skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The CDC has been refusing to authorize them for testing.

This is new to me. Link?
The English village that was 1 of the most remarkable cases of self-quarantine
Also I don't see why a blind or wheelchair bound colleague couldn't participate in a walking meeting (if they wanted to and were comfortable with it).
What is the podcast?
There's a short manifesto [0] explaining it in more detail, but it's basically a service connecting artists looking to recoup the cost of art supplies with art lovers who are looking for a bargain, with a bit of curation going on to keep the obviously bad works in the dump. Looking for feedback.

[0] https://binnedart.com/about/
I will go further. If the thought was orginal and came from the bot we should not treat it's message as second class.
Why can't you see Medium?
Protobufs/nanopb would be my go-to for minimal message size.

If you want small code size, CBOR seems like a good bet:

> The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. [1]

This [2] C-implementation fits in under 1KiB of ARM code.

[1]: https://cbor.io/

[2]: https://github.com/cabo/cn-cbor
I think that is indeed the case for actual shares (I was certainly able to participate in Rite-Aid's most recent Board of Directors election, solely based on the shares I bought through Robinhood), but I'm curious about how it'd apply to cryptocurrency, since Robinhood (last I checked) doesn't expose the private keys for the underlying wallets or otherwise offer a mechanism to transfer crypto assets out of Robinhood.

Not that it really matters for the, what, $2 I put into Dogecoin, but still.
It's an oligopoly though. The investors know each other's terms, they have no reason to compete on that aspect. They compete on other aspects, like their network with access to potential acquirers and access to subject matter experts.

They don't really compete on terms, other than valuation. If anything, as things become more transparent, the deal terms are becoming more homogenized.
> use the massively diversified risk pool

Diversified risk doesn't reduce average costs, it only averages the cost across everybody. Doing this generally raises average costs significantly by making people insensitive to price, resulting in over-consumption, i.e. unnecessary tests and procedures. We already have this problem with employer-provided coverage, but covering more stuff makes it worse.

> plus minuscule administrative costs (compared to private insurance)

Most of the administrative cost of private insurance is related to investigating insurance fraud. Doctors and patients can still collude to claim procedures were done without actually doing them and then keep the money, so somebody still has to do that. Putting it in the police budget instead of the Medicare budget is an accounting difference. It doesn't actually save the money.

Also, the administrative costs of private insurance are only a small percentage of overall healthcare costs.

> price negotiation power

Passing a law that everybody has to pay taxes for an insurance program which then out-competes private insurance by having a taxpayer subsidy and becomes a monopsony is not "negotiating" prices. It's price controls. It allows Medicare to set whatever price they want because the provider's alternative is having no patients.

They can absolutely dictate lower prices that way, but then more providers go out of business. It's less profitable to make new drugs and new medical devices, so fewer companies do and we get fewer new drugs and new medical devices. Things that could have been cured then have to be treated. How much does that cost, in terms of both money and lives?

Also, how does it address the real causes of high healthcare costs, like the shortage of doctors (and medical residency slots), or the difficulty of getting generic medicines approved by the FDA without a patent holder to pay for the clinical trials, or the lack of price transparency that causes patients to choose providers without respect to cost differences?

> for the larger benefit of society?

How many programs claim to be "for the larger benefit of society" and then go on to be worse than the status quo?

Once upon a time it was easy to point to bread lines as an example of this not working. Today it's more subtle. First they regulate private industry in ways that produce inefficiency and reduce competition, then the effects of bad regulations are used as evidence that the market is broken and we need more regulations.
Thanks for the reply! How do you communicate your state across the various groups? What routines/rituals do you use religiously?
Slightly offtopic: Why a git repo for a blog post? I guess there are some pro's: public history, PR's , but a blog has comments directly under the article for example. Forking is not expected. Ah well, extensive information anyway, good work :)
TIL i should stop using lastpass because it doesn't have a single positive review here. I'd say it's fine, but it's my first experience that was a definite improvement from trying to remember passwords.
Can you explain in more detail the whole experience, along with how the effect was activated? Personal experience counts for something, since that's how we know everything else :)
I agree that more testing is better. Why do you keep bringing this up? It has nothing to do with the fatality rate.

TL; DR; Without sufficient testing, hospitals get overwhelmed and death rate skyrockets. Is this "irrelevant".

...

My Gawd, you are the one who launched the massive detour on fatality rates. The topic of my first comment and topic of the OP was test, now like three days ago. You chimed in several posts down with the argument about immediate death rates not being final death, which I indeed didn't make my clear enough but which wasn't crucial to my point, which was and is about testing and related, about the Korean model being other countries should look to. I guess should say that Korean being at least adequate comes from my reading of press reports on Korea and not just statistical values but gruesomely technical do we want to get.

The thing is, I said from the start and I've clarified above, the fatality rate is an important proxy for how well a given country or area is doing as a combination of treatment and testing (but mostly testing). The infection rate is exponential everywhere the infection is not aggressively controlled so a high mortality rate means the country finding infection only having dying people walk in the doors of hospitals.

In that time, we've seen Italy, with a higher mortality rate spike in infections and mortality, now with 10x the death toll of Korea. And yes, as expected, the mortality rate in Korea is inching up but the infect rate is now steadily declining and it seems clear the total deaths there are going to be much less than Italy.

Yes, TESTING is my primary interest and advocating the Korean model related to that. The thing is that a look at the situation in Korea shows that the whole of society has mobilized, testing and treatment has been reorganized for the particular problems COVID presents - there are regular hospitals and COVID hospitals (or some equivalent).
Next:

- Autosuggest database tables to use

- Automatically reserve parallel computing resources

- Autodetect data health issues and auto fix them

- Autodetect concept drift and auto fix it

- Auto engineer features and interactions

- Autodetect leakage and fix it

- Autodetect unfairness and auto fix it

- Autocreate more weakly-labelled training data

- Autocreate descriptive statistics and model eval stats

- Autocreate monitoring

- Autocreate regulations reports

- Autocreate a data infra pipeline

- Autocreate a prediction serving endpoint

- Auto setup a meeting with relevant stakeholders on Google Calendar

- Auto deploy on Google Cloud

- Automatically buy carbon offset

- Auto fire your in-house data scientists
Misleading headline from Bloomberg, at least in effect.
I dislike the templating pseudo language of Svelte (and many view frameworks). Maybe I am spoiled by react but I never ever want to write my view logic in anything else than JS. This is my main blocker for Svelte.
The Coronavirus, by the Numbers
> UK hospitals are running out of capacity.

What’s your source for this statement?
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Thanks! I was very nervous about how people would receive the concept of Cells, but people seem to like it, and we'll improve the implementation!

I personally love styled-components and I had tighter integration with it in the start, but we decided to not be opinionated about CSS frameworks... That may change ;)
That thread is wrong. Unfortunately, for a stupid reason. The OSI removed the messages from their archive after he got banned. Because removing all evidence is totally the correct thing to do.

I support getting rid of Raymond, but they couldn't have made themselves come off worse to your average internet commentator.
> MessagePack ... official C library was not optimized for memory usage and code size

But libmpack is: https://github.com/libmpack/libmpack

- libmpack serialization/deserialization API is callback-based, making it simple to serialize/deserialize directly from/to application-specific objects

- libmpack does no allocation at all, and provides some helpers to simplify dynamic allocation by the user, if required.

- C89
Only 2 months after Perens left
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958105
Isn't what they do this:

Broker gets order, sends it to their best buddy instead of normal market, buddy takes other side of order (at the same price as market would have given).

The assumption being that someone who crosses the spread on the general market may have some good info they are trading on. But a robinhood trader who crosses the spread is basically just trading randomly, and is giving away the spread for nothing.
I'm just going to leave this here. https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bru...

More sources: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
In under 10 minutes of conversation, a very nice grandmother was explaining how the Obama administration had made a deal so the UN could come in black helicopters and take all their guns, but that they were ready for it.

Maybe she read about the Ruby Ridge incident, to which you only allude in the same breath as Oklahoma bombing, and knew that it was a story of a government coming to a guy minding his own business, and killing his wife, his son and his dog, for basically no reason at all.
I'd suggest to look at Letterboxd lists, ie.:

https://letterboxd.com/illusorium/list/the-cyborg-is-taking-...

https://letterboxd.com/sofaraway/list/parallel-universes/

You can search for your own topics of interest. If you want movie recommendations, it seems more sensible to browse through the site for movie buffs, not the one for engineers.
It's called 'triage'. It's what they do anywhere, including the US, when there are too many casualties to deal with.

And it's the doctors deciding based on who is most likely to pull through if they get care, not bureaucrats.
"the circumstances" is the situation in which he felt the urge to commit the crime.

If released, what are the chances that he would again have children with a foreign citizen from a country that doesn't respect US child custody laws, and that she would plan to leave the country?

I don't think he'd get married again. I don't think he'd have kids again. I don't think he'd get into a relationship with somebody from any of those countries (Russia, Japan, and very few others) again. Even if all of that happened, the relationship might not go sour, and if that too happened, most likely the woman would stay right here in the USA to enjoy life in the USA. After all that, it is still unlikely that he would murder, because he knows how it turned out last time and because everybody would suspect him.

Also, don't assume he is an obvious psychopath. History is filled with non-psychopaths who murdered. It's tempting to label him now, with hindsight, because it helps to deny one's own capacity for murder. I'm sure he didn't think himself capable of murder until right before he did it.
I would love to hear how you would solve these problems yourself. Any ideas are very appreciated. Still, the patterns and tradeoffs built into React Table are not fleeting exploratory concepts that we hope will catch on, they are architected this way for a purpose. Sure, it doesn't come with any opinionated UI, but in the future, opinionated UIs for React Table will likely exist (some are already in development by 3rd parties). Until then, there are plenty of examples that show you just how easy it is to implement things like virtualization. Having control of the markup for a data grid can be intense and intimidating for those who aren't use to building their own tables, but again, once you see how little work there is to do in your own components, you'll see the power in the library (like having full control over styles, building your own UI APIs, prop patterns, state management paradigms, etc.) As for the prop spreading............... It's fantastic and I would love to see anyone convince me of a more elegant/composable pattern for decorating arbitrary and unknown markup.
And a wacom tablet can be a cheap way to supplement writing, drawing, and diagramming if you don't have a touch screen type device. There are also capture cameras that I've had lecturers use and seen artists use that could be put to good use here if the person providing instruction wants the actual "paper feel" while still providing those hand drawn results.
> I am not surprised at all that SGX wound up being vulnerable to a low-level CPU attack.

Most secure systems assume that the CPU is functioning correctly. It is not clear that you can do anything securely if the CPU is buggy.
>Almost, but plenty of computer architects speculated about

I remember reading papers in the mid to later 90s on just this topic, in regard to processing on top secret systems.

Most of the infeasiblility at the time was of running code on remote systems at the same time. Things like javascript were not everywhere at the time and most computers only had one core.
Why World Unfinished Buildings
Excellent article!!
As a person who runs a bot (@sfships) as well as a real Twitter account (@williampietri), I strongly disagree. It's like saying that there's no difference between talking to the store manager and standing next to an in-store TV running a commercial on a loop.

Twitter is mainly about human-to-human connection, and that should be the presumption for any account one comes across. Other uses should be obvious, or at least declared.
From the previous discussion, plorkyeran[1] found the email that they suspect got ESR banned:

http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists....

I'm not familiar with the culture or standards of the OSI but I don't think I'd wanna participate in a community where this kind of engagement is normal, so good for them I suppose?

Edit: replaced plorkyeran's account link with their post. I also now notice others posted the link, but I saw plorkyeran's post.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22521608
If motive is the defense against prosecution, then clearly you should be potentially subject to investigation. How else should we check that you're not actually lying about your motive?
I'm not sure where the lines break down between CDC and FDA, but the policy was changed on February 29th: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
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Fair take, but I also believe we should've thrown out virtualization/windowing entirely. It was of those shiny product-level features that sounds great but ultimately provides little to no value for most applications.

Most of my point is engineer-oriented but I think it also applies at the product level. React allows you to build cool features easily - that doesn't mean every cool idea should be acted upon.

At times this will mean "dumbing-down" design in the name of pragmatism > shininess. YMMV, ad-supported businesses are going to need that infinite scroll... but most don't.
It's a good podcast. Since some may have a limited command of the german language, they made a full transcript: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-P...
The title changed since I posted this. The original title implied the professor leaked the offending data.
"It's not “free speech” when it's an attempt to shout others down so that they have no voice. It's something else entirely."

Indeed.
I do wish that the author had pushed back on ESR's claim that removing CoC is the correct solution, particularly given the author's claim that nothing he found in ESRs posts to the list came even close to violating the CoC.
It's also accepting a weak argument because of the credentials of the author. I thought that was trivially understood, but I guess not.

Which is also not what you're doing; your case appears to be that credentials are a reason to reject a sound explanation or argument, which is absurd.
It is breathtaking that conferences organized and attended by affluent tech employees are not being canceled when conferences like SXSW and ComicCon are being canceled.

It hurts the people behind SXSW and Comiccon much more to cancel their events but they did it anyways. Is our industry really so much more unethical than average?
Desktop GPUs commonly have support for float64, and it's accessible in GLSL (how else would you use it?) and presumably HLSL.

The data types are prefixed with "d", so you have vec4 for float[4], and dvec4 for double[4].
It definitely shouldn't be banned. Techcrunch has many stories where there was something really interesting that they were the first to report. That said, the long tail of TC articles that are rehashes of what's already been written elsewhere do get tiring.
Read ESRs blog.

He has gone insane after 9/11. He thinks homosexuals are pedophile. I have the cathedral and the Bazaar at home, and I live that book, but he isn't part of the healthy open source community anymore.
I will give you the benfit of the doubt and assume you didn't read TFA - If you had, I assume you wouldn't have made this joke as the individual in question had a pre-existing condition that made him succeptible to pneumonia, and is now in a medically induced coma.

Please try a bit harder in the future.
From reading the comment thread on ESR's blog, it seems that he went as far as referring to a prominent candidate to the upcoming OSI board elections as a toxic loony nutcase, and that this message was subsequently scrubbed from the email archive. Either way, this puts OSI in a bit of a bind, for obvious reasons.
Not fizzling yet...more than 1 year in...

/me NEEDS MORE FIZZLE
Well, many documents are several megabytes, but many are in the order of 100 bytes. I need a serialization scheme that scales up to large documents and down to tiny ones.

I can't imagine that the overhead of initializing an SQLite database from a small byte array in memory is that small, not to mention the overhead of maintaining the table schema.

Out of pure curiosity, I glanced at the Go bindings for SQLite, and there's no provision for initializing a database from a byte array, or accessing the raw underlying byte data of a live database. The C API supports implementing your own VFS for custom storage, but that's not supported by the Go bindings, and seems like a lot of work.

You're right about loading whole blobs; I was misremembering a little bit. The application in question already pares down the document keys in its queries to avoid sending everything. I'm in the middle of a research project into an alternative backend where the documents are stored as binary data, not JSON, and given a set of keys/keypaths, I want to do a little better than deserializing the whole blob.
There are still a ton of people who still think that it is just like the flu... Talked to a few people and i basically lost hope that we will handle the right way (until it is too late) i cant wrap my head around it.. Two countries went in lock down... Becuae it is just like the flu? Yeahhhh.... Right.
We need an industry standard shut-up-and-pay-me system. First 90 days free. Then some sort of quadratic formula for every month after that.
Spanish flu didn't disappear, it broke out again in the 1970s and the 2009 flu pandemic was caused by another h1n1 strain of the flu. It died out initially because it had infected basically everyone it could reach (some 30% of the worlds population) and the survivors had developed immunity - as if they'd been vaccinated, and those sorts of viruses burn out fast. And to your point about further mutations, yes statistically having more viral particles out there does mean more chance for mutation to occur (the spanish flu is actually a good example of this, where a second wave of the same flu that had mutated to become deadly was actually responsible for most of the damage, and people that were exposed to the first strain before the deadly mutation were in general immunized against the second deadly strain). THere are concerns of coronavirus mutating as it spreads - there was some talk about having identified different subtypes of the current coronavirus pandemic with different lethalities but I don't remember off the top of my head if that ended up being the case. IN general, viruses will continue to mutate and accumulate genetic changes as they spread, and even though most of these changes will have no impact on infectivity/lethality (gain-of-function changes are rare, loss of function changes lead to a dead end, so the no-change mutations will pile up slowly), you can still use them to track disease spread/understand at what time people got the virus and where they got it from based on the substrain. Here's a NYT article on the coronavirus cases in washington where scientists used just that form of mutation tracking/evolutionary biology to figure out what the most likely explanation for how the virus made it to the state and how long it has been spreading is: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/health/coronavirus-washin...
A death panel is just a political device.

The actual problem is just prioritisation of a restricted supply in the face of excess demand.

America is still around 28 days away from these decisions though.
There is a "be nice" rule in life, insofar as people care to enforce it. It's being enforced. Be nice.
I think that's very fair. It would be a tiring movement to do time after time during the day vs the small movements that you have to do with a moouse.
Personal experience, if you hire a sufficient number of BSD and GPL zealots you can accomplish a lot with minimal lock in. You need people who are ideologically committed to not being wholly dependent on AWS and similar.
The post itself seems tribalist.
I agree. There is a +6% increase in COVID-19 mortality for those with hypertension. Assume all were on BP meds. They're cheap, & doctors usually insist. If ACEs or ARBs were protective, it should be more like -6%. Right? Losartan = 400% more ACE2, Lisinopril = 100% more ACE2.

Elderly people are usually on BP meds.
Diabetics are frequently prescribed Losartan to protect their kidneys. I know. I am a diabetic, and was prescribed it for that reason and also for high BP.

As a diabetic over 50 with high BP I have a greater interest than most. Especially since my wife was exposed to coronavirus, is sick, and I am starting to feel unwell.

Stopped taking losartan yesterday. Have some tenofovir lying around and might start taking it. It's the only antiviral I was able to get my hands on. Hopefully my chloroquine arrives in the mail soon.