skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be hard to tell if we're overreacting if we respond correctly, I think. The exponential nature of it means being earlier is _much_ better with all countermeasures (social distancing, mass testing, vaccines) and any success that slows the rate of growth will make it seem many orders of magnitude smaller than it was. So if the US tops out at 20K deaths for Covid-19 it will look more like the flu in size, but in reality the smaller total was caused by the extraordinary measures being taken.

As for hospitals and increased infection rates, here in Seattle I've heard that people are calling ahead and arranging where to go. They are also waiting in their cars while being checked into hospitals so they don't even use public waiting areas. Pretty smart, and definitely not a panicked response!
Norway's Troll Station, in Antarctica, follows UTC (geographically accurate for them) in the southern summer and UTC+2 in the southern winter (to facilitate communication with Norway) - so they do daylight savings time, but backwards! (Source: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-March/020705.html)
the neural network stuff is very good and relies on GPU acceleration. it is the "computation graph" paradigm -- have to define the whole architecture up front -- but it's actually quite pleasant to use.
For anyone looking for something right now we are very much hiring over at https://snyk.io/ for engineers and more in Tel Aviv & London. All interviews are remote at this time but we are not stopping hiring.

Here is a small description of what we do:
Ecosystems Group
My team is responsible for introducing support for new Languages, Build Tools and Package Managers to help Snyk users test & fix their projects. We do so by understanding the language rules & dependency resolution rules for each tool and building libraries & services in TypeScript that can extract project dependencies so that they can be tested for known vulnerabilities. Expect to learn a lot, pair a lot and be challenged while delivering incremental value to our users

We use Node.js with Express & Typescript.
this may be the first article that does not fulfill Betteridges law of headlines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
Slight nitpick: I find the use of 'normal people' in the article a bit distracting. I appreciate the fact that the authors are not native English speakers but using 'the general population' was more appropriate here. However, being a blood type 'O', I am not sure whether this consoles me.
I remember we had an older Compaq tower server that had a Pentium 60MHz chip AND a SCSI card. It was the the perfect device to burn a CD with and even it messed up on occasion. I can't imagine doing them on a 386. It wasn't until the Pentium II days when we could reliably burn a CD and still use the computer for normal tasks without having a buffer underrun.
There's a difference between them though. It's rare that people max out their power when it comes to electricity. But with the broadband it's different. Any time you download a file you try to max out your connection. There is utility for an ISP to increase their bandwidth capabilities for customers. There's much less utility for electricity companies to be able to provide more maximum power to each home.

We also know from poorer countries that ISPs can provide better connections.
I'm pretty worried about this. The measures in place today are entirely warranted, and people will die if their effectiveness is undermined. But if the government announces some unacceptable measure, say a year-long shutdown for the sake of argument, tweets saying "yo wtf we're not doing that" fall under both the letter and spirit of the policy. Can we trust Twitter to revoke the policy in such a case - would they even be allowed to?
You realize that the author is Ron Gilbert, who made a bunch of good games after he published this article, right?
I remember the initial iPhone Simulator release was called "Aspen Simulator" and another codename for the iPhone hardware was "Purple" appearing somewhere as "Purple is the new Orange" or something... Is there a list of those?
Sometimes I really wish people got their internet bill and saw their peak vs. off-peak usage as something like megabits per second, just like they do with their power bill in kilowatts per hour. You could even provide the same kind of "neighbors near you used" metrics.

Each measure could be based off of what the ISP has factored in for the "average" usage at a given time. It would be a purely synthetic number, but it would give people a better idea of exactly what they use, when, and how that compares.
That's my general impression. As Rails grew in popularity and was used for more and more complex things (with more and more complex database tables), they started to add in the raw query building parts of ActiveRecord. Though I think it was more that they wanted raw query functionality in the library and it made most sense to enhance the tool that already dealt with the database rather than add another alongside it.
We know by now that HCQ is effective against it in Vitro, we need some randomized double blind studies with in Vivo use now.
I recommend people check the GitHub readme for a good laugh too :)
You are so dumb that reading this hurts. Apparently you think this is a hoax. People like you that don't take this seriously right now will reel in the pure crisis and deaths that ensues. It's obviously worse than 1918 flu. The spread in the US is already very serious. Call anyone in NYC and ask.

Please everyone don't listen to this utter fool. My jaw is on the floor because this guy's math is so basically flawed. Google Italy and have a nice day.
Does plain old quinine work as well? If so, could you either a. extract it from tonic water, or b. just drink tonic water?
There's a joke around here somewhere about AWS pricing being too difficult even for rocket scientists.
The thing you’re missing is these new RTs wold not just be treating COVID-19 patients. There are tons of people who will need ventilator therapy because they were injured or sick and they would have gotten injured or sick anyway. These are people who can be saved with proper treatment or injured by improper treatment. Barotrauma and lack of tidal volume have implications beyond simply alive or dead. We need people but we must make sure they can actually provide adequate treatment.
Automatically Generating Video Subtitles on iOS
My guess is that they're mostly optimizing to minimize impact on other operations and effort needed to host this - 80 TB storage from shared system might be nothing compared to needs of scientific computing, but letting requests directly there might be too much - having lots of cache at frontends will take care of that, and dual processors are needed to have that much memory.

And dual frontends will give nice redundancy.
I love Qt Creator, but the lack of tabs drives me nuts. The interface is so unfamiliar that I just can't use it. I use it to debug, to build interfaces, to compile, etc... but to code, I just use Sublime/VS Code/Atom/whatever.
"Just one more turn..."
This used to be far more prominent or maybe I used to pay more attention, but DSL offers around 2000 had the contention ratio, most residential were 50:1 but there were some that were 20:1

Most business were 10:1 but you could pay for up to 1:1
I can only speak from 'our' perspective here in Sweden so don't shoot if you don't agree but... in general I think people under-react rather than over-react when it comes to handling the oncoming epidemic. The main problem is that the disease is already causing an overload on the health care system in parts of the country while the epidemic has just gotten started. If left unchecked it will peak in about 2.5 months when close to half a million people will likely be in need of hospitalisation with about 150.000 of them in need of critical care. About 40.000 people will die given a mortality of 0.7% (as measured in Korea) and a 70% fraction of the population being infected.

There are 520 IC places in the whole of Sweden.

Even if these numbers are overstated by a factor 10 - which is possible although the SEIR-model gives even higher numbers (800.000 hospitalised, 200.000 in need of critical care) - it is clear that those in need of critical care will most likely not get the help they need leading to an increased mortality.

For a single individual the disease does not seem to be as large a threat as it is being made out to be by some. For a society unused to see people die from infectious disease it stands to be devastating. Either society will have to accept that infectious disease can and will kill people when it is allowed free reign or we'll have to do our best to make sure the limit the amount of suffering due to loss of life, loss of quality of life, loss of income, employment, economic potential and other factors as much as possible.

What is needed now is a comprehensive testing effort to find out how far the infection has spread over the country. If it turns out a sizeable part of the population already carries antibodies against SARS-CoV2 it will be clear that the disease is not as much of a threat as it seems to be. Comprehensive testing will also allow for the early isolation of infected people and will help in limiting the load on the health care system.
You could play Limited, where everybody gets six booster packs. Everybody opens one pack, takes a card, and passes the remainder to their left. Once the first pack is all picked up, everybody opens their second pack, takes a card, and passes the remainder to their right. Repeat until you're out of booster packs.

Now you have 6*15 cards, and you need to compose a deck of at least 40 cards out of them. You can add as many basic lands as you want. Play your deck against everybody else's.

This avoids the idea that you can just buy strong cards to win, because you only get what's in the booster packs. And if you take only the strong cards from each booster, there's no guarantee that your deck will actually function as a deck - do you have a good mana curve? Are all of your cards the same colour?

Even once you start drafting to put together a deck instead of just grabbing all the strong or rare cards, you have to figure out which colours the people upstream from you are drafting so that you can try to draft the colours they're passing over, otherwise you'll be competing for the cards they want.
While playing through the Deponia series, I noticed that all the fiddly little puzzles, like the rail-car switching puzzle, had a "skip this puzzle" button. Yay for learning that some people don't want to go insane on brute-forcing all the possible solutions to advance the story.

Even so, there were still a lot of attempts made at overcoming an obstacle, using normal logic, that failed because they required a joke punchline instead, such as... finding a straw in a needle stack.

Modern I.F. games are a lot better in that respect, because you can code in a half-dozen solutions for the same puzzle, without creating new voice and graphic resources for all those alternate solutions.
I was going to say exactly the same about Disco Elysium. While classed as an RPG, I'd say it's more of an adventure game disguised as an RPG. The game is just point and click, talk to people, interact with the world, and solve puzzles. The leveling up mechanic makes it much more interesting to play, but it's not really the core gameplay
Can we get that turned of on ESPN too while we are at it please!!!
If you think about it, cloud services add another layer in the supply chain. For example, just think about a UK company buying cloud services from a US company who buys hard drives from a company in Thailand. Now, you’re affected not only by the floods in Thailand in 2012, but you’re affected by natural disasters in the US as well. Even if you’re not using US data centers, they’re part of the control plane for the data centers in Europe.
This is straight out of the CSS renaissance: There used to be a world, where the only sensible way to get something look a certain way on the web was using tables. But since using the actual table element, for anyone who cared about html semantics and accessibility, was a no go, assigning "display: table" to a non-semantic element was the next best option (or rather the least bad).

It will not surprise you to learn that this concept was not exactly well understood (to be fair, most things were not well understood, including js) and people started building all sorts of actual data tables out of divs with "display: table" applied, because apparently that's how you were supposed to do it.

Nowadays this is obsolete, of course, mostly thanks to flexbox but also grid.
they put the biggest improvement upfront lol: things now scale properly if you have a 4K monitor. people (myself included) have been squinting at very tiny font for years, and now they don't have to anymore!
That's not just a feel, mon ami: that's explicitly the point of online marketing & propaganda. Their methods aren't new at this point and are fairly well documented.
> Programmer seems....low trade?

Does it though? Is there such thing as a low-trade programmer? Even at the very entry level the job postings say "Junior Software Engineer". Programmer, to me, just rings of the 80s/90s, when code was a little more gristly and our field didn't have quite such an inflated ego. It has a vintage charm.

"Software Developer" is... fine. It's accurate and descriptive, just very boring (and a bit verbose; "developer" without "software" could be ambiguous so you usually need to say both).
Setting up a ventilator for treating ARDS (caused by the viral infection and inflammatory response) is at the much harder end of respiratory therapy unfortunately. This is also one reason why just building the simplest possible ventilator simply isn't possible / useful here. Yes you could basically build a 1960s design en-masse but at the moment 50% of people on modern vents are surviving so this is no panacea.

The trick will be to find a minimal feature set design, that doesn't use a lot of specialist long lead time components, can be used by people who are less experienced, and is suitable for treating ARDS. That is a much harder problem than the basic one of getting some kind of ventilator mass produced on an emergency basis.
My feeling as a layman is that the scale of globalization an industry uses will emerge naturally as a result of the trade-off between the costs and benefits. So far, the benefits have been worth it, otherwise companies wouldn't do it. As the article notes, there are a number of examples where safeguards are already in place, for in those cases it's worth being cautious.

The more serious, but harder to deal with, issue is that globalization lets companies indirectly exploit labor and environment in a way that their home region would not allow. Until this is sufficiently economically disincentivized, it will continue.
Maybe this will echo out into the empty universe, but I thought I would mention a point that I think skews your data and conclusion. My hypothesis is that the reason you are seeing what seems to confirm the stated rule, is that it is the "1%" (edit: it is likely actually some subsection of the 1%) that controls access and creates immense barriers and a hostile environment for participation. I theorize too that the reason you are seeing an even lower (0.8%) creator rate, is that this forum even more than some of the bigger forums, polices and controls access even more than common.

If you wanted to test that theory the way you did, you would need to find communities of free speech, low barrier to participation, low "ruling class" control and abuse, while still also somehow controlling spam noise … and then compare those numbers.

In essence, what you are confirming and in my mind what the 1% rule describes is really more the effects of abuse of power and control than anything else; hence why we also have a nepotistic, corrupt, kleptocratic, incenstuous 1% in general society that helps itself and it's own in a self-contained and reinforcing manner of abuse and corruption.

I doubt it could ever be 100% contributors, but I theorize and would be large sums of money that the ratio of contributors could be significantly larger if the gatekeeping "ruling class" abusers of their power were able to abuse their power and control.

I am not sure I can identify the best community to test your theory on, but a good start to investigate would maybe be one of the boards of 4chan, likely not /pol, because it has clearly drawn too much attention.
How much would AV1 help this?
Would you like to collaborate on an open-source solution? I've always wanted to tackle this particular niche, but I don't know anyone that owns a restaurant and I can't get real life feedback.
Agreed. Applying Merkle trees to supply chain management is a great idea that deserves a catchy name, although it's unfortunate the idea has been so historically intermixed with weird currency plays and ICO scams.
I'll say sell a virtual Appliance (think GitHub Enterprise) for those who want to self-host. The truth is it's really hard for people to pay for what they get for free.

Open sourcing is an option but don't expect to make money right away - it's a longterm game.

I have some experience in monetizing open source, if you want to reach out. I developed osTicket (popular ticketing system) and ended up launching hosted version - which is doing well now. Was able to hire a team and we are profitable.
It is usually ISPs oversubscribing their nodes to too many customers. DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 are very fast. The video services that work the best leverage locality so that you aren't steaming westword over the ocean, but from a local cache much closer to you.
You used to see CSS frequently used by hobbyists making personal websites. As a result, you'd see a lot of posts about what cool stuff they could create, their opinions on how to structure things, semantics, etc.

Now these same people are mostly doing it for the paycheck. And there are a lot of new people doing it as well. In fact, dozens or hundreds of authors may be maintaining the same stylesheets. You just have to get your changes in.

People get older, begin to care less. The web has surrendered to commercial platforms. It's not as exciting.
Your comment asked:

>> Would it weaken the arcile's point to report that 20-44 year olds and 45-54 year olds both had around 20% chance of being hospitalised?

But I think that's unfair to the article. The data are not showing that 20% of age 20-44 are hospitalized (which is how I read your question). Rather the data say that 20% of the hospitalized are age 20-44. In fact, the article does report that explicitly in the 6th paragraph:

In the C.D.C. report, 20 percent of the hospitalized patients and 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44, basically spanning the millennial generation.

So the article is being fair to the report, it is just summarizing the report data in the lede.
Breastfeeding largely does two things: i) it transmits antibodies from mom to child, the maternal antibodies circulate for a while and so the mom's immune protection is temporarily conferred; ii) it contains potential antigens like peanuts, cow milk, basically anything the mom eats and so it tolerizes the infant's own immune system from common food antigens. There are leukocytes, neutrophils etc. in breast milk, but it is unlikely that they get through the gut lining into the infant.
Stay Health, Fit and Srtong While in COVID19 Isolation
Covid-19, Brought to You by Globalization
Wolfram Language is insanely great. I've been using wolframscript as (i) a shell replacement and (ii) a piping/glue language for larger projects.

Wolframscript makes this hard though for the following two reasons: (i) wolframscript requires users to login before any script can be ran; (ii) only 1 wolframscript REPL can be open at a time.

(i) makes it impossible to export wolframscripts to users who don't know what wolframscript is. For example, if I'm using wolframscript as a build tool for a larger Haskell project, and some user downloads my software, they'll first have to login to Wolfram Cloud before the wolframscript is able to run. There's no way I'm going to force people to do that, so it hinders the growth of the language.

(ii) makes it hard to use wolframscript as a complete terminal replacement.
People often use multiple terminals at once, at different locations in the file system. Wolframscript only allows once at a time.

Wolfram Language is insanely good. It should be more popular than Python. I think fixing some of these licensing/login issues could help it grow.
Is there an option to switch ESC with Tab?
The rich confront the virus: ‘Do I quarantine in the Hamptons?’
Thanks very much Martijn. Will email my resume. Cheers.
Of note:

"Netflix said it already adjusts the quality of streams to available network capacity, and uses a special delivery network that keeps its library closer to users as a way of consuming less bandwidth.

"The Commission said that while there has been a sharp increase in internet usage, no outages or adverse affects have so far been reported."

So I'm not sure what the problem here is.

Meanwhile here in the US, my company has been holding large video conferencing sessions (80+ people) for the first time ever, on Google Hangouts Meet. They've been flawless. Sure, that can change, but I have a hard time believing we aren't already near peak "at home" usage.
itch.io also has had a whole bunch of devs drop their prices or make their games free for the moment.

https://itch.io/c/757294/games-to-help-you-stay-inside
1. In the US, we test twice, and only with two positives do we say a person is confirmed to have COVID-19. Before that, we say "probable COVID-19." So is it used correctly everywhere? Impossible to say. In the US, yes it is.

2. In Korea, yes. In the US, no. Other places, mostly no.

3. Unlikely. We have a bigger issue with people not going to hospitals, and therefore spreading the disease. Korea went from 30 cases to 8000 cases because of one such person. [0]

4. More likely is that flu deaths will decrease because people are taking precautions that they normally do not. We should take flu much more seriously than we do, and the same precautions we take against COVID-19 are effective against flu.

Overall, you seem to be focused on hospitals, but here in the US, that's just not something people rush to, due to expense. Here in the US, at least, we are not overreacting. It may not be possible to overreact! What I mean is: If we have exactly the right level of reaction, it will look like overreaction in hindsight, so we can't even know whether we overreacted.

[0] https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
Flow Chemistry
Now if only you could just install Linux directly to your laptop you wouldn't need a Mac at all
> whereas in the Bootstrap era you would look at my HTML and see "row" and "col-sm-3" and know exactly what I was going for visually.

say what you will about utility classes, but the grid classes are absolutely necessary, especially when many elements might need specific behavior for different screen sizes and must interact gracefully. without the grid classes your css would be an absolute nightmare of a thousand often-nonsensical "semantic" classnames littered with a crapload of fragile media queries.
> Flipdish is based in Dublin, you will need to be currently eligible to work in Ireland without the need for sponsorship.

How does sponsorship work for those in the US?
Ah, lovely medium paywall.
Covid and Whats Await Us
Closing of borders could be the most lasting harm from this coronavirus pandemic
I believe it was just one big one that had a lot of very old and very frail. Staff didn't pick up on what was going on and by the time they connected the dots people were dying.

Regardless of the number of nursing homes, the point stands that the figures are skewed by a few clear outliers.
Just use the "factor" program from the command line:

$ factor 1791991

1791991: 1791991

factor prints the prime factors of each specified integer.