skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you've described with green tee and water is science, it's just that your conclusions aren't well supported by the evidence.

> One could argue that science is about falsifying hypothesis - and terby narrowing in on not just if something works, but how.

To clarify, are YOU arguing that? Because if you're not arguing that, if you're just playing devil's advocate, then I'm unhappy with the way the conversation is going.

Testing "how" is not a requirement for science. There's been a lot of work on the philosophy of science over the past few centuries which I'm not going to try and summarize here (tl;dr: the idea of "falsifiability" is a bit outdated), but I'm going to copy and paste the first sentence of Wikipedia:

> Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

There's no requirement in science that we understand a mechanism of action.
We had our first presumed covid case. I just saw my doctor neighbor leave his family, with a packed bag. He’s to be a doctor at the quarantined part of the hospital.

It was heart wrenching. Kids chasing after daddy. Not sure if they’ll see him for weeks or longer.

That neighbor is my hero...

(I know you already said doctors, but anyone going to work indefinitely in a quarantine zone is my hero)
Photos of COVID-19 Under Electron Microsocope
Isn't that what changesets are for?
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All that does with a private DM group of < 7 people is create a new DM group, and the conversation is not migrated. So you're effectively starting from scratch, and the new addition has no ability to go back and catch up.

I can understand the reasoning for this, but its also an area where private channels are much better at.
We don’t know but it is expected that immunity lasts for at least 6 months. Time will tell, this thing hasn’t been out long enough.
i honestly don't get what people you are talking about... who did not pay into what system and why does that drive prices for insulin up? I mean i get that 7$ production cost does not translate into a 7$ price tag even without a profit but what is driving the cost of these people that has to be compensated for in insulin pricing?
TLS lives in the browser stack. So your browser can provide policy here. For example the browser can say "OK, this is a Porn tab, so we shouldn't re-use the google.com TLS connection from the tab that's logged into GMail and searching for Tom Hanks movies, we'll spin up a new one (without 0RTT)".

But TCP lives down in the OS stack, so maybe without knowing it the browser's new TLS connection has TFO cookies the OS learned from the Tom Hanks connection, which ties the two sessions together. Oops.
This "community" can be quite toxic and is easily triggered by anything "anecdotal". Typical coping strategy is doing penance as an introduction to it, like "I'm probably going to be down voted for this". This sort of preemptive obedience seems to have a mildly soothing effect on a mob of nerds.

On the other hand ... Why would anybody care about HN karma.

Having said that, I'm also curious and promise I'll upvote him for it. No matter how superstitious it might be.
For anyone here who isn't yet using and end to end setup like terraform, ansible, puppet etc and has more basic needs around managing environment variables and application properties, I highly recommend https://configrd.io.
Essential Parts of an Agile Business
As I understand it, in GP's case it's already clear that the decision should be to quarantine without needing a test. Additionally, at least were I live, the number of cases has gotten so big that it has become unfeasible to track their contacts. Thus, there's not much use in testing.
This virus mutates slowly due to proof reader RNA. It most likely mutates too slowly to evade eradication, just like polio or smallpox.
The "enlightened" part was never there. That was always just self-justification.
The question asks what I would consider to be the right approach for 2020, and also what my team is doing. This is the design pattern I've been following for 5 years, but obviously your mileage may vary, it won't work for everyone, etc.
I don’t follow your logic. When COVID-2019 first became a thing the “standard of care” was to use airborne precautions and respirators, it did not “lag badly” as you so claim.

Two months of research later there has been no evidence that this virus can be transmitted by airborne particles (read: not droplets) and the standard of care was updated a couple of days ago to reflect that, hence why we now do not require negative pressure isolation rooms and respirators.

I don’t see where the lag is.
Yes, I think CH and FR do that, they ask to self quarantine if you have symptoms. Italy was actually testing everyone afaik.
As opposed to trusting fly by night third party sellers on Amazon who have not been vetted.

It’s not like Amazon has a sterling reputation for selling legitimate goods.
Some downsides, though it also states at 60mph speed helped increase the air bubble and speech was fine:

>What about bugs? I asked. Will they be deflected too? “It depends on the mass of the bug,”

>What about stones thrown up by trucks?

>Overtalk…inaudible….

>In any event, McLaren expects all occupants will be wearing helmets on piste and will only engage the AAMS bareheaded at moderate speeds.
Silly us
Just finished this book. Essential reading. If you've ever been outraged at the struggle between individual and beurocracy, this take is for you.

The biggest shock is the section about her experience at U-Penn though.
I agree with your idea of private channels, but would also suggest that a naming convention for them is used. Public channel names cannot overlap with private channels.

One Slack community I'm active in wanted to add `testing` as a channel. But we couldn't, because that channel name was already taken as a private channel that was created before we locked down channel creation to the admins only. None of the admins were part of that channel, and we don't know if its still active to this day.

As a result, we had to do `testing_`, with the trailing underscore as the differntiation.

BUT when you do `#testing_` in the slack input, the channel name isn't hyperlinked. :-/
Feds have failed. We need to allow the states to determine who can run tests.
Glad it worked for you - but it's not exactly obvious to me how it would help, or how you administered it? Especially when you were gasping for air?
Yes, if it's so. When donating money or compute time, I want my donation to be used efficiently and not be wasted by high overheads.
This article goes horribly wrong very quickly:

> They mean to tell you that we can get away without severe lockdowns as we are currently observing them in China and Italy.

No, they don't. They mean to tell you that we need to slow the spread of the infection as much as possible, by whatever means we can sustain. That includes the potential of lockdowns.

We individuals can only do so much. What we must do is wash our hands, practise social distancing, wash our hands, interact with as few people as possible, wash our hands, and only go out if essential.

This graphic is telling people why they have to do this, it's not saying that to do so is enough to avoid lockdowns.

Much of the rest of the article is right, but that part is seriously wrong.

It concludes with:

> Flattening the curve is not an option for the United States, for the UK or Germany. Don’t tell your friends to flatten the curve. Let’s start containment.

That's just bizarre. Containment is part of flattening the curve, and the other measures that we personally can implement is also part of flattening the curve. Everything we do to slow and hinder the spread will help. Total containment is not possible, all we can do is slow the spread, and that is flattening the curve!

So wash your hands, go out as little as possible, interact with as few people as possible, and do your bit to help flatten the curve.
>> Regarding people being selfish... There is nothing selfish about self preservation.

No, but purchasing much more of an item that you are ever likely going to need (at the cost of everyone who isn't doing that) is selfish. Stock up on enough essentials to get you through a self-quarantine period (2-3 weeks). Don't buy enough to last the next 12 months because a) it's completely unnecessary and b) you're preventing other people stocking up enough to cover a self-quarantine period.
I don't think i will.Nvidia cannot ask anyone to donate anything considering how expensive their cards are.Their raw compute capabilities are not even that great, it's just their own libraries and compute 'sauce' that probably rises the cost unjustifiably high.

AMD will eventually catch up assuming they open their sources for compute and driver libraries.

Now to the topic at hand, somehow i share my blame of the corona virus on companies that promote China and their communistic behavior, which is partly what lead to this expansion of the virus into Europe and US.The chinese government obviously misreported numbers since January for economic reasons.While it's true panic doesn't help,it's also true that politicians should always be pragmatic and frank with their populations.Thus we cannot hold China responsible but only suffer the consequences.
Huge, huge topic. You will have to pick a path through the enormous jungle.

The starting point I would recommend is bottom up, through accounting and financial statements. Core knowledge, of both practical and intellectual value. Tons of books here, I particularly like

Thomas Ittelson - Financial Statements

Accessible, straightforward, friendly.

After that, any of the collections of

Warren Buffett's Letters to Shareholders

are both entertaining and intellectually valuable, and provide great insight. Read forward, eg, from his first letters in the 1960s, to now.

One of the realizations in the journey is that there are, and have been, a lot of different kinds of money- credit money and exchange money and asset money and so forth. A relatively abstract/intellectual but immensely useful survey is

The Nature of Money - Geoffrey Ingham

The concept of an asset is critical to the functioning of the financial system. New kinds of assets are created all the time. One of the best written books I have read recently goes into venture capital and debt asset creation:

The Code Of Capital - Katharina Pistor

The role of different kinds of money in history, especially US history, is absolutely fascinating. I am in the middle of

American Bonds - Sarah Quinn

and can recommend.

I do not especially recommend the Dalio books or Graeber's Debt or Ferguson's books. They are fine but I did not find them helping me build understanding. Not quite junk food, but definitely not protein.

I unfortunately have not found any of the books I have seen about the Federal Reserve to be worthy of recommending. My wife works there and so I have perhaps a unique perspective. But nothing conveys the challenge and the mechanics of what they do. Still looking. The papers the various Fed banks publish, as well as the papers published by the Bank of England, are uniformly outstanding.

Finally, some of the bitcoin people have written about money. Tho I am a believer in bitcoin I absolutely recommend against most of them, especially Saifedean Ammous's book. Do not read.

Good luck!
You could use something like uniswap and use their ETH/USDC pool as a source of price data for ETH. This is a bad idea because its easy to manipulate that one price feed but that is technically a truly decentralized price feed.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply. We have so far kept things proprietary and we do have patents. We've done several proof of concepts with very large companies and they've been successful and moving forward. We have a "partnership" with a very recognizable IT company that reviewed our technology. However, the sales cycle is really long and a lot of "that's too good to be true" - so thinking about the ubiquitous path.

I started programming in 1982 - so I've seen a lot and understand the skepticism. However, the choices made in the 70's about indexing (BTrees) aren't the best choice for a highly parallel, distributed world. Plus BTrees order the data, so they'll likely never work for "secret" indexing. For instance, it is quite amusing - all of the interest in fully homomorphic encryption and it being the holy grail if they can just make it fast enough. FHE is a secure computation technology, not a scalable search technology. Let's say you have 1 billion records - with FHE, you'd have to evaluate all 1 billion records for every query (which would take days at best current rate of 1 million evals per hour). As soon as you index those 1 billion records to avoid that with a BTree, you are subject to substantial inference risk because the records would be ordered. So, without an index that has limited inference risk, FHE is DOA for indexing/search (it is too slow regardless). If you have that index with limited inference risk, you don't need FHE for indexing/search.

I would argue that our data structures for indexing data are ready for an update - in a world with exploding volume and velocity of data and huge security and privacy risk. Think about it, one hacker breaches a database server today and they get everything. If we keep concentrating valuable info like this, it'll keep getting stolen.

Again, appreciate your reply.
When you throw dice 1000 times without looking you don't know when you got a 6 but you know you did.
Presumably this is because there's a trade that promises one side something (stable value coin vs USD) that has another side that offers something different (profits if everything works out, losses if it doesn't?). Kind of like Lloyds of London?
Amazon has a bad reputation but in almost all cases issues are resolved quickly. Nobody is going to write about their good experience with Amazon.
That meme is false and needs to die. Look at testing here [0], from the CDC website [1]. The CDC is just a part of this, and public labs are testing thousands per day right now. Expect this chart to keep going up.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/images/lab-data-gr...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/test...
> soap and water is better

How about when you get off the subway and need to grab a quick lunch at small establishment that doesn't have bathrooms?

In NYC, many lunch places have only maybe 4-10 seats at a window or something. The law says they don't need to provide a bathroom, and they usually don't (no space).

Or even if you go to McDonald's or something, there's often a line of like 5 people each taking 10 minutes inside the single bathroom. (Welcome to New York.)

Hand sanitizer is literally the only way many times not to get the virus from your hands into your mouth when eating.
> We don’t really care about exceptions and how to handle them. We care about the business value that we provide with our app.

This is famously not true. When the system is working, “we”, as in the business, only care about the business value. The moment things break or get slow it’s all recriminations about “how could you let this happen?”

Then later it’s right back to, “why can’t you go faster?” until it happens again.
Oh yea they have stopped doing that here just about 4 days ago (Northern California) because there are too many community cases and the plan is to move to phase 2 (containment is now mitigation).

Singapore has a truly excellent infectious disease program.
Wave Frequency of Covid-19
There must be a wave frequency of the virus or its structural proteins that defines it as unique entity. What is that wave frequency?
Eh. VB6 was paid too. IIRC it used to be on the order of $600 to get the standalone version.

I downloaded Xojo and kicked the tires. It was absolutely cool to see that an environment like this lives on. It really does feel like a successor to VB6.
Do we know how many people are already susceptible to it? It’s plausible that some percentage of people are immune to it already — maybe they recently caught a similar coronavirus or some other natural resistance to it.
I disliked the Speccy back then: I owned a C64 and my friend a Sinclair (which was a Spectrum clone if I remember correctly) and back then I thought the C64 was so much better: better sound, better colors, less "artifacts" in color graphics...

... now I see the Spectrum and I have a newfound respect for it. It was technically inferior but there was a certain grace in how game devs worked around its limitations and weird color palette. And the graphics were crisper than I remembered.
To be fair, the libraries found in other languages aren't much better. Ruby's standard library was the most comfortable in my experience but it still has glaring flaws.
This infuriates me. It's cutting corners, reducing the quality of care.

There are now portable iron lungs that fit like a turtle shell. They do both inhalation and exhalation. That should be the only acceptable standard of care.
Those comics reminded me that without context even the English language can be inscrutable.
Yet to see a post from someone healthy who can say:

- Had covid

- Had shortness of breath

- Recovered

- Back to running now

- No notable lung capacity issues post recovery

Not saying they are not out there.
You can buy moringa seeds/leaf for much, much less. There is some anecdotal evidence it helps with asthma but I agree you would want to see more studies
There have only been a handful of such reports with COVID-19, and they’re probably false test results.
Facebook uses Chef to manage its base hosts [0] and its own container system [1] to manage most workloads.

[0] https://www.chef.io/customers/facebook/
[1] https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/tupperwar...
Oh gawd, it's even worse than that: they don't even leave the airlock, they lit. freeze solid the very instant the outer doors open (with no rush of air!?!) Damn it. I really really like Hugh Laurie (one of the great and simple pleasures in life is introducing someone who only knows him from "House, M.D." to his OG work like "Black Adder" or "Jeeves & Wooster") but it's hard to watch around the problems in this show.

Like it's fucking dark. The bad physics wasn't the worst part of that scene. The show is supposed to be a comedy but that was like a nightmare.
Not interested in your moral prescriptivism.

Whether the US federal government enforces its borders or not is entirely separate from the question of of it does. It can and does. San Francisco can't and doesn't. If it does a lot to help the homeless nation wide then the levels get impacted nationwide. If SF does a lot to help the homeless in SF then rates start the same or rise as move homeless move there from elsewhere in the US.

That being a good thing in general is entirely out of the scope of getting the homeless off of public transport.
To be clear, a strategy of allowing this to spread unchecked will result in 10s of millions of people dying around the world.
Also WSL’s filesystem integration is flawless
I had an EE teacher who had been kicked out from his real job in hospital chief electrical engineers because he had messed up supervision and testing of installations (he was an alcoholic).

Intensive care rooms electricity delivered trough two routes. He messed up and one was not connected. When one fuse blew up at night, all ventilators went offline. All available nurses were manually ventilating two patients standing between two beds. Eventually one had to leave to get help and at least one patient died.

He was really good and humane teacher. He used his own screw-up as example of human failure without any excuses. He was still an alcoholic and seemed to be very sad.
Yep! A quick search turned this up.

https://github.com/agelastic/eudyptula
> there have been a few times where I thought I would die from not being able to breath

That easily justifies calling an ambulance, even in the present circumstances.

(At least according to the current advice in the UK and Denmark.)
Do you believe most of the issues at the CDC are due to Trump? The development of their own kit, refusal to allow independent testing, a lack of any stockpiles (is this their job? Well, whoever), etc. Did someone from the administration throw out all the stockpiled masks in medical institutions across the country for example?

Also, we have similar issues with testing and shortages of obviously critical supplies here in Canada, as do many other countries. Can one man do that much damage?
I work at Apple. I’ve not reviewed the new guidelines but can confirm that yes, Apple do indeed let you take sick time to recover from an illness. Of course they do.

In fact, the only time I ever had to interact with Apple HR about time off was when I wanted 3 months off after my kid was born. I ended up getting paid for all of it except the last week. Any other time I’ve taken sick leave I just need to let my manager know, and I took 2 weeks once when I was hit by a car.

Don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t take sick leave at the drop of a hat, but I’ve been here for 15 years, and life happens. I currently have the max-possible 240 hours of sick leave available. In my view, Apple are fairly generous for a US company regarding sick leave. US companies pale in comparison to EU companies, but that’s the US for you.
A friend that runs a one man shop developing websites and native apps swears by it. He actually moved his new developments from Lazarus to Xojo and is always talking about the upcoming Xojo web 2.0.

I gave it a try a few times but it never clicked. I felt constrained by the language (Lisp, Smalltalk and Forth ruined me for life) and the runtime is nothing to write home about. For most people I guess it doesn't matter. My friend doesn't even know what reference counting is and wants something simple to get stuff done.
Neutralino takes aim at Electron and NW.js – InfoWorld
Some places have introduced rationing to control this behaviour: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51790375 , https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3047493/china-v...

And from earlier times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdo...
Great course. It deals with the actual financial plumbing and how it has evolved from simple beginnings to the current complexity.
Ok, I should have said they have only low-efficiency, purely reactive high-latency mechanisms to prevent people from buying things.

A store needs to experience a run on merchandise and also (through some other information channel) come to understand that this is actually a bad enough thing to override their normal business imperatives to sell the stuff they have.

Blaming stores for sales they make today makes some sense. Blaming stores for sales they made last week does not.
Have people actually been infected twice? I know people have been hospitalized for COVID-19, assessed as recovered, and released only to test positive later. But have they proven that's from a second infection, rather than a premature release or residual virus bits?