org-roam here. Maybe I'll set up a Gitter for Org-roam. Org-roam is a reflection of my current workflow, but I'd also like feedback on what to work on next and what people like to see. Maybe creating a GitHub issue is too much of a barrier to entry.
I tried to read this. I love Python, and am thrilled to see the language evolve.

This page has a massive sidebar, another massive sidebar that scrolls with the content, and another sidebar. The content for my screen had about 1" width to read.

The various sidebars inexplicable start and stop scrolling as I scrolled down, meaning I got through 1/4 and closed the tab.

Atrocious and anti-user.
My hyperbole: It’s known that preexisting conditions contribute to deaths: if we presumptuously view atmosphere in a Chinese city as a condition, then the Wuhan death toll makes some sense.

Also for “just the flu”: it’s a coronavirus. A cousin of common cold. So it gets you like common cold, you usually don’t know when or where or how you got it. Most effective prevention, not vaccination, not facemasks or spacesuits, but washing hands often, facing away from people when sneezing, eating more vegetables, getting good nights’ sleep, those mom of 5-year-old kid items. There are not many effective meds save for NyQuils and lab experiment Ebola shots. I think “just the common cold” is a technically accurate description regardless of whether it’s world ending or not.
What would be the torque required to spin the slowest gear 1/3 rotation per day? Let's assume the same radius: 2cm.
This is a small but welcome change.

Note that the two new operators introduced for dict

a | b

a |= b

brings the behavior in line with the same operators for set. [1]

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3.8/library/stdtypes.html#set-types-...
The word you're looking for is "thermal." The bulk of the gear behaves completely classically at this temperature.
Took me a while to make sense out of the title. It's a confusing analogy, Amazon is river, Paliessie is mostly forests, bogs, with a number of rivers. I understand the biodiversity context, but even changing the title to spell Amazonas (it's a salad of meanings anyways) would make it less ambiguous, perhaps more exotic.
Aright then, what is the reasonable thing to do here?
I've been trying to get my app onto that list - https://creator.nightcafe.studio

Some advantages / unique features over other options:

- use multiple style images
- mask styles to certain regions of your content image
> Great, here is $500M as long as you agree to produce as much drug as needed for free or some nominal cost

Why not give $5bn (or whatever the NPV of the drug at a reasonable rate of return might be) in exchange for releasing the drug into the public domain? Then any number of generics manufacturers could be contracted to maintain a stockpile.
Ok, that's cool.

But the Black Plague, the 1347CE plague, killed 30-60% of Europe's population, and led to drastically remaking the political and social landscape of the continent:

"Some historians believe the innumerable deaths brought on by the plague cooled the climate by freeing up land and triggering reforestation. This may have led to the Little Ice Age"

I mean, if we're trying to judge what effects a coronavirus pandemic might have, we should look on both sides of historical pandemics to try to bracket what to brace for, no?
I meant streamed live :p
Seems like they will be pre-recorded and released.
Spinning iron doesnt like start/stop cycles. Server drives go thru very few in their entire life for that very reason.
Anything calorie dense (and therefore hyperpalatable) is easy to over eat. Fat is twice as energy dense as carbs or protein, so it adds a lot of calories. Put a tablespoon of olive oil into the skillet, and you're adding an empty 120 calories.

Typical foods you could eat 4000 calories of combine fat and carbs into a delicious combination: french fries, pizza, cookies, milkshakes. I don't look at those foods and think individually carbs or fat is at fault. But on the other hand, carbs are what the body uses for energy, so to avoid them doesn't make sense to me. I'd rather skip out on fat.
This and the news of nervous system involvement[0] is very concerning. Hopefully hn will come through with the calming level-headedness so often missing from other parts of the web.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22509741
> Basically, rather than paying for drugs on a per unit basis, you pay a lump sum for access to the drug.

Hmm... a system where uncommon but extreme spikes in the cost of care are artificially distributed so that an entire society can bear them as a group... that sounds oddly familiar...
Sure, just do something with Fourier transforms. Okay, it's not completely accurate, but most simulations aren't anyway.

In fact, I can simulate this in text form with no floating-point or number theory issues at all. Here's the simulation:

> For every 10^100 turns of the first gear, the last gear will move about one full turn.
But we don't really develop "cancer" drugs. We develop a drug that treats certain type of pancreatic cancer that give the individuals another 3-6 months to live. But curing an infectious disease can give someone another 40 years.
The page doesn't even show any text without whitelisting its Javascript. I doubt I'm missing much.
> “We estimated excess deaths of 7,027, 20,259, 15,801 and 24,981 attributable to influenza epidemics in the 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, respectively, using the Goldstein index. The average annual mortality excess rate per 100,000 ranged from 11.6 to 41.2 with most of the influenza-associated deaths per year registered among the elderly.”

> “In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%. More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period.”

(Edited) The wording here is confusing. It’s an average of 5.2 million cases per year for 4 years resulting in a total of 68,000 deaths over 4 years. Meaning an average of 0.325% IFR due to Flu (ILI - “influenza-like illness” in Italy.

That’s a high confidence IFR based on a well established surveillance network and widespread testing. Meaning it is likely not being overstated. Versus COVID’s know case fatality rate, which is an upper bound on the IFR and known to be missing a significant number of mild cases in the general population from the denominator.

I agree that it remains to be seen how bad this will be in Italy and elsewhere, but putting it in perspective to the flu (which we do not generally “fear”) is useful.

[1] - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197121...
Kelsey Graham wants to turn America into China
This sentence from the blog is key, "Caveat: Pair programming is a learned skill. It takes time and work to do it well."

Pair programming sounds great and all but if even one person from the "pair" is not good at it, everything falls apart. Also, the pair's chemistry has to be on point like Jeff Dean and Sanjay from Google :p
Genity looking for Cryptography engineers (and 5 other positions)
They certainly could, but still wouldn’t make extra from the eBay prices.
How can you target "new" infectious diseases if they are really "new" every year other than by guessing the right vaccine (as they do e.g. for the flu)? I mean, what worked for SARS won't necessarily work for COVID19, even though it's also a subvariant of SARS. If this is the case, by the time you come up with a drug and take it through all the (extremely costly) stages of testing approval, it'll be too late already, and herd immunity would have obviated the need for what you've just invested billions and countless person-years into.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Tech Lead Data/ML Eng to scale back end infra
How so?

Intermittent fasting is basically skipping breakfast for most people. Wake up late or sleep in a little extra, maybe make some coffee, go to work or school. Something most teenagers and college students do or have been doing for years. My self included as I much prefer extra sleep. I've some how been doing fasting since grade school and didn't even know it was controversial, disordered, or even called fasting until recently. My dad, who has done multiples of marathons and even Iron Man triathlons never ate breakfast and usually not lunch either. He seems fine and no one ever mentioned he had disordered eating.

Eating real food, having a preference towards certain real foods you like (some people just like more meat or eggs instead of fruit or potatoes or rice) and not being overly gluttonous is some how disordered eating. I don't buy that.
> What use are available masks if only a small portion of the population will buy them because of the cost?

What use are available masks if only a small portion of the population will have them because of their scarcity?

In the short term, the amount of masks are the same. Pricing them higher doesn't magically cause masks to evaporate, and vendors aren't going to hoard masks when they can fetch a high price on the market. In the long term (when production ramps up in response to the increased price) the production of masks will increase, allowing more people in aggregate to have masks, even if it means that some portion of the population will be priced out.

The alternative is that the supply of masks stay the same in the short term and long term, and the masks is randomly distributed (at best) or held in the hands of a small number of hoarders.
Not sure why people are downvoting you. It's clearly the case that there are lots of problems you can solve that create value and make/save people money, yet don't result in you capturing any of that money for yourself. For-profit companies mostly ignore those kinds of problems by definition.
If actually making measured, informed decisions without discarding all knowledge of numbers makes me heartless then I readily accept.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2020-03-06/sxsw-c...

Looks like that was all just speculation and not true.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2020-03-06/sxsw-c...
Exactly, you explained it much better than I could.
I've attended every demo day in the past 5 years. It's of course a much better experience in person — but this was the right call. Large events should not happen especially during the high-exponential-growth phase of this pandemic.

A great example from history: compare Philly to other cities (e.g. St. Louis) during the Spanish flu outbreak — they held a major event in that phase and that single-handedly turned it into the worst hit city of the epidemic with almost 1% of the entire city population perishing as a result.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/health/17flu.html
And Germany has a CFR of 0%. People need to stop quoting CFR like it’s applicable to the general population. It is not.
Search "phrases" are starting to return more and more useless results. I typed in some phrase as a question and got back a list of news articles about coronavirus. Can't recall what it was but it had nothing to do with coronavirus.

More and more often it will drop words out of my search; import words. I can't help but suspect it's because it has more ads to show me without the most contextually important bits of my search.

Half the first pages are ads. The next few pages may be shopping results even though I'm not searching for something to buy.

Something.. Happened on mobile. The search results now have a bunch of BS "sections" before the actual search results section! WUT.

Seems to be getting harder and harder to craft the right searches to get good results. I miss the days when people would write articles with headlines of "<topic> sucks". Was so much easier to find counter opinions to stuff :/
I suspect there's a certain amount of... emoluments... changing hands over robocalls. There's no way something the scale of call-every-North American-number sequentially robocallers aren't noticeable, trackable and stopable. I get between 2 and 7 robocalls a day, and I have for more than 5 years. The robocallers are on the verge of ruining the phone system for human communication, the same way Sanford Wallace ruined faxing, and spammers ruined email.

Someone's getting paid off. And it's not on the scale of a couple of rounds of bikini golf with 20-something junior marketers, either.
We've that here: https://github.com/iconscout/unicons
Btw, good idea to post GitHub here! Will do it next time :D
Don't feel inadequate for lacking academic baloney. I did a BS CS & Eng degree (heavy on the BS) that required diff eqs, linear algebra/vector analysis, abstract math, concrete math, physics (the whole, real series), quantum mechanics, chemistry (the whole, real series), statistics for CS and then all of the lower-div and upper-div CS and EE requirements. At one point, I was two courses away from a math major; no joke. :''') Hehe.

Design creativity is something you can improve through play, experimentation and practice.

If you really want to learn math beyond algebra or calculus for fun or personal enrichment, there are MOOCs: several on KhanAcademy, some on Coursera and hundreds at the link below, some look quality (Stanford, MIT, SJSU, UT Austin).

https://www.classcentral.com/subject/maths
Sure you could do that, but manufacturing drugs isn't as simple as hitting a switch - the infrastructure needed along with the scientific expertise is sometimes hard to replicate.
If I fired my team of system security engineers, then a data breach was discovered, and great harm came to my company because there was no one there familiar enough with the system to know what to do, you'd probably think it was my fault. Ya know, because I did piss poor risk management. And did not conduct due diligence with risk analysis. Especially if my company had more than enough funding to have them there... Because data breaches don't happen often, but they are BAD NEWS when they do; there's a good reason that job exists.
> The alternative is that the supply of masks stay the same in the short term and long term, and the masks is randomly distributed (at best) or held in the hands of a small number of hoarders.

This is an utterly false dichotomy and a big reasons why government exists and is actually useful. Governments can do things (and compel others to do things) that don't fall in the optimal spot on the supply/demand curve. If supply is limited masks should not be "randomly" distributed, but distributing based on who can afford them is probably not any better than random in an epidemiological sense. Should the first people to get vaccinated be billionaires or health-care workers?
Artificially distributed? It's no different than paying a drug maker a ton of money to make the drugs and stockpile them.

And at any rate, the alternative is what we have now - no drugs to treat these diseases.
So here is my frustration with the hue service... The uptime is terrible.

Outages have happened weekly and there isn't even a place I can see statuses...

There are many night where I want to cut my lights off with the app and I just can't. No explanation just no connection from their application to their service..

There have been so many times I've had to use the api manually to do this

Hopefully this new bridge addresses this issue.
Comparing one country to a completely different country doesn't really tell you anything. There are a lot more firearms murders in the US than most European countries, but there are also a lot more non-firearms murders in the US than most European countries, so all you really know is that the US has a lot more murders. (Which are incidentally concentrated in some specific cities.) The proportion of murders that use firearms also doesn't tell you much, because first you'd have to know what proportion of murderers would have just used a different weapon if they didn't have a gun.

The interesting data is what happens following the passage of gun control legislation. The proponents are always happy to point out that the number of murders involving the specific weapons being prohibited goes down, but no kidding. The real question is the effect on the overall number of murders (i.e. the ones that didn't just use a different weapon), and in particular the effect over and above the existing trendline. (You don't get to just take credit when the existing long-term trend of declining violent crime rates continues, you have to move the needle more than it was already expected to move.)

But the effect turns out to be little if anything. It turns out murders tend to be caused by things like drugs, gangs, domestic disputes or revenge moreso than access to firearms. People will use a gun if they have it, but there are a hundred different ways to kill a man and taking away one doesn't change much. Also, a disproportionate number of murders are committed by gangs with no qualms about using prohibited weapons anyway.

It actually has a more significant effect on suicides, because some of the most popular alternative suicide methods aren't as effective (as opposed to the most popular alternative homicide methods which mostly are). But we already separate known suicidal people from guns (and shoelaces etc.), and it seems like the better answer there should have more to do with addressing the fact that so many people are suicidal so that the question of which method they might use becomes irrelevant.
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Lol, true.
Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
> What does Terminal.app give you over iTerm2?

Ease. I've been down many a custom-config-rabbit-hole but these days I find greater pleasure in paths of least resistance. I'll admit, however, that I love my hyper key and BetterTouchTool gestures.