skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you keep the people who went to the party from infecting the people who didn't go?
> Death by flu is selection for random shit that cause you to be better off against only one thing and that is: that exact desease causing strain.

But that is, in fact, natural selection, isn't it?

Natural selection ≠ selection for traits that benefit society.
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
I keep the URL as the original source so I know where I originally found it. Then I extract some unusual phrases and keep them verbatim so I go search later if the original goes missing.

Sometimes I then curl the original, and sometimes I "lynx -dump" it so I can have the original plain text.

You say:

> I use the Zettelkasten method ...

This means different things to different people. Many people read about the Zettelkasten and think it's basically a collection of "index cards", each with a single thought on it. As such it would be no different from a wiki with lots and lots of small pages. My understanding is that a Zettelkasten is much, much more than that. My understanding is still evolving, and I'd love to hear more about what you actually do.

Have you written it up? Would you do so and post a link? And email me in case I don't see it?
I really don't want to stay in this discussion, but did want to suggest to you in specific that you might find it interesting to look up articles about stunting and the role of chronic low grade infection due to poor hygiene. The term that gets used is "enteric" something or other.

I googled "stunting enteric infections" and came up with these two articles, for example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3617052/

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/6/e201606...

The TLDR: Lack of adequate food is not the full explanation for stunting. Poor hygiene in the general environment plays a significant role.

General cleanliness of your general environment has significant health impacts. We know this in the abstract. We know Sick Building Syndrome exists and we know entire neighborhoods have worse health because they have all the things the NIMBYs kept out of their neighborhood.

But people get bizarrely dismissive of the idea when it's a specific instance involving them in specific. Then it's all "Nuh-uh!" And "Do you have clinical studies?" And "That article you posted is orthogonal..."
NKS?
Counterintuitive things that helped me fix my insomnia
> Another way of looking at it is that there are no first principles.

Is that part of the principles you adhere to? :)
The problem with the CFR is that it assumes that everybody can get the care they need.

If the health system gets swamped by 50% of a country's population, then you basically have the same situation as they have in Italy.

We're just at the very beginning here in Denmark, the number of hospitalized people has roughly doubled every day for the past 3-4 days, and already hospitals are running out of masks and other essential equipment. Since the world is in lockdown, and everybody is fighting this, basic supplies are in short demand everywhere.
That’s not Japan’s decision to make. The Olympics®︎ tells the country they’re screwed, thanks for the cash, apply for the next 2020+4n Olympics.
Why Zenduty is a great alternative to Opsgenie, Pagerduty, & VictorOps
Wolfram Language is developed by Wolfram Research. It’s a fairly sane name for a language and a company; the fact that Stephen Wolfram tends to come off as narcissistic is unrelated.
No. Nobody knows how what the actual proportion of cases require hospitalisation. That's the point being made in this entire thread.

It's clearly very hard to let go of what looks like data and say "actually, we don't know". That's a driving cause of current events. There's a lot of analysis out there right now quoting things we "know" about SARS-CoV-2 and when you dig in, it's not real knowledge, it's a garbled or misused statistic. We have lots of epidemiology but not enough epistemology.
Not to be confused with Munchhausen syndrome...
Got it. Thanks. We have several content-delivery pipelines at work. It had been so long since I used server-side dynamic content creation that it had slipped my mind.
Is the CDS market big enough to do that? It's big, but the oil market is massive.
Which Country Has Flattened the Curve for the Coronavirus?
That's because humans need stuff to live. You want an economic system that keeps improving and nature is pretty good at it.
It's simple, light weight, a lot of cool extensions. I use vscode for developing nodejs, python, ffmpeg, Qt, frontend...it's my all in one IDE.
Sadly? Look at the history of the alternatives.
Mathematicians peddle in absolute truths, under contract. The truths are not facts: they're logical fabric between axioms and conclusions. You can change the rules of logic, you can change your base axioms, but doing so only changes the set of reachable conclusions.
Well, obviously they don't occur at the same position! ;)
JSF somehow managed to be even worse than JSP.
Ask HN: What projects do you recommend to reinforce topics in computer science?
I see that the college websites usually have a lot of starter code for people to get started on projects. Some are accessible, most are not.

In lieu of that, for self learners, what projects would you recommend that self learners implement to reinforce / cement what they have learnt when they learn computer science?

For example, UCB 61c has a project to implement Neural Networks in RISC-V - https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/fa19//projects/proj2/

Subjects I'm looking for include (but not limited to)

* Algorithms / Data Structures

* Computer Organization / Architecture

* Computer Networks

* Operating Systems

* Databases

* Compiler Design

* Distributed Systems

These can be projects which can have multiple topics involved from a particular subject, or projects involving topics taken from different subjects, or projects involving a particular topic in a particular subject. For example, a project to learn about Comp Org/Arch or multiple projects to learn about topics in Comp Org/Arch like caching/pipelines/concurrency etc.

Big or small, I hope we can collect some project topic wise / subject wise which with enough motivation and googling, self learners can implement and learn from the experience.

NOTE: If I have missed out on any subject / topic, it is due to my ignorance. Please don't restrict yourself to the subjects I have mentioned above.
They are looking at data from hospitals, so I'd expect mild cases to be excluded.

Semantic nuances seem to be very relevant to the applicability (or not) of this selection to the exact wording of the result: is a SARS-CoV-2 infection that remains harmless because it is overcome before spreading from throat to lungs classified as a light case of Covid-19 or is that label reserved for more serious forms of infection?
This is a bad idea. If you look at the list of advantages to doing this only 1 is user-centric (things would be reactive). The rest are all related to how it makes development easier. When you choose a developer-centric workflow your users will suffer.

You only have to look at the numerous server to SPA conversions to see how consistently bad of a choice this tends to be; Reddit is a big and obvious example.

They could take a half-measure and move away from the brittle jQuery based front-end they are currently using by adapting those to use something like Preact, while leaving the rest of the page alone. This would give you more dynamic and more maintainable page widgets without the sacrifices that inevitably occur when you move the entire site to being front-end rendered.
Wikipedia is confusing. Which is it?

> The 1% rule states that the number of people who create content on the Internet represents approximately 99% of the people who view that content.

or

> 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community , stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk .
Rumor has it that it's Bridgewater for anyone reading this later
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Nobody is saying that. The data gets harder to interpret for older people because they're very frequently weak and about to die of something. Some part of why stats seem to vary between countries may be due to differences in recorded deaths, which can be somewhat arbitrary when there are multiple conditions. Sort of like how a lot of HIV+ people die of pneumonia but was the cause of death that or the underlying condition of HIV?

John Ionnadis has been writing about this:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

He's a medic, epidemiologist and author of "Why most published research results are wrong", probably one of the most influential papers of the last 20 years across all of science. He says:

even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes. In fact, such “mild” coronaviruses infect tens of millions of people every year, and account for 3% to 11% of those hospitalized in the U.S. with lower respiratory infections each winter. These “mild” coronaviruses may be implicated in several thousands of deaths every year worldwide, though the vast majority of them are not documented with precise testing.

The whole essay is worth a read. It has more to say about questionable use of data and analysis than SARS-CoV-2 itself but is worth reading regardless.
I always loved this video/music-video on percussive maintenance. It shows you how much it's in the culture—and how good a successful whack feels!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=insM7oUYNOE
>This is a good example of the object oriented, strongly typed way of thinking. Explore languages that follow different paradigms, where interfaces just don't apply.

I'm not sure whether you intended this to sound so patronizing, but wow.
What languages should I explore while talking about Javascript?

You are called to edit a function that takes 2 arguments:

function handle_req(request, options):

What is request in this context and what is options?

What makes me more productive, going up the stack and seeing who might call this function and with what argument, or instantly knowing what the domain of values it operates on is and being able to treat this as a separate unit?

>Do not use random libraries. A good library should have even some basic docs outline its API and how to use it.

A whole lot of the time, especially in Javascript land you will join projects where libraries are being used, and where documentation is lacking. Your advice here is basically to not be part of those projects? Instead of developing and using tooling that will ensure that these situations no longer happen?

Okay.
Keep Your B2B Sales and Sanity Intact During the Coronavirus Outbreak
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>> Suppose you're running Perl CGI scripts on Apache. Would AOLserver run 10 times faster? Sure. On the other hand, www.cisco.com manages to sell $1 billion in merchandise annually with Perl CGI scripts. It is always easier and safer to plug in more processor boards than to switch tools.

Things haven't changed.
They used to say that about flash too.
No, it does not. View Cats on Instagram and you will see Cats on Instagram.
1) lots of testing. Berlin alone is doing ~10k tests per week, which suggests about 200k/week nationwide. So they're picking up many more mild cases.

2) Many more cases among young people. Presumably partly because there's lots of testing, but perhaps also just the chance of which groups it spread within. The age breakdown is at https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...

3) It takes a while for people to die, and the epidemic caught Germany later than Italy. For sure there are a lot more deaths coming in Germany
or Rust if you'd rather not touch C++.

C with improvements suffers from uncanny valley. If it's not plain C, then it's weird and non-standard, and C programmers don't want it.

So if you're deviating from pure boring C, then you can just as well switch to another language, and one that doesn't have legacy baggage.
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Suction cups or some special adhesive that does not leave residues?

Disclaimer, never tried those myself.
Has Physics Lost Its Way?
Introduction to AOLserver, Part 1 (1999)
Even then, it failed before because fracking companies could shut down and start back up without too much loss of capital. To me this reeks od trying the same thing again and expecting a different result.

MBS seems to behave quite randomly. Maybe that's logical: being predictable is dangerous. But that's the only explanation that fits here I think: he'll burn 1tn usd because no one would expect that!

Has anyone got a better logic to explain this? Does it suit Saudi to weaken other OPEC members?
It’s more like the repository pattern under the bonnet.
I'm obviously implying that the reason capitalism is used is because it aligns people's self-interest with society's interests. You're encouraged to make something better in capitalism and that pushes innovation. Best of all is that people do it voluntarily.

That private ownership of the means of production means that it is yours. People generally want to have better stuff. When you improve that means of production due to your self-interest then everybody else also benefits from it, because now you can produce something better or for a lower cost. It also tells others that it's possible to improve those means of production.
Kudos to the team for the great release.

Two things I miss when working with Mathematica: refactor-rename variables and a usable object-oriented programming support.

Refactor-rename is available via Eclipse-based IDE; however math typesetting is not available there (it makes a difference for large equations/expressions).

There are a lot of community-developed approaches to OOP. I tried a number of these, sticking with a particular approach, but it also leave a lot to be desired. OOP is useful in that it ties together data and functions which act on the data. Inheritance/composition are useful if you compute properties of similar objects.
While there was a certain amount of bi-directional influence (Hitler taking inspiration from the KKK, the German-American Bund being the local Nazi party) there was never any question of entering the war on the Nazi side, and indeed Lend-Lease started in early 1941, months before Pearl Harbor, including supplying arms to the Soviet Union.

The private sector was still supplying Nazi Germany while the US was officially neutral, though.
A New Kind of Science, S. Wolfram (2002)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science

"A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"

http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
It seems like 8% is an overestimate because logged in users are more likely to be engaged and so to have more page views than a casual user.

Any way to divide logged in weekly sessions by all weekly sessions, or something like that?
Now days, it's not often that I need to do heavy mathematical work, but I turn to Sage https://www.sagemath.org/ when I do.

Sage has a notebook interface, is built on Python, and incorporates many free software math packages, like Maxima, into one system.
Yeah my personal website is on google and I don’t put any effort into making it searchable.

If I actually had interesting things on there it would probably be on the front page for a few related keywords.
Don't offer.

Do it.

Start making ventilators by the thousand. Screw patents, screw official sanction - when things get dire, the world will take every one we can get.
What benefit would that have vs SVG? It strikes me as cumbersome if you wanted to quickly add icons to an existing project, plus your ability to style with CSS would be limited compared to inline SVG.
If GM makes 10,000 ventilators and they all turn out defective, that could be worse then never making the ventilators at all.
Every language comes with its own culture, and with its own stereotypes. Java's over-engineering and boredom, JavaScript's throwing shit on the wall and see what sticks, PHP's developers that do stackoverflow-driven development.

There are experts, average people, and bad people in every field. TypeScript brings sanity that is valuable for both experienced developers and less experienced developers.

The peace of mind that you get with types when doing refactoring is invaluable. I would never be able to go back and write vanilla JavaScript, because it's broken.

You can over-engineer and write crap code in any language.

Also a comment on anyone that says experienced devs get no benefit from types: you think you're good, but you're not. As good as you think you are, if you seriously deny the benefits of static typing, you're probably shit as a developer.
If you understand static typing and it's benefits then you agree it's a good trade, if you don't understand it and still have a strong opinion against it, then you're just a lazy human.
New Kind of Science
I thought the career / profession mechanics in WFRP were very clever. Never bought it myself, just coveted my friends' copies back in 1991 or something.
Most masks in Asia are simple cloth. You can make them yourself. Not as good as a N95, but they cut down smog and infection risk and are affordable. Even just a scarf helps if you insist on being fashion conscious. Yet nobody wears them, because we have a shortage of ones good enough to be worn in infection wards.
Hmm. Okay, I'm building other authentication now.
Ironically, around the same time, China was admitted to the WTO.
Turki̇sh Mi̇ni̇ster Remarks on Corona
Is there any reason not to call Mathematica AI at this point? I swear some of the things it does look more like black magic than what we call AI nowadays...
Just an idea (that would never happen)-

Why not make it like Engineering?

You do your 4 year undergrad and at your first job, no one trusts you. Your supervisor/senior engineer checks Everything you do. You are reserved for paperwork and unskilled manual labor which is also checked. After a few years (4) you get some Freedom, but still checked by your seniors. Anything important, even when you are a senior engineer goes through your Managers and directors.

I don't see why this system wouldn't work in medical. We build airbags and bridges. Both safety critical.

I would even say having 1 physician is more dangerous than having a team of Engineers with less Schooling.
Just by skipping over it I think the counter measures proposed are worse than the hypothetical dangers painted on the wall.

Overall I don't see the merits of the analysis. Super-stability through extensive surveillance seems self defeating at some point.
This is very common pattern in open source, I don't see anything strange about this particular case.
I am neither in the US or China.

I would note though that blaming other countries is rarely useful, since you have virtually 0 power to influence the decisions of other countries. However, you do have some measure of power to affect the decisions of your own country, so assessing and blaming the response that your own country had is more useful than looking at others.

So you can absolutely say that China deceived the world and deserves our ire. But you should also wonder why the WHO chose to believe the famously information-controlling Chinese authorities, why your own government chose to believe China and the WHO playing its game. You can also choose to ask whether your own government, once the reality of what was happening in China got out, had a fast enough and acute enough response.

The answer will vary by country and by individual assessing this, but it is far more useful than only blaming China. To give some examples of my own opinions, Taiwan, Japan, and SK are probably examples of governments that did most things right so far. Italy and Iran are examples of governments that have done horribly initially but may be rallying now. The UK and the Netherlands are examples of countries that are not reacting well enough even today. As for my own country, I am mostly satisfied with most of the decisions taken, and their timing, though I am concerned with the amount of testing the government is doing. Based on future data on the actual effectiveness, I may end up blaming my own government, if for example the lack of testing proves fatal, and I can act on that blame by voting them out office when I get the next chance.
They've previously coaxed the probe into the soil a few inches by applying pressure to the side, only to have it auto-reverse out when the internal hammer starts working after the pressure is released.

I can't find a reference to the specific dynamic process but it reminded me of how larger stones 'float' to the top during vibration because smaller stones/sand tend to fill the cavities below. To be honest I never had a feel for how this was going to work and just assumed Martian soil has some distinguishing features they'd tested before that would allow it to work. Turns out, not so much ...

Let's see what happens when the scoop is retracted. Perhaps if the probe can get entirely below the surface it will descend (at some funky angle now!)
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A parallel in defining words. A word dictionary has to be self referential, or you need an ever increasing vocabulary, or just accept some axioms that don't require verification (you know what a word like cat is by some interaction escaping out of the context of word descriptions)

Another parallel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo

we were computationally evolved to make sense of the world... and making sense is a computation
The problem is threefold. We need: 1. ventilators 2. PPE 3. healthcare personnel (respiratory therapists). In the short term we should train existing doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in respiratory therapy ASAP. But without PPE they put themselves at risk, and without ventilators the patient may die anyway.

We need all three, and there's a worldwide shortage. That is the bottleneck.
I was in a similar situation. My new employer revoked my job offer on the day I was supposed to start.
Actually right now it's around $22. Which is uncomfortably close to the break even for most major Canadian oil extraction. It may even be below cost for some of them since the exact numbers are considered competitive secrets. Alberta's economy is built on the oil sands.
One of reasons i bought Necromunda Dark Uprising - the terrain there is awesome and can be used for infinity too... and for Kill Team.

I have few friends that are into wh40k, but i want to stealthly convert them to infinity :>
They were correct, too.
From the article, about why mitigations of these issues is not viable:

> Likely they will require increased understanding of the specific ORM being used

So your diagnostic of "deliberately avoid reading the documentation" is spot on.

If the goal of the author is to not read the docs, I completely agree that most ORMs are an absolute hell to use and going back to almost pure SQL would be the holy grail.

But then, I am personnally in the camp of spending the time to understand the tools. There is a tradeoff between the time spent to on learning a specific tool and the ROI of that learning curve, I think this article's position on wanting mostly returns with no time invested is way too unrealistic.
Google Agrees to Worker Council in Europe Amid Recurring Discord
Inter-disciplinary collaboration is the key to understanding consciousness
As a software developer was getting paid less than a tube driver
I just walked through Rijksmuseum using street view and checked out Louis XIV chamber from Versailles on 3D. Not to mention a couple of very detailed interactive analyses of some paintings telling their story and highlighting details I would normally completely miss. I think this is awesome and impressive on how much content there is.

Maybe someday we'll have a full 3D VR tour, but there's a lot of great stuff there already.
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