skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah... this is gonna be a big "no" from me, dawg.

There's probably a segment of small mid-sized businesses to prey upon making apps with this; but outside of that this has got to be the most terrifying platform to ever build upon.

1. It's based on a specific email provider.

2. That provider is google.

3. Google has zero incentive to give a shit about about anyone or anything using its platform.

4. Average SDK releases per week: 12 (screw the fact GMail hasn't been responsible for breaking changes)

Focusing on a tool that does this shit, on any platform, or one that integrates into any email provider... that'd be neat. This I am afraid of...
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Tech media knows the average person doesn’t understand the whole Alphabet/Google thing (and lets be honest in 2020 no one really understands it as the founders have left and Sundar is CEO of both ).

So they make a deliberate decision to induce fear and anger in their audience, for clicks. They hate you!
If you did that on the spot it is very impressive.
Imagine your hundreds of accounts and having to somehow remember which site uses which version/counter of a password.
Taiwan started acting on 31st December. Taiwan were prepared because they predicted an event like this could happen. Taiwan hasn’t been hit by a sledgehammer even though they have huge flows of Chinese people travelling.

Any delays by other 1st world countries after 31st Dec are largely their own fault.
Except if it became seasonal there's going to be vaccines (with my faith in the medical research). And if the death rate is as high, everyone is going to get it. Making the sacrifice that british public is going through now senseless.

Also, it becoming seasonal could also be a self fulfilling prophecy due to its policy.
Arrgh, but those aren't the same thing! The press conference announced a test scheduling tool, which corresponds to the Verily product. That quote you just listed is just a static info site.

You seriously don't see why this is a messaging error? That it's newsworthy when Trump announced something that doesn't pan out? That it's of a piece with the other times he's done the same thing (e.g. repeatedly stating "anyone who wants to be tested can be tested" when the CDC rules actively being enforced placed strict limits on test availability)?
> I could see how someone could get the impression he said it was coming Sunday evening

The media (and many, many commenters here) were foaming at the mouth for another ORANGE MAN BAD story.

It's amusing to watch all the frantic spinning taking place in this comments section to avoid walking back the ORANGE MAN BAD narrative from this morning. You were wrong, guys. Just admit it. It won't kill you.

I am no particular fan of Donald Trump (to put it mildly), but I think he's been doing a reasonable job on this specific issue, especially when judged by the (admittedly very low) historical standards of federal government responsiveness and timeliness.

But then I'm old enough to remember when the previous administration wasn't able to deploy a functional web site to sell standardized health insurance policies, even when given several hundred million dollars and a couple of years of lead time.
real-time, not really. but it's pretty easy to be business casual or more from just the waist up.
And insulators as well.
That for me is where the logic breaks down, a comprehensive vaccine programme for shingles would seem far more effective than just hoping the adults come into contact with infected children.
"In these difficult economic times"
Water doesn’t actively try to give itself to be drunk. Is it ok to consume?
A long time ago a friend of mine gave me a TG cd. He told me that at the far end of the night when you want people to leave your house party, put this on full volume. He was right.
ECM can be directional (phased array antenna). If an aircraft knew the approximate location of the receiving antennas it could theoretically jam them seperately.
Truly the enemy of the people.
There is also 3M but where does it get the raw materials to make masks? Probably from China which until recently stopped production.
I said what could go wrong.
Insight: Only people who are at 10 days from symptom onset AND have sputum RNA less than 100,000/mL can be sent into the wild. This shows many people still have 5 LOG10 RNA copies through about 2 weeks and some with ‘more severe mild’ disease shed closer to 3 weeks. Some hospital systems are NOT testing mild suspected cases and telling people to quarantine for 7-10 day. This paper shows the policy is totally inadequate and people are being released to the wild much too early.
The USA is a much larger country with dramatically more hospital capacity. It's better to compare state by state numbers to Italy.
Nobody overclocks their GPU in order to make it more annoying to other people.

If the noise was a unwanted side effect, I'd find this a lot less offensive. Anyone who does anything with the main purpose of harassing others is an ass and should be punished accordingly.
As the blog post points out, "Out of an abundance of caution" is used to hide the truth and harm people's freedom. I don't think "That's a great question" has serious problems like that.
I'm not too optimistic. Scnes like this at multiple US airports.
https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/1238986444615618561
Tofu was surprisingly empty here.
Hit 2. Only 1 crashed. You wrote "lost". A plane that flies back to base isn't "lost."

Also, the US didn't deny that they lost any for decades. I remember the news footage (in the US) of the night it was shot down.

You have a peculiar axe to grind here. Are you trying to sell radar systems or something?
I think the point is that you have to wait until the city gets back to normal to judge the efficacy of the lockdown.
While this is nice in theory, it lacks the following I use: usernames, TOTP, credit cards, attachments (like scanned 2FA number grid some banks use), history, autofill. And how does changing master password works?
One thing about this sim bothers me. Having points bounce off each other means they migrate more slowly and increases the effective contact graph diameter. Bouncing points aren't meaningful for the system being modeled. Me staying at home doesn't restrict your movements: our decisions are independent.

IMHO he should turn off the collision model. The effect will still be there, but the logistic parameters will be different.
The hospitals in New York are all preparing for a big surge.

The trauma hospital a few blocks from me has barricaded the entrances, and erected a giant tent as an ward for sick people.
Having a faux commute is a common sentiment. I know someone who wish leave his front door and come back in through the side door to recontectualize themself.
Just heard from a surgeon friend today that at least a couple hospitals here in California are doing the same. They're expecting to need those beds for CV patients within the next week.
As is New Zealand. They're both tiny countries. No way the US could have done that without closing all borders (air, sea, land).

Israel also expelled all tourists. We're dealing with very different legal systems and mindsets.
The major error with the model used in the article is that, in real life, all the points will eventually start to move again.
I don’t want amazing.
I want efficient! Teach me at a speed not to slow and not too fast. Cover the correct topics.

A course with missable sections would be good so that if you already know ES6 you don’t need to listen through it on every JS course. Cheat sheets might help with this too.

I don’t care much for a super interesting voice as long as it’s a reasonable voice (not monotonous or unclear) and I can learn the thing.
I think a lot of people wince at the word “generalist” because, at its worst, it’s synonymous with “somebody with no actual skillset or specialty whatsoever.”

But I've written extensively about the generalist vs. specialist distinction using this definition:

"A generalist is a person with a wider-than-average range of skills and a developed sense of how to apply them to new problems."

One hard part of being a generalist is not knowing how to "train." How do you know what to learn next and how do you measure your progress?

I've been answering that question for myself the past few months and compiled a short handbook of the most practical mental models that I think all self-proclaimed generalists can benefit from knowing, regardless of which domain they work in.

If you'd like to check it out, the first 3 mental models are live here (scroll down towards the bottom): https://stewfortier.com/mental-models-that-generalists-can-u...
And now that both halves of the two income household are working from home, well...

I'm investing in Durex.
A sudden surge of infections will overwhelm the health services, number of available hospital beds, ICU units, and ventilators. This means that many more people will die that would have otherwise survived if the spread of the virus was slower and treatment was available.

Unfortunately there are many who view the countless avoidable deaths of those who are older, have underlying conditions or otherwise could have benefited from proper treatment as an acceptable price to pay for a faster "economic recovery".
Precious71
> constrained parallelism in Rust

I'm... unsure what you mean. As far as I know Rust doesn't require any extra runtime overhead for parallelism that wouldn't be required in C++. Rust ensures you use locking mechanisms at compile time, but you still need those in C++, you just "have to be aware of it" in that case.

I suppose Rust does require a value shared across threads to be reference-counted, where that might technically be optional in C++. But then you get to do manual deallocations across threads, which just sounds like a nightmare. And each thread only has to increment the counter once, so the overhead should be minuscule compared to the overhead of creating a thread in the first place. The only exception would be if you have bad lock coordination, but again, that problem is no different in Rust than it is in C++.
The switch to Microsoft no good?
I found some intriguing music at 9700.00 AM.

Turkish I guess? But could be from anywhere from Eastern Europe to Arabia.
China's already outputting 100mil+ mask per day, US have also waived tariffs on masks and other related medical apparatus.
pants, no. sweatpants, joggers, shorts? (almost) always
Could the IRS Empty Your Bank Account? (2016)
When I Was Asked to Remake “The Maltese Falcon”
One question here: Do we have any scientific way to verify which strategy works? I been waiting for related research that can either proof or disproof the usefulness of the "Lock-down strategy" which China been using in the past couple of months and still not fully lifted.

We had little less than 30 total cases in our city with just over 1 million population, and the city was in lock down mode for few weeks. I can feel the slow rise of living costs during that period of time.

It's quite funny to see how people reacts to this, panic-buying all the face masks for example. Makes me think whether or not it's worth it to go full-out panic, because panic usually creates way more chaos/problems than the problem itself.
I live in Vietnam, maybe you too. It is true that Government here is being very restrictive, controlling flights, quarantine people, etc... But its true that during early January, still many people coming from China came to Vietnam, also people comng from other south east asians. During second half of february there were no restrictions for visa exemption for tourists, thousands came from Spain, Italy, Germany, UK... What I mean if this was Italy, Austria, Norway, the virus would have been unstoppable. We would have case everywhere , thousadns, same should be Singapore, Thailanda, laos, etc... Its very clear that the virus can be transmited here? YES, of course but only thorugh very direct contact, what is that is happening. I am sure the weather played a big role and virus is not stable for long time when exposed. I am sure also, that all this here is creating a huge oportunity of propaganda for the socialist government, they make popultaion feel fear all the time, all the people here think they will die if they catch the virus so they see like sheeps the government as an angel. They are taking too strict measurements and the damage here economically speaking is already HUGE. An example how to manage this is Singapore. They always had imported cases, and few direct contact cases from this imported cases. But they still run the country as normal as possible with not too strict measures. Here they are literally crazy. Of course, personal opinion, cheers
It's uncanny, because the various testing regimes implemented in the places where there have been outbreaks ought to be providing wildly inconsistent data, but the data from around the world is all showing a strikingly similar pattern. Once there's a community outbreak, the starting gun is off and it plays out like clockwork.
The best you can hope to do is gum up that clockwork with draconian quarantine measures, because the starting gun is off all over the continental United States. Wash hands across America.
They have a sign in mode to remember unique information about the password, without having to actually store the password.
https://apps.foldingathome.org/project.py?p=14307

For a more user-friendly UI, you can also go to https://client.foldingathome.org/, which will then attempt to communicate with your client on port 7396 and display the project description among other things. (This also lets you change some settings)

For those running on servers, you can telnet 127.0.0.1 36330 to control your client.

If you just want the project numbers quickly, you can do grep project /var/lib/fahclient/log.txt
Lockdown is literally what flattens the curve. The slower the virus spreads, the flatter the curve gets.

The virus still spreads in lockdown, just at a slower pace. We will likely see resurgences when the lockdown(s) are lifted, but the idea is to plan to do that when we can handle it.
You can do this with your brain and a text file (for keeping track of counters and usernames). I've been managing my passwords this way for years.
Yeah, I hope it doesn't come to it but this is the right first step. Adapted a flu surge model with folks at my company to estimate bed capacity shortage and it's not pretty. https://qventus.com/blog/predicting-the-effects-of-the-covid...
They were here in NYC on Friday.
Wow, you're not even considering that each infection in that airport will come back and infect a bunch of people who didn't make the choice to fly?

IE we should not allow people to take risks that are going impact all of society.

The virus has exploded the American myth that we can isolate individual behavior to individual rewards but also this myth means the country is going to seriously suffer.
Watch this video as an alternative perspective:

A day on my family dairy farm
https://youtu.be/Lm95bVL0iwU
Obituaries page of this Bergamo daily newspaper
...and see it as merely linear. That's the problem.

Exponential growth is like dynamite. It's absurdly fast, compared to anything people see in daily lives.
Yo, don't do that here. Someone responded politely about their personal beliefs, asking a interrogative question like this is needlessly rude.
Drugs shown to be effective in vitro routinely fail to show similar effects in vivo.

Chloroquines have a long history of this in viral studies.
Interesting. I do think that few people understand what a billionaire actually is, i.e. what force you can mobilize if you are one.
Jack Ma to donate 1M face masks, 500k coronavirus testing kits to the US
Thanks - though I think they added a 14 day period that he will need to self quarentine
Unfortunately, seeing oneselves as special is one of the most widely spread cognitive biases :(
Weather in Spain in the en of february is cold most fo the times. March is a changeable weather, can have very cold weeks, some few days with 25C and very sunny. But cold also. May will be a hot month.
What? I’m in New England tri state and started preparing 28 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22339369
That is the reason I really don’t like Medium. So many click-bait articles and paywall
You don't need the fahcontrol package. The COVID-19 work units are high-priority and you're currently very likely to get them, but they haven't halted work on the other ones.
BNF Converter - compiler construction tool generating front-end from BNF grammar
And here's what Google Communications said three hours ago:

"Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information"
Well, when people have no quantitative risk metric to judge their actions by, how else do you suppose they explain their thinking?

Would you have them say something like, "given the risk of inaction causing an incremental 2% infection cases among our customer population, we judged that imposing an added cost of $5 per employee and customer was a reasonable choice"?
At that point what is the benefit? Syncing state is inevitable then. Also you still can’t change your master password.
There are at least a couple of major upgrades to US testing capacity in progress from Roche[0] and Thermo Fisher[1].

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/13/815522836/u-s-coronavirus-tes...

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/14/thermo-fisher-to-produce...
That is indeed the Voice of Turkey: https://www.short-wave.info/index.php?freq=9700
There are basically two paths: act swiftly and decisively at the very beginning. Immediately close your borders. Find the infected and contact trace them. Dragnet test where necessary. Haul off the sick to quarantine locations run by the government. etc. Then you don't need to lock down the entire country.

Path 2 is you fuck it up and Covid-19 is running rampant through your entire population. Of course at this point closing borders and contact tracing is 100% pointless. It's in this environment where lockdown is the only way you can accomplish anything.
Regarding the second question, a preprint of study on SARS-CoV-2 immunity in rhesus macaque indicates that they did develop an immunity. [0]

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
"Thanks in advance."

Why not thank me now?
Mod it down all you want.

You'll still be wrong.
Rumagrit
Yes, the point being that linear halving is much more intuitive for most people than exponential halving. Even when you're told the doubling rate, your brain reaches for the wrong answer every time.
Why should it be acceptable for anyone to do anything with the sole intention of pissing anyone off?
There seems to be a very well defined separation between those who have a relatively high chance of becoming critically ill, and those who have a very low chance. Depending on what you are optimizing for it could be more important to keep those groups separated.

I wonder if having known that for weeks now has lead to better social distancing between those groups, even if interactions within the low risk group has stayed rather high. Could lead to a lot of spread with very little detection because we largely only test for and catch the really bad cases.
While the world now praises the Chinese government's response (they shouldn't) to the Wuhan Corona Virus outbreak, please remember why it spread at first. Also, I doubt if the situation is actually controlled in China. Have we ever known how China counted the patients? In more than one case, the new infections in a city exceeds that of its province.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1237852245359644675?s=20
Recovery is exponential too - it just lags behind the new cases.
I really wish the discussion on T2 would change - I'm tired of being blamed for being diabetic by medical professionals, I even lost a significant amount of weight (well over 100 lbs) but the diabetes returned.

In my case, my liver seems to emit a virtually endless amount of glucose, This is probably why I'm fat, and oddly, when my diabetes is well controlled, I'm never hungry, when its poorly controlled I'm hungry all the time and gain weight - which is how I was most of my life, being hungry virtually 24/7, even when my blood sugar was normal.
>science discredited and ignored

There is a large faction of people in the USA who believe this a politically motivated hoax. This is the world we are living in. How can we vote in competent leaders when a large faction holds such strong influence?
a much easier way to not have to remember a password is to reset your password every time using the 'forgot password' feature available for most sites.

You generate a new, random password for that, but you don't remember, nor store it. You just use the forgot-password feature next time you login.

This way, you just need to secure your email provider's password (say, gmail is pretty good - 2-factor and they constantly check for weird logins).
You might be thinking of VVT or variable valve timing, which changes when the valve opens. Variable valve duration changes for how long it opens for and I think is a recent innovation. The latter allows for more efficiency as the engine at different speeds and loads requires more or less lift duration. It's also continuously variable across the RPM/load table, wheras most VVT systems just swap between two different activation timings and as such are always a compromise somewhere in the range.

I have also seen a system that swaps between two different cam lobes entirely, offering two different cam profiles which can also vary valve duration and not just timing, but you're limited to two settings again, where these newer systems offer complete variability.
The surgeon general has asked hospitals nationwide to postpone elective surgery.
The exact opposite is happening with this phrase in the current situation. The only people saying they’re doing something, “out of an abundance of caution” seem really to be saying something like, “this doesn’t seem necessary, but we’re getting some pressure to do it, so we’re doing it,” or they’re saying it about actions that are far too limited given the actual threat.

Here’s an example from Chick-fil-A in my inbox: “We’ve instructed anyone who is not feeling well to stay home out of an abundance of caution...”

That’s not an abundance of caution, for crying out loud! That’s the absolute minimum anybody should be doing in response. It’s likely far too measured.
>They are about slowing it, so that the load on the health care system isn't too grade.

This isn't really a plan, it's mostly wishful thinking. We expect herd immunity to kick in at around 60% prevalence, which in the UK would be ~38 million cases. ~10% of cases require hospitalisation, so that's ~3.8 million hospital admissions. At the last count, NHS England had a grand total of 4123 critical care beds. Unless we remain in isolation for the best part of a decade, the healthcare system is going to be substantially overwhelmed and care will have to be rationed.

We may get a vaccine, but that'll take at least 12 months and we don't know how well it'll work; until we know how rapidly SARS-CoV-2 mutates, we can't assume that a vaccine would end the epidemic. It is a strong possibility that COVID-19 will become a regular seasonal affliction like influenza.

There are no good options and we're not even sure which are the least bad options. Strict isolation measures will kick the problem down the road for a while, but at the risk of a whole bunch of other problems. How long will people tolerate being confined to their homes? How long can the economy withstand a huge reduction in productivity and spending? What happens if the lockdown fails and social unrest occurs just in time for the next winter flu season?

We need a lockdown to buy us some time, but we also need to face up to the reality that a lockdown isn't a solution but merely a stopgap.
T1 person, yes, but not T2, at least not with the T2 people I know.
Elon Musk was one of the deniers. You would think someone who "always starts with physics" would know better.