skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK has some of the best epidemiology schools and experience, thanks to a tradition harking back to the British Empire expanding in very dangerous lands.

HOWEVER

Imho, precisely this wealth of experience is driving a lot of people to overthinking it, looking too much at the long-term big picture and not weighting the immediate costs correctly. Some people have ended up in Strangelove territory and we risk paying a big price for it. Saving more people right now is worth, say, a longer impact on the economy or longer quarantine measures, if anything because those are social constructs that can adapt - whereas our bodies work only one way.
Running your own load balancer is a non negligeable amount of work for not that much benefit, and hard to nail if you're operating at scale.

"Just" seems like an understatement here, there's a reason why ELBs and ALBs are popular solutions.
Surprised more people here are not using Salt. Having used both Salt and Ansible, I much prefer Salt, especially when working with larger teams.

When working solo I use Guix, both Guix and Nix are _seriously_ amazing.
Part one of this book really helped with my understanding of monetary policy, very clear examples of how the price of money is expressed through Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and Aggregate Price Levels and the interplay between these measures: https://www.amazon.com/Concise-Guide-Macroeconomics-Managers...

Here is a PDF of a diagram I made to help organize my understanding of this content: https://www.lucidchart.com/publicSegments/view/e1d12ae5-a8a0...
Probably also just straight up docker and docker compose is another good idea, and terraform and possibly hashicorp vault are real high on the list, too. Ansible and chef and puppet are all pretty esoteric and I thought chef was great till I just got good with bash and gnu parallel
I'll bite. You have an underlying assumption that millions of foreign nationals are cared for who have paid nothing.

Evidence?
Well your username (antiscience) speaks for itself... but

What's wrong with trying to reduce cruelty in our society?

RE: because it has Physician in the name?

No, because PCRM draws the expertise from around 12,000 physicians and their core experts all have a medical background.

Here is another source from the American Dietetic Association, who say you can be perfectly healthy on a plant-based diet.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19562864

But maybe those sources are not anti-science enough for you?
I haven't considered that the lower class needs to buy Apple products as a status symbol.

Is this really a problem?

As an educated 10%er, seeing Apple products is an immediate red flag that the person falls for marketing.
I guess my point was that corporations devoting large sets of their compute clusters to partake in activity that has no potential to help the current pandemic, isn't going to make much business sense.
"Iran is not a rational actor"

[Citation needed]
Reading the simple formulas in this article, it looks like the present strategy of "social distancing" is intended to reduce R(0), the number of persons infected by each infected person. Pretty obvious, but still it's good to have a clear understanding.

It would be good if the same strategy could somehow be applied to the person-to-person spread of misinformation. But that's harder, witness some of the comments here.
I love this. I spent my childhood playing these types of games on the family PC in our living room -- open source nintendo clones like SuperTux, SuperTuxKart, Secret Maryo Chronicles, Battle For Wesnoth, and Blobby Volley :)
Definitely Emanuel[1], and with elaboration.

[1] https://youtu.be/1yeA_kHHLow
> Would love to see some comparisons with amd

Here are some comparisons of various SVT-AV1 releases on Intel and AMD CPUs:

https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/svt-av1
The key point in here is that fully half of the fatalities on the battlefield are attacks on oil convoys supplying troops. If you can have a nuclear power source you don't need to truck oil around and your exposure goes way down. Good old mass-to-energy conversions being 2,000,000x more energetic per reaction than combustion.

The army developed lots of small reactors for similar reasons back in the late 1950s/early 1960s but they just were too expensive. 10x too expensive even in wartime, according to some 1960s congressional testimony I was reading the other day.

Here's the army's old ML-1 reactor (nitrogen cooled, truck mounted):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML-1

I think this time they want to try to get costs down more.
Interesting Talk about Coronavirus
Note this user has basically zero HN history and is shilling an expensive product in a classic scammer way. I mean, maybe it's totally innocent! Doesn't look innocent!

I mean, maybe Moringa Oil is amazing (I doubt it). It's available for much cheaper than the listed amazon link: https://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/cold-pressed-rwandan-moringa...
Show HN: Curated list of Coronavirus data and apps
There is a much more effective way to prevent people from buying more than they need... limit sales to x items per buyer, or rationing. The only thing rising costs ensure is that people without money don't get anything.
Ansible for dev boxes or smaller deployments.
For large-scale deployments CFEngine3. When deployed within a cloud environment one doesn't even need a master node for CFE3 but the agents can just pull the latest config state from some object storage.
The exact percentage required depends on the R0 of the disease, the number of people each contagious person can be expected to spread the disease to assuming no prior immunity. I think you can think of it this way: if each person would otherwise spread the disease to two other people, but half of the population is immune, they're only going to be able to pass it on to one other person. In reality it's probably more complicated than that though.
What an incredible imbecilic position. Of course, it's not fair that doctors and nurses, and supply chain drivers, pharmacy workers etc... can't stay home.

But that is precisely why the ones who can, office workers, should stay home. For them! We are in this together.

This guy should absolutely resign, apparently when asked to do so here is his response (link 2)

> No. It is clear that if someone who is considered more competent than I am at dealing with this will come to accept that situation. But I think this is really fun. It sounds a bit strange, but it's a big challenge, a fantastic challenge with this kind of work.

Guy sounds like an absolute moron.
I've seen some pictures of people walking out with mountains of toilet paper as well, but I don't think that was the norm. It's not three guys making off with a truckload, it's a lot of people buying and extra package or two, enough for the next six weeks which will quickly deplete the aisles, since stores are operating without storage space (because storage is expensive, and stored goods are dead capital), so they have no reserves.

Also, from my personal experience, it's a distribution problem. There is enough toilet paper, but it's sold out at some stores while others have more than enough. Can't level that out though, because margins are thin and the companies would lose money.
the one where i put on my robe and wizard hat
This would have been a much more intelligent question for this NYT reporter to have asked, and it would be a much better indication of whether the guy is a scumbag or just naive.
Italians singing from their windows to boost morale during coronavirus lockdown
I/we don't really know - there is not much direct information available from doctors/medical personell, as this still feels like everyone is "just learning/reading up on this" and still gathering all the information. Also, local authorities struggle to keep everything in order, meaning they try to contact/call everyone who had contact, but the people on the phone do also not have much information for you. But they do their best, for sure!

We got those phone calls from the local authorities about the test results yesterday/Thursday, and they couldn't really tell us about any medical details or what will happen. Will get in touch (haha!) with our local doctor on Monday, maybe he has some more info on the test results themselves, or if they could still be in the incubation period, what the next steps will be, etc.

For now anybody infected or anybody who was in direct contact for more than 15 minutes with them is in isolation at home, as per official order by the local authorities.
Hashicorp tools are quite solid, and give you a lot for free. Ansible can automate host-level changes in places where hashicorp cannot reach. There shouldn't be many such places.

Alternatively, if you have the option of choosing the whole stack, Nix/NixOS and their deployment tools.

I would recommend staying away from large systems like k8s.
A great piece of software which, very important, runs native on ARM. That is, no cross compiling required to write and compile software for small ARM boards.
DU is less radioactive but is quite active as a chemical element and causes a lot of problems.
Cleaner? Prettier? That's a preference. Having the catch below allows you to see everything at once. Complexity can be encapsulation in readable functions/class method names, etc if your catch does too much.
If the question is speed then the answer is SVT-AV1. It already does well versus libvpx VP9 and x265 HEVC:

https://medium.com/@ewoutterhoeven/av1-is-ready-for-prime-ti...

rav1e has a ways to go to match it.
Powershell is not an alternative to VB6.

The strength of VB6 was a simple and straightforward syntax and a great integrated GUI builder and IDE.

Powershell has none of that. The Powershell syntax is baroque due to the (necessary) compromise between command line syntax and scripting language and there is no IDE/GUI-builder.

Sure, Powershell is much more powerful in many ways, but that was not the draw to VB6 in the first place.
Unirradiated and irradiated uranium are many orders of magnitude different in their radioactive dose rates.
> She's a celebrity speaker with a large upper-middle-class fan base, so as long as their interest doesn't go somewhere else she’ll probably do okay.

She's also very not-ok (3 suicide attempts, including 1 last week) after what she's been through. Being trans is traumatizing enough in itself, and I can't imagine what it was like for her in a military prison. If I were her, I would want an extended period of time away from the limelight.
Ask HN: Why don't we talk about climate change more on HN?
It's not so simple. What do you say to the family with seven kids who also has grandma and grandpa living at home? Do they get only one bottle of sanitizer the same as the college student? For some people, time is more valuable than money; for others, the opposite is true; and in even other cases, other structural issues will make fairness very difficult to achieve. Someone will lose out in all of these scenarios, and therefore it's quite difficult to evaluate which regime is preferable to the others in all cases.
Wouldn't SCTP suffer from the ossification of middle boxes?
Genève and many Swiss towns does this. Bus tickets are from a machine (sometimes in the bus, otherwise at the stop) or SMS or app. Most locals have an yearly pass.

Fare control is done by six or seven controllers getting on the bus at once. Check is very quick. In the night they will be joined by a security guard.

Boarding is very fast because of it. Also makes it easy to get in with a baby carriage or wheelchair (relatively).
If you already know and/or use Ruby, use Chef.

It is silly to ask "what should be used at FAANG scale", because either you are working at a FAANG and you are using what they use, or you are very unlikely to ever be at that scale -- and somewhere along the journey to getting there, you will either find or write the system that you need.
To me, these are what computing should be all about: blurring the distinction between user/programmer, but providing gradations of complexity, comprehensiveness, and control.

Lazarus aside, it seems FOSS isn't going to give us the kind of RAD tools that one might hope for -- thinks more like Hypercard and related. Such efforts require the kind of resources (long periods of time and good funding, to start) that loose networks of casual contributors are never going to be able to provide. And in today's world, where next-quarter reporting and shareholder primacy dominate enterprise decisions, it's even rare to get something truly immersive and new from commercial entities (Apple is the biggest corp in the world. Do they have something like their ATG group from the 90s? If so, what the hell are they working on?)

> Lisp, Smalltalk and Forth ruined me for life)

Same here, but there's a (partial) reason these aren't really viable in today's computing culture. The first is that they really are for whole computing systems that don't necessarily make a distinction between user and programmer. The culture we have today is the opposite of this: users are consumers, first and foremost. Computing systems are thus mechanisms that run isolated "applications" whose ability to be modified by regular people is severely limited compared to what we know (and have known for 4 decades) is possible.
It's a good point though I content that it depends on what you mean. I'd argue that there are measures which are enforcable and feasible on a small scale which may be far less so on a larger scale (ex: the USA) due as much to politics as anything else. I don't think there's any reason to same the same measures, were they applied likewise elsewhere, would not be as effective.
Not true. You can select CPU and/or GPU. You can even choose to use specific GPUs by index number. So it's quite flexible.
FDA grants Roche coronavirus test emergency green light within 24 hours
I would love to see a screenshot/gif on that readme.
docker-compose + custom stuff + reduce all dependency on tooling
Would be awesome if radiology finally gets disrupted. 50% of hospital bills can be attributed to the radiology department thus scalable innovation will result in a more affordable healthcare service all round.
And a set of environments along the lines of at least,
Dev, Test, preview, production.
These are not ordinary times. Seems that it takes quite a lot of time for a lot of people to grasp the severity of the situation.

My take is that in the near term (1-2 months), there will be a shortage of a lot of produce, especially food. I really hope I'm wrong.

I suggest you stock up everything for 2-4 weeks - it's something I've done. My plan is to go out buying every 2 weeks or so.
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SCTP support in routers, firewalls, ... is just too bad, IPv6 has nothing to do with that.
N=20, and I don't think it was double blind. I don't think this helps us.
If it was absolutely necessary you could even have the JIT remove the code and then de-optimize when you enable tracing[1]. That would solve the tight-loop issue..

[1]: https://community.oracle.com/blogs/forax/2011/12/17/jsr-292-...
Bickering isn’t needed, but there is no doubt that many objective indicators of service quality and system stress in the NHS point to a decline. Vacancies in posts alone is a substantial concern and is directly linked to govt policies in training in recent years (withdrawal of the nursing student bursary for example).

Denying the fact that the NH is under pressure isn’t helpful either... we need to be realistic about what to expect when we underfund our healthcare system.
The problem exists either way. Amazon vs third party website doesn’t give you any more or less assurances.
I've prototyped ansible for rolling out ssl certs to a handful of unfortunately rather heterogeneous Linux boxes - and it worked pretty well for that.

I still think there's too much setup to get started - but am somewhat convinced ansible does a better job than a bunch of bespoke shell would (partly because ansible comes with some "primitives"/concepts such as "make sure this version of this file is in this location on that server - which is quick to get wrong across heterogeneous distributions).

We're moving towards managed kubernetes (for applications currently largely deployed with Docker and docker-compose on individual vms).

I do think the "make an appliance;run an appliance;replace the appliance" life cycle makes a lot of sense - I'm not sure if k8s does yet.

I think we could be quite happy on a docker swarm style setup - but apparently everything but k8s is being killed or at least left for dead by various upstream.

And k8s might be expensive to run in the cloud (a vm pr pod?) - but it comes with abstractions we (everyone) needs.

Trying to offload to SaaS that which makes sense as SaaS - primarily managed db (we're trying out elephant sql) - and some file storage (100s of MB large Pdf files).

For bespoke servers we lean a bit on etckeeper in order to at least keep track of changes. If we were to invest in something beyond k8s (it's such a big hammer, that one become a bit reluctant to put it down once picked up..) I'd probably look at gnu guix.
On this note about old wives tales, I'm a woman. I've tried every medicine, multiple birth controls, diets, workout and stretch routines to help with period cramps and pain, and I get to try a method and then take what I think helps and adapt for a better test every month until I run out of eggs and here is the bottom line for me at 30 having optimised alot.

Yes drinking water, stretching/really being flexible and fit helps and at the very least needs to start a few days before...

Salmon avocado, iron like steak help with body recovery.

Epsom salt baths help with the cramps as a natural muscle relaxant so does ibuprofen...

It's actually ginger juice, that makes 90% of the pain go away. I bought a $99 breville juicer 8 years ago and lasted me as long. Just got a new one. Three days before I juice ginger with other things

Maybe apple, celery, lemon to help it go down.

Every time I go to the store to get it the cashier's comment they have never seen anyone buy so much ginger in their life, and if it's a woman I tell them my secret. I buy pounds of it and drink probably a quarter gallon the week before.

If you are a woman or have a loved one who suffers from severe period pain, this does amazing things.

That being said, have no idea about respiratory stuff.

An actual Coronavirus story:

I did hear the scientists looking into this said bodies are overreacting into respiratory failure, so maybe it is like many others illnesses potentially about suppressing an extreme over reactionaey autoimmune response.

Someone in my industry got it. 45yr old smoker had to be induced into a coma to avoid acute respiratory failure a couple of weeks ago, after being diagnosed with Coronavirus.

I think the public needs to stress more vulnerable smokers are regardless of age to Coronavirus. Smoking is much more common in China and Italy.
Microsoft started with BASIC, so this is pretty sad news. I made cash with VB and really liked the whole "buy some VBX/OCX components, hook the together, and ship app" economy. I cannot help but think that this is bad for other reasons.
Google caught off guard by Trump claim about Google website
I agree maybe on one point. Most of the logging messages are useless.

Part of this is the old adage "Half of my X is wasted effort but I don't know which half" but there is still a class of log messages which should not exist.

What I'm talking about is when I'm too lazy to think how to handle a condition. What I sometimes do is half assed effort to handle and, "obviously", log it. This gives the false feeling that the condition is handled.

In reality now I have two problems: a poorly handled condition and possibly log spam.

That said, logging in general is great. I found a tricky resource leak by investigating logging rate anomalies.
As for some context where these infections came from: There apparently was one "hot spot" in a famous Austrian ski resort, and there specifically in a famous local bar. The official rumor (in German: https://orf.at/#/stories/3157846/) is that the local barkeeper was infected, and infected many tourists that visited this bar, Austrians as well as tourists from abroad, especially Scandinavia.

Male (56) was in this ski resort for a week as well, though not in this particular bar as far as I know.

So it really seems that these measures to keep people at home and close up all "gathering spots" is the right way to tackle this!
Interesting read, I suspected it was like this but I didn’t know for sure
Isn’t that offset by the cost of your travel being reduced?
The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
Mainly because it borders on politics. Political articles will get flagged and removed.
I've got an idea for a way to reduce R0 with some voluntary people tracking. I could do with some other developers to plan it.

If anyone's interested, please drop me an email: rls at hwyl.org
The man leading the richest and most powerful country on earth is a unilateralist and a physical embodiment of the Peter Principle. He’s doing an awful job and not reaching out globally to solve a global problem. How is this derangement syndrome? If anything it seems your inability to see criticism of him beyond shallow catch phrases exhibits a form of “derangement syndrome”
It’s Pi Day: Here’s How the Irrational Number Made Us Modern
Trump Inc gave up on CDC testing week and unleashed the more competent private sector. The first CDC portable test kit was defective making them [re]test at their central lab.
Maybe tenageers changed old standard drugs by digital adictions...
Out of curiosity, are Macs and AMD GPUs not powerful enough for this sort of thing?
Some days ago I was looking to make a lat pulldown DIY setup for home use, I had hard time finding suitable pulley for the purpose. Most cables and pulley I found got abraded fast.
I don’t really care to debate strawman arguments- I never blamed him for lack of masks, so we can summarily move past that. Acknowledging that he is the cause of many actual issues is not fantasy. In reality, the United States has the worst testing capacity and infrastructure of any developed nation - this fact has to be specifically trumps fault. Obama was not caught unprepared during H1N1, and it’s impossible to imagine that the CDC is the most powerless among every major nation to secure critical supplies.

Yes, I believe most of the issues at cdc are due to trump - so far he has fired the experts who can best work with the CDC to implement policies needed, and has censored and classified their attempts to spread critical information. He rolled back Obama’s executive directives regarding pandemic response simply to spite democrats, and now is rushing to reimplement those same directives, with much less effectiveness. It’s literally a government agency under his sole control - by definition the failures of the cdc are his failures. That’s how accountability works.

I know that he specifically said that it’s not his fault and that he doesn’t stand for anything, regardless it’s still his fault. This crisis is the most current proof that he is utterly incapable of being an effective leader.
Estimating Covid-19 fatality ratios using data from the Diamond Princess ship
The issue I've had with cross platform VB-like languages is they all ended up just compiling to C, which meant losing all the great IDE-integrated debugging.
I'm surprised we haven't seen anything detailing the supply chain involving O2. This is as important than the actual machine.