skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H1N1 was literally just the regular flu. And there were only 4 confirmed Ebola cases in the US.
Should run govt agencies on a 75% cost recovery basis.
> But going out and randomly buying medicine because it seems like it might work (even though it might not, but you're cured without it, which means you're going to go out and tell everyone else to go buy it too) might not necessarily be the best way to deal with this.

Hey, that's okay, let me live or die on my own terms. It's my body. Stop trying to rule it.

I'm not making you take it. How about you don't make me not take it.
I don't think he's saying vaccine creation is easy, I think he's saying it's a hard problem that needs a concerted effort at developing shortcuts.

Also, this is technically true, but vacuous:

> What is stopping you from making a vaccine for COVID-19? I can promise you nobody will be upset with you if you do it, you don't need anyone's permission either.

Even if by some herculean effort and unbelievable luck, I brewed up a Covid-19 vaccine in my garage, I would be unable to help people at scale with it unless it passed millions of dollars worth of testing for regulatory approval.
> 16 registers divided into to areas: R0 to R7 are in fact a window to a register bank containing 256 times 8 registers while R8 to R15 are fixed. This architecture makes subroutine calls and saving registers very easy (just increment/decrement the register bank pointer which is part of the status register). All in all QNICE features 256 * 8 + 8 = 2056 registers.

This is indeed nice and the kind of thing whose availability can affect the design of low-level languages, e.g. non-ISO local variables in a Forth dialect.

Cf. http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/gforth/Docs-html/Gfor...
Can we edit the '4' in the title to 'for'? This isn't a teenager's chatroom and it took me a minute to successfully parse the sentence as a result of it.
The italian original linked in there gives me the same understanding, after feeding through DeepL.
China Bought the West Time. The West Squandered It
You can do that with test systems, but not live ones. People object to having their bills dated 98 years ago and overdue on the day they were issued ;)
> This is a current day narrative cast in events drawn from the past.

No, it's not. It was actually covered in the news at the time, though it didn't get much attention.

> However, and I was plenty old enough at the time to be tuned into the political reality, was not that the airlines were begging to shift the costs of airport security to the government,

So was I, and, yes, they were (more specifically, the potential liability for security failures more than the cost.)

> but rather that proponents of expansive government responsibility insisting that something as important as airport security could not be trusted to the private sector.

Yes, that was the sales pitch used to the public by politicians after they decided how to respond to the industry lobbying.

> Trying to couch what happened with the nationalization of airport security as being a handout to corporate interests after the fact is like trying to demonize health insurance companies by saying that current day efforts to nationalize the health care system is really just an effort to give hand outs to big businesses involved in health.

If you mean mandatory insurance schemes like the ACA when you talk about nationalization of health care, rather than Medicare for All, that's exactly what it was conceived as. Before RomneyCare in MA (which was the most immediate model for both the Obama and Clinton health plans in the 2008 campaign), the same basic outline was proposed as a potential national reform by a group of insurance industry lobbyists and Republican strategists in the aftermath of the failure of the Clinton health care reform efforts when it looked like there might be another go around and the Republicans might be served by having something with the superficial shape of health coverage package and he industry wanted to make sure that what it was was a massive subsidy to the industry.

OTOH, I don't see how you could frame MFA that way (you could frame it as a relief to employers who don't want to be responsible for employee healthcare, but not to the healthcare industry, and while that's not the central purpose for most advocates, it has been cited as a positive and intended effect by many proponents, so it's not entirely wrong.)
Sure but shutting down all schools also shuts down the economy. Isn't closing borders for people, a more cost effective course of action ?
Agree, I just with they would have a better UI
and in those langs its trivial and very common to make even more elaborate return/result types containing a very precise representation of all possible result categories.
It kinda simpler to do if you have all the manufacturing under your control(as west moved all production to china), and have construction companies used to such rapid development(building useless buildings for sole purpose of keeping people employed)
Yes, but this time its viral pneumonia.
> but the media hyped it into a frenzy because

Because they make more money if people are scared and clicking refresh every few minutes.
Thank you for this reasonable view. Those last few days, I have seen a great many people here piling on chloroquine and aggressively promoting it to others. Those people were sometimes alledged scientists. This is worrying. Some countries have it in their emergency guidelines, yes. But is it beyond reasonable doubt that quinine derivatives are useful in humans? No. Absolutely not.

People are incredibly prompt to jump in on unproven suggestions during a crisis, while at the same time shitting on standard evidence-based medical care all year long. Go figure...

A small-sized chinese study with unreleased data? Color me skeptical.
That is the key, he still had cash and control of a platform.

Very different situation for Jack Dorsey w/ Twitter.
New Coronavirus Test from Roche 10 Times Faster (4hrs)
well, the ICU units are the main problem here. I guess other countries would choose to upgrade existing rooms here. And a 1000 beds in rooms with drywall separation - we did this in Germany for the refugees and (maybe contrary to China) we have a relative abundance of existing superstructures (communal gyms, old military sites)...
Pretty neat but doesn't seem to be making it to the Real World(tm) despite several attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_window
Funny that you mention it. German laws are published via the 'Bundesanzeiger Verlag' which is a fully privatized publisher owned by the DuMont Group.
This lead to the fact, that you couldn't search, copy or print laws online for free. In reaction to this the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany then opened up a guerilla portal in late 2018 which allowed this.
Because of this, it is planed for 2022, that all german laws will be published online and the contract with DuMont comes to an end.
No, it means that UK government knows that it cannot stop the situation getting a lot worse, and a quarantine will be a lot more effective as a tool later on. They seemed to be quite realistic about this, not going " it will be all fine, trust us". They know things will get fucked and a full quarantine is one of the many tools to use against the virus - so let's use it when it's most effective. Otherwise like they said - if we quarantine the entire country right now, it won't stop the spread anyway. So we'll come out of quarantine and then have to do it again in a month - and people will get fed up with it and won't obey a quarantine if it goes on for too long or too frequently. So if the spread is inevitable, let's use the quarantine at the point that prevents the most possible number of infections.
Is there really a distinction between people who say "I can't learn something new" and "I can't be bothered to learn something new"? The results are going to be the same.
Doctors and Nurses, how can I help as a Software Engineer?
A question for our Doctors and Nurses.

What are your major pain points during this COVID-19 epidemic?

What could you think of as a problem that could be solved with software
(such as a website, a web application, a mobile app, etc.)?
example? I guess if you wanted it, the 2020 city can manufacture anything it could in 1918...
Since Manning had already been tried for crimes related to this investigation (and found guilty, and served time), she could not be given further jail time. And because she could not be given further jail time, the courts had decided that making her testify to the grand jury about Assange wasn’t covered by the fifth amendment right to remain silent (which really only covers compelled self incrimination).
I don't like it. That's showing kids that automated surveillance is acceptable.

Now, I'm sure they will not find that very funny, so that may be an opportunity to teach them what automated surveillance is about...
Has anyone done the math on how long a flattened curve stretches out if you flatten it enough to not overwhelm the medical system?

So for example, if we have 100,000 ICU beds in the US and we somehow make them all available for COVID-19 patients (unlikely), how flat do we need to make the curve to not go above 100k ICU patients, and how long will that flattened curve last? A month? Six months? Two years?

Assuming 70% of the adult population gets it, that's roughly 140 million infected. Assuming 5% need ICU beds, that's 7 million ICU patients. And assuming the average ICU stay is 2 weeks, we'd need to therefore spread our ICU patients over 140 weeks, or almost three years. Is that how long we can expect social distancing to last if things go perfectly?
Why would this administration suddenly now become competent?
Yes, we have drugs which reduce the effectiveness of the immune system, preventing this from happening. Of course you don't want to weaken the immune system too much, it's a difficult balance to strike I'm sure.
OP here. I am not able to from my view. It took several tries to squeeze my title into the 80 characters.
Do you think a vaccine is the right answer? Surely development and stockpiling of anti virals is the key, Tamiflu or similar. The lead time for vaccines will also be far too long and the protection against flu like illnesses is variable over time. What do you think?
mratsim is right that the solution is to just improve the code-generation for the existing intrinsics. Given that the intrinsics already exist in GCC, optimising the code is the right way to handle it. (Intrinsics still have their usual obvious downsides, mainly non-portability.)

JIT seems a poor fit. JIT makes the most sense where the desired program behaviour is variable. Intrinsics fit perfectly here.

Templates don't help solve the problem, but they might be a good way to expose the functionality to C++ programmers.

Assembly is how you'd solve the problem efficiently in the absence of a compiler intrinsic. Intrinsics should be able to do an even better job.
That still causes shortages. It's just increasing the ultimate gray market resale price.

Looking at potential death puts gray market buyers in a weak negotiating position.
No. There are anti-competitive laws that prevent the federal institutions to prop up a tax-funded competition to commercial products, unless specifically allowed/mandated by law.
The real problem is the nanny state approach that gates all innovation. If thousands die because you're too slow, it's considered just a mistake, not a fundamental policy error. Leave your people be.

Set up an 'accredited investor' model, if you must gate survival to the resourceful, for non-contaminating drug use and human self-experimentation. Release intelligent people from your prison of so-called safety.

When you centralize response, you open yourself to takeover errors. No different from Mao advising you to make iron in your backyards is a bunch of error-prone individuals forcing you to not make your own tests. "Let us take care of it. You really can't" they say as they botch the job. Again.

Let those who want your slow responses have your slow responses. Stick your labels on your drugs. For the rest of us, leave us be to build the things we will build better than you.

People will argue the trivial problem. They'll blame it on the President and his administration. But the CDC did not meaningfully change policy (though they did lose their pandemic response team - whoops). Nor did the FDA. The President's incompetence is a today problem, the CDC's is forever.
https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/ferqv1/how_could_s...
"Everyone" isn't a sane and rational monolith. There are crazy and psychopathic people.
I actually really appreciate companies that produce research and write articles on technologies adjacent to their business. It's a great way of building trust and a community around the business' core product. Digital Ocean are a good example. Reminds me of Patrick Collison mentioning on a podcast [0] that one of the biggest drivers of new customers to Stripe in their early days was a blog they wrote on using the Python debugger.

[0] https://tim.blog/2018/12/20/patrick-collison/
It's clear to me from the way the government officials talk on TV that they mostly care about limiting the amount of damage to their political careers. It's an election year, so everyone seems to be focused on blaming someone else when things go wrong, and trying to take credit for when things go right.

The most we can do as individuals is take steps to protect ourselves and our communities. I wouldn't count on the government to step in and save us.

The virus doesn't carry a passport, doesn't care who's president, and doesn't care about your nationality. It also doesn't care what the tax rate is, whether stocks go up or down, or what your net worth is.
Perl smart match IS a disaster, we fought with lot of bad smart-match behavior for a while in the late 2000s, then educated programmers over and over on how to do smart matching just to see how the Perl community and the language took action to deprecate most of it. We then dove into 100k+ lines of code to remove all smart matching entirely, including all `when` clauses. To me that's the definition of a disaster for a programming language.

Pattern matching is a can of worms in the way people think these should work and the way compilers implement them. It holds unexpected behavior in so many ways and it's not at all about language abuse, but about giving a tool that is prone to misunderstanding and flimsy enough for programmers to shoot themselves and others in the foot. And it's not the same pattern matching in Haskell (which is fine) that it is in ES (where it's not).

Fortunately the TC39 proposal looks somewhat stalled and you can already see in the Babel plugin and proposal discussion questions on why or how this does or does not do behavior X, Y or Z or how syntax should be implemented. This is a bad sign on how pattern matching can be confusing, but then maybe this may be a sign it never gets past stage 1. Here are a few soundbites from the proposal:

when true -> ... // ok, if x === true
when undefined -> ... // not ok, this creates a local var called "undefined"
when Infinity -> ... // ok, if x === Infinity
when -Infinity -> ... // Syntax error!
when /.*/ -> ... // not ok, unsupported, surprise surprise.
when {x} = {x:1} -> ... // great, we check if x exists and set a value on it if it doesn't?!?!
when {status = 200} if (status === 200) -> ... // left as an exercise for the reader

Now I just love this one, as it just subsumes many of my concerns:

const y = 2;
case (1) { // matching on a value itself, lovely
when y if (y === 2) -> 'does not match', // y is (re)created locally for the if!
when x if (x === 1) -> 'x is 1' // you're a psycho if you write code like this
}

Now, I must confess I do like matching on types as they can substitute method dispatching elegantly and should be simple to understand and implement, but this is more suited for typed languages, not ES. Same for basic parameter existence as a destructuring dispatch for arrays and objects. But never on value, ranges (`[1..=x]` - yuck, Rust!) or anything more complex.
In my (German) opinion, the court did a great job by stating only that they need ads in general but leaving the amount undetermined.

Most likely, the DWD will show a one-time ad to everyone activating the free weather service. Most likely, they can even make it 5 minutes of uninterrupted ads, because everyone knows that it's a one-time thing and it's easy enough to ignore your phone for 5 minutes if you can choose the time when the ad plays.

And afterwards, the DWD has realized a year worth of ad revenue per user and is free to provide the service for free and ad free like they used to.

So while technically WetterOnline won, it won't have much consequences.

That said, I myself am a paid subscriber for WetterOnline because their worldwide real-time radar videos are super helpful, and the German weather service obviously provides data only for Germany. So I'm not really sure why they felt the need to sue in the first place.
- AMD and Intel

- C# and Java

More generally of course, healthy competition is good. There are more than 2 serious Java IDEs, for instance.
No. In fact they just revised their testing criteria and will not test most people who are asked to quarantine at home. Testing is expected for people who have acute respiratory illness, people who are hospitalized, health care workers handling these cases, and immune-compromised people with mild symptoms.
I wonder how many y2k deniers are there.
'Don't Panic' Is Rotten Advice
> I can't help but wonder where I would be now if I had focus from the last 5 years instead of chasing 'whatever excited me'.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is now.

Stop wondering about what might have been and start thinking about what can be! So long as you have your health, the future brims with possibilities. If now is the time for focused attention on hard things, then make the time for that, focus, and improve your abilities.

Judging by some of your past comments, you have successfully reinvented yourself before. You're smart and experienced. Have fun with uncertainty and try to find adventure in your life once again.

(I know you didn't ask for this advice—truth be told, I think it's advice I'm giving myself, because I too find myself at a crossroads. Good luck!)
https://archive.is/xZmaU
if you're asking "was the money well spent?" then I'm sure it was as well spent as usual, i.e. mistakes got made, a percentage was wasted and some contractors made very good rates. But in the end we got there.

If you asking "would it be better to have done nothing?" then I would have to say No, of course not. What are you thinking?
I respect your viewpoint. I look at it more as a modern form of "you can go outside to play when your homework is done". Parenting is really hard in March 2020. Many of us are working at home and our children are glued to their ipads watching who knows what on youtube. Many parents can't be 100% present during work hours.
I'm curious about the Whitney where/replicate monastic operator, and how it replaces 6 or 7 APL operators. My Google-fu was not up to the task.
I had Al Viro CC'd on the emails when I sent it to linux-fsdevel. Are you saying I should send it to him again, directly? (The patch, for reference: https://github.com/saagarjha/linux/commit/4867a403decc364c8b.... I figured I should also take this opportunity to check to make sure there's nothing wrong with it that might cause it to be ignored.)
Does ICC have any traction in the gaming world?
Don't watch mainstream media TV coverage, find some reputable, independent journalists to watch instead.
Tonic water can contain up to 83mg/L actual quinine. Three 2L bottles of tonic water could get you 500mg, a therapeutic dose of quinine. Unfortunately, I have not found any place that manufacturers note how much quinine is in their tonic water.
> We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 14 days before.

This seems seriously flawed to the point of being outright stupid and irresponsible to spread in my opinion.

They basically assume the number of confirmed infections 14 days ago better represents the real number of infections on that date than the number of confirmed infections today. That does not seem right.

1. Infected persons test positive for the virus only after it breaks out, so the number of confirmed cases is always lagging behind the real number of infections.

2. As they mention in the article, but choose to ignore, a large number of infected people are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms and will usually not be tested. The UK government yesterday assumed the real number of infections to be 10-20x higher than the number of confirmed cases. [1]

So taking the - IMHO still valid - approximation of 2-3% mortality rate for confirmed COVID-19 cases and considering the assumption of an infection rate 10-20x higher than the number of confirmed cases, the real mortality rate should be in the ballpark of 0.2%.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...
‘ This, to my ears, is when you began actually doing the work for yourself, by yourself, stopped believing in some shortcut-magic trick in any one book however classic or popular.’

I would say that’s a wrong reading of what I said. But take what you will. It’s simple, I actually just stopped trying so damn hard. Nothing fancy or crazy.

The way you are talking about self-change makes it sound really toiling and gruesome, almost too serious. That is not what I really mean.

Just you know, enjoying daily life having good meals and such. Not taking myself too seriously. Reading less. Just going about. Indulging in laziness and entertainment.

So I don’t believe in some other version of self-help (like you are presuming). I just do whatever I feel like and say whatever feels right. I don’t have high goals, I am just living day-to-day with some aspirations.
I think this article sums up quite effectively the differences between now and then:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/coronavirus-re...
Just use a temp / fake address then ;-p
> It is only in the last few years that it has become common to question the veracity of disaster averted through effort.

No, it isn't. Questioning whether Y2K was overhyped started before Jan. 1, 2000 and accelerated on Jan
1, 2000 when there weren't major breakdowns. If you are too good at mitigating a problem before it manifests, there's a good chance lots of people will doubt there was a problem to mitigate. On the other hand, if it's a sui generis problem like Y2K, it's by definition too late for their doubts to impact mitigation efforts for the one potential occurrence, so it doesn't matter all that much. For a recurring problem, where those doubts can impact preparedness for the next potential occurrence, that's a bigger challenge.
Maybe. Not legal expert, but if I remember well, they public broadcasting services were sued (?) for having to many paid commercials.

So I could at least imagine the DWD being attacked if they sell their app for 10 cents or so.
> Because they are overwhelmed Italian hospitals basically send people home if they have a fever or other symptoms with no test administered,

Sources, please.

> only people having trouble breathing being admitted in the ICU.

Well, why would you put someone without respiratory failure in an ICU to egin with?

Also, Italy performs 1 test per 1000 people [1]. Surely there are more cases than the reported ones, but 10 times? I am no statistician, but wouldn't it require extreme bad luck to miss so many cases with such extensive testing?

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/
Even after configuring and building a linux kernel for your hardware, it's going to be over one megabyte object code.

What's dishonest is pretending it can be compared with a microkernel's, nevermind seL4, size.
Researchers create focus-free camera with new flat lens