skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but they're in less contact. While the infection rate is still low[1], we're not trying to eliminate the "possibility" of infection, we're trying to reduce the likelihood of a transmission event. So biking to a workplace and not sitting in a subway car is eliminating a bunch of transmission events. That reduces the R0 of the epidemic, which determines the exponent with which it will grow (or shrink). Enough measures like this and the case count starts going down over time and not up.

Defense in depth, basically. Is it enough? We just don't know. But it's absolutely not useless.

[1] This stops being true once the infection rate starts being non-negligible. That's where you have to go to hard quarantine measures that try to eliminate all non-essential contact. But we're not there yet.
Yep, citizen effort here as well in Oakland. Me and a couple folks created https://www.lanelookout.org to do precisely this. We got a lot of support from our local code for America chapter, OpenOakland.
> Cycling 6 miles is not a lot...

If you say so. It is for me. It's not only a long distance (google maps says 35 minutes, which I suspect is an underestimate), but also would be significantly inconvenient -- do I shower at work, and when I get home? What if I want to go somewhere after work -- leave the bike and come back for it?

I love the idea of biking, but I don't see it being useful for my commute.
I highly value my individual and civil rights, such as they are. Yet, I am prepared to temporarily relinquish a part of them if that helps overcome a clear and present existential threat to society as a whole.

Yes, I feel deeply secure about my criticisms thus far.
For my current “major” client (largely a php mvc app) it runs on a “cluster” of Linode VPS, aiming for no spof within that DC (next step for HA will be a duplicated setup in another DC/location/vendor)

As for process, all node types (balancer, db/redis, web/app/util) are configured via a shell script combined with a series of config files and overrides based on environment/role (which is also called via packer to pre-provision a vagrant base box image) all stored in a separate git repo.

Actual deployments of new application code currently occur via DeployBot.
When you say it's only airborne for a short while, what exact time range are you speaking about?
You're right.

It looks like there is no offline version :(
Giving hefty fines, or even outright confiscate veichles, to people blatantly ignoring the law and infringing on other people's well being. That's not "big brother", that is trivial to accomplish with a well-organised vehicle inspection programme.
That's an aspiration more than a reasoning IMO. Meanwhile that R0=2.28 is doing its thing and it can't be good for the NHS, meaning many ugly pictures. The thing is when tabloids are going to get hysterical about this.
Maybe you're thinking of the Daihatsu Charmant, which was basically a rebadged Corolla. The 660cc Copen kei car was relased in 2002.
Similar space here. Don't discount SMS as a delivery channel, it hits a surprising number of folks, including those without a fixed address.
France orders non-essential public places to close
Then you should wash them at the first chance and avoid touching your face. The only way to be safe here is to seal yourself into a room and avoid all exposure. Since that’s probably not possible the next best thing is to just do the best you can.
>Okay, if this is how it is, then why are they allowed on the road?

Because they meet all of the legal requirements to be operated on public roads.
> Isn't what the UK is doing effectively flattening the curve that everyone is talking about.

No I think their strategy is the opposite, they want a big spike to get it over with. Flattening the curve is spreading the outbreak over time so the stays under the medical system saturation point, but the whole thing lasts much longer.

See this graph: https://econofact.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/FlatCurve_w...
Righ, the system as a whole is useful. But if truck traffic wasn't as heavy/damaging, you would pay less to enjoy the same benefits, give or take.

I think the argument made by some transport people is that if we made (particularly) the trucking industry pay more directly, as you say we would be roughly back in the same place except variant freight methods (e.g. rail for long distances) might become competitive enough to bring overall costs down.

I don't know the truth of this, but we've been subsidizing trucking long enough that I don't think current rail capacity is a good indicator one way or another. It seem plausible - it's clear there is a market distortion but not clear exactly what it is.

One nit-pick, it's not clear the non-car owners would be worse off so long as whatever payment mechanism we used didn't create a free-rider class of passenger vehicles.
http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-co...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186730

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13506283

Just posting because I was reminded of this
why does the data not line up with this:

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
Ask HN: Transitioning Entire Team to Remote
Due to covid19 my team of 8 is switching from fully on-site to fully remote for an undisclosed amount of time. None of has any real experience working remotely. What can we do to make the transition smoother?
My company develops SDKs for on-device speech recognition on Android/iOS: https://keenresearch.com/keenasr-docs (Raspberry Pi is an option too, we'll have a GA release in Q2)

We license this on commercial bases but would be open to indy-developer friendly licensing. We offer a trial SDK that makes testing/evaluation super easy (it works for 15min at the time).

Ogi

ogi@keeenresearch.com
As suggested by others, you do have a sick mind. Why don't you simply propose that people just quarantine the masks in a stock room for 72 hours instead?
Looks interesting. I've got a few GPUs I could use if the CPU is too much of a bottleneck.

We've identified a dictionary of the types of commands and words we use and have a recording of all our amazon and other commands. Training wave files are not an issue.

Have you had any issues with recognising multiple languages?

Thanks!
Evolution of Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing
High Availability, known data retrieval patterns and high
volumes of read/write.
Fundamentally there is no transportation solution to land use problems. If your destinations are inconveniently far apart, no bicycle, tram, bus, or train can fix that. The closest you can get to the convenience of a car without all the externalized social costs is an electric bicycle.
I think herd immunity is an integral part of the strategy. If a population never gets herd immunity, it will keep on getting infection breakouts and keep on having to impose lockdowns. The only way to stop doing lockdowns is either to prevent the ingress of the virus, ever, or eventually reach herd immunity.

The virus is everywhere now, it’s part of the landscape, so preventing breakouts is just flat out not possible, at least for large countries with lots of travel and especially with large rural hinterlands like the UK. In this view the only strategies are long term strategies.

There is a way to get herd immunity without an epidemic, and that’s inoculations. However we do not have a vaccine yet and have no idea if or when we might ever get one. So you can bet everything on red 13 and cross your fingers for a vaccine in 6 months, or pick which longer term strategy works best for your country, with its particular demographics and geography.
They didn't word it like the OP. The OP got that from the Twitter account extrapolating the contents of the press conference. The press conference mentions herd immunity but it didn't (like the twitter thread) state that keeping schools open was to ensure young people get infected.
We are there in Westchester, maybe Ocean/Monmouth.
> about 10°C higher than today

That is astonishing. Imaging how much energy takes to warm your home 10°C, how much more will take warm a museum or a stadium. Now apply that to the entire planet. Storms in the Cretaceous were probably no fun with so much extra energy.
Regardless of wire gauge, bundles of wire noticably reduce your heat dissipation ability and therefore reduce your safe current carrying capacity accordingly. That's why electrical code significantly de-rates the current capacity of circuits which run more than just a few conductors in a single conduit or through the same hole.
These kinds of cars go bad by just being parked. Even if you don't move it at all in a year, you probably still need to have it serviced.
Doing what someone else does, but a week later doesn't necesarily mean you made a mistake, or that you are a week late in making a decision.
I don’t understand how this is surprising. We have reached a point where devices and software are working well enough to not worry about how they work. The same happened with cars and probably a lot of appliances. Some decades ago you needed to know how they work so you could repair them. Nowadays not many people have even the foggiest idea how a car works. They just use it.
Great advice! We'll give it a try, thank you!
Yes, they've already said that they will bring in those measures in a week or two.
I don't think there is any evidence of reinfection. What seems to have happened in some cases is that a person's symptoms have dissipated but resurfaced a bit later. In other words, the patient thought they had recovered when they hadn't.

That said, the chief scientific officer has stated that this is likely to be an annual virus: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/13/coronavirus-outb...
No amount of money helps if there aren't enough tests available to buy. What is missing are manufacturing and distribution facilities, which of course are calibrated to the normal levels of work and not to a relatively sudden pandemic outbreak of one particular virus.

China has huge resources but has managed so far to keep the infection mostly contained to one specific area. It's not clear how long they'll be able to sustain that or whether they'd have enough resources to go around if all of China were the same as Hubei.

Of course all of this also assumes that tests are effective and that you can then do something useful if you confirm that a patient is indeed infected.
I think shysum is making the case that the magnitude of threat represented by the pandemic != the same magnitude of that represented by WWII. Thereby seemingly endorsing that rationing now is unjustified.

I don't buy into it necessarily; temporary rationing seems an appropriate response so long as it is guaranteed to be temporary.

I can sympathize with his concern of embracing authoritarianism in exchange for safety; I do abhor the practice, but in this environment, rationing is by far the least intrusive measure in ensuring the widest swath of people maintain access to a minimum reasonable level of supplies.

If people want more, let them negotiate with the manufacturer for additional output after existing orders have been met.

A self-imposed limit per customer enforced by retailers should be sufficient. No need to start getting the government into the business of looking for hoarders.
The UK Chief Science officer said, “To reduce the peak of the epidemic, flatten it and broaden it, so you don’t end up with so much intense pressure on healthcare systems at one time.” [1]

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237385-why-is-the-uk-a...
>I hope the Koenigsegg gets into some sort of mass production

Don't hold your breath.
Very cool. I would love to see it support a couple commands for killing and restarting the merged processes individually
I think it would be rational if we knew more about the virus, but we really don't know much, given how new it is. There could be long-term health effects from contracting it, but we just don't know. The UK seems to be making a lot of assumptions, which may not bear out. +1 insane.
I have an average commute, I'd say, for NYC. It's not like I'm some sort of supercommuter (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-surging-ranks-of-super-comm...).
Video and website take time, not money. It's a good investment for an unemployed or bored person in a depressed economic area pulling a $50K Kickstarter scam.
I agree with other commenters about "low quality content" being subjective. However, on a couple subreddits I will sometimes skim I often see tons of people posting links to videos that are just someone's take on a current event or just summarizing it. I have largely given up clicking on those because most of them can be summarized in 2-3 sentences much more quickly than watching some video and yet, on the times I actually do click on one of those links the video will have tens of thousands of views. Who is watching this stuff? I understand that the creators are trying to make a living but I don't understand why people watch the videos when they could learn the same amount of information much more quickly by reading it.
Am I assuming correctly that this only applies for type 1 diabetes?

With type 2 diabetes the body is in general less sensitive to insulin, more insulin producing cells won't fix the underlying insensitivity issue, right?
Monty Python's silly walk: gait analysis re peer review inefficiencies
Koenigsegg makes <100 cars a year afaik, and I doubt that'll change.
I have tried sub modules but it’s way too easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Not very sustainable in a team with different levels of git knowledge.
Can we stop posting all the paywalled links? So frustrating. I would never subscribe to one of these sites.
They said in the article basically "why make it bigger than it has to be? It does the job and leaves more room for passenger space."
Agree completely that it is an important work and enlightening- in terms of perspective. The socio/anthropological history of Debt is a very useful lens for the modern world.

That said, in terms of understanding- with all respect, I find it insufficient (MHO). Perspective, as Alan Kay says, is worth a lot of IQ points, but on its own is insufficient. The modern financial world is full of machines (both software and people processes). Much of what happens is a result of mechanical inertia. The universe of sensible changes from a policy perspective is limited by the ergonomics and sympathies of the existing machines.

It has been a long time since I last read Debt but I remember feeling frustrated by an absence of coverage of the machines. My perception of his advocacy in recent years has been that he has been less effective than he might have been had he stronger command of the machines, and not just the policy.

One of my recs- Sarah Quinn- while like Graeber is also deep in the world of the sociology of money, is stronger technically. Her PhD thesis is an extremely helpful dive into the mortgage securitization world- the largest debt market in the world other than Treasuries- and my rec (American Bonds) so far is a popularization of that work.

I completely forgot, another excellent book on important machines that shape the modern financial world is

Payment Systems in the US - Carol Coye Benson
Is this still as painful as it used to be? AMI building took ages, so iteration ("deployment") speed is really awful.
This article says an ECMO machine costs less than $50k: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-03-13-000314...

That seems low relative to US medical costs in general. I'm sure the average Bay Area software engineer would happily pay that much to save a dying family member.
You're right. Last I heard, we had about 90,000 people in our text messaging program.
>It makes no sense to get all up in arms about carbon emissions from sports cars.

These aren't even sports cars. These are hyper cars. They're rich people collectibles on wheels.
Basically anything even vaguely scientific in the US still uses metric units.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Copen
Letting supply and demand determine prices doesn't necessarily redirect goods from poor people to wealthy people; it redirects goods towards those that actually need them, because those people are willing to pay the higher price. If we're talking about someone living paycheck to paycheck who really can't afford toilet paper being 2x more expensive, they may have to use a substitute, but with price ceilings the shelves will be empty anyway.
Not really. There are 20M people in the metro area and 421 positive tests so far. Assume (reasonably conservatively) that those tests reflect about 10% of the active infections, and that there are about 2x as many contagious but asymptomatic cases as sick people (both the doubling rate and the incubation period seem to be about 5-6 days). That's one potential transmission event per ~2500 people right now. You'd have to be on a lot of subway cars to be within infection distance of that many people.

It's close enough to be worried, but not at "going in public will make you sick" yet.

(Edit: covidtracking.com just pushed some new numbers, and NY is at 524 cases. Up 25% in a day is freakout territory -- a doubling period of just a little over 3 days. We have to hope this is an artifact of more testing capability or just a data burp.)
I was talking to some of my fellow Gen-X friends and we are jokingly complaining that kids these days don't even know how to pirate things. If it isn't on a streaming service they don't know how to access it.
>We should not burn carbon without serious need, as rarity or not.

This would require a ban on holiday air travel.
Unfortunately viruses are not microorganisms.
C11 (C—E—G—Bb—D—F) is a superset of C major (C—E—G), so just use it.
Do you have sources for these claims?
I've joined week ago and it seems that there is problem with assignments (at least for GPU).

"Could not get an assignment" in log of the client.
This is really cool, but estimating 280HP at 2L when naturally aspirated has already been beaten. The party trick here is definitely the pneumatic valve control being able to switch combustion cycles on the fly. If you just want max power per liter, Nissan's 3 cyl from 2014 claims 400HP at 1.5L [0]. I'm guessing this high-output small engine tech will never come down to the consumer level since they all rev at 7-8k rpm. If there was a way to build a 3cyl SUV, I'm sure someone would have done it by now.

[0] https://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/28/nissan-three-cylinder-ra...
To those who can't find the article for whatever reason:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/he-has-17700-bottles-of-ha...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/he-has-17700-bottles-o...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tennessee-man-sitting-on-a...

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/03/the-hand-sanitizer-...

https://newschannel9.com/news/local/report-two-chattanooga-b...
I'm not aware of that.
they aren’t gouging. gouging is a reaction to a disaster or event of some sort. hospitals always charge the absurd prices.
It’s funny you assume people want their cars to sound nice for you.

My car makes cool sounds, and they’re for me.

Just like people who say sports car owners just want to impress others.

My car brings me joy, when I’m driving it everyone else might as well not exist outside of their occasional attempts to merge into me.

If someone truly wants their car to sound a certain way for others, then the car isn’t the problem, the person is.

They’d find some other way to get under you skin if it wasn’t noises...
I have my own node.
>I didn't check the details

It's in the first line of the third paragraph of the article. If you're not bothered reading about the topic being posted, why are you weighing in on it?

>But that's irrelevant: the company that does such a thing needs to be shut down.

People who post their dirty laundry on an app in a time when we know everything online is recorded, tracked, sold off to others, hacked and stolen or archived in a government database and then have the gall to complain about that dirty laundry getting out should have their internet access removed from them. Parents who let their children put themselves in this situation should be monitored by CPS.

Ignorance is no longer an excuse.
Why a week ago? If it takes longer than a week for victims to die, in a situation with rapidly increasing infections that will give a very distorted number.
If anything, there's kinda a middle ground age right now where you can expect greater general understanding of computing concepts, with both people young and older than that being more ignorant.
Oh, wow. Is it common that Bach Prelude refers to Well Tempered Clavier or was I just biased by my obsession with Gould and his WTC book 1 prelude?
As I said, no such problems over here so far.

We might see shortages for stuff coming from China, inventoires will slowely be depleted and the replenishment from China severly hampered by the situation in Europe and the US. Stuff sourced / produced on the same continent won't hit nearly as hard. As long the production doesn't break down there shouldn't be to hard impacts. And since quarantine measures only started a couple of days ago, we can rule out those impacts as causes for the shortages you saw. Leaves short term and mid term disruptions caused by, what I might call, panic shopping, which outpaced replenishment.
There’s a huge range of bikes between ones so sporty that they can’t take a rack and fenders, and step-through city bikes.

Here’s a typical example, it has an endurance geometry and has mounts for a rack:
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/road-bikes/gravel-b...
Can Hackernews just once not try to find a negative interpretation of something positive posted here?
This whole sticking a tube down someone's throat without proper qualifications or equipment seems pretty dicey. Would an old fashion wooden iron lung work better? It's pretty primitive technology that doesn't seem too difficult to build.
https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/a-wooden-iron-lung/
FWIW: No WaPo paywall here on Firefox w/ ublock, noscript, privacy badger etc.
Ask HN: How are you planning to beat the social isolation blues?
I work in IT. I'm not an extreme extrovert but I do like the occasional social contact and bonding that comes from being in the same office. The watercooler chats. Now with the quarantine situation, what are some creative ways to beat the isolation and loneliness? Thanks!
Not only that. Hard work and early specialising is a recipe for depression. I have seen this pattern repeat itself over and over again.
Just like for motorcycles, 3 cyl is the ideal for both torque and revs. Bi is all torque, 4 is all revs, and the 3 is just in between.
I don't mean never driving, just rarely. So often in practice that means once a year even if your interval is 7 or even 5k. Nothing onerous.

Besides, if you have one if these you have a bunch of other cars.
ICE technical advances are in the same territory as advances in CRT, film based photography and coiled coil light bulbs. Nobody took LCD screens, digital cameras and LED lights seriously in the 1990's but here we are today where we only use the new stuff.

Flat panel yield was a problem in the 1990s, every screen had dead pixels. The magic of film grain and a Pentax SLR wasn't that special, kids today don't even know or care. The warm colours of old lightbulbs are forgotten too. Yet there was amazing analog engineering and precision mass manufacturing with these products.

ICE is going that way. The yield on the battery part is being solved, aka range/price. For performance the electric motor has no equal and things like regen are game changing. In time ICE will have specialist applications such as for creating electricity to charge a battery in remote locations, that will be about it. The tech innovation and investment has moved on to electric power trains. The horse has gone and it is too late to shut the gate. Nostalgia is not enough for ICE particularly when the baby boomers have moved on.
That's a great point and something I've never thought about.

I think it's something that would be helpful to think about when I'm raising my kids.
What an amazing hot take.
Professor Ian Donald: The govt strategy on Coronavirus is more refined