skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding your question about if we might accidentally test for flu or other, already existing corona virii:

This was a topic of discussion in yesterday's talk [1] with Dr. Drosten, a virologist who played an important part in the development of the currently used PCR test. He said that there were extensive studies done with hundreds of samples from both flu patients and patients infected with other corona virii and none returned a positive result. The only other positive results were from corona virii that are special to certain animals (bats, some cows IIRC), but none of those are present in humans. So the accuracy of our current PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 seems to be extremely high.

[1] (transcript in German) https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/16-Coronavirus-Update-Wi...

Here's a quick (and slightly condensed) translation of the relevant parts:
"There was a big validation study [for the PCR test]. We tested with a big number of patient samples from patients with flu/cold diseases and other corona viruses. Not once did we get a false positive. [...] It is true though that [the current PCR test] would yield positive results against the old SARS corona virus, but that hasn't been confirmed in a human for 16 years. And theoretically, the test would give a positive result on some bat corona viruses, but they do not affect humans."
Yeah this sounds like a really bad idea
Umm, no? According to the CDC, 83,500 people died of diabetes in 2017 [1], and that's not even remotely the top cause (heart disease at almost 650k).

According to the last stats I saw, 8 people have died in the US of corona so far... [2]

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
[2]: https://liveupdate.world/coronavirus/m/en/

Edit: I'm not going to bother responding to all the edits, though at the moment they haven't proven anything different.
Edit 2: It was pointed out that the source I used for the "8 deaths" was incorrect - it was 8 new deaths, there have been 97 total according to the CDC. My bad, but I think my point still stands regardless.
So if I were to tweet that people should wear masks as it helps (evidence by Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China) will I get banned as CDC says masks don't work?
While proxying through a torrent system is a good idea. I doubt it would get well seeded outside a few popular datasets- the agency would end up the sole seeder of the long tail.

I’m willing to bet NASA saves a ton of money by going to a cloud provider- US government storage setups are insanely expensive. I remember a project I was on got a quote of over $10,000/TB in 2014, and there is no way egress is actually free right now- they are paying for a government regulation compliant internet connection one way or another.

I do worry about vendor lock in to a degree, but I’m confident the agency and tax payers would save money going to any major cloud provider.
That's not the impression I get from Wikipedia. Do you have a source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_details_of_Netflix#O...
Something about accessibility and screen readers that people virtue signal about, but never actually test for.
Yeah. I shared that quote as an example of the “terrifying” conclusions this good lead one to, not necessarily because I though his reactionary stance was true (or useful, haha).

But maybe the success of representative democracy is not based in rationalism but instead the mythology around individual liberty.
the second number will decline after everyone catches it, obviously.
Support your local municipal fiber efforts. StarLink is cool, but pulling your own fiber financed with muni bonds at super low interest rates is available today. Returns are chasing safe yield, muni bonds are safe yield.

https://muninetworks.org/communitymap

These folks in the northern rural parts of England do it stupid cheap:

https://b4rn.org.uk/

Contacting your local community representation/government about this can be done from the comfort of your home during self-isolation.
I've seen constant improvements during the past decade. The main issue nowadays is that more often than not, unlimited 4G is reasonably fast and reliable, many residential customers don't see the point of a 500Mbps/1G/10G broadband connection. Even though it's not particularly expensive over here.

Yes, some European countries are lagging behind (hello Germany) but that's a political problem.
But stats like that also can signal being over-selective.

I would gently suggest that it is a mistake to think in terms of unqualified vs highly-qualified candidates and ML for "callback probability". I don't want a good, but not FANG-level, candidate to NOT apply for our standard software engineer opening just because 74 people already did.

Why? We had 60+ candidates for a recent posting for a junior developer role with some experience - think 1-2 years or some good school projects. Somewhere around 45-50 of those applicants were easily HARD-FLAGGED don't interview at all after a quick cover-letter and resume review by a technical person using a rubric. That rubric was scoped only to weed out applicants with absolutely no meaningful experience.

While I also hate the laundry-list approach for job listings (Must Have: Expert Java and C#, Spring ORM and ActiveRecord skills with deep understanding of React internals), I think the best way to attack that is with a short, but focused cover letter. That should include a short paragraph or two about a candidate's hands-on experience and speculate how their experience might apply to the position. I guess what I am driving at is that this idea of ML assigning importance weights to "soft" vs "hard" requirements is, at best, just another low-value signal in job postings that are already full of low-value signal.
I really like the iPad form factor and carry one around with me for almost all work and study because I really like the digital writing experience on that. Much more than on a Surface, for example.

So I wanted to make this work, I really wanted to be able to use it for light development so I could leave my notebook at home some/most days (depending on what I'm currently working on). But it doesn't stop with all the things in your collage. i(Pad)OS doesn't natively support my keyboard layout, so I was looking at getting a QMK-compatible keyboard so I could do all the remapping before the signal ever reaches the iPad. Only after sinking a non-trivial amount of time into researching that I realized how absurd this was.

A device so powerful and yet so limited by its software. I have since made my peace with the fact that my iPad is a glorified notepad and PDF viewer, but I wish it didn't have to be.
There were a lot of grid base frameworks which did this. Foundation 5 was unique in that it still used these rows, but you uses scss to assign those attributes to your elements. Your pre-compiled CSS looked clean and your HTML looked clean and your final CSS was a minified blob of crap you tried not to thing about.

Really CSS Grid does the same thing; there's just more in CSS now and it's a whole lot cleaner.
Why is this URL pointing to /publish-accepted? It gave a me a scare!
See this

https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/14/45

That kind of continuous flow chemistry is a revolution, something like 3D printing.
>> The article is not claiming that 20-64 year olds with the disease have a 40% chance requiring hospitalization.

The article subtitle says:

"nearly 40 percent of patients sick enough to be hospitalized were aged 20 to 54."

>> I.e. I think you have the probability conditional backward. It's not P(need hospital|age 20-64) ~= 40%. Instead it's P(age 20-64|need hospital) ~= 40%

The article is not making any such formal distinction.
The actual title is "Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?" which doesn't use a question mark after a statement.
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Even with "display: table" or flexbox you couldn't do something as simple as colspan.
try monkey island.
they may be complex puzzles (and at least in the monkeywrench puzzle even opaque for me as an italian kid with no idea of the word "monkeywrench") but at least they are funny :D
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Because assistive technologies (like screen readers) won’t interpret it as a table, but the browser will, giving you the ease of table-based layouts without the accessibility hang-ups.
Very few are. Making ball bearings, for example, requires very special machines that no regular shop has.
Yummy. Does it have a C compiler?
Yes, I'm saying at some point we should make the choice between a lot of people dying now and even more people dying later.
Because it was "the whole point" doesn't mean that it was a "good idea", especially when the web changed so much since then.

It's not necessarily a good idea to completely separate what things are and how things look. It indeed makes easier to do a complete redesign, but how often does it happen? And if it does happens, what are the chances that it actually won't require markup changes?

I find the approach by Bootstrap (or better, Tailwind) much easier to work with: compose utility classes to make up higher-level components. It still require some encapsulation of these higher-order components (with a Web Component, React Component or even just a class with @apply), but it allows much much faster development, less spaghetti styling, less cross-browser concerns and less code all around. Ultimately I code faster with less bugs and easier maintainance: I take it as a subjectively better approach.
I learned about this phenomenon (looking down I mean) from the forums of Home of the Underdogs, which gathered people from all over the world. This was 2004 I believe. But also from magazines we got from Spain. For some reason adventure and text adventures were really big in Spain, and along with it the notion (in their subcommunities) that action games were for the "dumber" crowd.

It wasn't a vicious sentiment, like you would have nowadays, just a feeling of superiority from adventure gamers. They also reacted fiercely when game designers started introducing action gameplay in adventure games, creating action/adventure hybrids. The feeling was that they were "dumbing down" adventure games. Which, if you read the Old Man Murray article, is of course a hilarious notion.

I loved adventure games too! As I said, I cut my teeth with the original (and punishing) Space Quest series, and to this day I have fond memories of it. I also learned quite a bit of English from the series :)
>but it will be far from the same experience

why do you think so? except for free food and the city life of whichever city you were supposed to be in, what's the difference?
Keep in mind Zen Garden was written WAAAAAAAAY before mobile layouts were a thing. Back then, you had mobile sites .. for people with PalmOS, BlackBerry or flip phones with tiny browsers. I think my edition of this book came out before the first iPhone (I remember owning it when the girl behind me at work got the original iPhone EDGE), so responsive design wasn't a thing (I don't think media queries even existed in the CSS standard, or if they were, few were using them yet).
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'If it looks like you're overreacting, you're probably doing the right thing.'

-Dr. Anthony Fauci
> It seems to me like the problem is just that supply chains aren’t legible.

There are a number of efforts to make supply chains in all sorts of sectors more transparent using blockchain-like protocols. So this will hopefully improve in the future.
He also said that COVID-19 is a form of the common cold.
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If you install one:

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Partisan? Hysterical! There is no universe where disagreeing with a cult of ignorance is "partisan".

Further, it isn't a conspiracy theory to make a banal observation. Flagging is clearly being grossly abused.
As someone who works for a company where the IP lawyers own your soul and constantly remind you of the fact, I would not be surprised that Apple contributions to the Linux kernel are few and far between.

Don't worry, the Apple thinktroopers will catch up with those people and then they'll probably be free to contribute to any free software they want in their now-limitless leisure time.
BTW this is my first ever HN post. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know! Cheers, and stay safe out there!
> The pinnacle of P2W

I bought one deck, and maybe two booster packs, total.

My friend's sister's boyfriend was very wealthy, and would buy several entire boxes of booster packs (like a shop would have on display) when a new expansion came out. In return for helping him open and sort these, he'd give anything he couldn't use or didn't want to my friend and me. This worked OK for a while, as we had fairly similar strength cards.

The one day, the third player in the group bought 8 rare cards from eBay for about £20 (maybe even each?) and was unbeatable. That basically ruined the game for us.
Depends - if the content isn't semantically a table (data points with a two-dimensional relationship) but you just want a table-like presentation and you want to conform to accessibility guidelines, this might be totally fine.

Sure it might be more elegant to do it with a stylesheet, but for a one-off situation it is not that bad.

There is a persistent attitude that presentational information in the markup is Bad and Evil. This is only partially true.

Misusing semantic html elements (like using <table> for purely layout purposes) is bad because it hurts accessibility for other people. But putting CSS directly in the HTML does not hurt anybody but yourself. If you do it all over the place it becomes a mess to maintain, but in particular cases it might be the simplest solution.
The US has a _lot_ more area to cover, though. Other than the "urban canyon" effect Berlin basically has no excuse.
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Even with the most powerful CSS methods, you simply cannot completely separate the structure of the HTML from the layouting.

It's better to give up on this ideal right from the beginning than to build something that ends up getting complicated with work-arounds and edge-cases.
Exactly. I don't understand why people are so avert to the word "panic". Extreme situations require extreme measures, which sure as hell look like "panic". If somebody is shooting at you - you're expected to panic and run and hide.
If stocks double and everything costs twice us much, you're 2X better off having invested than held cash.
If stocks double and everything costs the same, you're 2X better off having invested than held cash.
If stocks double and everything costs half as much, you're 2X better off having invested than held cash.

Note I'm not claiming stocks will double or triple, but if that's the starting assumption then there's no need to ask what inflation or deflation will do.
Because the equipment requires very sensitive measurements on the order of tenths of cmH2O and tenth of a milliliter of air, a very small leak in any one of the seals can cause a significant inaccuracy in ventilation and especially in the alarms which govern whether the equipment isn’t overinflating your lungs. This isn’t like a car where you can just start it up periodically to keep seals lubricanted. You need to maintain them or to have a plan for how you’ll check them before putting them into service. And you need biomedical technicians who are trained to repair them and clean them. If you mothball the equipment there is a very real danger that without re-qualifying the equipment it will kill or injure patients.

The biggest effect GMs announcement seems to have had is convincing people that a car company that builds to PSI tolerances can build anything to the kind of tolerance needed to safely ventilate patients. I think this is a PR move and GM and Tesla will study the problem enough internally to determine they have no idea what they’re doing. Worst case we get ventilators from Tesla with the same manufacturing defects and quality issues which their cars have had. I personally would not feel safe on a Tesla or GM ventilator built without FDA oversight.
At a certain level of complexity of web application, it becomes impossible to not have javascript without compromising on your user experience.

I'd argue the opposite - I'm extremely cautious of anyone claiming they don't need JS. People can very easily forget the terrible, terrible experience that a full page refresh brings, and having only full page refreshes as the option greatly limits the kinds of experiences you can give users.
This is the same for me. When you came from a table based design approach, it was hard to know how powerful CSS was. This was to prove that an help developers overcome their fear. I loved this site!
We're going to expand there as soon as we can
This article is blogspam. It’s just a light rewrite of original reporting by Defense News, published here: https://www.defensenews.com/2020/03/16/us-army-ventures-down...
Bootstrap still gives me an eye twitch. It didn’t handle color customization properly until at least 3.0 (oh you could color many things, but you want light text on a dark background and you’ll have to override a ton of stuff).

I was ordered to use a version that didn’t even handle responsive design properly. Right after we had agreed to make the app responsive.
New research shows social distancing a must to beat Covid-19
I would add that I recently started getting into Bolt Action, a WWII based miniatures game. It's got surprisingly clean rules, the lore is more realistic, there's even some movies about the lore, and it's way cheaper than any Games Workshop game.

As I'm new to the hobby, I'm a slow painter, but I can see why people do it.
The sole alternate to wuhan-style lock down is not utter incompetence.

You could have an administration spend the early days working on the problem and appointing an epidemiologist to spearhead it rather than assert it's "fake news" from political enemies, appointing a loyal politician to manage it and classifying early data.

For one, you could so easily just inform distributors ahead of announcements to address hording and delivery instead of leaving the elderly with no to get food.

Even merely a large government orders for masks at at the beginning would have had a huge impact.
Let your family know you are in meetings with an IoT Busy light
It's never a bad thing to use more accurate terminology, or to update language as society and culture develop.

If my grandmother can learn a better word for "brazil nuts," you can learn a better name for the 1918 flu that started in Kansas.
One of my quixotic personal projects was reproducing this design for my Myspace profile.

Ha, I found the blog I was keeping:

http://myspacecivilized.blogspot.com/2006/09/css-moshi-garde...

It includes a small screenshot.
We used Linux in a product before it had a network stack. We did need networking, and used KA9Q to do it. We also used rz / sz (zmodem protocol) for file transfer over phone lines. I recently integrated zmodem into an embedded system for firmware updates over a serial port- it's still very useful.

The performance of the floppy drive was terrible at first- a friend of mine and I added buffering, so that it could read a track at a time instead of block at time (which caused it to read only one block per disk rotation).

For the same project my friend created the generic SCSI driver that still exists today. It allowed us to connect a medical film scanner to Linux.
Interesting that King County, WA doesn't appear as a hotspot on this map, whereas widespread news reporting strongly suggests otherwise.
I agree that no build step is a false economy. With a build step writing Vue and react are better... Use up to date JS, minified and split bundles, single file components, etc

Points 2 and 3 I agree with though. Vue is more complete than react the library and the Vue stack has had less churn.

I see your point about potentially leaving behind very old devices. I don't know Wikipedia's compatibility stance. It may not be fair to say it's overlooked as the decision within this RFC is only about modern JS frameworks. The decision to adopt could take that into consideration

I have to disagree about the Kangaroo court accusation, that seems unfair
it may have been mentioned already but in the US healthcare prices are negotiable. It's strange because you can't go to a US grocery store and haggle over the price of cucumbers like you can in many other nations but you can do that with healthcare.

So $24000 is like the asking price, you can come back and say "yeah well, i'll write you a check right now for $2500 otherwise you're sol.". Once a provider realizes what the max they're going to get is then, magically, that becomes the price.

To anyone who doesn't know this, don't you dare pay out of pocket what the bill says. Never. What's on the bill is not based in reality at all.
Many vents can also operate in BiPAP or CPAP modes or as pure demand O2 supplies for people who can still breathe. That can be done with a mask.
Add an 'e' to the creat() call?
do you know a good python course?
You'll largely miss out on the social aspect of all the other interns, for one.
I maintain a clear overview of the Coronavirus situation in Berlin (https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/coronavirus). Right now, I'm a bit overwhelmed and I could really use some help.

- I need help with collecting and summarising the daily updates

- I would like to add more information about backup plans for employees and freelancers (this will become its own guide)

- I would like to compile a list of ways people like you can help.

Feel free to get in touch (see the Impressum page). I'll take as much help as I can get, but I have zero demands.
Well, you can still settle for reading/watching Let's Play of them.
Wow! That's good to know, if a bit disheartening. I guess I was thinking costs for small startup costs with some cheap-ish linux raid setups and likely massive fiber taps NASA must surely already have. Not government/big business costs.
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The iPad Pro is ready to supplant the Mac just as the MacBook Air is great again
ASCII graphics of girls who would probably be pretty chilly dressed like that in the Finnish winter.
There's a lot less of that very-distant ocean than you might think. You need about 700 km of lateral distance on Earth to get 800km distant from a point 400km over the surface.

Start drawing 700km bubbles from random specks of land in the ocean, and the uncovered ocean disappears quite quickly. Bermuda, the Azores, and Newfoundland conspire much of the North Atlantic between the US and Europe. Seychelles, the Maldives, and the British Indian Overseas Territories similar get a decent coverage of the eastern Indian Ocean. Random Polynesian islands also manage to provide a surprisingly good coverage of the South Pacific (almost contiguous all the way to Hawaii), although the gaps are more evident here.

I don't have hard numbers here, but I'd hazard a guess that the ISS is closer to civilization about 80% of the time--not bad, considering that civilization occupies far less than 30% of the surface.
Windows Subsystem for Linux is making inroads with developers
I wouldn't want to pay for worst case service utilization. On the other hand I definitely think service providers should be more clear on what exactly you're paying for.