skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As i said, the majority of people will experience mild symptoms. This poor chap clearly had a pneumonia complication. Do you have interviews with people, the majority, who presented mild symptoms or indeed none?

I had a virus and very high fever and was bedridden in early Jan. I don't recall being interviewed by the global press.
The two statements don’t need be false or contradict the fact that it was mishandled.

A flight ban simply makes traceability harder, as people reroute through multiple hops. Victimizing Chinese communities is bad and will only make things worse (as people start hiding from authorities). And in the end, the virus was in Germany already in January, according to the tracing, so focusing on China would have helped little.

BUT

they could have mandated self-isolation for two weeks for all flight passengers disembarking, regardless of provenience. You get a tourism hit but slow down infection rates substantially.

They could have ensured better procedure for care in death. Those elderly people dying in high number right now, have probably infected hundreds of others already; they should have been tested weeks ago, and handled as infection carriers.

They could have prepared temporary field hospitals to spike capacity like the Chinese were forced to do. Chances are they will need them anyway, might as well do it advance than later under pressure.

They could have started shutting down large gatherings and prepare for curfew measures.

They’ve done none of that - and I say “they” as in US administration, UK administration, Australia (where they’ll even host a F1 GP with crowds this weekend!), France etc... They all hoped it would go away “on its own” like SARS did. Sadly, SARS was a lucky strike, this is the real deal.
I was actually considering including Estonia in my list, but they are not a member of the Nordic Council. And Estonia's Nordic bona fide is a matter of dispute. Personally, I believe Estonia to be a Nordic country, including having the Nordic Cross design variant of the Estonian flag hanging on my wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estonian_alternative_flag... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Estonia#Nordic_flag_pr...

Furthermore, in an article about military history, Scandinavia is understood - in a military geopolitical context - to only include Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
I interpreted it a bit more broadly as a message about a company's image in the media (though this may be influenced by how it is reputed to treat its workers).

I thought the author's point was that if your company's only value proposition is that you are "less evil" than some company B (but with virtually the same product), then your position is extremely vulnerable.
RE: Viruses like COVID-19

Not trying to nitpick, but isn't the virus called SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 is the illness?
Let's first figure out astro-mining and self-sufficient space stations. Planets or moons are overrated as habitats.
So, assuming you won't name the org you are working at, what prevents you from naming some of the others?
Nobody is acting on “media scare”, as you and Fox News are calling it. It’s called science, and it’s driven by facts, based on data from sources such as the WHO. The information given explains the risks and precautions that should be considered. You don’t have to believe but please don’t spread misinformation.
Not really. Even though the US media has focused on the raw number of tests carried out for domestic political reasons and left a lot of people with the belief that the number of confirmed cases is basically just a function of the number of tests, Italy has been visibly struggling to test people. If you look at the percentage of tests that came out positive rather than the absolute numbers, it's obvious that Italy was only testing people who were very likely to have the disease, especially during and after the big spike in cases that got everyone's attention. It was in the very high single digits for quite a while, compared to the 3% that the CDC's old, very restrictive policy of only testing a handful of people very likely to have it There's other evidence that Italy's numbers were off too.

I'm particularly miffed about this because it seems to have spread to our shores and convinced a bunch of people that the reason the UK has lower numbers than Italy is because they're not testing people, to the point they're literally unable to believe that Italy has only tested twice as many patients for the coronavirus as the UK.
Pretty sure you're already paying them days off with sugar or something similar.
Two thoughts on this topic:

1. The film Gattaca (1997), in addition to being an excellent, inspiring film all around, centers on an aspiring astronaut's upcoming trip to Titan. Highly recommended.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZa83dTf4JA

2. The colonization of Venus is also a fascinating idea that isn't talked about much in comparison to the Moon or Mars. Essentially, the surface is too hot for colonization, but it may be possible to build floating cities ±31 miles above the surface.

- Venus's atmosphere is made mostly out of carbon dioxide. Because nitrogen and oxygen are lighter than carbon-dioxide, breathable-air-filled balloons will float at a height of about 50 km (31 mi). At this height, the temperature is a manageable 75 °C (348 K; 167 °F); or 27 °C (300 K; 81 °F) if we could get 5 km (3.1 mi) higher

- The atmosphere also provides the various elements required for human life and agriculture: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur.

- Additionally, the upper atmosphere could provide protection from harmful solar radiation comparable to the protection provided by Earth's atmosphere. The Atmosphere of Mars, as well as the Moon provide little such protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus
Let's. But first, let's colonize the ocean. And the sky.
And the moon.
”It’s a green product”

‘Green’ also depends on how you use it. One can argue that, for many use cases, those cars are way too big and heavy to be called ‘green’.
It takes 6-41 days for covid-19 to kill, with 14 days being the median. The death rate is going to lag behind the cases of infection by a few days.
> It’s cold on Titan, at -180°C (-291°F), but thanks to its thick atmosphere, residents wouldn’t need pressure suits—just warm clothing and respirators.

I'm no space colony expert but am I missing something here? -180°C sounds like constant space suit level, not "just warm clothing".
Wow. I actively avoid reading Trumps tweets, it seems everytime I run across them eventually, it's so much worse.
Please fund clinical trials of zinc as COVID cure/statistical preventative:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/02/coronavirus-links-spec...
Just because Uber hasn't turned a profit doesn't mean they aren't worth $xxB.

If you actually believe Kalanick cashed out his shares at an overvalued price, go short Uber and make tons of money. That said, you're probably wrong.
Hopefully the Wuhan Institute of Virology--a mere 8 miles away from the wet market thought to be the epicenter of the outbreak--can help, since they've been studying similar viral strains for years:

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810638/

(2016) We report the isolation and characterization of a novel bat coronavirus which is much closer to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in genomic sequence than others previously reported, particularly in its S gene. Cell entry and susceptibility studies indicated that this virus can use ACE2 as a receptor and infect animal and human cell lines. Our results provide further evidence of the bat origin of the SARS-CoV and highlight the likelihood of future bat coronavirus emergence in humans.

Shi Zheng-Li's publication history is most interesting:

>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=shi,%20zheng%20li
Democracy is just as vulnerable to Goodhart's law as everything else.

I don’t have any well-thought-out solutions, but I am tickled by the idea of frequently anarchically randomising the way power gets donated from the people to the government.
Similarily to bikebreaks, it's often better to be safe than most efficient
You need to add a critical “some” before “healthy young people”. For some people, it is possible to go through a whole course of coronavirus without ever showing any noticeable symptoms at all, or nothing distinguishable from a typical cold, and come out the other end immune. For example here are 2 exceptionally mild cases https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/6/20-0452_article

But for some others, it is a hellishly bad experience which causes weeks of awful symptoms (e.g. only breathing via a mechanical ventilator), and for some healthy young people it even results in severe pneumonia leading to speedy death.

For example https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/09/coronavirus-update-n...

> The 32-year-old physician’s assistant, a non-smoker with no underlying health conditions, believes he contracted it while attending a medical conference in Times Square last weekend, saying the coronavirus spread quickly to both his lungs.

> “The virus is everything. Dirarrhea, watery eyes, shortness of breath, chest pain, you name it. High fever,” he said. “Every day is getting worse.”

> “It happened so quick,” he said.
I want to work for you.
Sucralose is way sweeter, doesn't have the same taste, and doesn't really cook like sugar. Sure, it'll do OK (diluted with some starch) in your muffins and it'll sweeten your coffee, but you aren't going to use that to caramelize the top of anything either.

I'm not sure if I've ever commonly seen Xylitol for home use: Most commonly, I've seen it in chewing gum and such things as it seems it is good for teeth. It can cause gas and loose stools, though - a common issue with artificial sweetners (Sorbitol causes both my spouse and I issues: We know when we've eaten too much of the "wrong" candy by the foul smelling apartment air).
> Thanks, I was really only looking for a picture of the space lettuce

This is Veggie, the apparatus on the ISS used to make the lettuce for the studies seen in the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9aR2-7sOjg

I'm deeply fascinated with the food supply/chain in longterm Space Travel and colonization. Lettuce is low hanging fruit, I hope that we see a vast amount of innovation in this space that allows for greater (ideally autonomous) modular growing spaces. This is a critical component to having a permanent settlement on Mars, having to rely on re-supply missions from Earth (Starship will drop the cost significantly) is untenable when you start scaling the population beyond an outpost.

If you're interested check out the talks from Mars Society convention(s) here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMarsSociety/videos
From PyTorch to JAX: towards neural net frameworks that purify stateful code
Funding and government initiatives aside, is there any tech platforms that facilitate scientific collaboration?

It mostly seems to be just dropbox equivalents that let you drag and drop test results and PDFs into shareable folders.
We gotta do it before the Hive and Fallen colonize it.
Which shows how damn important context is. Without 100% testing (which I don't think to be necessary) for COVID-19 and comaprative baselines case numbers aren't tellig us anything. Without the proper domain expertise to actually interpret the numbers that is. So whithout that particular domain expertise, epidemilogy and virology, I don't interpret the numbers or build models, rather I believe the experts to make sense out of them.
I don't get it. Is it a metaphor or analogy of some sort?

From my experience, analogies usually are a mechanism of manipulation, trying to drag in some arguments which bare facts cannot support.
What is that about? Half of the Swiss work force?
That's exactly it. Exponential growth can only be cut short if proper containment measures are followed. If not, infection rates will look like the S curve of popular technology adoption rates, where it only tapers off when nearly everyone has been infected.
The UK has a problem with massive costs for infrastructure projects. Somehow projects that one would imagine would take a few guys with a bulldozer and a few loads of concrete end up costing millions.

Hinckley Point is just a larger example of that.

Portable nuclear bypasses that by being able to build in other countries without such extreme costs and import the result.
> security guards can have contractor status while obviously still being required to show up during their shift and not someone else's shift

No, the IRS (assuming we're talking about the US) wouldn't allow it - that security guard would either need to be classified as an employee or provide their services to the customer as a corporate entity themselves. The guidelines[1] around this are very straightforward:

"Under common-law rules, anyone who performs services for you is your employee if you can control what will be done and how it will be done. This is so even when you give the employee freedom of action. What matters is that you have the right to control the details of how the services are performed."

1. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Powerful women who helped shape the crypto industry
That's one way to see it.

Another would be to say in the end, it's the same "mature" market, one more EV sell is most likely one less ICE sell.

And it's not like EVs have tremendously changed the equation, the price is about the same (total cost of ownership), the capabilities are about the same (slightly better on some aspects, like performance, slightly worst in term of autonomy and refueling/recharging time). Right now, EVs are not extending or creating a market but are triggering a re-composition of this market.

Maybe in the future, we will see more deeper changes which will trigger a major shift (autopilots that work? reduction in cost? (EVs are engineeringly simpler than ICE vehicles)) but we are not there yet.
Someone should write and maintain a library that can scrape Facebook accounts. This library could be used by software that can help people stay away from FB without the downside of missing out on things like events or groups.
Flu season is accounted for in normal hospital beds and other capacity planning. A sudden huge surge in need for ICU care is not accounted for.
The longer a business is around, the more opportunities to generate some negative press that has some people label them as evil, which is a label that generally doesn't get removed no matter what comes after. It's another reason why startups can win over customers. In general, startups from inception have a squeaky clean image until they get big enough for journalists/bloggers to shit on -- then repeat.
I like how we're optimistic in terraforming and colonizing distant bodies with different gravity, pressure, atmosphere, temperatures, while equally panicking trying to control a few degrees of temperature on our home planet.

But I think research on how to colonize other planets will help us in dealing with local climate change.
edit: looks like it is. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7029759/#ref-60

Is this the soluble ACE2 mentioned?

https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/ubc-apeiron-biologi...

https://pipelinereview.com/index.php/2020022673884/Proteins-...

https://connect.myesr.org/course/novel-coronavirus-outbreak-...

It was initially discovered and developed during the SARS epidemic - https://www.nature.com/articles/nm1267
And that's the big deal here.
Covid-19 Coronavirus Affects World’s Economy and Bitcoin-Industry
I would rather spend some pennies to make sure the fellas at General Fusion complete the first full scale demo MTF reactor...fission is an extremely appealing tech for many reasons, the problem seems to always boil down to the general population reaction when a massive disposal factory and relative multi-millennia deep cave gets built next door...GF MTF tech looks like a very good compromise between fully fledged self sustaining plasma tokamaks a la ITER, and experimental pulsed solutions that still do not produce valuable output..
"Strap in folks, we're going through some turbulence... For the rest of your lives."
I thought Elon Musk wanted to terraform the poles of Mars to make it more habitable. He even has promised t-shirts that say Nuke Mars.

https://www.space.com/elon-musk-nuke-mars-terraforming.html
Quarantine a whole neighbourhood when a case is found, keep it locked down until everyone has tested negative for two weeks.

Drive-through testing where everybody with any symptoms can get themselves tested.

A good public education campaign with calm TV documentaries that show the facts of what was going on in Wuhan and is now going on in Italy, and explains why these actions need to be taken.
Maybe consider Earth's oceans first? It's somewhat closer, has some food resources, the gravity is also OK.
Italy is following China's lead. It has been harder to change social behavior here. But it will change due to the severity of the situation. The lag in response will definitely make things more severe. But the climate may help, assuming warmer temperatures reduce transmission.
That's... a different question. Where would you find fossils on other planets? The article says Titan has seas of hydrocarbon, but otherwise Moon and Mars, it's just not an option. One reason why Musk has invested so much in non-fossil fuel tech is not so much to save this planet but to operate things on other planets.
I'd imagine the limit being how densely you can packrods together and sufficiently cool them.

What I'd be much more interested in is what's the _minimum_ size they can be made in safe and relatively efficiently
I thought this was about Stalin's craving for Danish:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_pastry
Thoughts on Recruiting
Holding chips in reset is not the only thing that matters. Complex chips may have power-sequencing restrictions; for example 1.8V power rail might need to be up before 3.3V, otherwise the chip gets damaged.
The much weaker gravity and its effects on human health is something I rarely see mentioned.

If one were to be born on a body with a much weaker gravity than Earth, e.g. Mars (0.38) or the Moon (0.17), wouldn’t this confine them to bodies where gravity is less than or approximately equal?
It's not black and white, because the term is used for both culture and geography, and I say that as arguably-Scandinavian myself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia#Use_of_Nordic_coun...
Is there an on-prem/AWS AMI version?
Colonize the moon first:

1. plenty of solar power

2. close to earth

3. easy to launch out of its gravity well

4. lunar base technology can be iterated far more rapidly
The main driver for car companies to produce electric cars is not competition with anyone, it's the new stricter fleet emissions standards in the world's two biggest car markets: China and Europe. Car companies will market and sell electric cars in China and Europe in preference to other regions for the time being because of this.

There's no urgency for Toyota to produce electric cars because they've been making hybrids for a long time and they're already in a good position with the new emissions standards.
Let's colonize LEO. You get radiation protection from earth's magnetosphere. You get zero G for funsies. You get a new perspective on earth and interesting new kinds of manufacturing. It's not too far away, so you can get there and back in a day. It's far enough in space that you need to improve your closed cycle systems. You might survive a number of different cataclysms. It seems like a good stepping stone.
> The guidelines around this are very straightforward

And yet your quote doesn't even mention scheduling or the concept of time.

> the IRS wouldn't allow that - that security guard would either need to be classified as an employee or provide services as a corporation

This is not true. Please don't spread falsehoods in public like this.

See https://coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2016/03/my-new-hero-and-h... and the link through, https://www.cato.org/blog/four-more-courts-smack-down-obama-... .

The fact that a job needs to be performed at a particular time is not sufficient to prevent contractors from performing that job.
NNW is a fine piece of native software, both on macOS & iOS, and refreshing in the flood of not so native technologies, i. e. middleware.

I just hope Fever sync will be added soon.
Yes, I think the CCP could only stretch the truth by about one order of magnitude without the lie being obvious. Has China reported accurately every prison outbreak? Probably not. Is COVID-19 spreading widely in China now? No.
I am pretty sure the Martian congressional republic is not going to stop colonizing just Mars. They’ll have every incentive to push further, faster :-)
He talks about that in the end. Here’s the relevant section:

Is this even a good idea?

We’ve just spent several thousand words on methodology to show how the original FSE paper was flawed. But was that all really necessary? Most people point to a much bigger issue: the entire idea of measuring a language’s defect rate via GitHub commits just doesn’t make any sense. How the heck do you go from “these people have more DFCs” to “this language is more buggy”? I saw this complaint raised a lot, and if we just stop there I could have skipped rereading all the papers a dozen times over.

Jan Vitek emphasizes this in his talk: if they just said “the premise is nonsense”, nobody would have listened to them. It’s only by showing that the FSE authors messed up methodologically that TOPLAS could establish “sufficient cred” to attack the premise itself. The FSE authors put in a lot of effort into their paper. Responding to that all is “nuh-uh your premise is nonsense” is bad form, even if the premise is nonsense. Who is more trustworthy: the people who spent years getting their paper through peer review, or a random internet commenter who probably stopped at the abstract?

It all comes back to science as a social enterprise. We use markers of trust and integrity as heuristics on whether or not to devote time to understanding the claim itself. This is the same reason people are more likely to listen to a claim coming from a respected scientist than from a crackpot.12 Pointing out a potential threat to validity isn’t nearly as powerful as showing how that threat actually undermines the paper, and that’s what FSE had to do to be taken seriously.
> It is possible than one hospital may be overwhelmed, but surely it cannot be representative of hospitals across Italy or even a region.

Sadly, it is representative of hospitals across all northern Italy: https://www.ilpost.it/2020/03/08/pesenti-emergenza-ospedali-... https://www.ilpost.it/2020/03/09/coronavirus-terapia-intensi... ("Affollamento e scelte difficili")
It might not necessarily be toxic. But it's a possible red flag that the company doesn't trust their employees. And that they time lunch breaks and other breaks.
Also, many of the politician are old themselves. Being in public all the same, the are really vulnerable.
So basically a measured, fact based response to it. Sounds good if you ask me! Especially the education campaign is thoroughly missed at the moment.
The way I read this is that companies who are slightly less evil than others are really the bad ones because someone else could come in and be slightly less than them, and then everyone loses?

Except if companies are fighting to treat employees better, then everybody wins because conditions get better.
I'd say it's not just the ethical treatment of animals, but quality also. Animals growing in cages are under huge stress and much more prone to diseases, so they are often given a number of medications as a prevention. Their whole physiology is heavily altered. As they're never exposed to direct sunlight production of some vitamins is severely reduced in caged animals. They're fed special food to stimulate nesting, to make yolk more yellow, etc. It has to be highly concentrated and hormone rich to stimulate them laying unnaturally many eggs, from very young age.