skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living in Germany I don't really feel there is a lack of leadership. So far the politicians listened to expert advice which is precisely what I expect from them. And to oir luck the testing infrastructure in Germany is much better than in nearly every other nation (which also means the numbers are closer to reality than e.g. in Italy or the US). On top of that we have paid leave, so people who are showing symptoms can stay at home without worrying about money.

This is a very different story in the US of course — but is it really only a leadership problem? Isn't it more of a systemic issue in the sense that now the weaknesses of e.g. certain centralized testing structures, not having universal healthcare etc come to light.

Trump might be the worst president the US could have at that point in time, because he acts actively destructive on top of a system that hasn't that much ressilience anyways.
We need to start making these immediately. Every day counts right now. Where’s the army of amateur hardware hackers and 3d printer folks that can start cranking away on this?
Tracking coronavirus: Map, data and timeline – BNO News
Claiming that Toyota Group produces 7 percent less CO2 emissions just because of a change to the way paint is applied...? I don't believe it...
The amusing thing about it is that C does not guarantee that EOF is out-of-band!

ISO C says that char must be at least 8 bits, and that int must be at least 16. It is entirely legal to have an implementation that has 16-bit signed char and sizeof(int)==1. In which case -1 is a valid char, and there's no way to distinguish between reading it and getting EOF from getchar().
Apple to close all retail stores outside of China until March 27
New Zealand's Prime Minister announces 'unprecedented' Covid-19 restrictions
Money: The unauthorized biography by Felix Martin discusses money as social technology and its history https://www.amazon.com/Money-Unauthorized-Biography-Coinage-...
I don't know much about Go and my interest with Alpha is primarily with chess (alphazero). But I watched it on Netflix anyways a while back and enjoyed it. It's an interesting behind the scenes look at the lead up to the match, the match itself and the fallout. Definitely worth a watch.

If you want to see alphazero games, there are a bunch of analysis of alphazero and stockfish games on youtube as well.
If they were unwanted, the 30 day interest rate would spike, but it hasn't. This is purely a move to provide liquidity, which is the essential job of the Fed.
According to Bruce Aylward, of Canada’s WHO, they [China] had standard treatment memos, that reached the 6th iteration (to his surprise), that each hospital was implementing the very next day, after it was received. [1]. At that point, the containment effort was only seven weeks old, so they were updating the guidelines frequently, and distributing it throughout the country.

I don’t know what it is, as I haven’t seen it myself, but they seemed to have the treatment process down to a science. Or at least, to the best of their abilities, given the fast moving situation.

Maybe they’re sharing these guidelines with Italy now, so perhaps doctors and nurses from Italy can shed some light on them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0q1XMRKYM
a good , fluid mechanical keyboard makes one more accurate. anything deviating from perfection will introduce errors though.
This is just laughably incorrect. You couldn't come anywhere close to meeting current demand for meat with free foraging animals. If that were the case why do we have CAFO farms?

The level of delusion and misinformation on this issue is tragic and mindboggling but go ahead and enjoy your selfish tech bro lifestyle.
“Herd Immunity” and the UK Govt Strategy on Covid19
Parent comment is talking about link utilization and you’re talking about transit fees. You’re on a different wavelength (pun intended)

Bandwidth is finite. Links can become congested.
It's a news office press release. Nobody should expect it to be a well-researched piece of independent reporting. Nothing more than marketing.
> The other major disadvantage is that these drugs can interact with protease inhibitors

What are the possible consequences of this?
Shocking Notes: Not Always Correct Know Paying the Price of Stupidity
Definitely not our intention to make it hard to read! Now that it's been pointed out, we've changed the text color on the blogs. Hopefully that will make it easier to read for everybody.
Although this wasn't exclusively about the US: Most issues the US now has, indeed existed before Trump became president — so much is true. Yet Trump still is the worst president you could have at that point in time. Nearly a month into the whole thing he decides it would be a good thing to call the virus a hoax, disregard expert advice and ultimately acts (as he usually does) purely on symbolical plane by blaming it on foreigners and closing the border. Closing the dissease control unit Obama built in the white house is only the cherry on top. Nothing to adress the issue of not beeing able to test people, there is no real oversight what is going on in the US.

And quite frankly: if your leader's decisions are worse than throwing a dice, why even bother having him? Because it is more entertaining?

In times of a pandemic you want to have something in leadership who does the unpopular thing, that ultimately stops the spread and saves the lives. Not someone who only thinks about themselves and changes their stance on the topic with every turn of the wind. But feel free to argue otherwise, if you know how the poststructuralist ways of trumpian confusion somehow help in times of a pandemic.
True, but at least Italy claims that the main bottleneck in ventilator availability isn't in the machines themselves but in trained doctors and nurses to support patients on ventilators.
I expected this article to be about the downsides of being forced to work from home (possibly due to recent events). But it's just a list of 4 SaaS tools that this company happens to use. And they just happen to be fully remote. I don't see the correlation.

Any chance of changing the title to something more...I don't know, accurate? It's a good write-up otherwise and I enjoy these kinds of posts.
I studied it, got the cfa designation, worked in the field.

Yet to see a better, more accurate or more succinct treatment than "A Random Walk Down Wall St" by Malkiel. Can't recommend it enough. Readable. Required knowledge.
Great! Let’s get China to ramp up the production.
No, that’s in no way what I’m suggesting.
Unfortunately only in German language:

Bernard A. Lietaer: Das Geld der Zukunft

Bernard A. Lietaer: Mysterium Geld
I think your perspective on free will is somewhat closer to my own then I originally thought. I completely agree that outcomes in life are determined much, much more by the world than by any kind of personal responsibility. I think that there are plenty of people who believe even in magical free will (say, christian concepts of it) who actually understand this same thing, though you are right that there are many who don't.

However, I don't believe in full predetrminism, and you don't either. If you did, you would not think about improving the world, or convincing people of things - if you believe that the next speech by the president was determined at the time of the big bang, then thinking about change is meaningless, and none of us can help feel or not feel however we do.

However, if you believe in a world where the future has not happened yet and it evolves more like a complex computation, with room for changing program code by the program itself, perhaps even with some randomness thrown in, you get a fully naturalistic deterministic world where nevertheless you can try to influence things in some direction or another.

To articulate my own belief about this more clearly, I think the example of robots you gave is very good. I believe that even a robot with a simplistic machine learning algorithm can be meaningfully said to have a kind of free will, in that it can do a better or worse job at what it was designed to do based on the examples it is given and on accidents of its training process. Two such robots may well have different beliefs about the world (in a very basic sense)and they could even influence one another based on their experience (training set) and conclusions (parameters of their algorithm). This is how I believe humans and animals work as well - we have a pre-determined algorithm (vastly more complex), with different starting parameters between different people, we have a training set consisting of all of our lived experiences, and our algorithm can modify itself or its parameters during training, in pre-specified ways. This does end up meaning that some people end up with better models/algorithms than others, based on better starting conditions, or on more luck with experiences. And decision points in this algorithm are what I think represents our experience of free will.
Debt: The First 5000 Years

https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
> 4) Create private channels for any conversation / project or issue that will ever require more than the people that are currently in a 'multi-person private message'. Archive them when the issue is over.

This, but I'd change it a bit: don't ever use multi-person private messages. You can't add people, and people can't leave if they figure the conversation isn't relevant to them. They should have a feature to convert a multi-person-pm into a room, including all the previously sent messages.

RE threads: they seem broken to me. Hard to navigate, and when I'm typing, it will show that there are new messages but won't show new messages in the thread until I send my message or delete my draft.

I'll add another one: pay for typing lessons for everyone that isn't reasonably fast. I get very annoyed with people that are slow at typing and take forever to write a response. It gets to the point that I start suggesting to get on a call because I know they can talk at a reasonable speed but typing out the information will take them minutes.
Oil 101 by Morgan Downey is one of the worst-edited books I've ever read, yet the amount of knowledge contained in that book is astonishing. The petroleum markets are vital to the financial system, as we saw on Monday when oil over-supply catalyzed a downward move in global equity markets.
I keep hearing this but i also dont seem to see cheap flights, maybe its because im in the UK but so far flights from here dont seem to have dropped in price much if at all to the places ive searched (US/Japan/Korea/Denmark/Sweden) in fact the cheapest to japan is more expensive than ive paid in the last 3 years. id been hoping itd lower prices so i could grab a few bargains but as yet no such luck
Delphi club membership is only for those who possess a ruthless, deep and time-transcending sense of commitment to these two aspects of software development:

1."No bullshit" - stick to the fundamentals and don't waste time over-engineering, relying on complex builds, producing ambiguous compiles (ok, we're still fixing this), relying on bulky runtime architectures. Have straightforward source code. Native. Straight-talking. Quick-compiling. Hard-hitting. Because Shipping Matters(tm). Only thing that matters. Shipping. No bullshit.

2. "Fiercely independent mindset" - Members know that they must use the right tools for the right job, but members must also display a strong ability to not be swayed by what employers are hiring for. Latest shiny flavour of tech, framework, language, might look good on your CV but many times the conclusion for "What is the right tool for this job?" can still be answered: "Delphi". Stand your ground.

So, if you are a CV-oriented programmer, you will most likely not want to do Delphi. There is an indelible and horribly misinformed meme out there that there are no Delphi jobs or that Delphi is dead, is old, outdated and irrelevant in modern software architectures. I have seen this ageist misinformation come out as lame attempts to ridicule Delphi programmers (jealousy?), branding them luddites and dinosaurs. We never retaliate. Quiet stoicism is a prerequisite for club membership.

Finally, the Delphi club also has a new membership protocol: always buy them a beer. No matter whether they eventually get accepted in the hallowed halls of this quiet corner. :-)

Cheers! <clink>
COVID19 Treatment Guidelines for Belgium,Netherlands,France,Italy,Switzerland [pdf]
OTOH it s increased international travel that causes the acuteness of these pandemics
The Economist Guide to Financial Markets by Marc Levinson
Does anyone know how the go world has been evolving since AlphaGo?

I wonder if people are looking for weaknesses or perhaps just ways to contribute, so that a human + AI could beat an AI playing alone.
It's a "human interest" type of documentary which means it's deliberately structured as an "emotional narrative".

I think it's fair to say that a lot of "no-nonsense-just-give-me-the-facts" viewers in the HN demographic would find this type of film very unsatisfying. I.e. lots of interviews with virtually no technical explanations.

I quickly scrubbed the film and it looks like it's the same footage from the AlphaGo documentary I saw ~2 years ago:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6700846/

I don't know if this new video url dated "2020" is a different film or if they simply enhanced the 2017 documentary with new footage.
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You can of course just run folding@home on your CPU as well, no nvidia requirement... required.
I've been experimenting and generally happy with https://stacker.app, creates a web portal from an airtable with authentication
A "face or nasal mask" wouldn't be invasive by your definition, either.
Will US pay Vietnam for its liberation efforts, or UK pay India for bringing culture to it?
It's not a black swan, a pandemic was long on the horizon (think SATS, MERS, Ebola, ...).

Just to add: I found taleb pretty opionated and had trouble distinguishing his own opinions from facts/theories.. I'd not recommend his books.
It's a commercially available bag valve mask with a motor attached and controlled by what seems to be an open loop system. I think that the real takeaway here is that bag valve masks, apparently a low cost manual alternative to a respirator, exist.
Actually - any college level book. There are tons, they're cheap on ebay, look for pearson or mcgraw hill. If you're creative, you can probably find a epub/pdf.

But even the DK Eye Witness have a good idea - how business works, how money works.

Financial system, economics, monetary policy become very simple with pictures, and even easier on an spreadsheet. Even more so is how many people don't know how much the government does in collecting statistics to analyze and examine the health of the economy - The BLS https://www.bls.gov/ is a great resource and once you have a basic understanding (or know healthy or "safe" numbers) you can explore other country economic numbers and see if they make sense (or not!) e.g. https://psa.gov.ph/ for Philippine Statistics.

Contemporary Financial Management is great -

Accounting Princicpals are also great (can you read a PL sheet? Do you know GAAP? How about Compliance regulations?)

Just "money" is one piece of the puzzle - money is a tool and that tool has been transformed into different pieces that fit what we do finance in life -

A basic book would be rich dad, poor dad - it's quite cliche but it's a good introduction to "wealth" and assets vs liability == net worth.

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tl;dr I ranted, I can go on - the DK Eyewitness books are a good starting point and then you can dig deep - but mostly it really runs quite simple for most things and then gatekeeped by interesting vocabulary.

How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How Things Work) Hardcover – March 14, 2017
by DK (Author)
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How Business Works: A Graphic Guide to Business Success Hardcover – 2015
by Dk (Author)

The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Paperback – February 6, 2018

The Business Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Paperback – November 20, 2018

How Business Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How Things Work) Hardcover – April 14, 2015

DK Eyewitness Books: Money: Discover the Fascinating Story of Money from Silver Ingots to Smart Cards Paperback – June 14, 2016
surely that is fortunate? Too many businesses end up making random employees suffer greatly because senior management are blind to the reality of their struggle.
Thanks for sharing, absolutely interesting!

I'm pretty sure that if you partner with someone that can package your food supply chain knowledge into a nice UI/UX experience (or doing it yourself, idk), you could produce and sell a decent piece of niche software for planning in food plants.

At $work we are into software for managing plants (not in the food industry), and the demand for tailor made planning functions is obvious.
I can't really take this piece seriously when it's claimed that the fatality rate is "20 times" that of seasonal flu... If the author claims to be "rational", surely he understands how many cases are not being detected and how the numbers from South Korea and Diamond Princess approach the real fatality rate much more.

It's always like this. People first underreact and want to believe it's nothing, then overreact. For now (2 weeks after the article was written), staying levelheaded amidst the irrational panic is the "rational" thing to do. Exactly the reverse of what's proposed in the article.
let's say you had a virus that was like a really low grade cold for two months, and then spiked up really suddenly and killed the host.

You're right, after you kill that host you won't go anywhere but you will go lots of places that two months prior.
I think the appearance of this virus, was only a matter of time. It’s not a question of if, but, when.

The virus had existed in bats for millions of years, evolving and stabilizing itself symbiotically with the bat, and it took just the right combination, the right spark, to set off a chain of events that would allow it to eventually hunt down the human race.
Zoom Is Giving K-12 Schools Its Videoconferencing Tools for Free
You can tape it. Easier to do and to carry on the field.
This is a good start, "Money as debt". Saw it in university and since then you will never take financial markets seriously. And all the "stimulus" we see is just pushing the can forward. You will start to see through a lot of lies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA
There is Jabaco which is a VB6 Java-based language. It hasn't been updated in a long while.

http://www.jabaco.org/

I wonder if anyone wants to help them update it to make it better?
This is an online course, not a book, but it changed my understanding of finance. I studied Economics (initially) at university, and never found anything close to as useful as this class:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
Legionnaires' Disease (C. 1976)
Michael Lewis has a habit of... let’s say focusing on convenient facts to emphasize a narrative that doesn’t usually match reality. His books are entertaining (I think I’ve read them all), but they are actually a pretty bad way to learn about how the markets work.
A human monoclonal 1 antibody blocking SARS-CoV-2 infection
Contrast is that every socialist country so far was started by a more or less bloody revolution. Not by public-private partnership.
Why would you ever read a book on aeronautical engineering from someone who isn’t a million miler?
My final year project was a VB6 -> JVM compiler. I underestimated how big VB6 actually was and so only had time to implement a small fraction of the language. I did discover a bug in the IDE's code completion/formatter that would cause a compilation failure when the project was next loaded. That code is on a floppy somewhere
How to Use Schema Markup? [Newbie Friendly Guide]
He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them
It is not about food no longer being available, it is about not having to go out and get it for a longer period of time. Limiting contacts does help in limiting spread so the more people limit contacts, the longer it will take for the virus to spread.

> Everyone will eventually get the virus. It's almost certain. The goal here is just to prevent a thundering herd problem with medical resources.

Yes, eventually everyone will be exposed. The point here is to flatten the curve of exposure to a level which does not overwhelm critical care facilities. This can be achieved - or at least an attempt can be made - by limiting exposure. Those who have enough food at home to refrain from having to go out shopping for a month can limit their exposure more than those who have to go out every week.

> Going to the grocery store once vs four times is not going to make the difference between you getting the virus or not, and it's absurd that people would even consider this.

But that is not the point as you later state yourself: "The goal here is just to prevent a thundering herd problem with medical resources". Right, and the way to achieve that is by limiting exposure, for instance by only having to go out shopping once instead of four times.

I honestly don't get the attitude against a certain level of preparedness. What is wrong with stocking more non-perishable food stuffs at home if those are the things you'd normally buy anyway? You don't need to fill your basements with MREs, just get more of the usual non-perishables than you'd normally do - pasta, wheat flour, oats, etc. Get some yeast to bake bread as well while you're at it. Get butter, put it in the freezer. Dried beans last forever - I had some around which I took with me when I moved from the Netherlands to Sweden about 20 years ago, made a chilli with them, tasted 'like new' - and can make a good meal with a few odds and ends. Get 'canned' (i.e. packaged) tomatoes, frozen vegetables (the power will stay on during this crisis), etc. This is not doomsday prepping, it is common sense.
Yes, Paypal is also terrible[0] and you'd have to be pretty dumb to deliberately keep a large fraction of your savings "invested" in a paypal balance.

[0] http://paypalsucks.com/
"Several grumpy opinions about remote working tools at Tailscale" would do it.
It’s a disease control medical centre, not a bioweapons lab. They’re not ‘developing’ new viruses.

I’m not saying China doesn’t have bioweapons labs, I’ve no idea, but the Chinese CDC labs collaborate with international medical agencies. It’s hard to believe they would conduct bioweapons research at a centre that collaborates internationally with exactly the experts that would immediately be able to spot that sort of activity.
We have much more mobility and contacts with other people than in past, therefore it may be more efficient for viruses to evolve into having longer incubation period than becoming less lethal.
Hi!
I work from home for 1 year and a half.
I did strict hours, pomodoro etc. but productivity comes with motivation really.
If you are not really motivated by your work, then just ship fast so you can be free the earliest possible.
Hardware is the bottleneck for quantum computers
The GPs point was how long the host is a carrier before symptoms arise, let alone severe enough to incapacitate them.

What makes COVID-19 so dangerous is the incubation period + infectiousness, not the mortality rate.
Great interview until he talks about the slowly boiling frog analogy : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog it’s stupid but he lost his credibility for me there ...
These are the updated (march 13th) interim treatment guidelines applied in Belgium for COVID19.

But the PDF also shows for comparison a clear view of the guidelines applied in Netherlands,France,Italy and Switzerland.