skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The B-52 is only useful after the enemy's air defense systems have been completely suppressed. It's mostly just a truck.
T2D patients also have a reduced amount of insuline-producing beta cells. At diagnosis, there's been a 50% destruction of insuline-producing beta-cells. The destruction progresses with the disease.
Yeah, that’s never been my experience. You may see some scooters on the sidewalk. Bicycles are far more likely to be on the road than sidewalks.

Note that kids under a certain age are allowed to bike on the sidewalk.
Care to share any anecdotes?
It also gives an indication what the preferred method of deployment is (from authors' point of view). In this case I read it as a warning that it might stop being supported in the future.
Not bad based on likelihood of dying if the hospitals are functioning normally or not bad based on likelihood of becoming hospitalized and in potential trouble when hospitals are overwhelmed?

Toilet paper shortages are the least of our problems, hospital capacity to treat severe and critical cases is the issue at the moment.
Bill Gates withdraws from Microsoft board to become a full-time philanthropist
Why aren't digital gauges in cars more prevalent today? (2005)
Libraries actually still do a lot. They’re community centers, give people access to computers, host classes, and some have maker spaces.

Libraries also have librarians, who can help with research and who invest time curating the collection.

Finally, library collections are permanent. Books, music, films, stay in the collection. And libraries share with each other so it’s possible to work with a local library to borrow from other libraries around the world.
The B-52 can also carry long range stand off weapons.
Koenigsegg will work together with NEVS to make cheaper cars. Still close to $1 million, but their aim is to make more.

And I think Christian said they were making 1 car per week at the moment.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/04/koenigsegg-affordable-su...
Once the panic is over, there will be a slump in sales: everybody will be wiping from their own enormous hoard. They will not start going to toilet twice as often or start using twice as much paper. The real demand base line is 100% same.
> The problem with that is, once you lift the lockdown it will simply start all over again.

Well, no, because the world at the end of the lockdown is not the same as the world before the disease started spreading. Some differences:

- People now know there is a dangerous disease and how to act and sanitize to mitigate its spread.

- Manufacturing and other logistics for medical providers have had the time of the lockdown to ramp up.

- Testing has had the time of the lockdown to ramp up.

- A vaccine is that much further along--which is the only viable long-term strategy.

- And most important, scientific understanding of the disease has had that much longer to develop.

Britain's "expose the youngsters" strategy has a terrible flaw, which is that we don't know if the disease is actually safe for young people! All we know are some basic statistics about messy data that was reported by overwhelmed medical systems with spotty testing.

There are reliable reports of a) some young people getting very sick from this disease, b) people who seem to have recovered going back into decline and in some cases death, and c) long-term lung damage among those who did not die.

The ideas that this disease is somehow safe for young people, and that contracting it once confers long-term immunity, are ideas that are yet to be scientifically proven. They are, for now, at best heuristics to aid triage.
Given that it’s entirely reasonable to build a 3 GHz baseband receiver these days, you don’t need IF. The whole thing can probably be made to radiate almost indistinguishably from a cell phone or computer.
Is this in the US? I thought absolutely everyone was taking typing.
Italy is almost a month ahead of most of the world in infections though, their first outbreaks were weeks ago and the source for infecting most of the rest of Europe.

A lot of the UK infections can be traced to Italian holidays, for example.

Even if the government does plan to lock down the UK eventually, every day must cost 10s of millions, you can understand the strategy to wait longer, and even to play it down a bit.
Amsterdam has humidity and weather in which parts corrode. And bikes get stolen often. It just does not make sense to buy expensive bike that gonna get damaged fast or stolen fast.
The average age of a fatal case is still north on 80 years.

The UK plan is effectively to get as many people as possible that are young, and thus at a super low risk of needing hospitalization to get infected, so that they can recover and then be immune, thus making it hard for the virus to sweep through again. If 30% or more of the population were immune, it would be much harder to get a new outbreak started. With a lockdown, either the lockdown suppresses spread, in which case ending the lockdown risks re-igniting the epidemic, or it doesn't, in which case it didn't help materially anyway.

If the UK can get 10x or more of the cases with only the same hospitalization numbers, they'll be in better shape than everywhere else.

The core question ends up being whether they're able to effectively inoculate that many young people without it spreading to just everybody.

Flattening the curve preserves medical capacity somewhat, but it also prolongs the epidemic. And since the lockdowns required to do the flattening have their own cost on lives, it's unclear whether the incremental increase in the number of lives that the medical system can preserve will or will not exceed the number of other lives caught short because the disease and also the lockdowns are extended by the extra time.

You might not be saving lives, just changing which people die.

Or you might save some, or you might lose more. Counting in advance is... let's say nontrivial. Even counting afterward will be hard and full of wide error bars.

It's relatively easy to count how many died directly from an illness, difficult to count how many will die because they delayed necessary non-emergency care for 4 months (unrelated to the virus except for the need to preserve hospital capacity or avoid infection risk) instead of 2 months because the outbreak was prolonged, and virtually impossible to count how many die from things like "I lost my job and my life savings at the same time, and I never fully recovered, and now my whole family is much poorer, which gives us higher all-cause mortality"

Everybody's talking about the first group. Occasionally, I see people admit that the second might exist and be non-empty. But, I keep feeling like I'm the only person on HN (and in my regular life) reminding people that the economy actually affects real life in major ways. (I'm probably not the only one, but still...)
> However we do not have a vaccine yet and have no idea if or when we might ever get one.

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-t...
It is really hard to discuss healthcare with someone from the US. We have such a different perspective that it seems we live on different worlds.
Except it seems to predominantly affect the elderly, who skew richer and more conservative.
Drones represent a huge range of different things. Assuming you mean something that’s a replacement for military aircraft.

In order to have a useful X,000miles range and useful payload you need to build fairly large drones which means a large target. If their cheap that directly translates into low speeds making them a very easy target for anti air guns, or low cost anti aircraft missiles.

If you want a large fast drone, that’s getting expensive. To the point where having or not having a pilot makes minimal cost differences.

Note, this assumes it’s part of a modern war with extreme radio jamming etc.
It is also not likely to work beyond a few days unless you have the means to continuously buy all the toilet paper.
> In hostile learning environments without repetitive patterns, mastery is much harder to achieve. The feedback loop is insidious. Unlike chess, experience does not necessarily make you better. You may stick with the wrong approach because you’re convinced it’s the right one.

If you find the idea of "friendly learning environment" vs "hostile learning environment" interesting, consider reading Leslie Valiant's book "Probably Approximately Correct" -- a discussion of what is learnable in the natural world
This is the part people are missing. We don’t know enough about the virus, and due to the extreme nature of the worst case scenarios it’s probably a better bet to act as if the worst case scenarios are true.

We can recover from an economic hit. We’ve done it several times before, and there are several tools that can be used. A major pandemic with mutating viruses is not something we are as prepared for.
Coronavirus: France and Spain announce partial lockdowns
Oh hey! I wrote this. Cool to see it on HN. Happy to answer any other questions if anyone has any.
Recoll does this.
I've worked as a pipeline supervisor at one of the biggest VFX studios. I very much understand these workflows. I've worked as an artist and a tech artist in perforce and SVN workflows too. I've had to support the workflows of a 1000+ workforce across multiple locations.

I don't think attributing my disagreement with you to not understanding workflows is a fair characterization.

I still think locking , while useful, is only mandatory for work cultures with poor communication. Otherwise, many companies get by with very large workforces who don't hit these issues without having locking.

Separation of code and art assets also don't need to be painful. It's very doable but does require some amount of architectural consideration.

And I very much acknowledge there are projects where code isn't the majority makeup, which is why I say that none of the VCS systems cover mixed projects well or cover all the needs of the others well.
Watching professionals hunt-and-peck all day drives me mad.

I took a 2 week typing class in the summer after 8th grade. We learned on big heavy mechanical typewriters where you really had to hammer the key to get an impression. It was time well spent, as it has paid off for me continuously ever since. For example, I wrote this entirely with touch typing (not looking at the keyboard).
>After coming back from a trip to India, an old housemate of mine told me that a huge part of the world uses their hand to wipe, and he decided to adopt the practice himself

And you promptly moved out of the house, right?
Lol, obviously I'm asking why is this the legal requirement.
If they do indeed go into lockdown it’s almost certainly a massive mistake.
Also, Wuhan and Italy's north had their hospitals put under severe stress early on. That could have driven fatalities up as well.
Not being intimately familiar with the limitations of Kalman filters, how susceptible to bias is this approach when hidden states exist? In the case of COVID-19, the asymptomatic cases may be modeled as such, or not, depending on the approach. Also, the incubation and convalescent phase could also present a challenge given that patients can still transmit the virus.

It would be helpful to understand how Kalman filtering approach compares Markov chains, for example.

edit: Could Kalman filters be used to retroactively mark/flag/detect the introduction of a new strain of the same virus? If so, this could prove to be a novel way to quantify the clinically meaningful mutation rate - that is, the rate at which the virus mutates sufficiently to infect a new sub-population (or perhaps re-infect existing ones).
I would definitely suspect you are right, though: many of the reports we’ve seen so far indicates community spread was occurring before the first case was detected - consider the Ohio estimate yesterday that ~1% of their population is infected.

So long term a lower CFR seems to make sense.
We posted a job there and got portfolios of open source work people were passing off as their own.

Do they think we won’t search Github?
Local microbiologist weighs in on advice from longtime coronavirus expert
So our CI pipelines are always set up so that failed linting means blocked merge capability. Your PR isn't ready for review if it's failing rubocop for example. Do you intend to integrate your tool into this type of workflow but by making the lint issues apparent via comment on the PR in GitHub vs in the CI?
Also, why ducted A/C?
could see people go out less / stay at home more
> do I shower at work, and when I get home?

Observation: those who bike fast and get sweaty or live far shower at work. It is typically quick shower. No idea what they do at home.

Slow people who dont sweat dont shower at work.
There is already a pandemic, so it isn't a question of pandemic or no pandemic. It's a question of if the medical system gets overwhelmed. It's also hard to judge because spending lots of money and enlisting extreme measures may slow the virus so much it looks as if it wasn't that dangerous to begin with. In which case both sides would be using it as a talking point.
Once testing procedures are prevalent, and the curve has been bent, there is no reason why you cannot continue largely as usual well before a cure or vaccine exists.
It's worse today than it was in the 90s and early 2000s. Back then the web was an indie experience. If you wanted your own blog, you had to host it. Or if there was a platform you could use, it let you customize the HTML and CSS. An entire cottage industry of websites hosting code snippets sprung up, and all the kids were using HTML and tweaking it.

If you wanted a video game forum, you needed to host it. You had to learn how Linux servers worked, what MySQL was and how tables and migrations functioned, and might even need to write a little PHP on the side.

When I was a teenager, I had a PHP website that did game matchmaking, lightweight article publishing, and custom (non-phpBB) forums. I put this under Subversion source control and let several of the members that were code literate contribute. We built a lot of stuff and had a whole thing going. Multiple websites. And then we stood up an IRC server, which gave way to bots and log ingestion and archival.

We ran a MediaWiki instance (http://strategywiki.org), we knew the folks that wrote the Gamecube LAN adapter tunnel.

When it came time for college, I was way ahead of the curve. I blew through all of the upper level courses before my electives, and I was a TA in my freshman year. (Second semester!) This let me take a lot more biology and chemistry classes (something I wasn't previously skilled with, but had a deep interest in learning).

This isn't as widespread anymore since there are platforms that do everything. Even though the learning curve has dropped and the barrier to entry is lower than ever, the barriers of interest and necessity have been raised.

Kids don't need to hack around as much, and it's sad.
I don't think there is non-cookie based personalization, just geo localization. Removing cookies makes this obvious: there isn't even a crumb of my recommended videos.

Which makes sense because a list of trending content is a bit nonsensical without a region in mind, e.g. language.
The recent spate of people worried about "empty shelves" is kind of funny to me, it's essentially admitting to the world that you have no idea how the world works and the smallest disruption to your daily bubble is rocking your world.

The shelves are getting fully restocked every single morning. Go to your local Target/Walmart/Grocery store when they open if you don't believe me. Stores, suppliers, and producers have already begun rationing and metering out goods onto shelves explicitly because of people hoarding. The shelves being empty are a result of idiots running around trying to buy up everything they can, and stores reacting properly. The "free market" is already acting in response to those hoarders, they're discouraging it, and preventing it on a grand scale pretty effectively.

Your complaint about "not allowing the price to float" is a complete non sequitur even if you're still the type to swallow free market ideology hook, line, sinker, because people buying in surplus isn't demand. It's just, well, hoarding. Coronavirus isn't going to cause people to be thirstier, hungrier, or need to wipe their ass more. People are just buying in advance. Without people fearing for a worldwide pandemic nobody would be willing to pay increased prices for these goods. So it's not actually about demand, it's about artificial scarcity driven by a global pandemic. Thus, price gouging tickets.

But even if you don't buy any of that, the vast majority of our supply lines are JIT, so "empty shelves" aren't really a thing... what we'd really see is a dwindling of supply over a period of time. Which isn't happening.
The microbiologist is James Robb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robb_(pathologist)

Also, Snopes agrees his circulated email is legit:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zinc-lozenges-coronavirus/
How to operate your startup under lock-down
The guy does seem to have some skills in marketing and websites, so a lot of it was probably just time.

I think $10,000 is a reasonable figure. $2000 on chess.com (assuming that's correct) and let's say $2000 on chess24, a full page magazine ad that might not have been paid for, some expensive chess boards and chess pieces. translations, maybe voice overs. There was a video of actors endorsing it.
A lot of dying people are not being diagnosed as because of CoronaVirus.

The people who are dying are usually older, or have preexisting conditions and their deaths can easily be chalked to their age/condition.
It seems like trying to time the stock market. You can make an educated guess, but in the end it's still a guess.
How Scientific Research is Published [video]
Sounds logical to me as well. That's also how I understood virologists and the like.
Ask HN: Could Ibuprofen worsen Covid-19?
Sorry for the clickbaity title but this is currently being discussed in Europe.

SARS-CoV-2 accesses host cells via the enzyme ACE2[1][2]

On March 11 a correspondence[3] in the Lancet claimed that “the increased expression of ACE2 would facilitate infection with COVID-19” and “ACE2 can also be increased by thiazolidinediones and ibuprofen”

While the first claim seems sensical the authors did not provide a reference for the second claim.

I am not an expert in this area and a search if ibuprofen or NSAIDs[4] really increase ACE2 expression revealed just articles like [5] “Ibuprofen could ameliorate the cardiac fibrosis in diabetic rats by reduction of the ACE/AngII/AT1-R axis and enhancement of the ACE2/Ang(1-7)/Mas-R axis …” which does not really answer my question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019

[2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30229-4

[3] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30116-8/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory_drug

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25896805
Looks great! Also looks like academic abandonware.
> You're overly focusing on _bioweapon_

The poster I’m responding to was specifically talking about bioweapons, so I’m not “overly focusing”, just coherently following the topic.
Thank you for the reply. Makes sense. It still feels we're not doing enough to stop spread of the virus or secondary issues it will cause.
Rwandans wash hands before joining buses to fight coronavirus
I teach cybersecurity for middle school kids and organize events, I'd say the same, approximately 1% is actually competent.

Though, I think one of the biggest obstacles for a regular student is their utter lack of knowledge how to actually use a keyboard, teaching that the shift key exists is new knowledge for so many. Thankfully it can be rapidly improved with very little teaching, and things like coding actually become much easier when they make fewer typos and waste less time typing.

Telling middle school teachers that instead of Word, spend four lessons at the beginning actually teaching the tools they're using, is usually received with a lot of negativity, it's somehow considered outdated to learn how to type.
Don’t understand the toilet paper shortage at all. Invest in a bidet or just use normal soap/water (it’s better for you anyway and less chance of hemorrhoids)
I guess he never thought of hiring a developer to put up a shopping site for his items? This could be done in a few days using something like Woocommerce or Magento. Can't say I feel sorry for the guy though.
because having a high top speed is a silly reason to restrict a vehicle from driving on public roads? being able to accelerate fast enough to safely merge onto a highway implies a drag-limited top speed much higher than the posted limit. most cheap sedans can already go about twice as fast as a typical highway speed limit.

do you also want to ban usain bolt from the sidewalk because he could run too fast if he wanted to?
From a purely IT perspective, a lot more infrastructure to do with working from home is being thoroughly tested. Knowing how large numbers of home workers cope with the isolation and the infrastructure available within their companies could lead to even more people working away from company offices. This in turn could lead to better comms infrastructure, but with reduce commuters to major centres of work, the public transport companies may have to scale back. In turn less sandwich shops, less taxis, etc.

People going through this sort of experience I hope will lead to people taking on a greater expectation of the importance of good hygiene. When the flu seasons starts again at the end of the year this experience will hopefully still be strong in people's minds and they'll be more careful about simply ignoring it.

As Winter comes back around at the end of the year I think people may start to change certain habits, more people wearing masks in public as annual flu rises again, people less willing to shake hands or kiss each other openly if they're not already intimate. Many European cultures regard the touch of cheek-on-cheek to be a mark of affection among friends, will that action simply start to die out as people are reluctant to touch each other.

Ultimately you can't tell, but I think post-COVID will certainly a very intersting time for the social behaviour observers and the stats collectors. Interesting times for sure.
Major breakthrough as scientists isolate virus behind Covid-19
I think the Gates Foundation is not regarded as a political organization.
It certainly does if your inaction causes lives to be lost. A week or two here can be thousands of more deaths
Some of the comments here are too wrong in the other direction. I'll come back to that. What I would have liked to see from the begining was something like:

If you must log then pipe the output into <????> which will store your log into a search system such that if you have a coordination id will bring logs from the various microservices together.

So what is ????

Log rotation, compression, disk space, getting FS space and making directories on large corporate networks is a pain. I also have to ssh around and compose logs. We also deal with servers in multiple timezones and most programmers are too dumb to put the TZ. Figuring out what TZ was ultimately used and sequencing it is stupid work. Yuck.

At my office the gdpr of logging is not well adopted. Logs are left in code really for debugging, to monitor a PR change in prod then forgotten later. You can see where that goes: waste

Also for a serious system with wide customer usage, the log should contain a errno like error (defined universe of errors with a set format), the use case, plus the details. Not whatever sprintf the programmer dreamed up.

The OP is also right here: logging is used as a bailout just in case thing because the programmer did not make a narrow contract in the method, service. Logging is used to find edge cases. That's not right.

Finally logs can be slow and some esp. c++ streams stuff may use mutexes.
Governments in the U.S. and elsewhere will feel yet more empowered to force populations to receive injections.