skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This work is inspiring and ground breaking. I can see a lot of text description => X solutions coming up in the future. Absolutely awesome work!
A Letter from a Heart-Broken iOS Developer
Does detectable mean likely to cause infection or just that if can stills be found in a lab setting?
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Well, that is a good example of an assignment you'd do at your local university and wouldn't get assigned at Stanford.
that's not a linked list problem, it's "passing a mutable object around" problem.

there are immutable non-linked list datastructures (the most obvious one in python are tuples)
I really wish those loyalty cards were actually tied to my credit card. I’m tired of having to type my phone number into the system each time I buy groceries (with the same credit card).
> where dependencies will be put into zips and checked into git.

Nice! I didn't know that, but I'm heavily in favor of that move. Yarn's handling of lockfiles even in version 1 is kind of just in general better than NPM's.

I agree with pretty much all of the recommendations they're giving at that link, particularly around avoiding install scripts.

> Current SASS implementation is made in Dart.

Unfortunately, the majority of Node projects still default to `node-sass` instead of `sass`. But you're correct, the `sass` package is what I recommend people use in most cases.
Based on what? According to the Bloomberg article -

”As of March 17, 17 people under 50 had died from the disease. All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.”

They reached maxed capacity of beds or ventilators right? We read stories of doctors having to make life & death decisions. Where are the dead 18 year olds?

Spreading info like that on a hunch, or an exaggeration, is counterproductive if not damaging.
Ah, I misunderstood.
Also:

Pidgin

Xabber

Konversation

OpenMeetings

Asterisk

Thunderbird
I wish I could upvote this about 50 more times.
How counterproductive.
The thing is, as far as we have to deal with in the real world, there is nothing such as an absolutely isolated system. To my mind, self-reference only occurs in an interpretation, thus in the frame of some actions, which are only possible in a world where changes happen, most likely changing the frame of interpretation itself.
I seem to recall that many of the victims of the pandemic in 1918 may have succumbed to acetaminophen overdoses, and not the flu itself.
Is there a difference between "detectable" and "infectious"?
> First, we pause all fixed financial obligation

Keyword: all. That includes landlords' financial obligation to their landlords. And their landlords. And their landlords. And their landlords. Ad infinitum.
Madras and Muslin Meet Europe
Detectable means it can still be found in a lab setting. However I'd go ahead and treat that as the infection line as well for safety reasons.
Low interest rates are the biggest culprit in this. Low interest rates have given these CEOs to borrow money to pump their stocks. Had interest rates been higher, say 6 percent, (a) these CEOs wouldn't have borrowed money to pump their stock, and (b) many investors would not have invested 60 to 90 percent of their portfolio in stocks. Another consequence of these low interest rates is (c) the inflation of real estate in many markets. That means, the middle class (say, employees of FAANG types) have loved this gravy train. Politicians, as a class, have benefited from this: inflated equities; inflated real estate. Greenspan, Bernanke, Yellen, Powell and the political class (both Democrats and Republicans) have all contributed to this.

People who invested in index funds fared better than hedge funds. And there was no real price discovery thanks to Fed put; even many small hedge funds closed their shops when they couldn't beat ETFs based on indices like SPY, VOO, QQQ, etc.

Now both bonds and stocks are crashing, as the commercial paper becomes junk.
The mention of setuid thing for storing personal secrets seemed a little odd, so I looked at the code. It seems the only thing that has been updated recently is the README and Makefile. scache.c has a few things that trip up new C programmers. A read of some resources on secure C programming is advised. A good place to start is:

https://security.web.cern.ch/security/recommendations/en/cod...

The program checks to ensure it is running setuid. In that context the following are particularly dangerous:

- The path to the cache file is determined by looking at the HOME environment variable. Anyone that is calling that can set HOME to whatever they want, causing the cache file to be created in or deleted from any directory. It's better to use getpwuid(getuid()) to find the home directory of the running user.

- The use of stat() (instead of lstat()) and fopen() (instead of open() with O_CREAT|O_EXCL) opens the door to symlink attacks. This can allow creation of arbitrary files.

- popen() is used without clearing the environment. I think that most systems clear particularly dangerous environment variables from setuid programs (e.g. LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH) but there could be others (documented or not) that influence the behavior of the program called by popen() in a way that can be exploited by an attacker. Generally, a privileged program will drop privileges and sanitize the environment before calling subprocesses. popen() is not a rich enough interface to make that easy.

There are other smaller issues (e.g. memory leaks, unclear handling of buffer sizes, failure to check returns from functions that could fail, etc.). Additionally, if home directories are on NFS, it is quite unlikely that this program will be able to create the file with root ownership ("root squash"). I don't immediately see how these could be exploited.

Another comment mentions a bunch of prior art. Those are probably better things to be looking at than trying to invent something new in this space.
That being said, there are a number of interesting concepts that the author needed to explore to get to this point. Hopefully this comment is helpful in understanding some next steps to take in understanding some of the pitfalls of C programming and setuid.

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This seems like a weird complaint - basically everywhere in programming two variables/functions/classes/etc with different names are different things. I'd be much more surprised if appending a ' to a function name did nothing in haskell.

> When you could have just called it foldl and moved the old one to the deprecated module.

1. Most people aren't a fan of randomly changing existing library functions

2. The lazy (non-prime) version of foldl isn't useless! There's even a section at the end of the post explaining how this post _only applies to lists_ and that with other data structures foldl and foldr' are actually useful.
No, the high dimensional field takes 12 hours and the time to render the field to an image is not going to matter for robotics where computer vision needs to be done in real time.
We're about to get quite the stress test.

It feels like we're living through an accelerated version of the disintegration of the western Roman empire. In a matter of a few weeks, decades worth of globalisation has screeched to a halt. It's hard to imagine the borders reopening to anything like their pre-COVID-19 state until a treatment is found or a vaccine.
The exponential function is a terrifying beast. Any alternatives we don't know now are irrelevant. There is a reason why NYC is bracing for impact: a tsunami of new cases are about to slam into the healthcare system.

Usually Hacker News middlebrow skepticism is just in poor taste. On this topic, it is foolish and farcical. One of our doctor friends is already telling us that her hospital is under stress and she's not in one of the hardest hit states.
> They reached maxed capacity of beds or ventilators right?

They just started to reach max capacity, and not in every region, every hospital at the same time...
Do other malaria drugs also have potential for attacking COVID-19; ie Malarone (Atovaquone + Proquanil 250/100mm tab)? If also supplemented with Zinc?
TLDR; yes.

Nuanced Answer: it depends, but probably yes.
Just heard they tested wfh for employees for a week probably as a publicity stunt and are making everyone return to the office come Monday with no definite plans to allow cloud/software engineers to work from home in the immediate future. There are a lot of older employees in that company. This is really unacceptable! The CEO was paid $98M in 2016 while the employees saw very little compensation gains. There was a strike for 5 months in 2017 to protest. It’s clear where their priorities lie...
Setting up Vim for YAML editing
Nice link. I've been learning more about string processing for search via research papers, but began with Suffix Trees. I just started looking at the slides here and looks easily digestible: http://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs166/cs166.1196/le...
It's not just old people though. Infants. Immunocompromised individuals. People with asthma. People undergoing chemotherapy.

The narrative that this disease only affects the economically unproductive is dangerous at best, and inhumane at worst.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/

Looks fairly exponential to me. (log y axis) And that's just confirmed cases.
And there are always ventilators becoming available and patients getting triaged for their order in line (if there is a line).
Machine Learning Benchmarking: You’re Doing It Wrong
Iriun (https://iriun.com/) works well for me on OS X with a Xiaomi Mi A2 lite running Android 9. There's also versions of the required drivers for Windows and Linux available. Used it with Skype for Business and Blackboard Collaborate Ultra so far.
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There's an eternal tug of war about which stories belong on HN's front page. No one is ever pleased; frontpage space is the scarcest resource HN has [1], so there's never enough for the topics one is interested in [2].

The principles we try to apply are the "significant new information" test for major ongoing stories [3], and optimizing for intellectual curiosity [4]. One thing we don't do routinely is moderate by which stories are most important in the world. There are always many things going on that are far more important than the topics that appear on HN. If importance were a leading factor, HN would become a regular news site and cease to exist as HN. Important stories tend to drown out the quieter, odder, or deeper ones that gratify curiosity. HN is mostly a site for the latter. That's how a biography of George Gershwin can be at the top of the front page in the middle of a global pandemic.

In practice, a crisis like this is inevitably going to show up on HN a lot. But it will show up in unpredictable ways (because predictability is the enemy of curiosity), not like it does on a regular news site.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22527396, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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Vaccines are at least a year away. In order of most to least likely to work:

1. Chloroquine is hepotoxic and since cytokine storms is already one of the way covid19 leads to death there is a lot of question whether chloroquine can actually help (in terms of aggregate effect on CFR).

2. Remdesivir didn't work for ebola (original target) and there is no reason to think it would work for covid19.

3. Favipiravir shows activity against many viruses (SARS-CoV-2 included), but doesn't actually reduce mortality for other viral illnesses (unknown for convid19).

Key to understand, many things show activity with the virus but don't actually improve the disease progression.
TSMC was moving at a half node speed financed by the smartphone boom. Currently they offer 5nm, 6nm, 7nm, 10nm, 12nm, 16nm, 20nm, 22nm, 28nm and larger lithography. There was and still is ample competition, Samsung not the least.

Intel tried to be aggressive in moving ahead with full nodes and has grown complacent because it had no competition on the CPU market. When their aggressive bet didn't work out they were caught pants down.
Checkout AirSend(https://www.airsend.io). It brings team chat, built-in file, task management and notes in one space. One big downside of slack/team is that they are built for team communication within the organization. But if you want work with clients they are not as good (need to switch the workspace and select the channel). AirSend is good for both internal and external communication.
I totally support Tyler Cowen and think he should keep thinking that.
No, but it's something every software developer understands is necessary in every system every day.
sure but IIRC the performance characteristics of manipulating python tuples ultimately way worse if you need to change the contents of the list, by say, prepending, or trimming, or whatever. This is no fun in python:

def f(some_tuple):
part_one = take_the_last_three_parts_of_the_tuple(some_tuple)
part_two = append_to_self(part_one)
part_three = tail(part_two)

etc.
How can I profit from the Corona virus?
Yeah, I enable autopilot when I need to adjust the ac/music or switch from my glasses to sunglasses, because (on the roads I normally drive on) it does a decent job staying in the lane.

Also, in traffic, I’ve been finding Autopilot/adaptive cruise control to be really great for enabling me to pay more attention to the cars around me, because I spend a lot less energy worrying about the speed of the car in front of me and following the curves of the road.
“ Crime analysts don't doubt that Ring has prevented crimes -- but that's a far different assertion to make than that the doorbells have actually reduced the crime rate, Asher said.”

Huh?
Please qualify the "very" in "very hepatotoxic."

I hear beer and wine are hepatotoxic too.

That's why I take milk thistle (silymarin).

I assume the Koreans are all taking silymarin with their chloroquine, which is why they aren't dying en masse from liver failure, right?
> It simply isn't possible to shut down the economy and then pay people, businesses to sit idle for an undetermined amount of time.

Thinking abstractly, why not? If the businesses are open, the money is there to pay everyone. If you send everyone in the economy home, where has that money that would have been used for salary gone?

Someone is holding it rather than distributing it, that's the only reason. So, take a look at who is hoarding money like a dragon sleeping on a pile of gold, tax it, and pay everyone else enough for a roof and food.
People can do a lot of things. It's not a big deal that measures won't be perfectly effective - in the presence of any suppression measures, once the case count stabilizes, there's a lot of room between "literally impossible to spread the virus" and exponential growth.
New York City Hospitals: ‘We’re Getting Pounded’
Fixed! Thanks for the report. This also fixes `sqrt(-10~-5)` and other fun inputs.
Then why should I have to pay $1000 in taxes to get $1000 UBI?
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Try to fit it. More easier is to look at daily new cases. For past 4 days they are increasing linearly (meaning total is quadratic)
CEO and CTO at the company I worked for during the 91 Recession didn't take a Salary for a year to keep their workers employed and the company going.
Even the article basically says no. First point:
Your risk of getting infected by deliveries showing up at your door is very low.
As an Australian, outside the family I grew up in, and other software developers I know, I can’t think of anyone that I know can type at 50wpm on a physical keyboard. But then, I don’t actually know the typing abilities of many people in the range 15–40. On touch keyboards with autocorrect and autocomplete, I’ve seen various people typing well past 50wpm. Meanwhile I type 110wpm on a normal keyboard and maybe 30wpm on a touchscreen phone keyboard.

(On later reflection, I have actually thought of three that I know or used to know that can type at a decent speed. But I can think of quite a few more that can’t.)
> There's reason to think Korea found most if not all infection.

This is beyond ridiculous and you have no basis for making that assertion. As of last Saturday, In South Korea, as of the weekend only 248,000 people out of a population of 50,000,000, with 8,086 +ve cases and 72 deaths.

There is significant evidence that not only are most cases mild, but often asymptomatic.

https://www.sanitainformazione.it/salute/scovare-i-positivi-...

In English:

https://mobile.twitter.com/andreamatranga/status/12397748625...

> According to Crisanti, the director of the virology lab of U Padua, as little as 10% of #COVID2019 carriers show any symptoms at all. He sampled repeatedly the entire 3k+ population of Vo ', one of the initial clusters.

https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/15/first-results-of-genera...

> 700 have been tested. Kári says that about half of those who tested positive have shown no symptoms, and the other half show symptoms have having a regular cold.

https://www.repubblica.it/salute/medicina-e-ricerca/2020/03/...

> "The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion". The Professor of Clinical Immunology of the University of Florence Sergio Romagnani writes

> But is now with us at scale and all the evidence points to a rough 20%, 1-in-5 hospitalization rate [3].

No. It doesn't. That link doesn't say why they were hospitalised. In America if your insurance is good enough you can be referred for little to no reason.
At least in India, Punjab, they have quarantined each county, limiting every non essential travel.
I think it's more "Hanlon's Razor"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
You said physicians get paid a couple hundred bucks for each visit. I provided the source that says how much a physician gets paid by medicare for an established outpatient visit. An outpatient visit for a new patient (99203) is 1.42 wRVU + 1.48 facility RVU + 0.13 malpractice RVU = 2.14 RVUs = $109 for Medicare. A complex new visit (99205) is 3.17 wRVU + 2.40 facility RVU + 0.28 malpractice RVU = 5.85*36.06 = 210 dollars. The facility RVU is the amount given to pay for staff, rent, and other overhead. In general, if a physician is employed, they are getting just the wRVU for the visit.

For outpatient visits, this source says medicare pays 92% of what private insurance pays for established outpatient visits, and 80% overall https://money.cnn.com/2014/04/21/news/economy/medicare-docto... .

I am a US citizen who used to be a software engineer who now attends a US MD Medical school and I have student health insurance.

For the heart attack patient, it isn't the physician who is charging the huge amount. It's the hospital. The physician is only going to get a certain factor (somewhere between 1x - maybe 3x on the extreme end) of that $440 for the wRVUs.
All debt is an alternative to raising capital by selling shares and diluting ownership. It doesn’t matter what order you do it in, and sometimes you get a good deal on a loan.
Yeah, the gap between the two is measured in luck.

More serious answer, I wouldn't tempt any of these figures by trying to cut them short. I've yet to see any research on minimum for infection related to SARS-CoV-2 (such that you can run that against the declines on surfaces like eg plastic, instead of waiting the full 72 hours).

The dashed lines in that visual indicate the limits of detection for the surfaces. There is still some virus likely to be remaining beyond these detection limit times, however it wouldn't be believed to pose a risk of infection at those levels. For example some trace amount of the virus is likely to remain on plastic up to 80+ hours. And absolutely none is expected to still be on copper after 20 hours.
As we were told during high school biology: cardiovascular muscle contains vast amounts of mitochondria as compared to other muscle types. Mitochondria are good. Therefore, more and stronger mitochondria = more efficient working muscle tissue.

One of my favorite professors holds a PhD in kinesiology (exercise physiology concentration) and wrote his dissertation on the mitochondria. As he stated many times in class: if you want to have a superhuman composition, acquire more mitochondria. he was always willing to bet his kids entire college tuition funds if you could show him a pill that would produce more mitochondria.
The first triangle is still in 3d space but the z coordinates are set to 0
http://archive.is/8liDT
It's a giant commercial, who cares if it's cancelled?
There's at least two therapeutic candidates: chloroquine and remdesivir. See: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/20/wuhan-coronavirus-the...
There is a difference between debt as a way to raise capital for growth vs debt as a way to return unearned money to shareholders.
Question for you then: Can you work under someone who's a P.Eng mechanical or civil engineer, and then get your own P.Eng license that way (as a software engineer)?
Ask HN: Anyone know of English teachers to teach writing remotely?
Those forced to stay home due to covid-19 will include many teachers. Does anyone know of any English teacher willing to remotely teach my middle-schooler writing? Is there any site on which one can find qualified teachers interested in freelancing?
Perhaps Europe needs another lesson in what happens when you give your "leaders" too much power over your way of life.
It's not nitpicking to point out the statistic is wrong by an order of magnitude
SF Startup Begins Offering Home Test for Covid-19
If at first, the only truth available to us is that we don't have any other truth available to us than existence, then we just built an other truth, and we can construct other truths in a similar way, don't we? If we have the power to access any truth, then we have the power to access truth of our power to access the previous truth, and so on.

Not only do we know that truth exists, but also we are aware that not every representations that come to our mind are truth. One might even consider that most representations that occupy our mind are unchecked untruths, but that doesn't undermine our ability to explore and gain new truth knowledge in some absolute way.