skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's probably one of the most flexible programming languages in the world

I don't think so. There is a reason we use text editors instead of whiteboard and OCR for our daily programming. Insert/delete/copy/paste is really cumbersome on a whiteboard.
Worth remembering: the current non-pro iMac doesn’t have a T2 chip. Non-T2 Macs will be supported by macOS for years to come.
I’m not actually sure the bottleneck will be our stock of ventilators, nor do I think it will be very difficult to build enough within the next month or two — at least not to the point where we’d need a wartime mobilization

They don’t run themselves, however. They require specialists, many of whom that will themselves catch the virus and have to quarantine. It’s not just doctors but anesthesiologists, nurses, technicians, etc.

Not to mention just having physical room in the hospitals.
You don't need to wait to do some basic logic checking on your post.

You said it yourself: "Here we are talking about profits comparable with the entire world's wealth". What do you exactly think is going to happen if americans try to spend "the entire world's wealth" on health care?

I don't believe your implications but even I could make a more convincing case for them than that.
Invest in Your Tools: Coronavirus Edition
The parts that CAN be 3d printed will never need multiple back-and-forth cycles because 3d printed accuracy is terrible compared to the tolerances required for some complex injection moulded parts. In fact using the moulding method your surface finish is accurate literally down the molecular level. (Of course since we're talking about plastic that doesn't mean the overall shape and dimensions are that accurate but that problem is just due to the material properties, not the process)

Please note that I am ONLY talking about plastic parts. Every piece of electronics has many injection moulded parts.

Show me one item in your house with a 3d printed plastic part?

Sorry but you're just wrong about the future of plastic 3d printing machines. There's zero chance it will ever beat a cheap injection moulding machine pumping out 1000s of parts per hour.

3d printing of metal is completely different. That could be a game changer because we do not have good methods to mass produce complex metal parts.

3d printing of plastic is pointless as soon as you need more than 100 parts or so.

Also note that your 'sterility' claim is wrong. Injection moulded parts are every bit as sterile as 3d printed parts. PLA can be used for injection moulding too, no problem at all.
I remember reading a book as a kid in USSR about some child inventing a rocket ship, flying to the moon and leading a communist revolution among the natives.

That book left a really big impression on me - it was truly entertaining.

P.S. Found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon
Thank you so much!! Alcohol can cause crazing or stiffening in some plastics, so I worried about potential foams in the filters.

In fact, that was covered by your article:
2. The disinfection method of spraying alcohol on the mask will destroy the electrostatic absorption of the mask, causing filtering efficiency of the mask lowering below 95%.
Oh! Yes. Doesn't seem like I can edit the comment any longer. The URL is:

https://www.singularity6.com/careers
10k social brains: Sex differentiation in human brain anatomy
On the surface it’s very different. But in practice it’s surprisingly close as successfully running any truly large scale manufacturing means direction flows down from the top and innovation flows up from the bottom. Automation may be replacing a lot of labor, but cars are also vastly more complex and have far tighter tolerances.
For the most part, you can insert/update/delete.

See: INSTEAD OF triggers.

That is unless you're using MySQL/MariaDB, in which case views are the least of your worries.
Time for Individual Accounts at the Fed
I have a metaphysical certainly that Obama would have handled this better are you kidding me. Even Bush would have.
Wouldn't it be easier and perhaps better to only quarantine the old and those most at risk, then spend millions of dollars and community time to support them utterly through the next 3-6 months till the virus dies out?

The other approach is what we have now in the US, which is rolling quarantines as we put out virus outbreaks like brushfires. It disrupts everyone's life and makes it harder to get supplies to those most at need as everyone is constantly preparing themselves for a personal lockin.
May I add a controversial comment again please? It will be downvoted again, sadly, I'll create a new account after this thread.

People who say that Musk should use all his resources to help society, usually do nothing themselves (I'm not speaking about you personally). It's pure virtue signalling.

Elon musk can loose 10% of his money switching from producing Teslas to producing ventilators.

But everyone can use their 10% of time to help homeless, care for elders. Or at least donate 10% of their income to coronavirus charities.

But somehow people think that Musk has to spend his resoures, but they don't have to. That's not fair.
Obviously the time to act was yesterday. But we've got a chance to act today, so let's get the details of these devices shipped to Detroit in a hurry and get the retooling process started.

We should also be asking China what their capacity is? I do know they've been supplying Italy with extra ventilators, but we should see if they are able to make even more. I mean, we just need to find ways to get the requisite medical equipment into the field on a global scale. That's PPE's, that's masks, that's ventilators, that's the diagnostics, etc. Between China and the US, there is no reason that shouldn't be able to be done.

We can only start from where we are is what I'm saying. Yes, we're unprepared. Yes, we should have been prepared. Now that all that's been conceded, let's hurry up and get prepared.
Another reason why people avoid contributing: unwritten social rules. New members often step on people's toes and suffer the consequences. As a result, joining a new group can be intimidating. Better to lurk for a while and gain understanding of what is and isn't normal.
> There are going to be a lot of comments about how we messed up, wasted time, etc., but they miss the point.

That, ironically, misses the point of the existing comments about how we wasted time.

By wasting time, lots of people are going to die that didn't need to die. None of that has to do with mobilization itself or the issues that we run into during mobilization, it has to do with when we decided to mobilize.
Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]
My org has just started using Slack (probably like many others), while I used it before because of my college capstone team -- hoping this helps incentivize them to adopt it!
I think they work in gloves (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/26/18744304/c... for the picture).
AppleScript pairs a concise writing syntax with a verbose reading syntax. The writable->readable translation is done automatically on save - think first-class clang-format.

As a simple example you can write an if block with `if...end`, and this will be automatically rewritten as `if...end if`.

I wish every language had built-formatting and also made the reading/writing distinction!
The issue as you highlighted is correct. We lack intensivists. In terms of ventilators and critical care beds, the US is actual well ahead of most other countries.

https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Avai...

The reason people think we have fewer beds per capita is because they are counting regular hospital beds and don't include beds available in outpatient facilities.

What I was unable to find out is how many intensivists per capita are available per country. If anyone can find that data, I'd be curious to see it.
Stackpath is cheaper on bandwidth, mostly because of scale. For video based applications, this is a big deal (and we work with video companies to try and get better bandwidth pricing). For typical web app servers, bandwidth is usually not a very large expense.

CPU based pricing is pretty close. We've heard our CPUs are higher performance, but haven't done any real testing. The people who run high CPU apps on us _tend_ to pay less because we scale up and down so quickly.
I consider making three billion dollars in a year raking it in.
I often thought of the same. Or even more Radical, something that is better than HTML and CSS at presentation but compiled to ( Good ) subset of Modern HTML and CSS.

Move more functions to Browsers without the use of Javascripts. At least standardise subset of something like TinyMCE, and Ajax / Pjax.

Basically we need to pick all the good part of HTML, CSS, and Javascript without the "Apps" baggage.
To be fair, I dont think it's a humblebrag. If they worked at the same company as all of us, it might make sense to call it a humblebrag but, there are enough people around here in much better positions than those that get bonuses like these for it to make sense to brag about. That is, I (and probably most people on yc) would feel embarrassed talking about my best accolades when there are people on here that were able to retire by 30, work with Freeman Dyson, or found some successful company.

I think they just used themselves as an example to provide the support that their argument wasn't coming from someone who values doing the bare minimum (which I've seen argued on yc a few times).
Given the immense pressure on the cashflows of small business and real estate, I'd say WeWork might also be subsceptible.
They don't need to because their hospital systems never got overwhelmed.
This is incredibly interesting, and something I wouldn't have thought much of before becoming a parent.

Since our son was able to speak, he was able to vocalize when we were near a family member's house (I saw this weekly as we drove from the San Francisco Peninsula up into the city). I was always curious what triggered him to know "we're nearby". We passed several unique structures (overpasses, apartment buildings, signs) but I was incredibly curious which ones he associated with being nearby this particular relative.

Eventually when he was a little older, and we asked, he was able to say a specific color building "told him" he was close. Super interesting. Child development and understanding in itself is so amazing to watch.
Schedule non-essential instances shut down overnight – why this is misleading?
I've been using it lately, too, and think of it as a database to connect databases and return json. Yet another layer in the ever-growing stack.
Proposals to Help the Economy During the Covid-19 Crisis [pdf]
a factory full of people using gloves and alcohol sanitizers will spread the virus unless the people are trained and experienced in sterile technique.
Yeah - you'd be surprised. I got accused of cheating more than once because I'd come up with the optimal solution in less than a minute. Never even saw the problems. I spent a lot of time prepping.
Talking about downvoting is very taboo on HN. It's in the FAQ/guidelines.

Relax, I've had countless comments start off downvoted then turn into +30 by the end of the day. It's a silly thing to get upset about, as long as you originally commented with earnest intentions there's nothing to worry about (even being wrong, if misunderstood then try harder next time to communicate it better).
Row-level security is not at all dependent upon DB users/roles. Storing app user data in a table for lookup is sufficient. Storing the user info in a session config value as provided by JWT can be even better.

Basic database table replication will suffice for the former. No replication required for the latter.
Seriously. 172k in San Fran? Lmao!
the 15" macbook pro has a dedicated gpu, the mac mini only has integrated gpu.
It seems indisputable that if we had manufactured a million tests in the first two weeks after cases started showing up, we’d be a lot better off right now. And realistically, “a lot” is probably a massive understatement.

Rare as they are in politics, we have a case where two presidential administrations faced almost directly analogous challenges. The results would appear to speak for themselves.
Pretty sure I got blacklisted from Triplebyte, it's been months but every time I check it just shows this message:

> We're really sorry but we've had a surge of applications recently and are temporarily booked out of interview times.
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring
This made me feel a twinge of patriotism. Something I haven’t felt in a long time.
I’ll also add that Yelp in particular uses their interns to staff their cold-calling marketing/sales team to sell premium services to restaurants. This program seems like a loss for the most of this year.
Bill Gates thinks a coming disease could kill 30M people within 6 months (2018)
There's nothing controversial about saying some people demand from others that which they won't give themselves. The point, though, as I made in my response to yours, is that people's duty will vary by their means. Some people won't be able to do anything more in this case to help society than simple sheltering in place, some may just be able to donate a few dollars here and there but some people have the ability, because they own the capital, to make outsized impacts.

That said, it is classic whataboutism in this context. That some demand more than they will give doesn't absolve someone of their civic duty in an existential crisis.
At the risk of being argumentative I would point out that many Americans died unnecessarily at the beginning of WWII as well. This is a common pattern in wars.
I think you misunderstood what I meant - I smashed the problems as in... I destroyed them. Optimal solution out of the gate. Optimal solutions on the board only slowed down by my ability to write.

It wasn't even memorization - I just practiced so much. I've done over 500 problems and over 200 technical interviews. I don't really "fail" them in the traditional sense these days.

Maybe I have a really punchable face - who knows.
I'm a bit confused: the featured link here seems to be made by Google, and seems pretty performant in Firefox on a 6-year-old Macbook (albeit with a good Internet connection). Were you thinking of other links that had been shared before?
Most of the time it's a new flu for which we can make a vaccine quickly and isn't a huge threat. This one we knew was novel, a spreader and a killer.
He wrote letters to the editor of the Lancet in response to somebody else's papers!
Not real possible. ITU wards are highly specialised. However the UK is already looking at moving the most well patients to hotels and then uograding wards to ITUs.
It's too early for people to hear it. Wait until unemployment runs out.
Very cool to know.

Are you the author of the fish shell, bychance?

(I'm a fish user. If you are, I'm super-thankful for fish!)
Try doing whiteboard exercises over video conferencing for even more fun.
I really don't think it's that "apps aren't there yet". The platform is more than a decade old and has an order of magnitude more apps and app development than the Mac ever had. I really think that the reason people who own Macs and iPads keep ignoring their iPads when planning to do real work is not that there hasn't been enough effort yet put into creating apps for iOS. It's that the form factor and OS were designed together for one-finger selection from a portable menu of amusements, not for plugging in a standard thumb drive and flexibly deploying a combination of ordinary work tools on a project folder full of productive work.
This is a cool example of science progressing in real time. I had heard previously that the hippocampus was related to navigation (the taxi driver study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18253/).

On the Wikipedia page for 'Retrosplenial cortex' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrosplenial_cortex#cite_note...), the intro text pulls on a source from 2009 to say, "its location close to visual areas and also to the hippocampal spatial/memory system suggest it may have a role in mediating between perceptual and memory functions."

And here there's new research making that link between perception and memory more clear!
Thank you for your reply. Your deployment seems to be a lot more streamlined and simpler than Stackpath at the moment. That just might be the deciding factor for me and other developers!

I wish you and your team the best of luck!
Have you ever been in an executive leadership position that required you to make tough decisions? As someone who recently has entered this realm, let me tell you: most of the decisions in front of you are essentially choices between a whole bunch of options that all have one thing in common: they totally suck. You learn quickly that you are going to make harmful decisions because sometimes a good option isn’t in the hand life has dealt you. It’s the nature of the gig. A true executive leader makes a decision quickly and moves on. When they recognize they have made a bad decision (often with more data now available), they change their mind. Most bad leaders are incapable of doing this last bit. They dig in and hold their ground. The good ones just switch. They won’t even admit it because of ego (Steve Jobs is a great example outside politics of someone with this behavior).

If the US had gone into lockdown in January, the ACLU might have sued the government in court (or another civil liberties org). The UAW would have fought GM on shutting down the plants (let alone the shareholders!). College students would be protesting encroachment on civil liberties. Businesses would have been screaming. The stock market would have gone into a tailspin. People in a free society would have flouted the orders out of civil disobedience. For all this stuff to actually work in a free country, a significant percentage of the population has to believe the threat and cooperate. I’m a highly educated person with a degree in molecular biology. I know all about viral illness and epidemics. Even I did not come around on the severity of this until last week (Despite reading all the articles!). It just pattern matched against all the other pandemics that were a big deal in Asia and elsewhere, but didn’t really impact daily life in the US.
How about: bring a laptop with an HDMI port (or adapter) and a dev environment for "whiteboard" and "napkin" problems.

I'd be OK with an Interview like that, just don't laugh about the fact that my laptop is a still functional but otherwise aging smart terminal for securely connecting to my real workstations when I'm somewhere I don't trust.
Amazon does this. My experience was terrible. I don't mind whiteboarding if they don't care about specifics, and are open to talking about process and ideas, versus strict syntax.
NYT Covid-19 coverage is outside their paywall.
They could put a notch into the Macbook screen. /s
That is a good joke :) I will steal that.
It takes downloading one of these files, gunzipping them, extracting the tar and opening up a JSON file at random to really understand just how distant the title of the project is from its contents. I fully realize this is about natural language processing, but... this is beyond reach. You'd have to teach a computer to become a doctor first.

Feels like where AI (and computing in general) should go in case of Covid-19 and other illnesses is analyzing and simulating how the heck we work to begin with. Take a few minutes to watch these videos of supercomputer simulations that show -- fragments -- of the fundamentals of how we exist.

Multi Scale Modeling of Chromatin and Nucleosomes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z4KwuUfh0A

DNA animation showing realtime DNA replication - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY

Somewhere in these mind-boggling processes is where the disruption called Covid-19 puts a stick in our wheels. Compared to the complexity of the simulations, abstract ideas contained in these files are so macroscopic by comparison. It's both humbling and awe-inspiring.
Ahhhh thank you! That's an incredibly nice thing to say.
If COVID continues to kill people at the same rate in Italy as it does today, it will kill about ~150k people.

Applied to the whole world, the risk is killing easily 10x as much as cars.

If cars suddenly became 10x more dangerous, I'm sure it'd cause mass panic. Especially if cars became 20 to 30x more dangerous specifically to our parents or grandparents.
Meanwhile, actual ventilator manufacturers are not getting many orders:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/03/18/ventilator-...
Thankfully, reader mode seems to be compatible with it.
GOG offers 27 games for free to help pass the time
I grew up in Ann Arbor. Can we open up Willow Run again? :)
You mean the one Trump just walked back? (According to the NYT earlier, searching for corroboration)
Let's be fair, Elon has had plenty of accomplishments in "making the world a better place". I don't see the point of all this concentrated attention on one person as if he's the savior to every problem.
It should either be socialized as a basic service or fully privatized, corporate welfare is worse for everyone.
It might be prudent to ask more simpler questions, such as: will humans ever take a cruise again? Will they ever take planes again? Will they ever go back to restaurants?

There, now go invest.
Watson is basically a brand name for IBM's data analytics consulting services. My understanding is they're not that great at it, they haven't scored any major wins outside of that Jeopardy run. I don't have any articles on hand but i seem to recall reading about some failures with a medical partner in particular, but then that's been a tough field for other big names like Google, too.
Parent comment says Musk "should".
Done that. Went hiking a tall mountain afterwards. Regretted it.
Not necessarily, my laptop has 2 M2 slots.
This is terrible timing for the class of 2020 and 2021. Classes are online or canceled, many are paying rent on apartments they aren't living in (staying with parents after spring break), losing income from their university town/campus jobs since campuses are shutdown, and many companies are on hiring freezes while things shake out.

I know internships were the difference between me taking out loans and graduating debt free. I also converted my last internship into a full-time offer. I feel for anyone directly affected by this.

I wonder if 5 years from now we'll see the classes of '20 and '21 significantly hindered in their workforce progression and pay as was seen of the 2008 era?
Intel only allows ECC with Xeons, meaning a big price jump if nothing else.
We are Americans, we have gone through a lot in this country. In dire times, when humans get together to solve problems - I get goosebumps and tears in my eyes. In our normal day to day life, consuming media and seeing how fragmented this nation has become - incidents like this bring us all together to fight a common enemy. We should have the onus and the courage to help everyone in the world, not just the US. Our image is blemished but the fabric of our principles is still strong. I've never felt patriotism in my whole life in America - but times like this, fuck its amazing.
Comparing conscription in a world war with building a low-volume electric luxury car is totally ridiculous.

This is not “being scared for the elderly”. Without agressive measures including shutting down non-essential businesses like healthcare, food etc. (which a Tesla car most certainly is NOT) the death count will number in the millions in the United States alone [1]

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/3-charts-that-changed...
Shelter in place is until april 7. They can maybe extend it a little longer but not by much because otherwise half of people end up being exempt due to homelessness
Cheap bidet attachments only spray water, fancier models spray water and soap, and blow-dry your butt.

Though, I guess the issue here is comparing bidet to no-bidet.

The bidet is so much better than TP only, it is not even close. Instead of feeling gross, you feel glorious, is what it is.