skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems unlikely given that if he had rhabdo he’d have felt bad enough to need to go to hospital. 20% death rate due to kidney failure is not to be sneezed at.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdomyolysis
Sugar is a simple carbohydrate, and it is among the big three nutritional substances; proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.

Caffeine and cocaine are also natural plant products but they are habit-forming stimulant drugs found in much smaller concentrations of the "medicinal" crop compared to the plant sugars found in the commercial sweetener food crops like beets, sugar cane, and maple.

Pure chemicals have concentrated properties that can be much more extreme than their low-concentration behavior.

Drugs or not.

Crystals are among the big three physical forms for pure chemicals; solid, liquid, and gas.

It has been well recognized that habitual consumption of these example substances beyond a certain concentration will lead to negative outcomes according to the individual, the substance, and the habit.
For work, I basically use a 30" monitor with a single terminal showing a tmux session, so an iPad is just a scaled down version of that. I use one as my "laptop" because it's lighter than laptops, the battery lasts longer, it doesn't have a billion configuration options that I need to manually keep in sync with my desktop (that's the big one for me), and it has a built-in 4G modem that only costs $20 a month to have unlimited data on.

I think it's annoying that it has such a powerful CPU but the software won't let me run my usual development tools directly on the machine, and that Safari is missing features like allowing webpages to take advantage of the 120Hz display. It kind of reminds me of being a Sony user in the early 2000s... amazing hardware, absolutely crap software. Apple's software is not crap and is generally pretty okay, but it does feel a lot like that situation to me. If the iOS ecosystem were open-source, Intel-based laptops would be dead on the floor. But it's not, so you have to either suffer a hot underpowered laptop that runs good software, or a quick and light device that only runs dumbed-down versions of software. Even though the iPad has more raw CPU power.

The big things I miss are mouse support (way better device than my fingers, for manipulating web pages designed with mice, anyway), the ability to talk to random USB dongles (I run into lots of things with UARTs that I want to talk to from my "laptop"), and the inability to run things like Fusion 360. (I'm willing to change CAD software if there is something that runs equally-well on iPads and Windows/Linux, though.)

(I do think it's funny that to make money, all I need is a terminal connected to a Linux box and the Internet... but for hobbies and recreation, I need software that is written by thousands of developers all working on the same codebase.)
On the flip side I would argue that low marginal costs + high fixed costs = a natural monopoly, there is no room for a competitor to step in. A monopoly + lots of demand = lots of profit.

It doesn't surprise me that OneWeb is going bankrupt, but that's because SpaceX is doing it better, and there is only space for one (profitable) company in this space.
The convention is "Show HN" implies the author has created something for people to "play with or try out." Showing Hacker News something to read is just the title or description of the article even if the author is posting.

It's an interesting and well written article. Thanks.
Nice job and interesting. Where did you get the IP to country mapping from?
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“Health-care facilities don’t remotely have the supplies that would allow staff members to see every patient with all that gear on.“

As the article states, China had that ability.

If that statement is true, It’s amazing to me that this is something China can do and not the U.S.A. The country that put man on the moon not even a century ago! Incredible.

I feel like there are a lot of acquisitions lately that go on about how “draconian” China’s behaviour is etc, but they protected their medical staff by making sure they were adequately equipped. It read a bit like jealousy.
There is a lot of conflicting data. China went full hazmat with the influx of new healthcare workers they sent into Hubei, but Singapore and Honk Kong took significantly more measured approaches which ultimately have also been successful in limiting exposure.

The US policy of 14 day quarantine for healthcare workers who had even limited exposure to a COVID patient was never sustainable and threatened to shut entire ERs before the restrictions were loosened.

A broad array of moderate measures (stringent hand washing, surgical masks all the time, 6 foot rule except during exams, etc.) combined with isolation of only identified “close” contacts has worked in a few different places now.

The question of asymptomatic spread is still confounding experts. It seems they can’t fully explain the spread in some places without it, but they can’t explain lack of spread in some places with it.

When left in a situation where data is conflicting and unreliable, I think the path forward has to always balance the conflicting interests. Just like you can’t send the entire ER department home in the middle of an epidemic, you also can’t exhaust your entire years supply of hazmat gear in a week, and you similarly can’t crater your entire economy to put on a show of strong action.

Measured responses ultimately are what will save the most lives, because they can be sustained for the reasonable expected duration of the outbreak rather than shock and cripple the whole system in a matter of weeks.
Hacking Docker Remotely, interesting read
The point is it’s apparently not a settled matter.
> The iPad isn't really for people who read hacker news.

I’m replying to you using my 7th iPad.
No. Any signal that reach here from other star system will be too faint, and you need a huge antena to recollect enough power to detect the signal over the noise. The discovery is very overhyped in the press article (as usual).

Also, the detector is small, but it need to be cooled to very low temperatures, so the whole system will be not as small as the article describe.
Basically early Computer scientists were mathematicians, so CS would essentially be a math major if you really think about it. Since it's all about translating math into boolean functions a computer can understand usually.
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My thesis is that an AI can be raised on years of TV, video games,and chat rooms
Agreed. The only downside is that a disagreeable sour flavor can creep into the bread if you add much of the old dough or let it rise too long.

People who like 21st century vinegar-flavored bread can ignore this!
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Wow. This looks really cooler than I imagined. I assumed that it would be a simple mouse cursor but this feels more like a full screen Mac laptop experience.

Craig clearly is the successor to Scott.
> 36 Google fonts are already included.

Why is this a feature, or beneficial in any way? The documentation page itself loads four (!) full fonts in a range of weights.
We do not have tests.

https://covidtracking.com/data/

We have tested 150K people.

We have 327M people in the US, we have tested 0.00046% of the population.

We do not have tests.
Not sure why the initial tone of your response is quite so dismissive. But I do work with Python on a daily basis, even though this shouldn't be the deciding factor on the validity of any point. Discuss the point, not the individual, if it's so easy to disprove.
It seems that you're talking about poorly documented code, not how type checks effect this. Python code should have at least docstrings for types, or a scrawl with pen and paper describing this. If not, this is a failing of the project, and it's codebase. Not something you should rely on an outside tool to fix.
Ah, yes, sorry, I should have been clearer in that I meant for reading fictional novels.

I've never even tried to read a technical book on a Kindle, largely for the reasons you outline, but also because I tend to read such books in a different way. With a novel, you're relaxing and reading large chunks at a time, whereas with a technical book I'm usually simultaneously taking notes, coding or looking up related stuff in a browser, so I use a laptop or desktop PC for that (a tablet wouldn't work well for me here)
In industry, it’s usually referred to as “infotainment”. That’s why the information display (speedo) is logically linked to the entertainment (radio)
I'm in the same boat as you. Has multiple laptops and iPhones, never had an iPad. But my wife lives almost exclusively on her iPad and iPhone, almost never touches her (hand-me-down) laptop.

Before we had kids, I would get her hand-me-down iPads. I tried integrating them into my workflow, going as far as leaving my laptop at home for a week long trip where I would be working remotely (we had a small bluetooth keyboard even).

And I still couldn't find a good place for it in my workflow. When I need to type long things or write code, I prefer my laptop. When I need to do sysadmin work, I prefer my laptop. And for everything else, my iPhone is more than sufficient.

At this point the kids have taken over the last two hand-me-downs, so there is none left for me to try again. Eventually my wife will get an upgrade to her iPad Pro, and then I'll perhaps have access to a decent iPad again.

I'll try once again to add it into my workflow and see if there is a place for it, now that they've done a better job with synchronizing between Apple devices. I guess we'll see how it goes...
Masks are complicated. There is a bunch of research on practical use of protective face masks, respirators and in that effectiveness showed to be massively reduced due to leaks, improper wear, moving them or taking them off because it's hard to talk in them, hard to breathe in them and so on. Masks that claim 99% don't necessarily improve much over an 80% mask or at all. DIY masks are not much worse for the same reason.

But at the same time masks is the only significant personal protection measure against this virus when you have to be in close proximity to other people. Literally any mask would help in such case.

> They are only somewhat effective in preventing droplets being transmitted when you cough or sneeze.

They are even less effective at that, than filtering stuff coming in.
Interesting that’s a different company than I thought you were referring to and California law is a little different. But they’re not really skipping, they’re just the distributor. The manufacturer is who ever is paying the excise tax. So there is still a manufacturer, a distributor, and a retailer.

This isn’t that uncommon or novel. There are brands that go through the entire 3 tiers that are owned by a retailer. They pay a manufacturer to make it and then a distributor to distribute it to themselves.

Also the 3 tier system isn’t federal law, so there are states where, for instance, breweries and distilleries can sell direct to retail.
How much of a drop-in replacement is this for a Remote Desktop Gateway connecting through to users' workstations via RDP? Our users love RDP, but i'm more in love with the security that something like this could provide.
As coronavirus fears soar, Europe moves to ban wasteful 'ghost flights'
I originally brought up airway clearance because there's a ventilator shortage. I imagine "better out than in" is absolutely a very good rule of thumb for a condition causing the entire world to try to find ways to ramp up ventilator production. Doubly so for individuals who can't get access to a ventilator, so simply getting the phlegm and fluid out is their only real treatment option and it's one they may be wholly unaware of.
Australia is as close to equator as North Africa or Southern parts of Spain (Melbourne).
OpenJDK 14 Has Some Performance Improvements But OpenJDK 8 Still Strong
The series is amazing, I submitted a different article earlier and there is a comment of mine giving shortcuts to different aspects of the map generation. See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21406356
Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History by Milton Friedman is a great read about this and similar topics.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97822.Money_Mischief
Surgical-style masks catch droplets going in either direction (of course) -- whatever protection it offers going out it offers going in as well, which is fairly obvious from a basic analysis. Of course it won't protect against individual viruses, but for many vectors that are not actually airborne but instead are in relatively large airborne droplets of fluid -- including this virus -- it can be of some use. Certainly better than nothing.

As a secondary benefit it stops you from touching the critical areas of your face. Given that we touch our face hundreds to thousands of times a day, a few adjustments of a mask aren't going to offset that.

The myth that the mask purely protects others is a myth that needs to die. At this point it is truly destructive.

Given that a surgical mask is only of limited protection, and not total protection, of course in actual contagion situations medication professionals should have something much better. Though we're in a situation right now where the CDC is telling medical professionals to fashion masks out of bandanas.

But when you see the streets of China where everyone is wearing surgical masks, or you see some old person walking around with one, note that it absolutely does reduce their risk. Not anywhere close to completely, but to some degree.
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There is some real debate as to whether the “Tesla screen model” is appropriate for SpaceX’s Dragon capsule

https://www.thedrive.com/news/22887/the-spacex-dragon-capsul...
Unsurprisingly, CS is a very popular major (if not the most popular major) at schools near Silicon Valley.

People major in it because they can get jobs. And sometimes due to it being well taught and/or fun.
It's not distinctive from other lower respiratory pneumonia cases - it's only distinctive from the flu, so it could have been confused with other infections.
Probably the wrong way to look at it. They can exert greater force for shorter periods but the great apes have far worse endurance than humans. A chimp is about a third stronger than a human of equivalent weight but we can run marathons and they can’t. We have a higher proportion of slow twitch muscle fibres compared to fast twitch than the great apes.
For Germany this one is the fastest and most reliable:

- https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/corona-virus-karte-infektio...

Second best is:

- https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2020-03/coronavirus-de...

Also good are these charts:

- https://blog.datawrapper.de/coronaviruscharts/

But the ultimate list can be found at

- https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/154808/covid-19-v...
Pure madness. How are you supposed to pay that?
I find the title biased against Amazon to begin with.

As if having assistants from other companies listening in was any safer. Why namedrop Amazon's own?
JBTools.com has a bunch of the N95 half face and full face respirators last time I checked.
except house builders aren't required to licensed architects to get a job as a house builder.
It’s a joke and everyone in Japan knows it too. The sooner they cancel or postpone and get on with solutions, the better.
I've seen several pencil-like textures, and this one looks great! Thank you for sharing this effect.

Also TIL SVG has displacement maps and noise.
Very short sighted. The underlying technology is fundamentally more powerful. Also the whole tool ecosystem has improved, so going from voxels -> surfaces is better.
Can we all agree that outsourcing the production of critical medical supplies to China over recent decades was a bad idea?

I understand the “golden arches” theory, and the intent if globalism, but I feel that COVID19 has revealed what a short sighted, deeply flawed view the globalists have.
the name sounds a lot like "cogito" by ExpertSystem
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In part I agree, and of course I am biased since I studied CS but my goal is to be a house builder for a while and then have enough experience to be a proper architect. That's when the CS background should help again. So, study to be an architect, be a house builder for a couple of years and then be a properly educated and experienced architect from there on out?
> Governments have been telling this, as well, but it cannot be 100% true. I supposed it was a white lie to prevent people from stockpiling.

What I find crazy is (some) western governments complete inability to re-purpose (what's left of) their industries in a matter of days to produce needed masks and other accessories. You'd think there would be procedures already in place, but no, all they can do is monopolize re-sellers stocks for themselves. The inability of some so called first countries to handle that health crisis is a eye opener when it comes to how weak some western countries are. Where I live it's almost impossible to buy masks anywhere right now.
> https://github.com/cjbassi/ytop

> https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom

> https://github.com/bvaisvil/zenith
Even though we might have not hard evidence, I still think it's the first reasonable argument I heard, so I went conctactless at least for the time being.
> people have been flying back to the states with infections spread out over the entire country while cross-border spread has been much more localized in italy

I still don't see the difference? Why do you think that the cross-border movement of the disease should be different in Europe compared to the US? Why do you think that the US should be worse off, if that is your point? Do you think people more fly back to the US compared to the people moving from country to country recently in Europe in the last period (including Italy)? Are you aware of how Europe functioned up to now? Many people worked in other countries, and they typically don't even have to fly to achieve that, especially not across the ocean.
Laziness forced haskellers to actually obey purity, because laziness breaks impure hacks.
Many (FAANG and other) companies interview with algorithm puzzles that are fairly well aligned with undergraduate algorithms courses. Perhaps one purpose of such interviews is to select people based on how recently they took an undergraduate algorithms course or equivalent.
Alexa has been caught numerous times in the past
Oh wow, count me in. You could use Google Cloud Speech to go from voice -> text, and then Google Cloud Natural Language to go from text -> simple command interface.

I've got both working in Python, but don't do anything with the parsed text.

I want to do things like
"create sphere"
"move that up"
"no, bigger"

etc.
Hm, I'm willing to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a special pan that doesn't preheat, so I could cook the steak through first, then sear. Maybe I've been doing this wrong! Or maybe there's a Cinder Grill rep here that can get me a special deal for shilling their product :)

"The Food Lab" is also a good book, if you like diving deeper on this sort of thing.
The touchscreen matters when you want to type in notes. The Kindle makes it difficult with missed/adjacent letters and no or useless autocorrect. Also the Kindle is not usable with PDF files.

But the e-ink screen and battery time are definitely better on Kindle.
This is extremely dismissive. You don't want to live in a world where none of the people building things have CS degrees.
> The country that put man on the moon not even a century ago!

Aren't those two massively different tasks/skills? And both in massively different situations?
Atul Gawande is a voice i’m happy to listen to here, and this is a small ray of hope.

He’s a practicing surgeon, public health researcher, educator, and he was one of the early champions of wide use of checklists in hospitals to reduce infection rates and complications.

He is not prone to blowing sunshine and rainbows, either.
This is the only reason I can think of for still using this interview technique.
>Lots of math and hard science is in the major.

How different is this from engineering more broadly, to say nothing about math or physics majors? (I can see CS being a bit more math-heavy than some other engineering disciplines because at many schools, it's been historically associated with the math department but I think the general point stands.)

To understand these numbers, I'd have to understand better how degrees roll up into Computer & information sciences vs. Engineering & engineering technologies. At many schools, "CS" is in the engineering school, often associated with electrical engineering.
I've got some of this working in Python, outside of Unity. Last time I looked at integrating with Unity there seemed to be some Google API requirements that were hard/annoying to meet in my few hours of digging. Should take another look. All the VR HMDs have mics.
They mention Google in the first sentence.

I think it's important to not overly freak out about these home assistants. Your phone company or video conferencing company is already listening to your confidential client calls. Your email provider is reading your email. Your internal applications run on Amazon's servers. Your upstairs neighbor has their ear to the floor. I think lawyers are used to thinking "as long as it's not in writing, we're okay", but with speech recognition getting better and better, your phone calls / VCs are going to show up in court someday.
More that Chrome stopped updates for the meantime, which meant that the simultaneous decommissioning of older TLS wasn’t going to happen.
Show HN: I created a React Native app for iOS to discover Instagram Filters
Might trigger some rivalry with other prominent rich people and trigger more productive work and donations. Good for him.
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>> Many doctors lack training in epidemiology. Many epidemiologists aren't actual doctors.

Yes, and this is why doctors aren't being asked to do epidemiology and epidemiologists aren't being asked to care for patients.

And (likely) sofware engineers are not asked to do either.
For those who need PDF support, Kindle life is tough.
Yeah for fiction, the only thing that beats my Kindle Paperwhite is a physical book.

I'm a little surprised that you are able to do all that so well simultaneously on a PC though. Whenever I've tried to do it the context switching between reading the book or other documents and whatever I'm trying to do with it kills me. Maybe it is because I've only tried to do it on laptops (I don't have a desktop PC) but I also prefer just browsing the web on my phone than on my laptop so maybe I'm just weird.
A prolonged lockdown will cause - as a certainty - such a huge economical crisis, that all those people at risk we are trying to save today - will die tomorrow from non-existant care (along with many many others who will die and suffer).
The sad truth is that a lockdown and huge economic crisis that will definitely follow can't really save them (other options might help - but not this one).
I did actually. I was the oldest of three.

I'm not saying the poor aren't disadvantaged. It's just that the disadvantages are more along the lines of attitudes towards education in the first place (along with everything else). There are also fewer people nearby that serve as an "example" on how to learn or get ahead.