skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeseer automation software has this built in, with client listening apps for different platforms. I haven't used the voice recognition beyond testing, but I've been very happy with the software overall. It's relatively expensive, but goes on sale for about half price once or twice a year. There's a free 30 day trial.

I think there's two id phrases per sub-device by default, but using virtual devices vastly expands the software's capability. Especially for mapping virtual switches to multiple devices.

They also have zwave devices that for the most part are much better than most.

https://www.homeseer.com
Not being from New York, it was hard for me to comprehend how much political power the police union has there. Dating someone from there, and by extension taking a passing interest in the city's politics, it has been eye-opening to see how much influence their protests exert over the mayor's office/political process more broadly.
Or you could present them with the classic cognitive reflection question: A lake has one lily pad. Every day the number of lily pads doubles. After fifty days the lake is completely covered by lily pads. How many days did it take to cover half the lake with lily pads?
You know those doctors office toys with the matrix of pins that you stick your face into? Imagine one of those as the board where the pieces "emerge" up out of it.
That lasted for a few days in Italy and then they shut it all down anyway. But more people got infected in the meantime!
Our Singapore office started working from home at beginning of Feb. Everyone in the office here (10 people) have very very young kids, or is pregnant. Don’t want anyone in the team getting sick and making their kids sick. Family is always more important than work. So everyone is working from home till this thing blows over.
We went ahead and have all employees working remote for at least the next week and we will be evaluating the situation each week. I struggle with this decision as well feeling like maybe this is an overreaction but the reality is we should be able to function remotely and if doing so can help then we should do it. I’m optimistic our actions will help slow the spread
> I'm always confused why people eg buy in to TypeScript, when for me the entire point of using JavaScript is its portability and ubiquity

Javascript's ubiquity and portability does not change the fact that on its own, it is a pretty bad programming language. There are a plethora of reasons to choose Typescript, most prominently is the much much better development experience Typescript give you.

I'm not sure if you've used Typescript, but using Typescript still gives you the portability and ubiquity of javascript because all it does is compile down to Javascript.
This is what happened in China.

People in Wuhan heard the quarantine was coming and hundreds of thousand fled.

Then, everyone was forced to stay together without access to medical supplies due to the quarantine. That is why the fatality rate was so much higher in Wuhan.

If China hadn’t arrested the whistle blowers, the situation would be a lot different.
Throughout the years, it has always been an inspiration to read up on Stephen K Roberts adventures! If you haven't yet, I strongly recommend exploring the rest of his website: https://microship.com/
Are you kidding?

You should have implemented WoH weeks ago. Thinking whether or not doing it now is a disservice to all humanity and a testament of why we have reached this situation as a society.
WFH. Do it now. Individual actions have outsized impact in the face of exponential growth.

The problem is twice as hard every time the number of cases doubles. If you don't want to work from home for many months, start working from home now.

Working from home isn't as bad as it seems. Modern collaboration tools are great. Our research group and wider laboratory have gotten into the swing of things within a week.
I was being less technical with my terminology for a layperson audience - but to clarify - these are derived from induced stem cells, which are cells engineered to go back into a stem type state, which means they're basically induced to be cancers. These are not zygotes from germline fells formed in the niche where they are supported to differentiate correctly etc. IPSCs are not embryonic stem cells, and even ESC derived stem cell lines have been growing so long in culture that they do not behave like germline cells. And even then, the method of differentiation and control is not what happens in normal development, we're sending them different pathways. Turning somatic cells into stem cells is fundamentally giving them the ability to proliferate, and their failure to differentiate into the cells we want shows a failure to control them. Like I said, this is a known problem and one with significant investment behind it as people are finding better and better ways to isolate artificial pancreases to prevent the (currently) inevitable carcinogenesis of these ipsc derived cells
Why not work from home? Are your employees not able to get their job done remotely?

The right thing to do from every perspective is close your office. If any of your employees is has a risk factor and dies of covid you will spend the rest of your life wondering if you could have prevented it - trust me I know.
An airplane at altitude doesn't blot out stars. Optical sensors are nearly useless, especially against a black aircraft at night.
It is still hard to grasp that the entire human civilization will be infected with this not yet fully understood virus.

What if it makes everyone infertile?
Real Children of Men scenario.

The measures taken are optimistic, but when everything is one the line, you have to make pessimistic decisions. First avoid human extinction.

Making bets with human kind as the wager are immoral in the highest order.
They declared it a global emergency because it would turn into a pandemic (which has an actual definition and criteria that weren’t met) in January. People ignored them and they were right and were forced to declare it a pandemic a month later.
If they're making this statement based only on the cases they know about, then the argument is even stronger if there are more cases.
i wish more countries did randomized testing over its whole population, or extensive testing, like SK.
As an Italian, I raise my eyebrows every time China is mentioned as an example for the successful containment of this virus.

It could do that because it could afford to take the economical hit and because it is an authoritarian state, which means you can get almost everyone to obey, in one way or another. Also, the Chinese Party is what caused this mess to begin with, by allowing this virus to spread all around the world.

Why on Earth is this a good model?

Undoubtedly for the safety of citizens, but even with all the people shouting about a "fascist revolution" going on with the previous government, it only took three orders to strip everyone of most of their freedoms without anyone batting an eye (especially since no one knows for how long, the April 3rd date is a joke).

Quarantining is probably inevitable (although it won't help the overloaded ICUs until two weeks from now, so more capacity will always be needed), but following rules in place in an outbreak does not mean one should not question their principles.

And this letter should be sent to the media and the government, since both can't even understand an exponential, or basic statistics (even with the so-called "peak" reached, cases will keep on increasing until recoveries are due).

Personally I'd like fast-tracking of anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs instead (those are the ones which will get out of this mess, quarantining is just flattening the curve, although immensely beneficial), along with setting up place for non-intensive care COVID-19 patients. Every ICU bed freed is a victory.
> The move to launch “shielding” of the elderly and infirm and “whole family isolation” is an escalation since Thursday, when the government said that only individuals with a persistent dry cough or temperature should stay at home for seven days.

Paywall, sorry, but from:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-death-toll-le...
> Your typical T1 will prefer insulin therapy over immunosuppressants.

Me and me father both have T1 and he has received transportation of beta cells. Only because he was already on immune suppressants. I'll take insulin every day for the rest of my life happily if I never end up with his general health issues.
Maybe Italy is a worst case, both because it didn't quarantine early enough, and because greater population inversion.

> It's now a well-established fact that older people and those with underlying health issues are more susceptible to succumbing to Covid-19. With 23 percent Italians aged 65 or above and a median age of 47.3, the Italian population is the oldest in Europe. This is chiefly responsible for the high fatality rate in Italy.[0]

Also these articles.[1,2] And similar to the age effect in China.

0) https://www.ibtimes.sg/fatality-rate-7-16-why-coronavirus-de...

1) https://nypost.com/2020/03/12/heres-why-the-coronavirus-deat...

2) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/03/italy-elderly-...
It takes time (several months) for islet cells to get destroyed by the body. That's the origin of the "Honeymoon phase" experienced by some t1ds after diagnosis. So successful islet cell transplants last for a few months; at the beginning, the patient is nearly cured, and then their islet cells are slowly destroyed by the body. So the appeal of stem cell treatment is that you get a single booster of islet cells every couple months. No nasty immunosuppressants required, because the body doesn't reject stem cells crafted from its own cloth.
Wow, very interesting! That sounds like a somewhat significant change, and I wonder how much stuff will be broken by it.

Although interestingly somehow I'm still seeing the old behavior in Debian Buster with glibc 2.28 with python3.

import sys
while True:
b = sys.stdin.read(1)
print(repr(b))

With old glibc with both python2 and python3 the EOF isn't sticky (as expected). With 2.28 with python2 the EOF is sticky (like you said). With 2.28 with python3 it's not sticky for some reason.
The CDC can’t dictate state policies. These are executive decisions that the CDC can only strongly advise on.
Coronavirus age-specific fatality ratio
Exactly, they should have gone all-in and shut it down.
>Isn’t that the whole point of a lockdown?

You will need a Lockdown AND Mask, or you will simply just need Mask and not even lockdown. I would argue social distancing only is not enough. But somehow even people in Italy refuse to wear mask. So I think a culture issue is also a problem there.
The spread may appear low in your city, but how much of that is from lack of testing? If your employees can work from home, it is best for you to implement work from home ASAP.

Businesses in Washington State have shuttered or gone to work from home over the last 3 weeks, had most businesses made this change earlier(eg: at the beginning of those 3 weeks) we would see much less spread and quicker easing of restrictions.

Is Alberta doing widespread Covid-19 testing yet? We had cases of teens with no international travel getting Covid-19 in February according to the Seattle Flu Study, there are likely more cases in Edmonton that exhibit minimal symptoms currently.

Seattle Flu Study: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
> the spread in our city is quite low for now

If you’re in the United States, where testing has been infuriatingly limited, the fact of the matter is you have no idea what the spread in your community is. The numbers aren’t low because nobody has the virus, they’re low because nobody has been tested. If we did actual testing, they might come in low or they might come in high, who knows. As it stands, nobody has any real idea just how bad the spread is here. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Given that, the safest course is to assume the spread is high, and act accordingly.
> You selfish god damn child.

Classy! Congrats on the age milestone, apparently not all personality traits develop at the same rate for everyone, but I'm confident you'll get there ;)

> If you willfully ignore science and assume that you alone can maintain your lifestyle through a global crisis, you lose your right to blame boomers for climate change.

There's clearly a lot more to this than that. It's not about continuing to maintain my lifestyle, there's community benefits to continuing to spend money, continuing to engage with folks, and there's obviously some debate as the UK's proposal illustrates, so it's not nearly as black and white as you make it out to be.

There is, however, no debate in re: climate change.
Calculating pi by hand the Isaac Newton way
> Today there was an article [1] that some idiot that was in quarantine left it and was arrested on the street. There is no discipline.

Hopefully he/she was nabbed quickly, without spreading the disease to anyone else. Is Isreal using electronic tagging on those quarantined folks to ensure that they can't just leave their assigned place without anyone knowing about it?
Nothing in this letter is inaccurate or goes against what the scientific experts have been saying. When you say "experts," you're really talking about the bureaucrats and politicians who get to make these decisions and have been too hesitant to ramp up testing and quarantine measures.
Just like China, there was a time when Italy had 1 case, then 2 cases, then 4, etc. Italy was unable to stop the spread before reaching a huge level and spreading to other countries.

Why blame China for "allowing this virus to spread all around the world" when Italy allowed the same?

(Italy even had a warning that it was coming!)
Netflix is DRM'd anyway so it's a non-starter. Try taking a screenshot of a Netflix stream. Not many people realize it'll just result in black pixels for that area.
The first case only just made its way to our city a couple of days ago. We have been rather distracted of course by getting signatures and cheques. For context, our schools and daycares are still open, as are city rec centers, gyms, and public transit. Only yesterday did the province recommend no gatherings over 250 people. Perhaps we should have been quicker, but here we are.
The whistleblower (who was a doctor and was 30+ something) died from covid,when death rate of covid for young adults is super low.

Very very suspicious.
> the bulge on the Earth induced by the Sun exerts a torque on the Sun

There's a further point here, though. The torque exerted on the Moon by the bulge is constant over time, because the position of the Moon relative to the bulge is constant (the bulge "leads" the Moon by a constant angle which is the result of a balance between the torque on the bulge exerted by the Moon and the pull on the bulge exerted by the Earth's spin). But the position of the Sun relative to the bulge is not constant: it goes through a complete cycle over the course of a month. So it seems to me that, at least to first order, the net torque of the bulge on the Sun over the course of a month should cancel out, so there will be no net exchange of angular momentum between the Earth's spin and the Sun-Earth orbit.
I've seen comments here trying to play down the message or discredit the signatories of this letter. Don't.

Please take it seriously. This is not sensationalism.

What the letter means is that if your country is not there yet, you might be DAYS away from widespread panic and total lock down.

I'm writing this from Barcelona, Spain. This last Sunday, 6 days ago, I went on a walk with my girlfriend, had a nice lunch, took beautiful pictures...

The virus was just some nagging news.. A couple of hundred people infected somewhere far away.

6 days later, we're at over 6000 infections, the country is in total lock down.

Same pattern as Italy (even faster), we're just a couple of days away before tens of thousands is reached.
This is what exponential growth means.
Herd immunity and keeping the total infected at any one time to a manageable level is the end game everywhere. I think the difference you are seeing is a difference of opinion over how extreme the measures need to be to keep the total infected from overwhelming the hospitals. It's possible that moderate measures early might be enough clearly if you wait too long more extreme measures definitely seem to be necessary.
Most comments here raise excellent points.

One more in the mix: Many companies in many countries are working on vaccines and cures. So far some are reporting moderate successes; as I understand it, those with the experience to tell seem to think odds are pretty decent there'll be some sort of vaccine available within a span of a year, maybe sooner.

Whether corona infections 'outpace' the time when a vaccine will be generally available depends a lot on how long it'll take to get a vaccine out the door, but presumably a ton of resources (and a lot of leeway on relaxing regulations) are spent on this, as well as exactly how fast corona spreads.

If it spreads very fast, all of this 'planned herd immunity' stuff is nonsense, all the taps you can close should be closed and stay closed and it'll still spread. The UK would be mismanaging this and should be closing more facilities.

If it doesn't, then the UK is probably mismanaging this, in that it'd be better to try to slow the spread because the end game is the vaccine.

Effectively then, they appear to be betting on a creative and untested solution that they more or less have to keep secret because it doesn't work well if it is generally known, which requires accurate forecasts from lethality rates amongst various parts of the public to spread rates in circumstances that are probably unique to the UK then, if they are the only country to go with this plan, __whilst__ betting that the vaccine solution is not going to be fruitful for a long long time.

I'm going with 'insane' on this one.
What's wrong with just a real language as a build system? Speaking for Scala, everyone just uses sbt, which is just Scala. Nothing special about it. I'm not saying you should use Scala to compile your C project, but maybe we could settle on some Lisp dialect or something for compilation, regardless of the language? That would seem ideal to me. Programmers in general have this problem of creating non-turing complete shit to solve problems that require turing completeness. And sometimes it gets worse: first a non turing complete language is created and then when it finally becomes necessary, some loops and shit are grafted on (or a shell script is called in the middle). It's a mess.
You can’t fast track things past what they’ve already been fast tracked. Stop second guessing the experts. What is the use of a hurried vaccine tomorrow if next month it turns out to cause birth defects or global infertility or cancer.
Circular motion about a crank produces a precise sinusoidal waveform.
Triage, i.e. if you show up and have any condition that reduces your chances of survival you are not treated at all. Palliative care only.
Also the government, despite sounding enlightened and getting most of the praise of the press, is locking everyone up with exceptional measures, but still goes the bureaucratic way to procure respirators (which are essential in the current emergency, and they are needed now, not in the two weeks required for the lockdown to show any effect) and masks (either useless because not certified for medical use, or stuck in a warehouse due to "missing authorizations").

At this point my region (Lombardia) appointed someone with the sole task of getting an emergency hospital up in Milano to house more patients, doing whatever it takes. Hopefully this will help.
> The virus is spreading at maximum speed,

How do you determine scientifically the 'maximum' speed that a virus could be spreading?
I don't disagree with this, but I do feel like there is some benefit to movement within different niches of engineering. I've been on teams where someone who, while being an experienced engineer, was new to the stack or hadn't worked on a project like ours, and they brought new ideas/technologies to the table simply because they were so excited to look for them—i.e. the "Wow!" factor of stepping into a new space. To agree with you, however, I've only ever seen this among engineers who had a strong general base. I've personally been the junior who tried to solve the halting problem :)
Sorry you felt like that was corporate shilling. This is a problem we see people hit often and have built something to improve the experience, so it felt worth sharing. If it helps, we're a 2 person team (hardly a corporation) and we received YC's Startup School grant last year, for whatever that's worth on their forums.

I do mean it that I'm happy to talk about anything smart home related, so feel free to email me! I spend a lot of my time helping people plan out their smart home build from scratch, including choosing between types of light switches, thermostats, platform, etc unrelated to our sensors.
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I see this a lot at work unfortunately and this is for major companies its seems that the idea of having specs or requirements in a properly versioned documents is something completely alien.
> 10% of all people that got the virus?

This one. FTR, there's an additional 5% from this 10%, IIRC, which experiences multi-organ failure and dies within a few days.
I disagree. Respond when you have time not when the micro-manager ask about trivia.

Managers should be looking on results of someone work not what you type or when. This is one of the things that piss me in the tech industry, Incompetent managers using tools like the end of year feedback, number of hours spent in office or culture fit to decide if someone is perfoming well.
You want to hear another one ?

I am working with a digital native. This week we are supposed to write a small blog post about collaborative tools. He joined the team 9 months ago and it's the first time we ever work on something together. We share a google drive with 3 other members. I ask him to create the doc, we'll start working on it.

He creates it, starts working on it then shares the link in messenger.

Link doesn't work, I don't have access. Curious, as I am the one who created the drive. Well, I ask him to add me to the collaborators (maybe he created without sharing). He can't, doesn't find where to update the doc permissions.

I understand he created the file outside our shared folder. He doesn't get how to move it from his folder to our folder.

He's 23, fresh out of uni., working as a marketing/digital consultant, writing a blog post about collaborative tools but can't figure out how to share a doc.

I concede google drive UI is a trainwreck but still.
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...

Start reading at "2. What Will Happen When These Coronavirus Cases Materialize?"
The last part urges lockdowns like China and South Korea but my understanding is that South Korea has not been doing lockdowns and instead was able to ramp up testing quickly and isolate infected from others. Is that incorrect?
>end up like Martin Shkreli

fabulously wealthy and with a hot russian girlfriend?
Its also a barrier to working in a professional job in a lot of cases.
I haven't checked too closely, but surely the age distribution of conservative voters is such that if they are so callous as to treat corona as a convenient boomer remover, they torpedo their own re-election chances.

So, _even if_ you ascribe to the current UK government a conspiracy-esque, cold as nails approach to just effectively _murder whole boatloads of older folks_, it doesn't actually make sense: Who would they be so cold as to just casually acquiesce to a solution that results in a lot of death, but they are still human enough to care about the country first and are willing to sacrifice the electoral future of their party?

I'm on 'do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity', modifying it slightly to 'incompetence'.