skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolute numbers seems like a bad comparison on a country with 6 times as many people.
It's not either or...
Wouldn't data like this make more sense in a per capita comparison? I get that we're outpacing Italy, but are we outpacing.

US population is about Italy, Spain, Germany, France, UK, and Netherlands put together.

For that matter does China even register compared to the impact this is having on Italy on a per capita basis?
If having "products people may want during this time" is the criteria we used to determine if a store should remain open, no stores would close.

This is a numbers game. We want most stores closed to limit the number of people out and engaging with each other. There will be fuzzy edge cases such as large retailers like Walmart and Target being open and selling particular items, while the stores that specialize in those items are closed. That's fine. The goal is not some sort of retail fairness, but public health.
How the iPad's New Trackpad Works
Would love to see a bigger (13.3-inch) version. Many PDF books are Letter or A4 size by default and I don't like having to read them with (smaller) scaled fonts. Otherwise I would go for it as its software seems to be more complete than that of Sony's Digital Paper, which I've been using for a couple of years already.
524% Rise in Video Interview Programs as Businesses Adapt to Covid-19
If you're willing to accept a lot of hidden cases you will have to accept a much lower mortality rate. Just saying.
Defending Netflix here is asinine. They have handled this communication poorly, plain and simple. All they had to do was acknowledge that cutting bitrates might raise concerns about the quality of the service and the amount they charge and that they would look into it.

This is a brand image issue and is exactly the type of issue that should escalate quickly to the CEO if necessary.
Here's a comprehensive analysis of coffee as a product: https://bridgeit.me/coffee. The value chain section is interesting, but the tie-in to the refugee crisis is what got me:

"I became friends with an Oromo family that had to flee from Ethiopia. They were from a region close to the city Jimma in southwestern Ethiopia, the cradle of coffee. Their land and coffee plantations were taken from them and the husband and his friends were jailed when they protested[...] But of course, the coffee we consume everyday and without which ‘we can’t survive’ has to be produced somewhere…"
>>> Average: $$\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N x_i$$

since when 1/N means "len(n)"?
> "Before throwing out insults, consider that GameStop probably has to try and stay open, or they'll go extinct."

At the potential risk of human lives?

Even if we say that customers are coming in voluntarily, it isn't the executives at GameStop manning the counter at these stores; if it were, people would have less objection. Those staff are ordinary people like you or I.
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I'm surprised they didn't go with a more mainstream title like Forza, which has surprisingly accurate physics in it. It's not specifically built for F1, but maybe they could do a DLC for this.

The other huge benefit is that players can put themselves in the same setups as the drivers and compare speeds. That would be awesome.
Excuse me, but let's stop this line of thinking right now.

No business has a right to do whatever it thinks it must to survive. Tobacco companies don't get to do whatever they think they must to survive.

If a restaurant is in trouble, it doesn't get to tell its employees to speed up service by not washing their hands, nor does it get to hire employees under the table for cash to avoid payroll taxes or minimum wage, nor does it get to serve slaughtered horse to save money on beef.

Companies do not have an inalienable right to existence. If they cannot make money while being good members of society, they must close or be forcibly closed.
Italy has a decent testing coverage. US has almost no coverage.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/17/us/coronaviru...
High-Resolution Virus Pictures Help Researchers Develop Vaccines
One thing to consider is that professions such as accounting, law, medicine, and (at least here in Canada) engineering rely quite a lot on degrees and professional certifications for hiring decision. Software does not.

The good side of this is that in order to get hired in tech, you don't need a degree or a P.Eng. The downside of it is that you as an employer have to do the entire vetting yourself, instead of relying on universities and professional engineers associations to do a significant part of the vetting for you.

EPC companies do not give their civil engineering job candidates a civil engineering equivalent of fizzbuzz, because they don't have to. If they are certified, they have demonstrated they possess the required knowledge. I cannot see how fizzbuzz can be eliminated from software without a similar certification process being created in its stead.
Doesn't this data need to be normalized per-capita? It looks like it is just number of cases, and that doesn't get you a comparable. US population is about 5 times that of Italy.
I believe she is, as "Q Lazzarus". She did not continue performing or using that name so nobody knew who she actually was.
> Musk is now saying that they well produce ventilators, although they have no design, no experience in medical devices, and a factory that makes cars, not ventilators...

He's also said they will only do so in the event of a shortage -- he has not said he'll be proactive and divert manufacturing resources to prevent any shortage.

Worth noting that SpaceX, not Tesla, would be the business making the ventilators, as they already make similar equipment for space travel.
It doesn't seem to say here, but in other analysis I've seen it as the day the 100 case threshold was crossed.
That’s part of it, right? Part of learning coping strategies it literally not knowing how to cope. You aren’t going to get coping strategies for free, usually people with thick skin, stable emotions (on the face of it), most likely dealt with a bunch of stuff in their past. It’s not free. That’s why you’ll hear a lot of people that make it past their teens/20s usually manage emotions way better simply because they’ve already been through all the bullshit (and not necessarily life experience, but their own neuroticism).

From experience I can tell you the question you are asking is a massive waste of time in terms of your own energy. When that clicks, boom - you figured it out.
r0 doesn’t take per capita into account

clusters originally were isolated

Eventually this will matter though for absolute numbers, but our healthcare capacity is the bigger issue its not really a contest
- Why would you report absolute numbers?

- You know that private labs are widely not reporting negative results back to CDC, right? (See Alexis Madrigal)

- We just activated testing in general availability yet virus has been here for months

This is bad statistics, and should be removed.
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Are we able to know that for sure? What if he died of autoimmune disease, flu etc. But just happen to have covid19?
I've heard multiple cases of people in NY turned away from testing as well even though they have been in close contact with others who tested positive or live with them.

It's very bad there I'm hearing, I think the best we can draw is that NY is probably very much underreporting the true number of cases due to test kit limitations.
I made one in logarithmic units. But it's on a teeny digital ocean instance and Streamlit, so please don't trample on it.

http://covid.superlabs.club:8501
Different people will have different needs and circumstances. What’s essential shouldn’t be dictated centrally - I think that’s too draconian. Instead focus on the parameters - reduce max gathering size, require businesses to implement max customer limits, cleaning procedures, and queueing procedures that include distancing. We don’t need to be perfect about this, just good enough.

In the case of GameStop - mental health matters to people, and games are an important outlet especially if they live alone. The alternative is that they will violate guidance on gatherings. And GameStop also sells equipment you can use to work from home. I don’t think it’s just groceries or healthcare that should be allowed to operate. People who fear what’s coming next might want to shop camping/outdoors stores, or maybe they need to get their car fixed up if they need to leave, or whatever else. I understand the logic behind it, but I feel a blanket rule banning most businesses from operating isn’t the right move.
Also I think you have to look at the clusters (in a state) as independent threads growing in parallel. It makes more sense to compare individual state to European countries of similar population.
If you can't tell the difference, try McCormick vodka. $6 US for a liter. It is vile. I have no idea who couldn't tell the difference with that.
https://www.totalwine.com/spirits/vodka/vodka/mccormick-vodk...
My understanding is in this situation, the right thing to do is to offer the employee the "opportunity" to be laid off.

Several companies are doing this, it allows the worker to choose between reduced employment benefits from UE insurance at the benefit of less exposure to C19 or earning more money.

Most people I know that are making an hourly wage have chosen to be laid off if they had the option.
This would be coming from the SpaceX manufacturing facilities, and doesn't SpaceX make life support systems for their Crew Dragon spacecraft?
This is great, thank you for this piece of information!
Adding death's would be interesting. Especially Italy vs. Germany.
I'm assuming you meant, "against Gamestop by any employees who become sick.." ?
Reading through some archived curricula, it was in a 1993 practice exam, at least. [0] I'm pretty surprised as well.

[0] http://www.csun.edu/science/biology/AP_biology/text%20files/...
Yes, that's quite odd, especially given GameStop's notorious Circle of Life (CoL) philosophy.[1][2] That being said, GameStop employees are often gamers, and gamers are often opinionated about platforms and companies--just like any other enthusiast.

[1]: https://kotaku.com/we-are-all-scared-for-our-jobs-gamestop-e...

[2]: https://kotaku.com/sources-gamestop-changes-their-controvers...
Have you read Discipline and Punish? Europe was doing this 400 years ago.
Social distancing may be needed for ‘most of year’
Again misreading what I write, specs go both ways, as limitation or as liberating, it is all a matter of what the platform provides and making games in fuction of what they allow.

In no moment have I equated specs to super computers on the bleeding edge of hardware engineering.
Isn't whey what Whey Protein Concentrate is made from? Highly sought after in bodybuilding/fitness circles.
There shouldn't be a clear line between "good" and "cheap" for vodka as well as for wine. There is good stuff being sold quite cheaply and the other way around.
I've been buying Asus for some time and have nothing to complain: very good laptops, twice the specs of a Macbook for half of the price and with the choice of AMD processors.

Apple has a strong name in North America, but I find that to be mostly based on a perceived image, rooted more in a distant past (or on pure marketing) than in reality. I understand when this happens with the general public but it puzzles me when technical people buy into this.
You could also ask the citizens to self contain, then we wouldn't need authoritarian measures. So far I believe asking for self containment has failed, I have no reason to think why asking citizens to remain vigilant about the freedom lose will work.
Nobody gives a fuck about not being able to watch 4K. They just want to not pay 4K when you can't get 4K.
Android’s tablet ecosystem is dead.
The article says N = len(x)
How founders should think about friction
> If you banned tourism then normal people would fill back in.

I doubt that. It is extremely annoying to live in Venice even before you factor the tourists in. Houses are small, old, and expensive to maintain; your ground floor will flood once a year or more; it's terrible to reach; it makes it hard to do simple "working-class" things like grocery shopping for a whole week, or going to a multiplex cinema; and you have the additional maintenance burden of looking after some sort of boat and its mooring. All that, and you're still living basically in a swamp - not the healthiest place.

There is a reason tourism became as big as it did: before, the city was effectively destitute. It was built over the commercial and military realities of a bygone era, and it now makes little real sense as a city. It survives because of tourism. That's why I said the alternative is keeping it as a global livingroom for very rich people: it's unrealistic to think it can flourish in any other way. The Italian government certainly cannot afford to do more for it than it already does.

I do hope that they will try to find a better compromise going forward, but I'm skeptical - already there has been talk of restricting cruises, particularly after recent incidents, but in the end it's a big industry bringing a lot of people into local businesses... Maybe the virus will solve this at the root by killing the cruise industry, who knows.
>source: I've made quite a lot of vodka (most of which has been turned into gin)

My assumption here is because gin tastes good. :grin:
its a very similar concept to photogrammetry which is recovering a 3d representation of an object given pictures taken from different angles.

In this work they take pictures of a scene from different angles and are able to train a neural network to render the scene from new angles that aren't in any source pictures.

The neural network takes in a location (x,y,z), a viewing direction and spits out the RGB of the rendered image if you were to view the scene at that location and angle.

Using this network and traditional rendering techniques they are able to render the whole scene.
I would not worry too much about it.
What matters is, if your lungs are allright. If feel pain or pressure in your lungs ... then yes, better make cookies.
At the beginning of the epidemic and the exponential growth the size of the population doesn't really matter, the number of available people isn't the limiting factor. The structure of the population probably matters quite a bit, but the total number of people in a somewhat arbitrary region probably doesn't. Unless containment measures prevent it, at the beginning you'll always have exponential growth no matter the size of the country.

I'm certainly not an expert, but I would assume that the individual, isolated outbreaks would be the most interesting numbers. Below a certain level they can be potentially contained by targeted measures, above a certain number of infected people you can't do any contact tracing or similar stuff anymore. And hospital resources are location-bound, there is only a limited amount of resource sharing you can do across the country.
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How many lives have been lost due to turning up at a hospital and not being able to find a ventilator so far? Do you have a precise stat?

As of about 48 hours ago Lombardy's hospitals were not turning anyone away:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/italys-death-rate-reaches-re...

Medical facilities in Lombardy will “soon” be unable to help new coronavirus cases, regional Gov. Attilio Fontana said Wednesday, as he urged everyone to stay at home.
I think they showed Max or Alex but I don't remember for sure - but that was certainly product placement/he was just playing it for fun. Lando and Max play alot of iRacing which is the most comprehensive and realistic simulator which can actually help you train for motorsports (I use it to learn tracks before I race in a miata) and I think they recently got Carlos and Alex into playing.

Besides, all the teams have their own non commercial simulators miles ahead of what you can play at home
That doesn't make the situation any clearer. Coping with mechanical failures isn't the primary concern. The issue is how to handle edge cases where the AV software is unable to decide on any course of action.
You did not begin your comment with the disclaimer that you are not a lawyer. So, are you a lawyer? Are you familiar with the authority municipalities, states, provinces, and entire countries have under normal circumstances? How about when there is a state of emergency declared? How about when there is a public health emergency?
I really wonder what the difference between these countries is:

- Germany: 15,320 cases / 44 deaths

- France: 10,947 cases / 243 deaths

- Spain: 17,963 cases / 830 deaths
For arrays, the math uses ordinal convention (1-based) but the Python uses offset convention (0-based). That's OK, but the article should explicitly mention that to avoid confusion.
First off, don't start any conversation by telling someone to stop thinking contrarian thoughts.

Secondly, the risk of dying from the coronavirus from working at or going into a small video game shop is negligible. You are far more likely to get it at Walmart or a grocery store. Are you calling for the closure of these stores too?

Thirdly, you are painting GameStop as some faceless entity. People work there. These people probably rely on their income to survive.
I'll give my perspective as well.

I've hated school ever since middle school, but I recognized I wasn't dedicated enough to get a job without a degree. While going through the motions of academics, I noticed most of the classes were, basically, a joke. Not at all relevant to industry. I went to a fairly well known school as well, but didn't feel like any of it was worth it.

However, starting my second year I was working on side projects in full force, and applying for internships. Sure, my GPA dropped a bit, but I got relevant experience. Then a black swan event, through a connection I was offered a full time position at a very large company, solely on my experience from projects and internships, no degree required. It paid well too (or so I thought). I very much considered dropping out, but several people in my life (including my new boss) strongly suggested I get my degree.

I ended up finishing the degree and almost doubling my pay, so I'd say it was very worth it. However, a degree is not necessary (nor sufficient) for employment.
Ideally, GraphQL would sit between your DB/DB schema and APIs.

Also, the Relay compiler will emit Flow types in its compiled fragments by default, and can be configured to emit TypeScript types instead (AFAIK, you can't generate both types simultaneously).

https://relay.dev/docs/en/type-emission
I think your point about not feeling the car is a big part of what makes driving a simulator so difficult. Every part of a real car is giving the driver direct feedback into various parts of their body. How hard they are on the brake and throttle. Small changes in lateral g-force let them know how close to the edge of traction they are. The screen isn't going to be the same as the real world. The only feedback you get from an (affordable) at-home sim is through the screen and wheel. It requires you to tune into different sensations.

On the last stream Lando Norris (McLaren F1 driver) was asked if it felt like the real thing. He was response was something like, "Not at all. Nothing is like driving an F1 car."
I edited the question to clarify things.
Please if you're going to create stuff like this provide some context and answer questions like "What does this actually mean?". Without those things, this is just another scary looking title and graph that will make people more panicky than they already are. Given the ramp up in testing seen in my state, the large jump up to the cases in the graph isn't surprising. We know that the US has a far higher population than Italy and that testing rates in the US have been very low. Large spikes in confirmed cases are obviously going to happen as the testing ramps up. That's when we can start drawing conclusions and make better decisions. When we have a more clear picture of how widespread this is and what that actually means. What's the R0 and what's the mortality rate? On the other hand, if we accept that there are far more infected people right now than we know, the logical conclusion is that the mortality rate is low, otherwise there'd be dead people everywhere.
"We acknowledge that this decision impacts the quality that our customers have come to expect. We appreciate your patience as we all face these trying times together, and we will explore additional options to make sure our customers are treated fairly and are fully satisfied with our service."

That's basically all they had to say. Something to the effect of "This sucks but it's necessary and needed to be done quickly. We'll try to make it up to you." Then figure out whether to refund people on the higher plans or give them a free month or credit on their account or something.
> Not really. My definition of a language feature is something the compiler supports and checks for. JS does not have interfaces.

It doesn't matter what your definition of a language feature is. The person you responded to was obviously talking about interfaces in the general sense of the word and was asking a question about it.

> What you're talking about are patterns and best practices, so you're getting there...

Nope, what I'm talking about is interfaces. The nature of function signatures as interface points is not a matter of patterns and best practices. They simply are exactly that, whether it's spelled out for you or not.

> JS is a dynamic language. Just deal with it already... you sound smart enough to support both paradigms at the same time in your head.

This doesn't constitute an argument or an objection to anything I've said. It presumes that I won't "deal with it" when there is no evidence that I'm not. It supposes that "support[ing] both paradigms at the same time", whatever that means, is a matter of my intelligence. It doesn't argue for any of this.
“While being good members of society” is an argument often used to justify suppression of free speech and other authoritarian tactics.
This is such a classic Oregon thing.

#1 Oregon loves micro-breweries and micro-distilleries are popping up everywhere.

#2 They are upcycling/ reclaiming a by-product.

#3 It's an innovation that favors smaller local businesses versus big business.

#4 OSU has an "Assistant Professor of Distilled Spirits"
There’s a bit of a learning curve for sure, but in the last year Maxima has become an indispensable tool for me. Symbolically writing out multiple equations, putting them together, and solving for a variable buried deep inside is dramatically more repeatable and less error-prone. Pretty much anything I’m working on now that involves algebra or calculus gets a Maxima file that starts with first principals and derives the final equation.
Very true. The most basic modeling of by country is not helpful, it'd be far better to show it by city, metro area, etc. And as you said each area has their own start date.

Shoot in the US most metro areas have their own quarantine date too.
In Canada, a lot of gyms simply pause the membership (or offer pro-rated refund) while everything is shut down. Seems scummy to do anything other than that!
Oh certainly, I agree that is the best approach.
The gap between the extremes of introversion and extraversion is wide. Most people, of course, sit somewhere in the middle. Though there seems to be another axis at play here—what if you were forced to stay at home but not alone? For many people the office is a more peaceful place to work than home. And even people who like solitude do not often like being forced to stay inside, without being able to go for a walk, without access to nature and so on.
How do you use communities in your product growth strategy? Are you part of any community? An article on how communities evolved into the future for product development.
Im always in awe when such basic maths makes the front page of Hacker news.