skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should support Win10 on it, given the graphics power and X86 hardware it could be a nice little workstation for gamers who also do some 3D stuff.
The author is Russian and has numerous seemingly popular github repositories. They question Github's decision to ban their account without giving them any reasoning and illustrates how the open source community has lost a lot of value as a result of the comment/asset removal.

The author's comparison to internment camps and other dramatic measures of government suppression seems unfair. Github not providing reasoning is also unfair, but seems to be standard practice among corporations (maybe to help with liability?). The questions Github is asking from the user relate to U.S. OFAC policy, which is how the U.S. enforces economic sanctions. Basically if you've done business with North Korea or a number of other flagged entities you can be held liable criminally or more often for huge fines.

I don't know how the author triggered whatever automatic suspension mechanism github has in place, but I think github should priorize the author's case given their contribution to the community. I don't think Github is an evil organization. I do think OFAC policy is difficult to enforce and the U.S. gov should make it easier. If Github reported the number of suspensions, who was suspended or explain why a suspension happened I would have more trust in them as a platform.
> Is there no mandatory checkup in the US?

Varies by state.
U.S. Health Agency Suffers Cyber-Attack During Covid-19 Outbreak
Even better, farmers will sometimes come do it for free!
https://youtu.be/BYTFk34nhoI

Between the 10 and 12 minute mark in this video the doctor describes how most people have illness for 5 days, and a few begin having complications around day 5 (and he gives a name as his source, if you want to research further).

I think you are not OK yet and should seek medical advice.
As nearly always - SUVs are the problem.

Smaller, lower cars don't seem to have the same issues.
I think this is a profoundly bad idea. It's just as dumb as the fed trying to prop things up. You're not going to solve this problem with money, but with a strong response to the root cause, the pandemic. That said ...

> My wife and I have a newborn, which currently isn't very expensive but we all still need to eat

I imagine you would get $3k since there are 3 of you.
no, they have limits. They still insure those types of risks (natural disasters, etc).
What were the holes you discovered?
This is $2500 for your family as a whole, not $1k, sounds like it would get you through at least a month.

$1000 per adult and $500 per kid.
Ironically, that did not take long to read, as the page does not load.
No surprise. Anyone in a tourism industry is at risk. This is not a situation that will last long term so any tourism company that can avoid bankruptcy will come out okay in a few years, but airlines probably can't get there. The next airline all the employees of current airlines will start is as good an investments as airlines can be (airlines have historically been poor investments...)
I think it's a matter of time everywhere it goes. Some East Asian countries have similar experiences in the past and people still remember.

Everywhere else, including the EU, Some people don't take is seriously yet. Specially younger people don't understand not being at health risk doesn't mean that you aren't responsible to slow down the spread and keep elderly safe.

My neighbor had birthday party last night. His house was full of people. Definitely not what I would call social distance.
WHO: ‘Test every suspected case’
You usually "tune" the ventilator parameters to each patient, so they'd have to be fairly similar size, need, etc.

Too much volume (or pressure, depending on the control mode) can injure the lungs, too little and you're not addressing the underlying problem very well.
I've also been thinking about this. From what I can tell, a big part of it is the most of South Korea's cases so far were skewed young and female (both demographics less likely to die). Stats for ages in SK cases here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:2019%E2%80%9320_coron...

Additionally, it seems SK has picked up cases much earlier in their progression than Italy (and most other countries except perhaps Singapore). This means we'll likely see more deaths as those cases resolve (and deaths/cases in SK has been increasing, was 0.6% a week ago, now 0.9%).

Another factor is it seems SK picked up a majority of their cases, mild and serious, due to extensive testing, while Italy has likely not detected many mild cases.

Finally, death rates are much higher in places where health systems are overwhelmed, such as northern Italy.
>Most of those people know that reading papers is far from enough to understand the issues at hand and making such stark statements

Some of us people know that grad school literally consists of learning potentially exclusively from papers. These papers represent the cutting edge of human knowledge and for someone familiar with scientific literature they are not that hard to parse. Doctors and scientists are humans like you and me.

I'm not making policy here, I'm posting on a forum where unusually intelligent people from all disciplines gather and casually speculate on any number of topics. Though I guarantee at this point that I understand the problem at least as well as some 90% of our politicians...with or without sources.
As a civic driver I notice this a lot.

One tip which you probably know already but not everyone does: you can darken your rear view mirror by flipping the tab on the bottom. Unfortunately no equivalent for your side mirrors.
If you're hosting your stuff on corporate platforms, like Github, Google (Gmail/etc.) you just have to be Ok with losing access to all your code or data with no notice, explanation or recourse.
Be as explicit as possible. Use guard clauses. Don't couple things for the sake of less code. Very, very often, repeating yourself is OK.
What app are you using it for? Is it public (yet)?
>And what % of patients infected actually end up in the ICU vs. just have a sniffle and a cough for a few days?

This data is easily available: ~20% of people who get the virus are in life-threatening condition. Thats a 1/5 chance.

> I'm not saying "do nothing", but I am saying "shut down the world" is too extreme in the opposite direction.

Experts disagree with you. Maybe you should ask yourself why?

1. You have a hypothesis that taking less drastic measures would result in a manageable death rates and less impact on the economy. However, Wuhan and Italy tried to deal with the virus through these less drastic measures (telling the elderly to self-quarantine, asking the population to social-distance), and the results were disastrous. Does that not invalidate your hypothesis?

2. Even if you're right, and there was a good chance we could avoid the worst of the epidemic, we know for a fact that the worst case scenario is that in the US, 21 million people will require hospitalization, and 1.7 million people will die. Saying that it's worth taking a risk on less drastic measures is the equivalent of saying it's OK to play Russian roulette because the odds are actually really good: it totally ignores the tremendously high cost of the worst case scenario.

I have found that risk-analysts like Taleb have the most convincing arguments for why all these extreme measures are called for. Check out his twitter: https://twitter.com/nntaleb
Difference in sampling basically as they test people who are sick in Italy versus allow anyone to test in SK.

You should estimate the levels based on the sampling. For example last week the UK Govt said they estimate there was 10,000 infected in the UK based (in part) the number of positive people in the hundreds. You should be able to make better predictions using geo-demographics and population density etc.

For south korea, do we know the number of people who are in hospital with the virus being treated? Then you can compare Italy and South Korea.
Are Heroku and Heroku-hosted sites down?
I suspect the interest will help some quite a bit. Not everyone, of course.

I do think that the money would be better if targeted toward certain people versus peanut-buttered over everyone.
> I imagine you would get $3k since there are 3 of you.

* facepalm * I'll edit to clarify.
Even halogens are blinding now, because projectors. There is no easy answer for OE headlights, but it's pretty easy for aftermarket mods -- they're illegal. Enforce.
Self-host. EOM
Love love love the Neato vacuum. With small kids, it has changed my life.
Paging Andrew Yang...
$2500. Kids were worth $500 I guess.
It's really lacking in Linux distributions
This is how we should manage the money supply, and it should be monthly. Direct, debt free issuance of a citizens dividend to every US citizen. Coupled with a wind-down of the debt bubble. Maybe take Steve Keen's idea and require that a certain portion of the payment be used to extinguish any debts.

Unfortunately whenever a president starts talking about this, he has a tendency to be shot.
Then what happens to the people who's income depends on those rent payments. I think an approach like this makes sense. The problem is immediate cash flow for people. This is cash flowing to people. It may not be enough, but it's moving in the right direction. We're not going to re-engineer the economy in the next few weeks.
First time all remote: Expect the unexpected
Epidemic Calculator
Chronic Suffering of the Vb.net Community
Thank you for clarification. Yeah, the numbers look interesting.
Contrary to your other replies — old code, written in K&R C, was not broken from the start. ANSI C broke it with undefined behavior (by accident, I think) and ‘volatile’ (not by accident, just not fully thought through).
> “Flagged”? So this is how you call “disposing of someone” in a “politically correct” manner nowadays — you “flag” them. “The United States flagged 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II”.

Whoa!! What an astonishing comparison!

Go host your software on gitlab, IPFS, or some other service and please don't bother comparing your experience hosting software with forced internment.

> Remind me, GitHub, since when are you Ordnungspolizei? Who exactly granted you the authority to interrogate and police regular people?

B...b...but it's their server, their disk space. You granted them the authority by showing up at their doorstep asking for the service.
The status pages shows all clear, https://status.heroku.com
Data points illustrating how society handles actual criminal infractions with victims are very much relevant in the context of a suggestion that we pull out all the stops to prosecute any particular civil infraction that has no immediate victims.
I too think this is silly. Everyone wants to use this disaster to achieve the policy goals they wanted anyway. Republicans want to use it as an excuse for tax cuts. Democrats want to expand public healthcare and benefits. Everyone is trying to attach riders for domestic violence victims or pork spending or whatever pet issue they have.

And now the Ubi folks want this.

Nothing changes. Same BS.
People are so content with the status quo and making excuses why they enable these behaviors, it almost reminds me of... oh wait.
I don't know the technical details of MinION.

Coupling good capture with amplification and detection is required. When working on dna detection you use something like pcr for signal amplification.

But surface detection can in some cases be more sensitive, since you generally have a lot more surface fragments available than you have dna or rna. Especially since many viral diseases form have huge ratios of surface fragments per every well formed infectious viral particle.

Generally: a sequencer by itself doesn't have the sensitivity required. For example, for norovirus we're talking about detecting a few virus particles per cubic meter of air. You need insanely sensitive detection tech to be able to do that.
It allows additional options _in between_ those listed.

I'm skeptical that such an ill-defined rationale-centric change would hold any purchase with modern compiler-writers (it is certainly arguable what points lie "between" qualitatively-described behaviors), but in general a range does not usually include literally all possibilities.
1000%. I understand being angry about this, but get a grip.
America's immediate priority needs to be public health, not the stock market. The economy will recover, dead people won't.
I just hope that people that advocated companies to remove users rot in hell. And if it doesn't exist, they should rot in hell twice. Sorry for the rant, but a lot of platforms have been made significantly worse the last past 5 or so years because of random content moderation.

Github was pretty reliable for a long time. oh well... I guess the flaw of code centralization should have warned us.
If that were true why do FPS continue to ship with "aim assist?" When the game is aiming for you, it is hard to know how good you actually are at it.
We became a product of the day on Product Hunt and then got removed
Millenials say boomer parents won't take virus seriously
Open-source Vulnerabilities up almost 50% cuz people looking for them
Yes and no.

They switched a generation ago to commodity architectures (likely owing, in large part, to the very slow developer uptake of Sony's exotic Cell processor). Playstation and Xbox have both been on x86 for the better part of a decade already.

But this does not make them PCs any more than Nintendo going ARM makes the Switch an Android phone. The experience of owning, using, and developing for a console remains entirely different from that of a PC, even if the underlying hardware has more in common than it did in previous generations. It's not "giving up on the market" at all.
I've been railing against this idea as uniquely stupid for the past few days.

1. For people who are living "paycheck-to-paycheck", this won't even matter. How far does $1000 get you in the US? A better policy would be a general amnesty on rent and interest payments for a few months, and temporary free healthcare.

2. For industries where it's a demand shock (e.g. travel), no amount of helicopter money will restart the demand. A better solution would be helping the companies directly, to the extent the government wants to help them survive, by e.g. tax write-offs or delays, emergency credit loans, or my favorite, emergency equity (the free-market solution, if your company cannot survive because of your poor panic, you don't deserve to own (all of) it).

3. For industries where it's a supply shock (face masks, hand sanitizers, possibly soon but hopefully not food), some kind of coupon-based rationing (with the government paying the producers directly) would be a better solution, providing just the necessities for survival and ensuring there's minimal waste.
Why was this down-voted?

If we don't pause to examine the dramatic moral failings of earlier tech titans, how will we identify our era's blind spots?
Let's make it 10k per month, then we can all be wealthy.
This change already happened in the last generation as both the PS4 and Xbox One used Jaguar APUs with GCN GPUs.
They actually check thousands of components that a car is made out of in every single car every two years in Germany? That seems like more effort than having people to just buy a new car every 2-4 years. In the US in some states like California during the smog check every two years for older cars they check the basics and make sure the car is relatively unmodified and has the essential safety parts in place. No one, however, checks to see if your headlights are emitting slightly more light than they should.
My heroku app is down as well.
i worded that poorly (see, that's why i'm not a lawyer! =). i was intending to differentiate (breadth of) skills versus knowledge.

lawyerly technical skills, as i see it, is the different ways of constructing, destructing, and rebutting arguments, along with presentational skills (verbal and written) and related strategies. so i see filling out forms and drawing up contracts as a form of argumentation--in that case, the preemption of common and likely future arguments. so then, lawyerly technical skills are relatively enumerable.

on the other hand, law has a vast corpus of knowledge (e.g., precedent) that no one person can master in a lifetime.

in contrast, the technical skills to imagine and create physical (and virtual) objects, or to understand and modify biological systems, are vast and relatively innumerable (as is what's known and unknown in those realms).

that's not to say anything about the intelligence or creativity of practitioners of any of these professions, as they all benefit from those qualities.
Those virus particles usually ride on a droplet of fluid, or another big particle. And you're not guaranteed to get sick if you ingest one virus.
Just to check the source, these are the same slides (same Drive doc) tweeted by the listed author on the slides [1], who is a neurobiology and bioengineering professor at Stanford.

If you want an understandable, relatively short but info-dense writeup from a sober expert (there hasn’t been much of this on HN) this is nice.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelzlin?lang=en
But there are some meaningful differences right? Like it's an SOC with shared CPU/GPU memory. Theoretically this could give better performance for things like loading assets, which have to go from storage -> main memory -> graphics memory on PC.
There are definitely ways for us to contribute. I think the most immediate contribution is through education. I recently published an article recommending various productivity tools for businesses that are being forced into remote work and have not prepared employees for it.

https://www.invonto.com/insights/working-from-home-amidst-co...

Maybe there are more tangible things to do. Definitely getting some ideas together is how it starts!
The suggestion is that you report it, as a safety issue, not that you then go on to demand justice for this not-exactly-heinous non-crime. The police are not going to send in the SWAT team and divert their best men to the case - they're going to note it down in a file somewhere. Come on.

("Oh god. This guy sounds just like... oh. It is dsfyu404ed." - me, often enough to have noticed this is a thing, reading the comments here on articles about cars.)
They may have something in mind for that? This is from the article on xbox.com:

> Enter Xbox Velocity Architecture, which features tight integration between hardware and software and is a revolutionary new architecture optimized for streaming of in game assets. This will unlock new capabilities that have never been seen before in console development, allowing 100 GB of game assets to be instantly accessible by the developer.

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2020/03/16/xbox-series-x-tech/
Wow, that interogation form is indeed freaky. I was planning to create some github repos but after this, thanks but no thanks. The US is slowly becoming a police state and it’s taking up the internet with it.
In practice, a lot of software is written in C because it depends on interfaces that are defined in terms of their C APIs, without caring all that much about performance.
Was down; back up (for me)
Capitalism is definitely ill-suited to a crisis like this. We have an enormous production chain for anything we could possibly need and we could just use that. We worked for this for generations, but we have no easy way to divert this machinery to work differently for some time.
A strong response to the pandemic will leave millions of people with no income. Many have zero in savings. These issues are tightly coupled: we can't expect people to make the right choices for everyone if doing so threatens their survival.
Is the face mask something that could be produced with 3D printing?
I don't think we'll give the vaccine to everybody. Well, a few years from now probably, but for this particular pandemic we'll target vulnerable populations (elderly and sick) and professions at risk (like health care).
The stock market is not a magical abstract thing that has no impact on people's lives.

It has an indirect and huge impact on all of us.
Big Tech Swallows Most of the Hot AI Startups
Did exactly that, I have a rear-mounted one. Officially it's to help with backing up (rear windows are tinted).

Unofficially it's to supernova those select few who don't know how blinding their lights are.
Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Does Not Occur in Rhesus Monkeys
GitHub: Enhancing our Covid-19 response to care for our community and team
Catalyst is pretty weak. I think that's why Electron and RN are still more appealing.
Droplet size is not generally determined by the disease. Droplet size distribution and air suspension parameters depend on humidity and temperature, as well as composition, salinity, etc.
It's the same thing as not having circuit breakers really. The closing hours allow regulated markets to be more efficient imho
https://status.heroku.com/ is showing that there's a platform issue.

More details now available:

>> Our Engineering team has detected routing issues to US apps. We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Incident link here: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1973
A big problem is trucks and SUVs in general are being elevated with higher and higher ride heights, without pointing headlights down at an angle to compensate for the increased ride height. If you're driving a normal car, and not one of these bloated moon rovers or nuisance-sized farm vehicles, you're getting their headlights pointed straight at your face.
I am seeing issues with several services.

AWS might be a common link. I saw some CloudFront errors, but their status page is green top to bottom at the moment.

Heroku and Github have incidents on their status pages now, BTW.
On point one, that's just the thing. If I got 1000$ right now from the government, I'd pay things that I'd already have been paying anyway, or I'd save it because the economy is bad. I'd imagine most people would do something similar.
This reads like bad content marketing. Why am I being asked to tweet every quick fact? Why do I need to download a PDF to read what is ‘Inside the Black Box’? Is this a privacy/data use complaint or an antitrust complaint?
in the West, yes. Because we're idiots about this sort of thing.

In Asia, the feeling is gratitude - thank you for wearing a mask and protecting me from your illness
Seems to be all good now. Any idea how long the outage was?
The Risk of Caution: Evidence from an R&D Experiment
Give it a few years! The internet infrastructure providers will turn political soon enough.
The darkening is sufficient for regular cars, but it's almost useless when the headlight of the SUV behind you is at the driver's level :(

I bought my car used a while ago, and it's now ~10 years old. I find the stock headlights to be perfectly adequate to drive in rural areas (and I live/drive regularly rural streets without street lights).

The difference with newer cars though is _staggering_. It's not only SUVs.
In the event you want to pwn a person who uses Linux desktop?
If so, glad to see this, there are cross platform rats that work on Linux but a Linux specific is rare to me.

Oh and I wouldn't say undetectable,AV may not detect it now but Linux detection can be pretty wild, even with good EDR vendors a lot of tuning is needed due to how customizable it is (admins/devs always do one off unusual things, windows has more predictable structure).

Didn't read the code but I loathe the python usage, if for windows you can use pyinstaller to build an exe. Anywhere else, your rat will break because of python versioning/deps.
This text should be copy-pasted wholesale onto the landing page :)
Sites that don't have prominent calls to action are basically dead in terms of usage and engagement. If you made such a site, you'd just be screwing yourself over because no one is using your product.
The Billion-Euro Nuclear Reactor That Was Never Switched On