skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HAVA was a disaster and resulted in all sorts of problems with what should be a basic printout + pen solution.

Other countries do that, and all attempts to "automate" or improve the UI of voting introduce all sorts of problems.
Why does anyone do anything at all? Mate, if everyone sat on their arses all day we wouldn't have been the species that we are.

> The above is slightly less than the risk of death from any cause.

So let's slightly less than double the death rate for anyone that catches this _highly_ contagious disease? Get real mate, come on.
Taking your numbers as fact, that would be a .001% death rate.

Coronavirus has a death rate ranging from .6-2% (overall), varying drastically to upwards of 20% with age.

It's not a hard call to make.
Anyone listened properly to the speech?
First they were talking about "grants" then started mentioning interest and how nice they are not to charge it for a year, then started talking about LOANS, presumably to be paid back.
QWERTZ Bluetooth keyboards work, so I can type most things I need if I ever need to write German, which is honestly rather rare. But I still need to deal with a significantly different keyboard layout and it's just neither fun nor productive.

I'd rather carry an extra device that works the way I want it to rather than deal with either QWERTY or QWERTZ for extended periods of time.
You can say this as much as you want but it's an industry practice. Almost every company I interviewed with in the bay area never looked at any source code for projects I did. (Not even a project that had over 50,000 users - they just installed it and said, "Oh, yeah, that's sweet. Thanks! Now finish writing this sudoku checker and then doing a spiral matrix traversal.")

They're using a standardized interview format and they don't care about anything else. I've interviewed with others where I did have projects up, they viewed the source code, and it went over well with them - but that was extremely rare (I can only recall 1 at the moment out of the 100+ companies I've interviewed at).
I've been struggling with a similar query recently perhaps better suited for a time series DB. Can DISTINCT ON be used to ask the query "latest record per customer per day". For example, let's say we have a bunch of devices that send sensor readings arbitrarily throughout each day. Could DISTINCT ON be used to query the last reading of each day per device?
If the UK is following Denmark here, that will be announced in 4-5 days. Here full time employees get 75%, part time 90%. Self-employed get 75%, while those particularly hard hit get 100% compensation on regular bills (in addition to the income compensation).
I’m not sure that infra-as-code belongs on that list.
To clarify, SATs are still required, subject tests are different.

From page:

"Will you still require the SAT or the ACT?"

"We will continue to require the SAT or the ACT, because..."

edited: formatting
This is still relevant: https://xkcd.com/2030
Makes perfect sense. The commuter belt is cheaper to live in, so normally people would live there and work in the big red spot. I'm a little surprised about the red blotch in Uxbridge, not sure what busines is prevalent there. Perhaps Brunel Uni, but it's a fairly large area so gotta be more than just that.

Oxford is interestingly on the map too, I guess it's the University and related industry in the south and the living areas to the north.
State projections for Covid-19
I always thought Feynman's treatment of electrodynamics wasn't very original, that it was just the standard approach you could find in other textbooks. It turns out, Feynman thought so to, but later came up with a much better way of teaching electrodynamics: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/100951/what-was-...
Ideally a financial instrument that pays a little bit of interest with security, but you can quickly access, so you can squeeze a little bit more out.

Money market accounts are a pretty easy yet secure option. I'm pretty sure there are better options considering my lack of investing knowledge and loophole manipulation.

Amazon's tax savants could probably give better advice, though they may not be as intricately familiar with tax code applicable to us peasants.
HIV didn't spread very quickly because it required fluid transfer (and usually sexual, even kissing generally didn't spread it). It's hard to have an "outbreak" when a virus is so difficult to spread between people.
Ventilators are incredibly simple and can suffer considerable constant abuse without a hiccup.

These are medical grade devices.
Only if you're not paying yourself a salary and social security taxes?

At least in Norway that is very clear - if you're self-employed - you're usually much better off actually employing yourself.
A good friend of mine is commuting 2 hours a day to a job he's beginning to hate. And he doesn't even need to be there. His tools are Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. And as we chat and drink I keep broaching the idea of telecommuting. The bosses don't want to hear it. If your butt isn't in a seat at a desk they can watch you may as well not be working at all. There are so many PHBs who think like this, it's going to take a lot of momentum to move that needle. I hope this self-quarantine is what pushes it over the tipping point.
Yeah, he seems to be on top of things, other than being dismissive at first, then drastic change course when meeting with criticism
More info here: https://copper3d.com/hackthepandemic/

They suggest heating it up (to soften the plastic) and pressing it against your face to ensure a good fit. Seems unlikely that this would actually result in a perfect fit, but at least it's better than nothing.

Also, the claim that it's an "open-source" mask is somewhat soured by the fact that they appear to have patented it.
High false positive rate (I’m talking like more than 1%) means

(1) you are overwhelmingly unlikely to actually have the disease even if your test comes back positive but you don’t have obvious symptoms

(2) the pool of people testing positive is completely dominated by false positives. The fraction of people testing positive that will actually have the disease would be very small, so you lose the epidemiological benefit of the test (now you can’t actually track the disease well).

So — test is useless for people like you and me who don’t have symptoms or a strong prior probability of having covid BEFORE the test, because even a positive result is overwhelmingly more likely to be wrong, AND now the epidemiologists trying to actually track the disease are instead overwhelmed with false positives so the true signal disappears. It’s bad all around. You could imagine using this as a screening tool, but the false positive rate has to be small enough for that purpose as well (like, less than one percent).
Looks like they are!

"The generic drug companies (Teva and Mylan, I’ve seen so far, and there’s this) that are cranking up production are doing the prudent thing – if this reads out well, we’ll need a lot of it."
>“It is soul-stealing and debilitating to embrace the notion of social distancing and economic hibernation.”

While I agree with this on a personal level, this is not something that should be pushed down from people in a position of authority.

I appreciate my employer's stance on things. "We want you to feel completely comfortable working from home. We aren't going to enforce it, but we do encourage it, and if there is anything you need to make it easier for you to do so, let us know."

Some may disagree and think that the employer should "enforce" WFH, but I find this approach to be extremely respectful to the employees' agency as individuals. And it seemed to work very well. A couple people stuck around in the office for a few days, and now everyone is working from home.
It's not just consumption.

You (or I) would need to save for worst-case scenarios and get very few economies of scale: you can't have 0.001 of an epidemiologist on retainer.

The government can at least pool risk (and everything) over the entire country.
Interesting this age thing...I bet older people are all for it, others less so. Might even solve any unfunded pension problem :) but then no age group is safe and everyone is scared. Topped off with the government's job to do the best for all citizens.
> I'd be shocked is most people on this page who are fully employed devs/techs/etc in the US do not already donate roughly 45% to the government.

Yeah, but 45% would be federal income tax only in Europe. Social Security, pensions, sales tax etc pp would be on top, and are generally also considerably higher than in the US.
Is there some other standardised exam (AP? IB?) that they will be considering instead? I went through a very non-traditional route to university, and standardised exams were an important part of me being able to demonstrate preparedness for university. I hesitate to just go on what grades someone gets at school, as it simply puts them at the mercy of their teachers and administrators, and some people like me didn’t really go to school...
OP seem to be saying it’s “rocking the boat”, i. e. he is pining for a nice and orderly world where people just get along.

And while he sees that it’s impossible to stop every single rapist, he’s willing to settle for victims just not bothering him with it.
They continue to receive unemployment checks as before?
Tests are a lagging indicator, the important factor is the R value. R1.5 is vastly better than R2 in the short term but pales beside R0.95. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_modelling_of_infe...

Both South Korea and China have successfully gotten below R1, but it’s unclear how long they can maintain that stance.
Close pass isn't some FUD. It's a scientific definition. It's even defined in the article I linked.
This exactly. The IRS is not the Mafia.
I have a friend who works as an analyst at a company that discourages remote work, even though there is nothing stopping them from doing it other than a "butts-in-seats" mentality, and because of this, when they are finally forced to have everyone work from home because of the pandemic, productivity really does plummet because everyone was trained up until then to think "work from home" meant a free vacation day, and are having a hard time adjusting. I would imagine this would be the case for a lot of places that do not have a good remote culture.

Contrast that with mine, who strongly encourages us to spend at least a few days a week in-office, but by the same token has a good remote culture otherwise. Going full remote wasn't much of a big deal for us.

Lesson here is that even if you do as an organization have a strong preference for in-person interactions (and personally I like having an office to go to), enabling a part-time remote culture can make your organization much more resilient, not to mention one with happier employees.

Another anecdote, a few years ago I suffered an injury that kept me more or less on the couch and unable to drive. Without an effective remote culture it would have been very tough on both me and my employer to keep the relationship going, but fortunately it worked out just fine.

Remote life is a reality as we move more and more to a tech-focused economy. Hopefully this is a catalyst for more employers to rethink their outdated attitudes.
Excerpt:

How do I receive the funding?

"We’re not giving away cash money. If you are successful, we will make a payment directly to a product or service provider that you have specified – or an alternative that we suggest – that you need for your side project to grow."

Now that is brilliant!

Yes, usually side projects get stuck on one or more aspects -- like not being to find the right dedicated server provider, or what have you...

By not giving the money directly, they eliminate a whole class of applicants that might apply for, but not really need the money...

So again, brilliant!
There are several support elements available to businesses. There has previously been the announcement of interest free loans, and grants to small businesses.

Today they announced that the government will pay 80% of furloughed workers' salaries, up to £2500 per month. That does not need to be repaid. They also announced today that the interest free period on the loans will be extended to 12 months, up from 6, which is separate to the salary intervention.
Many/most people on HN don't do their computing on Windows. (I think you are talking about windows and not pc, as pc gaming is pretty different on other pc operating systems)
In PA, the governor published a spreadsheet that covers all infrastructure sectors and sub-categories with a clear "Yes" or "No" cell to indicate whether they were permitted to stay open. This is specific to COVID-19, however. The CISA guidelines seem very general and not even cognizant of this type of situation (even if you go to the section about COVID-19). California should (if it doesn't) have its own plan that is possibly informed by CISA but enacted by its governor.
> I can assure you if tomorrow we woke up and the world was 2 degrees hotter and people were dying left right and centre from it, the same thing would have happened with climate change.

That’s the point he’s making though, we’re overcommitting resources to this problem because we can see it. Once climate change is apparent enough for people to panic, it’ll be too late.

> Thousands of people are already dying from this in one small concentrated area in Italy, in a matter of weeks. Shall we just say fuck it and let thousands more die here too? Should the whole world say the same thing? Shall we let the entire economy hit the sort of fucked levels we haven't seen since like WW2?

Looking at the data from Italy, 98% of the people who died were retired, had pre-existing conditions, and were making no noticeable economic contribution. I’m not saying that economic utility should be what determines someone’s value of life, but the argument that spending trillions of dollars to save the lives of some 85-year-olds “avoids economic disaster” makes no sense. If a world leader were acting in a purely Machiavellian manner, they would let the virus run its course as quickly as possible so productivity could return to normal.
I will retire immediately if I can get a 80% UBI.
> 15-20% of infected people require hospitalization for respiratory problems

This is wrong - it's 15-20% of identified, diagnosed and subsequently monitored infected people, isn't it?

I thought there was a mass of unidentified infected people, and even basically diagnosed but told to just deal with it at home with no further contact as they're low risk and minimal symptoms, and (obviously) 0% of these groups are going into hospital? This is what Wikipedia says at the moment.

Or am I wrong?
> Luckily, the number which tells us how much it costs to shift production temporally: the real interest rate, is low.

That measure has been meaningless for a long time now since the central banks manipulate it for whatever goal they are currently trying to achieve.

With the amount of uncertainty in the current economic climate if interest rates were set by the market they would be skyhigh as nobody would risk loaning money.
I don't mind that someone was dismissive weeks ago. I know I was. Now, I have been inside for 5 days. I saw that it was turning serious.
Is SAT prep known to make any difference?

Back when I applied to MIT (early 80s) our entire SAT prep was "fill in the circles completely, bring only #2 pencils to the test and if you can't eliminate even one possible answer skip the question." Back then I never heard of anyone using any more advice than just that.

A few years ago I bought some SAT prep books for my kid and he never cracked them.
I (and i'd assume many others) am not interested in pulling up references AND guides to figure out what I want. Rust has a 1 stop shop that not only tells me WHAT I can do but HOW with examples. Javadocs is horrible in that I see a method I want to use and then have to google for an example on how it is used. Rust >>>>>>>>>>>> Java in this regard.
Could someone correct me if I am wrong.

UK is going to print lots of GBP to fund this, and in doing so, it will devalue its currency, since EU will possibly be doing much of the same, the Euro and GBP will devalue against US ( and everyone else ), assuming US on a relative terms did not print as much ?

Or is this assumption wrong?
If the control group still is positive for corona after 7 days in 90% of cases and we anticipate the intervention to get that number to 50%, with an alpha of 0.05 and a size of 24 in the intervention group, the study has a power of 0.957 and answers the question whether chloroquine stops viral shedding by day 7. This isn't cardiology where we need 50000 patients to find the significance.
Business logic is seperate from typing, schemas and APIs. APIs and schemas are the same thing - the API is literally a query language for the DB.
How does this submission drop from top 10 to 3rd page in about 20-30 minutes? Not allowed to mention anything negative about YC co's?
It's gaming in the sense that racing in the Special Olympics is still racing. Sure, but for the purposes of the marketplace it may as well not exist unless you're talking about Linux+Android gaming.
The pointer that’s being touted as so revolutionary... doesn’t seem that different. Okay, it snaps to UI elements. But fundamentally, it still works essentially the same way as any other pointer, right?
On Amazon, you don't know which seller's goods are being shipped to you, if it's "fulfilled by Amazon" or from Amazon directly.

So if two sellers are selling the same item, with the same exact SKU, and both send their inventory to Amazon to be warehoused and shipped, Amazon will happily send you either seller's item, depending on which is more convenient to send. (Perhaps seller A's stuff is in a warehouse closer to you.) This sounds good in theory, because all those products are identical, right? What if seller B's products are all counterfeit? So you buy from seller A who you think is legit (and for the example is), but you get seller B's fake crap, and seller A was powerless to stop it.
Yet this is why people are crying about Trump, lmao!
It's possibly unwise to go poking holes in a supervolcano.
> In other words if you slow down the rate of infection enough you could fit that 94k into the 1k of beds over time. But if all of them get sick on day one, you are fucked.

Average ICU stay is about 2 weeks, so that's 3.6 years to filter everyone through.
Do they use these drugs only to severe patients who need ventilator? I was referring to the overall estimated CFR (3%). What is the success rate of ventilators then?
South Korea is at 0.6% CFR, the true IFR will be lower than this again due to false negatives and biased testing against symptomatic people.

South Korea will max end up with a IFR of 0.2-0.5%, 2 to 5 times worse than the flu.
30 years ago, the ACT test changed enough that it was no longer a valid test to use as entry for Mensa. Prior to 1990, an ACT test could be used as evidence for Mensa admission.

So... the ACT wasn't always 'a joke', but doesn't have the same impact that it had decades ago.
If you look up “pome” in an english dictionary, it’s a botanical term that refers to fruits such as apples and pears.
"Why even use a blockchain" is the first question that should be asked of any company that advertises they use one. Most of the time it's also the last question you'll need to ask...
Unfortunately, a lot of people haven't learned the lesson they were supposed to learn from "The boy who cried 'wolf'".
Bit of a novice question, but what is the point of a tool like this or Segment? I have a vague idea that they help with gathering your analytics but I am not entirely sure how. Is it like Google Tag Manager that you can use to control multiple analytics script(edit: this is a wrong comparison, I guess it is like Map function where you send all your analytics data and then it splits and send it to all relevant services where you want the data to be displayed)? Sorry for an off-topic and noob question.
Moving to FP, Backus FP the Second
(post in german)
Ich habe mich einige Jahre mit Backus fp beschäftigt,
und einige Erfahrungen in ein FP Projekt einfließen lassen.
Man könnte es damit vergleichen, dass Leibniz eine Rechenmaschiene baute
und dann neue Ideen daraus entstanden sind.
Ein bekannter Informatiker verbeitet auf Twitter, dass John Backus
meinte er wäre mit FP gescheitert (und alle sollten bitte OOP verwenden).
Aber ich sehe keinen Widerspruch zwischen FP und OOP.
Nein - die können sogar sehr gut miteinander harmonieren,
wenn man sich auf immutable Daten beschränkt.
Das FP, daß ich nun vorstelle hat vieles mit Backus FP gemeinsam.
Es ist immer noch ein "combinator based functional programming system",
und ich verwende Fähigkeiten von FFP verbunden mit der Schönheit von FP,
die John Backus im ersten Teil seines Aufsatzes vorstellte.
Das AST-System von Backus habe ich allerdings mit einer Monadentechnik
ersetzt, da es sonst die Sprache unnötig komplex machen würde,
und außerdem eine mittlerweile akzeptierte Technik geworden ist.
Eine Fortsetzung könnte ich mir aber mit algebraischen Effekten vorstellen.
Ich setze auf die Infixnotation als einen grundlegenden Mechanismus,
wie sie auch in der menschlichen Sprache verankert ist.
Die Form "Subjekt Prädikat Objekt" wird also ungefähr als ein Tripel in einer
Zelle dargestellt. (die Lisper verwenden cons-Zellen, ich verwende hier Tripel)
Für die, die den Aufsatz von John Backus kennen, bringe ich nun eines
seiner bekannten Beispiele, das Innere Produkt:

ip == (+ \) ° (* aa) ° trans ° ee

Es ist eine Definition (==) des Namens mit einem Term.
(\) ist der insertr-Kombinator.
(aa) ist der applytoall-Kombinator.
(ee) bietet die Möglichkeit ip in Infixnotation zu verwenden:

'(1;2;3;4;5;) ip '(10;20;30;40;50;)

Dabei ist 'x der Konstanten-Kombinator und (;) ist eine Liste.
Weiter verwende ich [i] als Selektoren, statt blanker Zahlen und #name für lokale Variablen...

https://www.fp-system.org
Students naturally do better without test prep, too. They get older, their brains grow more, and they’re more intelligent. Much of the score increase people see is attributable to that. And most kids bright enough to exercise good test taking skills will have them without special training, I guess? 11 years of school will do that.
Where are you getting this info from ?
Imperial College doesn’t think that’s going to do enough good
Practice definitely helped me.
In Norway it has been restricted after doctors prescribed lots of it for themselves... Way to undermine the efforts.
I'm still on wsl1.. and just ran into this today.. you can run docker for windows and the docker client on wsl can access it over tcp
For docker composer i had to change the root in wsl.Conf