skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fine, but we absolutely do know for an absolute fact that -- it is not true 15-20% of people with nCoV-19 need a ventilator. We don't know what the number is but we 100% with absolute certainty know it is not 15-20%.

If we acquiesce to 70% of the US getting nCoV-19 as the epidemiologists are suggesting that would require 50 million ventilators. There are about 70,000 in the US. So we'd need almost 1000X as many ventilators as we have.

If that were true we've have the national guard locking people inside their houses, and the UK wouldn't be contemplating giving nCov-19 to everyone young to foster herd immunity.
Yeah. I like the newer displays indoors, but I think I would take the old display for reduced glare and battery use if it was an option.
I'm still not thrilled because hospitals actively breed antibiotic resistant infections. They are a primary source.

Keeping invasive equipment adequately sterile is hard to do, even in a hospital. It's just the nature of the beast.

To be clear, I'm extremely not thrilled at the global acceptance that "we need a zillion ventilators" instead of "we need non invasive alternatives and we need to educate the world as to what they are."

It's well known this is a problem with this kind of equipment. I'm aghast that the medical establishment isn't freaking the fuck out at the need to find some answer better than ventilators because widespread use of ventilators has a rather high probability of leading to the development of new antibiotic resistant infections for funsies, just as we think the worst is behind us.
That's definitely something we have to look into.
We currently see mobile usage primarily for searching and reading and less for creating content.
But you are right, this needs special attention. We do not want to maintain two different approaches.
Proven natural Remedies to prevent yourself from coronavirus
What both governments and individuals can do to stop Covid-19
Playing video games isn’t a good way to practice F1 racing, but it’s probably a great to memorize a track layout.
WhyNot: A Python sandbox for decision making in dynamics
maybe I just logged on at the wrong time and there'll be some live music later

it's a nice idea anyway
Please don't be silly. You cannot physically cough hard enough with dropped O2 sats like that, and even strong healthy people will be unable to fully evacuate matter from lungs, especially biofilms. Next time you propose an alternative, provide actual data supporting it.
As a test, start doing it at say peak of a 2200 meter mountain. (That would be 90% with no acclimation.) See how far you can go.

Sleeping positions are irrelevant.

A positive pressure mask or cannula with O2 concentrator or supply is likely sufficient, not necessarily a full blown ventilator, and is much easier to sterilize. Still, it does carry risks. And it's the O2 concentrator part that's expensive.
Food Safety and Coronavirus: A Comprehensive Guide
Kinda silly including 0-byte files which is most of them. Now you're just building a list of things that take empty input.

They should move those to a simple list in the README and reserve the repo for non-empty files.
That generation had a broken keyboard.
http://archive.md/KWpFC
Aww man, worst timing now that more and more are getting locked down :/

maybe repost in a month or two or three
Yeah, I am very skeptical of extrapolation from deaths to get total cases. Just looking at China's numbers province by province reveals that the death rate varies quite a bit. Hubei has a very high mortality rate compared to the provinces surrounding it. Most provinces around Hubei had roughly 1 death per 1000 cases. But Henan, to the north had 22 deaths per thousand. There doesn't seem to be such a thing as a titular mortality rate for these viruses.
"For >70 y.o. individuals mortality rate is 30%."

Where are you getting this number? It is significantly higher than any I have seen.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm - TABLE. Hospitalization, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, and case–fatality percentages for reported COVID–19 cases, by age group —United States, February 12–March 16, 2020

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... - Age of Coronavirus Deaths
I've already implemented an SVG renderer at https://www.amanithsvg.com based on our openvg engine with software rasterization https://www.amanithvg.com

Both are closed source, but there are evaluation version available, if someone is interested in compare rendering quality and speed.
Really cool idea, I wonder why nobody tried this earlier.

However, the main problem I have with this approach is the voxels. They model the geometry and only the geometry. The far more important aspect of topology is left out. Thus, the results suffer the same problems like 3D scanning / photogrammetry does: It is practically unusable as it can not even be textured, yet alone animated or used in fabrication (except for Lego-models I guess). So point 5 of the future work is the biggest one in my opinion.
Newsom referred to California as a "Nation State" repeatedly in his latest address, which is a great way to tell the Federal Government to pound sand. He took Trump's call for each state to fend for itself seriously. I wouldn't say that he's not fighting with the president.

He's been doing a great job though
> government can and will step in to stabilize demand.

As much as they can. Government debt at all levels across Europe and the Americas was out of control before the epidemic, especially in the U.S. This crisis will lead directly to waves of state/sovereign defaults.

I should say I'm optimistic about the pandemic itself. I firmly believe the morbidity and fatality rate will drop sharply as it spreads, even where medical systems are poorly prepared.

I think the economic effects will end up being the bigger concern.
Because the Senate is over 90% white, and most of the rest are at least half-white.

To people in this country, that's what leadership looks like, so if you grade based on leadership, that's what you're going to get. Not playing identity politics here, just stating a fact.
Yes, everyone who prefers macOS is a Starbucks hipster. Got it
https://archive.md/AMpB5
An activated carbon filter, like a Brita pitcher.

I've heard mixed results on the reports. It's certainly removing some things, and leaving others. The results likely depend on just how bad it was when you started. But given that Brita filters aren't exactly cheap, you might have better luck just buying the $20 vodka rather than the $10 vodka.
Fyi page uses only 1 CPU core on my notebook (Linux, Google Chrome without addons, embedded Intel GPU), CPU clocking down to 800-1200Mhz... .
Not sure if I agree, more likely is the following:

- Apple presumably is subsidizing hardware if it leads to larger NPV for their service business and recurring revenues for the lifetime of the said hardware. For instance, if a user buys an iPhone, they're more likely to buy Apple music, News+, iCloud storage plans, etc. This is akin to, in extreme case, Sony Playstation - they're often sold at a loss hoping to create future revenue streams from games. The reason why they can get away from selling Playstation consoles at a loss is because without buying games, it is completely useless piece of hardware. In the case of iPhone, it is not quite the same as Playstation because you don't need Apple Music to use an iPhone.
> Like, we can adequately secure banking software.

We really can't. Banking is riddled with fraud, and I say that as someone who works in banking and has designed online banking software. Even with continually ratcheting up security in banking software, use of MFA, encouraging customers to more-secure platforms (Android/iOS), fraud detection (various approaches on the back ends, edge, etc), fraud through online applications is many orders of magnitude higher than fraud in traditional voting systems.

It doesn't matter so much in banking because we can (and do) give customers their money back. We can't fix a broken election.

And that's before we get into the way online voting completely fucks election practises around vote buying, coercion, etc.

I wish people who think they understand computers and are clever would actually make the effort to learn something about either domain before saying stuff like this. It's very disappointing.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm gives a CFR of 4.3–10.5% for age group 75-84 and 10.4–27.3% for age group ≥85. Your number is over that by quite a bit, where is it from?
Dejavu. I'm in exactly the same situation.
Our data was just leaked. But how can we secure ourselves?
I disagree on the 12" MacBook. My wife has one and I think it's a fantastic product. With only 0.2 lbs separating the Air and Pro right now, I don't think both lines really need to exist. If they had kept iterating on the ultra-light MacBook it would be such a great product to recommend to parents, etc.
> they did not want to confuse their very technically unskilled customers

That's not really a good explanation for the design.

AOL kept the "AOL client" paradigm because your browsing was actually done via an L2TP tunnel back to an AOL datacenter. AOL provided some proprietary content, caching, and had things like parental controls (a very big deal for many users) as value adds over your broadband service. The idea was that you could get the same AOL experience no matter the provider or service type.

There were other benefits, such as masking your home IP address from advertisers - all they saw was an AOL tunnel endpoint address. AOL invented the "ad id" pseudonymous identifier to satisfy some of the tracking desires of advertisers w/o letting them re-identify you (given then current techniques). Apple uses the same concept today.
I guess it's nice for people who like electronic music. The Berlin scene is known for having some of the highest quality clubs and performances in the world.

If you were looking for other genres then I apologize. It's only going to be electronic music of some form.
They acted earlier.
TWiV 592: Coronavirus update – dangerous curve ahead
Maybe a better title would be “Berlin Clubs live stream music”.
Show HN: Tierlist.fyi – Company Reviews designed to be compared
Hello HN,

This is my first show HN, so thanks for being here. Tierlist.fyi is a crowdsourced company reviews site that uses the tier list format (the very first to my knowledge). Users can create and submit tier lists of tech companies based on one of the 5 metrics we currently have (Overall, Work Life Balance, Interview Difficulty, Prestige, Comp & Benefits). We then aggregate the results and display a “master” tier list.

The impetus for this website was my struggles evaluating companies I was applying to during my internship search. Comparing salary was simple, but other stuff such as work life balance or prestige (what looks better on your resume?) was much harder. Surprisingly, I learned the most about the companies I was applying to from the tier list posts on blind.

Coming from being a player of LoL and smash, I always knew tier lists were incredibly helpful if you have several similar options and you need to pick a winner, so when I had this problem I figured it was worth a shot. Tier lists are not a novel idea, but I have only ever seen curated tier lists before.

Don’t get me wrong, the data collected from this format may still contain inaccuracies and biases, but it will eliminate a lot of ambiguity. It’s often hard to compare similar 5-star reviews because each rating is done in a vacuum. The delta could be entirely due to margin of error. On the other hand, creating a tier list necessitates comparison. When two companies are in different tiers, that leaves no room for interpretation. Please have a look at the website, and let me know what you think!

Link: https://tierlist.fyi/
A house is rarely used as an interesting business asset for generating productivity for the rest of the nation. AirBnB is like the height of how commercially productive a home can be. I would argue that the home is most interesting to a nation when it houses a family which is contributing to the economy.

What we're talking about is making the housing market more healthy, where health is viewed from the perspective of the nation.

There is inefficiency being absorbed by the system when very finite housing capacity is being used primarily by vacationers who already have a home, and now that terribly finite supply is being translated to mere vacation enhancement.
"Hitting the limit" doesn't mean performance is impacted.

Operating systems and programs allocate RAM somewhat intelligently. They won't necessarily clear out information from RAM if there's no reason to do so.

In Chrome, you have to have around 25 tabs open to hit swap, but performance only becomes a problem at many more than that. The obvious answer is to close some tabs - there's no way you can even read the titles of 25 tabs anyway.

If people like my parents need a new computer, I absolutely wouldn't bother recommending the 16GB memory system to them. Absolute total overkill. Storage and CPU are better upgrades to make first.
I'm pretty sure they're rendering a depth channel and compositing it in.
> For good and for ill, it is Constitutionally problematic to "lock down" an entire state, as it is essentially placing millions of people under arrest, which in the general case is a stupefyingly terrible power for any government to wield.

I don't understand why this meme keeps getting repeated, when the power to quarantine has been rather conclusively litigated in the courts.
The problem with Snyk and other automated vulnerability detection tools is the rate of false positives. For my open source library, the false positive rate so far (over many years) has been 100%. Not one of the many reports pointed to a single exploitable vulnerability in my library.

The reason is that a lot of vulnerabilities are context-specific. For example, a common one in JavaScript is Object prototype pollution; this is not an issue at all if the affected function is only used with trusted input.

Just because a function is vulnerable under a certain specific condition, it doesn't mean that it's generally vulnerable.

That's like saying that chainsaws have a critical security vulnerability on the basis that if you put your foot in front of it, you will be badly harmed... and then you use this as justification to warn millions of tree removal experts (and their customers too) all around the world that their businesses are critically vulnerable and fundamentally unsound because they happen to use chainsaws.

The other common problem is when it flags a vulnerability with a specific function within a library, but that function is not actually used by the project. It's not fair to label all downstream projects as vulnerable on the mostly false assumption that the project actually uses the vulnerable part of the code.

I think Snyk does this because it gets them attention and that's how they turn a profit, but they have to get wiser because this strategy is compromising the quality of their service.
Under a declared emergency, the constitution turns more into "guidelines". Almost no right in the constitution is unlimited.

Speech and movement can be restricted with good cause, and this virus certainly counts. States right now very much have the legal power to say "no gatherings of any sort, no leaving your house without good cause, etc".
Race conditions absolutely are among the set of things transactions are supposed to help with and locks are one of the several ways they do it. It's the I from ACID, which stands for Isolation.

Transactions are not omnipotent in that regard and they fail in several well-researched ways, but it is in their purview.
Well they have at least for certain parts. I'd guess based on what they use, the whole workflow here was really only possible in the last couple of years.

I'll update this comment another time but back in 2016 my company needed something like this and there was already research using GANs to generate objects from basic parameter inputs. The text portion wasn't there.

I believe that research came out of Stanford actually.
Note that if hydroxychloroquine is not effective, your production facilities will be tied up if you do find something else that is effective.
Here's the clickable link:

https://tierlist.fyi/
And disappointing that they've removed the SD card slot. I have a nice adapter that sits flush on the Macbook air and holds an extra 128gb.
Stunning work, congratulations. That was a pleasure to read.
That's like me, and I haven't taken plaquenil or anything at all. Just got a weirdly sore throat yesterday, a very slight fever, a bit of a woozy head. Ten hours of sleep later and the fever went away, but I'm not stepping outside.

There's a word for it, and the word is anecdata. You can trust anecdata about as far as you can throw them.
Is it really? I've heard there's some logic to this…

If instead, we all stay home and quarantine, the second we start reducing the quarantine the virus flares back up again. If instead, we start acquiring immunity in low-risk populations, at a rate that the hospitals can sustain, we'll have a degree of herd immunity and a portion of the population that can no longer spread it.

I'm certainly not an epidemiologist though; anyone smarter than me that can way in on that thinking?
Good point. I assumed they meant the method of smoking. If they meant quantity then yes it’s true you don’t smoke nearly so much marijuana as tobacco.
Nobody's inundated by cancel culture except the reactionaries that obsessively make it their straw man.
> ...I'm still not thrilled because hospitals actively breed antibiotic resistant infections. They are a primary source.

A primary source sure, but likely nothing compared to unnecessarily dosing livestock with antibiotics, and well, large portions of India. [1] 67% of folks in India in an albeit small study exhibited antibiotic resistance.

> To be clear, I'm extremely not thrilled at the global acceptance that "we need a zillion ventilators" instead of "we need non invasive alternatives and we need to educate the world as to what they are."

Indeed.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/most-healt...
It appears 5-10% of people need ventilators, and "need a ventilator" basically means that you will die without one. So the difference between that 5-10% and the actual death rate of <1% should be your answer.
They also use tools that Americans will never accept (especially not the HN crowd) since it violates privacy.
Well, even if you could, I think Full Disk Encryption is on the T2 chip now. No way of reading the drive even if you remove it.
Your post does not address my point. That's okay, if you simply wanted to say the things you said. There are things you've said that I agree with, and things which I strongly disagree with. In a conversation, I like to be careful about going down too many side tangents if certain fundamentals are not already mutually understood.
There is a solid Windows ARM64 laptop, sort of: Microsoft's Surface Pro X. The main problem, as far as I can tell, is that there are few native ARM apps for Windows (though the MS Edge browser is native ARM64), and the machine is limited to running x86-32 (no 64 bit) apps through a translation layer, which makes the apps seem slow and makes the machine power hungry. But I would definitely consider getting one if I planned on living in the WSL, which is a native ARM-based Linux:

See, e.g.,:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/28/21100071/microsoft-surfac...

https://andregarzia.com/2019/12/a-week-with-the-surface-pro-...
Problem with this line of thinking is it doesn't match up with the body count in the small areas in Italy that have had high infection rates. It probably turns out to be the only choice: there is no plan B where we just let bodies pile up.

Hopefully once antibody testing is rolled out (two weeks?) your theory about high undetected infection rate will be proven true.
Why would we only expect half the world to get it? My understanding is that everyone needs to be eventually exposed in one way or another, either contracting the virus or getting a vaccine (when they are ready).
every single Seagrams product is just flavoured vodka - they all start as neutral spirits
The code doesn't strike me as very well structured nor documenten. Too bad, because it's an interesting challenge
If someone wants to exercise their freedoms and accept responsibility for harm they cause to themselves, I don't have a problem with that. I do however have a problem with someone's exercise of their freedoms causing physical harm to me without my consent. In the same way that it's not acceptable to get lit and then drive a car because it creates a risk to other people, people should shut up and stay inside when told to do so in this context as they risk getting sick or being sick and spreading the disease to others, potentially killing them.
The documentation for crates, modules or struct/enum often contains a "user guide" for the item in question.

I think that's better than a separate book, since in most cases that separate book would never get written.
Notifications with Laravel and Sendgrid
Singapore's community contact tracing app
Yeah. He used to have relatively few takes like that (although I think historically he's been more willing to be critical of Apple's software than hardware).
This discussion on HN has some great first hand accounts about the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627636
I did well on the SATs because there is a method to taking the tests that is agnostic of the underlying knowledge. I was only able to learn that because I could afford the classes. The SAT is a silly game.
Yes, I think you're being deliberately naïve. Maybe if people were spherical cows, you might have a point, but you're just acting as if there is no such thing as society, as if people aren't going to want friends and family (in particular) who can't work to be supported through this period. It's a slightly bizarre way to view this handout, given the situation that is very clearly occurring.

And some people will make that calculation and figure out a way to officially be unable to work and pick up government money. That's always happened, it's called malingering.
Is there an accumulative data chart for the entire nation?COVID-19 has no state boundaries!
This is exactly correct.

Those who fight for fair admissions on the basis of intellectual ability and academic potential should hold up the SAT and standardized testing as a cornerstone of the admissions process.

Standardized testing significantly levels the playing field for students across income brackets. Returns on study investment quickly diminish, and reaching a plateau on returns doesn't require much investment at all (internet connection and the purchase of a few large study manuals).

At my high school in sophomore year I remember speaking with a wealthy friend whose father had signed him up for flying lessons so he could "stand out in college admissions". There are many, many cases like this.

Admissions should disregard such superficial peacocking and focus on metrics like the SAT that disentangle intellectual and academic potential from wealth.
TensorFlow 2.0 in 7 Hours
Senator Dumped $1.7M of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus
If the US gets away with as few as 5,000 deaths that would be remarkably good, fewer than the opiate crisis (is that still going on?) or the particular long-standing cause of about 10k deaths annually that the CDC is banned from making suggestions about.
Even the opening photo caption in that opinion piece is wrong.

There are plenty of 20 and 30-somethings that end up in the hospital from not being able to breathe.

Our fight is worse because there is no testing in the USA when every other country has mass testing. If we knew who had it, we could isolate just those people and the country wouldn't be headed towards recession (hopefully not depression).
They should really just do F3 with iRacing, or add a significantly better model for the F1 and give all drivers direct drive setups.