skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well one thing to consider is that in addition to whether or not working at home works for you, there is also the question of whether your working at home works for everybody else. How does one or more people working from home affect the other people on the team? How does one or more people working from home affect the productivity, culture, communication, and collaboration of the team? The answers to those questions could be in a negative, positive or neutral way for any particular person/team. Some of my colleagues are quite frustrating when they work from home due to their own personal communication style, whereas they may personally find it very rewarding.
That phrase is the epitome of the United Kingdom these days
One more reason to love gin and tonic! I had a feeling this old-time, classic drink crafted by the British to make malaria prophylaxis quinine more palatable and fun in colonial times, in India I believe, was a winner. From the bark of "cinchona" trees in Peru, quinine derivatives, are now showing some promise to treat SARS Cov-2. This is quite amazing.
Dr Nicola Guess, Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London, responding to that study:

> Firstly, it’s important to bear in mind there are important differences between rodents and humans – particularly with regard to diet. For example, a high fat diet causes insulin resistance in rats but it does not appear to in humans.

> The exact method is unclear from the abstract, but if the rats were fasted for one day, this is equivalent to an approximately 3 to 4 week fast in humans! So it’s not applicable to the 24-hour or 48-hour fasts practised by humans on common fasting diets.

(Note: the study made rats fast for 3 days)

Doesn't seem like the study I'd stop at when evaluating the benefits of intermittent fasting. For example, what about the promising ones that study actual humans and only see all markers improve?

I'd certainly stop going around spouting "fasting is bad" if this rat study is all you've got. Reminds me of that political cartoon of a soccer mom digging through a massive stack of studies, finally finding one that says vaccines might be bad, and going "Hah! Knew it!"
- In google maps the default colours blend in to each other, especially things like tracks that you are likely to try to look at in the outdoors in sunlight. Rediculous!

- Any time you break the visual/categorical heirarchy of a list of options. For instance, related items appearing in different categories due to a technical similarity to other features that are not known to the user. What?

- Animated slideouts that are too resource intensive/slow or that dont work at the desired zoom level. Come on!

- Uninformative lockups/freezouts when something is loading. It should tell you what is happening. Huh?

- Opaque screens that say things like "Updating..." with no way to know if things have stalled or any way to see whats really going on. Grrr.

- Frequently used option should be available in one click/tap, often times these arent able to be mapped to another option and are buried in contextual menus! Nooo!
I wonder if you'd be so absolute if this meant your job ceasing to exist.
I develop Kaldi Active Grammar [1], which is mainly intended for use with strict command grammars. Compared to normal language models, these can provide much better accuracy, assuming you can describe (and speak) your command structure exactly. (This is probably more acceptable for a voice assistant for an audience that is more technical.) The grammar can be specified by a FST, or you can use KaldiAG through Dragonfly, which allows you to specify them (and their resultant actions) in Python. However, KaldiAG can also do simple plain dictation if you want.

KaldiAG has an English model available, but other models could be trained. Although you can't just drop in and use a standard Kaldi model with KaldiAG, the modifications required are fairly minimal and don't require any training or modification of its acoustic model. All recognition is performed locally and off line by default, but you can also selectively choose to do some recognition in the cloud, too.

Kaldi generally performs at the state of art. As a hybrid engine, although training can be more complicated, it generally requires far less training data to achieve high accuracy, compared to "end to end" engines.

[1] https://github.com/daanzu/kaldi-active-grammar
Why even have experts in epidemiology if everything is so simple? Just a few rows in excel! Done!
Do you miss SF though?
I'd say we are late and in the 100s of thousands of cases that are untested.

Edit: others seem to feel the same. See epistatis' comment
Show HN: Go on those solo jaunts, record it, and share it with others
Hi All,

I was part of SUS W20, and 8 weeks back had an itinerary optimization product that evolved into this travel social app where users hit a record button in the app, drop the phone in their pocket and go on their trip while the app detects your visits to attractions, adds it to the itinerary. Once done you can add those unique insider tidbits to your unique itinerary and share it as a guide to others to recreate your experience.

Ghumo: https://ghumo.app

If you're an iOS user then we have a TestFlight Beta version here --> https://testflight.apple.com/join/nqJcQ8hm

When I used to be a consultant, I traveled to different cities on a multi-week stay and loved taking jaunts during the weekends. Before I did that, I used to ask my clients(locals) about the places to see(other than my own Google research) and go experience that. I started sending out emails to my colleagues about the places to see when they used to visit those cities. While Trip Advisor and Google search results gave me the info needed but I had to put together those into an itinerary in order to consume it. I always felt the need for a single source of info not just before the trip but also during where I could look up my itinerary. While other travel social do have something that is close to this, the user experience of the creator seemed a little old school adding stops manually. Why can't my app detect that I have entered the Natural History Museum and then invite me in, send me relevant info and then maybe even act as a guide answering my questions? These questions led me to develop Ghumo, which at this moment can be used to record your jaunts, add notes to your stops and share. I'm working on the conversational agent part where relevant info and answers can be sent to the user with minimal user input.

Also, in the pipeline is an Android version. If you're an Android user then please do sign up --> https://ghumo.app

Thanks and Cheers!
I came here two weeks ago to downvotes and nonmedical people telling me how I was inciting a panic. Welcome to the show, folks. A lot of my colleagues are going to die soon and I'm beyond sad because of it.
elective surgeries are cancelled.

he said his expected surgery is urgent.

you inserted the word emergency.

it's hard to follow an argument that proceeds this way.
I initially had said simply "STAY HOME", but it's just not possible/advised for people in situations such as the ones you mention.

But your point is right. "If possible" means "unless it's absolutely essential for your survival or the survival of others".
I have wondered what became of this and Prof. Rider. Not many papers or reviews on DRACO are in literature, as to the state of the mechanism, dont know much of virology and the nuances of how DRACO could or coudlnt be applied but good to see i am not the only one who remembers this. Rider has an institute though.
A vast majority of deforestation for crop land occurs to feed the meat that we eat. How about this sweet car is only available to level 2 vegetarians and above?
I'm actually working toward a sort of "orthodox"-Jainism in which you only eat substances that plants are actively trying to give to other animals to help them propagate themselves (so eating fruits/bellpeppers, etc. are all ok, but killing a plant to consume it is not).

Anyway I understand that talking about animals and plants in this fashion is not a popular position on HN, and folks have and are likely to downvote me.
Yes, it's a risk vs. benefit calculation where the risk is very very high. And not only risk to yourself but risk to others...
Lockdown is not a long term solution though. This virus isn't going to disappear anytime soon. It might be good for countries that are getting out of control, but for places where it isn't a problem yet it just delays when it his.

Places without a problem yet should take reasonable sustainable precautions to flatten the curve instead. (https://www.flattenthecurve.com/)
Exactly my situation. I am used to working from home and earlier I did only when I had independent work to focus on and not many meetings scheduled on that day. Now it does not work as it seems (it has always been) the other side is not prepared. I know for some people documentation (even simple MOM or writing description in the story ) is an overhead for them. Even some architect level folk love to just talk for an hour in random topics in meetings without any conclusive decision jotted down in notes for future reference. Later after implementation there is always confusion what had we decided to be the behaviour like. Junior engineers do not respond to email or public chat as they think something as to be serious and escalated to do so else just ignore. Overall it seems my family has ben more supporting and confortable than the team while working from home. I don't have dogs and my kinds are happy to be engaged with their grand parents as schools are closed (One of the advantage of traditional Indian famly)
A few other similarly annoying phrases:

- "In light of recent events"

- "Due to unforeseen circumstances"

- "It has become necessary"

Am I missing any?
Oh they’re doing that. You can use AliPay, an omnipresent payments app to get a QR code based on your movements over the past days as tracked by your mobile. If it’s green you’re safe, yellow or red I think you need to be quarantined or at least monitored.
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for this company if we ever cross paths, from my high horse.
I'm really at a loss on this subject because I'm trying to find out answers to two questions that don't have much coverage so far (understandable):

1. The people who "recovered" from this so far, do their CT scans or other tests show alterations to their organs? I've read that survivors of SARS have had permanent damage that later led to issues like cystic fibrosis, and others.

2. Has anyone really become immune to this thing yet? The "UK experiment" is going to be an absolute shitshow if they are walking into this without knowing that it's possible to be immune from it.
Actually it's easy because every major airport and maintenance facility has a location where you can taxi your plane, put the wheels on three or more sensors, and it will tell you the total weight and weight per wheel.

https://gecscales.com/aircraft-weighing-systems/

Source: commercially-licensed pilot.
No it isn't. The hope is that at some point a vaccine or lighter treatment becomes available. If that occurs before the end of the flat curve, that's a major change in outcome.
It's certainly effective propoganda to calm the Populus, from the government to the population and the population to itself. Hopefully leaders are sorting out more drastic measures in the meantime.
A lot of folks seem to be confusing the confinement period of two weeks for something else.

My mother asked me today, okay, so I’m stuck in the house for two weeks, and then I go out to the mall and get infected then, don’t I?

I had to explain two weeks was just to make sure she didn’t have it yet. she had no clue that two weeks wasn’t the return to normalcy.
Humans don’t understand exponential growth. But they could look at China and Italy and think - those guys are the same as us. We are not special. The same thing that is happening to them is going to happen unless we act now.

The real sad part of all this is that this is simply human nature. And we are next gonna go down the same path with climate change. And then not even lock downs will help.
People's jobs are going to cease to exist on account of this whether they want it or not. What anyone wants or feels has nothing to do with it. This is what is going to happen, period.
Medical Draft in Standby Mode
Holy gods yes! Please let me use a real programming language instead of an unholy mixture of yaml and jinja. Clojure would be such a dream!
I feel similar. I worked best wfh 1 day a week, whenever I had a sizeable chunk of work that required concentration time, as my open office is impossible for that. I run to work otherwise, so my commute was also my gym time, so I feel like I've lost a lot in moving to complete remote during the pandemic.

I also felt comfortable turning off Slack notifications for a few hours to focus, and so on. Now, we(my manager for the team)'ve established a rule that we have to prioritize responding to pings (leaving Slack on all the time) so I feel like I've lost that quiet concentration time. I'm thoroughly not enjoying WFH for days at a time, but I appreciate that my company is letting me wfh to stay healthy. I also appreciate that I got this data point, so I can seriously think about this if I ever want a remote job.
Mme. Grégoire Trudeau seems to have contracted the novel coronavirus in the UK, so your datapoint doesn't really suggest anything about the situation in Canada.
They sent a company-wide email looking for volunteers to help build the site. 1,700 engineers responded. This obviously doesn't mean that 1,700 people are going to work on the site.
I didn't read the paper, just the slides. The study, which looked at enterprise drives, found them to be quite reliable:

§ The average ARR across the entire population is 0.22%, but rates vary widely (0.07 - 1.2%)!

ARR: annual replacement rate.

My anecdotal experience with SSD drives is that they are quite prone to catastrophic failures. But that is for consumer quality, not enterprise.
Food, talent, energy - yes

Traffic, expensive everything, too much focus on work - no
> people will keep working

> less people working

Something here doesn't make sense to me.
>for his work in infectious disease control
Does anyone have any good risk models / do any administrators for say schools, or anyplace that isn't medical really have any information that would provide them accurate risk models?

I think it is more, they just don't know / there isn't good data for them.
I think it's the social aspect of it. There are people who feel lonely at home and really need some people around them most of the time. I enjoy wfh usually. It just takes overall less energy since no commute, can take a nap if I'm tired and catch up to it later if I'm really tired or take a quick cold shower in the middle of the day, step outside to a nice coffeeshop for an afternoon tea. I'm an engineer, so I usually enjoy the actual quiet in my room when I'm working. For some, having people around them is more important than the freedom, flexibility and relaxation they can get at home. Too bad :)
You learn that elementary life lesson doing literally anything in life.
Definitely insane, here's why:

In order to get to herd immunity, you need something around 60% of the population to get infected and thus immunized [0] (there's a big assumption here already, that immunity lasts forever, might well be wrong). The UK's population is 66 million people, so that's about 40 million who need to get sick.

Let's assume 2% of cases require intensive care (it's closer to 10% in Italy right now [1], but we can assume for the sake of this calculation that the UK has the superpower to isolate people over 65 or so perfectly). That's 800000 people who will require intensive care!

There are about 4000 ICU beds in the UK [2]. Let's assume, again highly optimistally, that only 50% are occupied, so 2000 are available for Covid19-patients. Covid19 patients may need to spend 7 days in the ICU [1], which means there can be up to 286 new Covid19 patients starting intensive care each day.

You can see where this is going. At that rate, it would take 2797 days to reach herd immunity. It's utterly nonsensical. We will hopefully have a vaccine way, way before that. What this "herd immunity" strategy is actually going to do is lead to a total break-down of the hospital system in the UK, if the government doesn't change course real soon now.

[0] This is 1-(1/R_0), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity and unmitigated R_0 is around 3 for SARS-CoV-2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/03/icu-do...
That level of detail is definitely enough to unmask an individual but if you wanted to protect the infected person's privacy (while massively violating others' in order to join the data sets), it seems like it would be possible to notify an individual that they were exposed, and not leak the infected person's personal details.
Whoa. One of the true weird experiences of my life way see GPO play a little, super rough punk bar in Tempe, AZ about... geez... maybe 9 years ago. S/he played topless.
One of my neighbors is a Trump supporter. He just shared a photo on Facebook of Pelosi that had the caption "This is the real virus".

He's a nice guy, too...
Also: In web apps for thing like email much of the precious screen real estate is taken up with margins and titles (for aesthetic reasons?) and there is usually no way to change to single line mode, necessitating scrolling.
What is funny is that is not at all my experience right now. The only people I see using the phrase “out of an abundance of caution” are the ones who are massively under reacting, but want to be seen doing something. For instance my gym just sent out an email telling people to make sure they wash their hands when they come to the gym. That email was described as being sent out of “an abundance of caution”.
You might be able to use
.NET Core which is opensource and can run on Linux/Mac.
This is because most people are unable to suppress their reflexive response to being asked what's half of 20, not because people don't understand exponentiation.
Along the lines of assuming people can think for themselves, the person who originally commented clearly knew that there was a possibility that their surgery would be cancelled. They expressed as much in their comment. What did your blunt speculation add? You know less about the situation than the person you were replying to, and on the basis of that ignorance jumped to an unfounded conclusion.

I would have written what you said this way: "you should reach out to your doctor. In my neighborhood a lot of surgeries have been getting cancelled." It is not one whit less truthful or honest than your comment, but it is more sensitive, at least to my ear.

Your approach to this thread calls to mind an imaginary surgeon who leaves the OR and tells the family, "sorry, he's dead." Nothing wrong with that bedside manner, is there? No need to treat them like toddlers.

I'm finished with this. I've said my piece and you disagree. Ah, well.
It’s far from clear how accurate those numbers for Italy and China are. China essentially gave up on testing the general population in Wuhan and their numbers mostly represent the most serious cases. Italy’s infections seem to be mostly centered around the elderly with 40% of infections in the 70+ age range despite 65+ year olds only representing 21.53% of their population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_I...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy
Fair enough. It's mainly that 10-15 minutes is the minimum amount of time that gets counted.
Is the spaced repetition algo same as Anki's?
Imo (and free advice is best left unheeded): Better that you miss out on this opportunity and get to keep your IP and try again than risk you and your employees contracting a severe respritory illness.

People will understand disruptions due to Covid. It's not business as normal. Google told the entire north american staff to stay home. Be glad that you can still all be relatively productive while remote, and enjoy your runway while you don't have to pay for the lights in your offices.
Surely the hand sanitizer shelf was empty too?
it's a shame the author doesn't seem to be interested in opening up their source code:

http://www.websdr.org/faq.html

edit: previous HN discussion regarding PA3FWM's closed source stance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18571139
The folks I eat lunch with are doing a daily zoom meeting at our lunchtime, to help with the isolation.
The second project is already part of flight radar 24.

One I tried to do a while back but didn’t have enough DSP chops for was a SSB tuning correction plug-in. If you mistune SSB (LSB/USB), the voices will be off and have a robotic chipmunk sound to them.

You can find the correct tuning by looking at the frequency relationship of the fundamental and first two or three harmonics in the voice. But it’s pretty tricky because teaching that while someone is talking is a handful. Limited interested audience for that one though.

A mobile TEMPEST attack app would make some waves. A mobile DECT scanner would also be interesting but a bunch of work.
Yes but that’s the point, the news coverage should help to focus on the important details that were wrong, like will this service ever be available and when. Misusing Google in place of Alphabet is not even worth correcting someone on in a casual conversation, much less focusing articles on during a crisis.
The solution I think would be to somehow get people to lead who have no desire to do so. Politics attracts sociopaths and psychopaths due to the power involved. Competent and compassionate people have no time and patience for the power jockeying while sociopaths live for it. Thus you end up with a government by sociopaths for themselves. But how to make politics unappealing to sociopaths? Beats me.
“He’s hesitant, however, to ramp up production at the facility outside Fort Worth, scarred by the boom-bust mess that occurred after the swine flu pandemic in 2009.”

“ But after the pandemic, demand declined, and it took months for hospitals and distributors to go through the surplus of masks they had ordered but never used. Prestige Ameritech had to let most of its new workers go. ‘Everybody said they’d stay with us. The day after the pandemic they forgot who we were. We nearly went out of business‘“

“A lack of planning on their part is not an emergency on my part,” Bowen said. “They had their chance. I told them over and over.”

That article contains a great background on the lack of long-term preparation.
Yogurt contains probiotics so I'm assuming that is the niche he is talking about, i.e, fermented foods. Also I think a lot of the world does eat yogurt. It is very common in US, Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia. I'm not sure about Africa and South America. Apparently, more than 50% of the US population does (or at least yogurt and smoothies, which I'm assuming they meant yogurt based smoothies but who knows) https://www.statista.com/statistics/279748/us-households-con...
One point neglected in discussions is the effect of spreading it to other territories that are not adopting a similar strategy. The majority of cases in the English-speaking Caribbean to date have been from persons who traveled to the UK recently.
I like that it is deterministic, and I was going to ask what if a single password was compromised, but it looks like there is a "counter" field for each site that overcomes this. Nicely done.
Well, I guess that makes it alright then.

I don’t think you understand the significance of welding the doors shut... it means if they catch you outside you can’t claim you did it on accident. So, wink wink, they’ll cure you of the virus permanently after that.

Again, you’re not ready for Chinese-style “decisive actions.”
Love this. I would want to know whether this will be continued to be maintained by streak tho. And what happens if they don't or change their mind.