skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A supporting example from another field:

Back in the days of 20th century ambitious, well-funded journalism, it was common to see specialized writers do their boldest, most imaginative work in their first year on the beat.

They also made some newbie mistakes, but on their good days, they saw stuff that the old pros didn't. They asked the "obvious" questions that everyone else had stopped asking. They ventured into areas that according to conventional wisdom were "unimportant" or "not yet significant."

People who had been on the same beat for 10 years or more could reliably generate solid and perhaps even admired work in their specialties. But they worked within shrinking boundaries.

The senior editors who really earned their keep made sure that the rest of us kept rotating into new fields every few years, so that the "wow!" factor never left our work.
TI DSPs with 16-bit char are still being made. It's a niche thing that most people will never need to care about, but it's not just a historical quirk and definitely not "no system ever".
> If you wanted a video game forum, you needed to host it.

InvisionFree started in 2002 and was incredibly, bonkers-popular.
Why would it be illegal? Unless the product is proven to be defective or unsafe, I can't see how you could force a company to accept a refund when someone changes their mind. Companies only do this when they think it is good for their reputation. They aren't going to care that a price gouger gets stuck with thousands in losses.
And so are the price gouging laws.
...rag on a stick.

I'm all stocked up on TP. And also boxed wine. So I'm good to go.
The platform play: How to operate like a tech company
> Currently, the SDK supports English and Spanish out of the box. Additional ASR Bundles for most major spoken languages can be provided upon request within 6-8 weeks.

Does this mean you have a standing offer to train a new language on demand?
Hello @aaronlifshin. Thank you for your interest and compliments. I answered you by email.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus has some excellent information.
I listened to the audiobook version of 3 books by Adam Tooze in the past year and found them to be excellent for understanding how finance works, through 3 separate case studies/examples if you will ..

1. The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order describes how most of the current global financial structures were formed, through the lens of WW1 policy

2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy .. moves you forward to WW2/post-depression economy

3. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (recommended elsewhere in this thread) .. brings things up to current times
(2012) Demo broken.
The problem is that nobody knows whether this virus will behave like that. Flu does, as did SARS. But MERS has no issues with killing people in Saudi Arabia in 50 degrees Celsius.

That this virus is prevalent during winter time is simply a coincidence - it has started in November and most countries affected happen to be in the northern hemisphere where we are coming into spring only now. However, there are documented cases in Australia and New Zealand too - which have late summer now.
My parents both have lung conditions. If this were Italy, and they got infected and needed ICU, they would not get treatment at the moment.

What is the most promising home made gear I might be able to scrap together in the worst case scenario?
> I tend to rely on Kant’s categorical imperative: Would society be harmed if everyone behaved in this way?

Hospitals in the USA marking stuff up 500 or 1000% ARE harming society already.

If all shoe companies charged $400 for a $2 shoe, I believe society would be harmed, yes.

If every company hired people as part time only so they didn't have to pay benefits, again, society would be harmed.

The list goes on. Capitalism is already harming society badly.
Ask HN: Startups, how has Covid-19 affected your businesses?
What is your or employer's strategy with business you are in ?
Neofascism in Germany in public channels (Corona-related)
The ARD channel (the public TV channel) released a video which propagates the idea that Covid-19 patients are sick and/or elderly and deserve to die, since they're causing global warming (among other issues). It tries to disguise as satire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyE0g4f-8eE&lc=Ugw7RgONgoUvWVIeYF14AaABAg
DeepRobust- Pytorch Library for adversarial attack and defense in deep learning
Oura ring wearable helps detection of one asymptomatic COVID19 case
He really does love it in an intellectual sense, which is an infectious passion that is hard to find in an industry where many are optimizing just for financial success.

As someone who accidentally got into finance as a software engineer, he more than anyone has made me really fall in love with the domain.
America Is Acting Like a Failed State
One Anti-Static Ring to Delight Them All
Well it works of is, as people like him are committing illegal acts so it’s already heavily discouraged and supplies may be seized.

Over prepping though isn’t illegal, so many more people could do it.
I spent a WEEK out of my computational basics curriculum teaching middle school students just about paths. Just about FILES and paths. Did this with a VPS and chromebooks SSHd in. Also, later, Raspberry Pi units.

They simply don't understand computers when they walk in my classroom door. They understand mobile app user interfaces.
I think people are just very varied. Take a graph of happiness/success over time for a bunch of people and anecdotally it can take almost any shape. I know a bunch of people who had the same specialisation as children (music) and their lives have varied massively.
Not exactly.

I'm not sure where you're getting the 3% number from. If you read the New York Times maps page data[1] and just divide the total deaths by total cases you get 3.7%, but that isn't the death rate because it doesn't take in to account a lot of factors.

Instead, there's a good article[2] about how bad the virus will get, that says estimates put it in the range of 0.1% to 3%. (With the seasonal flu being somewhere around 0.1%, but the Spanish Flu of 1918 being somewhere around 3%.)

That said, the general intuition that less reporting of cases means that some part of the death rate is over-inflated makes sense. But also consider that there are factors that go in the other direction. Anyone who currently has the virus but has not recovered or died can be under-inflating that rate. And there are likely lots of other factors, which is why articles often mention that the "true" death rate cannot yet be calculated.

(Also the death rate varies a lot with age, and isn't the only factor in determining the "badness" of a virus. Which that second article goes into more depth on—things like how contagious it is, and how early a vaccine can be developed. So the average rate being half of the current numbers doesn't necessarily mean the concern is over-inflated as well.)

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-co...
What exactly is the risk of needing hospitalisation if you are young? Does anybody know?
As Wall Street reels, veterans recall '87 while the young look to textbooks
Our establishment are very detached from the hoi polloi. One need only look at WWI unarmed charges from trenches. Not sure much has changed since this time on their side. On the pleb side I think the assumption that the upper crust are competent has changed.

We've just had years and years of austerity in the UK, imposing a huge toll on the most vulnerable in society. The government repeatedly said there was no money. Then they turn the taps on when it effects them. They clearly do not care about the bulk of people.

Put those two together and you have the ingredients for a big uproar.
This guy did some back of the envelope calcs I found interesting/scary

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
I was surprised that even public rooms require a request to join from the lobby page. Though I also know that direct room links do let you in to the channel which is what you'd be passing around to your friends.

And I was also surprised that when someone sends me a join request, it completely blots my screen out with a modal. Seems like this would be very annoying if you were actually running a channel. I think that needs some attention. For example, am I ruining someone's experience by constantly sending them join requests?

Online hangout was always a dream of mine ever since my friends and I used socks to tie the home phone around our heads so we could talk while playing Unreal Tournament online together. Always cool to see people trying to work on this.
In that vein: cold-war era chicken-heated nuclear bomb (for area denial) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock#Chicken_power
> Jamming hard and almost impossible to be destroyed by the anti-radiation missiles kill radar. Positioning and stick to the target in the air, on land and sea surface perfectly, providing enough parameters in real time.

This post is really quite garbage.
I'll have a look at the sources I've been watching and post back.
I initially sympathized with this line of thinking, but someone recently convinced me otherwise. The logic is as follows:

* Do programmers still fool around with Cobol or Assembly or Fortran? Not so much

* How important is C nowadays? Yes - everything runs on it - but that is because for the most part it is rock solid, and we need fewer and fewer C developers

* The set of "primitives" required has moved up a layer of abstraction. New skills include: website builders, data pipelines, infra-as-code, cloud infra, web frameworks, etc.

If people are still hacking the same way as they were 20 and 30 years ago, that is a problem. Yes, the hacking today surely looks different than it did decades ago - the primitives are larger and higher leverage - but there is hacking all the same.
I think you are overestimating the total number of kids that did the things you did.

A higher percentage of kids that were on the internet had the skills you are talking about, but they weren't a higher percentage of the overall population.

For example, there might have been 5% of young teens doing what you were doing, and that might have made up half of the internet users... now, it is still 5% of the total population, but that is now only 1/18th of the total internet population of that age range.
It's a matter of signal to noise. There's a lot of clutter out there, and most radars have some level of filtering. Most stealth is detectable, but lost in the noise.
Maybe TMI, but I was about to go to the doctor for hemorrhoids a few years ago, instead I bought a bidet and life has been so much better. $70 for a cheap one and $400 for a fancy once with heating. My wife and I are quarantining as a precaution for our daughter who has lung issues and are so glad we have it.
These are hardly the only machines that can run rtPCR though; they're just highly automated.

eg biorad makes and sells tons of (much simpler), typically 96-well rtPCR machines. You can find them on ebay for like $5k. Training people to use them is not particularly hard, and you can probably do 4-8 runs / day on one of them. NB: 96 will means you probably can process 88-92 samples per run plus 4-8 controls.

The limiting factor is approved tests and reagents, laboratory bench time to prep samples, and a distribution mechanism to get test kits to to people and then to labs.
Writing Makefiles by hand is great for small projects. But make becomes unmanageable for large projects, and is bad at dealing with system and compiler differences.
Question, what aspect of your product restricts the software architecture to not use "off-site cloud?"
Not sure about a prolonged fast but I had my HbA1c levels at 6.8 (very much diabetic) once and by dropping sugar, white flour, white rice and potatoes and generally eating less (fasting is bad as far as I understand) every check I had since has been 5.3 (very much non-diabetic).
Imagine how tortured you’d be as the doctor that let Tom Hanks die. If he dies people will freak out.
State-by-state guide to coronavirus testing
It can use https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx (offline) or Kaldi(offline), or Google(online) for the "speech-to-text"-part.
Maxime Caron?
Send me an email akemendo@gmail.com
I have been using Ansible for over four years now, my current use case has around 1k VMs and a handful of baremetal in a couple of different datacenters running 100s of services.

No orchestration as well FWIW, we usually have ansible configuring Docker to run and pulling the images...

As for the future I have been meaning to explore Terraform and some Orchestration platforms (Nomad).
When the one buying the fleet PC's is a Bozo what can you do?

Give full credit to them for the capabilities while fully documenting the limitations compared to alternative choices.
IBM, other mainframe companies and some banks used to have developer training programs back in the day. I don't think they called them apprenticeships though, but clearly they were.
A swarm of a 100 more expensive anti-UAV UAVs.
Do you honestly believe that the cause of a 5-10C average in Feb/March is not due to a shift, but will actually materialize into +10-20F average over this Summer?
There are a few suspicious cases but given how human immunity system works, it is very very unlikely that it is due to reinfection (i.e. a cured patient getting infected again).

A far more likely explanation is either poor testing that gave a false "all clear" while the patient was still sick. The tests are not 100%, that you don't detect the virus in the sample doesn't mean that the patient is not infected - it only means your sample didn't contain the virus. Which could happen for all sorts of reasons. That's why multiple tests are usually required - commonly two, in some cases up to eight consecutive tests had to be clean before the patient was discharged.

Or the patient has not been completely treated and the virus became dormant for a while, reappearing again later. This is known to happen with other diseases as well - e.g. ebola virus could stay dormant for weeks in the eyes and cause the disease to return again.
> Vendors kinda don't get why they need to waste silicon on AV1, and for whose money.

I'm not an expert on HEVC or AV1 specifically, but in my experience the fundamental operations used by codecs are quite similar. You don't necessarily need significantly more silicon to add AV1-support.

Remember that power-consumption is the main driver in IC development these days. It's not unreasonable to keep some dark silicon around to save power when needed.
Summary: person traveled to Austria and Sweden. When returning home Oura ring wearable detected a +1°c body temperature above baseline, which prompted the person to get tested, despite being completely asymptomatic. Test returned positive
Can this be made to work with OS X’s built-in SED? I’m getting:

sed: 34: bach.sed: RE error: invalid repetition count(s)
"Das Coronavirus sorgt für Panik und Hamsterkäufe. Doch profitieren wir am Ende sogar von Covid-19?"

=

"The corona virus inflicts panic and hoarding. But will we profit from Covid-19 in the end?"
RIP Jeff Goff (a.k.a. DrForr)
Our dear friend Jeff Goff has died in a scuba diving accident. He told me and many others about how he looked forward to learning more about scuba diving, getting more experienced in it, during the JoCo Cruise ( https://jococruise2020.sched.com/jeff_goff.1zitf4ff ). Apparantly, something went horribly wrong.

We have learned to know Jeff as a warm, loving man, with a great sense of humour, wonderful ideas, and always helpful. Last time I saw him when he took over from me at the Perl & Raku booth at FOSDEM in Brussels.

The Perl & Raku communities will miss him dearly, as he was one volunteer who has done a lot of things to make things happen, to make things better.

Please do not contact his mother or other family with requests about how the accident happened. Please wait for more information about what actually happened, it will be presented when we have it.

If you want to send condolences to the family, please do so to the following address:
c/o Family Goff
PO Box 118
St. Ignatius, MT 59865
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In statistics / machine learning this is very common because in corporations, anything that can be used to control decision making or attribute credit tends to get locked down with politics.

Even when machine learning solutions have unambiguous value propositions and direct paths to cost-effective implementations based on known techniques and resource requirements, the projects are subject to extreme risk of internal political shutdowns, arbitrary gatekeeper constraints on data limitations or limitations of what technique can be used so that specialists in technique X can build up longterm control of a profit stream (I’ve seen this a lot in investment firms) and eat up all the promotion opportunities by convincing leadership that their version of a research platform is the only allowable one, and more.

The article “Who Cares About Forecast Accuracy,” by Robin Hanson is a good discussion of this.

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/13/robin-hanson/who-car...
If you sold before February you were also betting that people were going to die. What makes your actions less slimy?
> Does this mean that there's a good chance the death rate is lower than the current calculated 3% with so many recoveries going unreported?

Yes and no. I'm not a doctor so an actual MD will step in here and correct me I'm sure. My understanding from reading both the CDC literature and the WHO literature is that there are two things, the SAR_nCOV2 virus which is out there spreading from host to host, and the COVID19 disease which is one manifestation of the virus in people.

If my understanding is correct, the answer is that not everyone who gets infected by the virus will develop the disease. That can happen for a number of reasons apparently including but not limited to, a small enough sample got your immune system going fast enough that you didn't develop the disease, or you have previously been exposed to something similar enough that your immune system got ahead of the virus, or during the course of the infection your lungs didn't get involved before the immune system had begun producing anti-bodies.

To explain the numbers, the fatality rate is a function of only those people who develop the disease. Your chance of developing the disease is a function of how strong your immune system is and so it develops more commonly in people with weak or otherwise compromised immune systems.

But take this as just one opinion based on reading the literature. It sounds to me as if it is similar to the difference between HIV and AIDS, where you can become infected with the HIV virus but not develop AIDS if that virus is kept minimized with anti-virals.
Isn't there a higher likelihood for the virus to mutate if a large population gets it?
Yes, I have all that. It's pretty much a legal requirement for any motorvehicle in any state I know off.

I am very aware of all the leading causes of death for motorcyclists. Your conclusion doesn't make sense though, there is a ridiculous amount of selection bias in there: they only looked at people who died...
By and far motorcyclists are very safety concious people, they have to be: those who aren't tend to quit quickly, one way or another.
Personally, I have ridden a motorcycle as my primary form of transportation for over 30 years without any meaningful incidents
There are quite a few difference.

HK, Taiwan and Singapore all acted extremely early on, to the point where HK knew before the news broke out in China. And the culture allows you to wear mask, which seems to be something most western nation are completely against.

Most part of Europe and UK reacted very late in the cycle. Since the Virus has an extremely long stable period before any symptoms appeared or to the point where you could be infected but showing no symptoms at all. It highly likely they are already in wide spread. 500 people each inflecting two, do that 11 times and we have 1 million infected.

Then there is the death rate, at least so far it seems to be extremely mild for anyone below 50.

Not saying I totally agree with Herd Immunity, but judging from the current data and situation it is possibly the best route to go.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22574772.
I'd argue we've had those for a while, just by different names: cruise missiles, anti-radiation missiles, smart glide bombs, etc. The SDB II has a 60 nm range with active terminal homing, including targeting anything that looks like a moving vehicle. Though I wouldn't consider the SDB particularly cheap, at around 200K each. I would certainly agree the these sorts of precision guided weapons are a game changer, though. I don't believe there's been a conflict yet where both sides have these weapons. Such a conflict would get very very bloody.
Upate: Service still fails to start but I just ran FAHClient manually again and it connected and is now processing a job apparently, so must have been a temporary glitch. Cores and GPUs at full throttle according to htop. Don't see anything indicating whether what it's doing is related to COVID-19, so blindly hoping it's helping with something, but I'll leave it on. (Says: "project 14307"??)

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I was just trying to get it running on Ubuntu 18.04 in response to this post but I'm just getting a lot of errors with not very useful error messages. Any ideas?

When I run FAHClient manually I get, 21:04:10:WARNING:WU01:FS01:Failed to get assignment from 'X.X.X.X:8080': No WUs available for this configuration

(I replaced the IP address with Xs)

When I try starting the service I get an error and journalctl -xe gives me, e.g., (unedited, it actually says "result is RESULT")

-- Unit FAHClient.service has begun starting up.

Mar 14 22:02:27 poole FAHClient[17956]: Starting fahclient ... FAIL

Mar 14 22:02:27 poole systemd[1]: FAHClient.service: Control process exited, code=exited st

Mar 14 22:02:27 poole systemd[1]: FAHClient.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Mar 14 22:02:27 poole systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Folding@home Client.

-- Subject: Unit FAHClient.service has failed

-- Defined-By: systemd

-- Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support

--

-- Unit FAHClient.service has failed.

--

-- The result is RESULT.
It's the same as any other higher-level skill: the faster you can perform the lower-level functions, the faster you can iterate.

Your medium of expression also influences the speed of your thought. You'll notice that people who speak for a living seem to be wittier than those who don't; they're able to form thoughts and translate them into expression very quickly. Typing/writing is already much slower than speaking, but its advantage is the ability to revise a thought before conveying it. If you're typing slowly, you're probably forming thoughts slower than someone who types quickly. Anecdotally, spending so much of my time communicating via keyboard stunted the development of my ability to express vocally, because it lowered the rate at which I had to generate and, internally revise, and expel thoughts. It would be even worse if I could not touch type.

That's my layman's take, anyway.
Looks like around 400k base [0], but a full system with service appears like it would run over a million in a year or two

[0] https://www.gsaadvantage.gov/ref_text/V797P7347A/0UZLK9.3QPY... , page 13
Do you have some links with reliable reports of young people getting sick and other cases you told?