skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wouldn't even have to ban Minecraft, they can just DNS ban visit.uncensoredlibrary.com. I really don't understand the hype of this whole thing.
How about a project to understand who is NOT getting Covid-19? There are almost certainly healthcare workers in heavily infected areas who "should have gotten it but haven't". Understanding this could rapidly lead to:

- screens to identify who's vulnerable and who's not

- therapeutic strategies (probably not ready for this round, but for future rounds)

edit: removed errant footnote reference
Partially agree with you.

Universal health coverage in this situation is meant to treat everybody in equality for same problem and I would say it doesn't matter who pays for it as long as everybody will get treated in a similar way.

Agree on European governments did not the right thing, but again, not sure if that has something to do with universal health.
100% agree with what you are saying. I really meant more so that I don't want to encourage hoarding or panic buying to the level where other people can't get what they need. You should be worried, you should be preparing in anyway you can (2 weeks+ food, isolate yourself as much as possible, discourage gatherings of any size).
It's unfortunately fake news, if you read the Reuters report they cite as evidence there is no mention of exclusivity just funding. In fact the exact opposite is said.

> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
It will be blocked in China if enough people access it. Would probably take some guy 2 minutes to add the IP address to their blacklist.
> "Or, multiply it by less if you want to take into account various amounts of social distancing we're all doing. I'll cut that number above down by a huge amount – 90% – on the assumption that we all learn to stay home and self-isolate immediately, just to be super aggressive on my assumptions about how humanity will rise to the occasion"

Dropping 90% is not a great way to calculate this. Look at the math for 61 days out (from March 8): https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg?t=465

I don't think our social distancing and hand washing will be near enough to prevent millions of deaths, but it's important to recognize that a small change in the growth rate does make a huge difference.

Estimating how much we can affect the growth rate is hard, but I think models should be based on a iffy guess on that value rather than an iffy guess on the resulting count. (Expert models certainly are.)
I buy pants from Costco but they always wear out after 2 years with big holes in the seat. Where do you even buy something that lasts 10 years?
Please file bugs for any message that is confusing! We track them like any other bug, and there’s some folks actively working on them.
That's not in all areas. The closest library to the town I grew up in charged fees for a card (required for both checking out books & computer access), as an example.

Further, there are fees almost everywhere else, too: overdue fees. Unsurprisingly, when you get rid of overdue fees, participation rises:

Since the fine-free policies went into effect, the library has seen an increase of 29,094 patrons year over year. In addition, 3,900 of the 6,500 patrons who were prevented from borrowing items due to overdue fines have returned to use library resources.

https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2019/07/24/kitsap-regio...

The changes were enacted after a city study revealed that nearly half of the library's patrons whose accounts were blocked as a result of late fees lived in two of the city's poorest neighborhoods. "I never realized it impacted them to that extent," said Misty Jones, the city's library director.

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/30/781374759/we-wanted-our-patro...

It's not controversial that overdue fees are a tax on the poor:

https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib/removingbarrierstoaccess

Even the ALA agrees that libraries are discriminating against the poor with them:

http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/con...
This is unfortunately fake news, if you read the Reuters report they cite as evidence there is no mention of exclusivity just funding. In fact the exact opposite is said.

> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
Why silver specifically as a cure? Do these people specify any reason at all why this would kill virus in particular or have they just picked the next element at random from the periodic table to use in their scams?
Skłodowska is her maiden name, not her middle name (which was Salomea).
You should know this is fake news, if you read the Reuters report they cite as evidence there is no mention of exclusivity just funding. In fact the exact opposite is said.

> The U.S. government has spoken with many (more than 25) companies that claim they can help with a vaccine. Most of these companies already received seed funding from U.S. investors... any solution found would be shared with the world

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
While we should absolutely be throwing resources at capable scientists now, attempting to purchase exclusivity rather than maximizing availability by freely distributing validated knowledge as widely as possible is precisely the wrong approach. If this story is true, it suggests that the administration's response to an acute human crisis is to consolidate power at any cost. Whether such a policy is driven by fear or avarice is secondary to the fact of its aggressively zero-sum nature.
I don't think stopping the spread is unreasonable or incredibly difficult. It's being done in HK, Singapore, and Taiwan now. First you lock down to get cases to roughly single digits, then people come out, but it's different.

The trick is you need to get R0<1, so that when a new case pops up, it dies out instead of blowing up. You do that with mask wearing, hygiene, aggressive contact tracing, broad scale testing, and strict isolation. You keep people alive that get the virus by having good medical care.

The aggressive contact tracing, isolation, and good medical care don't scale. If you have only dozens of cases, you can afford to aggressively isolate and put a lot of manpower into tracing every case. You give the virus no breathing room. If there aren't too many people needing medical care, you can also provide them much better care.

This is why you need the lockdown -- to get R0<<1, to bring down the case count dramatically so that these other measures can work.

We could have just started with Phase 2 outside of China, but we didn't spin up all of the things that you need for Phase 2 in time. The countries that are doing the best had previous SARS experience, which was successfully eradicated with these measures, so they knew what to do right away and were institutionally prepared to act quickly.
You can change the mouse pointer in KDE.
*Maria Skłodowska-Curie.

Also the link is inaccessible in Germany.
Helpful interview
It's stateless in the sense that it isn't persisted to storage and isn't an issue if lost.
Money Through Innovation Reconsidered (1996) [pdf]
Boston Dynamics and the Coronavirus
A bot is immune to viruses. The movie "Surrogates", while imperfect and insisting on true anthropomorphic robots, depicts a world that would be immune to viruses. More importantly, a world where any manual work could continue even during pandemics.

In my company, we are developing a new energy storage system. This involves building and testing prototypes made of metal parts. Without access to a lab, we can't continue our work, and this will go on for months until the epidemic finally subsides.

However, our runway won't suddenly "pause" because of the Coronavirus. Researcher wages, or severance pays, must be paid, even during that time, and there is only so much you can do remotely before being considerably slowed down in achieving your milestones that would have helped you extend your runway.

But if we had remote controlled bots with precise hands that could move around and were in the lab, all of those problems would go away.

So I wonder, why don't we hear more about the huge investments, or grants, that companies like Boston Dynamics could receive in those troubled times? It seems no one is seriously talking about it. And I'm not talking about wheeled robots that do limited tasks in hospitals during the current epidemic: I'm talking about investing in companies that will keep working for years on developing robots that could actually enable 100% remote work for 99% of companies working with any type of manual work.

Our company might be in trouble now because of this forced halt in R&D due to the coronavirus; but fast forward 5 years, maybe this will never happen anymore, thanks to true tele-presence bots with hands that climb stairs.

Obviously, this poses its own host of problems with Skynet and all, but I wanted to get your community reaction on this.
Private gun ownership does much more to reduce looting than contribute to it. This has been seen time and time again in America.

But anyhow, food supplies aren't drying up, and there is plenty of workforce available with other businesses slowing down.
Indeed, obviously China has not stemmed covid. We'll see it come back bigger & more widespread with finger pointing to foreigners.
Population density by zip code: http://zipatlas.com/us/zip-code-comparison/population-densit...
You can use tf-idf [1] to achieve step 2 and that extra fancy part of excluding commmon articles and prepositions: count the frequency of words in the article, but divide it by the sum of frequencies from past articles.

Text summarization works as a good toy problem, because it leads to two harder problems: 1. text extraction (how to distinguish content from non-content like ads) 2. q&a (given text and a question about the text, how can you produce an answer).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
That this keeps coming up on HN is fascinating.

I'm just imagining some programmer in a future interview talking about their familiarity with async functions in Javascript. The interviewer glances down at an app named "Mirror Test Pro" that cross-referenced that claim against an old HN post revealing ignorance about the upshot of social distancing. It consequently overlays a red "X" on the programmer's avatar. "Thanks, we'll be in touch," the interviewer says as the programmer is shuttled out the door.

And I'm imagining many such programmers becoming frustrated when a breach of MTP data reveals why they kept getting rejected in interviews. They would band together and write a powerful DDOS tool to exact vengeance upon the world that humiliated them. Lucky for the world, their sudden, synchronous silence gives enough advanced warning to thwart the attacks while their CPUs helplessly whir on one giant blocking call.
Mozilla pays the Heroku bill for crates.io, and Amazon comes the s3 bucket.

Rust has the compile and link step. People adopted Cargo because it is nice to use.
20-30% drop in lung capacity that "might improve over time" is hardly comparable to HIV or Ebola.
FWIW, JS does have namespaces: directories.

There's no big semantical difference between

var Hello = require("someorg/hey");

and in eg C#:

using Hello = SomeOrg.Hey;

The only difference is that in JS you're forced you choose a name for the variable, whereas in C# (and many other languages) you typically just give it the default name (`using SomeOrg.Hey;`).

In short, the node_modules package resolution algorithm is how JS does namespaces. It's the same thing, just with different syntax (and, IMO, a bit more weirdness). The fundamental thing isn't "no namespaces" but "namespaces are package-relative". I wonder whether they got that right through sheer genius, or by accident.

(I recognize that I'm being super pedantic here btw, hope that's OK)

Note that I agree with the rest of your comment, NPM is splendid and it's impressive how much they got right at the first go, especially given how NodeJS was on a hype train at the time (many things on hype trains only get tooling like this right after the first so many tries).
You boss being generous does not have to mean him being lax.

Laxity and lack of seriousness are bad for the company. All bad bosses I had were like that.
The most epic bug I've seen investigated at Google was a CPU bug in the CPUs that Intel made specifically for Google at the time. Only some chips had the bug. And only some cores on those chips had it, and to make matters worse it'd only manifest non-deterministically. I don't recall the full details, nor would I share them even if I did, but what struck me is that this mindset ("at Google one-in-a-million events happen all the time") and software engineering mindset that goes with it (checksumming all over the place, overbuilding for fault tolerance and data integrity) was basically the only reason why this bug was identified and fixed. In a company with lesser quality of engineering staff it would linger forever, silently corrupting customer data, and the company would be totally powerless to do anything about it. In fact they probably wouldn't even notice it until it's far too late. At Google, not only they noticed it right away, they also were able to track it all the way down to hardware (something that software engineers typically consider infallible) in a fairly short amount of time.
Sys5 killall: Bane of all regular linux administrators that also sometimes administered solaris boxes.

Once after blowing up an in production database server during the day, I suffered the unfortunate difficulty of having to explain why running a command "killall" on a critical server that killed everything was an innocent mistake and that I didn't have any reason to expect it to kill everything.

It's extremely difficult to not sound like a moron when explaining that you didn't expect "killall" to "kill all".
Let's assume that untreated severe means death. Let's take the lower value 13.8%.

Now let's factor in that in a developed country there are some 0,5% hospital beds total capacity. Let's say that Covid-19 can have at disposal half of those beds.

If you do not do all you can to flatten the curve, you are probably looking at a 10% death rate over infected population, if not more.

That's over 6 million people in the UK.

IMHO, you have to do something to buy more time, although it is yet to be seen if lockdowns will be effective enough as this guy seems to be too strong.
The virus is temporary but the knowledge of what a fear of pandemic does to the market is forever. It needs to be priced into all future businesses and real estate exposed to risk of people in quarantine. The price will be a hedge on those types of investments in the form of increased interest rates on leveraged investments in those sectors. Wealth was marked higher than reality due to unknown risk. It needs to be rebalanced. We won’t go past the previous peak until we recover all previous economic activity + new activity to cover increased costs of pandemic exposed businesses.
Stopping the spread isn't the goal, though, it's flattening the curve, so that there's ICU space for critical patients and health services aren't overwhelmed (all the other stuff that needs ICU).
This was brought up last time, it most likely doesn't work for China https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569524.
>one thing I love about npm, it defaults to all tools and dependencies being versioned and local. No list of tools and system libs I need to install.

That is not unique to npm. Java/Maven, Ruby/Bundler, Go/Vendor also work like this and I believe that several other languages might work like this.

Comparing npm with C/C++ build/package tools is setting a very low bar
At my employer the issue is the opposite. They don't value security so they disable all firewalls, encryption, 2FA and everything else in favor of ease-of-use. My concern isn't that people will have a hard time working from home, my concern is that whatever malware they have at home is now also roaming the company network.
Ford claimed his motivation wasn't supply and demand for labour, but a wish that his workers should have been able to buy his product.

Worstall says two things:

- Ford's claimed motivation makes no sense;

- there is a plausible motivation which does add up to supply and demand for labour.

I claim Worstall is wrong about the former.

I make no claim about what Ford's motivation actually was.
I very much disagree. The mistakes that were previously made (both broadly socially and specific instances, such as closing the pandemic response team and the delay in testing) were all incredibly foreseeable. I find it the height of dishonesty to say "Gosh, we had no idea what would have happened, we just have to focus on the present". Now, I don't think you're saying that, and you're right that the current situation is where we are and we should focus on what we can actually do. In the "never let a good crisis go to waste" vein, though, one thing we can actually do is make people realize that the health and well-being of your neighbors is inextricably linked to your own.
Darn Tough socks are good, too.
> There are almost certainly healthcare workers in heavily infected areas who "should have gotten it but haven't"[0]

It looks like the link is missing. Does anyone have it?
The Crown Estates would be public land, and without the royal family we could open several large buildings as museums — and charge entry to tourists if we want to profit.

We'd also be free of some racists, a sex abuser, and a meddling old man, who claim to represent the people of a democracy but have never stood for election.
You're peddling propaganda.
In American English, when people retain their birth surnames in the middle of their name after marriage, they become "middle names" just like a second given name. Often USAns don't know that this custom is not universal, leading to dreadful faux pas when they assume things like that Hugo Chávez Frías's surname was "Frías".
There are countries, like most in the EU, or Canada, or NZ, or JP or South Korea who have their own self-interest but still contribute to the greater cause and global concerns. And there are countries like China and in recent years the US which only care for their own interests. Look just at trade and investment terms - the ones I listed first are very open, the latter totally set rules that prefer own players. The same in any geopolitical concern.
“We've been overwhelmed with the support we're getting from new Donors.”
Forbes died the moment Forbes himself died. This was in 1954. Forbes, the magazine, has been going down hill since then, and most of us have only been alive for around half that time.
Covid-19 Hits Ethereum Community Conference, Six People Test Positive
Counterpoint, as a millennial, I learned all those things (albeit not WordPerfect) and more in high school.
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Why start today? There were 5 cases confirmed in the US as of Jan 25, 50 days ago, at least some of which appeared to be community transmission. Applying this math for the US as a whole with the 10x initial factor gives 5 * 10 * 2^(50/3) ~= 5.2 million cases TODAY. If we don’t believe that number (or do we? Hell, I have no idea at this point), why do we believe the same math with today as initial conditions?
I mean today, literally, he could call Nancy Pelosi, who most certainly knows who he is and would call him back, and scream at her for the insane lack of direct federal action to help regular workers affected financially by this crisis in the bill they just passed.

If enough people like him did that to our world leaders you can be damm sure it would make a difference.
Didn’t she replace her middle name with her maiden name?
thats fair - i do consider myself a synthetic user too, so that jives with your research
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I very much doubt the government, especially the present government, is going to have very much tolerance for widespread looting.

Martial law would be declared, the National Guard would be called out, curfews would be instituted, rationing would be enforced.

The little pea shooters a few survivalists have stocked up on are going to do them precious little good against the might of the US military, which would have little compunction against shooting a looter during a crisis of this magnitude.
If the choice is no FDA approved ventilator vs one that is not approved I think the second option is the better one. Emergencies will change the landscape rapidly to the point where such luxuries as FDA approval will no longer matter as much as they did before.
I embedded Lua both ways (.a vs .dll). Not sure now, but I think that it is then ~thing in itself and require()-ing external dlls will mess with your runtime badly, but again it was some time ago and maybe there was a way to export .exe api to 3rd-party dlls instead of lua5x.dll found somewhere in path.

Anyway, a single executable makes it hard to argue, and in this case I agree with you and ggp.
awesome channel!
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It's the kind of attitude you kinda have to have at that scale, otherwise it's very hard to balance your time between shipping features or fixing issues (you end up biasing towards one side or the other for the detriment of the overall product/team).
I wish I could copy math from the document I am reading, then paste it into a text editor like I can with ordinary non-math text on most web pages.
Testing kits aren’t a thing in the US unless you have symptoms and can demonstrate contact with a confirmed case. :-/
On universal paid sick leave, the intent is to enable people to not go into their workplace when they could be contagious. The choice between risking getting others sick or going broke and getting evicted isn't one people should be forced to make.

On universal health coverage, the major difference is what the recovery looks like (potentially after the vaccine in countries where it's too late for containment). If there's any silver lining to this pandemic, hopefully it's that politicians who oppose universal health coverage become unelectable.
I think implying that he doesn't support those isn't necessarily in line with his previous statements.

He's previously made statements in favor of at least universal healthcare, and it seems incredibly unlikely that he doesn't support sick leave policies.
There is also the issue of assuming that social distancing only reduces the number of cases by 90%. Social distancing affects the exponent. Depending on how aggressive it is it could reduce the height of the peak by a lot more than 90%.

I also have no idea the basis for the 10-50x assumption r.e. confirmed/unconfirmed cases.
See also the story of Staffjoy mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583653)
YC fellowship, they couldn't find a market, and shut down: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=staffjoy
If herd immunity isn't possible there are too many new variants, then for the same reasons vaccines will also be ineffective. What is the long-term strategy here then?
No, disabling a button is not app logic
The point is that the master password is not stored on this sheet.