skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> 5. What's the likelihood that a mutation will occur once treatment is more widespread?

> Mutations occur all the time, there are already 10's of known mutations of virus, it doesn't mean there are 10 separate diseases.

I agree, but I'd like to add more details. Most mutations are irrelevant, and if you have antibodies for the original version, the same antibody is useful for the new version.

From time to time, the mutation is in the part that encodes the part that is recognized by the antibody, and then you may be infected by the new version.

[There are a lot of other mutations. A lot of mutations just make the virus not able to reproduce, or break some important part, so the mutated version just disappear. Another mutations make the virus more effective or less effective, so they change how bad the symptoms are.]
IT, software engineering and project management apprenticeships are very common in France (and in Europe I guess). 1) In addition of not paying anything for your education, you actually finish your education with a non-negligible amount of money on your bank account. 2) Also you are pretty sure to get job offers even before finishing and higher entry salaries than other students (since you already have a few years of professional experience). 3) Finally, apprenticeship is just great if you think school/college is kinda boring.
No matter how great security labeling may be, I fear the incentives are completely and utterly in the wrong place.

An individual consumer who purchases a poorly protected network device is unlikely to suffer any meaningful individual harm, like having their computer ransomwared.

Rather, it makes things like botnets possible that can be used for all sorts of things, e.g. DoS attacks against a third party.

So why should a consumer do anything but ignore the label? It's the rational choice if the less-secure product is cheaper.

If we want security standards, they need to be legislated democratically and applied to all devices -- not left up to consumer choice.

Now whether a legislature is capable of doing that effectively is certainly an open question. But I'm afraid labeling may be no more than an ineffective band-aid.
Coronavirus: Life Inside China's Lockdown
Apple moves annual developers conference online due to coronavirus
I feel the opposite way from a moral perspective. People that do evil in the name of justice are far more evil than people that do first hand evil. If FB managers are immoral then even your threat of doxing is so evil you should face immediate yet just and measured consequence. The only moral conflict with the law is how tame the punishment for doxing is.
Of course. But this is only one of many such reports. I've read things about massive increase of cystic fibrosis and damage to testicles in males. Maybe those reports were wonky, I don't know. But the possibility of a real after-effect like that combined with a predicted massive infection rate seems to make the death number to be a trivial problem in comparison.
And age too.
>there's a whole host of things between "life" and "death" that are not stated or that we simply do not know.

Being a lifelong runner, I agree with you 100%. I'm not panicked or unreasonable about it or anything, but I do protect my body. (So glad they canceled Boston by the way.)

I would encourage people under 60 to consider the very real possibility that certain physical activities that you enjoy may become difficult for you. Some may even become life threatening. Who knows? Hiking or running at certain altitudes, etc. Consider the sense of loss you might feel at not being able to do workouts that seemed a breeze just last year? Or how would you feel if you suddenly found that you need frequent rests to "salsa the night away"?

This virus is likely harmless if you're 15 or under. It's fairly deadly if you're over 60. But if you're 15 to 55, there's a whole lot we don't know right now.
> Why on earth are the two related?

Apple aspires to a future where there's no point stealing an unattended iPhone, because it'll have an unbypassable lock for sure, and hence zero stolen goods value.
My last experience at an MS shop identified what I believe to be the (intentional) reason.

Microsoft has certifications for everything. The more people with Microsoft certifications you have the more they will give you discounts on their tech stack.

This self-feeding beast creates businesses that become incentivized to hire people with MS certs to get more discounts on MS tech. Developers are encouraged to gain these certs and maintain experience in that MS ecosystem as well, which invests them in all things Microsoft.

When you factor in the vendor approval process where everything under a single umbrella has been approved (usually, MS, AWS, Google) then as a developer, you know you'll have access to those tools when you go to another similar job.

In much the same way that people are happy to invest in learning open source tools rather than internal company libraries, because the experience is portable outside of that single job.
It could be that measures less severe than "masks and gloves and stay away from each other" are enough to bring R0 below 1. Maybe just not having people go out when sick with coronavirus is enough, and all the other measures are just a matter of bringing outbreaks to an end faster with a smaller peak. South Korea has definitively shown that the coronavirus can be controlled, even if you don't trust China.
I agree it was reasonable, but it was written such that it was very recognizable as a non-human automated system response. I'd make the case that the message should go even further to seem like a robot, because few empathise with mindless automatons. For the same reason, it's not clear that serious emotional damage occurred. It wasn't cruel or unsympathetic, it was a machine going through its motions.

I think it was a simple oversight on behalf of system administrators.
They are also incentivized to to give benefits to attract skilled people.
Less new equipment?

But really people bought Apple products and want the company to act differently. Don't buy from bad companies and it doesn't affect you.
> But Tsang said the long-term effect on recovered patients, such as whether they would develop pulmonary fibrosis, a condition where lung tissue hardened and the organ could not function properly, had yet to be ascertained.

It sounds like there hasn’t been enough time yet to see if the effects last?
The tests are not accurate. [1] We are running around like chickens freaking out about tests. The only thing to do at this point is Social Distancing so the growth curve flattens out. Testing is NOT a solution. Testing will not make a sick person better. We have limited resources. Testing is being advocated by those trying to trace the community spread. I have news for you, if you think you have it you got it! Everyone will get it. Tracking this is a waste of resources at this point as the false positives mean additional limited Frontline Health Care workers treating actually sick individuals. We need to minimize the community spread, that means stay away from events. Work from home.

Individuals should self quarantine at any sign of illness. Critical patients should be admitted to hospitals. Everyone else should do everything in their power to slow the spread. You got a cough? Stay home. You feel tired or run down? Stay home. You have a fever and it went away? Stay home for the next 14 days. If your employer will not let you work from home, email them that you believe you are an asymptotic carrier of the COVID-19 virus and if they will not let you take paid sick leave or work from home you will be in the office immediately. Tell all your coworkers you requested to stay home and management wouldn't let you... Let the lawyers sort it out with HR.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832
Welcome to living anywhere near the great lakes in summertime.
Dunno about Qatar but in Abu Dhabi humidity has reached 100%
I feel this is like the cold fusion of dentistry. I've been reading optomistic "10 years" papers about it for 25 years, anyway.
> This seems like a week of pay for a pretty good software dev.

Wait, 6500 * 4 * 12 = 312,000/yr

Might be a bit high for a week :P

EDIT: Okay turns out that if you live in the Bay area this isn't unheard of - the rest of us make 4x to 5x less then that (Saying this as a mid-level software dev from West Michigan).
>> have 1 team meeting for few hours Wednesday afternoon

This is really old-school (coming from a 40-plus!) and just doesn't work anymore.

What if I have more than a few direct reports or multiple teams?

When exactly is "Wednesday afternoon" for global teammates?

How do I share this temporal, ad-hoc conversation with team members who can't call in when I decide "n O'Clock on Wednesdays is forced bonding time"?

The overall sentiment is good and I completely agree of about geniunely caring for your team members, but synchronous, in-person communication just doesn't scale for remote teams.

This advice also seriously conflates all the different roles a manager fills into combined interactions. You shouldn't be discussing status reports, career planning, personal issues and shooting the sh!t in the same forum, especially all-hands.

Finally, email is terrible for surfacing actionable steps from meetings. There's no ownership or deadline and you will already be buried under a huge mountain of emails.

Will another tool solve structural issues with your remote team? Absolutely Not.

Do you need another tool to manage remote teams? Maybe; at the very least you need to tweak the tools you already use.
I feel like RAD tooling is the best way to do UI work, it's a shame we keep going backwards on that.
Corporate lawyers in high demand as coronavirus hits businesses
TFA (and the paper) specifically address rate-limited guessing, with a complete lockout after a small maximum #tries.

This is not about unlimited guessing, obviously, because 4 or even 6 digits can just be guessed in under a second!
Based on the published data. Also, 40-50% of China's population would be 600-800 million, or so.

With that even at 1% 6-8 million would have died. Even with filtered data, it is doubtful that they would have been able to hide so many dead.
Love Streets of Rogue,

https://crawl.develz.org/ -- is my personal favorite. Good combination of punishing but easier to pick up.
Ethereum developer tests positive for Covid-19
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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma to donate 500k coronavirus test kits to US
Love how this might create a positive spin in light of all the pessimism in these trying times.

You're awesome Pete!
It is, as the bounty reporter says themselves, eminently fair. People on this site have very weird ideas of what the going rates for bounties are.
"Your status is CODE 444: DEATH OF ROOMMATE. Please report to the campus housing administration so that your dead roommate may be replaced with a live one. Go Lions!"
This was extremely expected: not just because of the fact that everyone is cancelling conferences out of an abundance of caution, but the Santa Clara county ban on gatherings over 1,000 people would have made WWDC infeasible.
Hey, (tongue in cheek here...)

Maybe if there were some way to draw up a some type of contract/agreement between you and the employer, covering the possibility that if your vector of infection (if it happens) was caused by going to work (commuting with people, being at the location, etc.), when a suitable alternative was available (remote working), they take full responsibility in the event of you contracting the illness. (COVID-19)

And being responsible for placing you (someone immuno-compromised) into an environment where the possibility of infection may be arguably higher than working from home. They are responsible, maybe to the largest extent, of you getting sick and dying.

Unfortunately, if the worst case happens and you contract the disease, and die, perhaps someone related to you might gain some type of financial benefit. But again, you're still dead.

Again this is tongue in cheek, so what do I know. Like most of us, you probably signed away all rights to sue and therefore anything like this is moot.

The typical American POV is that you should have thought about something like this a long time ago and had insurance that covers the possibility of you getting sick and dying. It's not your employer's responsibility to keep you healthy, or necessarily to provide you a space to work that's safe from these types of threats. Ultimately it's all your fault.

You're welcome.

So the only solace you can take would unfortunately be very dark. As in, "If I get it, I'm sure as fuck gonna make sure you all get it....". Yeah, that sucks and really takes that whole team morale down a bit. As well as scares the fark outta me when I think about some of the people I work with (a lot) that might be, just that pissed.

Welcome to America!
I just wondered today if the crisis has led to an increase in social media engagement. If someone has numbers they could share I'm sure it would be interesting.
Is there something about the primitives that APL-derivitives provide that mean that more of your program can happen inside the primitives so the interpreter is doing less work?

Yes. Well, maybe not the primitives themselves, so much as how the language pushes you to use them.

Last I looked, execution of the J interpreter, especially on large data, tends to be a handful of very tight loops inside the built-in verbs' implementations, and those loops are glued together with a small amount of the higher-overhead dispatch code normally associated with interpretation. Implicit looping incurs a once-per-array-op cost, but the cost of the computation done on each array element dominates the total cost. The interpreter is not especially clever, but the language encourages the programmer to write code that's easy for the interpreter to handle.

Performance is a bit fragile though. If the operation you're lifting over a whole array includes array-lifted operations internally, now you're doing the heavy interpretive dispatch inside the loop. As a simple example, {.+{: means "add the first item to the last item." If you apply it to a vector, it adds the first and last scalars. If you apply it to a matrix, it adds the first and last rows (and so on). Applying it to a very wide matrix is cheap because {. and {: just have to select the right rows, and then you have a simple loop over those rows' elements. It's about 166ms on my laptop with ten million row elements:

wide =. i. 2 10000000
6!:2 '({.+{:) wide'
0.166085

With the data oriented the other way, there's no inherent reason computation should be any slower, but it is. ({.+{:)"1 means, "apply {.+{: to each individual vector." So we've changed from selecting the top and bottom from each column to selecting the left and right from each row. The way the J interpreter is structured, we have to figure out the loop for {.+{:)"1, but the loop body isn't just grabbing two numbers and adding them. The loop body jumps back to the interpreter to figure out how {.+{: should work on a 2-element vector. That takes about as long as figuring out how it should work on a 2-row matrix, but we do that for all ten million vectors.

tall =. i. 10000000 2
6!:2 '({.+{:)"1 tall'
2.99855
Flu viruses don’t spread less when it’s warm. They spread less when it’s more humid.

For the northern hemisphere it’s much less humid in winter, but that’s not true everywhere.

https://www.livescience.com/27533-flu-transmission-humidity....

We really should be increasing humidity in hospitals and offices in the winter. Newer planes have already been moving in that direction (to increase comfort).
Reducing economic activity kills people too.

You do realize that the economy isn't just a game of moving multi-colored pieces of paper around
Why the U.S. Is So Behind on Coronavirus Testing
> and afaik that's around 20% across the board.

Incorrect. That’s exactly the risk factor for higher ages.
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Regarding Quatar (or any warm/hot place): Note that a significant fraction of people spends a lot of time inside. This means the temperature there is actually colder, there's less sunlight (especially UV), and people are closer to each other.
Also note that for the common cold, the reason that it spreads more during winter times is not primarily temperature, but the fact that people spend more time inside while ventilating (opening windows) less often.

Comparing speed of distribution in different countries is extremely difficult, as there are too many factors at play. The 258 cases in Qatar might have been 500 if it was colder there, no one can proof or refute that.
>Is it safer to keep using the same mask for a week or to use it once then go maskless? We just don't know.

This is a better way to phrase my question and more precisely what I'm trying to determine.

tbh it sounds safer to re-use a mask (that may or may not be contaminated) that not use a mask at all especially in a crowded public space.
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Qatar is more humid than people think for being a desert country, because it is a peninsula in the gulf. As I write this, it's about 70% relative humidity.
Do you have a source on this? That obviously would make sense, but I haven't actually seen any data on age vs ARDS, only age vs death rates. So absent any information otherwise, I'm not going to assume that if my risk of death (with medical care) is only 0.2% then my risk of ARDS is no more than a couple percent.
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Is it what Steve Jobs and his friend used to hijack telephone lines and call the pope, free of cost?
> that's the german auto mafia, these guys get away with a lot

Like the most important industries in most countries of the world, sadly.
The Instagram Experiment and Results
What data does Facebook collect about you and how do they use it?
This site could be a case study in everything wrong with modern web publishing.
WWDC has always been, like some of their devices, “exclusive”. More demand than supply. Will they keep limited registration, or might it open up to another tier of registrants?
There aren’t any
I keep having to make the same post again and again

China's almost certainly faking their numbers. We know they fake every other number related to economics - so why would they tell the truth about coronavirus? This is what a "save face" culture does to you. It turns you into a serial liar
Obviously many of these events are sort of special in person events that involve in person stuff that people like, social stuff, being there and etc.

But when I think of announcements of products and things I always think of now Nintendo went to Nintendo Direct... some of this stuff really is just fine being recorded and streamed only.
>Kidney function is most often estimated indirectly, based on measurements of the amount of a chemical called creatine in the blood.

That's the money shot. What he is saying is that given the assumption of a normal diet and a well functioning kidney, creatine blood level is a useful proxy for indicating kidney health.

The problem comes in that your creatine level's usefulness as a proxy for kidney health is reliant on the assumption you're eating a relatively normal diet. If you eat one low in creatine, but also have failing kidneys, the low level of creatine intake masks the kidney health indicator because the doctor will likely assume you are eating a normal diet, and not calibrate the numbers to reflect your particular situation.

It's not that the numbers don't matter; it's that you need to understand how the mechanics of the measurement can be effected by violated base assumptions. Always talk with a physician, and try to give them as much relevant information with regards to your lifestyle as you can.
They are selling premium support so I’d consider it in that context.
Chloroquine is a really interesting drug because it is derived from quinine which is one of those "early history medicine man/woman" kinda things (Quechas) that turned out to be effective for two things: antiviral properties and great taste.

* It was used for centuries to combat malaria until it recently (~10yrs) became ineffective (I took some in the 80's for a year while working in Central America and had amazing dreams).

* It is the basis many awesome aperitifs: Byrrh, Bonal, [tonic water,] and other herbaceous spirits

If it can be used as an antiviral for COVID-19, well, that would be a really cool example of an old/ancient medicine still doin' its thing.
This makes me curious as to how easily guess able my pin is. It's not a pattern or a date but it is a cultural reference.
He lived to the prime old age of 103:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy
FDA approves new coronavirus test that could speed rate of testing up to tenfold
They don't have to work for free - the government can pay them.
Trump administration announces measures to speed coronavirus testing
The Election of 2020 might be postponed
Your mouth absorbs a lot of nicotine, so even if you don't inhale (you will STILL inhale a little just by being in a cloud of smoke you just blew), you will likely get buzzed off of a cigar if you aren't used to smoking them.
Videos I've seen of the sound of an A-10 firing its main gun can inspire similar feelings, particularly when you hear the supersonic crack of the individual rounds before the rumble of the gun itself.
But isn't the problem with isolating parts of the image at the optical level that you can't later undo it? It seems like at least one of the advantages to everything being in focus is that you can isolate whatever you want in post-processing. Cameras are already doing this, they just require multiple lenses and thus more space and material to do it.
Related Graphs:

https://kopywritingkourse.com/social-media-strategy/

Excerpts:

"Also with my base content it keeps returning more and more traffic per month, even if I don’t post much.

Whereas you can see my Instagram stats dropped by something like 60X less when I didn’t post for about 10 days."

[...]

"I might spend 3 hours writing an article on my website today, but over the course of time:

Day 1: People read it, even while I sleep.

Day 2: People read it and signup to the website, which builds my audience.

Day 3: From that article I can make 5+ social media posts, exposing the content to different networks.

Day 10: The article starts to rank in Google, sending me more traffic.

Day 20: Someone links the article and sends their traffic to the article, growing my audience.

Day 50: I am writing an article about something similar, and can reference that old post and use content from it.

Day 100: Someone finds the article and shares it to their social media following, growing my audience.

Day 500: I still get traffic, signup, and sales from 3 hours of work I did 500 days ago.

…basically that article works for me, and builds an asset I own.

This process happens with social networks too….you can definitely build an asset on a platform.

However, the key difference is ultimately the social networks owns the asset, not you.

Also as network popularity shifts, you lose much of that benefit.

But if Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter have the eyeballs of damn near every person on Earth…..then it’s worth playing their game."
I believe that these are low-skill content-moderation staff who were hired specifically for their FB contract. They'll likely be shitcanned if they lose the contract. Accenture isn't going to run this huge contract into the ground anyway.