skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were to buy an inexpensive product to fulfill a certain need in your life, and that product failed before the need was fulfilled, you would not buy the identical product. You would spring for a more expensive product that would complete the need. You would demand a better product and the manufacturer would command a higher price. That is how the market works. If your workers were walking off the job to goto a job that was less tedious at the same pay, after you spent money on training them, the solution is to raise their pay high enough that they would stay and complete the task of building a cheaper automobile. You would demand a better quality of employee and they would in turn command more pay.

Even modern employers usually require some "character requirements". When was the last time you worked for a company that would knowingly hire an employee who had a record? A drunk and disorderly conviction can keep you from landing a job. In my state flipping someone off in traffic is considered harassment, which a conviction would then bar you from some employment.
Extending the topic to right parties in the same country, slavery in another country and personal investments in the short term seems a bit far-fetched to prove your point ;)

Long term, I'd say the economic impact of the tax reduction is laying an unacceptable burden on US financials as a country. And someone else will have to clean up.

But hey, we live in a democracy. Everyone can say what they think ;). It doesn't mean they are right though
When many comments break side guidelines and the thread is wretched, then that feels odd and usual for me for HN. Probably you see more threads like this and it isn't unusual, but for me it feels not at all what I expect and relate to what I think happens on HN. This speaks for the quality of this site. Thanks for the info!
Using the opposite-hand shift key, when pressing letters that go back and forth between sides, requires awkward shuffling.
French sources specifically mention severe cases of covid-19 in "young and healthy" patients (eg. see https://lefigaro.fr/sciences/coronavirus-alerte-sur-l-ibupro... ) but this important piece of information has NOT been relayed by international medias.

Jean Paul Hamon, medical doctor and president of the Federation of French Doctors said on TV to NOT take NSAIDs (anti-inflammatory drugs) if #covid19 is suspected. The ONLY common point among young covid-19 patients they have witnessed in critical care centers in France was that they all took NSAIDs.
This site (https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus) has an excellent chart comparing the severity of COVID-19 vs the flu:

For all ages, it's basically 12-24x more lethal than the flu.
For 0-19, 12 to 25x
For 20-49, 6-16x
For 50-59, 9-21x
For 60+, 4-7x
A system should be judged by the outcomes of the incentives it promotes. Too many people seem to think that these incentives are somehow disconnected from capitalism.

For example, capitalist incentives do not encourage corporations and businesses to be able to handle a crisis like this, instead they encourage to pay out as much as possible to their owners & execs - skipping a "bad times" margin. To add insult to injury the larger corps can feel safe with this behavior since they'll get bailed out by the state.
Good for them. The world runs on the backs of these people. It’s sad though that tech and social media did not lead to greater social justice, it took a virus.
But it is in Boeing's interest to pay workers enough to increase demand for jetliners -- that is, enough that they can afford airline tickets with some frequency.
Additionally it is not clear yet that the interventions in Italy and Spain have worked. It will not be clear for some months in fact.
You obviously never had Python PATH hell on windows.
On the ventilator front, a good start would be to order one each of the available ventilators on Alibaba, express shipping. For all the ones that show up, get them examined and tested and torn down if necessary. Publish the results. Get emergency FDA approval.
Order in bulk. Make arrangements with the better suppliers to go to three shifts. Arrange for large air shipments of the good ones to where they are needed. Find out if there's something the supplier needs and get it from them. Basically, use money to overcome all normal obstacles to getting those things where they are needed.
Finger pointing is definitely required. Turning the other cheek doesn't work when interacting with a psychopath.
The bravest of the brave, hide from this. These guys don't know what's gonna hit them.

But the fault lies with the government, they know and should know better
This highlights the difference between defaults and options.

Options that would solve a users problems often go unused leaving the user with a negative opinion.

Maybe as part of first run it ought to set a default useful based on current performance.

It might also be worthwhile to think about how it degrades under pressure. Is it possible to notice frames dropped or delayed and degrade more gracefully.
I really want to like this. My points -

1. From the articles I tried, the summaries seem to be very basic. They don't seem to capture the essential points of the articles it is trying to summarize.

2. I tried the 'advanced summarizer' too. Here again, it seems to have the same problem. Worse, it seems to skip parts of the article, especially if they are beyond a certain length.

3. The landing page is nice. But the product seems to be targeted towards people who want to share a summary of a random blog post rather than try and save time reading the article.

In my opinion, SMMRY, as mentioned in another comment and which I've used since whenever, seems like a much better product. Additionally, SMMRY also gives you the capability of expanding the number of lines of the summary in case you've found the article interesting and want to read a few more details of it, rather than the full thing.

SMMRY: https://smmry.com/
> No one will think of us the same again.

Offer a few thousand green-cards at random at embassies around the third world.

You will be forgiven in less than 5 minutes.
That's dubious, and why many people have been calling on the UK to expose their analysis to peer review.

Since early contagion is an exponential process the rate of growth (and all higher derivatives) also grows exponentially along with the number of infected. As a result, "as early as possible" also ends up being the correct time to maximally spread out the peak with the least intrusive countermeasures.

In order to conclude that delaying mitigations will do a better job of reducing the peak they must be making some highly novel assumptions. ... or just not actually reasoning about it formally at all and instead depending on intuition which is often not particularly accurate for exponential processes.
> * The only way that super high wages make sense numerically is if it results in retaining employees for a longer enough period to reduce expenses of employee replacement over a satisfactory time period and results in a premium on choice of employee from the population at large.*

This ignores the large increase in productivity from each individual employee. Better-paid employees are less stressed, healthier, less busy at home (because they can afford domestic help), and spend less time commuting.

All of those things provide ROI for higher wages irrespective of turnover.
If the revelations that Trump has fantasized about incest with his own daughter, cheated on all of his wives, had sex with pornstars and paid them off, bribed government officials, has gone bankrupt multiple times, has been sued by fraud multiple times, is enriching himself using public funds, is accepting money from foreign governments and making political decisions based on that, has attempted to coerce a foreign government into acting against a US citizen, has interfered with criminal investigations, has covered up and destroyed evidence of criminal actions, and is possibly suffering early on-set dementia isn't enough bad press...

What do you think are going to be the actual repercussions, in the US, of learning that the US president is trying to secure exclusive US control of a vaccine for COVID19 for priority distribution in the US?

They aren't going to be any. Indeed, to his base, stuff like this is exactly why they voted for him. (If Trump had succeeded in securing that vaccine solely for the US, he would win in November in a landslide.) And that's pretty much the extent of the calculations that went on in his head when he attempted this stunt.

It's a good thing he failed. But let's be responsible about disclosure and time it so that he can't derive any political benefit from it.
It’s just the org chart being reflected in their stack architecture. There is a group responsible for machine health. That group doesn’t run any services. There is a group that operates GFEs. They don’t own any machines.
As a network guy this was my first thought as well. Putting everything and the kitchen sink in a single file just serves to obfuscate the relations, interactions, and dependencies of many protocols. For instance good luck opening this up to get an understanding that certain multicast protocols require certain information in IGMPv3 fields to come up the way it shows in the pcap.

Simply filtering for the high level protocol tells you A LOT less than having a barebones capture which shows all of the things that happen for that high level protocol to work and nothing more.
Yeah, that’s how you ended, but I think the root cause in the piece you linked isn’t “deception” but false precision. The false precision is what gives the sense that it seems true.

Perhaps this is a variant of curse of dimensionality for errors? That is, if each piece of evidence is only 80% “likely”, 80% to the Nth drops like a stone.

Perhaps Dave’s Law? :).
Virtually anyone who understands positive versus negative rights. Rights -to- something are highly dubious. Rights -from- something are much more readily agreed on by Americans who value the way the constitution was written. If I have a right to good food - then someone somewhere has lost the right to refuse to serve me - either directly (I’m allowed into their store if they want or not) or indirectly (they are forced to labor in fields in terrible conditions). So - while no one has the right to keep you from creating your own nutrition- you absolutely do not have the right to other people’s nutrition. You can abstract as far as you want - but a right “to” something always boils down to implied forced labor (farmers, doctors - the list goes on and on). Many wars have been waged because people felt they had “a right” to a piece of land or a resource.

To be clear I’m not saying i think we should keep good food from people - of course not. But many many people are rightfully dubious of positive rights.
To the extent that students are writing code: a high quality "autograder" test suite. A tight feedback loop on the correctness of your work/understanding is the most powerful learning aid I've ever encountered.

Although it's a step on the right direction, I'm not a fan of Coursera's "upload a zip file and wait 10 minutes" approach: even that much delay means you've lost your mental "working set" by the time feedback comes. My college professors would give those to us as Make targets in the project scaffolds, which made it closer to "TDD."

In a similar vein, thoughtfully designed interactive environments with good difficulty progression, like Micro-corruption [0]. It's easy to imagine something like this for data science (here's an RStudio workbench and a dataset, go find the needle in the haystack, etc).

[0] https://microcorruption.com/login
The boy was never sick.
How do you feel about people who drive cars? Driving a car risks killing people - tens of thousands die in car accidents. Do you judge drivers?
Could you please post some statistic when it comes to daily hypercar fatalities.
But how long do you, can you, lock down for, 3 months, six months, 1 year, until there is a vaccine?
Ted Kaczynski's Manifesto [pdf]
> Even Trump isn't that stupid.

Hold my vaccine vial...
Bullcrap. As an American citizen I want that dangerous clown of a president we have exposed to hell and back.
DM me. Also, take a look at tshark.dev.
I buy all my tshirts from https://jiffyshirts.com
They supply folks who print on the shirts.
Just fixed it, thank you!
Completely tangential but it's a common thing for a married woman to take the surname of her spouse's family and suppress the maiden name...
Sweden is also taking similar measures
I believe it does and quite accurately.
>>> Even Trump isn't that stupid.

that's questionable
You use your pinkies and there's barely any movement.
Or do much in the way of outdoor activities.

2 pairs of shoes

Having to decide between wearing my climbing shoes and my ski boots to work would suck
:)
Data is already out of date. New Zealand has 8 confirmed cases not 5...
So what other word would you have used for an article about a statistical prediction? This is a scientific text, "to predict" has a well-understood meaning within the field of statistics and it's not a synonym for "causes".
Beware of getting history lessons from fellows at the Adam Smith Institute. As is almost always the case with history, the truth is a bit more nuanced and needs more than one conservative's blog for a full treatment.

The policy did come directly from Henry Ford [1], and in 1926, Ford himself wrote:

> "The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers." [ibid]

Although employee turnover may have been a factor, the source material for Tim Worstall's quoted excerpt in 2012 continued,

> "The $5-a-day rate was about half pay and half bonus. The bonus came with character requirements and was enforced by the Socialization Organization. This was a committee that would visit the employees' homes to ensure that they were doing things the "American way." They were supposed to avoid social ills such as gambling and drinking. They were to learn English, and many (primarily the recent immigrants) had to attend classes to become "Americanized." Women were not eligible for the bonus unless they were single and supporting the family. Also, men were not eligible if their wives worked outside the home. Other groups also offered classes to help immigrants and southern blacks adapt to the Detroit area, but none were so prominent as the Ford plan." [2]

And this is where so much more of the nuance really comes in to play, because Ford was a complex character. Among his complexities was a really paternalistic view of his workers and of society; he believed in an idealized, perfect society, and sought to create it and to force others to live in it. [3]

The $5-a-day plan solved a handful of problems then. It gave Ford a lot of free advertising in the press, it added a significant amount of pressure to his competitors, it ultimately made his automobile a little bit cheaper, and it supported his paternalism for his workers.

You could do worse for a modern analogue for Henry Ford than Elon Musk. He's a really divisive figure in a lot of discussions, alternately driven by impassioned visions of a hypothetical society and by larger-than-normal faults. He makes decisions that are part business and part ideology, and so did Ford.

[1]: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/ford-doubles-min...

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20121224153214/https://www.michig...

[3]: Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
"In case of symptoms or doubts, stay at home, do not go to the hospital or medical offices but call your family doctor, pediatrician or medical guard on the phone."

This is correct advice:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/business/stay-home-when-sick.htm
When one realises that nearly 50% of the population of the country voted the man in...

I understand how the presidential election work in the USA. But people always have a choice.
“...20%...severe or critical...ICU is 10%...”?

Wait, what? Source?
I think it's due to the interactive graphs. Try to scroll pressing on an empty section!
You have to think more and harder . That is the definition of hypocrisy. Showing people they do care about people and actually not giving a damn to well being of people.

> Americans are not individually responsible for our governments actions any more than a German is responsible for the historical actions of theirs.

It is funny when it comes to Iran, your politicians use the exact opposite logic.
Overheating machines is very common. Even if you only own ten thousand machines it’s pretty much assured you’ve got one machine out there with a cracked heat sink or similar thermal issue.
You can invert that statement and it has just as much validity: "Seems like it matters simply due to your political bias"
Stats to back that up please ...
I'd love to read anything you have that doesn't make it sound like a nightmarish man-made chimera of SARS, coronavirus and [insert third terrible virus and sometimes even bacteria here].
Yep, I'm just trying to fix it! Thank you :)
SAS temporarily halt most of the traffic
Hitchikers Guide to the GDB
I'm convinced this kind of thing will become more common, because so many people use mobile devices as their primary/only computing device.

They have very little concept of filesystems, directories, or even files. For them data lives inside apps, each app only lets you save data inside that app in a predefined location, and moving data between apps is done by hitting the "share" icon.
Growth does NOT have to be exponential (or at least not with any near-constant exponent). Furthermore, if the doubling rate is half a year or more, it really does not matter that much if it exponential, unless the number of already infected is already huge, since a vaccine is likely to come within 2 years.

From my perspective, it appears that politicians do NOT want to take sufficiently drastic measures, as the economic consequences will be huge (let's assume that Spain and Italy will keep or increase the measures they already have for 2 years), and so far, their measures do not seem to be sufficient.
Well you can't talk about competence while looking in only one direction, you know?
My 2 cents:

- Use dense and small fonts, there is no need to follow the current trends of massive typography
- Create a layout that is easy to follow
- Do not highjack the scroll wheel (if you're in the zoomable region of the map, I can't scroll because it zooms instead)
The most charitable interpretation I can give it is that they're attempting the epidemiological equivalent of a suicide burn from rocketry.

A suicide burn is when you're trying to land on a body (say, the Moon) by letting your ship fall freely, thus accelerating with gravity, for as long as possible, and then at the last second, you fire up your engines at 100% output and decelerate until hitting the ground. When timed right, you'll end up touching the ground exactly as your vertical velocity = 0. It's the most fuel-efficient way of landing, but if you miscalculate that time just a little bit, you'll end up smeared all across the surface.

Suicide burn works in rocketry because you can calculate all the forces to extreme accuracy and precision. Nobody would even think of attempting that if the error bars on your altitude or velocity measurements were +/- 1000%, or if your engine output was unstable. Trying to pull the epidemiological equivalent - timing countermeasures to keep NHS at exactly 100% utilization - seems like an impossible task that's bound to end with a disaster.
Hi Lukifer, thanks for chiming in! I had a setup using snips, that i'm looking to replace. Please do document your setup, and your little helper scripts in a blogblost or such, and ping me/us :)
You're eliminating the possibility based on the involvement of animals. You can't think of any situation where labs and animals might overlap.
> I would assume that the earlier you lock down, the longer you have to stay locked down.

I would not assume that at all. Containment is still possible in a looser sense; many places in both Italy and Spain may end up being disease-free in a shorter period of time by locking down things early, and then they can contribute healthcare resources to places where the disease is more widespread, or even be put under some sort of protective "reverse" quarantine with less strict measures.
I don't think authoritarianism intrinsically causes either of those things. It could just easily do the opposite -- it depends entirely on what the authoritarian government decides to use its power for.
daily reports are obviously bullshit. a lot of days I would have nothing to say but "I tried 8 things and none of them worked".

on the flip side, regular reports on a more reasonable schedule can be good for the employee. sometimes I'll spend a whole week hard at work investigating/testing different approaches to fix some bug and end up submitting a one-line change. without the backstory, it might look like I sat on my hands all week and started work friday afternoon.
I just fixed it, there was a problem with the map.

Anyway, the data are pulled from the original repository three times per day to avoid too much traffic. I will try to increase the number of updates :)
This sounds like a good solution to me. I can imagine some HN readers might comment 'ew Excel!' but it truly is the right tool for something where you have to transparently demonstrate the logic to non-technical stakeholders in a way they can easily edit and adapt.

Of course, you could build or buy a web app that handles this specific scenario more powerfully and scaleably, but if this is a quarterly problem rather than a everyday problem then the additional overhead of the different interface / logins may not be worthwhile.

My only comments would be

1) macros are too hard for nontechnical users in my experience, even just w/r/t setup (excel prompts you a security warning to enable macros that is scary). I think you could maybe do this using the what-if analysis tables, simple ifelse formulas, and conditional formatting.

2) another improvement might be a cloud-based version where there is a link at which others can easily view + collaborate, like Google Sheets or Airtable. I think Excel is supposed to have this feature as part of the 365 subscription but I've never used it.
I confess, I'm waiting for an Xjet/WASP III. Can't help it. I do agree that there is room for improvement, notably with efficiency. Do you have any estimate of the decibel level of the WASP?
”They much resist the pressure of atmosphere over a large surface”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barotrauma#Ventilator-induced_...:

”Barotrauma is a recognised complication of mechanical ventilation that can occur in any patient receiving mechanical ventilation, but is most commonly associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome. It used to be the most common complication of mechanical ventilation but can usually be avoided by limiting tidal volume and plateau pressure to less than 30 to 50 cm water column (30 to 50 mb)”

⇒ a mechanical lung should support about 500 kg/m². More than your average chair or table, but not infeasible.
That is the CDC's advice for Americans. The UK's advice may be different. I am not qualified to say which is 'correct' for a site available internationally. I don't think the author of the site is either.

And it could change at a moment's notice.