skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an African perspective a lot of what you say makes sense. Many people live hand to mouth. We have high unemployment and good number of our population just do not have the money to buy supplies for the month and stay away from work. South Africa has taken some initiatives to limit the spread of the disease but not much in terms of concrete plans coming from sub Saharan Africa.
"This page isn't feeling well"

(LOL in Norwegian)
I built a similar service a while back, with a small modification to the common algorithm.

You can improve contextual summarization by splitting the x sentences into x/n buckets. Then based on the percent of article to be summarized (eg return 60% of the article), pick the sentences ranked in the top 60% of each bucket. Then do this for all the x sentences, ie top 60% across buckets, and combine them together.

This prevents the bias rising from picking a sentence with a lot of critical words.
I’m wfh for 1 week now and luckily before I wasn’t in London.
> Except in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, or (more arguably) Japan. And South Korea, while they had a rougher early outbreak, seems to have gotten a lid on the disease now.

And how long can they keep strict containment in force, and what happens when it lifted? You're speaking as if China or SK are now magically immune from a second wave as soon as they relax their restrictions.
People who price gouge are highly incentivized to go buy all the stock in a community and resell it on the internet. That guy in the NYT article essentially drove to all these out of the way places and cleaned out their stock.

Allowing price gouging would not result in more of that stock being available on the shelves - responsible retailers and distributors know better, and behave better than that - they make all of their available stock, and when they run out - they run their factories at 100% to try and catch up.

Note - I have zero issue with ticket scalping - love the fact that there is a free market where people can buy and sell tickets at the price the market can bear. Also have zero issue with a free market in general - it encourages new suppliers to come in when prices go up, and consumers to find relative substitutes - things find an equilibrium.

What I have a problem with is people taking advantage of an emergency or shortage, in such a way that further increases the shortage of items that are critical to people's health and well being, people who may not be able to afford to go out an pay 10x prices on amazon for something like a mask or hand cleaner.
It's nice to hear there is a US plan.
This misses the point.

"The point is that the amount of money that your workers are making, does not have any significant effect on the demand side of who buys your product."

This is a class issue. I imagine Henry knew that. Workers must be paid well. All workers. Or the ruling class (Henry's class) will wither and die.

This is a point the current ruling class has forgotten
You won’t get an answer. Somehow the overlap between Elon Musks cult following and Fox News viewers is larger than I expected.
Now may be the best time to try commuting by bike if you can.
It was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22569178
This article is a great example of why self-experimentation can make things worse.

A few days ago there was much discussion on taking ACE inhibitors prophylactically to prevent infection.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22534977
Some might consider J.S. Bach to be "Baroque" not "Classical."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Sebastian_Bach
I'm using something kinda similar to this :)
Pre-programmed my YubiKeys with a 'master password' in a safe environment, and using their HMAC signing capability to generate consistent passwords, kinda similar to your algorithm. This makes sure the master password is safe, and that passwords can only be generated one at a time when I press the YubiKey. https://github.com/noliran/ykpass
Except no one seems to wear them fully correctly, and a lot of people don't have the proper rating of mask. Not to mention theres a limited supply of masks.
Letting authoriries bann "bad" content makes it easier to ban you when they decide you are bad.
I'm not convinced we can look to China for any 'truth' in this outbreak. None of the numbers there are verifiable and the Chinese government doesn't exactly have great credibility.
For now, but what's going to happen as they go back to work, school and resume travel? Unless they stay locked down until we have a vaccine, which is a year+ away at least. And second waves can be worse than the first.

I don't think anyone knows for sure what strategy is going to work best in the meantime, considering experts disagree and the world is conducting a massive A/B test...
These are WHO figures. You are speculating.
30% glycerol seems very high. The WHO publishes recipes for hand sanitizers with only 1.45% glycerol by volume:

https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf
RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882

There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET).

Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
>t's estimated that as many as 20% of the infected are asymptomatic, including no fever. A lot of your suggestions would fail to contain the virus.

We don't need to stop 100% of the transmissions. Right now, on average, an infected person will pass it on to 2-3 people. The goal is to get that to below 1 and eventually it will fizzle out.

I'm not quite sure what's so controversial about my post. It's what countries in Asia have done and they've all contained the spread.
Sounds like the sort of author who is a regular on Russia Today.
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It's just bizniz.
Has to go on, otherwise the economical distortion field collapses. Riding the wave as long as possible.
How free do you think the news reporting in Russia is? I would expect you only hear what the government wants you to hear.
This might be a clear case of a selection bias. When the quality of threads goes down, I tend to stay away from them and the moderators need to interact more with it. When a thread has a fantastic quality, I feel a urge to interact with it, to read it, while the moderation is not needed.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to pat yourself on the back.
"The Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology wish to highlight the lack of any evidence supporting harmful effect of ACE-I and ARB in the context of the pandemic COVID-19 outbreak."

https://www.escardio.org/Councils/Council-on-Hypertension-(C...
Facebook contractors work in offices during Covid-19 pandemic, staff stay home
Number of atoms in the universe versus floating-point values
> To be clear, the only "government intervention" I'm advocating for is for the prosecution of those that participate in widespread buying out of supply for arbitrage purposes in order to ensure the primary market with visibility is the primary means of distribution, and to minimize the level of chaos.

The market is penalizing those people long before the government will get around to it. Shelves will soon be stocked again, there are alternatives to pretty much everything that is in short supply, the arbitragers have found themselves with stock that they can't easily get rid of without loosing money as well as finding themselves hated by the public in general. They made poor choices and the market is penalizing them.

The danger of your prosecutorial approach is that it is often applied to the wrong people. The current situation is somewhat unusual in that demand is increasing everywhere but these laws are often applied during localized disaster situations (hurricane, etc.) where it would be helpful for people to take unusual/more-expensive steps to get supply relocated. That involves extra costs and price controls work against those initiatives.

I think the biggest failure here is the media, whose terrible reporting caused people to believe that there would be a shortage of things like TP and also caused people to focus on hand-sanitizer as opposed to plain old soap, for example. The not-quite-panic buying is unwise and ill-conceived.\
> Because with tens or hundreds of thousands of racks it would be a full-time job to go through such alerts.

Sorry, I'm merely a lowly sysadmin and not a godly Google SRE, but environment monitoring is a solved problem, humans need not apply.
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Where do you live?
Building awareness is #1 for sure.
Pick a truck and help seniors get food and other products without leaving home.

The rest depends on where you are located.
Typical algorithms solving combinatorial problems are usually heavily branching, so not so much vectorizable. For example for a branch-and-cut MIP solver, you could run the LP-relaxed problems on GPU, but most of the logic lives in branching and cutting heuristics that are much harder to parallelize.
Oh, I'd say there's much more tolerance now for historical material. 10+ years' worth of dates in titles has conditioned the culture.
Bing can now track worldwide coronavirus cases, show related news stories
BNO has also done this, in a more concise format: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/12/tracking-coronavirus-u...

They also have good worldwide data: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus...
> No, they said to do nothing different from normal at al

What? That sounds insane

(Today's deathcount is of course dependent on policy from weeks ago tough)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22567726
Minecraft isn't real life? Are players off in some imaginary astral plane? Why is music or sculpture inherently better?
Don't go over to friends houses?

I am getting mixed messages, I'm not sure why I think asking for another opinion on the internet will help, but there it is.
It just doesn't make sense to pay your employees more in hopes that they will spend more and you'll get the revenue back.

Even if you could capture 100% of their extra pay (an absurd assumption, realistically 2% is huge) you are better off just keeping that money yourself since you'll have to provide them with whatever product/service you sell, which costs money.
Take a look at https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries, specifically the total deaths and total recovered.

If I take Td / (Td + Tr), I get:

China: 0.05

Italy: 0.44

Iran: 0.14

South Korea: 0.08

Germany: 0.19 (Germany's numbers for both are so low I don't believe this is useful.)

What's up with that?
Metro Manila, a region of 12 million people, entered a month-long lockdown on Sunday as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte considers a plan to impose a curfew on the area to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-15/manila-en...
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I truly wish you good luck. Planning for the virus to expand (rapidly) through the younger less vulnerable population to protect businesses and provide herd immunity is what was described. I understand they're trying to walk that back now... good idea!
https://politicshome.com/news/uk/health-and-care/illnesstrea...

The actual plan and how to isolate the almost 20% of the population at high risk is not outlined here or anywhere I've seen. If you know (or anyone in the government knows) what it is, please provide a description or link. I've only seen hope... and undefined "measures".
Even that link draws a distinction between the 'classical period' (what you linked to) and 'classical music' (a much broader range and the terminology parent commenter used)
Bavarian State Opera is offering some streams as well:

https://www.staatsoper.de/tv.html?no_cache=1#c16663
Isis tells terrorists to steer clear of coronavirus-stricken Europe
In popular usage, the term classical refers to all european music written before about 1900 or so, and music written since that fits an older style
Please take the time to reach out to local CS clubs and provide mentoring.
Per day. But OPRA is only a (large) part of the traffic.

It is hard to see how GPUs figure here. This is a wide-area, latency-sensitive data distribution system. In fintech we say a microsecond is an eon, a millisecond an eternity.

Musk's LEO satellite network will cut several ms from the Europe - US transmission delay, which will be worth billions to certain organizations. Musk might collect additional billions for denying it to certain others.
A lot of OR stuff can be parallelized, but it isn't a panacea. Those techniques don't necessarily get you the best answer sometimes. My company does some massive optimization problems and although we have lots of cores for all the simulations, any one is pretty much single core + a lot of RAM. It doesn't work well on GPU like some heuristic optimization problems can.

Edit: Someone smarter than me says it better below :)
This. Your skills are not applicable here, and you Highest Paid Opinion on the matter is of no value. Stay on your ass, shut the door and work from home.
How to send data from Google Analytics to BigQuery?
Do you really think that lack of money in the US government is the reason for the health system failure?

Sadly over some level of corruption more money just doesn't help.

For me it's quite interesting what's Austria is doing, it's the only western country that is taking the virus seriously, or one of the few. In theory in a few days we'll see the difference, but in a week for sure.
I think they're clueless and are about to take down the NHS in self imposed DDOS. Death rates will go from 1% to in the neighborhood of 5% when people can't get medical care.

The number of ICU beds and respirators in the UK is public knowledge. It's also enough for less than 1% of the tsunami of cases I expect to swamp the NHS over the next sixty days.
A model can begin as a spreadsheet with a handful of guesstimates in.

You can start making decisions based on such a model.

Then in parallel, you get teams refining the model and making it more accurate, while other teams work on implementing those preliminary decisions, potentially changing course if newer, more refined, models come up with different results.

There's no reason the crude model can't be published 1 hour after it was made.

If anything, publishing the model will help localized branches of government make their own decisions ('hmm, looks like we'll be expecting lots of ambulance use at the end of march, that isn't a good time for the fleet inspection!').

Private companies would also benefit from the model, and can better schedule logistics. Even a hugely inaccurate model is better than "who knows! panic!".
The link doesn't work
Mycology. Not a company but a novel and underinvested space with 3000+ yr history with antiviral applications. Paul Stamets is the go-to guy here but likely slammed. His talk, into the mycoverse, goes into detail about how he was brought in to do battery testing post-9/11 and how basically all polypore mushrooms (common globally) have some antiviral properties. Some are super-potent. At risk of being called "the crazy mushroom guy" I'm including here because I know this is a vastly underinvested in space and has huge latent potential WRT antivirals. The reason it is underinvested in is because patents are hard (used for 1000s of years) so big pharma stay away. Long shot, but also could be tested everywhere, reasonably cheaply. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0rkcrWqsV4
no, test everyone, quarantine every positive case and their contacts. need time to build testing infrastructure. SK shows this is viable.
https://archive.md/ukq7b
Listen, if you want to call all Western Art music "classical" go right ahead. In fact, pop stuff like "Andrea Bocelli" and "The Piano Guys" gets lumped into "classical" too.
I don’t disagree, but I find your general stance of “of course my ideology is reality” totally problematic.

Edit:
To clarify there is a wide array of opinions about “what government are for” and “what governments should do” ... I think it is important to acknowledge that when expressing an opinion about what you think.
Herd immunity and social distancing aren't exclusive. You want both. Is it true that he called for no social distancing?

Is there a summary of the current recommendations? I mean surely gatherings etc are banned? Football is already cancelled, for example, as in other countries?
> while neglecting other measures

Neglecting what?

There's widespread information in the UK concerning symptoms and self-isolation, huge changes in working patterns and people undertaking their own 'social-distancing'.

Information on hand washing is pretty much universally understood and huge numbers of events have been postponed or cancelled. Ordinary citizens, businesses and events are undertaking huge changes. Sports, music and other events are postponed or cancelled for example, and a large percentage of people are looking to work from home.

I have a wide network of friends/former colleagues as a by product of work/charity/previous careers/family spread across a huge swathe of jobs/life in the UK. Massive amount of planning and preparation is taking place and there are huge changes to peoples everyday lives.

Just because a Government hasn't mandated a lock down doesn't mean nothing is happening or people are walking around licking handrails on public transport because there is no threat.
And also people of color not filling out the census because they're afraid the government is going to send people to lynch them. Healthcare resources are completely misallocated because people are scared to tell the government where they live. During the last census, the response rate in Harlem was something like only 65%, which the government can tell based on electricity usage and toilet flush data.
"I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help. "

You can... donate to the many existing efforts already fighting this?
Typesetting Equations with Eqn (1987)
I tried the Vibram FiveFingers once and didn't like them, so can't speak to them, but my understanding is that they tend to be of lowish durability because there's so much more stitching to go wrong and potential rubbing with individual toes.

I wear minimalist shoes from Vivobarefoot and Merrell. I had one casual pair with a thinner/softer sole that wore through in a couple years, but my active pairs' soles have all lasted 5+ years.
from a high risk country, yes. from a low risk country, test every single arrival.
I'm going to note two things here:

First, Sam Altman is no longer president of YC and this is his personal blog. So I think it is probably a mistake to conflate his writing with YC policy.

Second, I've been posting here more than a decade. I was initially very open about my diagnosis and my pursuit of non-drug solutions, but that went weird and problematic places, in part because people on the leader made problematic comments at times that looked to me like the baked in assumption was "She's just a girl. She couldn't possibly come up with a brilliant idea like Do A Website about her health stuff." The website in question was listed in my profile at the time. He hadn't taken thirty seconds to look at my profile before opening mouth and inserting foot.

Sadly the person may have been trying to flirt with me. It's a debacle I feel my reputation has never recovered from.

I still don't know how to get taken seriously and I absolutely can't single-handedly dream up a fix here.

I can't figure out what to talk about without engagement. I can't self promote when various gatekeepers actively exclude me for not having the right kind of mostly male-coded credentials because I was a homemaker and full-time mom for a lot of years.

I've spent nearly 19 years getting better while the world calls me crazy and actively denies me support. The odds are extremely poor that I will ever get taken seriously.

But if it genuinely bothers you that people are dying from this infection, maybe stop and consider setting aside your sexist, classist prejudices about me and try to find some way to help me find my voice and share what I know that has allowed me to successfully get off all the drugs and generally grow healthier while the world laughs in face and tells me I'm a liar and nutcase.

And if insisting I'm a lunatic who deserves zero respect matters to you more, then you don't really want a solution to this problem more than you want to remain married to unpleasant character traits.

Because you have this person in your midst whose very life depends upon such expertise and would love to share useful information and that's not a secret. It's just absolutely not taken at all seriously and I'm routinely attacked for trying to talk about health stuff at all, even when I'm doing so for my own edification with zero intent to convince anyone else of anything at all.
Federal Reserve slashes rates to zero, restarts QE
It's easier to find something identical to something else than to interpret the content of something new.
Coronavirus in Berlin – what you need to know and where you can get help
if his plan for this clusterf* succeeds, he won't win the next one because his voters won't be there.
Why not use a language which supports Session Types instead?
Tbh I didn’t much get that quote, so here it is in context[1], which felt helpful at first, but – while I didn’t read the entire Lecture – it still feels somewhat bullshitty to me. Now of to read TFA.

>[…] a distinction has been made between what is beautiful and what is good. If what is considered to be good (a food, a fine house, the recognition and admiration of my fellows) is not mine, I feel as though impoverished. Instead, with regard to beauty, it seems that joy in beautiful things is definitely separate from possession of them. I find the Sistine Chapel beautiful even though I am not its owner, and in the window of a patisserie I find beauty in a cream-filled wedding cake even though my dietician forbids me to eat it.

>Experience of beauty always has an element of disinterest. I can consider a human being to be beautiful, even though I know I can never have a relationship with him or her. But if I desire a human being (who might be ugly) and I cannot have a relationship with them, I feel bad. […]

>Perhaps the greatest statement of aesthetic disinterest was made precisely in the period during which the experience of the sublime seemed like a celebration of our involvement in the unleashing of horror or the majesty of great natural events. Even terror can be enjoyable, but only when it does not get too close to us. For the sublime, too, beauty is reserved for those things that [are pleasing, but only seen and not suffered]. The painter who was certainly the greatest exponent of the experience of the sublime was Caspar David Friedrich, and when representing it, he almost always put human beings in the picture, confronting them with the natural spectacle as they enjoyed the experience.

>The human figure is seen from the back and, by a sort of theatrical mise en scène, if the sublime is the stage, then the man is on the proscenium, inside the show – to us in the audience – but representing someone who is outside the show, so that we are obliged to detach ourselves from the spectacle by looking at it through him, putting ourselves in his place, seeing what he sees, and – as he does – feeling like a negligible element in the great spectacle of nature, but one able to flee in the natural power that could loom large over and destroy us.

>I believe that over the centuries the experience of beauty has always been similar to the way we feel – as if seen from the back – when we are in the presence of something we are not a part of and do not wish to become a part of at any cost. In that distance lies the slender thread that separates the experience of beauty from other forms of passion.

[1]: https://books.google.de/books?id=hDR5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT55&lpg=PT...