skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let's make this a bit more graphic.

Suppose you caught it. It means you may get sick for several days. Sucks, but hey. However, it also means you'll be contagious for the next couple of weeks. Before you get sick, but also after you got better. Anyone who comes in contact with you runs a risk of catching it from you.

What does that mean "contact"? Simple. You're basically shedding viral particles. An invisible cloud of them hovers around you. A cough, talking, touching anything ranging from toilet seats to doorknobs to tables,... You basically leave a trail of particles that has the potential to infect others long hours after you've passed by. And you wouldn't even realize you're doing it.

Because this is exactly where you'll get a demonstration of power laws in action. Suppose 1 person infects 2 others over the course of those weeks, those will go on to infect 4, 16, 32,... you'll get what's going on here. Basically, you're that first match in a stack of matches that got lit, and before you know it, the entire stack has burned down.

Why is that bad? Because maybe two or three hops from you, there's a specialist, a couple of nurses, a few people who are designated to help out elderly people and maybe a couple of people with health conditions such as asthma, COPD, diabetes, high blood pressure,...

You didn't just got sick, you also provided a gateway for the virus to jump to all those people as well. Meaning all those who got sick can't provide healthcare anymore; and a ton of people end up in an already strained healthcare system.

And that's discounting people who have bad luck and end up having a heart attack, a stroke or a bad accident. If the ICU's are overloaded with COVID patients, stark choices will have to be made on who gets to live and who is left to die. That's where they are in Italy right now.

We aren't just talking about "patients", we are talking about your and other people's loved ones. Parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, friends,... That's what we are discussing here.

Wrapping up. If you think that barricading yourself in your house for weeks/months is a "no go", well, you're not gonna like what's going to happen next either.

Stay in your home. Avoid contact if you can. Follow the WHO recommendations. Be responsible about this. That's how you help saving lives.
Sanctions seem extreme. This article alleges Trump offered to buy a vaccine exclusive to the US. That seems like it merits a "No" more than a punitive response.
Starting a trade war against your #1 trade partner is not on your list to handle the upcoming EU recession.
First time I've ever heard anyone say "Let us be cynical"
statistics with references[1]

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I really need something like this. Great job identifying a pain point.

>> 1. Highlight text on any page, and a popup will appear

Popup is not appearing. I am using the chrome extension + mac. Does this only work on Windows?
This is the kind of "zero sum game" thinking that Putin uses, i.e. "someone else losing is the same as me winning".
Especially when the one whose incompetence and malevolence needs to be pointed out is himself doing nothing BUT finger pointing and lying, when he should instead be working on solving the problem.
Shows how one can be a market leader in an old technology that is “commoditized.”
That normal guy got these decision-makers elected tho
Open Intubator
An argument against closing the schools is that they will be looked after by their grandparents.
What exactly are they going to do with those guns that'll get them more food?

Looting and robbing, even were they to get away with it, will only get them a limited amount when there's virtually no food to be had.

I don't think guns are going to be the solution here.
the way it's phrased causes me to jump to a conclusion but I would not claim that it guides my mind. The error is in my reasoning (system 2 being lazy), _not_ in the phrasing.
Here you go, startup idea: emergency logistics. Company that can quickly ship and verify good quality approved medical equipment and supplies to the epidemic area.
This might not really translate to you since the context I have taken online courses in is that I have wanted to learn more so that I could be a more effective software engineer. So I'm looking for things that show applications quickly.

Courses I've gotten a lot out of: Andrew Ng's ML course and Yaser Abu-Mostafa's learning from data course.

In both courses I really felt like I was learning something meaningful. I very clearly remember how mind blowing it was to me that you could turn complex high level tasks into curve fitting. I excitedly told a colleague of this thing I had learned about called linear regression who turned out to be surprised I had not taken a statistics class. Same thing for generalization bounds & VC dimension in Yaser's class.

I don't know if this can really be generalized to all courses since it might just be matching students to courses that make sense to them, but the worst line in a MOOC is "Well, this is boring, but you're just going to have to grind through it so that we can solve problems later". Shout out to the Convex Optimization MOOC I dropped.

For Data Science 101 this should be easy. Find some problems that students could imagine wanting to work on and use those problems to drive what you talk about.

Also, a pet peeve of mine is courses trying to make me do math by hand. I am 100% going to ask a math package to do an integral for me every time this happens. Sure, somebody has to know all the math deeply, but it's not me.

So I guess the main takeaway here is that you need to understand your audience. What is appropriate for me is probably not appropriate for 1st semester college kids.
Recently I found myself wanting to stop a program after a certain timeout. I found myself thinking "sure there's a UNIX program to do this in shell?" There is. And it's called... brace yourself... "timeout".

20+ years in UNIX, never encountered it. Part of GNU coreutils.
Speeding Up ZSH and Oh-My-ZSH
I wonder if we can just use a $250 Jackson-Rees circuit and an electric motor as a DIY ventilator in a pinch.
Maybe one thing OP could do is prominently display the last updated time, instead of saying "updated three times a day". Though he/she does display the time period at the top.

But generally this is good advice - not add to the noise already there on the internet, even though OP's intentions are likely honest and they are just trying to help.
Only if a measurable number of people have that immunity. Assuming having it gives you immunity, Hubei has 1 in 10,000 with immunity, that's not enough to change it's spread
Really thanks for your suggestions!

I made this infographic since I was not able to quickly understand the number on the official website.
I would take it as a 'general' website, and I think that people know that they should check the official website in order to have something 100% reliable.

Also, the line at the end is a simple suggestion that any government is trying to say to the population to avoid overcrowding of hospitals. But I will edit the phrase to be lighter and less 'instructive'.
> There isn't a food shortage; there will be a slow down of cargo movement because of extra safety precautions and less people working, but there is no reason to expect people to go hungry and riot over this. Food shelters will not be closing down. Water, electricity will continue working.

Based on the panic buying I saw yesterday and the reports of the same from elsewhere, a significant number of people do not believe this.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor.

Paracetamol is probably as safe as it gets when it comes to drugs in its class. Overdosing is not all that simple and the numbers are high because of the availability and popularity of Paracetamol as a pain-killer and its silent use as a side ingredient in many products. Paracetamol is not as good as Ibuprofen when it comes to killing pain (IMHO), so maybe this causes a tendency to overdose in people who have built a tolerance to the drug.

To get liver damage, you have to exceed the daily recommended maximum of 4g of Paracetamol. Wiki says paracetomol toxicity is likely if your consumption exceeds 7g in a day [1]. Assuming you are a consuming Paracetamol in the form of OTC pills, say the super strength ones which are 500mg, you have to consume like 15 pills in a day. Overdosing from a combination of drugs containing paracetamol is much more likely. Most people don't realize the presence of the other ingredient.

For short term use, Ibuprofen is said to have a similar safety profile to Paracetamol, though its classification as an NSAID lends to its perception as a slightly less safe drug. Long term, it causes stomach and kidney damage.[2]

Anecdotally, Ibuprofen is much better at killing my pain, but I also have some negative reactions like increased reflux. Technically, Paracetamol also increases acidity but I tolerate it much better. I've mostly stopped using NSAIDs but I realize this is not possible for a lot of people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol_poisoning#Cause

[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306275/
Low power study, sample size of 31, p-value of 0.04, and a regression stating that somehow gdp per capita, gini coefficient were not significant?

Shrug. Sounds tenuous.
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Wonder if you're a good person? One day, a computer will tell you
That mouse pointer in particular. It is hideous and distracting.
It's a good reminder to be skeptical of our own beliefs and ways of thinking. Foolish thoughts, tribal biases, and motivated reasoning -- to name just a few distortions of reality -- are things that every human experiences.

I like to think is possible to get better at it. For me, things like meditation help, as the ego is often a main hindrance.
"Data last updated at X time. Check sources before relying on the accuracy of anything on this page".
Sunshine has always been helpful for people with TB, I wonder if that is why people get more chest ailments in winter, ie colds and flu?
Apparently you don't because the population of USA is roughly 330 million and 62 million voted for Trump. No where near 50% of the population.
Link to the evidence of long term issues please, or is this just scaremongering.
Do your modern double-glazed window frames sit in wood paneling in a brick wall? It's likely the wood has shrunk over time, and there are drafts either between the windows and the wood, or between the wood and the brick.
Germany is hilarious. The site is off by 2,138 confirmed cases, that was 2 days ago. We are now at 5,813.
I _still_ do this today with new (to me) code bases!

By doing this I really read the code, and really get to understand what the previous programmer was doing.

Also something I took from Asimov's foundation series, code that doesn't look right, doesn't run right.

I know, not really; compiler gives no fucks, but I'm not a compiler however, and GCC error messages (Clang too!) are still about as useful as a hot bikini wax is to a walrus.

This was one of the features that made me really fall in love with Emacs back in the day! I could set it up to force my style requirements, then even yanked (pasted) code would be proper (mostly) and I couldn't fat finger my code to death.

My only emacs complaint is lisp. I get it, I just don't like it. I'll take fortran 77 over lisp any day (not 66 or before, tho. I'm not that crazy). So, sorry mr(s) moar lisp.
Yep, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic.

I will try to increase the number of updates :)
Why someone needs to have own site when you can easily make more sales using Themeforest?
it's worth watching this lecture from last week to understand the role of ACE2 in SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 - very informative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAW6VBWTiAA
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/andrew-sullivan-real...

This is a really insightful article from Andrew Sullivan where he compares the initial reaction to the Coronavirus to the initial reactions to AIDS. For too long the homosexual community was in denial about the level of risk. The wanted to think that it would blow over, and no dramatic changes were needed.

Sullivan sees the echos now. A lot of people are still determined to downplay it, as though it proves some sort of moral victory over the people stocking up on toilet paper. The reality is that things may not go back to 'normal' for a long time.
Would you share what you have in mind?

I (personally) would not page in the middle of the night for a temperature issue. The systems should be resilient enough to handle some cpu throttling. A non-transient issue like this would probably end up in a ticket queue.
Alas, we do see a lot of threads like this, way too many to feel so great about this place. But it does feel good to hear from a user to whom it is unusual.
People keeping supply chains going to keep up with increased demand, including those dealing with the planning stress and those risking increased contact with the public such as grocery checkers and delivery people.
>It should be obvious that this story doesn't work: Boeing would most certainly be in trouble if they had to pay their workers sufficient to afford a new jetliner.

This is a terrible strawman. One could easily argue that Boeing should pay their employees enough so they could afford plane tickets to fly in Boeing jets. Comparing a commodity product to a commercial product like this article does is narrow and silly.
He's following the advice of his government and its experts. The two most prominent of which have spent their entire professional lives studying infectious diseases. You are a guy on the internet with opinions. Why should he listen to you and not them ?
Static site with something like github or gitlab pages sounds perfect for this. I'd be willing to help review things in my spare time.
My guess is that “stateless” means no durable storage. There’s still state, but in-memory (or maybe transiently stored on disk?) and no guarantee about it being there, perhaps?
You can have a social life while having a "digital addiction", with fewer risks to your health than a drug addiction, social or not.
I will ask the maker of this app for that information
a short summary is that you have to watch out for the things that don't kill you. i don't know what bojo has in mind.
There's already some data regarding this point, because we have countries that have done this early like Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea and none of them have reported this as a major factor in the known cases.
Number of specimens tested for SARS-CoV-2 in U.S.
Into the 60s, women still comprised up to half of the computing workforce.

My life experience corroborates this.

When I was in school, girls were taught to type, and boys weren't. Because of that, many of the girls from my school went into computing, while the boys went to more "manly" pursuits. It's also why Catholic nuns were over-represented in early computing.
Please make sure any startup you fund doesn’t take a selfish approach to patents and intellectual property. Any progress on fighting Covid-19 needs to be shared with the world and not used as a cynical tool for profit.
Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: Storage and CDNs
A combination of originating IP address, website, Uri and a 13 bit value is no more a low entropy field.
Indeed. Regardless of what one thinks in terms of morality, his base will very much view this as a good thing.
I am not “my politicians”. Me and “my politicians” are individual human beings with different opinions. Disagreeing with my nations politics does not make me a hypocrite.
This thing appears to work by both reducing lung function (pneumonia) and diminishing oxygen-carrying capacity of blood - a double whammy. If you've got any marginal health issues, this reduces your margin - maybe not to death, but to damage.

Source is this Twitter thread analysing the reports coming out: https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/123897208631765401...

Thread starts at https://twitter.com/davidasinclair/status/123897208275664896...
Do you mean https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-54888? That's a Qt bug, not in KDE software.
Morbidity aside, this must be an exciting time to be an epidemiologist.
Completely unrelated to the video speedup hacks, but also in the vein of getting a lot of information across faster, one thing you can do for your courses would be to create Concept Maps.

The CmapTools software is very good for this: https://cmap.ihmc.us/cmaptools/

Overall I find concept maps on of the best tools to show an overview of the course (macro maps) or topic (zoomed in maps). As a teacher with extra context about data science you can easily put together something like this for your course that will show learners what there is to learn and allow them to keep track of their progress (e.g. wow when we started all these words were unknown to me, but now I know about 70% of the words on this map already).

I have heard teachers use CmapTools in more active way (asking learners produce concept maps individually or collaboratively), but don't have experience with that myself.

A paper about concept maps: https://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/pdf/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.pd...

And an example of the concept maps I use in my books: https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/conceptmap.pdf
I was thinking of advanced features like IAM, CloudTrail, direct connect, etc. that are only used by the most sophisticated customers.
It is times like this that make it quite salient how inefficient our systems can be when competition is the primary economic motivator. With things like climate change or space travel, the ill effects of competition over cooperation can be easier to hide from. A global pandemic forces the issue though, and petty nationalism and self-serving competitiveness are exposed plainly as detrimental to the species as a whole.

On a smaller scale the TP hoarding is of a similar phenomenon. Scarcity, even when it isn't actually there, drives us all and thus we fulfill the scarcity we were afraid of.
The “data” is anecdotal, not even close to the standards of an effectiveness trial.

That said, it’s an approved drug, so it will be applied and we’ll see how it goes. But don’t spread rumors about its effectiveness, because the truth is, we don’t know.
You're peddling conspiracy theories.
Vector of bools contribution of CMake tools for VS Code is a game changer and I'm certain that any other tooling he would be working on is thought out and beneficial to the C++ community.

After reading this rather lengthy blog post, I am excited to try this out.

Currently, dependency management for C++ projects is a PITA.
I agree with this. Only go to reputable sources for information [1]. If you have an academic background, then you know how to do this. If you don't know how to do this, ask someone on how to do this. It's quite a nuanced skill to learn all at once.

[1] My sources (but please do your own research):

1. WHO

2. RIVD (Dutch)

3. Dr. Mike on YouTube (and then verify the sources -- mostly medical journals -- he uses)
Even if you've decided that the risk to yourself is acceptable, think who you might infect (there can be around a month between the infection and the first symptoms) who [they may] have less chances for survival (if you are against social distancing, at least don't be around old people or places they have to visit).
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How do security specialists think about this sort of risk assessment? Not just for pandemics but anything that would make key people have to access these systems remotely.
> (1 keeps functions and data in separate namespaces; 2 puts everything in a single namespace). Many consider Lisp-2 an improvement over Lisp-1, in that it eliminates complexity and improves consistency and uniformity of behavior.

No, that's wrong. The number refers to the number of namespaces. Lisp-1 is a single namespace, and usually refers to Scheme. Lisp-2 is two namespaces, one for function names and one for variables that are non-functions. Lisp-2 is typically Common Lisp.
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Sure - the issue is we (the public reading this) don't know when this actually physically failed. It could be that SRE picked up on this before a scheduled walkthrough (of which I'm sure occurs) happened.

Disclaimer: Google employee. No knowledge of this event beyond the blog post.
By the way, in Johannesburg this is not the case.

The natural vegetation in many parts of the highveld here naturally had almost no trees. (Pretoria does have a lot of trees naturally.)

Berlin is the only city in the world with more trees today than Johannesburg.
That's not what I mean. There is no need for Trump to do this; once someone develops a vaccine then they should be able to license it for a normal fee.

The US have a massive army of chickens ready to produce eggs which are used to produce vaccines in the order of millions per month. They just need the vaccine and they can produce it.

I hope that Europe are in the same situation.
Oh come on. Ported my pcap parser in 3 hours, and that included reading the docs and looking up a example capture.

SDB is the 'file header' packet.
IDB is the 'interface description' packet.
EPB is the 'data' packet.

The rest you should ignore except if you need to look through other block kinds, and in this case you're quite happy to have pcap-ng. No custom block in pcap, except forking wireshark...

All the ethernet/ppp/802.11 after that is the same as with pcap. What do people find so complicated there ?

Also pcap-ng is quite the generic data-recording format. Merging internal logs, network capture, interface stats, system configuration state, whatever you might want... In a /simple/ unique format. Easy to write, easy to have it read by wireshark... Even if it's not only network related.

The real strength of pcap-ng is that you can read it in both directions. Size is at the start /and/ end of each block. Seems stupid but it's very useful for some kind of analysis. Used to build indexes for pcap files... Not so useful now. And anyway, if you want to build an index, you can just add it as custom packet at the end.
I graduated 12 years ago and I still have clothes from college that I wear. The only new clothes I purchased after college was a few more dress shirt and pants for work, heavier jackets when I moved further north...I don't understand people who purchase clothes for the 'new season' every year.
That single person is certainly a factor but unfortunately it gets worse when commenters start going after entire countries.
> then someone somewhere has lost the right to refuse to serve me - either directly (I’m allowed into their store if they want or not) or indirectly (they are forced to labor in fields in terrible conditions).

There are other options than this false dichotomy. We could all chip in, relative to our means, to ensure a baseline of healthy food is available to all. I neither serve food nor labor in the fields, and yet I'm pretty sure I could be part of a solution that ensures everyone gets basic healthy food even if they cannot/do not work.
Keep your hard work and that's a great story.
I didn't know that the normal way I live my life is anything worth commenting on. I still wear clothes from when I was in college 25 years ago. But this is more from laziness and a generally dislike of shopping, combined with zero fashion sense, than from any altruistic values.
> But you don't have to believe me as I read and don't make bibliographies in all of my posts.

We certainly don't have to make them in all posts, but I think it's reasonable to request that we make them in what are hopefully a small number of posts wherein we offer medical advice.