skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was hoping they'd limit it to 100, or even 50. I don't see what 200+ gatherings they believe are safe to the public at this point.

There's little downside to decisions like this- healthcare is most likely going to be overwhelmed even with these changes, may as well do everything you can.

Be a leader. Make the tough decisions now.
With due respect, telling Americans that they can't come back home from Christmas holidays is quite a bit more than "well, it won't be easy or convenient."
Gremlin Announces Failover Conf: A Conference About Resilience
Whoa, that video is a whole trip on its own.
Unfortunately you can't just spin supplies up as if they are in AWS EC2 zone. It takes years to built if they weren't already there. The more apprioriate comparison would be to have a home-hosted server cluster in addition to EC2 cluster which most companies simply don't do. It's just too expensive.
Unfortunately, history has shown that these are the situations that are used as an excuse for a power grab. So, yes, it's exactly the right time for "libertarian pontification" as you put it.

Because there may not be another time. Rights once given away are nearly impossible to regain, and all that.
Documents like this were requested during impeachment and were either not provided or heavily redacted in ways that suggest a cover up of damaging material not valid reasons allowed by law. The administration is already hiding critical information from the public because it might look bad for the president. This is the same thing but will directly impact our response and likely raise the fatality rate in the US.
WWDC is in June. That ban (currently) ends months before. They will likely extend. But into summer?
The need for casual/social environment is largely a myth. For the first 15-20 years of your life a person's ability to survive is based on getting attention from mom and dad. Slowly that fades until people are self sufficient. College students are very "hey look at me!" as they slowly relearn how to get what they need and that holds over into younger oriented workplaces. For the actual process of building value and generating revenue, except for some professions such as sales, interaction can easily be electronic.
I believe India may even be of more concern than Africa. Of the two, India has the older aged population.
ACM 6.0 flight simulator
Dow Slides Nearly 1,400 Points, Enters Bear Market
No, not at all. Because covid is just in the earily stages of spreading. At it's best it will kill far more than 50k this year alone and become endemic so it continues to kill at many on top of flu. At its worst it stands to kill a lot more.
The German ice hockey league cancelled the playoffs for this year.
Oh there's more than enough suckers out there to make travel insurance profitable forever.
Or Roman Catholic, yes.
We made this a week ago! https://donottouchyourface.com
That not even one follow-up attack like that—assuredly crippling air travel for months, at least, and increasing the cost of it probably permanently, aside from easily killing dozens per occurrence—happened in the months after 9/11 was when I started wondering whether this Al Qaeda thing was half as well-resourced in the US, and half as well-coordinated, as officials were saying at the time.
Of course the killer app here is to use the accelorometer in a fitbit or a other fitness bracelet to play the danger ring tone on your phone if your arm comes up to your face.
Ethics questions are more important during dangerous life-and-death incidents, not less. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1237557583717621760
The URL of the actual app is terrifying. I was certain the site had been hijacked when it redirected to the most suspicious looking URL imaginable at the domain "drv.tw": https://lzdmsmujepoc2xlgp13srg-on.drv.tw/Don%27tTouchYaFace/... (HN shortens this, but I think the real kicker is the '.com.html' at the end)
Maybe AA doesn't have to be very effective for it to be more effective than psychotherapy?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a patent troll, neither I want to sue anyone - that is against my attutude (I consider myself an old time hacker rooting from late 80s :)). I'm just a co-developer and co-holder of the patent for a device that does, among other things, exactly what topic starter described. We began developing it back in 2011 and proceeded for several years, we had been spending our free time and "pocket" money on it. In case you are interested it took us to route and assemble 22 versions of PCB prototype of the main board and 5 prototypes of a radio. We even exhibited it at one of the electronics show in Moscow. As we failed to find sufficient investment to push it to the market, we decided to freeze the project in 2015. In my initial comment that was silently and shamefully deleted, I proposed to aquire our patent, that's what might have any value today, as schematics and hardware are all outdated. As mentioned above, discussing patent details on public is not any good idea, that is why I simply pointed that I can be contacted on these matters.

I understand that hackers are strictly opposed to any sort of patents or copyright. But it is not avoidable topic once you are into business of settling or growing your own company (or a startup). And this is a startup place, isn't it ?
I also made one using BodyPix.js see https://www.appblit.com/handoverface
Great idea. Also, after people become trained to change their behavior when hearing that Ralph "I'm in danger", start playing it periodically when people are on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The world will be a better place.
JS is executed in isolated sandboxes.
I read Quanta (via RSS) and often can only make it 1/2 to 2/3 the way through an article before giving up. Today I figured out why: the punchline is absolutely buried.

> Another property of ultra-stable glass would eventually reveal the most promising road map to ideal glass.

> { + 4 intermediate paragraphs }

> [the property] ...Sure enough, they found that both glasses had far lower heat capacity than usual near absolute zero, in line with a crystal’s. This suggested that ultra-stable glass has fewer two-level systems to tunnel between.

> { + 3 intermediate paragraphs }

> [the solution] ...His algorithm picks two particles at random and swaps their positions. These shake-ups help the simulated liquid stay unstuck, allowing molecules to settle into snugger fits — just as the ability to swap two ill-fitting shapes would help in Tetris.

Alternatively, that could've been written as:

> Another property of ultra-stable glass - it's far lower heat capacity - would eventually reveal the most promising road map to ideal glass: randomly swapping particles of cooling glass to allow for snugger fits.

-- And that's it! --

But my brain either can't, or refuses to, follow 8 paragraphs to arrive at the Aha moment.

Now, I don't read these sorts of articles for the pleasure of reading. And, I think the writing style suggests this is a primary goal. So why do I read it? I dunno, maybe it's a better version of me that clicks "subscribe" than the one who's presented with the article to read?

Or, I prefer to read selectively rather than comprehensively. A trait I think is of merit, but my SAT and ACTs surely didn't.
The studies in this space are notoriously bad(AA has a lot of true believers, which can lead to publication bias, and psychotherapy research in general is pretty poor). And one the best and largest studies(MATCH) on the topic show that pretty much every non-pharmacological treatment is the same.

For a different take on the literature look at https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/10/26/alcoholics-anonymous-m...
Because China is a good month ahead of the rest of the world, and is much denser populated in the cities (which are also much larger than ours).

The initial cover up didn't help either. Once they instated the lockdown, they could test the backlog of people. That took quitea while. But now the spread has pretty much stopped, while everywhere else on this planet it increases day by day.

After the initial cover-up got public, the West couldn't get enough of reporting about it, and how this is the reason it could spread so fast, how irresponsible it was, and how it's typical for evil China. Now we have that virus here, plus two month of knowledge about it, and we're still mostly being reactive instead of proactive. In China's defense, when they tried to cover it up, much less was known about the disease, like it's asymptomatic spread. Now the cards are on the table and we're being ignorant, as if ignoring a problem makes it go away. But hey, when things are getting really really ugly for us, we can still go back to blaming China for their initial cover-up.

Watch Italy closely the next days, and compare it to China when they were at a similar stage. It will tell you what's to come in your country too. Another thing that's suspicious about Italy is the high CFR of around 6%. It most likely means they're not doing enough testing, only the severe cases, so the rest wanders around the country happily spreading it further.
Yeah it's like people have forgotten how the Patriot Act was pushed through after 9/11.

And aside from debating the merits of federalism generally, maybe I just don't want this specific administration to be in charge of any life-and-death decisions.
This is awesome. Does anyone have a tutorial they recommend for building something like this (preferably in Python)?

https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com is awesome and it looks super easy to use - but any tutorials if you wanted to learn it the harder way via OpenCV or Darknet?

I found this tutorial from fast.ai but haven't been able to check it out yet: https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=1
Extreme measures are likely doing more harm than good -- as soon as China loosens them, there will be a flood of cases. You can't eradicate a disease that spreads via the air we breath (and can spread to animals). You can slow it, but much like Influenza you're stuck with it forever now.

With that in mind, the larger impact is going to be the lack of medicine, food, etc. that comes from a large-scale heavy response. We are just at the beginning. Push for social distancing, but over the next two years we're just going to have to learn to deal with this. It'll mutate, we'll find ways to mitigate damage and we'll have a large loss of life.

Push out higher production of medical equipment and push out the best possible safety gear for healthcare workers. On a personal level, try to stay fit, get lots of rest, and try to quickly take care of any other conditions. Stay home if you are sick (to avoid spreading any illness).

That's about the extent we can do.

Closing schools, closing offices, shutting down the economy is going to be far more damaging than this disease will be.
You could also make an app to have locals check with their hospitals and get the data. Or have the doctors at the hospitals participate.
The blood-sucking disease-transmitting types are not crucial to the food chain.
I don't get the point of this critic. The advice from flattenthecurve.com seems reasonable to me, even though they don't present any numbers - it's a qualitative analysis.
China is now seeing a wave of secondary infections as they relax travel restrictions and as people enter the country from elsewhere. They have not stopped the spread, they simply slowed it down.
The CEO of Basecamp, Jason Fried is giving a rebate to anyone who purchases their book on WFH.

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1237773562322259970
It depends on how bad it gets, if people are dying by the thousand I think the conventional wisdom will be we should have done more. Even with these measures I fear it wont be nearly enough to avert catastrophe.
Anecdata but I also saw a bunch of adults with school going children becoming sick with flu like symptoms in December & January and recovering, incidentally the kids were either mildly sick or totally fine. In hindsight I also drew the same conclusion. Perhaps covid-19 was making the rounds in the US even before we officially declared it was here.