skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edge caching should provide similar benefits no?
Depends on whether you flatten out the growth rate. It won't/can't keep growing like that when everyone is sheltering in place.
That seems low to me - Started with 1040 over 56 days at that rate (13.2% ish), I get about a million people.
It was my understanding ventilators also do CO2/O2 analysis to understand how to work on the fly, how would that work in this case?
GameStop says it’s “essential retail” to fight forced closures [Updated]
This may buy some time but we can't be in lockdown forever. Testing infra really needs to ramp up during this time. S.Korea never actually ordered any stay at home order. People are voluntarily avoiding going outside and aggressive testing is paying off.
Simple systems work great and are easy to implement when you're working with limited requirements. But the second you start to add new features, the system breaks down. How would a simple form or telephone call work if I wanted to know the status of the pizza or delivery driver's location?

I'd prefer not to give my number to them because then they can send me unsolicited "offers" all the time (just look at email) but I don't want to block them either because I still like their pizza.
Yeah, it’s all anecdotal. I have neighbors in similar jobs that are out of work. My next door neighbor is hospital staff (which you would think would be safe) but our state has cancelled all non-emergency hospital work, so a large percentage of the hospital staff has been furloughed, including my neighbor.
How does it save lives? If someone took this test and popped positive, would it increase the likelihood of receiving effective treatment or of reducing transmission? I'm trying to figure out the value.
On a basic level we all:
- Know what a room looks like.
- Expect certain objects to exist at certain places and not expect others
- The brain indexes these
- Seeing one or two datapoints allows us to guess. So seeing a glass cube in that context gives us few logical chpices (it must be a table) similar to someone typing a letter in a textbox and having it filter a pre-defined list.
Magical indeed. Except that public opinion counts for nothing in copyright law; you have to fight it out in court. Luckily, Sun isn't the kind of company that would file questionable lawsuits against Linux users just to... wait.. wasn't Sun bought by another company?

Well, whoever owns the copyright now, you're probably reasonably safe unless they're a hyper-litigious corporation with deep pockets and an army of lawyers, who see lawsuits about software licensing as a potential source of income....

I mean, what are the chances?
> according to GroupMe messages obtained by FoHo

I remember coming to the bay area and it wasn't long before someone that felt they had a cultural affinity with me invited me to a GroupMe group. Man that was years ago. Surprised to see people still use GroupMe, still seems to be for cliques exclusively.
You’re conflating hospitalization with the ICU. Many people end up hospitalized without needing a ventilator.
I was involved in starting a streaming service in SE Asia and the costs of 3rd party edge caching (Akamai etc) were significant. So much so that it made the business model non-viable without work arounds. Eventually we partnered with ISPs and piggybacked their edge caches.
Mutual aid is going to be crucial especially here in America where the government has so fundamentally f*ed up. I'm currently thinking of ways to make tools to help organize and facilitate the various kinds of aid we're going to need, I'd love to hear people's suggestions
The theory behind "Flatten the curve" is that delaying propagation can buy time for our health care system to better cope, rather than being completely overrun.
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Agree. Active citizenry is the cornerstone of democracy. That’s why we have elected officials. But when they are unfit for the job and it doesn’t mean you blindly follow them to the abyss. There is something to be said for course correction and not waiting for the next cycle to make changes while millions of people get impacted. There is no doubt that people will needlessly die due to our abject failure to provide these test kits in a timely manner. Maintaining status quo / Dealing with things just for sake of tradition dosnt make sense in 2020. By that logic we should still not have women’s rights and continue on slavery because that’s the way it had been for so long? The leaders can do whatever they want and we have to wait for the next cycle beastie that’s the way things have always been?
Dissecting Germany's low coronavirus death rate
Interesting. I didn’t realize there was a related plant worse than Conium Maculatum, poison hemlock. Which I am way too familiar with - they’re common here in the Seattle area. My neighbor owns a restaurant that specializes in using lots of different herbs, and a few years ago we were in my backyard when she pointed out these tall plants with purple-spotted hollow stems, looking kind of like Queen Anne’s Lace. She told me what they were, and that I really needed to get rid of them. Been trying for years to do so. Damn things are really persistent, with long deep roots. Plus, when I weed them out (with gloves on, always), you can’t dump them in yard waste or compost. They’ve got to go in the trash. Fortunately, my kids are now old enough to know to leave them be, and warn me when they see them.
Is it economically viable to have all this infrastructure without commercial interests?
I haven’t tried it, but WebUSB has been used for loading custom operating systems while hacking Nintendo Switches: https://webcfw.sdsetup.com/
Ho lee sh, that is absolutely crazy.

I am sure its affecting you internet speed, what sorts of tasks are you generally doing now that the entire is state is pretty much on lockdown?

Here in Alberta, although we are told be socially distant, there is no full lockdown and I want to know what kind of issues would I be expecting to run into in the up coming weeks/months?
Array programming is already mainstream -- matlab, python/numpy, R are used daily. The first time one does it, it is very enlightening -- "what do you mean I can operate on millions of entries without loops"?

The only thing which is unclear is why would one want to use unreadable line-noise languages for that.
Realize the phrasing may have been confusing - I'm talking about regular Ubers, not self-driving.

My quote was from a person internal to Uber. Below is a TC article citing a public report on US Data. Numbers in that are roughly 50/year, or a fatality in America every week. Every day may have been a stretch, but I'd guess you could deduce that Uber drivers worldwide are involved in a fatality accident at least every day.

*also - this is obviously a lower rate than non-Uber drivers per mile

https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/05/ubers-fatal-accident-tally...
While that’s encouraging (also, username checks out)... I find it difficult to put myself the shoes of a 60-80 year old adult in 3 months. At what point will I feel confident enough that I can leave my house?

It seems the most logical conclusion is that we’ll end up in a situation where the most vulnerable segment of the population remains self-quarantined at least until a therapeutic treatment becomes available, which could be over a year.

I have a very hard time imagining people able to do this.
The article makes it sound like the ventilators have a wide enough range of operation to accommodate. It may not work for the tail end (set of 4 people each with large lung capacity), but could work for many.
What does it have to do with the zfs developers who no longer work for oracle?
Nobody is at the wheel, and this is quite apparent. Federal leadership squandered a month of response time insisting that there was no problem while focusing on corporate welfare to keep pumping the stonk market. Thus demonstrating that the national motto really is "fuck you, got mine".

And so it's not terribly surprising that everyone is selfishly looking out for themselves. Protecting ourselves is literally the only thing we can do. That's a failed society for us.
Rethinking the Coronavirus Shutdown
A coronavirus explosion was expected in Japan. Where is it?
That’s ridiculous. An average citizen cannot vote more medical supplies into existence no matter how hard they vote.
Facebook, Google discuss sharing data with gov. to fight coronavirus
You'd hope that someone with a positive test is more careful about isolating themselves and perhaps tells their contacts to do the same.
"Based on the patient's past history of seasonal allergies and the high pollen count that day, most signs seemed to indicate that there was nothing to worry about. But--in order to rule out the unlikely "edge case" that the patient had contracted an acute viral infection that could become serious when his immune system was suppressed by chemotherapy--my advisor made sure to run tests for several common bugs before starting treatment."

And that's the problem: thinking like this as a programmer is cheap and fast; as a doctor it is slow and very expensive. I for one would prefer a very cheap doctor that didn't think like this most of the time. Unfortunately, massive malpractice settlements will always hinder the goal of cheap healthcare.
I think coffee requires more skills/equipment (cost) than tea. It's much harder to create good coffee than good tea.
Turns out N95 masks are quite high-tech, and even China is having trouble scaling up its production. They're made of a material, meltblown fabric, which only a limited number of factories are capable of producing.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/16/8149292...
It might reduce transmission if the patient chooses to self-isolate and otherwise would not have.
I understand. But, it's about keeping a reserve. On one hand, it's wasteful. On the other hand, a maintained reserve can save lives. This is a problem that can be solved with money.

Planet Money did a great episode recently on how the US government is currently paying for a year-round supply of chicken eggs to produce vaccine for a pandemic flu. (https://www.npr.org/transcripts/812943907).

I understand this situation is different from eggs, as an egg not used for a vaccine can be converted to feed, but in the end it's all about money. It's like an insurance policy. I pay for auto insurance but don't use it until I really need it.
The only reason for doing this is to get a political win, to be able to turn around and say 'Governor X didn't get the supplies you needed, but I made it happen.' This is the same guy complaining that the federal government 'are not supply clerks.'

¯\(°_o)/¯
They'd have been better off defining a standard with something vaguely like a year, or pinned against a console generation as a reference point.
I definitely understand that. It seems especially important because of the group of people that needs ICU and recovers. If hospital overflows, they don’t get ICU, so they die.

But it’s a bit discouraging if this is the only benefit of flattening the curve. So we are all gonna get sick, but in an orderly fashion? And the mortality rate is unaffected?
If people just used git the way it was intended, as a decentralized protocol for editing and sending patches by email, we wouldn't have this issue. See https://git-send-email.io
So would limiting sales per person and keeping the price affordable.
Would definitely be something to keep one busy in quarantine.
IDK. I get that it's a hard problem, but it's a solvable one. It's not like it's some equation or law of science that needs to be discovered. It can be solved with money and effort. :\ I get the economics don't work out in normal times for a reserve like this, but that's exactly what an insurance policy (i.e. a federal reserve of medical supplies) is for.

It's just like nukes. We have a stockpile of them that are maintained... nukes are very hard to produce... etc. etc.
Depends on who you voted for. 49% of the people that voted are in a perfect position to blame others.

Not that I think it would have really mattered. All the western countries were struck by surprise it seems, even though they had months to prepare.
Seems likely. Italy is currently seeing a 13% increase per day while the US is now very close to a 50% increase per day. There are news reports showing beaches and bars in the US are still fully packed. It probably relates the US culture of disregarding expert advice and doing the opposite to "own the scientists"
This is immensely forward but if you would like any help with your resume or interviewing I would be more than happy to help. I am no recruiting expert I believe I have some skill that may be useful. I've changed jobs every 18 months (by choice) for the past 6-7 years or so and I've interviewed with about 10x that many companies. No pressure, just wanting to help out.
Why is Italy’s curve not like South Korea? They under-reacted. We’ll know who under reacted based on the curves.
I'm not sure what sort of answer is possible/in good faith/responsible, but this information immediately prompts some probably-predictable questions:

- What bits of equipment would I need? (Generally speaking, not specific to what's in this auction lot)

- What reagents are needed? Where can I get them (both as a general rule, and also specifically given likely huge shortages)?

- How do I actually test for this?

- What do I watch out for to try and mitigate false positives and negatives?

I ask as someone

- completely naive - in the sense of "oh this sounds interesting and easy to do!" :)

- objectively absolutely underqualified to even think about doing this

- incapable of affording any of the equipment

so by all means feed me answers describing how impossibly hard and stupid this is to do, and pretend I'm not serious.

Also, as an aside, it'll be fun to watch the bid price on this. I wonder how statistically above average it'll be. Heh.
The test is trivial. It's just RT-PCR.

- Spit in a 2 mL tube

- Purify the RNA from the saliva in that tube using qiagen's Viral RNA mini kit (https://www.qiagen.com/us/products/diagnostics-and-clinical-...)

- Get PCR primers against NCoV N by ordering IDT's CDC qPCR probe assay (https://www.idtdna.com/pages/landing/coronavirus-research-re...)

- Run one step RT-PCR using your choice of one-step reagent (CDC recommends https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/A15300#/A...)

- Either do the reaction in a qPCR machine or run the PCR result on an agarose gel with positive control, if you see a band matching coronavirus positive control then the sample is positive, if not negative. Also helpful to have a human sample negative control to be sure as well.

There is no step here that requires critical thinking, it's just following instructions on the kits.

Also, this is not like a "bootleg" version of doing it, this is actually the official way the CDC does the test.

Edit: Please see official CDC instructions for how to run the test here: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download

Edit 2: In terms of test shortages, it seems to be due to shortages in RNA extraction kits and swabs, only the former of which is really necessary, since the official guidance for sample collection has switched from upper respitory swabs to collecting sputum (phlegm) from the lower respitory tract (by just spitting it out): https://www.ft.com/content/86efe246-692e-11ea-800d-da70cff6e...
Who's enforcing?
Thanks for sharing this. Often sorting algorithms in practice end up being glommed into a Swiss Army knife style sort function to avoid pathological cases. E.g for smaller inputs just use insertion sort, but swap to a different sort of you know the size, etc. it’s pretty common in standard libraries (I think). So I am curious: are any pathological cases for skyline sort?
I am one of the founders at Luma Health. We may be able to help you out. We could offer app less way of following patients and getting responses from them.

Here is a short video on what is possible: https://youtu.be/escWi-ZuGRo
This is truly fantastic, the use of an eink display so that it doesn't shout for attention but is always ready is such a good call and in my opinion worth the additional effort. Thanks for sharing and making the code available for others to read and learn from.
Free HPC cloud for engineers, scientists and researchers fighting Covid-19
The ghost of Gann: Another crash is coming
Does insider trading apply to the public sector?
Thank you for the links. I found it before as well with some quick googling but I felt the title deceptive after reading the actual studies linked [0] [1].

>>> The sequence of events suggests that the coronavirus may have been transmitted by the asymptomatic carrier.

>>> If the findings in this report of presumed transmission by an asymptomatic carrier are replicated, the prevention of COVID-19 infection would prove challenging. The mechanism by which asymptomatic carriers could acquire and transmit the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 requires further study.

>>> Considering the reported similarity in viral loads between asymptomatic and symptomatic patients [14] and that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic cases may be possible, even though there is no clear evidence as yet of asymptomatic transmission, the relatively high proportion of asymptomatic infections could have public health implications

No clear evidence of asymptomatic transmission. A lot of 'probably', 'suggests' as before. It's certainly a growing possibility, but not I'd not call it proven yet as a big factor.

[0] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/27620...
Bill Gates: Coronavirus Shutdown Could Last 6-10 Weeks
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates claimed that the current coronavirus shutdown could last between 6 to 10 weeks, depending on how well testing goes.The billionaire spoke to a Reddit audience on Wednesday, saying a short term shut down possible."This will vary a lot by country," Gates wrote."China is seeing very few cases now because their testing and 'shut down' was very effective." "If a country does a good job with testing and 'shut down' then within 6-10 weeks they should see very few cases and be able to open back up," he added.Gates said that the economic impact of the "shut down" will be "large," but the economy can "eventually ... open back up" if done properly.Have your say - ⇓ Hit the comments below ⇓ © press The Microsoft founder also said that the U.S. would eventually go into lockdown, but added it should have been done sooner. The Microsoft founder also said that the U.S. would eventually go into lockdown, but added it should have been done sooner."We are going into lockdown, but as usual in retrospect, we should have done it sooner," Gates wrote.
What's the point of getting a "bootleg" unofficial test -- why would you trust the results (positive or negative)?
It should. This is using publicly unavailable data for profit.
> Amazon should not be censoring legal items on their platform.

Price gouging during a disaster or emergency is often illegal. And I suspect they're violating laws exporting them in the first place as most countries don't want medical supplies leaving just so people can make a quick buck.
The crazy thing to me is the government or hospitals haven’t issued a massive n95 drive to obtain more.

I have a few left over from a house project I did a while back. Kept one for myself, but happy to donate the other 4 I have. I’m sure if the request was actually made people would donate. Is it enough? No idea, but construction workers, painters, etc don’t need them right now.

People want to do something, let them.
They kept giving reasons why this might not work...

* not tested in humans
* cross infection potential
* different sized people mess it up

... but I see no reason why any of these things would stop me from using this in the real world. If things are bad enough that we need to do this, then we should be able to find relatively similar sized people. Cross contamination is not a concern when someone is dying here and now and likely has the same disease as the guy next to him who is also dying. Priority 1 is save them. Make their next of kin sign a waver or something, but save them. Lastly, who cares if it hasn't been "tested"? It was used in the real world, in a real life and death scenario, and it worked. I'd absolutely take my chances with it given that the failed option is to pull people off and set it back to single person mode. At least try.

Lastly, I would imagine that some common pressure regulation values could be used to compensate for different sized people.
Windows 10 and Xbox do p2p aggressively for games and updates
Agreed I used too strong of language. I should have said it could be a false dichotomy.

My perspective is colored by being a huge fan of the demo scene and loving older games. A large part about what made some of them fun was understanding just how hard they were to do. Is also, I feel, why so many games did not have as much in game help. Couldn't put it in. There is something to be said for that.

My hunch is there was a selective pressure such that only really amazing things survived. That said, how many potentially amazing things were killed fighting the platforms? Could Daikatana have been amazing with more powerful tools? I honestly don't know.
Well regardless of whether social and psychological can keep up, the incentives to push the technological ones forward are happening now. Those who wont be able to adapt to the fact that entrenched power structures will become increasingly irrelevant at being the arbiters of truth and information will suffer most.
"why they are not fired and instead have to wait till next election."

Because we still have laws, and elections. What do you want a military coup?
If it's so easy, then is it so hard to ramp up testing?
Would this be easy to do yourself if you were able to find (or make) a PCR machine?
Trump is inexplicably balking at actually using the Defense Production Act: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/488526-frustration-mou...

> But in a subsequent tweet on Wednesday evening, Trump indicated that even though he invoked the act, he is in no rush to use it.

> "I only signed the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst- case scenario in the future," he said. "Hopefully there will be no need, but we are all in this TOGETHER!"
Check out the OpenCovid19 Initiative[0]. They have many ongoing sub-projects and a dedicated slack channel for developers. You may find help for your project or that something similar is already in the works.

[0] https://itsfoss.com/opencovid19/
Strings, Numbers and Math Problems
You might be able to get the average person on board if approached from a repair specifications angle.

What a given part does, what size it does it within, where it links up to other parts (with what sort of links), and how well it does the thing are all facts. After knowing those facts a 'cleanroom' implementation of a generic part shouldn't infringe on anything.

Convince the average person of that, and then extrapolate that to making a machine that responds the same exact way to a 3rd party's recipe.

Often, given physics and current or near possible tech, there's only a small number of possible answers, and for a given set of criteria one is going to be 'the best' answer.

Physics and Math are tools that express how nature works.