skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the union insists the toilet paper factory shut down because everyone is getting sick, there’s not going to be a toilet paper factory if the bosses disregard. The same is true of Amazon’s logistics network, although I’m sure they’ll try and pretend it isn’t.
This is just saying that signal processing is vital to the input sensors. Which, doesn't seem new.

Yes, ml is dependent on getting data. Signal processing is vital to that.

I thought this was saying a new application of signal processing in ml.
That is a misleading statement. The CDC has in fact changed its recommendations to recommend in a crises, even HCPs use home-made masks [0]

Health care providers, scientists and health officials are rapidly changing and adapting to the situation. It probably is a good idea for all people to wear homemade / improvised masks to reduce R0

But I'd still hope that civilians with large stores of N95 masks or other PPE would consider donating them to healthcare workers. The optimal scenario seems to be that non-HCPs stay home as much as possible, wash hands, sanitize and wear improvised masks when leaving home, and donate PPE to healthcare workers

9% of COVID-19 cases in italy are HCPs

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/ppe-strategy/f...
My argument is a nature centric one, indifferent of biology. Biology is nature through carbon based life forms.

My argument still holds, if you over centralize or lack diversity (not in the social science race or sex based sense) then you’ll run into issues. Examples include Russian central governance, as opposed to more independent localized governance and sustainability. Another is non diverse economic production, for example many middle eastern countries.
The number of deaths seems to be tracking with South Korea’s trend [1] while the number of positive tests are much lower [2]. That does seem to indicate the testing is not matching up with South Korea’s at least.
1. https://covid19dashboards.com/compare-country-death-trajecto...
2. https://covid19dashboards.com/compare-country-trajectories/
Allowing arbitrary code execution on a consumer device is a recipe for a malware dumpster fire of epic proportions.

You can’t run arbitrary code on a medical device, a car, or a jet aircraft, either. And yet they still work reliably, in no small part because of these restrictions.
Some people feel for dying Italians, some fear going outside so much their hands are shaking. But this really wrenches my gut : O
We don't wear outside shoes in our house. (Midwest US)
Not sure it would play a role with viruses but definitely keeps out dirt and other contaminants, just makes for a cleaner environment.
Getting into macOS development and Swift. Working on a small menu bar app on weekends: https://github.com/grdnrt/MenuBarTimer
> Honestly all C programs that fail to allocate panic as well.

I'd say that most C programs that fail to allocate panic (if only because e.g. they're running over-committing anyway so allocations never fail), but it's not true that all of them do. There are systems which do handle heap allocation failures "properly", usually ones which run on systems which are both resource-constrained enough that allocation failure is a possibility yet large enough that heap allocation is a possibility e.g. modern embedded-ish systems running with dozens (!) or even hundreds (!!!) of megabytes of RAM.

Or the software might be designed for running with a low ulimit for some reason (I think that also triggers allocation failures, I remember that being a case where Python throws MemoryError).

Even on larger machines, I'd also guess it is / was also more common on 32b systems where address space exhaustion could be a real concern.

> What else can you do?

You might just abort the current task because it's not that important when resource constrained, or you might have caches you can clear. Or possibly (if that's a possibly routine issue e.g. a background task which might run in cases of both plentiful and constained resources) you might switch to a less CPU efficient but more memory-efficient algorithm.
The very first chart this guy shows, and then rubbishes, is from the Financial Times. The methodology behind the chart and why they show the data the way they show it is explained pretty clearly on his twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1241092187577819137?...

I'll probably do myself a favour and stop clicking on coronavirus medium links
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616354
I read something recently about AquaStorm, which aims to move fish farms out of the fjords and into deeper sea water, with the purported benefits of avoiding sea lice and disease. Do you have an insider opinion on this?
Also generally speaking the culture doesn't have too much "family style" eating habits which helps at the margins.
10356 if you want to be precise.
What was described above wasn't "US Administrative Bureaucracy" so much as "this is how busy labs are run." It can be challenging to understand that if you're coming from a small research lab where QA/QC boils down to recalibrating when you feel like it, and sample records are maintained by transcribing loose paper into Excel.

The bureaucratic aspects are to ensure you don't mix up the large volume of samples, and the quantitative QA/QC metrics are needed to objectively esablish what level of error is considered acceptable. Good record-keeping and QA/QC are all necessary when you're dealing with healthcare, particularly largescale healthcare.

That doesn't mean US policy or the administration's handling of this crisis was anything close to acceptable, but the issues there are pretty far removed from routine laboratory sample check-in and record-keeping.
Y Combinator is a representation of how grossly over-valued and detached tech is
How easily could this story* happen in other fields besides University faculties? Could this all be avoided by just not telling anyone that you are in the running for a job, until you have the written offer in hand?

*(1:frenemy finds out you are a candidate for a job; 2: frenemy anonymously send unsubstantiated rumors to decisionmakers; 3: decisionmakers take the rumors seriously)
I'm using ImTui [0] which is a small ncurses + Dear ImGui wrapper that I wrote recently. The project in the video [1] is an attempt to showcase the capabilities of the library + I find it useful for creating various WTF dashboards [2].

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/imtui

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/wtf-tui

[2] https://wtfutil.com
The first drug against "inflammation storm" is tocilizumab.
An expensive drug.
But why do universities get special treatment in the first place?
But office toilet paper supplies should be more available in grocery stores, but I don't see it.

Haven't seen TP on a shelf in over a week, and I go to stores three times every two days.
Japan is lying. its a cover up.

not the first time they covered something up.
It's kind of fringe, but zerohedge does seem to surface interesting nuggets pretty quickly.
I’m here in japan and have been trying to find an answer to this for the past week. It has to be the masks.
See Table 1 in the original study: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...

Ipertensione arteriosa (high blood pressure) 76.1%
Diabete mellito (diabetes) 35.5%
Cardiopatia ischemica (heart disease) 33%
Fibrillazione atriale (atrial fibrillation) 24.5%
Cancro attivo negli ultimi 5 anni (cancer in past 5 years) 20.3%
Insufficienza renale cronica (renal failure) 18%
BPCO (COPD) 13.2%
Ictus (stroke) 9.6%
Demenza (dementia) 6.8%
Epatopatia cronica (chronic liver disease) 3.1%

Note that the most of the people in this study were 70+ years old, and I have no idea what the typical prevalence of these diseases is among 70+ year old Italians.
It does beg the question, though...

If you can identify (maybe iffy) the subset of the population likely to required hospitalization, might it make sense to relax the quarantine to only that subgroup (and immediate contacts)? Building up herd immunity in the rest of the population once hospital supply lines are robust might be the best way to unwind the existing rules. With any exponential there is going to be a crunch no matter how things are done, so unwinding in risk order may be optimal.
It's a shame, too, because the 2009 Kindle DX is perfect for PDFs, but isn't supported anymore.
According to the limited info in the article, high blood pressure counts (and accounts for 75% alone).
absolutely. great idea
Notably, there's a big difference between South Korea - which seems to largely have largely gotten the epidemic under control, and Italy where it seems to be totally out of control despite a severe lockdown.

Whats a key difference between South Korea and Italy? Widespread use of face masks.
When people are losing jobs at a higher rate than the worst recession in the modern era, while kids miss out on critical education time, and everyone is basically self-imprisoned in homes I think it’s fine to constantly question if we are overreacting. Even if that answer is mostly no, we’re not.

Emergency funding will only go so far and once we get past a month of extraordinary measures the serious pain hitting millions of people will be a guarantee. Even in countries with far wider safety nets than the US, none of them are designed to handle this sort of unprecedented event.

Then we see Hong Kong announcing 50 new cases in a single day [1] after getting down to zero for an extended period. The only certainty is that there will be no easy answers. Which I think the OP posts downplays in their ‘data driven’ recommendations.

[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
Working on my programming language [0], currently in the middle of a major refactoring to add register allocation.

https://github.com/codr7/gfoo
I suppose that in that case you would see an increase of deaths and also the count of respiratory illnesses(covid-19 missclassified).
Using Google Translate on the original report (so, auto-translated from Italian so keep that in mind):

diseases N %

-----------------------------

Ischemic heart disease 117 33.0

Atrial fibrillation 87 24.5

Stroke 34 9.6

Hypertension 270 76.1

Diabetes mellitus 126 35.5

Dementia 24 6.8

COPD 47 13.2

Active cancer in the past 5 years 72 20.3

Chronic liver disease 11 3.1

Chronic renal failure 64 18.0

Number of pathologies

0 pathologies 3 0.8

1 pathologies 89 25.1

2 pathologies 91 25.6

3 or more pathologies 172 48.5
Each year Roguebasin hosts the 7DRL challenge where people look to create a finished roguelike in seven days. I participated this year and found it a pretty thoughtful meditation on the genre.

https://7drl.com/
I am learning some foundational skills that I've always lacked or that I find interesting. Things like ldap, DNS (I'm reading DNS&bind).

I'm (finally) setting up a gitlab instance at home so that I can finally manage my (small) infra via gitlab-ci.
the electricity has to be generated somewhere. coal plants - pollution. hydropower plants - pollution. you might say hydropower plants don’t produce pollution, but it takes a lot of energy to build them and they pollute the environment with their mere existence, no more pristine nature.
It really strikes me how many times new products fail to describe efficiently what they do.
It often seems they're explaining what the project/service does to someone who already knows it rather than to someone who just landed on their website.
Many Apache products lack of proper explanation, in my opinion. Some times even AWS services.

Well, it could be I'm bad at understanding their explanation.
Am I the only one thinking this?
I could not see it even after reading your comment...

This type of corporate writing is not serving anyone...
Yea. Trump even pardoned a special forces killer against the wishes of fellow vets, the military, etc. our respect for veterans is flimsy.
Yet, all of a sudden:

> in the future, anonymous accusations would be fact-checked before new investigations were opened

policy allowed for this..
More than 75% had high blood pressure, about 35% had diabetes and a third suffered from heart disease.

The original study in Italian:

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...

Translation from Google below. I can't paste a table, but if you scroll down you can see the full list. Looks like primarily heart conditions, hypertension, recent history of cancer, and diabetes.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
This is a super cool idea. I find that too often I have a bajillion applications open and get lost. Currently I try and partition by desktop but everything blends together after a while.

Will this be free / will there be an unlimited length demo version?
I think due to the nature of (generally) exponential growth, no country can be expected to be able to "cover" a true outbreak. However, it's also true that the spike in cases will only happen in a very short period of time so it's not very informative to look at hospital beds if the peak is not there yet.

That said, I would expect Japan to be further on the growth curve compared to other Western countries, so not sure what's going on especially given the limited information.
No because if you relax the quarantine you turn a lot of people that don't have the virus right now into potential vectors for infection of new hosts once they do acquire it, which is pretty much inevitable once people start moving around again at the old rate. And once you have enough people spreading it those at risk will be more at risk than they are now.
I'm building a text editor in Nim that is rendered with OpenGL. I haven't figured out why that's useful yet...

https://github.com/paranim/paravim
>Always on microphones that transmit via the internet (i.e. bugs) have been a commodity for... a few decades? But you still cannot legally bug your neighbor's apartment.

It has not been normal until the last few years for people to typically have an Alexa-like device that is always listening for the "I'm about to make a request" signal, which frequently gets turned on by accident.

It's not ridiculous that someone might conclude in the future, "if you're in someone's house with such a device, you should reasonably expect that some part of your conversation might get sent to the third party", which would mean a diminishing of the right to such privacy in 4th amendment jurisprudence.

And frankly, the whole concept of using voice to activate it is reckless. It is unavoidable to have significant false positives. It should be done with a non-audio signal that can't be faked (up to the limits of modern crypto), like an authenticated EM signal to turn on the listening.
No need to imagine it. There are plenty of history books documenting life under those alternatives.

No thanks.
Up your DAO UX game with webhooks
My impression is that hypertension and diabetes are counted as an underlying health condition in these statistics.
>debating spending a trillion dollars on stimulus

Engineered systems can have various modes (operational, degraded, maintenance, etc.), bears can hibernate, some frogs can burrow for years in the ground waiting for better times, etc.

Our societies should also be able to switch modes to handle bad times, functioning under different laws until things get better, without all the drama that we see today.

"Injecting" money in the system to try to put it back to "normal" makes me think about a bear taking stimpacks to walk around in the winter looking for non-existent food.
It's also important to note that just because it doesn't kill you, doesn't mean it's harmless. Serious fevers can cause permanent lifelong organ damage and other complications regardless of if it's acutely fatal. The fatality rates also only reflect the beginning stages of this where everyone has access to a ventilator and ICU support. Once this thing really gets going in the US it's going to get ugly.
The 6600 didn't have general purpose registers. It had operand, address and increment registers. The 801 development began in October 1975. The Cray 1 had been in development for 4 years when it was released in 1975.

So I'll go with the Cray as being to OG RISC. But yes, firsts don't really matter except to say it sure wasn't the Berkeley RISC or the Stanford MIPS.
Slowly hacking away on my open-source projects for music and audio:

- VexFlow - https://vexflow.com
- VexTab - https://vexflow.com/vextab
- Pitchy Ninja - https://pitchy.ninja

Also been working on experiments for chord recognition and music transcription (writeups on my blog: https://0xfe.blogspot.com)
Where I am it's the same. I went to do my normal weekly shop today; there was no toilet roll (luckily I bought a 9pk a few weeks ago so have enough left to last me a couple of months), no eggs, no chicken, almost no peanut butter (only a really expensive brand was left). Crazy. It's been impossible to find toilet roll and hand sanitiser for about two weeks now.
From the article, it does not sound like much needs to change to prevent abuse of this level. Requirements of at least one non-anonymous source would do it.

Dismantlement seems pretty unnecessary.
Pretty good commentary in the comments section too.

Clearly this is complicated, and politics everywhere will shape different outcomes.

I think this will be studied for decades across the fields of immunology/medicine in general, logistics, statistics, politics, sociology, and economics/finance.

My personal belief is that we have a number of highly knowledgeable people with varying recommendations. Hopefully different countries will try different things so we can have a solid guide for the future.
is high blood pressure usually a separate thing from other issues like heart issues, diabetes etc?
In Haskell lazy values are just thunks. So a Lisp-style cons can have a tail that's just a thunk, and when you need to coerce it to a non-thunk value, it just happens and presto, you have the next cons. That's a list! A lazy list.
Do you mean it doesn't matter if clients of your company can't? Is there a typo in your comment or am I too dumb to get it? :o)
Christian Drosten`s podcast is the most authentic and a very compact source of information about the new Corona virus and the situation in Germany in my opinion:
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html
> How exactly do the police freely gain access

They don't, Kyllo v United States isn't about gaining access to someone's devices. The police used their own thermal camera to search Kyllo's residence:

>> In order to determine whether an amount of heat was emanating from petitioner's home consistent with the use of such lamps, at 3:20 a.m. on January 16, 1992, Agent Elliott and Dan Haas used an Agema Thermovision 210 thermal imager to scan the triplex. [...] The scan of Kyllo's home took only a few minutes and was performed from the passenger seat of Agent Elliott's vehicle across the street from the front of the house and also from the street in back of the house.
Numbers for my country (Iceland) are incorrect.
Toward Interpretable ML: Transparent Deep Neural Networks and Beyond
I'm trying to make Python's `pathlib.Path` something you can readily subclass and use for S3/FTP/whatever: https://discuss.python.org/t/make-pathlib-extensible/3428

Currently working my way thru a bunch of preparatory bugfixes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TicFDMudKKA6CZcrscg1...
Amiga Emulator FS-UAE 3.0.3
I'm working on a DiC library[1] for TypeScript that supports autowiring interfaces, array of types and generics without decorators by leveraging typescript's compiler API.

To be more exact, it visits the entire project's AST and generates mapping code (creates an AST that is outputed by the compiler to valid ts/js).

1. https://github.com/manole-ts/ana
Yes, but many doctors aren't as ethical as they should be.
Then let me quote the post I originally replied to:

> The way modern memory works linked lists are practically a denial of service attack on system performance.

and

> IMO, like goto’s it’s better to just forget they exist.

That's as close to "never use a linked list" as you can get without saying that literal sentence.
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1371/journal.pone.0002618
Same. It seems he's also blocking other archiver tools by showing "Please click the button below to enter byuu.org: [I am not a robot button]": https://archive.vn/NYreE
> complex/nested responsive grids are not simple, unfortunately.

How does utilities make complex/nested responsive grid simple, again? I'm arguing semantic css is simpler than using utilities all over the HTML, not that it magically makes responsive design easy.

> your grid has zero media queries in it, which means whatever grid classes you were using before were not responsive - which is where 90% of the complexity lives.

There are some in the examples [0][1]. Both for responsive design and nested grid, sadly not for both at the same time. It's not much more complex, though, well I guess it depends on how complex are we talking about. Anyway, CSS Grid makes semantic layout a lot simpler now.

[0] https://github.com/nitely/semantic-flex-grid/blob/gh-pages/s...

[1] https://nitely.github.io/semantic-flex-grid/
also, many people don't know what issues they have, until they find out the hard way.
Data Science in a Crisis, the experts strike back
> It invalidates the claims of the original post while not denying any of the evidence was true.

So the evidence is still true, then? And the paragraph at the top of the OP states that it is slightly out of date.

> A well sourced Wikipedia article can still be biased.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/978/

I'm increasingly becoming convinced Wikipedia is a toxic garbage dump. The Wii U article states that it had the fewest game releases of any Nintendo console. I tried adding the words "…since the Virtual Boy" to turn that into a factually correct statement and it got reverted. I don't have the time to get into a slapfight with another editor about facts, so the incorrect statement remains. Whatever.
What would the Government do? Force people to go back to work at gunpoint?

I'd love to see them try.
The job market has been very hard on everyone lately. And looking at current event, I don't think that's going to improve in the foreseeable future.
It’s hard not to blame those workers if they’re living paycheque to paycheque. For a well-paid programmer it’s a different story but it’s not hard to imagine the immediate liquidity bieng more valuable when expenses take a bigger bite of your income.
The ICU videos out of Wuhan have the doctors wearing triple PPE.

China has a lot of experience with SARs and other respiratory viruses. They are basically ground zero right.. so I would expect people to listen to China when they say you need masks.
Close contact detection and alerts at the mobile OS level
The trouble with an article like this is that it mixes well reasoned arguments with nonsense. The economic cost of closing schools and shutting borders is real, especially as the epidemic continues for months. The trouble is that the article downplays the seriousness of covid-19. A mortality rate of 0.6% means nearly one million deaths if covid-19 spreads to half all Americans.

The article points to South Korea as an example of a success story in the fight against covid-19. South Korea immediately began widespread testing for covid-19 as soon as infections were detected. They trace cases and isolate people suspected of having become infected. South Korea has universal healthcare, ranking first among OECD countries for access. All of this is pretty much the opposite of we've been doing in the US, which is why a lot of people here are worried about what's going to happen in the next few months.

It's reasonable to ask whether school closings or shutting borders are the right policies. But we should be discussing alternative means of containing the virus and we need to be clear what we're up against.