skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh, Maverick! Brings the memories back.
The joy when I discovered that you could use it to alter specific disk contents! So, I used it to find text, alter it, then copy for friends. Eg. "Turn the disk over and press space" became "turn the shit over and press space". You could write yourself in the game credits too, and so on. (Just make sure that the new text fits in the chunk you're overwriting)
It was also the go-to copy program for that early p2p file sharing network we had :-)
> After randomization, subjects take hydroxychloroquine 400mg per day for 5 days, also take conventional treatments.

Huh. I'm on 200mg/day for rheumatoid arthritis.

I wonder if I ought to double dose for a while.
I use a Minikube cluster w/ KVM as the driver for my self-hosted Gitlab CI/CD and it's worked flawlessly. Wonder what issues you encountered to recommend against it.
A DAG isn't a tree. It's acyclical wrt the direction of the edges. Since this basically is an outliner, the name (or title of the submission) is misleading.
Why does everyone focus on the ventilators?

The hardware is cheap relative to the experience and 24x7 care that is required to keep you from dying while you’re on the ventilator. Hell, even if it’s $15,000 or even 50k, that’s still probably less than just one days cost of having you in ICU, where you’d need to be if you were on a ventilator.

My dad died of pneumonia. We got there one day after they put him on the ventilator. He never woke up. He was never able to get off the ventilator.

After about seven days on a ventilator, the call you have to make is whether or not to replace the tube going in his mouth and down into the lungs with a trache tube, knowing that if you go the trache tube route he should be able to be taken off the coma-inducing sedatives, but then he’s going to be in a long-term care facility for months or years or the rest of his life.

All my dad wanted to do was to go home to his cats, but he knew the pneumonia was severe and he knew how painful the tube would be, so he asked them to keep him under while on the ventilator. And he never woke up.

Stop focusing on the ventilator. By the time they need one, they have much bigger problems.
Ask HN: Hiring during the lockdown in SF?
I’ve been out of work for a few months while working on a side project. Local to SF. I was going to start looking for a new gig this week, but now we’re in lockdown.

Are there any companies that are still going to be starting interviews and such?
some backward incompatibilities? You apparently can’t run node directly. That’s kind of a problem for all but the most obvious of use cases.
That is only true if your only expense is labour, something that's true out-call prostitution and little else.
Unfortunately, if you chose and booked a non-refundable hotel on any website then "non-refundable" means just that. People often have the choice to booked the cheaper non-refundable deal, or often a slightly higher priced one offering Free Cancellation up until a specific time and date before arrival. Yes, it was obviously a mistake that you didnt see/notice or read the bit about it being non-refundable. Their Terms and Conditions will be very clear about non-refundable and its meaning.

You can cancel it if you wish, but you will not receive a refund. I think its the hotels themselves who set the rules for their hotels deals, either non-refundable or Free Cancellation.
As a ham radio operator, I can tell you that it’s completely ok to allow everyone to broadcast if there is a small system of common sense rules in place that determines when to send and when to wait.
Aren't there restriction like only for citizens 18+ and under Yang's policy it'd be you either take UBI or other subsidies you qualify for.
You can just buy it over-the-counter in some countries, right? How dangerous can it really be? Follow the instructions on the box like citizens of those countries do.

IMO we in the US need to take the coronavirus as a wake up call to stop ignoring the medical systems of other countries and admit that they might have something to teach us. We shouldn’t just assume the American medical system is always the best one.
Ask HN: Please, do whatever you can to keep Internet safe during this crisis
With the closing of schools, our kids are going to use the Internet a lot to follow online courses. A lot of non tech savvy adults are also going to use tools they might not be familiar with.

Today, we've seen teachers using discord to dispense courses, professors using twitch to livestream classes, sometime to a very young audience.

While this made the geek in me very happy, I suddenly realized: this is the perfect moment for black hat hackers, harassers, sex predators... to do "bad stuff". They will also have more time online than ever.

As a father, white hat, geek and tinker, I am calling the tech community to be very careful and do what they can to assist and protect other users.

A few threats that popped into my mind:

- NSFW messages in chat like discords: teach users how to properly configure the client, maybe discord themselves can also do something temporarily

- Streaming platforms: teachers are using it, we don't want those streams with our underage kids to be hijacked, account credentials and stream key must be protected. Teach streamers good credential hygiene.

- Hijack of unencrypted student records (grades, names, address...), could be use for bullying or other nasty things.

- Hijack of unprotected ip cameras used to monitor kids.

Nothing in this list if really new, but I fear the risk will be much higher in the upcoming weeks.

We, as the tech community, will have a central role in the crisis, we need to be tolerant, humble, helpful, compassionate, patient, watchful and generous. We will need, more than ever, to develop, install, configure, integrate, maintain and most importantly: teach and educate.

In those hard times, I wish you all, my fellow HN community, the best.
Remdesivir therapy potential for treating SARS-CoV-2 infections
YC CEO Michael Seibel open up about his accelerator’s first online-only Demo Day
In case this thread doesn’t gain momentum, some more (potentially interesting) discussion on Reddit [1].

Particularly this post [2]:

> I wonder if they plan to follow up and monitor... From the Diamond Princess they initially found 50% of people had no symptoms. However upon following them over the course of weeks that dropped down to about 18%. Due to the long incubation period it can take some time to determine if someone is truly asymptomatic or just not symptomatic yet.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fjuj24/5075_of...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fjuj24/comment...
In several states small political donations (up to $50 or so) are tax deductible. More money spent is not deductible.
How reputable is this paper?
One has to account for 1929 gold standard. Since the world has confidence in the US dollar, Uncle Sam can dole out dollars, unlike gold. Just as bull markets are irrational, so are crashes; both are manifestations of herd mentality, as money ebbs and flows.

Today, Vanguard and Fidelity wanted to sell 6M shares of $ROKU after hours through Morgan Stanley. That's how things will go.
It's more efficient to compare r[beg] and r[end] directly than to construct a temporary string.

The tests should include failing test cases too, that is, strings which aren't palindromes.

The test cases are all of odd-lengths. An even-length palindrome should be included because palindrome implementations sometimes fail with even lengths but not odd, or vice versa.

The empty string should also be a test case, for the same reason.
Most of the cases of the infection are mild. Nothing has happened yet (yes, nothing - the number of deaths currently happening in Italy is still, statistically, a blip), and yet already more people are not working for weeks than what would if everyone got sick at the same time, given the working-age mortality and complications rate. And we haven't even started yet.

It hasn't seemed binary to me before about this weekend, but it's increasingly starting to seem binary as the over-reaction escalates.
UBI only works when it isn't universal, basic or income.

At that point you have invented a worse welfare state.
For the last decade many of the largest corporations have been taking on massive debt loads in order to buy back stock and inflate their stock price. This is a result of extended low interest rate policies. The corporate "logic" is, "we are growing at 3%, we can borrow money 1% now and take that cash immediately, and since we are growing faster than the interest we'll have no problem paying it back". So they buy their own stock back, and their stock price rises. And when many corporations do this, all of their stocks rise and the market rises, and rises, and rises - like its been doing for the last 10 years. At the same time, debt grows, and grows as the FED scrambles to keep cutting rates so that companies can keep borrowing and allowing for cheap money so that this stock market rise can continue. Then, eventually, there is a period of time when they dont grow at 3% - worse yet they shrink (like during a pandemic). Then, all of a sudden, they are left with trillions in debt that they cannot service (debt that has been collateralized into bonds and sold off to other investors, which will also default). That results in a cascade of asset selling to raise cash, which tanks the market, which results in more selling and you have a crash.
> You realize the top 1% already pay for a disproportionate amount of the taxes?

In absolute terms maybe (though there are some glaring exceptions -- Amazon famous literally pays $0 in taxes), but not relative to how much they make.

> To tax people's wealth on top of the standard tax is plain evil,

I don't see any reason why taxing net worth is at all less sensible than income. If anything I think it makes more sense; why should someone who's had a lucky break but is still not rich have to pay taxes like they are?

> will end up driving all the wealthiest people out of the country...

I don't take seriously the idea that any of them are going to give up living in the US over a couple percent of their income (which is what the wealth taxes folks have been talking about would take, at most).
Or you can just ask. I emailed asking for a refund, citing corona, the (pre-paid, non-refundable) hotel I was going to stay at for SXSW and they refunded me the entire sum. Very impressed, and I'm sure preferable to credit card charge backs.
I don't see why contact tracing doesn't scale. The only thing preventing Google and Apple from producing a contact history for everyone is privacy laws and people without phones.
That's a great point.

After the government shutdowns and lock-ins began, I started to think about our current political trends. If we keep voting for political leaders that tend towards fascism or socialism, we could end up with severe consequences.

Both camps were eager to close restaurants and stores without establishing economic fallback plans. Essentially, they indirectly removed the SMB owner/middle class. This seems like the first step towards making people solely reliant on IBU even it is promised only as a "temporary fix."
> As a cheap, safe bet it’s not unreasonable to start having a g&t each day along with a zinc pill.

The amount of quinine in tonic water off the mixers shelf is definitely not enough to have a medical impact. The flip side of how bitter it is, is that you need very little quinine to get the flavoring. "Real" tonic water like brits drank in india or whatever is muuuuch more bitter than the stuff you get today.

Maybe if you drank tonic syrup straight.
Regards 2FA/Login: Except that Microsoft has not done this with GitHub. And NPM is joining GitHub not Microsoft. You will see non login vanishing in favor of GitHub Login for sure. And the second factor, see what GitHub offers. For me that is currently a OTP generator
Excuse me? Just because I don't know the details of the constitutional doesn't mean I'm crawling out of the woodwork. Maybe you've had police law in your city before, but this is the first time I've experienced someone saying I can't go where I want, so I'm genuinely curious how all of this works.

Of course there are limits, and I'm asking what they are, in this specific case.

Feel free to contribute to the discussion.
not super surprising - plenty of other diseases are similar.

Even serious things like HIV are contagious for a long time while being completely asymptomatic.
Not sure i understand the issue of crossover contamination. If you mix together say 500 swabs and if no one has the virus, then will there be a false positive? My understanding is that there won't be. And you have saved 500 people-hours of testing time in one go.

I was thinking about this when our university was closed and upwards of ten thousand people were told to go home. It is good for them and for everyone else on public transport to get a clean chit.

I could be wrong, but as far as I know it doesn't take 3 days to do a test. It takes that much time because of shipping time and demand on the machines and crew. Doing bulk testing should alleviate the latter.
Capitalism pits humanity against nature. It will destroy both, if we let it
In my opinion, for-profit bitcoin mining is detrimental to the ecosystem. Prices should fall to unprofitable levels,so network hash power is more distributed among smaller groups.
Don’t forget you’re on HN.
edit: OK, wow, I realize that I did indeed misinterpret Osterholm's statement on the podcast - at first listen, I thought he was discussing worldwide numbers. You are correct; his warning, based on the American Hospital Assocation, is 480k deaths in the United States.

As best I can tell, he is citing the "leaked webinar" for hospital prep from the American Hospital Association. I can't find this document or other interpretations of it.

But yeah, I was dead wrong about what he said.
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Ahh, gotcha.

I think there's some confusion about what we're talking about.

I thought you were talking about a number of deaths in the USA (ie, compared to my pointing to the approximately 40k traffic deaths).

480k deaths, the CIDRAP estimate cited by Osterholm (which, by the way, I can't find a PDF for - do you happen to have a link), is unlikely to include more than 40k US deaths; I don't think there has ever been a pandemic where the US accounted for 9% of the worldwide deaths, has there?

For example, the 2009 H1N1 outbreak saw 284,000 deaths worldwide, with 12,000 in the USA. [0]

> The Imperial report warns of up to 2.2 million in the US, and even with mitigations in place a large number of fatalities.

We might need help interpreting the 2.2 million number - it is described as the calculation of an "unmitigated pandemic", and appears to take the worst death rate for each age group observed worldwide and combining it with the "cumulative ICU cases trigger" (the report loses me here), and then simply applying it to the USA population.

In other words, I don't think it's meant as a prediction, but a ceiling to define the parameters of the report.

But again, I'd appreciate some help interpreting.

0: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2012/06/cdc-estim...
I don't have any links handy but I've seen reports that in a few cases covid19 has indeed caused permanent lung damage after the infection subsided. Apparently it's rare but possible but don't take my word for it.

I don't think any other organs growing in size are going to compensate for reduced lung function. It's true our bodies adapt to damage but once the tissue is dead it's not coming back.
No US company is better in that regard. I prefer one with an army of lawyers. Damn, should have gone to Oracle. That is a joke. A joke!!!
Well, this is actually not a bad idea from Amazon. Hope they pay well and don't screw these guys over.
Asymptomatic for the entire duration of infection? That sounds bad for reducing R but good for the health of the individual.
Oh, he is very much of the Reagan school and thinks that he has earned it.

Like I said, I lean libertarian, but flashy displays of wealth are IMO tacky. It's worse when you are flexing on CSRs that make $12/hr. Our CEO has made displays of how much money he has on the floor, and he seems to think it will motivate them.

Not my department, but I can understand why the customer service managers are pissed off by that. They have enough trouble with retention. It is somewhat disgusting to see a multimillionaire lord his wealth over people making barely over minimum wage. I know these folks, some of them are check-to-check. Answering emails is a horrible job, I wouldn't do it for $100/hr. That additional abuse is unwarranted.
If you've ever played Plague, Inc. you will find eerie similarities.
It’s called “Mutual Insurance”. It’s been around for many years. E.g., Mutual of Omaha.
That's hilarious. Is it a real quote from the show?!

(I'm the author of OP.)
We've known this for a while. Everyone will get it. You might have it now. Nothing will happen. Still, quarantine for a while because you'll give it to an older person or kid. This isn't about a 20-something year old getting sick. Let your anti-bodies make yourself non-contagious. We are all kindergartens and this is chickenpox basically.
“Modern UI” is not a selling point.
The "Australia is way larger" thing ignores that the situation in the cities is just as bad, or sometimes worse.
Placing Ourselves in Time in a World We Never Imagined
I don't know if I should be happy about it or not. The world is currently having a tough time battling Covid-19. How safe it is for these people to work during the outbreak?
You say it's not, but it actually is. Many hospitality industries are allowing coronavirus related exceptions to their cancellation and refund policies.

That's right, in this real actual adult world.
Draconian/authoritarian responses are becoming more common online. Offline in meatspace people are also becoming more guarded and wanting bans for all sorts of slights. These are not good signs for society in general.
March 22 seems to be the updated data for all international and transcontinental travel.
The best evolutionary strategy for a virus is to not cause any disease at all.
I want to be able to tailor survival rate according to availability of hospital support - it seems like an obvious thing to include.

e.g. say that there are X hospital beds, and an X% survival rate for critical patients if they can get a bed.
The best parts of CDE were Motif and ToolTalk. This ... thing omits both.

This is a CDE skin for FVWM.

Nothing important from CDE is included. None of the technology ideas. Just a cute window manager.
Your government shouldn't have the capability to titer on that. Good, bad, or medium leader things should march on.
I'm happy to learn that but the cap seems pretty low. :/
I don't want to spread misinformation here, but u thought I had read several times that children are almost immune from symptoms but can still carry it.
Isn’t “building respirators” a known issue ? we have to increase capacity and build more
"Everyone we found to have Covid-19 had serious symptoms, so we don't want to waste money testing you if you don't!"

I feel this is a trillion dollar mistake, testing more aggressively like South Korea means that you don't have to deploy the army and quarantine people. I had mild symptoms and they refused to test me, what am I to do? Self quarantine without a notice and hence without pay? I could work from home, but most can't so they will just go to work as normal and spread it. And now it is all over the world so only drastic measures will help.
I think the "next one" means "shut down the world". HIV/AIDS is horrible, but doesn't need us to shut down the world.
The people at the top don't have much money (as a percentage of their holdings), they have "wealth", where wealth means productive enterprises like e.g. toilet paper factories. The people at the bottom work in toilet paper factories and are given money which they use to buy toilet paper from the people at the top, and thus there is a productive equilibrium between the wiping masses and the owner of the means of wiping.

When the people at the top make less money, they invest less money into new toilet paper R&D and new factories. When the people at the bottom make less money, they spend less on toilet paper, and the people at the top make less money. The balance is fragile, and if your end goal is that your citizens have access to the finest and most luxurious bathroom experience they can, then you must take care to balance the engine of capital with great precision.
It seems like the less deadly a virus is, the higher the total kill count. Ebola was so much more deadly but it killed people quickly or at least kept them in bed. Covid-19 lets people walk around for weeks without even knowing they have it.
I would really prefer that people were more pedantic about this. The impact of COVID-19 is presently not even a rounding error. The impact of the measures taken to try to prevent the first impact from happening is enormous.
On an unrelated note, I just noticed this entire time I've been reading "asymptomatic" as "asymptotic". I thought it was cases that happen in the limit as severity goes to zero.
I like the mop feature. It is far from a true mopping, but still the floor feels less dusty than after just using the vacuum alone. That said, it may be a placebo effect on my part. I should do a blind test someday.
wow, what a strawman you've built there.

that US government expenditure is a constantly changing number, when the government wants to buy some ICBMs they don't go cut food stamps correspondingly, they just increase the amount of government expenditure.
Possibly of interest, w/r/t improving availability of ventilators in a medical crisis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClq978oohY
Permitting key lifetime to disagree can allow an attacker to manipulate key lifetime, which could defeat perfect forward secrecy if the key lifetime is manipulated towards infinity or used to gather data for a known plaintext attack if the key lifetime is manipulated towards 0. Replay attacks also come to mind.
Yeh but like babies. Or really sickly people.
Very. Repubblica and Corriere are the two main newspapers in Italy, and they are both quite reliable. Repubblica is left leaning, Corriere is right leaning.
"and I want to do it somewhere with a gym and pool"
I would assume that asymptomatic person has a lesser concentration of virus and hence would be less contagious than the really sick ones
My source for that quote was this transcript of the podcast: https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/joe-rogan-michael-oster...
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