skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowadays surprise calls are mean someone's trying to sell something I don't need and to scam me.
My company does a lot of philanthropy with Children's Hospital in LA, and they are having a major shortage. I would gladly buy them from you to donate there if you haven't found somewhere to take them yet.
Thanks for your detailed reply. As I said, information has a role in everything, but I don't think these examples are especially about information, in the sense of an IT-worker.

1. Ethiopia's ruler needed someone credible to tell him.

2. Training a surgeon is about skill and knowledge, more than information.

3. How is opening a "College of Midwives" about information, except in the general sense that education involves information?
Why is this downvoted? It's a valid question. Chris Lattner, the creator of Swift, has stated many times his goal of Swift being the best language for all uses.
I almost wish there had been another car with a digital cockpit that faced the same issue. Because I can imagine the glee that (some) Tesla owners would have.

Like they did when there was a Jeep remote vulnerability. "Haha. Way to do OTA totally wrong!".
Link already removed :-(
Are you now clear on what Andrew Hejlsberg, the designer of TypeScript and C#, meant by "multi-paradigm" languages?

>I do think one of the things that is luckily happening is that, like as Larry says, everyone's borrowing from everyone, languages are becoming more multi-paradigm.

>I think it's wrong to talk about "Oh, I only like object oriented programming languages, or I only like imperative programming, or functional programming".

Look at the nice table:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_p...
Yeah, after digging into it more I saw that. Doesn't explain the missing FDA number though which is quite sketchy.
That's a plus, at least the platform won't get infected by node.js virus
Not surprised. Google I/O keynotes for the last 10 years have been showcases of half-baked hacks that won't launch until a year later if at all. With everyone working from home, they can't even get convincing hacks ready.
Cshell is punk rock
Most other languages don't use singly linked lists to begin with.

Because they suck.
You can’t buy one of these mythical setups. I think people bring up the bench marks as though there’s going to be another architecture change. Maybe. But for now the Air is still faster than your phone in general.

Don’t get me wrong. The A series chips are amazing. But the benchmarks have looked very impressive for years. Nothing has come from it except fantasising.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/25/new-data-from-china-butt...

> But on Tuesday, a World Health Organization expert suggested that does not appear to be the case. Bruce Aylward, who led an international mission to China to learn about the virus and China’s response, said the specialists did not see evidence that a large number of mild cases of the novel disease called Covid-19 are evading detection.

> “So I know everybody’s been out there saying, ‘Whoa, this thing is spreading everywhere and we just can’t see it, tip of the iceberg.’ But the data that we do have don’t support that,” Aylward said during a briefing for journalists at WHO’s Geneva headquarters.
But can it actually be done fast, whilst making sure none is double-dipping? Are all 18 year olds eligible, including folks that never worked?

You might be right, but it's not obvious that the difference is material.
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!

I really want to try the live demo and make some melty furniture of my own, but I got this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'plotly'
I may have shaved a few years here and there to calculate that decade ;)

I'm still waiting for a browser to come with an inbuilt server like netscaape 3.
AI Powered Discovery of Places to eat, drink and more
Massively Parallel Covid-19 Diagnostic Assay for Testing 19200 Samples
Who da hell wants to move BACK to Edmonton ?
It's pretty ridiculous and has a ton of just bizarre stuff you have to read through (and do!) to even get to something remotely interesting.

One of the first projects I "assigned" to myself when learning to program was to create a 3d environment and be able to scale, rotate, translate objects in 3d. It was easy and fun because I got to choose the language, the rules, etc.

This assignment makes me cringe a bit because there are a lot of hoops to jump through. But yeah, I guess, no pain no gain or something like that :)
Anecdote: When I was younger, I used to take a public bus to a local bookstore and work through the SAT practice books (on separate scrap paper of course).
Then everyone you know and particularly their mother is extremely atypical.
I catch a cold once or twice each year. This year was different as we have a son in daycare, so we've been sick about once a month. In January we all went through a very weird flu. Bowel issues, followed by very dry and sore throat with a mild dry cough that lasted for just under two days, followed by what felt like a normal flu for another day and then came the respiratory issues, for me. I never before in my life had considered going to the ER for a flu, but that one felt different. I had trouble taking deep breaths. The discomfort lasted for several days and I felt slightly exhausted, but still roughly 80% normal. After a couple of days of that I asked my wife if I should consult. We chose not to and I took a few days off and everything went back to normal. All in all, I must have been "sick" for about 8-9 days. (EDIT: I am male, under 30.)

The symptoms as a whole didn't quite feel like a flu, we all thought they were weird, but hey who am I to know, right?

Well a few weeks later we remembered that two days prior to feeling ill, we had ordered some Chinese takeout. The delivery man (not a Chinese national) looked like he was going to collapse. He had trouble getting up the stairs, had a bad cough, looked like he had a fever - god knows why he was working. After taking the food and paying, I wondered if he'd make it back down the stairs but forgot about it for a few weeks.

We probably won't know if we had this bug or not, but it's definitely possible. Maybe I just happened to develop a respiratory distress caused by a bad flu right when the epidemic in China was not controlled, and not any other year prior. Who knows!
In Haskell, because of laziness, lists work well enough, but they're really just a thunk container. Conduits are better.
No, the cloud-hosted version is under a TOS which has an enterprise license.
RIAT 2020: The Royal International Air Tattoo canceled due to Covid-19
In the year 2020 a chat application takes 15 seconds to load old messages on an 8 core machine with a gigabit connection...
Discussion:

https://twitter.com/hsalis/status/1241121806473461760

Primers & Spike-in Controls:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y_Bf0Zz4FJRx53oSkX59...
Ask HN: Is HN Indifferent to Covid19?
It's bizarre that HN frontpage contains trivial posts about some haskell function or some vuln in tesla cars when the world economy is grinding to an abrupt stop with consequences years ahead. Is HN removing covid posts or are people here really blind to what's about to hit them? Tech should probably be singularly focused on mitigation solutions at the moment.
Well glad I live in California! I’m a college drop out and all self taught. Not a member of any associations. Happily doing lots of great engineering here in the states!
Those version numbers look
way too similar to dates!!
A key issue with confirmed cases is that reported results have far more to say about testing practices than underlying ground truth. A confirmed case requires an infected individual, a test, and a positive result.

(False positives are rare, false negatives fairly common.)

At county-level resolution, I'd argue that direct comparisons are at best difficult, and may be effectively meaningless. Rapid rises in values may indicate outbreaks ... or more intense monitoring. Low results, especially in populated counties, are a very likely warning sign -- the outbreak can now be presumed nearly universal. As a rule of thumb, you might rank US state public health effectiveness by dates of first detection of community spread of COVID-19, earlier being better.

Death rates are far more reliable true measures than monitoring, though they both lag infections (by about three weeks, though confirmed cases by less, possibly only one week), and are far thinner -- about 1% of all infections 3 weeks ago given typical course of illness.

The reliability comes from the fact that bodies are far less convenient to hide, and a far smaller and targeted testing target.

Test results, coverage, and negative:positive ratios (higher is better, suggesting better coverage) are all highly useful, as is case severity mix -- more mild cases suggests more complete testing.
Your own link says that this is a highly controversial point of view, not agreed with by other experts.
the entire year 2020 is cancelled in general
> most of the world's most important news topics aren't on the HN front page

because they don't gain traction among the HN audience. CV has, and to a very large degree, according to dang's comment above.
If you do nothing, and an antiviral comes along in a month (which can stop severe disease), then you have effectively killed a lot of people unnecessarily. An affective antiviral is looking more and more likely, and unlike other approaches, can be scaled rapidly.
The economy circular, so its more like if you also hard a garden and used your poop as fertiliser.
Very nice project but I broke it though:

Input: 100 / 0~0

UI: Please wait...

Console: worker.dart.js:348 Uncaught Invalid argument(s): Cannot make stats from empty list of values
Wow, and now it's been flagged to death. There's nothing wrong with the article, either. It's evenhanded, and Haaretz is about as mainstream as the New York Times.

Is this a normal HN thing that I just haven't noticed until now? Is this subject just too radioactive to be discussed?
I think the number of ventilators in the US is like 200K and hopefully with "flattening the curve" the goal is to keep deaths near a million in the US.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/a-new-analysi...

And if they're wrong I'm sure they will be happy they were wrong.
Maybe it’s almost entirely elderly people because doctors making triage decisions favor the young?
It seems to generally follow the format of Year.Version.Patch.
So you can browse the web if you want. They ship worse than that. Every car comes with a copy of Stardew Valley
“I'm a Doctor. The U.S. Response to Coronavirus Has Been Criminal”
While I agree on the money aspect, other achievements provide more points of differentiation for top candidates. MIT likely is deciding amongst students with about perfect scores anyway.

I had a bout of diarrhea during my SAT 2 Math (the harder one, whatever it's called) and still scored 780/800. I was a bit annoyed that one question put me down huge percentiles though, because you could miss like 10 questions and still get 800.
I mean, practically speaking, if the instrumentation in my car fails I'm getting off the road ASAP without checking HN to see how long I have to wait for everything to come back. My point is that the risk is low.
One thing that really horrified me was how quickly people threw away the economy.

Unfortunately, this virus is highly contagious (to the point that the vast majority of countries won’t contain it) and fairly lethal. We don’t actually know how lethal, but it appears 1%-3%, but without widespread testing we wouldn’t know.

At the moment, we just reduced our GDP by 30%-50% in regions under quarantine. Think about that for a second...

Now consider the fact that the supply chain is also all kinds of messed up and with the loss of jobs people have less money.

Finally, save this, but I don’t think the US quarantine is going to do much to lower the curve. Simply put, the west is not prepared. Our checkouts are run by people without masks or gloves. People still are closer than 2 meters (or 6 feet).

To lower the curve we’d need strict quarantine (no leaving the house) for a month or two. Even then we won’t have enough masks, hopefully we’d have enough ventilators and tests by then...

Point is, we are tanking our economy and mark my words — it won’t work. People voted, had spring break, celebrated st. Patrick’s day went out shopping in droves. It’s likely too late, one sick per household and they infect the whole house.

All this to say: we are losing our economy and probably this isn’t effective.
Algorithms are used to curtail posts about the virus? Conspiracy. /Me slinks into the dark
Is there a second source for this besides somebodys twitter?
Given the relationship with Malaria, does anyone know if correlation with G6PD has been subject of research? G6PD is a common genetic Deficiency that provides immunity from malaria. G6PD people have to avoid consuming e.g. blue colour, sulphites and other anti malarial drugs, aspirin, fava beans etc. at risk of haemolysis.
My car reliably shakes past 80, I think I’d know an upper bound for my speed
The slides by themselves do not speak a compelling narrative to me, so I think I’m missing something fundamental or not understanding.

Small businesses (all, businesses) will suffer quite badly, but if your company cannot continue operating because its shut/slowed down for 2 weeks then it’s likely that your business was running on a knifes edge and /any/ shock would have killed it.

Arguing that many people have done this is not just cause to bail them out (speaking from a purely logical non-empathetic position)

EDIT: ok. Our entire economy is built with no buffers in place and people here seem to have no issue with that. From a personal finance perspective I ensure that I live beneath my means and have capacity for a couple of months lost revenue. (Shit happens) and I’m not “well paid”.
>> you don't "lose" anything: you actually gain more "flexibility" and more "language" patterns.

You do not need TS to use OOP language patterns in JS. Remember TS is compiled down to JS, so all that flexibility comes from JS. The same flexibility that makes the concept of TS and the 100 other "compile to JS" languages possible. Some of that flexibility is lost because you let the TS compiler make some decisions for you as it generates the JS output.
I’ve seen a lot of related posts.

If you go to the “new” items, a substantial fraction of the posts are about the virus.

With that many posts, it may be that few get enough votes to hit the front page.
>I also understand that we are -not- trying to contain the disease, just "serialize" its progression (so to speak) through the population.

That's not true. Even with massively ramped up hospital capacity, we'd still have to spread it out over years to support the whole population getting sick. And realistically, if you can keep the disease progression spread out over a long period of time, it means you've stopped the exponential growth (i.e. R0 <= 1), and it isn't that much harder to actually contain it.

What we want to do is to contain it using blanket measures until we can get our act together with large scale testing, contact tracing, and basic sanitation measures (e.g. general mask wearing, hand-washing, and social distancing by the public without needing to lock everything down). This was where China got to after an early lockdown, and it's where South Korea has always been (without the need for a massive lockdown in the first place). Then in a year hopefully the disease can be stopped altogether with mass vaccination.
A mask does far more, comparatively, used by high-exposure or critical-service workers: medical staff and responders, retail workers. Those highly exposed and hard to replace.

For the average person, a mask likely is an individual benefit. But in a world with insufficient masks and asymmetric risks, social benefit, literally the health of the public, benefits most by limited and targeted use.

Distinguishing between personal and communal risk is critical here. That message has been poorly conveyed, even by ordinarily excellent communicators -- Zynep Tufekci comes to mind.
Instead of hundreds of billions in loans to businesses, which have to be underwritten -- and as discussed on Slides 17/18, the SBA did an abysmal job administrating during Hurricane Sandy, helicopter money might be the better answer.

Give everyone money, no criteria. If we do impose income limits, and since viable proposals do -- we ought to discuss it. Give them a check now anyways. We cannot be worried people will be "annoyed" if they owe their check back come next tax season. Future annoyance is a small price to pay if these businesses can't stay afloat. We will be feeling the effects for far longer than a quarter. The helicopter money needs to be distributed as soon as possible.
I take it for Sjogrens.

I have to watch does as it has a strong stimulant effect at times.

It is Life changing for me, but i was having a lot of severe anxiety attacks from it.

Dr doubled the doSe. Yea a week long freak out occluded before I figure out what was going on.

Still worth it. Just have to be careful
That's a great article, thanks for posting that.
>Saskatchewan

Fine, so there are 27 software engineers in Canada.
Thank you for pointing this out! I’m trying work out how to get in touch with this guy, unfortunately he has turned off all comments.

I’m not sure I understand your question: do you mean if the one patient is getting hyperventilated? My suggestion is to set the pressure settings to ventilate the poorly compliant compliant lung, then use the flow restrictor to compensate on the more compliant lung.
Since you seem to be such an expert, can you tell me how you go about spoofing Firefox's telemetry?
Easy. It’s a low fidelity, moderately effective means of communication that is in writing.

Talking and making a deal or agreement to be formalized in a long form is clear to all parties.
And that's where free market as an institution would get us all killed.
So a huge portion of the population had it, including you and your family a mere 3-4 weeks ago, but now only 10% of those tested actively have it, many of the other 90% are fully recovered in the last few weeks? But hospitals are mysteriously only now seeing an influx of cases?
You reduce it by using custom routing ASICs that can handle orders of magnitude more traffic than a CPU with equal or lower power consumption. To put things into perspective: Cisco’s latest routing ASIC — the Cisco Silicon One — can handle 10.8 Tbps (in fixed mode).

I’m sure Google and others have evaluated this, but it’s just kind of surprising that they opt to do per-packet processing in software.

Disclaimer: I write router software at Cisco.
Alarm as Dutch lab creates highly contagious killer flu (2011)
There are way too many different brands and types of CPAP machine for anyone to make any sort of sensible comment here. They aren’t all the same. Some of them do have a backup rate that could be used to mandatory mechanical ventilation, but that can’t be readily altered at the bedside in the models I have used. The use-case is radically different to the ICU.
“one sick per household and they infect the whole house“

This happened repeatedly in China; in fact, the nature of a lockdown sort of encourages this. But an infected household of 5 ppl is significantly easier to contain than 1 infected person going on to infect 4 people from 4 different walks of life.
New Yorker here. From what I see through my window, my fellow New Yorkers still don’t “get it”. I see clusters of people hanging out and families going for leisurely walks. If this keeps up the number of infections - and deaths - will only increase.

Last week my brother suggested instead of working from home I work from a Starbucks.

I feel like people don’t understand how serious this is and it’s really bothering me.
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Except that children can spread it faster among caretakers that have contact with the elderly. Many of those caretakers, like people my age, either have young children (like me), or are in contact with people who have young children.

It also turns out that certain classes of drugs can drop the otherwise statistically less at risk squarely into the grave risk category without their knowing it. (High BP meds, NSAIDS, others we perhaps don't yet know about). Going for the "maybe it isn't that big of a deal" approach seems like a bad idea to me.
Poor people can’t afford that $20 prep book, and they can’t afford the subject tests either.

I worked in high school but that money went to my family to help pay for food/rent. Thankfully I had an amazing high school teacher who was willing to pay for the remainder on my AP tests (the company who administers the test has a reduced fee option). My SAT test was free though, never got to take a practice test or even knew that there was a practice test —- that’s the joy of being a first generation college graduate, I suppose.

I agree about extra curricular activities. That just signals to colleges that your family is wealthy enough that you can afford to participate in terms of both time and money.
Excellently put.
You’re judging people by some stupid mistake that could have any of a million reasons. Maybe their monitors are small and they couldn’t read it, or they were thinking about whatever was coming up.

Your criticism seems motivated by some prior grudges against these people. For leadership Postillions, I’d prefer someone bad at math over anyone this petty.
>custom implementation of IPsec

What could possibly go wrong.
I used to love phone calls and called my friends all the time, pre 2000. Since then moved to Japan (so for a while no one to call) and texting or messaging became more expected. I now make probably less than a call a month. I miss the conversation and connection. When I do call I usually message first "Ok to call?"

On the other hand I went back to the USA for 2 weeks recently and within the first 15 minutes of installing my USA sim I got a robocall. I continued to get several a day the entire 2 weeks I was there. Never gotten a robocall in Japan.
Predating both: https://archive.org/details/GorillasQbasic
What's easy for you is not easy for everyone. It currently is a pretty good predictor of ability in college.
These are the tests that are no longer being considered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_Subject_Tests. They are not "the SAT".

It makes intuitive sense to me that MIT wouldn't find these useful. They test subjects that students study in school. They're tests of knowledge, and have multiple choice questions like "One purpose of the Marshall Plan of 1948 was to..."

As far as I know, everyone's score on these tests correlated extremely well with 1) their school grade in the relevant course 2) the relevant Advanced Placement test.
The stock market is largely collapsing because:

1.) Hedge funds levered up their capital 5 - 15x to make more money, then got caught with their pants down. So they all panic sold at once, crashing the market.

2.) CEOs of large corporations used cash to buy back their stock, inflating the stock price, and depleting their cash reserves. So now those same companies are on the brink of collapse, causing the credit markets to collapse, the stock market to collapse, and the rest with it. They can buy 50B worth of their own stock, but cant pay employees for a month without revenue.

This whole mess is in part due to financial engineering taken down by a black swan event. CEOs should be in jail and so should finance professionals. Laws need to be passed so that finance individuals cannot ruin the market for their own financial gain.
It's concerning how hesitant I am to assert today's consumers wouldn't accept such a compromise.

In the past, not even distant past, just ~15-20 years ago, I'd confidently say that would never fly without hesitation.

It's definitely not the case today. Just look at how willing people are to delegate control over their lives to Tesla's "Autopilot". Even well-educated software engineers are being killed by putting 100% confidence in this glorified cruise control.