skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The inability to just requisition, demand resource, mobilize people and so-forth, is breathtaking here.

A once-in-a-century threat arrived just as American leadership has fallen further than anyone thought possible in the postwar "Pax Americana" era.

Just 4 years ago, this was unthinkable. Trump would be bad, but we'd have infrastructure spending and regulation cuts, at least. The adults would ultimately be in charge, as always. Right?

We are witnessing the end of the American century. I hate to be so dire, so grim at a time when it's the last thing anyone needs. I'm sorry.
Well, I mean who could blame you for what normally would be a harmless action? How many plants you ever encounter, especially in North America, are this toxic?
The more testing, the more you can control the transmission rate. This is all about the transmission rate (you may have heard "flatten the curve" several hundred times recently). Quarantines are a sucky but effective way to reduce the transmission rate. But with testing, isolation can be reduced, which is necessary because quarantines will only be tolerated for so long in Western nations.
Also "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." —Herbert Stein
I'd take a few high-profile covid deaths.
FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both approaches are usually easy and effective.
It's partly in the very definition of the word.

> panic: sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, often causing wildly unthinking behavior.

When fear runs wild and uncontrolled, it can paralyze us into inaction, or worse yet, motivate us unthinkingly towards action that may end more lives than even inaction would. Or to put it another way - panic is a great way to waste a bunch of perfectly good fear.

Fear should be properly harnessed, controlled, and guided through proper thinking and wisdom - then we can maximize our chances of it motivating us to take those extreme, life saving actions you alude to.

Stress - as caused by fear - can shorten your lifespan and reduce it's quality as well. When possible, one should guide ones fears towards reasonable risks you can do something about - where the costs might be worth it - and away from the irrational or unactionable - where they are not.
What do you think are the risks of cross contamination in this setup (let's say, just for 2 people sharing one unit)? She mentions how, in a situation where you'd have to use this, they'd have the same infection. What if they have different secondary infections or different types of pneumonia?

The example of the Vegas disaster is different because they were all gunshot victims; they were healthy, but wounded. I hope we would never need to see if these would be effective.
No idea. They told me by email. And it makes sense for normal times.

It's probably in a procurement regulation or guideline.
I saw a whole kit including laptop, software, and license for $3,500 buy-it-now on eBay last week.
Depends on their accuracy. A positive illicit test will result in somewhat reduced transmission. A false negative in possibly significantly increased transmission.

Also depends on whether you're testing suspected cases or merely hypochondriacs.
And maybe a few blunt answers that don’t placate along the lines of ‘welcome to life, it’s hard’.
>The problem is that the population of California is 40 million. Even with basically unmitigated spread, your clusters will slow growth simply due to lack of new available uninflected contacts.

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." —Herbert Stein
I would assume those numbers would be meaningless. This is a hack, so the main goal would be to simply keep as many people alive as possible.
Not when it's just prep work before doing an unavoidable syscall.
Why aren't you doing it and making a killing (pun intentional)?
Linux runs on more servers than desktops.

Can’t imagine the licensing for server editions of Windows will take off when Linux for servers is still FOSS.

I think it’s great that more people are getting access to FOSS on Windows. I remember when Linux didn’t have a package manager and you had to install dependencies manually.

Enabling Windows users a limited Linux experience should help encourage more Linux switchers.
> The more we flatten the smaller the denominator.

Nitpick: bigger (20 -> 200).
JSTOR’s Open Access content can be read without an account
Could you explain the principles of these softwares?

Do they basically automatically download the newest pirate movies using BitTorrent protocol? Or there is more?
It boils down to people, logistics, and efficiency:

Yes, we can produce the primers, develop the tests, ramp up the supply of RNA extraction kits, swabs, tips, etc. Individually easy, but together more challenging, especially when the entire world is also trying to acquire the same products.

Yes, large, fast and high-scale instruments exist. But, they need to be set up and calibrated. They need adequate power, cooling, water, space, etc. The technicians need training. They need network interfaces, etc.

Yes, it's a simple test. But there are still SO MANY steps needed to generate a result from a sample, and those take people. Just looking at the laboratory workflow:
1) Sample received in shipment -- unbox, scan manifest (if provided)
2) Unbag sample + requisition
3) Check sample label (usually handwritten) and verify accuracy to requisition (possibly handwritten). In an ideal case, orders are coming in as "interfaced orders" (meaning electronically) but many smaller clinics/hospitals will not have this.
4) Enter all demographics of the patient into laboratory system
5) Have second person verify the information
6) Re-bag and send sample to location in lab with test instrumentation
7) Technicians unbag, verify label + order accuracy
8) Decant sample from non-standardized tube sent to lab to standard tube used in lab
9) Scan into liquid handling robot...
...et cetera, et cetera

As I will probably find out in the replies there are "solutions" to all of these problems, and many labs utilize them. However, to scale such a complex system so quickly means that there is no room for a "test environment", and all changes have to be made "in production". Even simple changes to the workflow require days of prep to communicate to all of the staff across three daily shifts-- you get the idea.

source: i'm a laboratory medicine resident at the UW lab. We scaled from 0 to 3000 tests in 2 weeks and it's been an incredible all-hands effort.
Are they? Meaningful quantities of all critical industrial goods would be incredibly inefficient.

Sum({Some percentage of total use / year} * {Storage costs}) over {All strategic materials}

And remember, all strategic materials would have to extend to things like non-woven fabric to be useful here.
No it's not. The one in the title has dots as separators and uses single digit for first 9 months.
This assumes that the virus doesn't mutate quickly enough that herd immunity and vaccines won't be very effective; it also assumes that the UK prediction of a bad winter resurgence won't happen.

Otherwise, what on earth is the strategy? Flatten the curve only to have an explosion later?
Out of curiosity, what changes if you have had it, recovered and been symptom free for 2 weeks? Is there something different in what you’re supposed to do.
Exactly, I am not anymore. I wouldn't be at all if I knew it. I'm not watching much and most of the time it's Star Trek TNG or similarly aged stuff, so I didn't realize this might be the case. The girlfriend watches (way) more.
Scientists create quantum sensor that covers entire radio spectrum (0-100ghz)
Thank you for your congratulations and taking the time to write such a detailed comment.

Yes, the demo is just the access point for guests, so changing the status on the status page is not possible. It's an information for the guest about there current orders. The interface for waiters is nearly the same, except they can choose the table at the beginning and are able to checkout orders on a table (mark them as paid).

Maybe a video with some examples would be helpful to understand the process.

Currently it is important for me to find real customers so I will definitely work on the pricing model. I also thought about different pricing models (like tauntz mentioned a % revenue-based approach with an upper cap). For starting this MVP it was important to keep it simple so I decied to use a fixed price per month. Maybe I should cut it to find real customers.
Even if it's true, this isn't your personal soap box.

Wikipedia blocks edits to articles that people start spamming too. I don't see this as any different.
It doesn't matter if the people running the government believe in it or not. Central economic control doesn't work.
This is a classic statistical fallacy. A test that is 50% accurate serves 0 purpose. You might as well consider coin flipping a valid test. If you tested America with this test you’d end up thinking half the country is infected. And within the ones that tested positive only half would actually be and within the negatives half would be and you would have missed them.

A test needs to be materially more accurate than the odds of having the disease to be worth anything.

Classic thought experiment: if 0.0001% of the population has a disease and a test is 99% effective and you test positive, what are the odds you have the disease? Answer: 1%.

Complimentary thought experiment: if an expensive preventive drug was available in limited supply (for 0.1% of the population only) and the earlier you took it the more preventive it was should you give it blindly to as many positives as you can? Probably not because 99% of that would be going to waste. And you would run out of drugs to cover the actual sick. Only 10% of the sick would end up actually getting the drugs.
The Tweet is now deleted, so probably just a rumour, but Sky News tweeted earlier:

> Sky News understands the [UK] Government has asked mobile network O2 to hand over anonymous mobile phone location data in order to ensure people are following social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 outbreak

I suspect it's at least being discussed.
Direct link:

https://www.army.mil/article/212935
"Hi all! Just to clarify: All of JSTOR isn't public, but a lot is. We're happy to see your excitement. This content has been OA for a long time, but good to see awareness is growing. We are also working with universities & libraries who have been affected: https://about.jstor.org/covid19/"
- JSTOR

source: https://twitter.com/JSTOR/status/1240720644746158080?ref_src...
Entities tend strongly to externalise risks unless compelled to do otherwise.

Insurance obligations -- auto, health, life, C&L, bonding, mortgage and title -- are generally required by or offered via third. parties. Sometimes governments, but often creditors, counterparties, employers, or other entities.
I doubt the lack of test availability is directly increasing mortality.

The UK like many other countries the UK is advising self isolation for those with symptoms, and I imagine those who ignore this would not isolate even if they did test positive. There’s no specific treatment. Those admitted requiring ventilatory support have that decision made on other grounds, and a CT can show a consistent viral pneumonia and help rule out other causes, which is good enough diagnostically when the pre-test probability is likely to be so high. I believe when PCR testing was not readily available in China they were using ct based diagnostic criteria.

Unless there’s something I’m missing, the main benefits of a readily available test would be getting potentially symptomatic but actually negative key workers back from self isolation and perhaps catching the asymptotic if it could be rolled out widely enough.
Bill Gates washing his hands of Microsoft (and COVID-19):
https://media.gatesnotes.com/-/media/Images/Articles/Health/...
This is wishful thinking from an introvert. People haven't practiced long term social distancing after the Spanish flu, or the plague. The Spanish flu didn't "disappear", it simply mutated into common forms of flu we know today. In practice virulent diseases tend to get less virulent over time so that they can spread more easily. The plague epidemics of the 19th century were also less virulent than the Black Plague. We're already seeing it with SARS-CoV-2 - there are two strains, S and L, the latter of which is significantly more virulent and also losing ground.

So the likely conclusion is that SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay, but probably not at the fatality rates we're currently experiencing.
This is great! Have you published any further details?
'... democracy is the worst form of Government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time...'

What's your proposal for how to ban lobbying?
It seems the URL changed to https://covid19.ca.gov/img/Executive-Order-N-33-20.pdf (via https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/). Specifically, it still includes:

> This Order shall be enforceable pursuant to California law, including, but not limited to, Government Code section 8665.
Sounds like the governors are better at driving a bargain.
I'm just saying - poor bedside manner is a known problem, work on improving that, not bringing in another discipline that for some reason or other seems to have problems with sociability.
One of the main ideas when they founded the EU.
I have a similar implementation of RPC over AMQP in Node.js and 2 things i'd advise. (Similar to my sibling poster)

1) Don't requeue on error. One bad message could bring down your entire service. Better to just push it to Sentry and make a fix for it.

2) Have a timeout in your message handler.
I feel you, but all I have is a very vague feeling that something is off for my workflow, I don't actually know what's wrong yet...
> Ideally, notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years.

Personal opinion : I think this is not the right way to look at knowledge. What you think as "knowledge" today will only be data for algorithms in 10 years. Some knowledge today won't be useful in 5, 10 o 20 years from now.

The best way to validate knowledge is to share it and review it with peers as quickly as possible. Ideally, you would make your notes public and they would be easily findable by anyone, so anyone can continue your work at anytime.

Note taking for long term retrieval doesn't make sense in a world of internet and machine learning. In the future, you will just enter a question in a text box and algorithms will search inside billions of documents, deduce facts and write an essay to answer your question.

To me, note taking only makes sense for very short term "todo", or when to listening to someone speak. "Note taking" when reading a book is called "annotating", and they are training data for ML algorithms (not for your brain)
It makes more sense when teamwork involves physically working on the same thing. With information work, which most of us do, there is no real need for a specific coffee break.
Does it matter? If a company is told to stop selling a service by any other governmental organization (e.g. due to privacy or health concerns), they also should stop charging the subscription.
Have a calculator?

# Italian deaths / Italian cases = percentage dead [1]

2_978 / 35_713 = 0.0833870019

# USA population * percentage dead = USA death scenario [2]

329_414_824 * 0.0833870019 = 27_468_914

It's prob not gonna get that bad, but Italy didn't see a scenario where people would die at a rate over 8%. So there's a scenario. Don't panic, but also don't dismiss scenarios you'd rather not believe. Americans who get laid off lose access to cheap healthcare, and many as already don't have it. Lack of healthcare doesn't sound like a great a situation.

[1] Source: Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports # 59 for March 19

[2] https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Probably. The irony is palpableical. Reminds me of this article I read recently. I could understand it, but it was like reading a foreign language https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedigitalwise.com/2020/03/14/a....
CEO of Redmeat corp says that Soja isn't the future.
Impact of Covid-19 on Recruitment Industry
> We induce new concepts from experience (data)

That's the premise of deep learning - inducing high level concepts from experience, without manual feature engineering.

DL models are good at induction, what they can't handle is generalisation (being accurate outside of distribution). And self driving has a long tail, that's why it's so hard.
Hmm. How are environments like this handling the WFH status quo?

My completely naive/distant presumption of sites like these is that they are fundamentally incompatible with the security concessions inherent to remote work.
Which is why the FDA recently approved the Roche extraction kit, but honestly you don't even need a kit. (For example: https://primerdigital.com/rna.html)
That's not what I meant. It is affecting the published rates, i.e. the statistics.

Sorry, poor wording on my part.
Sure, but why do all of the smaller firms absolutely need cash right now? If they sell to a government or large entity, payment is all but assured. Even if they have a high discount rate, they can factor that into the price. There's no way they all need the money now to remain in operation.
Abnormal Returns from the Common Stock Investments of the U.S. Senate
Isn't the false positive rate the percentage of positives that should have been negative? E.g. if I test 10000 people and 100 of them test positive, but really only 50 of those are sick (and almost none of the other 9900 people are), then I have a false positive rate of 50% and a very useful test. Obviously, this is very different from flipping a coin. And flipping a coin could also have a very high false negative rate.
Pretty much: Thierry Breton. A political hack with a pressing need to feel relevant in the crisis and nothing useful to do.

The daily briefing at ec.europa.eu was edited after Netflix caved, but yesterday it was evident from it that the person responsible had no clue about how any of it works, was deeply confused by the difference between "the Internet" and mobile networks.

Part of the text freaking urged people to "use Wi-Fi" to relieve Internet congestion. Because as everybody knows, Wi-Fi uses magic and bypasses the Internet.

So we got our 25% reduction in Netflix quality on broadband connections because some moron was told by telcos that mobile networks are strained. While the actually competent people at IXes all over EU are saying there's nothing to worry about, they know how to do their job.

EU in a nutshell for you.
For anyone wondering how well supported these features are globally (from caniuse):

prefers-color-scheme: 80.85%

prefers-reduced-motion: 84.05%

Payment Request API: 90.06%

Web Share API: 49.25%

Push API: 78.57%

Service Workers: 94.42%

Web/native app install banners: 68.19%

Get Installed Related Apps API: Not launched, 0%

WebXR: 61.83%

Picture-in-Picture: 85.01%

Media Session API: 66.31%

Chrome Sender API: 64.75%

AirPlay: Unknown

Force Touch API: 55.74%

AR Quick Look: Unknown

GamePad API: 95.18%

WebUSB API: 65.27%

Web Bluetooth API: 68.6%

Web Locks API: 67.43%

Keyboard Lock: 30.47%

Generic Sensor API: 67.43%

Credential Management API: 70.86%

Clipboard API: 70.86%

Presentation API: 15.24% full support, 80.14% partial

Screen Orientation API: 76.16%

getUserMedia camera selection: 93.48%

Pointer Lock (Mouse Lock): 55.06%

Theme Color: 37.39%

Vibration API: 77.13%

Web Coffee API: Unknown

Battery Status API: 72.36%

Page Visibility API: 97.44%

Web Speech API: 92.88%
Totally and utterly not a FUD hit job. Just a reporter finding a document that told a story. I am that reporter. And FWIW when people push a dirty story that's clearly in their interests to have in print, I either don't write it because I won't be their cats-paw, or I mention it in the story. This was in plain sight, but I guess hadn't been read by anyone who understands cloud.
Register of Intensive Care Availability in Germany
Kind of and kind of doesn’t. I am saying you should call stuff what it is. So a larger component maybe (this comment text box for example) the styling that belongs to that should all be grouped logically together. The easiest way to do this is have a element with a class attached called comment text box.

Bootstrap does this on some components but it has loads of positional bits and pieces mixed. Also the components are fairly generic.
Note that even if the WHO changed its recommendation, french doctors still recommend to _not_ take anti-inflammatory. Use paracetamol instead (but not more than usual). Maybe they didn't get the memo yet, I can't tell.
> [Speaking of Trump] Saying it’s fake, by saying this is a Democratic hoax.

False. Trump referred to "politicizing" of the coronavirus by Democrats as "their new hoax." He did not refer to the coronavirus itself as a hoax or call it fake. You can criticize that he did not take it seriously enough to shut down the economy sooner, and that'd be fair, but he did shut down air travel from China on Jan 31, for which he was shat on at the time, as usual. Had he not done that, we'd be dealing with 10x the number of cases now.
How about Copper-Spinner? Made from organic anti-viral copper. Heals the soul and the hands.
You ruined the Clickbait \s

100+ disappointments
Tried to reach you but @vix.cc bounced the email

Can you contact me? (Email in my profile)
More than one person needs the only ventilator. Could you explain how they are worse of sharing a ventilator than being dead?
You're likely immune, at least for a while. You could live more normally, or join studies, or volunteer and help people out, etc.
I mean if you transferred $500 billion to my bank account and said “clone Google” I would not get very far.
Once you have a successful PCR, you have billions of copies of your target sequence that are easy to aerosolize and/or transfer by contact onto your pipettes, gloves, and other lab surfaces. When a few of these molecules find their way into a new PCR you just set up, you get a false positive. There are protocols clinical labs employ to avoid this (e.g. never open the cycled PCRs in same room where you set up new PCRs, etc.) but they require strict adherence. (Or you can just give up all your sensitivity and only detect the cases with a huge viral load.)
50% accurate I'd agree is useless.

But the parent said 50% false positive, presumably with close to a 0% false negative would be VERY useful and save potentially millions of lives. We need enough tests yesterday or so to avoid a repeat of Italy and a 50% false positive rate (with a very low false negative rate) could help do that.
A lot of techs for large orgs don’t. I had a grid electrician in a while ago, replacing unshielded triple phase from the pole, who was convinced that they only use AC in the US, and that here in Europe it’s all DC, so safer, and this is why I can work on it without shutting it down, mate.

The mind boggles. These people maintain our infrastructure.
Then why is USA so afraid of China?
No, not really any enormous changes. But here in Sweden we don’t have proper lockdowns (yet), and my office isn’t completely shut dow, we are just strongly recommended to work from home.

If I can confirm that I’ve had it I would start going back to the office (better ergonomics) and start going out on lunches/dates, go to the gym, shop for clothes, meet older relatives etc with (almost) no fear of spreading it to other people.
https://berniesanders.com/issues/money-out-of-politics/

You could vote for him if you're in the US.
Ahh, didn’t think about it from that angle, apologies.
California issues 'stay home' order for 40M residents
Have a look at this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Scroll down to "Daily New Cases in the United States". No real need to extrapolate data from other countries. New cases are doubling every 2-3 days.
I'm thinking of working on open source projects. Are you suggesting a project?