skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our national priority needs to be on testing for people who have developed an immunity:

https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1240689935557865472

Who can then go on and socialise and operate the economy as usual.

We need to take advantage of the fact that this virus is so mild for the vast majority of the working-age population.

Combine that with isolation of the elderly, and we could reopen the schools, at least for the youngest children, so that more people can go to work.

Alternative (and yes this is a bit tongue-in-cheek) transfer the entire elderly population of the USA to Florida, and completely isolate the state. Flood it with ventilators and healthcare professionals. Let the rest of the country operate as usual and treat the unlucky few who need hospitalisation.

We need some big, bold, active national measures instead of just taking the easy road of printing money for banks and forcing all businesses into closure and all workers into home unemployment.
That would do more harm than the virus. The virus is not everywhere[1] and no lockdown is perfect, so the virus will spread hit different places at different times. It is better to lock down regions or states as needed

Also, unnecessary lockdowns can ruin the credibility of the heath authorities. IF we lock down counties with no cases, not only are we needlessly disrupting lives, people wont listen to the order when it IS necessary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
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This is indeed a strange decision for MIT. The conventional wisdom has long been that the SAT subject tests are MORE predictive of future success at MIT, because the influence of test prep, cramming, test coaches, etc. is minimal for the subject tests. While there are reports of people raising their scores artificially on the non-subject tests by hundreds of points through these short-term methods, the subjects tests have long had a reputation as being more representative of what you really know.
Agreed, I don't understand why there isn't a concerted effort to ramp up testing. NYC is doing this now, part of the reason their total cases are going so high so quickly. Lockdown makes sense for them right now. The medical facilities are starting to feel the pressure.
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Almost every word in that sentence is wrong.

* except for one critical bug, bitcoin has not been running more than 10 years without problems.
* “really beneficial” is just one point of view. Without an increase it’s still running fine.
* A large amount of propaganda was indeed injected into the ecosystem, but not by anonymous programmers but rather by big corporations who want to make money as “miners” and failed _because_ this project is decentralized.
Poster seems to be thinking about the "UK approach" which is declared to be managing the situation until population immunity catches up and helps snuff it out.

But, since we're starting from zero natural immunity and a virulent disease with long hospitalizations, if you actually do the math here it never works - there's no situation where you can keep the number of infected low enough to not use up too many hospital beds and also high enough to get population immunity in any reasonable period of time. Those values simply don't overlap (which apparently someone has told the UK now, I guess).

The only viable approach is massive lockdowns to reduce the number of infected to a reasonable number followed by super-aggressive public health interventions for each and every infected person to control future spread.
> It needs almost a million views

Not sure what you mean by "views". The comparisons in the paper use at most 100 input images per scene.
Well...

file 'setupTests.ts'
setupTests.ts: Java source, ASCII text

I wouldn't put too much trust in file.
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Useful documentation would also be good.
Yes, except you learn maths at school, while you don't commonly learn music theory.
Basically most of the sales of the blockbuster games comes from the initial week or two, when people can't wait to get their hands on the game. The anti-piracy protection companies and the game companies know this, and that's why it's fine that the anti-piracy protection gets broken eventually. Just not when the game initially launched.
It's not about "can't", it's about "this water is hot enough after microwaving it for 30s, it'll be fine".
> I think Germany is handling this crisis really well

People are out in groups, in parks, drinking with friends, I see old people in line in supermarkets next to coughing people, no safety distance, no masks, supermarket shelves are more and more empty, people dinning with their entire family from toddlers to grand parents, &c.

I expect Merkel to announce an Italy/France style full lockdown in the next few weeks when they figure out that people simply don't care about what the gov is asking for.
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Snuffing out the virus absolutely is an option. If we adopt a stance that makes R0 < 1, there is no other stochastically possible outcome. Whether we will is another question.

> We will build herd immunity as people contract the virus, develop antibodies and recover from it.

This is a pipe dream, at least outside the context where we are going to accept megadeaths or years of social distancing. The hospital capacity of the US is such that, if we were to run them all at 100% and somehow hold the virus exactly to the level that maximally utilizes ICUs, it would still take the better part of a decade before we got to the point of having herd immunity.
I love that book. If you want those thoughts in a highly condensed manner, the author Ryan Singer has done a number of interviews discussing the high level concepts of Shape Up. I particularly like the Software Engineering Radio interview: https://www.se-radio.net/2019/11/episode-389-ryan-singer-on-...
I mean, it's not really true. People spend a lot of money on test prep, but this isn't even a case where the evidence hasn't come in yet. We know perfectly well that test prep has negligible influence on SAT scores.
Why would you need an attachment for this? Couldn't you 'refactor' the notes instead? Not sure that vendor lockin is worth it. The problem is worth solving but IMO you are going about it the wrong way.
This is really cool project, but please be careful if you're considering building or purchasing these for emergency or accessibility-related reasons.

The phone's build-it-yourself kit instructions[0] mention that the battery and signal strength indicators aren't yet functional.

"Currently, battery and signal strength metering is not working. I hope to have this fixeed in firmware soon, but this further complicates the above quirk. If you have a voltmeter, it's easy to probe battery voltage without opening the case vai the ICSP header on the back"

From previous discussion[1] it sounds like the battery life is approximately 24h.

Not to be a downer but sometimes it concerns me when we celebrate things which people might consider useful for critical infrastructure when they're not ready.

[0] - http://www.skysedge.us/rotarycellphone/index.html

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22306801
SAT prep courses advertise that they can increase scores by 100 points but generally they're lying in order to sell more test courses. But the real number is closer to "11 to 15 points on the math section and 6 to 9 points on the verbal."[1]

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228337033_Using_Lin...
> Why bother?

There might be 10x speedups to be gained with a tweaked model.
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If you think a month without work would mess up someone's life, imagine how much dying would mess up their life. Most of us have lived through 2+ major recessions. They suck, but I'd gladly take a recession instead of the deaths of myself and/or love ones.
I think what Andrew Hejlsberg himself, the designer of C# and TypeScript, said speaks to the claims orange8 is making about TypeScript being a "VERY opinionated linter" and that "you loose a lot of its power and flexability by shoe-horning it into strongly typed languange patterns".

Andrew Hejlsberg's point is that TypeScript is a "multi-paradigm" language: it's not just strongly typed, but also structurally typed, interface based, plus everything else JavaScript itself is: dynamically typed, duck typed, functional, imperative, event driven, class based, prototype based, object oriented, etc.

Even the term "object oriented" has a broad spectrum of independent meanings: JavaScript has many but not all of the a la carte menu of features or properties of "object orientation" that Jonathan Rees listed in response to Paul Graham's essay "Why Arc isn't Especially Object-Oriented".

http://paulgraham.com/reesoo.html

http://mumble.net/~jar/articles/oo.html

http://paulgraham.com/noop.html

Andrew Hejlsberg said:

>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".

It's a mistake to think that TypeScript restricts you to just one way of programming, and you have to give up the ways you used to program JavaScript. TypeScript ADDS to the number of ways you can program JavaScript. It's a superset of the multiple programming paradigms that JavaScript supports.

You don't "loose a lot of its power and flexability by shoe-horning it into strongly typed languange patterns" -- quite the opposite, you don't "lose" anything: you actually gain more "flexibility" and more "language" patterns.
IKR?

> (Almost) Everything should be pubsub?

Gee thanks, I'll just go make everything pubsub. Except the things I shouldn't. The distinction will be clear I'm sure.

I'm not saying I disagree with all their points. But without examples it's not clear what they even mean, let alone how to apply them.
Anyone remember the Unreal Tournament 2003 (or was it 2004?) Demo, which had an exe that was compatible with original retail release as a DRM free copy.

Of course, Unreal Tournament was a mostly online multiplayer game, and relied on cdkeys as well.

I'm surprised with everything i've heard about release pressure and crunch time that this doesn't happen more often.
There's no real consensus. Try this site: https://contrastrebellion.com/
That's funny, I haven't heard of Karkov before, but where I'm from Stoli is bottom shelf so I thought it's one of the fancy brands. Guess not!
How is that functionally different from most things considered by college admissions? Money helps a ton for normal class, extra-curriculars, etc.
> If your offended by that, what about professors or HS teachers who teach certain sections of the textbook because it's going to be on the exam.

Yes, this another big problem caused by (too much emphasis on) standardised testing. I learnt the most in classes that didn't do this. But people do better on tests when they do do this. Standardised tests are destroying our education system.
This one is wrong. The Law of Leaky Abstractions is in fact not a lie. All abstractions actually do leak.

People take that as an excuse to be sloppy, which it isn't. You should do the best you can to make non-leaky abstractions. When you have done so, you should look for the leaks, and do your best to plug them. After that, you should do so again. You should really try to make it as solid as you can.

But it will still leak. It will be less garbage than much of what we have to build on, because of the effort you put into making it better. But it will still leak.
I for one would very much like to try some of this moooooonshine. After all, if you made some from sheeps' milk as well you could line them up on the baaaa!

I'll get me coat
The article is about injecting a backdoor in a Node server using a malicious NPM package.
This chloroquinine rush is already out of control. My pharmacy is already out of it and is unable to procure from other pharmacies (which are also out already!)

My pharmacist placed orders for all her patients to prefill prescriptions (where possible) for the next few months.

I can understand a shortage when there's a clear evidence-based need, but the rumour-mill hasn't even ramped to full bore yet and it's already harming people with a pre-existing need for the medication.

It's even worse _if_ the medication works to prevent or shorten c19 infections, because the people currently taking chloroquinine are very likely high-risk (immunocompromised) patients.

Really wish people would chill out.

Note - This affects me, as I take the medication. It's scary to think I could be without it at some point in the future as it's been practically life-changing.
either because they think they have a bigger potential audience if Node is used, or because Node is what they know best.
While it's true that prep courses can help dramatically, the SAT subject tests are also not really that hard. I don't consider myself terribly smart (certainly not MIT level) and I managed to get an 800 on the Math II and 800 on Chemistry with a minimum of studying using pretty inexpensive books. This applied to many of my friends as well.
> What should the government do to these people? Arrest them?

In France, people get a fine for being outside without a good reason. In some cases, they also get arrested. Police can be dissuasive, even if (almost) no one will be put into jail.
Thanks, little typo there by me. This does seem to be a more realistic number that the original 3+. South Korea is sitting around 1% and they into the deceleration phase.
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> a little extra short-term sacrifice can get us near eradication inside two months.

"Near eradication" is not enough if you want to "snuff it out". COVID-19 started with only a couple of cases. There was a patient zero.

So no, "a little extra short-term sacrifice" would not be enough, because you are very unlikely to catch everything, especially worldwide. Health workers would inevitably catch it by treating patients, and you can't just tell the entire world to stay home for 3 weeks. Even if you could snap your fingers and do that and have everyone obey, we don't have the infrastructure to provide worldwide basic needs, for free, for everyone, in an automated way; billions would die.

Mitigation until vaccine is the only sensible way we know of at this time. Gradual lockdowns to help contain the virus for cities and countries that don't have the testing infrastructure available to seriously prevent spread.

We're lucky that this is treated in days/weeks (rather than months/years), and that we have already found a promising treatment (hydroxychloroquine). It'll help the mitigation phase a lot.

Edit: To address "If we adopt a stance that makes R0 < 1, there is no other stochastically possible outcome.": This is untrue if you're time-bounding this to "before we make a generally-available vaccine".
It's a reasonable approach. Let's hope Cuomo retains the ability to block NYC full lockdown (which is physically unenforceable and would have at best a marginal impact).

Facebook and Google sometimes use the expression "one in a million" to describe edge/exception cases which occur every day when you serve many users. The density of NYC is a real-world equivalent, there are continuous exceptions that cannot be centrally predicted and must be micro-locally responded.

There has to be non-zero social interaction of young people who are least at risk, and can recover most quickly. Otherwise the only people being exposed will be essential workers. After recovery, these young people can volunteer to train/run errands for hospitals, reducing load on the system and keeping them active.

In times of crisis, civilians working with each other can make a difference. Wish they had used the language "physical distancing" since people can still coordinate socially (including online).
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This is a rather cynical take. It's hard to know the results of basic research on future therapies. Is it likely that this one project is going to find the smoking gun cure when there's hundreds of teams around the world trying all sorts of alternative approaches for medication and vaccines? No. But is this contributing to the sum of human knowledge about the virus? Yes.
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Can they filter out my clicky mechanical keyboard?
Not exactly on topic, but this reminds me of somewhere around the year 2000, where i had to produce "documentation" in a hurry, in under an hour before delivering and deploying some systems. I think i used Dia, but am not sure anymore.
Anyways, all essential information in DIN A4 landscape mode, nice diagrams with network structure, IP numbers and so on, ready.

Now what? Remember it was around the year 2000, what to use?
Floppy disks of course! Saved it, looked at it and thought it had gone wrong somehow because it listed as 4KB only.

Used another floppy, lowlevel formatted with fdformat to be sure, taking minutes, hurry, hurry! Saved again.

4KB!? WT..?

Booted up another system, loaded the PDF with different readers, worked.

Shrugged and hoped it worked at the customers site also, which it did, they even said it looked nice and clear.

If only they knew...
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If you need something to watch I recommend "Funky File Formats" where Ange Albertini shows for example how one file can be valid in multiple file formats at the same time. Really amazing:
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> The conventional wisdom has long been that the SAT subject tests are MORE predictive of future success at MIT, because the influence of test prep, cramming, test coaches, etc. is minimal for the subject tests.

Who cares what the conventional wisdom says? The psychometric results are that SAT I scores and SAT II scores predict performance about equally well in isolation and don't have more predictive value in combination than they do in isolation. In other words, they measure exactly the same thing.

(Contrast the other major predictor, high school GPA, where the predictive value of considering GPA + SAT in combination somewhat exceeds the predictive value of either metric individually.)
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jimmyswimmy says "I've seen no studies backing up the use of zinc for anything related to COVID-19."

It would be very early for posts specific to Covid-19. However that was not the claim: the claim was, verbatim,

"A zinc tablet (10-80 mg) dissolved slowly in the mouth, lavaging the throat and nose, while lying down will cease coronaviral replication on most of the surfaces of the upper respiratory system. Zinc sprays also work. This must be done within the first 3-4 days of infection with covid-19."

Covid-19 is a corona virus and, like all corona viruses, ceases to replicate in the presence of high zinc levels on the epitheleal surfaces. There are many studies re zinc and the way it halts viral replication:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=zinc+halts+viruses+in+vitro&fo...

As I believe I stated ealier, I made no claims as to mechanism.

I wish to point out that probably most of your information about chloroquine is based on the treatment of other diseases, and likely specifically malaria. It is by no means clear that the dose required for malaria is the same as the dose required for Covid-19, which indeed may be an order of magnitude or more less. Time will tell.

As for presenting symptoms, once again I believe this to be take from the malaria playbook. Researchers right now are testing chloroquine for prophylaxis (prevention) as well as treatment, _before_ symptoms present (certainly before serious symptoms present).

What I'm saying is that it is a different ailment and the protocols (and restrictions as to timing) for malaria may, indeed, probably do not apply.
I think if anything...we're under-reacting. Which is why we'er over-reacting now...trying to stop a dam AFTER it's blown to shreds, instead of stopping the bomb before it went off.
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No it isn't. There is almost no reaction from the general public in Germany, everyone is going about their normal lives as if nothing is going on.
Not sure if you read the article or not but the author shows that this could be an npm package that, if included in a project, would open up a backdoor. The payload isn't large at all and the code base itself is small.
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Good point. As someone else said, deaths might not have caught up yet. But if we keep it together, I think we can hope to land at numbers similar to South Korea. They are well into deceleration phase, and are currently sitting at about 1%. Same for Switzerland.
Oh, I don't think near eradication is an acceptable goal either. We need to actually eradicate it. I specified near eradication because we have proof by example that it is possible. As yet, nobody has actually eradicated the virus in their borders, so I don't want to presume it is possible. However, it needs to be the goal.

> To address "If we adopt a stance that makes R0 < 1, there is no other stochastically possible outcome.": This is untrue if you're time-bounding this to "before we make a generally-available vaccine".

Depends on what we get the value to. If we get it to 0.5 or below, as it appears China has done, then probably before we get the vaccine ready. But sure if it's at 0.95 then we will have to wait for the vaccine.
100% agree, was downvoted for saying so elsewhere though.
My mom is 80. I don't want her to die in agony, lungs ravaged, suffocating slowly.

This isn't about numbers for me.

Distinguish between wealth and paperwork. As Bucky Fuller pointed out, if all the paperwork disappeared overnight we would have a hellofa fight over who owns what, but no one would (necessarily) starve. If the wealth itself disappeared: the factories, the distribution networks, and so on, we would be screwed.

In the situation today the physical basis of wealth is not under attack, the "human capital" is.

Nevermind the Goddamned paperwork. Save the lives.
I mean given how prevalent Node is for frontend theres a high possibility you could compromise a big enterprise companies proprietary code.
The real scandal that I can't believe hasn't gotten more attention is that wealthy families are hiring psychologists to claim their child has a learning disability. They can then get more time to take the test and due to a policy change a few years ago, this information is hidden from the schools when students report their scores.
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