skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Svelte is my favourite framework right now (it's really reignited my love for web development after using React for a long time), but unfortunately one of their criteria/use cases was "build step as well as no build-step", which doesn't work since Svelte is a compiler.

While I thought dropping the "no build-step" requirement wouldn't be a big deal nowadays, they later say:

> We should still explore introducing a full build step in the future (including full support for module bundling, ES6+ transpilation via Babel, etc), but this is a non-trivial change to the architecture of MediaWiki.

I can see why going with something that doesn't need a build-step could be appealing.

There's also the other factor (mentioned below) about community. If MediaWiki chose Svelte, they would definitely have to invest a lot into the framework and it's community, and I'm not sure if that's something they want to or are capable of doing. The biggest pain point with Svelte right now (at least for me) is the tooling, it's real bad.

This is the only mention about Svelte:

> Svelte, Inferno, and Preact are aggressively optimized for performance but have much smaller communities of users (Preact suffers from this issue to a lesser extent, but only as long as it maintains a very high level of compatibility with mainstream React, which may not be the case forever).

I'd be interested in seeing a bit more discussion about it.
If the stuff is breaking down already then has been improperly engineered from the foundation up. Very few places are already in the work from home mode apart from fairly technologically forward companies.

If the situation continues, I would expect the load on conferencing demand to be at least 10x of what it is now when an average 4-10 person business starts doing WFH.
Yes, we're taking a radical approach to make it something that can be more accessible. Kind of like the first Makerbot, but for holograms.

The SLM choice will be part of trying to get the right performance/cost mix.

The printer will probably be full-parallax capable, but we might lean more toward horizontal-parallax-only for most user cases, to simplify the image input requirements.
Putting a caching layer in front of AWS is often very cost effective even without much skew in the access pattern. It tends to take a very low hit rate before it pays for itself.
Yeah, I indeed Googled it [0]. Wolfram Alpha is also a quick way to verify, just query the number:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1791991

[0] I thought to check because I instantly knew the number was not divisible by 3 (since 1+7+1+1 % 3 = 1), and at that point it's just quicker to look it up than run through the other primes up to sqrt(1791991).
That’s why it’s released through TestFlight.
It only has less total beds if you exclude outpatient facility beds.
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Back flow causing cross contamination, different rate and flow, etc
It looks great. Nice job. I miss the web from this era. Sites looked so much more unique. People posted to their own sites and syndicated content. Feed readers were useful. Sigh.
I see, you're right. What I wrongly assumed was that they were receiving spotty data about overall cases but more thorough data about cases leading to hospitalization.

I also just noticed the age brackets for the 508 known hospitalizations only add up to about 91%, so apparently 9% of those are also unknown age.

It's too bad they didn't publish this in a live form so we could see how it changes as more data comes in. Maybe they will do a follow-up using the same methods at some point.
I think the proof is out there: https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/covid-19/asymptomatic-...
My biggest pain point with the iPad camera has always been that it isn't aimed against your face:

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Depends on which "we":

The members of my community that got into a brawl over toilet paper at Costco: Yes

The members of my family who have been sending funny videos of each other because we're all stuck at home with kids: No

The members of my local gaming group that make sure to wipe down the table and wash our hands before we play: No

...

Basically, I think it is a mixed bag. Yes, we should be cautious and mindful. I agree that we don't usually put things in their proper perspective when assessing threats.
Ask HN: Is it possible to synthesize chloroquine at home, if so – how?
With the ongoing corona virus crisis, ánd mounting evidence that chloroquine (and hydrochloroquine) functions as an effective suppressant/cure for COVID-19, I was wondering if it is possible at all to synthesize (safely!!) those compounds using widely available resources and raw materials.

Perhaps a list of needed raw materials, list of resources needed and a step wise recipe would be useful in the coming weeks.

If this is not possible to do safely, perhaps someone knowledgeable can shed light on why that is.
> .. we got MERS

Chinese wet-markets sell camels? Really?
I remember this blowing my <table>-addled brain in 2003. This site was what convinced me to really dig into CSS, and not just use a few inline styles as hacks. This also opened my mind to JavaScript at the same time (as I looked into "DHTML"). It was a pretty different web back then!
I don't have the background to answer your questions, but even if I steelman and assume the worst outcome here (issues with the test, issues with epidemiology, that we're crowding out hospitals, that we're infecting via hospitals), I would argue that we are still not overreacting:

In the original outbreak of wuhan, there could not have been overpreparation because there was no preparation, the outbreak simply happened. So, we should look at wuhan pre-citywide-quarantine to get a feel for what it would look like if we chose to not "overreact", as originally there was no real "test" being administered, cases were diagnosed by CT scans of lungs for pneumonia, and there were not extreme imposed social distancing or population-wide quarantine.

So, any issues we might have in the west, should not apply to the original outbreak in wuhan. And in wuhan the casualties of the outbreak were on the order of 1-5% (i think estimates varied a lot for some of the reasons you list). In any case, it overloaded hospitals and a lot of people died.

If the infection reaches a broader population (the 'underreaction' scenario), it suffices to say the death rate will be a MINIMUM of 1-5%, as obviously the situation would be even worse with a large percentage of the population sick. This would continue until the population reaches herd immunity, estimated 30-60% of population infected.

Thus, we can conclude 1-5% of that 30-60% of the infected population would die, which in america ranges from about 1 million to nearly 10 million deaths. This is far far far greater than the yearly flu outbreak. And that's assuming that the rapid spread of the disease doesn't cause secondary effects through deteriorating supply chains (who staffs grocery stores if 60% of the population is home? who drives trucks to keep supply chains going? who works the amazon fulfillment center?)

Thus, I would conclude that the penalties for unabated spread of the disease are so horrific that the only reasonable response is something that looks like an overreaction: extreme social distancing, shutting down cities aside from vital functions, etc.

Because atleast our groceries stores operate and our supply chains are running.
Is there a reason I wouldn't just use creator? Does VS offer me something creator can not?
Probably to avoid the dumb limitations on having forms within a table? Still an awful and ugly way to do it
Early last week, one of the hospitals near me (NYC) had zero confirmed cases but a couple of people who were exhibiting Covid-like symptoms bad enough they required hospitalization.

On Thursday of last week, this hospital had their first several confirmed positive cases. Keep in mind that in the early days of this, the criteria for testing in the US has been "you are already very sick and you require hospitalization for something with similar symptoms"

On Tuesday of this week, as tests became more available, that hospital had ~20 suspected and confirmed cases.

On Wednesday they were at 22 confirmed cases and 22 suspected cases where people are sick enough to require hospitalization but test results haven't come back yet.

Last week, the hospital was dealing with normal load and on standby should this become a problem. In the space of a little over a week, they now have a floor devoted to patients who are a) sick enough to require hospitalization and b) have tested positive and another floor devoted to patients who are a) sick enough to require hospitalization and b) are presumed to have this based on symptoms presented, pending test results.

It's just one facility, but I personally cannot look at a single hospital that had zero known cases last week, which now has two floors devoted to active cases this week and comfort myself with, "It's fine, this is just the flu."
Incomplete data was fed into that model, as even in the Asian countries, only people showing extreme symptoms were tested. We have no data regarding the spread across the entire population.
Yes, from my part-time food service job. Luckily I have a place to stay and just got my tax refund but I'm a poor college student so the worries I'm having are with internet access at my familial home. I'm waiting on a refund from my college for the unused rent after they kicked us out of the student living.
It's lightweight when compared to other IDEs like Visual Studio, IntelliJ or Xcode.

How they do it while using Electron? No idea.
I wonder what they meant by "reported misuse?"
Some hourly workers would go to work sick: ‘I can’t afford to miss a day’
Yes, this would work well!

Might have a more narrow viewzone, because the light field from those is fairly narrow as I recall.
How to survive a recession or macroeconomic stress test if you’re a startup
Similar anecdote from me; it's been much easier to get friends together for an online game night.
Yeah, I think saying "X% of those hospitalized were in age group Y" is deceptive, because it says nothing about the base population distribution. If we just have a disproportionately large or small number of people in age group Y, that's going to directly drive X.

Of course the article's message is still very true: even young people need to stop being idiots when it comes to social gatherings. But it may still be primarily for the sake of others. I kind of wonder if this article is attempting to scare them into being socially-responsible, even if that means using dubious statistical reporting.
Error rate and timeout rate are good examples of an average that measures the thing you're actually interested in.

The whole point is that trying to average the latency and only then try to figure out what it means is backwards.
Ultra-cheap ~unlimited bandwidth doesn't seem like a good idea unless we ever figure out a solution to botnets that doesn't involve the whole internet getting behind Cloudflare.
Got my first copy of Linux (Debian Potato!) in early 2002. I'd known about it for years thanks to second-hand computer magazines and the excellent (in retrospect) ZDTV, and it definitely lived up to the hype.
Yeah I don’t care why. Theres a lot of things that are misnamed. I was just commenting on the power of the internet and outrage culture. I don’t use social media outside HN so I don’t feel the same sense of injustice.
Gottfried Benn once said, style is superior to truth because it carries proof of its existence in itself (other than truth which always requires external proof). For someone who wasn't a logician or a mathematician, I find this remarkably insightful.
Are these included in the count of the other countries? This is exactly what I mean: Without the same definitions for all countries, the numbers per se are not really comparable.
Only a small minority is saying its a bio-weapon. The bigger community says that it could have been an accidental leak from the BSL-4 lab in Wuhan. It is a fact that the BSL-4 lab has samples of coronavirus and study coronavirus.

There is documented fact that China has accidentally leaked SARS from a lab: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content...
I don't play Magic much anymore, but the Commander format is a good balance. The decks stay competitive longer, and the format is mostly casual anyway so most players are there to have fun rather than to win. The format encourages a lot of jank and fun play styles that aren't possible in competitive games, and the cards needed are therefore a lot cheaper.

Even outside of Commander, most players keep a few "casual" decks around which aren't especially competitive, but are designed to play with interesting ideas. If you ask someone to pull out a casual deck, they'll usually agree.
This makes me cringe. I may have been 12 but I was making websites in 1998. And they were decent--I mean, it was a lot of right click > view source copying. But I fell in love with the Web Standards movement. I was probably the only 13 year old whose book shelf included books on perl, css, xml, and the like.
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I've already noticed issues in my inner ring suburb. During the business day, my 200Mb Charter cable connection is only pulling 20-50Mb. I've never had capacity issues in the last 10 years.
It's up in the air, since Apple's guidelines are not consistently interpreted or enforced. It has, however, been approved to be on TestFlight thus far. (Which has little bearing on whether it will continue to be available, or if it will ever pass App Store review.)
I mean, some people are overreacting about some aspects of this, but the main thing is:

- the fatality rate for covid is high. People make a valid point about how we don’t know the “actual” (unbiased) fatality rate, that may be hard to estimate, but at this point it’s more or less irrelevant —- we already know for a fact that it is high enough to overwhelm the healthcare system, as is already happening elsewhere. We’re not going to wake up one day and say “oh oops, the fatality rate is only 0.03%, oopsies sorry everyone go back to work”, it’s already past that point.

- because it will overwhelm our healthcare system, countries have no choice but to impose extreme measures to slow the spread, which will have huge economic effects depending on how long we can stand doing this. Ideally until there is a solution to the problem of inundated hospitals, whatever that looks like, and however long that takes.

- people hoarding resources or thinking this is the apocalypse are likely overreacting. People are panicking, which will slowly stop once people adjust to their new temporary reality, but whether people are “overreacting” has a different answer for every person.

- the impact on the economy is going to be severe, even with trillions of dollars in stimulus. The restaurant/entertainment industries are trillions of dollars in size, so this will hurt (it is already hurting) and it will put many people out of business.

So....it depends on exactly what you mean by overreacting. If people who are really ok are filling hospital beds, then once things get bad they will be sidelined in favor of serious cases. So for now I don’t see how that’s an issue but maybe it is?

In summary: panic is usually the wrong response to anything but this is incredibly serious...
Detecting Covid-19 in X-ray images with Keras, TensorFlow, and Deep Learn (cont)
Unprecedented – BusAndTrainUser – journeys around Britain by bus and train
Well, with Madrid hospitals very near of collapsing and a death tool around 1000 persons, I think that I can say that we aren't overreacting.
"If I could have my way, I'd design games that were meant to be played in four to five hours. The games would be of the same scope that I currently design, I'd just remove the silly time-wasting puzzles and take the player for an intense ride. The experience they would leave with would be much more entertaining and a lot less frustrating. The games would still be challenging, but not at the expense of the players patience."

looks at her unfinished copy of Thimbleweed Park (Ron Gilbert et al, 2014)

hahaha sure Ron, sure you would
No. In the US alone more people may die from covid19 than from any other single event ever. Global deaths may exceed world war 2. For young healthy people, yes, things will be fine, but we are looking at millions dying well before their time.

In Italy death rates are 5x beyond normal. They are not even able to bury all the bodies at this time the mortality rate is so high.

Angela Merkel, who rarely gives speeches, has said this is the greatest challenge to Germany since the second world war. And Germany has been through a lot.

Look, even Donald Trump, who has every economic and political incentive to downplay this is calling this a catastrophe.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239975682643357696.html

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/angela-merkel-nails-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/generation-has...
How does it compare with Clion, the IDE from jetbrains.
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Why an UX Designer is essential
I think the article groups 20-54 because some people believe that only older people are much affected by the disease. They picture hospitals filled with the elderly. However, the data shows here that if you visited a US hospital filled with these COVID-19 patients that close to 40% of them would actually be younger people.

The article is not claiming that 20-54 year olds with the disease have a 40% chance requiring hospitalization. The stats quoted also do not show that the 20-44 or 45-54 cohorts have a 20% chance of requiring hospitalization. Instead, it's saying that the 20-54 cohort makes up close to 40% of the people who require hospitalization.

I.e. I think you have the probability conditional backward. It's not P(need hospital|age 20-54) ~= 40%. Instead it's P(age 20-54|need hospital) ~= 40%

The point is that it's not only the elderly who are affected here. They may be most at risk, and most likely to die even with hospitalization, but even younger people get sick enough to require hospitalization, without which the fatality rate of that cohort may rise as well. If we don't "flatten the curve" then adults of all ages may not get the hospitalization they need and start dying.

(edit: corrected age bracket from 20-64 to 20-54)
Yes, alpine was the password. I'm hoping ipadOS (not iOS) will eventually get some ability to compute/develop/run software without the hacks, just because the current state is absurd. I've made a collage to illustrate this: https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8

Text summary:

iSH - enable location services to run things in the background.

A couple youtube videos talking about having yet another device to do things like terminal access (via having a raspi over usb-c) or

UTM (virtual machine host) - which from my understanding requires a paid 99/yr developer profile to run.
Having such reserve knowledge and experience is invaluable to national security, justified even under subsidy. Especially for critical supplies like semiconductors and medicine.
The robots can be iterated on Earth and the environments aren't much different. The problem here is NASA.

NASA is a politicized bureaucracy that has its hands tied behind its back. It cannot afford to take risks (both from a budget point of view and a politics point of view; failed missions are a wound to national pride). It cannot afford to hire the best and brightest because government payroll levels can't match industry wages.

NASA is mired in old engineering superstition and has wrapped all progress in procedures that make it impossible to iterate quickly. They've made hardware and software decisions produced for them by niche industries that charge 10-20x consumer prices for inferior hardware that is certified by NASA standards.

NASA is not the organization that made it to the Moon anymore.
Judging from the random yet inexplicable 42 cent bill on a free account I set up years ago, I'd say their memory is positively unbelievable.
What did the audio guys do to his voice? That’s not natural.
Currently it focus on processing orders, but this would be a nice improvement for the future.
We should give them more money to improve infrastructure.

I am sure 'this' time it will work.
>As an aside - the MAGA brigade is out in heavy force lately

Partisan conspiracy theories like this are not helpful
To save car tires, darken the garage windows (August 1942)
Sean Martell: My Mozilla Design Journey
PlayStation 5: the specs and the tech
Exactly. As of March 18th in Italy 8.3% of healthcare workers are infected and several older doctors have already died. That's bad for everyone in all age groups.
Indeed, this is the only genre of video game I really care for.

And yet even as I keep buying and playing the games, I am always disappointed.

I don't know what the future of adventure games looks like, but it definitely does not involve inane inventory "puzzles."
Through the thicket of your stacked negations I find it difficult to make out what it is that you intended to say. I guess nobody could deny that no thing isn't really nothing that doesn't fail to exist, don't you disagree?
Special How Korea trounced U.S. in race to test people for coronavirus
Also need to take into account that people will die a long time before the cases close. Also not all cases will be closed because of limited testing. Right now the ratio of deaths to closed cases in the US is about 60:40

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
For sure, no worries. It's really hard to decipher what is and isn't a reliable source sometimes. I spend a lot of time on this topic so I know a lot of the usual ones to watch out for.
I can’t speak for other EU countries, but Germany has systematically neglected its network infrastructure over the last decade. Even in Berlin fast, reliable Internet is hard to come by. I often find my LTE turn into Edge at the blink of an eye.

We should urge leaders (public and private) to do a better job and hold them accountable for bad policy.
> What's the real bottleneck here?

ISPs overselling their last mile bandwidth.