skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Verge has got good, non-political coverage of the issue. Needless to say it isn't clear cut:

Trump surrogates said after the rally that he wasn’t calling coronavirus a hoax. “He was referring to the way he had been treated by the opposite party … in terms of taking every opportunity to bring him down,” said Surgeon General Jerome Adams on SiriusXM’s The Black Eagle with Joe Madison. And you can argue that Trump is limiting his claim to Democrats arguing he’s not prepared for the coronavirus. But the speech simply compares coronavirus to the “impeachment hoax” (which Trump describes as a “perfect conversation” that Democrats twisted into something negative), so it’s also easy to argue that Trump is saying the coronavirus itself is similarly overblown.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/3/21163388/facebook-fact-che...
You could wipe them with a disinfectant wipe. Or wash your hands. Or both.
I think the important result of this study is that HCov-19 has essentially the same half life on every surface they tested as SARS-CoV-1 except cardboard. "In general, there was no statistically discernable difference in half-life between the two viruses on any given surface except for cardboard: all other 95% credible intervals for the difference in half-lives overlapped 0".

Importantly, "Our results indicate that the greater transmissibility observed for HCoV-19 is unlikely to be due to greater environmental viability of this virus compared to SARS-CoV-1."

Edit: Remove line number from copy and pasted quote. Also fixed SARS virus name.
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So do I, but it still seems prudent to act like it is true: The extra hygiene measures are a very minor inconvenience, especially compared to the major inconvenience of catching the virus.
I am surprised you kept on with it despite how much you hated it. Did you finish the book?
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"it’s not really getting off the ground either"

Actually it's off the ground and becoming commoditized in those fields where it makes sense - AEC, digital design, training.

The reason they might not be familiar to you is that they are niches. There is no reason for everybody to use VR, but there are very good uses for some professionals.

If phone is a hammer (everybody has use for it) then VR kit is an arc welding tool - extremely practical for some uses, but not for all.

Or, pencil vs. oil paints. Oil paints are an essential product category, yet since the professionals who use them know them already and the market segment isn't that huge the non-artistically inclined consumer is likely not familiar with them due to lack of marketing dollars and hence media exposure.
Virii was never in. I've never heard of computer "virii".
I think China has already been dealing with the consequences of robust lockdowns that, while slowing the spread of coronavirus dramatically and admirably, also place substantial strain on the society and economy.
The ridiculous part of this whole travel ban 3.0 is that it is totally unnecessary. If the U.S. had proper testing infrastructure, we could test every single person arriving from abroad and make them wait the 4 hours required to get a read. S. Korea has that type of testing infrastructure. We invented the darn technology. There are no excuses for the deplorable, laughable, incompetent, disgraceful (I could go on) roll out (actually lack thereof) of testing in the U.S. As best I can tell, we now (today) have capacity to test about a 1,000 samples a day? Unbelievable. Give me three water baths, any old microtiter plate fluorometer, and enough tubes and reagents and I can run 1,000 samples a day by hand.
Celebrity worship in America is extremely powerful. Don't ever underestimate how much it's central to American culture.
the old saying is... you are who you hang with.

hang around with good, positive people and good, positive things will happen.
> Stack rankings and curves aren’t anywhere close to the same.

Sure they are. The best get a raise/A, the worst get fired/F.

> that is a teaching failure, not a student failure

Let's put it another way. Do you want the pilot flying you across the Atlantic 747 to be graded on a curve where he happened to be better than some of the other students, or graded against "met the standard / did not meet the standard"?

Me, I want "met the standard" every time for someone I trust with my life. The teacher failing to teach is not a reason to pass a pilot who didn't meet the standard.
WebOS in the Palm Pre days got this correct.
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+1 for this. I bought my Herman Miller Aeron new almost 20 years ago now and I still love it & use it every day. Immediately fixed some (very mild) back trouble I was having.

It probably won't fit the Shopify budget, it's super expensive. But having the same chair used in recording studios and is officially a work of art in the Museum of Modern Art [1] still makes me smile every day I go to sit down to work.

[1] https://www.moma.org/collection/works/3734
"that the world is 5000 years old"?

Don't blame 'religion' in general for such things when frankly only a tiny group of people actually believe that; mostly American frankly.

And also contemplate that there might be reasons why spiritual affiliations have a tendency towards dogma - it's a powerful social instrument. Almost all groups of every kind are dogmatic, it's what we use to 'fill in the blanks' and for most of illiterate or semi-literate history it was 'good enough'. It can be used for good or evil surely, but it's pragmatic.

Everyone seems to be arguing about religion but not focusing on what aspects of it might relate to the ostensible success of AA.
Probably just timing. I find it pretty cool, but I have nothing to say. I'm impressed with the work and would like to do the same myself, but I'm not sure immediately where I'd use this and when I'll have time. I've put it in the section of my brain where I keep things for "when I'll need it, go look this crazy ambitious project".

If I can provide more feedback, while looking at your project, I had the following thoughts:

- This is super impressive.
- I'm thankful that people spend time making technology
opensource.
- I'm sure this will grow over time and more "complex"
technology will become open this way.
- I'm curious in which context the author decided to
dedicate that much time to this cause (probably in
academia? or someone with access to a lab and a lot of
experience in all the fields involved in this project).
Trying hard not to be political. But POTUS speech seems to make things lot worse than better along anything.

The efficacy of this travel ban is questionable (given all these exceptions such as one for UK. Can people coming from other parts just have a layover in UK and be get permission to enter the US?). But lets give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they did so in good faith.

It is what's not in the speech that was very very concerning.
- No mention of how / when / if people can get tested.
- No mention of any plan to handle the economic situation. What happens when businesses in Tourism and restaurants run out of their runway and have to layoff people? What happens to hourly workers who get sick?
- No assurance to encourage undocumented residents to go for testing if they experience symptoms.
- No mention of large public events. Many local governments and private organizations are doing so in an ad-hoc ways. A consistent voice would literally save lives here.

Their team seems to be singularly focused on 'winning the narrative' or 'spinning' properly than anything else... Well, I guess this is just my opinion.
The stat that was going around that a few years agos 6 in 10 americans don't have enough savings to meet $500-1000 sudden expense and at the time it was ridiculed. Now when all 6 need the money suddenly and they can't borrow from their friends. Shit will really hit the fan.
Because loan words tend to get adapted to the grammar of the host language with time?
It looks like we can now get COVID-19 from Amazon Prime. Free 2-day delivery for all!

A tired warehouse worker, forced to work overtime by Jeff Bezos, with no health insurance or paid sick time, and with a robot that watches his every move to make sure he isn’t slacking, gets sick with the virus, and sneezes on your order. The package gets delivered to you in 2 days, and you open it up, and hold it in your hands, thinking the product is clean and sterile. Then 3 days later, you get a strange cough, then the next day, you develop a high fever. Boom! You just got infected with COVID-19.

It didn’t come from China, but from your friendly (and sick) Amazon warehouse worker.
They don't have to go hand in hand? Sticking someone with a massive tax bill for unrealized gains doesn't do anything to help the former. If you haven't realized gains in a practical sense there's no money to pay the "small tax" with.
I hope wearing capes amd cloaks becomes a thing to hide gait. I thought 2020 would be the year we all wear capes to work!
Just added my email in the about section and in the post. Thanks!
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It’s much easier to write an abstract and intro once the rest of the paper is concrete and correct; it tells you what the strengths and important points of your paper are. You don’t necessarily know these until you’ve done the hard work in the rest of the paper
people aren't worried about leaving, they were worried about coming back.
I moved from San Francisco to South Florida as an experiment in being fully remote. It's been pretty good so far, but if I was looking for another job, I'd hit up everyone I know in SF for a remote position first.

There aren't many like-minded people here, and that's kind of nice for a change. I still love San Francisco, but it simply priced me out of living there. I'd rather retire in 5 years here than work another 30 there.
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The comments on this article are both hilarious and saddening. Not to say I expect anything else...
To be fair there's quite a few of them, but I get our point.
Same. I bought a $10 stool as we had just moved (without any furniture) and I didn't want to rush into buying an office chair because I knew how important it was to get a good one. 7 years later I was still using the stool (though I added a pillow). Last year I replaced it with a dining room chair (which I had bought when my parents came to visit -- we don't actually have chairs in our house and sit on the floor, Japanese style). It's nice to occasionally sit back and rest my back, but I'm not necessarily sure that it's a good idea.

The main thing that makes the biggest difference for me is that my keyboard and monitor are at the right height. Which is to say that I have an external keyboard (elbow height) and my laptop sits upon a series of cardboard boxes so that the top of the monitor is at the same height as my eyes. I also use a trackball at elbow height that I can reach without moving anything unduly.
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> Can people coming from other parts just have a layover in UK and be get permission to enter the US?

I believe anyone who's been to the Schengen Area in the past x days faces the ban. Excluding the UK and Ireland surely had political reasons (the UK now also has >400 cases) but it's hard to define Europe if you don't use either Schengen or EU (both of which the UK isn't a part of).
I like the spacing better than the other fonts, but the lowercase 'r' is pretty nasty looking. I can't get over that, nor do I think I can use it.
Good question. I suspect viruses are less UV-sensitive than bacteria

However the main issue is that protecting yourself from the UV blast might be more complicated than just disinfecting the product using traditional means
Well, I currently find cough twitter quite informative. But I'd rather listen to epidemiologists and virologists. I'd also prefer a good weekly magazine, radio station or podcast because there people have more time/space to elaborate on their point of view. In TV, with very few exceptions, everything is crammed into very small portions that leave no room for critical discussion/appraisal.
Trumps's actions at the time (28 Feb) were things that indicated exactly that he thought coronavirus wasn't a threat and would go away soon:

Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low.... Hopefully, we’re not going to have to spend so much because we really think we’ve done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. And again, we’ve had tremendous success — tremendous success — beyond what people would have thought.

and

So we’re at the low level. As they get better, we take them off the list, so that we’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

I really think he is using "hoax" as a synonym for "bad" and is referring to coronavirus, criticisms of his response and the Democrats all at the same time.
He’s dead Jim.

Captain, it appears the containment has failed. What are your next orders?
"We" is which country? (Other than that, I agree with you.)
> a) is because as I understand it it's /very/ hard to legally refuse to readmit a US citizen. You can seize all their stuff at the border but besides arresting them for a crime you can't really keep them from coming home.

The trick is to get the airline to be your police and refuse them boarding. Then your only choice is to get to a Port of Entry via Canada, Mexico, private jet or chartered boat.
Here is one link:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/10/eu-airlines...
For this case we could probably fix it without any real performance impact if we actually prioritized it.

Put 14 more bits for a counter in each row, and adjust the DDR interface semantics to guarantee time for the extra refreshes, and I think you avoid all the problems this attack depends on.

Total cost <0.1%

Don't cheap out with a tiny hash table stuck to the side or whatnot.
It won't. Screening all arrivals is helpful, but just shutting down travel is going to end up creating a whole new class of problems.
Dane here. Those who can't get child care otherwise will be able to have them cared for in the system.
Aside: this paper demonstrates an interesting use of Bayesian regression to get the full posterior distribution over plausible decay rates rather than just a single point estimate. See the last few pages.

Is this pretty normal in these sorts of papers?
And for Schengen, you'll have a stamp in and out (assuming 1 passport).
TL;DR: It's torture.
Is there import/export functionality?
It's a well established software architecture approach, especially in the enterprise software area.

It works well with OOP as well as with FP. Highly recommend it.
From what I understand, 'slowing it down' is really important, so we can't really tell quite yet how necessary the lockdown in China was. Sure, the virus isn't contained and it will probably return. But how many lives were saved or will be saved because the lockdown 'only' slowed things down?

Not saying I have a strong opinion on this; I really have no clue. But at least from what I understand even just slowdown might be worth quite a high cost.
What made it so cool?
Proof reading doesn’t drive clicks.
Perhaps photonic computing?

I think there are still lots of advances in computing needed to eventually have security from the semiconductor level up.
Not OP but I have a Mirra 2, I liked it better than the Aeron or Embody. I do really suggest you go someplace where you can try it out, also the various sizes. I bought refurb, don't remember price.
Confusing. What exactly is special about this code search system? Seems common for internal code search
Reading that the virus is stable in the air for 3h, you would think that the R0 would be closer to measles, i.e. ~18 instead of ~2. Any ideas why this is not the case?
> It's kind of unconstitutional to stop them from returning.

Sort of. The trick is to get the airline overseas to refuse boarding. (Probably) not unconstitutional because it's not US soil.

Just like how the US directs airlines overseas to refuse boarding if you show a US birth certificate and photo ID instead of a US passport.
Is that more or less than the US itself?
Hong Kong’s subway is sending robots to disinfect trains
Spring, the documentation is so good and detailed
Not sure how the backyard argument is relevant anyway. It's not like that makes not spreading the disease that much easier. Public transport is certainly a risk. But I'm not even sure if e-commerce helps. Going to Walmart at 1am and using self checkout is probably much safer than receiving your delivery from someone who might be infected and visits several hundred homes a day.
Interestingly, I had the opposite experience. I've been using Firefox for many years after moving away from Chrome because it was too slow. Nowadays, I've been thinking about moving back to Chrome because I tried a recent version of Chrome, and it ran faster than FF. FF does have some nice features like privacy and some really cool extensions. But it's gotten slower and there are some webpages that don't work for me unless I fire up Chrome. But since I've been using FF for many years, and have all of my favorite extensions and logins saved, it's tough to go back.
Also, often contains bodily fluids, from a very voluptuous exotic dancer.

It’s best to launder the money prior to using it.
1. Restrictions on internal travel

2. Isolation for those exposed or showing symptoms

3. Paid time off work for people who can't do their jobs in isolation, to make sure people report exposure and symptoms

4. Suspension of public gatherings

Some of these are being done voluntarily and/or by local governments, but that's very patchy.
It [1] looks a lot like the AirBnB logo.

[1]:
https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/Image/Cli...
Not really, this is a pale shadow of what the real CodeSearch inside Google does. I really wish the external ones had even 1/10th the functionality.
what does the 'WWE model" mean when referring to football?

genuinely curious. I'm not into sports.
Urban population in Europe also includes suburbs. Yes, there's less sprawl but enough people in Europe living in urban settings have backyards and reasonably large houses.
I don’t quite get this. Having spent significant time in southern China, while there’s no exceptional water heating that’s (from what I heard and from some brief stays) universal in the north, I can’t think of an urban residence that doesn’t have indoor air conditioning, and rural homes tend to have installed them in the last twenty years, too. It can’t be constantly cold unless people refuse to turn on air conditioning. (I’ve heard that some older college dorms may not have air conditioning, though.)

Meanwhile, I’ve spent significant time in NorCal and NJ residences with extremely crappy heating, too.
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After what you just said, color me skeptical. I went to a state school and got an average-ish CS degree with average-ish internships and research, how far behind am I?
It's pretty clear that Trump misread his statement. In more ways than just that one.
This is a neat idea, and it's interesting to see how well it handles a chaotic system like the double pendulum.

I'd love to see a plot of the analytic Lagrangian vs the numerical one over the two parameter space of the double pendulum. How uniform is the approximation? Since the double pendulum isn't ergodic, I'd be curious to see if there's a correlation between probability of occupying a state and precision there. If there were it could be used as a hint of where to look for non-ergodic behavior in experimental systems.

Another possible fun thing to do with it: imagine you have a chain hanging from two points in the presence of an uneven mass distribution producing gravity. Since you've got the machinery in place for the calculus of variations more generally than just Lagrangian mechanics, you might be able to get the neural net to produce an estimate of the mass distribution from the shape of the chain, which is a toy example of something that might be usable in mineral exploration.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619715/

Study, 'Significance of chronic toxoplasmosis in epidemiology of road traffic accidents in Russian Federation'
> It isn't hard to understand what the President is saying.

The most generous interpretation of his words is that he meant it's a political attack from his political opponents.

The fact that his first instinct is his own political fortunes and has to preemptly whine like a baby about it is evidence of shit leadership.

The President and all leadership should be focused on the right response that minimizes loss of life, political fortunes be damned. I mean, seriously. If a sheriff's first instincts in every crisis were his reelection chances, he'd be out on his ass. But sadly, yes, here we are, arguing stupid shit, in the middle of a completely unnecessary distraction because he felt threatened and needed to lash out. So he pitted us against each other at the least opportune time. It is the one of the worst possible things to do in a crisis. Find a way to divide us!
How does a garage help? Many people living in urban areas in Europe have a basement. And even those who don't shouldn't have issues storing 2 weeks worth of food in their houses or apartments. Fridge space is probably the only restriction for that.
The article's title is VERY misleading. After the fifth covid-19 case was confirmed in Taiwan (around Jan 25), the Taiwanese government had already banned all mainland Chinese tourists from entering the country. In February, even non-citizen children and mainland Chinese spouses of Taiwanese were forbidden to enter. That Taiwan had implemented a travel ban at a very early stage is a crucial factor for keeping the number of infections low.
I was talking about the video.
Similar. Voodoo does color recovery on chip, not in external DSP/RAMDAC, you dont need a line buffer then you have whole framebuffer in ram.
This is missing tons of functionality and layers that the internal one has tho, like all of the automatic code analysis and linting, coverage and fuzzing integration, etc
you mean SARS-CoV-1 in the first para
It gets mathematical and statistical really fast.

So there's a constant conflict between simple and easy to understand but not totally correct info, and scientifically correct but incomprehensible to most info.

Someone sneezing in your face = really bad. Someone sneezing an hour ago vs. touching something they just sneezed on... hard to say which is worse.
Now why don’t we hear from the person he murdered: what it’s like to have your entire existence and future stolen from you. Compared to that, four years in solitary is minor.
Is that departure time or arrival time?
I kind of went the other way. I skipped out on my undergrad classical mechanics class and did the graduate course, taught by a guy from the Landau school, out of volume 1 of Landau & Lifshitz. So in the summer after my 3rd year I spent some quality time with Newton's Principia and then most of the rest of the summer staring off into space as I hooked up everything between the two systems again.

Man, that was a great summer.
The ban is for people who have been in the Schengen zone within the last 14 days, not just for direct arrivals from those states.
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