skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toilet Paper Was Invented by the Chinese in the First Century
Why do you have to scan me? Why can’t I just give you measurements and tell you my body shape?

The rest of the service seems like it should be fine, but there’s no way in hell that I’m going to let yet another unknown app or website scan my face or my body.
The master is part of the bottleneck, but a lot of the complaints are trying to get it to do what it says. But a big benefit of puppet is the master feature, so if that's taken out, why puppet?
That actually seems pretty good, especially since if you aren't using an over the air antenna there isn't much else you can do with modern flat screen TVs.
"working with persian dissidents"

'Dissidents' lie. See Curveball dossier.

In a February 2011 interview with The Guardian he "admitted for the first time that he lied about his story, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)

And I highly doubt that any of the Iranian 'dissidents' you've worked with have any idea of what happens in the minds of Iranian leadership.
We don’t need military patrolling our streets just yet. Not saying it won’t come down to it, but the sentiment in the US is less, uh... flexible, towards being heavily locked down as compared to the aforementioned countries.
I share the sentiment but what the article explains is more shocking than basic technical illiteracy. There’s essentially a subgroup of young people (typically poorer and less educated) who do not believe the news but believe their friends and all the rubbish that comes off their social feed.

I don’t want to sound too alarmist but that really scares me. If I believed all the stuff from my social feed I’d be drinking bleach and worried about the reptilian Royal family is after me because I know the earth is flat.
A video of one bishop moving (burried in the article):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zU5RWM38c
>people who are enthusiastic about fucking children either. I don't need to understand everyone's enthusiasm, especially if it's actively harmfu

Because auto modification teaches discipline and determination and is practice for other general skills. This is nothing like fucking children and the fact that you'd equate the two is evidence of your [un]righteous indignation. Your rage is misplaced.

Edit: imagine being this pissed off at computer enthusiasts for buying multiple GPUs and overclocking their machines. It's about the same level of absurdity.
There are already sound restrictions in many areas, and for vehicle design. Also you only hear the noise during acceleration. They're not that much louder during normal cruising and this one even has an electric-only mode for soundless operation.

Laws are designed with a balance for freedoms. Any large city already has plenty of noise pollution beyond the occasional sports car going by. It's more about irresponsible behaviors like people revving at midnight than the car itself.
Credit unions are generally trustworthy.
Not sure why this is on the number 1 spot currently.

This is a letter signed by non-experts (albeit sometimes scientists/engineers). To me, it comes off as the climate-change denier letters or 9/11 "truthers" letters.

Please let the experts do their job. Don't spread uninformed opinions backed up by Facebook posts and panicked researchers with expertise "relevant to virus spreading" such as electronics, architecture and art history.

Be safe out there but don't let the fear and resulting panic of this virus be worse than the virus itself.
Except that this service explicitly says it's for "watching movies or TV shows on Netflix together online."
NP. I was mostly joking about the offended part :)
The equivalent of the entire population of Glasgow passes through Kings Cross station in the morning rush hour. There are 4 other stations with similar flows. Over 20 million people live within an hour or 30 miles of Piccadilly Circus.
> The strategy of UK seems valid as long as you protect the more vulnerable, which they don't do.

The UK and devolved governments signaled on Thursday that the plan is for the vulnerable to be self-isolating for a long period; and based on the briefings to UK jornos on twitter - it'll be 16 weeks of self isolation for over 70s and those with underlying health conditions (they've not said what conditions yet) - I've seen it referred to as 'cocooning' by some.

I think the UK was doing a really good job, and has been doing a good job with this - I do think they've really misspoken when they've talked about herd immunity and have been trying to walk the term back.

You've got to bare in mind, that they aren't doing the politically easy things here. It would be easy to close the schools. Based on people I've spoken to, its going to happen soon - but I suspect they want this to happen after the over 70s and the vulnerables are into self-isolationg, and not shouldering childcare responsibilities. None of this is easy, we can't magic this virus away.
This is pretty scary. Not only do SARS cause scarring which decrease quality of life, we are on our 3rd ARDS-causing outbreak in the past 2 decades. So potentially tens of millions worldwide with lifelong lung damage and huge risk of getting taken out in the next round.
Those are pouch batteries, they never need a hard shell.

Each one will have a tiny PCB with protection circuitry on it. It’s the only way to prevent them from accidentally catching fire or exploding.

Batteries are far more complex than most people expect. Especially lithium batteries found in phones. The chemistry is super sensitive, and anything except careful monitoring of each battery pack risks catastrophic failure. Hence the tiny PCB on each battery pack.
> It’s hard for non-specialists to intuitively grasp the way an exponential rate increase can get out of control.

The best way to explain the exponential growth (and shock people) is ask them about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
I don’t understand how we can have reliable mortality/morbidity statistics when it’s only been out for a few months, and many people that get it don’t even get diagnosed with it and so aren’t counted in the survivors. How can there be a representative sample of data available yet?
Gilead launches two Phase III trials of Remdesivir for treatment of COVID-19
> I understood this to mean flattening the curve is important, but not enough. Containment is the most critical intervention

Containment is enforced to flatten the curve. That's the whole point. It's not an either/or thing. And the whole point of flattening the curve is to avoid saturating healthcare services with an exponential increase in demand concentrated in a span of a couple of weeks. The article is crap.
The thing is, with these models. Everyone will eventually catch the virus and either dies off or recovers. If this happens in real life, the consequences are dire and catastrophic.

Social distancing and avoiding large groups will obviously save lives and we flatten the curve to allow for treatment of individuals that will require hospitalization. But once the novelty of social distancing wears off. Will the number of cases where people get affected explode once again?

The question is when will this virus go away? (if ever). Will everybody catch it eventually? Will the panic fade and Corona be just another (and much deadlier) strain of the flu?
I don't think there's any realistic situation that would justify caving to the isolationism and xenophobia that's been pushed by the Trump administration for the last four years.
likely because aviation is still on ft and nautical miles worldwide, i would think
The reason why Covid-19 is scarier than SARS is precisely because it has a lower fatality rate, allowing it to spread instead of killing its host before they can spread it.
It's not a sleepy village raided by supercars. It's like living in Monaco and complaining about the cars and yachts. The noise and bustle is part of the culture of the area and is overall a insignificant part of global noise pollution.

Live in a dense city and the noise from construction and service vehicles is 100x worse than the occasional sports car.
I'm not objecting categorically to anything. I think that immutable infrastructure is a spectrum, and depending on your needs you may have just about everything immutably configured, or almost nothing. I just don't think it's so black and white as "you should always use immutable infrastructure."

I also think it's a cool idea to destroy the entire cluster just to add a node, and it sounds ridiculous but also like there's some circumstances where it makes perfect sense.
Title makes it seem like a website saying fasting helps you fight off CoVID-19. But at least the text content doesn't say anything like that (there are videos I haven't watched). This is about what to do if you're already practicing intermittent fasting.
That is not realistic. In most circumstances the enemy won't have any defensive assets in the right place at the right time in order to generate an intercept.

It's sort of like if you're deer hunting and spot one through binoculars a mile from you moving away. You're going to have to get really lucky to take that deer.
>If you encounter something that doesn't just work, how do you know how to figure it out if you've never developed that skill.

They'd probably just Google it, and that would probably be sufficient.
Check out https://remoteok.io/

It is made by the very HN Popular Pieter Levels.
Great idea especially with a lot of people staying home in light of COVID-19. I've been considering ways to stay connected with friends and family now that I'm spending more time alone.

I've been considering doing regular Google Hangouts with open invites to make hanging out feel more spontaneous.
Or at least, some people would like to believe that. I suspect an astonishing large number of them will discover differently, should those ideals be put to the test. Just a hunch.
There are a lot of spreadsheets going around for this. I hope we can get it together for tooling to help manage this by the time the need for this arises.
Why do you believe this is misinformation? All it's trying to do is mobilize people who understand what an exponential is to act.
It’s also worth mentioning the DGT Centuar board. Uses lights to indicate moves but is a stand-alone device with no internet connectivity. Maybe DGT will use this tech for a smart board in the future?

https://www.chesshouse.com/products/dgt-centaur-chess-comput...
The pattern is fairly consistent across countries [0]:

[0] https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...
There’s also the trick where you ask everybody to guesstimate and average all estimates.
12% of _COVID ICU patients_ in Italy are below 50 years old. Note that this doesn't let us answer the question of how common are ICU cases among young infected people.
Help with Covid-19 Research by Donating Your Unused GPU Computing Power
My co-founder and I are really struggling with the decisions ahead of us. We feel we should act quickly, and enforce our team to work from home, but the spread in our city is quite low for now. We also wonder how long this can go on, are we going to be isolated for months?

We are at a critical point where we have just closed our seed round this past week. We have both put so much energy and time into this moment and we were ready to work harder and focus on scaling and growth.

Of course, the more tragic situation around us makes our issues seem small. I think we will likely announce to our team to work from home starting Monday. How surreal.
The “experts” are not doing their jobs! In the US you would have expected the CDC under the President’s leadership to act decisively and promptly. Obviously this did not happen.

The randos are providing much more value than the experts in the US. Other countries like South Korea and Singapore have experts who are doing quite well.
Pollution is plummeting in Italy in the wake of coronavirus, emissions data show
Here in Israel, ministry of health wanted a full lockdown. But business won, so only a partial lockdown is enforced, and they are shutting down only clubs and restaurants. People will still be able to visit parks, roam freely, etc. Today there was an article [1] that some idiot that was in quarantine left it and was arrested on the street. There is no discipline. A hard lockdown is likely the best option everywhere. It works, as evident in countries that have enforced it.

1: https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5694758,00.html
I really haven't seen it in that context for the last 15 years or so :) Maybe it's just me :)

But really the whole article reeks of Engrish, it's not just that.
Restaurants starving as diners disappear
It need's a field for the % of people that need hospitalization.

What are you using for "Healthcare System Capacity". I think the value is too high (25%?).
I love these way out of the box thinking approached for super cars because that type of innovation can lead to break throughs "down the road" pun intended. Having said that, a configuration I have thought about is the idea of a hybrid that uses a turbine with magnetic bearings turning a high efficiency generator. Probably been thought of but I have not seen it. HN will point me to something I bet :)
In italy we are not to the point to have to choose which patient to save. Italy critical care capacity was 2500. Now increased, and we are fighting to increase it fasten than necesity (downing virus growing curve). Please see thi Lancet pubblication https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
In recent days I've been starting to feel this idea of "digital natives" is a silly one. There's no such thing as a "reading native" or "math native" – these are skills and concepts we learn in school because society at large has decided they are important enough to warrant the investment.

On the other hand, there's no standard curriculum or expectation around computers and software (afaik). We have this expectation that people will learn how to use things by osmosis or will be taught by the thing itself, perhaps because some kinds of software are extremely good at this (primarily games) and some types are easy enough to get started and have a motivation (eg. social) that they can "pull" users through their difficulties (or they can ask friends). People jump to conclusions - "if the kids can do that, they can do everything" - which is clearly not the case. My knowledge of Excel won't help me with Snapchat which won't help me with Blender - and the difficulty difference between commonly used consumer apps and work apps can be significant.

The issue is that outside of the easy spaces, learning about computers is boring, difficult, doesn't have obvious usefulness, provides largely useless feedback, is often wildly unintuitive compared to how things work in the real world, and tends to require a baseline of knowledge most people won't have the interest to develop. This isn't surprising - the same applies to many subjects we learn in school. Most people will have no more interest learning common computer abstractions and mechanisms than memorizing their times tables or writing essays with an opening, body, and conclusion or looking up words they don't know in a dictionary.

In short, computing is something that should be actively taught in schools. Typing is a basic skill that should probably be taught in elementary, when children are learning to write (or shortly after). UI abstractions like files, folders, windows, searching should probably follow. Word processing should be covered before middle school, other productivity software during, along with more complex abstractions (clipboard, storage, paths, permissions, networks, accounts/passwords/security, scams, where to get help). Introductory programming should be taught as well.

None of this is to say that the average student should be a capable programmer after completing K-12. But I think that almost everyone should know enough to draw reasonable conclusions about systems and problems they encounter without outside help, if for no other reason than to avoid being exploited by scams, ransomware, ads, and whatever new attack vectors show up in the coming years.
> Now, the US government values the lives of its citizens at $7-9 million dollars a piece.

Wait, where does that figure come from?
You can't do this without adequate testing. If you can do tens of thousands of tests per day, and you're testing everyone, then you can potentially control the rate of infection by opening and closing public places and schools, etc. But without testing you won't know and the goal of not putting strain on the NHS will fail.

Places like the US are completely in the dark because of incompetence, but once we have the visibility as to who is sick, and having widespread testing, then I think this might make sense. Heck, if I knew I would have access to a critical care bed if things got bad, I would probably volunteer to get infected now.
Just about every vehicle allowed on the road today can easily beat speed limits and cause massive damage in a crash.

Vehicle capabilities are separate from driver responsibility. Nothing would be possible if we banned things just because they have the potential for harm.
Some are against it, others (such as presumably a majority of those advising the government) are for it. That's just good debate.

> It’s already too late. They’re on the Italy path.

Well, that's pretty much the point of the policy. 'Already screwed this year, let's try to cope, and be less screwed next year'.

I was very critical at first, but I'm more interested/satisfied with the response now, it does seem to be well thought through, even if there are also arguments against (of course there are).
This letter doesn't make any contraversial scientific claims. Please, highlight anything you think is in doubt?
> I stopped counting how many times we cured any forms of diabetes in various mouse models.

A well known joke in the diabetes community: the soonest way to find a cure for diabetes is to figure out how to turn humans into mice.
No devices will help you do your job when you have a few kids and the spouse is also supposed to work from home..
It's also one of the cheapest channels, and having worked with transient and Medicaid populations it has become essential.
I hope you haven't read the reports from the medical frontline in Lombardie - They are making life or death choices now due to influx of ICU patient without enough equipment and medical staff exhausted and starting to get sick themselves

One frontline story among many here
https://twitter.com/jasonvanschoor/status/123714289107769753...
Definitely do it. Way more people are already infected than we know. You can be proactive or reactive, and if you’re reacting it’s already too late.
Construction is a public good. Loud cars are a private matter which provide a small benefit to vanishingly few and harm a larger number of people. And loud cars are not only driven in dense urban areas, in fact their owners often prefer to drive them on open roads, in the countryside, etc.

Loud vehicles are a nuisance to society, and an unnecessary one.
Just from the start already i dont get a scientific feeling.

"In just 3 weeks from the beginning of the outbreak, the virus has reached more than 10.000 infected people."

Does this mean only tested 10.000 people? Reads a bit odd though too, i assume they were not infected already when the virus reached them?

"From our data, about 10% of patients require ICU (Intensive Care Unit) or sub ICU assistance and about 5% of patients die."

Is this from 10% of the people actually going to the hospital, or 10% of all tested, or 10% of all people that got the virus?
Take comfort in knowing the whole world will slow down, your competitors included.
If working from home is an option, then you should absolutely make everyone work from home. Not let, make.
what if you wait and your employees get sick? if you're in tech, just implement a work from home policy right now. don't wait for the gov to do so. it's a matter of time. - a French
By "experts" you mean the WHO who delayed declaring it an pandemic for more than a month? I think we're beyond experts already... it's time for leadership, decisive action after experts have failed across the board.
> It's not "nonsense". It's real. It works for almost every other virus out there (e

You're failing to take in consideration that the virus incubation period is on average 1 to 2 weeks, and those who manage to recover from the disease take about 2 weeks from diagnosis to confirmed cure.

This means that you're comparing 4 weeks of exponential growth with 2 weeks of constant recovery.

Sure, those who survived the disease will be immune afterwards. That's great for herd imunity. But the thing you fail to understand is that as the disease increases exponentially, when that time arrives the whole nation has already become infected, and it's too late by then because health services will be unable to cope with the demand and a lot of people will die due to lack of basic medical care.
Are you making a parallel between isolate yourself to not catch and spread a disease with "isolationism and xenophobia"?

I sure hope you (and people in general) can separate the 2 concepts or we're really doomed.
Hand hygiene and risk of influenza virus infections: Review and meta-analysis
I mean, honestly it varies department to department, and when you start talking "lives" versus "YoQL": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life#United_States
Wouldn’t we only have a crude estimate on the death rate for people diagnosed with the virus? If we find that many people are not getting tested for the virus and just recover by themselves, then it’s possible for the fatality rate to be lower.
Here's what Paul Graham wrote on twitter:

> When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1237801364023017472
Answers to your hosting questions about the coronavirus
Be careful using things other than toilet paper if you're flushing it... Especially on a septic system. There are many examples of people doing this test with identical results.
With alternate products, you are going to need a garbage near your toilet for your... Delicates. https://youtu.be/iX8ynvEl77I
Who cares. The point is to get people out of their comfortable complacency.

Read this one: "We are now in the tragic situation that the most efficient health system of the richest area of the country (Lombardy) is almost at its full capacity and will soon be difficult to assist more people with Covid-19."
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They will be replaced by the next set of old. A population can always be segmented, they might just not be as old as before.
Can I just comment on the (IMO bad) choice of colors? It's hard to see the difference of sick and recovered, especially in the big square.

Other than that, nice simulations. :)
No one is 'confident' about a lot of things. But everyone who has seen what is happening in Italy is confident that taking a 'wait and see' attitude will cost lives.
that some people need to take certain kinds of steroids to be healthy doesn't mean you don't get to talk about people taking 100x->1000x the normal dose of anabolic steroids to get huge muscles being a bad idea.

if you can't separate the stigma of that kind of abuse from the use of normal human doses of different compounds then maybe earth is too complex a place for you to live.
As someone who's dealing with analytics data regularely, thank you !

i absolutely don't understand how can someone give any ratio about this disease knowing how only the most severe cases got tested ( except in SK), and that the symptoms are almost undistinguisable from the flu.
Loud cars are incredibly rare and do not cause serious harm. Focusing on them ignores most of the noise and makes it clear that you're disagreeing with their behavior rather than the noise itself. And that behavior is already discouraged or illegal.