skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have an opportunity, watch the Rachel Maddow show from 3/18. They talk about this in depth.

Kinsa has been selling a digital thermometer for a while. As part of the device, it uploads readings to both your phone and then sends the data back to Kinsa.

Based on their reporting (part of what you're seeing visualized on this map), they have been able to see trending signs of flu outbreaks for a while up to 2 weeks before the CDC issues its reports.

The key difference is that the CDC relies on hospitals compiling reports and sending them in, where Kinsa gets the data directly. This causes a delay of up to 2 weeks in the CDC reports.

Where this ties in with covid-19 is that in the last few months, when they layer recent data over historical data from the last few years, they see an atypical increase in fevers being reported. This can be seen in the graph where the expected trend is going down, but they're now seeing abnormal increases since February.

From the news report, Kinsa is selling thousands of thermometers per day right now and is running into manufacturing issues.

Another point that gets mentioned in the report is that Kinsa has tried offering their data to the CDC before but due to CDC policy, they (CDC) require taking ownership of the data in order to accept it. I'm honestly very uninformed about this part so expect some inaccuracy in what I'm saying. If someone who has more details could reply to this comment, I think that would be very helpful to know.

On the positive side, the Bay Area isn't looking bad at the moment. On the negative side, all of my family is in Florida and I wasn't aware until just now that it was getting that bad state wide.
I know there's several sales going on right now (GOG even has a nice selection of games discounted to free to get started). https://www.gog.com/partner/stay_at_home Anecdotally my twitter feed seems to have more people gaming now than normal. Empirically, steam stats show a marked increase in logged in users and those playing games: https://steamdb.info/graph/
The bigger the virtual dom the larger the performance gap is supposed to be. But, true, would like to see some benchmarks from the real world, i.e rewrites and such.
Odds ratios between 0.5 and 1.5 are not exactly considered strong evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_factor#Interpretation
I've tried the following in the last few weeks (and several more, but I forget the names): jitsi, cisco jabber, cisco webex, google hangouts, google meet.

Jitsi is definitely the best that I've tried. Jabber is OK, webex is a complete joke, the google ones are OK.

The failure mode for a lot of these services seems to be crappy centralized routing infrastructure. I have way more than enough bandwidth to support like 10x bidirectional 1080p60 streams at, say, 10mbps each, but no service even comes close to that.

I assume that people are working on doing this in a P2P way, but it's hard for some reason.
Also /lib to /usr/lib.
Ask HN: Is there a video conferencing tool with positional audio support?
I'm envisioning something where people can have different positions in a virtual meeting room. The positional/spatial audio could help distinguish simultaneous speakers. Also you could "look" at people by directing the audio at them.
It’s not either/or. Nice strawman you put up here.
Viewing the source shows an html page without a closing body nor html tag: it's probably not the best case for showcasing it seems.

The layout it all over the place too using FFox, (it's fine on Chrome and Safari) so it also seems to be lacking in some basic cross browser testing, which again, is not good news when show-casing a framework, as a frameworks' prime responsibility is to ensure cross browser/platform uniformity.

Hopefully this all boils down to a simple 'oopsie' in your project, rather than svelte.
Most of Wikipedia works perfectly without Javascript I hope it will continue to do so.
It’s also very possible that the government isn’t looking into the cause of death and just sweeping it under the rug. Nearly every mention of the virus’s spread here is followed about “now what’s the effect on the olympics? What will we do without the olympics?” Ever since the last Olympics, they’ve been the main political and economic discussion topic of the whole country. TV has been talking nonstop about how this is the time Japan will finally be a world leader again, the economy is going to rise once more, English standards will be raised so all the kids can “LET’S! English with the people of the foreign country!”, every TV ad is somehow connected to the Olympics and Japan’s bright future and basically everything will be better. I can’t even pump gas without Olympics ads being played through the pump.

Imagine Abe having to announce on TV that nearly half a decade of national identity is meaningless, down the drain, over, done for, and they’re out of a shitload of cash with nothing to show.
> Yeah they won't put troops on the streets with rifles, that's not how we role in the UK.

Apart from the 300,000 that were deployed to Northern Ireland?
Regarding Tw: as with all social media, it very much depends who you follow.
When I was at secondary school I was in a group that was big into warhammer. We spent more time war gaming than we did in higher education, but we never spoke about it at school! At that age it was hard to imagine any girls would even speak to us if they knew how dorky we were.

Part of our concealment of this extremely uncool hobby was the method we used to enter the games workshop stores, which we dubbed "the nonchalant walk". It involved walking "past" the shop entrance, pointedly not looking its way, then making an abrupt ninety-degree turn when we'd reached the shortest distance to it.

It must have looked very odd to anyone who did glimpse it.
Do you still put your seat belt in your car after 5+ years of driving experience? If yes, would you say that you do that because your driving skills are "plainly not good enough"?

Typescript allow you to spend less energy on minor issues like typos and more energy on design. It also provides you with the ability to reason locally about some code. When you inspect a function in js, you cannot know what are the contracts that it has to deal with. To be sure you have to unravel all the calling and called functions.

Typescript also enables better intellisense.

About your issues:

- I never had tsc dying on my hand in 5 years.

- About the transpilation noise: it can be as noisy as you want. Have you checked the default result for the es6 target? It litteraly look like your source code with only your type signatures stripped. The noise comes from the transpilation to lower versions and bundling and those are independent of typescript.
Some quick points:

- Reported odds ratios[0] of 1.2 for A and 0.67 for O.

- This is a preprint, so it has not been peer reviewed.

- They compared blood type of patients with that of the general population in the region.

- Data is from 2,173 patients at three hospitals. The data varied between them, but Wuhan had the overwhelming majority (1,775, or 81%) of cases.

- Since these are all patients, they presumably are weighted toward the more extreme responses. There were minimal age and gender differences, though.

- A similar response for type O was apparently reported for SARS.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odds_ratio
I hate the title. “10x”? How is this 10x more seamless? It is push to talk video...many alternatives exist.
I guess their thinking is with the current state of the world they would be selling oil at a loss anyways. So might as well slightly increase that loss and hurt their competitors as well.
This. Compromises are fine: real-world solutions make them all the time. What’s valuable to readers is displaying the reasoning behind them.
I've been trying to figure out why Germany has a tiny fraction of the deaths that Italy has. I keep coming up blank. When I heard that type A blood is more susceptible than type O, I checked the prevalence in both countries. No significant difference. I checked smoking rates. No significant difference. If someone finds the answer to this question, please respond.
>Typescript will not help us a dime with type checking for most of devs we hire are long past the stage when typing errors are a thing for them.

Who are these mythical people?

Do they just magically decipher what interface an argument conforms to? What methods are accessible on a returned result from any random library they're using?
Even if those were viable solutions —I have reservations— we're still just talking about this. Medical staff are being exposed today due to lack of PPE. Cases are still rocketing.

If we want to avoid the situation where we can only make our parents and grandparents comfortable in death, leadership needs to emerge and commandeer the resources available to our countries. Waiting for volunteers isn't enough.
That is not equivalent to the tracking discussed here. I don't share any location data with Google or any service for that matter. I think most do not.
The way I see it, Active Record is an explicit acknowledgement that the database and its relations are important. AR modelling maps almost directly onto the database relations, rather than what might be more natural in OO.

It's actually harder to go straight to the database if you're using a more powerful ORM, because with a more powerful ORM, you're hiding implementation details. You tend to obfuscate the difference between a calculated and a stored column, a denormalized vs normalized attribute, composite vs entity, etc. That makes it harder to write SQL to get what you want, not easier, and when you do write the SQL, you're slicing through a thicker business layer and are at more risk of violating invariants.

If you've got a monolingual, homogeneous tech stack, the whole database might be abstracted away and you might use an OO interface which uses distributed caches and locks etc. You're much more likely then to write your queries as loops and manual filters and joins.
Promoting simple DIY masks for Covid-19: an evidence-based call to action
Personally, I have no use for a laptop and use my desktop for "real" work (development, audio production). In a mobile setting I prefer my device to actually be lightweight and mobile and the iPad beats any laptop in that regard. It's also my most used device when it comes to casual usage like internet browsing, reading, research, writing, watching, sketching out audio ideas etc. - frankly, these days I can't imagine being bound to my desk to do these things. It's incredibly comfortable to have these abilities at hand whether you're on the couch, preparing meals in the kitchen or laying on the deck.
Why can't they just delay the Olympics one year?
Ask HN: Programming Guidance?
Medior programmer here with few years of xp, haven't got a degree, except few courses and some books. Thing is, there are so many holes in my knowledge, and most of the knowledge I have is scratched surface but so far was enough to get the job done. Basically if you asked the right questions you'd conclude I am a complete noob but then, other set of questions would give impression I have really good skill and experience. Right now I'm running in circles what to do, I've started doing some math stuff since I have trouble reading programming books. Other idea I have is surfing through subjects on faculties and just buying books and studying them sequentially. I have ambitions to advance in my career but just doesn't seem possoble without making some serious changes.
I am getting frustrated by the comments that miss the big picture. There are likely going to be lots of people that are going to die without ventilator. Now, who with any common sense and decency[1] cares if 30% of them are dying because the device was not used properly/broke/whatever if the only other available option is that 100% of them die?

[1] Sigh... I know, I know. American lawyers and legal system.
No I didn’t. The statement was that Typescript solves the listed issues, which is obviously not true. There may be of course discussion whether TS _helps_ to solve such issues but you won’t be able to convince me that TS _solves_ e.g. lack of testing.
Is it open-source? Otherwise it just looks like any other website, the code would be a lot more useful.
A principled approach to system design and programming
Onyx Boox series. I am sure there are usage videos on youtube. In my experience it is very responsive, although maybe remarkable is more responsive still?

They do render ordinary apps even. e-ink aware apps work best, but all apps work one way or another. They have even implemented some functions to make any app work well like custom contrast settings or ability to refresh screen at any point, or automatic low-latency mode for when app animates a lot, etc. Some versions even have an ability to work as an external screen (they have an HDMI port). So you buy a reader, but you in fact also get an external e-ink screen that works with any computer, in the same device. I guess it will be a long while before remarkable adds something similar? Or does it have it?
Stupid for who?
I mean, look at the number of tests needed to replace a few lines of types. You have to check the behavior of your functions for all kinds of invalid inputs. With typescript you still need tests but less of them. And also you can get rid of a lot of input validation in your production code.
> Still, it's hard to know how good it will be without knowing more details.

Yeah, for all we know they could have loaded up on CDS on O&G plays and stand to offset any losses just by triggering default clauses on the frackers.
Aaaaand there is adjacent recommendation to boil them.

Aaaand you wear them also to not make sick others by spreading your virus as far as you breathe.
I know it’s a PDF. I got it eventually. Did you check archive.org for the url? As of yesterday it was simply broken.
Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse (2019)
A line at the top says "Musk tweets Tesla will make ventilators if there’s a shortage". Well, the "if" part does not really seem to be a question.

With US cases at 10^4 today, and a doubling time of 2.5 days (note 1), and with the estimates of available stockpile, it seems well past time to get started on this. I doubt that making a ventilator is as simple as knitting a scarf.

Another way to contribute would be to figure out a way to make masks quickly.

There's lots to do, and help from the innovative and diligent will be greatly appreciated by those who remain.

1. Doubling time inferred from a regression in log space of the last 2 weeks of data provided at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/tree/master/csse_....
We've been using uniCenta at our restaurant for 4 years (the open-source version).
It's barely usable, all our employees hate it, the UX (and UI) gives the impression that all the people working on it have never actually used it themselves. It's dead-slow and sometimes you need to log into the mysql DB directly to clear some tables..

The reason why we use it? We're not in the US - there's not too much room for a commercial $$$/month solution for us at the moment and the switching costs (retraining people, integrating our custom reporting and monitoring) would be way too huge.

I'd definitely consider a different solution if I'd ever start a new restaurant (highly unlikely though - it's hell. Much harder than running a startup of a similar size :)) but I'd much prefer a % revenue-based approach (with an upper cap) than a fixed pricing model.
a scissor keyboard? so it is a common chiclet which most of the cheap keyboards use https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclet_keyboard with very mild "clicking" feedback/feel. Well, it's been used in the industry for 30+ years because it actually works, in contrast to "batterfly". But it's nothing special to justify the price.
Should we then not be damn sure that there are shitloads of the simpler ventilators so that the complicated ones can be fully reserved for the serious cases?
Because masks don't help prevent you getting it https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
Considering typescript compiles down to JS, and incredibly readable JS at that, the fact that your developers are unable to debug the JS directly may indicate that they are not as amazing at JS as you may believe they are.
> Viewing the source shows an html page without a closing body nor html tag

It's actually not required to close those tags, the browser will interpret them correctly. (You can see this when inspecting the elements on the page, not just the raw source)
Well, isn't that nostalgic...

I haven't touched my paints and brushes for... let me see, since 2011, when I graduated and started working. Nine years. Huh. There was a time, after I got bitten by the warhammer bug that I would apply paint on just about everything that would take it.

Only the other week I was moving some stuff about the house and found some of my GW stuff and a bunch of my 1/72 historical minis.

Here's my little 1/72 Italeri Indian Warrior:

https://i.imgur.com/EPe38S4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FMRCP3h.jpg

I think I started by painting some Zulu Warriors in Goblin Green (a GW colour). They made nice Orks. Then I thought I'd paint some Conquistadores for the Empire and perhaps Romans for Elves, Vikings for Dwarfs etc. At some point I felt the historical models (well, _some_ of them) were so pretty they deserved a better fate, so I started painting them in more realistic colours. I still have boxes of the gorgeous 1/72 historical models from Zvezda. See these guys for instance:

Greek Infantry

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=335

Or the Samurai infantry:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=448

Or the War Elephants:

http://www.plasticsoldierreview.com/Review.aspx?id=349

Oh god. I am _never_ going to find the time to paint all of those minis... :(
Hmm, I see. I'm not a Linux user but I'll try to see it!
I would never hire a JS dev with this attitude towards typescript nor work for one.

I’ve done JS with and without types. I’d find a new job before going back to working without them. That’s how dramatic the benefits have been in my code.
> The only countries that appear to have handled it better are South Korea and Japan.

How many better examples would it take before one concludes that it's possible to have done better and there is a responsibility to do so?

I'd say one is adequate.

> If I mixed up the charts for the US and other nations except those and Italy (which is much worse), you wouldn't be able to tell which is which.

Take off the labels and I'd absolutely be able to tell that the countries are divided among:

* those that have a simple exponential curve that tells a story of no effective intervention

* those that have a noisier exponential curve, which suggests a story of either partially effective interventions or some confounding factor

* those that have peaks and valleys, suggesting a story of moving towards containment and then hitting setbacks

* those that have apparently peaked, suggesting a story of effective containment efforts

And we already know which category the US belongs in.
We’re not going back to normal
A warm Welcome to the Vue family! :)
> What are the banks going to do if they don't receive their payments?

They'll be bailed out by the govt as usual. Which is the point.. the govt has to keep humans fed and housed through this. This is the best way to achieve that end. Kicking the can down the road is exactly what needs to be done. The economic problems and readjustments can happen later. The immediate problem is people fucking dying.
There is only one class of possessions. All else is aggrements not possessions and in a wholly owned subsidiary of the rich I don't feel morally bound by the agreements between the upper middle class and the owner class.

The agreement is that the government will attempt to keep you and I from improving each other's lots by sharing under the idea that the notes hanging in the air forged of air and emotions are sort of like a ham sandwich.

From what I can tell they have secured increasingly one sided agreements mostly by legalized corruption wherein the parties who write nothing, sing nothing, express nothing, invent nothing but own much make campaign contributions.

Physical property is problematic itself but certainly cannot be fixed incrementally or in total by pretending property isn't a thing because one must still deal with the exclusive nature of physical goods whether we acknowledge the fact or not whereas piracy can indeed simply route around the upper classes contact's.
> If you get less bugs because of type checks and you are a serious JS/web dev with 5+ years experience, then your skills are plainly not good enough.

What about linters, static analysis, code highlighting, IDEs? Should we skip those too? Should I dig out my "made with notepad" badge?

Types and good static analysis tools allow me to focus on more important things, such as business logic, scale, planning. We don't pay developers for mental gymnastics, but solving real world problems.
Vue 3 is getting delayed, isn't it? Not weird for a community project, but still something to note.
Sorry about that. But it's totally different experience than before :)
I don't think it actually does. Per the example, the `Deferral` macro instantiates local variables which are used to do the unwinding.
https://politi.dk/en/coronavirus-in-denmark/frequently-asked...

That page has the official advice for Denmark, but not necessarily the underlying reasons.

I assume there's a limited supply of tests, and they need to keep enough in stock for predicted future serious cases.
I built a dumb cell phone with a rotary dial
Tubes down the lungs is definitely a bit tricky, not all patients will require that model though. As for careful monitoring, that is something the machine does on its own, as long as it has been configured correctly for the individual patient.
I'll try to add multiple authentications soon. Thanks!
> The view you describe is skepticism and is held by a very small minority of modern philosophers.

To be honest the percentage of modern philosophers (or any other modern profession) having a view on something like this has no relation to the actual thing being true, false, or true or false at the same time or neither true nor false at the same time. We're all playing glasperlenspiel [1] trying to make sense of some of the things that surround us, that is until all of us will inevitably die.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
I mean, I would be willing to work in company that does not uses typescript.

But a company that goes to irrational length of rewriting dependencies because they use typescript? A company that assumes that seniors don't make simple mistakes? Those are warning flags.
South Korean Police Turn DUI Checks into Autocross Courses to Avoid Coronavirus
Yes, but renamed to Vrbo and then my team was merged into Expedia Group but not re-tasked. The last six months before I was cut was an incredibly confusing time because we couldn’t even figure out how we were supposed to sign emails.
Right, but it is nothing specific of English language.

Oh, and the original definition should be simply "born in Byzantium", now Istambul.
Beyond JAMstack: Next.js creator on hybrid rendering, TypeScript and VSC
> Angry Moustache Bolton

> one of the brainwashed

Talk like that isn't appropriate here.

As deng says, this is a place for curious, open-minded discussion, not partisan name calling.
Oh, you're right. I missed \ at the end of definition of Deferral macro.
To Beat Covid-19, Think Like a Fighter Pilot
Yeah... It's very very bad
Are early-stage startups “dead-by-default” when Corona causes harm to economy?