skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to understand the limitations of the paper. the paper simply plotted a set of regions where the outbreak happened, and analyzed the growth rate in these regions vs the average climate in that region. Notably, it did not include areas where there was no growth (which coincidentally, are almost universally hot or tropical regions). If those were included, you'd have seen a much larger effect.

With that said, even with just including areas with the epidemic - it found a statistically significant effect. Just, as you note - not a significant effect (which doesn't mean that a significant effect might not exist)
Google Employee Reportedly Tests Positive for Coronavirus in India
How is the virus doing in Singapore, an island on the equator?
On Windows there is always Dr.Watson to give an helping hand, even without debugger.
Actual request for proposals: [1] This was much more than a study. The winners had to be able to construct antibodies for five viruses. Trying to find more info. Hard; "fbo.gov" has been moved to "sam.gov", for no obvious reason, and the older documents lost.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170710035550/https://www.fbo.g...
Not all startups are the same, but for companies that are bottom driven and growing crazy, the skill, leadership, business sense, and amount of care needed at IC level is unfathomable for someone who works at a more traditionally managed company.

If they skimp on salary it'll be extremely difficult to attract the kind of people they need.
Even at a 0.7% mortality rate, you’re talking about a small percentage of a very big number. Up to 70% of the world’s population may become infected. [0] In that case, a 0.7% death rate converts into 37 MILLION deaths.

The runs on toilet paper are the irrational panic of humans. I saw some comments on the internet early on in the outbreak telling people to buy anything they can’t live without for two weeks, with particular emphasis on toilet rolls, so that’s probably where that came from.

With regards to the extreme measures, my understanding is that this is primarily to try to prevent health care systems collapsing.

Around 20% [1] of people with COVID-19 are sick enough to need hospitalisation, and 1/4 of those (5% of total cases) require intensive care. The number of hospital beds is finite, and the number of ICU beds even smaller. Most health care systems already run near maximum capacity, and right now we’re barely past the peak of flu season [2], so there is very little buffer.

The rate for new infections is dictated by the number of people exposed to an infected person and the probability of each exposure becoming an infection [3]. As such, the primary lever we have to try to “flatten the curve” is to reduce the number of people exposed to an infected person, and the way to do that from the top-down is to ban as many congregations of people as possible. Again, since this is exponential growth we’re talking about, even a tiny downward shift in the number of exposures results in an unintuitively large reduction in total cases.

The rate of infection today is still exponential—doubling every 6 days in most places—and there are enough infections already that just a few more case doublings in many areas will overwhelm hospital systems, leading to situations equal or worse to what we are seeing already in Italy [4].

Once hospitals are full, it will be impossible for every person who needs hospital care to receive it. People with treatable injuries and illnesses will die simply because there is no more capacity—and this is every person, not just those infected with COVID-19.

In the state where I live, which has a population of ~5.6 million, we’ve got about 500 free hospital beds right now. Without these extreme measures to reduce the infection rate, it’s obvious that we’re headed toward catastrophe. We lost the luxury of using a light touch approach because the case numbers are already too high to gently steer the ship away from the iceberg. We’re going to hit it anyway, but more people will survive if we don’t crash into it full steam ahead. [5]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-infection-outbreak-...

[1] http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/image...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-h...

[5] https://www.flattenthecurve.com/
Here you go, https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun.corba
Looking at just the physical building, not much.
From the article "...Anderson's most famous role, FBI agent Dana Scully on The X-Files, was directly inspired by Starling, according to The Truth Is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files...".
GP was making the argument that high costs of an ambulance is necessary.
The only year in the past 140 years that there have been at least 5 babies with the given name Gandalf in the US is 1970.

Iraq had been at war 12 of the 20 years between 1980 and 2000. Not exactly a genius level prediction.

Implantable tracking chips in pets were invented in the mid 80's and have been a commercial thing since 1990.

We've had "new" viruses every few years especially since international travel has been a thing. The vast majority of these are just new strains of existing well known viruses. With genetic analysis, we are of course much better at tracking and identifying these things. And certainly going underground in a confined space with a bunch of other humans is the exact opposite of what you'd want to do to avoid a widespread human contagion.
It was indeed. Lot of diligent development work, lot of diligent field work checking individual machines and updating software from CD-ROMs. USB storage wasn't a thing, you burned stuff to CD or used floppy disks. You could also use a laptop with a network cable but that was generally more trouble than it was worth if you had to deal with Windows or Mac deployments. On large corporate networks you could update each desk unit from a central server, but that was impractical on many smaller/bespoke network setups. Linux system administration was not as smooth as it is today, but it wasn't so different.
I was referring to the fact of dismissing a deep, highly-varied, internally contentious and diverse discipline of philosophy on the basis of reading one text by one author, that author's work not being representative of the body of work, and failing to understand it. Gwern's example simply came to mind because it seemed nearly as egregious as everybodyknows'.
Ways Microsoft IT is enabling remote work for its employees
Funny, after both my appendectomy and my knee surgery, nurses suggested that smokers recover faster. Why? They’re way more motivated to get up and out of bed to go for a walk on a regular basis!
Sorry, I don't need your permission. And I'm not being mean, I'm calling out a crappy idea for what it is. If more people did it, the authors of that language and people like them would stop wasting their time making stuff that is a bad idea from the get-go. I'm only providing valuable feedback.
Seriously, what have I said that was "anti-science"? I'm in full, 100% agreement with the link you posted. "Don't overcrowd hospitals, watch for the symptoms, self-isolate, call doctors before going in, flatten the curve etc." Those are the exact measures that need to be taken.

What I was disputing was your original statement "COVID-19 isn't a big deal." If large portions of the population have to take all these measures to keep this thing under control, it seems like a pretty big deal to me.

At this point I feel like you're just trolling. You aren't responding to anything I've said at all.
Maybe you could persuade M5Stack to do a version of hardware that suits.

Looks like maybe they do already for $40 if you combine a base and LORA unit -

https://m5stack.com/collections/m5-core

https://m5stack.com/collections/m5-module
Really interesting to see that Wayland has taken so long to gain a foothold (it's been 12 years since the initial release) that other designs have leapfrogged it already. (Posting from my Wayland desktop.)

SurfaceFlinger is the other major compositor, does it use implicit or explicit synchronization? Can you run SurfaceFlinger on desktop?

EDIT: Some further reading https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2017/01/26/main... and previous parts, seems like they drove a lot of this work.
Also: quit a few people wont be able to pax there rent or mortgages anymore. A few hosts i visited told that they do airbmb to afford to live in the citiy / pay the mortgage...
In Denmark we have cases where ambulances are not dispatched because operators don't think it necessary..

But I don't think the dispatch taxis instead -- besides our taxi availability is highly limited and extremely expensive (Uber being prohibited).
To be fair taxi drivers are certified, and service is IMO high quality.
If you can move in time, it seems plausible you could also move in space.

According to John Titor:

> [T]his problem is actually the most difficult part of time travel. [...] Inside the displacement unit are a series of very sensitive clocks and gravity sensors. This system is called the VGL (variable gravity lock). [...B]efore the unit "leaves" a worldline, it takes a base reading of the local gravity and adjusts the Tipler sinusoid to 'lock' into that position. Although the temporal physics of this statement are wrong, in effect, it holds you to the 'Earth'. During travel, it periodically checks to see that the field has not varied. If it does, it stops and reverses course or drops out at that point.

https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2013/02/04/john-titor-the...
I think this serves to better explain the low case totals out of africa, but that might change in the near future.
According to the paper, they did it in order to figure out why SARS-CoV was able to infect humans, while numerous other SARS-like viruses are not. Their hyposthesis was that the critical feature is a particular sequence in the protein found on the "spike" that the virus uses to bind to host receptors. By constructing a new SARS-like virus with the desired spike protein, they were able to validate that hypothesis.

It seems to me that if there was any malign intent behind this work, they would not have published a paper on it. Obviously, that's doesn't preclude the possibility of an accidental release from the same lab twelve years later. As far as I know, there's no way to prove whether 2019's coronavirus was engineered in any way.
Swift is gaining steam, because Apple dictates it, unless one enjoys using a frozen language.

Likewese using C++ on Android requires perseverance given the how the NDK is handled and what it exposes, while on Windows it feels nice because it has parity with .NET tooling, specially on UWP.
Free markets demand that loses of financial elites have to be socialized.
Not the op.

But can I email you too? I’ve same condition.
105 data points (patient pairs). Linear regression. Not conclusive.
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About me: I am a Computer Science and Engineering student at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. My interests range from computer graphics, artificial intelligence, operational research, compilers and algorithms in general, to interior design and web development. In my spare time I like to solve challenges on HackerRank, automate by using scripts operations that otherwise I have to do by hand, and at the moment I'm working on the development of my e-commerce with Ruby-on-Rails, and a Home planner with WebGL.
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I am curious about everything, that is why one of my passions is learning always, both in IT and in life.
I'm pretty sure that the Olympics will be cancelled. It's unlikely that we'll have a vaccine before then and Covid19 is well beyond containment at this point.
Relatedly, I'm a strong proponent of debugging with "break on all exceptions" enabled. It's very easy to miss bugs if you're not aware of exceptions being thrown but for this to be practical the code must only throw exceptions exceptionally or it's a nightmare to debug.
Get off your high horse. When people are having a discussion about potential negative effects on the economy, it's perfectly fine to talk about potential positive effects on the economy.
According to the paper, you're exactly right.
They are unavoidable with most GUI bindings on Rust, actually it is a plethora of Rc<RefCell<>> across the code.
As far as I know, teachers are being paid during this time, and are effectively "on call."

As this is an executive order from the Governor, teachers won't be required to make up the time when students return.
The halvening usually causes the price to go up
Given how version control works, source code is the area of human endeavor for which your first sentence is the least true.
Also, India which is not yet mentioned in the news, a country of 1+ billion people.
Vietnam has taken this epidemics 10x more seriously than Italy, that could just be the difference.

They are testing as much as they can, everybody who had contact with infected people are tracked down and quarantined, streets where you had infected people are closed down and disinfected, almost everybody wear masks, you have temperature checks & hydroalcoholic gel available in public areas, schools are fully closed since early January.
Ask HN: How to invest in the time of Covid-19?
I'm a salaried person living in France. I have never owned stock. Every Euro I have in my bank account comes from salary. And to be honest I have only a very basic understanding of the market.

I have been reading that stocks have been going down massively in the past 48 hours, and I was wondering how one would invest some saved up money? If I buy a stock that is now 16$ but was 26$ a few days ago, will it go back to that price and i can make a small profit ?

I'm not talking about putting a huge amount of money, just a few thousands Euros i can spare.
Why? Do you realize Africa is a huge continent with all kinds of weather right? https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/?continent=africa
Anecdotally one of my stumbling blocks with clojure was how to deal with errors. The language style heavily pushes to just coding the happy path and using nil punning, instead of exceptions, but sometimes you need to signal errors, so some libraries use keywords for error codes - but now that we have spec the community seems to be shifting opinion to “exceptions are ok-ish if a result of not conforming”. Both error codes and nils make spec definitions ugly, thus all the “maybe not” opinion by Rick... it seems someehat overwhelming, to be honest.
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> As a litigator I do not think that is true. Facts, more than anything, dictate outcomes, generally. Though I will say that patent cases are prohibitively expensive. Though, contrary to what I would think many here assume, leaves the inventor with the short end of the stick as opposed to large IP-owning organizations like Google (that simultaneously advocate for lesser patent-rights).

The problem is that patent cases are intrinsically prohibitively expensive. It's the nature of them, not a result of some recent regulatory change advocated by Google. Especially when there are companies that hold many thousands of patents, any of which can be claimed in combination and cause the defense to incur significant costs even if the claims or their applicability ultimately turn out to be bunk. And you're bankrupt before you can prove it.

The result is that large companies can destroy small practicing inventors with legal fees at will, which is naturally what they do if the small practicing inventor attempts to assert their patent.

To avoid this is to not practice your own invention so you can't yourself be sued for infringement. Which implies that the patent system is only useful to trolls and large incumbents and is actively harmful to small practicing inventors, who can't usefully assert their own patents against the incumbents but can have the large incumbents assert their patents against the small inventor.
More on this earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22563050 (discussion and story from the EFF on the same issue )
No, 'Bitcoin is not there' as a long-term safe haven, it's a totally unproven and risky asset.

Yes, in a liquidity crisis, cash is king, but Gold will usually retain its value through hard times.

Bitcoin is a meme compared to Gold. There are very few people who would consider it a meaningful asset, it's really a 'good economy speculation'. In a few hundred years and several massive crises if BTC is still around, then maybe.

BTC is not Gold, they are not in the same category.
On the internet, alas, "could quite reasonably" translates to "probably won't". It's similar to Jerry Weinberg's point about the s-word ("should") translating to "isn't".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22537631
Over the decades I have personally experienced several pairs of actors who "look the same" until I figured better. One early example of mine is Harrison Ford and Dennis Quaid [I was roughly 11 years old at the time].
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Yes, but the average temperature in vast majority of the areas is higher than the avg temperature of say Europe. When we say Africa is warmer, it is a simplification simply by the virtue that its centroid closer to equator than Europe. Thus, we can say that it's warmer.

Side note: don't use rhetorical questions to respond to someone. It's demeaning. Rephrase "Why? Africa is a huge continent with all kinds of weather."
That's clear! Adding links to previous threads is just a service to the curious. Not intended to imply dupiness. If it were a dupe we'd have downweighted it and probably marked it as [dupe] in the title.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Desktop and Game developers happen to share a different opinion.
Never seen someone get downvoted for posting proof before
It's not completely clear to me what behavior you're objecting to.
As long as other countries use dollars, it's the US that's got 15T worth of goods more. These 15T buy entire tankers of oil, metals, minerals and goods from other countries and this is what matters.
Hm. Good point, I guess you couldn't easily clean up things like local memory allocations from a common exception handler, huh?

Oh well, they can't all be winners.
So it's about you.
Our IT advised us to disconnect from the VPN when using webex, and definitely no video conference.

The VPN endpoint bw saturated, I guess 90% employee wfh wasn't a use case for network capacity planning of VPN link.
Jacobsen is a mainstream journalist working in the national security field.

I am a skeptic, but there's a fascinating story here.
Maybe, but my point was that Airbnb is not one of those companies. Everyone I’ve met working there says they do run of the mill web dev. Those same engineers are making in excess of 450k, and are barely 30. Airbnb got into some prestige employee game and hurt themselves doing it.
I don't know about severity, but Norway is the European country with the highest infection ratio, after Italy and tiny Iceland. As of today:

- Italy: 1 case per 3.996 inhabitants
- Iceland: 1/4.285
- Norway: 1/6.710
- Denmark: 1/9.081
- Switzerland: 1/10.035
- Spain: 1/14.831
- France: 1/23.292
- Germany: 1/30.160
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22558517
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Yes that was the joke :)
Taiwan is doing good in containing Covid-19 despite its proximity to China
Nice idea, does anyone have an idea what german-language learning sites have a point-system ?
Bitcoin price is controlled by a small number of players. A huge percentage of the market cap is money laundered out of Russia and China. This isn’t the people’s crypto, it’s a vehicle to smuggle money out of authoritarian economies
I think it's the dreams of possible job heaven. With an esoteric language that can be used for finance, you can not only grow your mental gonads ("it's even smarter than Haskell!!") but also possibly get a six-figure job that will be very secure.
"I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There's no miracle people!" --Feynman
This is not the right way to compare BTC and Gold in terms of meaningful financial value.

The 'transportability' of the asset is really a secondary feature when talking of 'stores of wealth'.

Gold is obviously terribly difficult to move around, but that's fine, it's stored in large vaults and we make agreements as to 'who owns it'. Just as BTC implies a kind of 'contract' so does Gold ownership, they just take different forms.

The value of Gold and BTC will be a function of their perception as a credible long-term source of value. BTC will not achieve the status of Gold for a very long time, and it's unlikely it ever will. I wouldn't write it off entirely, but it's basically not a relevant instrument at this time.

As a currency BTC is probably dead for a variety of reasons, but it could come back in those terms, in which case, we'll view it differently.

But the world is not going to value BTC materially differently due to how it's 'transported'. We can trade Gold in mostly the same way.

"Bitcoin let’s you store $1T USD of dollars in your head, transport it anywhere in the world, and there’s not a single thing anyone else can do about it"

Yes, there is 'something' we can do about it, and that's to collectively not care a single bit about the magic number in said BTC holder's 'head'.
> Meanwhile, you can freely conspiracy theorize all you like about the machinations of the CIA, NSA, etc., regardless of how little evidence you have

That's not true at all. Rather, there's randomness around what gets flagged and/or moderated. People read into that whatever patterns they want to see, or are already convinced are happening.
The fact that Bitcoin is marketed as the “new gold” is a double-edged sword. Because of the hype, it’s too volatile to become gold.
I checked with a bunch of biologists and all of them find the results here to be merely correlational and misleading. Have asked to wait for more evidence
I would say they can be called PoS because that's the nature of the consensus algorithm used... but it's not in a "go live" production stage atm.
I'd say it's possible, speaking from my own experience. Neither my parents care much about sport, rather they discouraged it. I still actively do lots of sports though.

I think it's important to have others to learn and inspire from, while also realizing you can actively work towards it yourself (directly and indirectly). It's imo quite hard though...
Abe is dead set on hosting the Olympics one way or another, so he might try to reschedule it... to a time of year when R is higher. :(