skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I saw that talk too, and I was baffled. He seems totally ready to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Node's package resolution algorithm might not be perfect, but it's better than nearly every other language's (which is "single big unhierarchical dump of packages, good look sorting out the dependencies kthxbye").
Apropo apropos of nothing, the point was that an argument from (academic) authority is weakned when the authority occupies a political role.
Books are just another kind of block, with some text data, so effectively they are.

The architecture, the dome, the world map, and the flags, all made out of regular colored blocks, speak louder than words.
I just created a project and my balance is $0. Do i need to add to my balance to request for an api call?
1) Why are you assuming it will be 280 Million and not stop at around 59 Million like before?

2) Why choose a number like 6% when it's currently at 3.8%?

3) Why are we experiencing so much more panic over this virus?
The CDC's worst case estimate was 214 Million Infected, 1.7 Million Dead

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/cdcs-worst-case-coro...
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Anyone disagreeing with your figure should post a refutation.

I'm shocked there are so many people treating covid-19 as if it's just the flu. Our medical system is going to be strained to the breaking point. It's a big fucking deal.

There's a dog park with booze just outside my window, and it's packed to the brim with hipsters day after day. None of them care. The bars are overflowing with the St. Patrick's Day crowd.

Insane.

Why are so many people nonchalant? Can't they imagine how this situation plays out?
-Your comment made me chuckle as I was in fact listening to that fine act of Slovenian cultural imperialism as I read it - Opus Dei, by the way.

Slightly less off-topic, I have been listening to lots of classical music over the years - in no small part because of a music teacher in secondary school who didn't just put on a record to let us know what, say, Beethoven, Händel or Shostakovich sounded like, but rather brimmed with (genuine) enthusiasm and a heartfelt joy of being able to share this great music with us.

The enthusiasm was contagious.
China's economy has is no way returned to normal.

https://www.capitaleconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/...

https://www.capitaleconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/...
This is my point, No platform I know of puts padding between bytes, so the behavior should be clear, but since a platform CAN put padding between bytes, and writing to said padding is UB, some compiler designers thinks this a license to do what ever.
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Look at what Taiwan did. They have fewer than 100 cases, despite close contact to China.
C++ is able to do it in constexpr contexts - a constexpr function cannot exhibit UB (else it's a compile error)
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Gosh, the memories. Swine flu caused me to black out for a whole day and yet it seemed to bounce off other people as if it were the common cold.

That’s the biggest unknown about the new coronavirus disease for me: how ill am I actually going to get? Flu seems so unpredictable.
As someone that is trying to wade through all the misinformation and hysteria, these kinds of comments that throw out numbers with zero sources and zero commentary are useless at best. If you're going to post statistical information (e.g. the virus has a 2% fatality rate) then link to the organization or study which said so.
Why? Why is this relevant?

It seems the reason for this is to downplay covid-19. As if that outcome is what the whole world is freaking out over.

If anything you should see those numbers and ask yourself. What if it were exponentially worse?

That is also under the assumption that hospitals will not overrun. Which they will.

Don't plan on having any injuries this year.
Not the commenter you're asking, but re: 2, 6/280 = 2.1% for the assumed mortality rate
The death toll is going to rise without proper care (the reason was given). I'd more modest like 35% of population is likely to get it.
Current ones, yes. New ones are in development and keep appearing weekly.
There is virtually no chance that 85% of the population will get covid-19
Security is part of the launch review. An ad-hoc user system would require significantly more effort to properly review and get approval. I doubt the website would have finished the PRR if it's not using the existing user system.

Disclaimer: engineer working for Google but not in Verily.
Still no mention of HIPAA?
People are recovering because their immune system learns and remembers how to fight it. I'd at least assume our immune system would behave as its programmed to with this virus, before jumping to opposite conclusion

Also, if immunity isn't possible we'd see mass reports of people who recovered months ago getting it again, since this has been around mid November
1) it’s a different virus with zero population immunity

2) number will spike when hospitals are overwhelmed

3) are you a dullard?
What a marvelous initiative. We should be doing this everywhere.

In a house where I used to live, I left as much as possible as meadow (because I am lazy and too cheap to water it), cutting it only twice a year to reduce the fire risk. Everybody else installed the golf course style lawns. I had the best looking yard by a mile :-) and was very happy with it.
Orang man bad
Agreed! Thanks to Twitter I caught the severity of this "early" and about two weeks ago had my WTF moment. Felt like I was in the middle of an eartquake for a good hour. A switch flipped. For business and personal life I knew that I had to change up just about everything in order to address and ride through this as best as possible.

Here is something I posted a week ago about the social landscape that still holds true unfortunately:

Twitter: oh shit

Instagram: what virus

Facebook: you’re overreacting

In person: toilet paper!!!!
the level of viral load in the initial exposure has a lot to do with how sick you will get. If a sick person coughs in your face that’s much worse than just touching a lightly contaminated cardboard box and getting it that way.
Some really weird behaving fishes.
I'm no expert, but given the amount of hits "maven dependency conflicts" I get on Google, strongly doubt Maven works the same.

Last I checked, it'll indeed pull in all transitive dependencies, but if multiple dependencies need the same subdependency of a different version, you need to work out conflicts. JS simply doesn't have this problem, it's splendid.
> 3) Why are we experiencing so much more panic over this virus?

Italy's CFR is over 7%. They've implemented triage in Lombardy where they won't even consider someone over the age of 65, because they're out of beds and ventilators and want to ensure patients with the best chances for survival make it.

Amongst those with symptoms, this virus has an 80% hospitalization rate.

This virus is a test, and we're going to be found severely unprepared.

Give me a moment and I'll go dig up my citations.

Edit: I was wrong about the hospitalization rate. It appears to be 20% [1]

One source cites a CFR of 5% in Italy as of two days ago. [2]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/people-have-been-...

[2] https://www.livescience.com/why-italy-coronavirus-deaths-so-...
1. The R0 of the disease sets the percentage at which herd immunity sets in and the virus stops spreading. The flu has a much lower R0 than the coronavirus.

3. Because it's much worse than the 2009 flu on almost every metric. If we treat them the same, there will be two orders of magnitude more deaths.
All the massive famines I recall from history were in the exception category.

Plus, keeping enough supplies is one of government functions - through those prior French revolution the famines I recall were not in this category.
> "there is no such thing as bad press for him"

I mean, there's been almost 5 years of bad press for him (discounting everything before late 2015) and it hasn't really affected how the GOP treat him (like a king) or how his base seem him (like a saviour king.)

> Trump is invincible

Until the media and the GOP start doing a better job, yeah, he pretty much is, unfortunately.
Agreed. Honestly, who is going to take a trip around the world now? Even if all the borders were open. No one is going to risk getting stuck in some foreign country.
And if every business does this, they all retain the $50/month and none of their employees afford anyone's products.
Why would it be wrong? If there's 3 bytes of padding between x and y, then writing 2 bytes of 0s to &a would zero out x and the first padding byte, but would not zero y.
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There's no statistical information in the comment you're replying to...
"In a normal presidency, any one of these scandals would have sunk it but with Trump, we get a new one every week and nothing."
(I forget but probably someone on Lawyers,Guns,Money.)

[edit: too many "any"]
The CFR is much larger than the IFR in places like Italy that lack testing capacity. The IFR is what's relevant when estimating number of deaths if the virus were to spread to the ~whole population.
It is pretty much in line with worst case scenarios in many European countries.
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> Not a hot county like Solano?

Would you like to explain how Solano county is more important than Santa Clara, despite the fact that Santa Clara has almost 20x the cases?
It's not. Writing to the padding is always allowed, on every platform. [1]

As for whether or not every field will be zeroed in the example, and whether or not you can accidentally generate a trap representation by writing to this padding, each implementation of C99 (platform/compiler/whatever) must specify somewhere what the padding for chars in a struct is. You can look it up from the manual, or whatever documentation is provided.

If this makes you scared about your software being built on an unknown platform and where you need to zero every field of the struct in the fashion shown in the example, then you can just keep a list of the implementations where you know it's safe in the readme, or have the build system stop if it's not on the approved list where you've read the manual for that implementation.

You can go ahead and fill in x86/AMD64/AArch64 for gcc/clang/msvc, because it will be fine for those. Also Power and other common stuff.

[1]: If you have an example of where it's not, I would be very interested in hearing about it!
0.6%-1% is what we would be looking at when everyone gets the medical care they need. But many people are suggesting that instead of shutting down a large portion of the economy we let this thing rip through our population. And if we do that, a very small percentage of the population will get the healthcare they need. So the rate we should use when considering the "rip the bandaid" off approach should be closer to 6% than 0.6%.
6% where are you getting that number? The highest I’ve seen is 3% and that’s in people older than 80...
I worked at a FAANG and every now and then someone proposed or tried to make an anomaly detection system. They never worked well. It’s an extremely difficult thing to get right. Better to just have good monitoring of whether your system is responsive/available/reliable and ways to quickly work out why it’s not.
To be clear, this is the worst-case estimate for the current coronavirus outbreak in the US, not the worst-case estimate for the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak.
The comment I'm replying to is a response to the one above it and assumes a certain fatality rate, which is presented with no sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_relation
> 2) Why choose a number like 6% when it's currently at 3.8%?

GP appears to be using 2% mortality rate
Nice project! Very pretty CLI and cool project name :)

1. How much time did you spend on it?

2. Do you like working with "poetry", or did you choose it because of its name? :)

3. Which book produced the best results?

(PS: The lib is written "spacy", not "space", I think)
2% is not a conservative number. It's expected to come in at 0.1%-0.5%. That's bad enough.
Some compilers even make it hard to test for overflow:

if(a + 1 < a)
printf("Overflow error!");
else
a++;

gets converted to:

a++;

because the compiler thinks that a + 1 can never be smaller then a since it doesn't have to consider signed overflow.
I'm not sure how they got 1.7 million dead as the worst case scenario. That implies a mortality rate of 0.7%.

Mortality rates for Covid19/SARS2 are estimated to be closer to 3.5% by the WHO, a 35x jump. At 214 million infected, the worst case scenario should be at least 7.5 million. But I believe the 3.5% estimate also assumes that hospitals are able to provide intensive care for all critical patients.

The US only has 100k ICU beds, and SARS2 has an ICU rate about 10%. SARS2 patients typically need 2-4 weeks, meaning that the entire US healthcare system can only handle about 2 million SARS2 infections per month. In order to keep a mortality rate of 3.5%, the US would need to spread out those 214 million infections over 9 years.

Conclusion: The CDC's worst case estimate of 1.7 million deaths is completely incongruent with their worst case estimate of 214 million infections.
I came across this tweet from Stephen Schwartz which he posted after the global health security team was disbanded by John Bolton:

https://twitter.com/atomicanalyst/status/994696175575068672?...

“When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of US citizens and others, this decision by John Bolton and Donald Trump will be why.”

And he links to the following article.

https://t.co/iMSzopSRaI?amp=1

The tweet is creepily prescient.
Agreed. This was probably someone trying to tweak the fat32 header for better fake-ability, for example putting the sector maps elsewhere.
80% of symptomatic cases needing hospitalization seems very unlikely. That sounds like a biased testing sample that’s not even testing anyone that isn’t extremely sick. South Korean data seems vastly more comprehensive. Most data I’ve seen puts the upper bound on hospitalization rate at 20% which is still insanely high given how high the R0 is.
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Don't think the intent here is to downplay. Just to remember. You decide what you want to do with information shown to you.
It's not. It's medium.com asking for signin (which is a free account) but you can delete your cookies and reload to view.
Coronavirus vs. swine flu (H1N1) – 2009-2010
Swine flu is the same strain of flu that wiped out 1.7% of the global population in 1918. It was declared a pandemic again in June 2009, and an estimated 11-21% of the world population contracted it.

Fortunately, the CFR is considerably lower than in the previous pandemic, with 0.1-0.5% of cases resulting in death. 18,500 of these deaths were laboratory-confirmed, but estimates are as high as 151,700-575,400 globally.

50-80% of severe cases were found in people who had underlying conditions such as pregnancy, asthma, diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders.

Compared to swine flu, coronavirus:

- is less widespread
- has caused fewer deaths
- has a higher CFR
- has a longer incubation period
- affects young people less

https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/covid-19-how-does-coronav...
One big difference being that this is not flu. There is no reason to assume it will behave like flu. Flu is contagious 2 days before symptoms, comparatively limiting it spread to corona which is contagious 5-14 days.

Corona has higher mortality rate in most age groups, including in young people. People who do need ICU stay there for weeks. Unknown number of people have reduced lung capacity after for long.
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I thought it was a 20% hospitalisation rate?
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Related, from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22514584 "Can we stop Covid-19 using Bluetooth?"

While this seems like a somewhat more sensible idea in terms of privacy, all the same technical restrictions apply.
I've heard 40-70%, it's much more contagious 2x more than the flu or h1n1. So 50% puts it more at 150 millions * .035 = 5.25 million baseline.

Now if we run out of hospital beds and we have to pick/choose who lives/dies including car wrecks, and other emergencies the deaths could double or triple.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.

You make a great point. It should be less about splitting large pull requests but rather allowing for the ability to easily make your pull requests more atomic so that changes can be merged quicker when needed.

A lot of times unnecessarily large pull requests are preventable, and prevention of the problem is more ideal than having a solution to it.
(I do think there are some situations where it may be unavoidable in having a large PR such as doing something experimental but this tool isn't exactly fit for it yet)

Will revise the copy
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To the contrary. That one was that bad and everything points to this being significantly worse. That’s a good reason to post it.
From How the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Compares with COVID-19:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-10/how-co...

For example: Why was H1N1 allowed to spread around the world more or less unchecked, while countries are going to far greater lengths to try to halt Covid-19? Why did the WHO call H1N1 a pandemic but not Covid-19? Isn’t 12,469 deaths a lot worse than the 26 that have been attributed to Covid-19 in the U.S. so far?

That last one is the simplest to answer: Covid-19 is near the beginning of its spread in the U.S., and thus cannot be compared with H1N1’s effect over a full year. If the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 is only 12,469 a year from now, that will likely be counted as a great success. The legitimate worry is that it could be many, many times higher, because Covid-19 is so much deadlier for those who get it than the 2009 H1N1 influenza was.

How much deadlier is still unknown, but of the cases reported to the WHO so far 3.4% have resulted in fatalities. That’s probably misleadingly high because there are so many unreported cases, and in South Korea, which has done the best job of keeping up with the spread of the virus through testing, the fatality rate so far is about 0.7%. But even that is 35 times worse than H1N1 in 2009 and 2010. Multiply 12,469 by 35 and you get 436,415 — which would amount to the biggest U.S. infectious-disease death toll since the 1918 flu. Hospitalization rates are also many times higher for Covid-19, meaning that if it spread as widely as H1N1 it would overwhelm the U.S. health-care system.

That’s one very important reason governments (and stock markets) around the world have reacted so much more strongly to Covid-19 than to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Another reason is somewhat more hope-inspiring. It’s that public health experts generally don’t think influenza can be controlled once it starts spreading, other than with a vaccine, whereas several Asian countries seem to have successfully turned back the coronavirus tide, for now at least.

Influenza can’t be controlled because as much as half the transmission of the disease occurs before symptoms appear. With Covid-19 that proportion seems to be lower, meaning that even though it’s more contagious than influenza once symptoms appear, it may be possible to control by testing widely and quickly isolating those who have the disease.
Avg age of tests in S. Korea are around 25, avg age in Italy around 65. That makes ALL the difference.
3.5% just doesn't make sense based on any of the case-fatality-rate data we've seen so far combined with the estimates of what proportion of infections are being detected as cases. The UK government's chief medical adviser expects the real fatality rate to be around 0.6%, which is a lot easier to explain with the data than 3.5%.
There is still risk for people outside the high-risk segment.

Let's say that it's only 0.2% risk of death without a ventilator for the general population (based on https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-11/covid-19...). Let's say in the USA that we're talking 150M infected people who aren't high risk (65% or ~200M of the population is between 15-65). That's 300,000 people who will need ventilators (potentially for multiple weeks -- https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/prevention-and-sc...).

"The latest study available estimates there are about 62,000 ventilators in hospitals nationwide. That figure is seven years old — so the actual number could be higher." -- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8156756...

So yeah, you don't want all of those infections happening the same month or else hundreds of thousands of people will die.
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I did not seen 0.1%-0.5% estimate in any official claim. They were all 2% or above.
The combination of “I want” with “lower risk” (rather than “no risk”) speaks to a lot of the problems we are facing right now.
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The media frenzy has made it almost impossible to untangle the (mis)information coming out about the virus, the outbreak, and treatment. Comments on social media are (unsurprisingly) extreme in every direction.

Where can I find the least biased, most informative source of information with detailed expert commentary?
Me and my friend had thought about this idea back when we were in college except we were doing it for class attendance.

The professor would take a snap with his phone and then app would give attendance in single shot. Dived into it a little and realized face detection is easy while face recognition is not.

One more thing we were wondering about was how to bypass this attendance system and realized that a photo of individual is enough to proxy his attendance.

Cool project btw.
> It was reported in Italy (obviously in Italian) https://twitter.com/Paolo_Tumolo/status/1237018245552582657/....

First: I hate twitter.

Second: in a follow up he seems to say (using google translate):

> It is EXACTLY what I meant: they charge the deaths to other pathologies present. I don't see many other possible explanations.

So he doesn't have proof or even a statistic to point to? He just doesn't see an alternative explanation? Is the newspaper he is working for yellow press?
To be fair to SF, it's a clip from a film that's trying to evoke that exact sentiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyaanisqatsi

Highly recommended, especially the score by Philip Glass.
In Hong Kong, the only lockdown we've been in this entire time is forcing people from certain countries to go into quarantine. In fact, most of our cases recently have all been HK residents coming back to HK from places like London, Paris, Madrid and bringing the virus back with them.

I'd point out that the HK government has done an okay job, but by no means were the people happy with how they handled it. There were protests from the Hospital Authority demanding them to close the border to Mainland China and they outright ignored it.

The main reason why these countries are doing a good job is because of the people. You go outside and everyone has a mask on. Why? To protect each other. Everyone has been working from home from day 1 of this virus and, impressively, the panic buying only lasted a week or so. The people are in it together and I can't imagine the same ever really happening in Europe.
Thank you I’ll give it a try
Sorry, You are right. writing is allowed, but assuming padding is not.

Yes, it should work on all the mentioned platforms, and that's my point. It should be possible to write code that assumes there is no padding on the platform you use. Some C compilers see it differently, because they think that since padding is not defined by the C standard they can do what ever they want even on platforms where it is defined.