skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skip it. A casino is probably only a little bit less bad than a cruise ship.
> What he came up with was that if you have two people who are roughly the same size and tidal volume, you can just double the tidal volume and stick them on Y tubing on one ventilator.

Would this help increase the number of covid-19 patients that could be treated? Or do they not require ventilators? I wonder if the study they mentioned about it was ever completed?
The character that swallowed a week
I've actually lived in a neighborhood that was being randomly targeted by a nutjob arsonist, with multiple fires, and some burned down buildings. Fortunately, IIRC, no deaths, but perhaps one injured firefighter. In attempting to find an article about the bloke to refresh my memory as to if the arsonist used accelerants like gasoline - I believe he did at least once, but perhaps inconsistently - I didn't find google particularly helpful, as there have been apparently more recent arsonists in that same neighborhood cluttering up my search results. Arson is perhaps not quite as rare as you think, although I'm still pretty relaxed about it. Turns out most arsonists don't think to get an entire trolley or cart full of gasoline, and in smaller quantities it isn't quite as dangerous.

I'm more worried - although still rather relaxed - about accidents. I've caught a gas leak. I've walked up to a restraunt I frequent only to find the building condemed due to a nearby gas leak resulting in an explosion overnight, rendering the structure unsound. I've had insulation in heating ducts catch fire. I've had drunk neighbors in a shared apartment complex set their kitchens on fire as they've gone to sleep. I've helped stomp out grass fires caused by someone's discarded cigarette butts. I'm sure there's more I've simply forgotten. Again, no deaths, despite plenty of property damage and destruction.

> So how about phosphorus crime? Is that common? No, and I see no rational reason to believe it would be more common than gasoline attacks if phosphorous were as unregulated as gasoline.

I hear a lot more about war crimes involving white phosphorus than I do about war crimes involving gasoline, despite current regulations. Even if you're correct that civilian crime involving phosphorus wouldn't become as common as civilian crime involving gasoline, that wouldn't make any uptick a good thing, or even neutral.
Agreed, it is a very nice little interaction! It seems like they're animating the bubbles around a circle while randomly fluctuating the speed and radius at which they rotate. Clicking on a bubble centers it by setting the rotation radius to `0` and expanding the size.

Would be interested to know how they expand the bubbles as your cursor moves closer.
China is back online. It was just a bump in the road.
You can't get around it by going through the UK. It applies whether you've been to the countries affected at any point in the last 14 days, even if it's not your immediate origin port.
I don't necessarily disagree with you but I'm old enough to remember a time when mobile phones were the dorkiest possible thing to pull out one's pocket (or bag in the case of the bag phones).
Where do you see that because that didn't come from the article and video of the full interview that I linked in that original post?
Are you saying it is more accurate to call it a lie?
Here's a benchmark [1] against aiopg, which is psycopg2+asyncio.

[1] http://magic.io/blog/asyncpg-1m-rows-from-postgres-to-python...
Let's say they sold 200,000 for the Xmas season - that would put Oculus Quest sales at around 600,000.

https://gamedaily.biz/article/1337/report-oculus-quest-has-s...

And it seems VR sales (EDIT: shipments) are hovering at around 6,000,000 a year (this tends to include the crappy VR headsets that are sometimes given away for free with high end phones).

https://www.androidcentral.com/nearly-half-all-vr-headsets-s...

This sounds like a lot...but it might not be. To put things in perspective, the Kinect sold around 20,000,000 units and was considered a failure by Microsoft which is why they abandoned it. I think the parallels between the Kinect and VR is worth noting, since most are really accessories to something else (or used for very niche purposes).

VR definitely isn't mainstream yet, but it might get there in a few years. I think Half Life Alyx will be an interesting juncture and maybe even a make-or-break point for VR.
The pressure / desire to travel is also dropping sharply, though.

Limiting all Schengen traffic is an extreme example, but it's not obvious that some level of restriction would necessarily produce a significant bottleneck effect (given that citizens are exempt).
He is showing symptoms too quickly to have gotten it from that, but he certainly could have been spreading it.
Had to scroll pretty far. The new link is paywalled for me (mobile).
It's a different time, the net world changed forever after AOL got the "masses" on-line.

slashdot, kuro5hin, usenet, a few other choice places, all either gone, or polluted by willfully ignorant voices.

Or outright mean spirited, aggressive trolls, like Rusty of kuro5hin found out the hard way, poor guy.

You may find Metafilter of interest.

I'd be interested in other places as well, I never found a replacement for those lost treasures of the early net.

I still have my tattered original kuro5hin T-shirt, can't wear it, but can't bear to throw it out.
a) is because as I understand it it's /very/ hard to legally refuse to readmit a US citizen. You can seize all their stuff at the border but besides arresting them for a crime you can't really keep them from coming home.
Weird, I was just looking into google code search this weekend so I could use something like it on my work computer. It's a little surprising that big co git storage companies don't have a proper code search tool as part of their package. I use Bitbucket right now but the search is built over Elasticsearch and special characters aren't handled so regular expressions won't work.

A couple open source projects that I've seen are Hound and Zoekt. Hound actually uses this code search backend with a nice frontend in React. Zoekt is what I was going to use since it scales really well, is faster, and has good search operators for filtering by repo name, language, etc. Google was using Zoekt until recently for code search across all their open source repos.[0]

[0]https://cs.chromium.org/
This is an excellent point.

I've experienced living in a small, developing nation for years, and while they have the same dangerous mixture as China of live animals (and the associated excretions), dead animals, produce (unwashed, washed, and already skinned for consumption all available from the same table), fertilizer of human origins, farming supplies, pesticides, medical products, hygiene products, clothing, food transport, food storage, food preparation surfaces, cutlery, dish ware and dining surfaces all overlapping to alarming degrees (often sharing the same surfaces at different times), they don't have the potential global role, both based on their size, relative lack of population, lack of foreign travel and foreign entanglements, and so on.

Inadvertent power projection from a biological perspective is an interesting concept.

Edit to add: I can't judge the people working in these markets and offering products under horrendous conditions. They're trying to feed their families. But China needs to get serious about public health if it hopes to improve its reputation, which is roughly the same from Tehran to Toledo with some justification.
I like Amazon, but at some level I find it hard to believe that a company that can build a store that automatically tracks my purchases with ML and let’s me walk out without a checkout can’t figure out how to flag some of the blatantly fake stuff being sold on their site.

Sure given the scale there can always be a few bad apples but some of the stuff is clearly fake and stays up for ages.
> It's batshit insane! We should be doubling, tripling taxes in the short term on those that can pay it to make up the funding gap for testing, treatment, and surge capacity

Taking money out of the economy by dramatically hiking taxes at this point seems _batshit insane_ to me. The government should be well equipped to absorb temporary shocks to revenue.
There's a lesser known study in which someone who is optimistic about their behavior performs worse. The people who think they have the most willpower are likely to give in. The more people lose will, the more they view that failure as an anomaly, work harder at it, and spiral worse.

When smokers were asked to smoke the same number of cigarettes every day, and explicitly told not to smoke less, they gradually smoke less.

The people who are pessimistic about their odds often do well. It's likely that AA's approach of making people to feel powerless is what ironically gives them more willpower.

Sources: Howard Rachlin, The Science of Self-Control; Kelly McGonigal, Maximum Willpower.
As a US citizen currently on a business trip out of the country, that's really good to know!
Design like it’s 1999
I used primary data from WHO to predict the trajectory of the coronavirus
F9 on Firefox to toggle reader view, which removes the paywall.
Small sample size but: similar experience here (in the middle of the USA). One of my son's friend's mother was even hospitalized for "pneumonia" for a few days. This was the first time I heard of a fairly young fit person having pneumonia due to the flu.
https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/issues/1096
Is there evidence that native apps take away customers from existing apps? I have every native app on my iphone either deleted or moved to a trash folder and replaced with apps that just work better. Seems to me that Apple is more or less validating these other apps by offering their own versions. If other iOS users are like me, they're going to immediately go on the app store and see what other people are offering instead.
Just eat an apple a day...
Yes.

very low risk != no risk.
I think it's people realising that compilers aren't that complicated until you get into the backend.

Lots of optimization passes, even, are relatively obvious (not necessarily trivial, but they make sense) - to my eye at least, the Voodoo magic is in the scheduling and code generation
Regardless of where lines are draws on maps, yes. Regardless of a whole host of other factors, not at all.

This particular pandemic was entirely avoidable in the first place. Food markets in developing nations frequently cause local health problems, and have all the ingredients to make a global one (as it seems to have in this case).
> ... A sudden and sustained increase in companies tapping credit lines could eventually strain banks if conditions become so dire that borrowers won’t be able to meet their obligations

Echoes of 2008. The ensuing chain reaction turns a decline into a catastrophe.
No, it wasn't secrecy that killed them. It was incompetence. Gross incompetence all throughout the company. Source: I worked there for a little over a year as a techlead/unofficial director -- even relocating to Florida.
So, garbage except for being true in all aspects.
You may still fave mandatory quarantine. Plan accordingly.

PS- Good luck!
You are forgetting about the pitlane and the motorhomes of the teams
- Bought condo outside of USA for cash with renter already in place - bringing ~$1k/mo

- Sold vested Co shares - not at the top of the market but 25% ago - before crash - and bought place in NV with much lower cost of living - moving out of CA soon.

- Some cash saved that with frugal living could keep us going for a year or so with no issues.
Was there a reason why ML was in Florida?
I'm fifty +- some and became isolated without realising during the years I cared for my mother.

You want to give the old folks, among who I am myself in this respect, something to live for. Attention is the catnip.

Want to kill the olds in droves? Isolate them.

I'm bloody serious about this and believe it's tort that needs a Court hearing for the human sake alone. You don't know anything until you friend all died. Mine did except for who then exited into a new world of economic paranoia and now hides in a regular job after increasingly failing to deal with isolation in the context of a young loving family around him at home at least. I'm so intensely proud of my buddy but he's a truly impractical link back to life for me
Looking back on it, the chemistry set I got in the 90s could have easily been outdone by rooting around under the kitchen sink with a copy of the AC.
You can always run it through https://verylegit.link

result:

http://win2003.verylegit.link/15notice.dmg.docm
Fascinating question...

There's this standard case for law students (here in Germany): A man wishes his wife was dead. He sends her out to the mailbox on rainy day, muttering "I hope you get hit by lightning" under his breath. She does get hit by lightning and dies. Murder?
Because Rony wanted it to be, and no other reason. From a hiring perspective, it was an absolute nightmare.
No! This will do nothing. How are people on HN asking this? You all know math, right?!

The healthcare system is at risk of being overwhelmed by an exponential function. That means, to a first approximation, nothing matters except the last doubling.

Discussion questions: How does this policy, implemented now, affect the time span of the last doubling of COVID cases in the US? Does it do fuck all? Why, or why not?
I don't see any tech solutions mentioned out here. At least i would like to take a shot.

Not relying on government is the way to go.

I think we should build a social network for community welfare which can prepare us for something like this in future. Where people build communities among themselves. Key point being internal resource availability to be exposed to the close knit network and an external pool exposed to an radius. Keeping everything to the close knit shouldn't be encouraged and there should be a proportion. Ideally the network should be split when its crossing a proportion.
Make your own hand sanitiser (WHO recipe): https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf

Buy 95% ethanol (from hardware/paint department, or maybe Everclear booze if in US) or isopropyl alcohol (hardware/paint department).

Buy Glycerin (Chemist, or I found it cheap at Indian goods store, probably other places).

IMHO the Hydrogen peroxide can be safely skipped if you can’t easily find it.

Maybe also get some hand cream (frequent use of hand sanitiser will screw your skin).
This is the definition that leads to the ugly proof by cases.

Right there is the problem. There's nothing wrong with proof by cases. People suck at it, but machines do it just fine. I ran into this years ago in the early days of program proving. The kind of proofs that mathematicians like are not the kind you really want to use to get work done by machine.
They're not in the Schengen zone, so they can control who comes in?
>but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.

How does it spread then? Seems hard to believe all these people are being infected through hand shakes or being coughed on.
The presumption is you have better tracking over your own citizens than people coming in.
(not who you were replying to...)

> My current sponsor’s higher power was once an imaginary vagina.
> It spoke to him and everything.

That made me laugh audibly, and next time I need to refer to a higher power in any sort of conversation, I fully plan to work that in.

If you ever have the occasion to tell your sponsor that this story inspired such a reaction from a random person on the internet, I hope it amuses him.
immigration law does not apply to citizens, basically at all. customs does, but immigration does not.
I mean generally, if booking flights for the next week (in general) they are expensive.
I put the sources above. If you read through, you see that not only did the numbers change but also that he specifically made predictions based on a scenario where zero attempts to mitigate infection were taken.

I mentioned that here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22552973

> [0]The source of the 40%-70% figure has since dramatically altered their estimates, and added several qualifiers.

> [0]https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1234879949946814464?s=2....
> I am not seeing why flights from Sweden or Ireland are any more dangerous than flights from Seattle at this point.

I'd favor grounding most flights at this point. However, the reason to restrict people from eg Sweden or Ireland or anywhere, is because those people in Seattle are our people (legally, citizenship-wise), which are the ones we should be concerning ourselves with and attempting to control/restrict/observe/test/treat. The US is about to enter mass quarantine, as numerous other countries are. It's better if people from other countries stay outside of the US / stay in their own countries.

And further, it's dramatically better to only have to deal with our own people as a vector, not foreign persons. It's obvious that the fewer people that are infected within the US, the better.
> You have zero entitlement to use somebody else’s code under conditions that suit you.

Note that this sort of rhetoric is eerily familiar from the world of proprietary software; and is largely absent in truly free software contexts (BSD, MIT, ...). When similar entitlement talk comes up, it's usually in terms such as not being entitled to free support (coding or whatever) in regard to something available "as is".
Notably, they killed Google Code Search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search

IIRC, Google Code Search was the impetus for creating the RE2 library.
Hm, maybe the government should require internet providers to stop artificially throttling bandwidth.
Discussion about my previous project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16756901
was much bigger in comparison with this project - this is surprising me.
I think a steep rise in infection counts due to increased testing/detection would be a great thing. More data is always better in these situations and more confirmed infections with confirmed recoveries would probably ease everyone's minds a bit more.

To be clear I'm not saying more infections are a good thing, simply that if there are a lot more cases that already exist, knowing they exist and having more accurate data that shows us COVID19 is less harmful than currently perceived/projected would be good for everyone.
Nah. The stronger your reasoning skills, the more likely it is you'll succumb to motivated reasoning.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992
This guy sure does love Em-elia
Especially when the pilot is only 20% of the price!
Having skimmed the research paper and done some work with both dynamics and ML, my interpretation of their statement is the following:

You want to learn a function that represents the dynamics of your system, either as a function of the system state or some output like a picture of the system. If you just apply some NN technique directly, this is possible but will require a lot of data since the NN doesn't have any knowledge of physics. If you use their system, you are trying to learn the Lagrangian of the system, which contains information on e.g. its symmetries, and bakes in physical knowledge into the learning problem at hand. As a result, less data is needed to learn the system dynamics.
Sure. All this stuff is background noise compared to the large uses like Netflix and BitTorrent etc.
Dear Dang, what does your admin toolset look like? Have you written about that anywhere? I'm curious, is this post of yours at the top because it has the most upvotes, or because you are pinning it here?
If you want to go further down this rabbit hole, I'd recommend "Why We're Polarized" by Ezra Klein. It acts as a synthesis for a bunch of work just like this.
Does anybody know how temporary work visas are handled? I’m on an L1-B and thankfully rebooked my flights 2 weeks ago when in a business trip to Germany (in anticipation of something like this).

Edit: I’m back in the US with my wife and kids, wasn’t clear enough above.
PSA: Used office chairs are a much better deal than new, at least if you are paying close to list price. About 10 years ago I bought a steelcase leap for less than $300. I've used it at least 250 days a year since then with no problems. List price on that chair is $1k.
On last year/quarter's profits, which they might need for opex now.
Yeah I was kinda hoping if so many people need to be home... maybe they could play.

Guess not.
I imagine they assume you already own a chair and a computer, but may want to buy a second monitor for example to make it easier to work.
Why call it a “dark case” ?

How about an asymptomatic case ?
Kinect was also bundled with the Xbox One at launch though, and it was mandatory
this is a great idea
On the psychological effects of solitary confinement: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/what-does-solitar...
the previous President was just that...a charismatic moron.
I'm saying I'm serious twice in this year already do it had to be the end..

Send everyone over 55 s as my working phone capable of doing Skype or whatever and provide the device a data connection to a Chatroulette app setup and instructions to disable the it and use normally in big big print and grayscale not color screens please color is confusing or color only what you want clicked (NeXT could have been a revolution for just doing that) by us old people anyway...
> It's also worth noting that this flight ban applies only to non-Americans, just as the Wuhan restriction before did. During the prior travel restriction dozens of flights a day were going to and from Wuhan -- they just had Americans on them, who apparently aren't susceptible to the foreign virus. This new restriction is identical, allowing Americans to march the globe with their COVID-19, but at least they kept out the foreigners.

Well presumably they'll always allow non-Americans to leave. As for americans, they would still have to wade through quarantine or whatever restrictions the other country requires.

For entry into the US, does the govt even has the power to keep americans and permanent residents from entering? Seems like every country will at worst only quarantine its own people.
Except the article was never incorrect. You were. Twice. You didn't just say it was incorrect, you called it garbage; that's reactionary and ultimately makes you look foolish.

You're entirely free to continue behaving however you want, but noise will never be signal, and I'm much more interested in what you could contribute to a signal.
My wife is a pre-kindergarten teacher and has asthma. I'm very worried.
Check out FileCloud Community Edition. You can self-host on windows or linux.

https://www.getfilecloud.com/filecloud-community-edition/
You mean, the year after Facebook opened to the public?
Same. Didn’t go crazy but got more of the less-perishables that I’m going to eat anyway. Maybe 90% of the rice was gone, ditto for cooking oil and other staples (mid-atlantic us south). Fresh vegetables and meats and everything else really seemed in normal stock for now.
If it doesn't have the power to re-infect (which isn't known yet), then once herd immunity is achieved, things should return somewhat to normal.
I'm just going to quote the CDC again, because public health authorities are really the best sources of information we have and I don't want to participate in the "telephone" effect that paraphrasing begets:

> The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.

> * Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).

> * Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

> These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/transmission...
Yeah I'll be really bummed if I can't watch the Guardians take home the inaugural championship.

If the XFL does play through, the pandemic might be great for them, but I don't see that happening.