skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because Italy's hospitals are overcrowded and very old patients are simply not treated at all. It's a vicious circle because they're thought being less likely to survive, are denied treatment, which makes them even less likely to survive.
> and/or it’s been there for a long time. Months

I believe this to be accurate and have argued for it elsewhere.
> but when a person 80+ years old dies does it make sense to search for a cause of the death?

Of course! We want to know how to prevent the deaths of others in the same condition.
Show HN: Global Speed, a web extension to set default speed for video and audio
I suspect his path back won't be to go work for someone else. Probably easier for him to get a modest investment to start a company. Investors are probably more willing to gamble than an employer...given the history.

I'd also be more willing to work for him, than have him work for me. Sounds weird, but it's easier to ensure I'm doing nothing illegal than checking that an employee of mine isn't.
Firfox recently changed this so that you have it can only be invoked from within a button click or equivalent event[0] - I _think_ Chrome is following suit.

0 - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
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There are similar extensions out there, but Global Speed has the best compatibility.

- Support for Shadow DOMs. Many streaming sites like AppleTV+ are starting to use them.

- Support for unconnected media elements. This means support for Spotify, Amazon Music, NPR, and many other music and podcast streaming sites.

- Apply filters (grayscale, contrast, invert, brightness, mirrorX, etc) on select elements (videos by default), or even the entire page. This is a secondary feature, and as long as it's off, has no performance impact.

- - - Could be used to color correct videos. I recently watched TeamFourStar's announcement of DBZA ending. The video was very dim, and it was perfect use case for this feature.

- - - You could also use a cool trick to simulate dark theme. Invert the entire page and double invert videos. That way the video get reverted back to their original color, while the UI remains dark. There's a default hotkey that triggers it ("KeyE").

- Hotkey Editor with optional shortcuts for speeding up/down, seeking, adjusting volume, set/go to marker, looping between two points, toggle filter (grayscale, invert, sepia, etc), and more. The media hotkeys are also compatible with Picture-In-Picture mode.

- Very performant, only runs on visible tabs.

The permission required is broad. So, if you're security conscious, you could build it yourself.

On the Firefox page you might notice the very low rating. That's a long story. In short, I called out an extension developer for hijacking Amazon links and he retaliated by creating fake reviews.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome_extensions/comments/fcs5tl/p...
Slightly off-topic perhaps, because I think you're making a general point, but although you may want the native shared box it only works for Safari users - https://caniuse.com/#search=web%20share%20api - with apparently very little appetite for it from other browser vendors. Maybe its time will come, but I think there are lots of issues with implementation.
I have an older modem (DCM476) and it definitely doesn't have this or doesn't have it enabled. I have to use/tune queue management myself on the router side.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt as proud of my university - Imperial - than right now. Their research is making a big difference in the actions government is taking, and it could save many thousands of lives.
"Google's traffic is approaching 10 percent of the net's traffic, and that it's got so much fiber optic cable, it is simply trading traffic, with no payment involved, with the net's largest ISPs."

Clever, so it really isn't free, it's like they bought an ISP and are spending all it's revenue on the cost of bandwith.
That's a great way to lose any remaining confidence the population might have on the establishment. It is also probably unethical so I doubt any doctor would go with it.
:( why the negativity!? It's just clearer...
Quote from the article:
The apparent cleanliness of the water is not in fact due to a lack of pollution, said Davide Tagliapetra, an environmental researcher at the Institute of Marine Science. He told a local TV station that the reason is the absence of motorised transport, which normally churns up the muddy canal floor.
This is pretty cool :) Not sure if author is here, but I had some questions:

- How do exceptions work in parallel streaming? How might async complicate things?

- What kind of logging / instrumentation is available? Can you use trace?

- Is there a result set generated at the end like Trio nurseries, or are results meant to be handled by another process?

I know nothing about Rust or low-level systems programming, but I should go and learn it (and a bunch of other stuff too).
Surviving and Thriving During a Lockdown ( The E-Commerce Guide)
I meant just their gateway services. It's been a few years since I used it but I do remember a $20/month plan where you could use just the gateway to process CC orders, no PP account required. This thread is old, we should move on ;-)
> How did so many elderly get infected? Did the disease simply spread in close quarters where many elderly live? Elderly folks aren’t necessarily out and about drinking espresso and touching surfaces yet alone having younger asymptomatic carriers cough on them.

I was wondering the same thing, but judging by my own country crowds of elderly people is a thing. For example they do not use technology as much as others and tend to concentrate in places that provide alternative means to function without technology.

Another assumption is that touching surfaces is not how the virus spreads. Being within a few meters of carriers, not necessarily coughing, just talking and breathing, is how people catch it. And since masks are not available and dumb propaganda discourages people from using even a piece of clothing to protect them from inhaling droplets, people catch the virus so easily.
> Sometimes I wish I had enough money and time to seek "legal retribution" from these type of situations.

I also used to brood over “if I had infinite money” revenge fantasies. They lost their appeal when I realised the answer is the same in all cases: “if I had that kind of money, this wouldn’t have bothered me”.
> Why does the rust documentation still suck? It basically only works if you already know what you ate looking for, and still is difficult to read.

You're linking to the reference documentation. Beginners start with the Rust Book, which covers strings: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch08-02-strings.html

Besides, even the reference doc starts with five screenfuls of examples, while the Java and C++ only have two and one respectively.
So, aside from irritability and perhaps paranoia, are there any more symptoms?

It’s fun that you can’t be diagnosed with it as it’s not a defined medical definition but how can you know if you’re on the slope to experiencing something like this?
I agree that the role of the university is to prepare students for the industry and most of the universities achieve this quite nicely. Of course that as a new software developer you need to learn something on the job, but that is the case with every other field.
Kudos for owning up to it! We all do it from time to time.
Old Java doc (as generated by the original javadoc tool which also inspired other languages I believe) had the kind of navigation you're looking for - it was a boxy HTML frame-based layout so it had to go, but I'm not sure why the default javadoc theme dropped in-page method navigation altogether.
An awesome resource for long term effects of quarantine is this paper from The Lancet: The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I personally try to set little goals every day. Routine is really important. Maybe study a new subject and/or work on a side-project. Also exercise (basic cardio) - some sunlight (open a window if nothing else is an option), and/or smoke weed to reduce anxiety. Smoking weed and drinking coffee is a combination that keeps me productive for tasks that require deep thinking. (weed alone just makes me complacent and lazy).

If anyone needs help working on a fun foss project I have time to spare :)

edit: also timebox both your work and your fun activities. (timeboxing one alone isn't enough IMO)
Video from an Italian hospital, shows doctors overwhelmed by critical patients
There's a table in the PDF, you can read it.
This is about deaths, not cases. If everyone else tries to get on as normal then the virus will spread like wildfire among them and the elderly and unwell will quickly become infected.
> Unfortunately, Linus is dangerously incompetent at cryptography. As was the case with getrandom(2).

I beg to differ. Of all people I know of, Linus is one of the most competent person when it comes to cryptography, more so than any of those Twitter celebrities. I suggest you dig into LKML archives. Exactly what in the case of getrandom(2) do you think makes him incompetent?

> I don't think you understand or correctly recall the scenario in which Linus nearly broke getrandom(2). The bug Linus was attempting to fix by breaking getrandom(2) was not a security bug. It was an availability bug, in userspace, caused by broken userspace code deadlocking itself.

I recall correctly. Optimizations in ext4 unveiled broken design of previous getrandom(2). To keep backward compatibility an easy choice could have been to supply early userspace with possibly predictable random numbers, which, of course would be a security issue. Another would have been to keep the bug hidden and revert any optimization that lowers early entropy pool. In the end, the solution at which the community arrived is best compromise given the constraints. The kernel is one of the few places where you can real software engineering to take place.

I think your comment is driven more by personal hatred for a great mind rather than technical merit.
Yes, economists should put production front and center. What is being produced by economy? How effectively and how robustly? What is not just the production output, but also capacity? What are the risks to the supply chains? What commodities are more important than others from the risk perspective?

For example, see Steve Keen talking a bit about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-44ngyYoA
I imagine under a tight lockdown, this is way more pronounced for apartment dwellers. Being able to just sit in your backyard seems like a big difference.
speaking only from my personal experience it can trigger depression, loss of motivation, and a feeling of an "empty head". e.g. place me in front of a window I'd stare out of it for several hours and if you would ask me what I'm thinking about I wouldn't know. Also increased anxiety when the quarantine is over.
I think our government is taking some good actions, but I’m concerned that people aren’t actually complying. Their modelling relies on 75% decrease in social interaction. I think some enforcement will be needed.
Once this trouble is over everyone will realize how great life can be and work fewer hours, right? Right?
My amateur take:

1. Drug therapy may enable the "severe" hispitalization required cases to drop into stay at home cases.

2. It is not yet established at all that huge testing capacity + travel restrictions cant curb spread. See the Gates AMA.

However, it seems certain policies and travel restrictions will remain until an effective vaccine is available.
New iPad Pro still cannot replace MacBook Air even as they become similar
The co-morbidities reported here are mentioned in the report (in Italian). Translated by Google:

diseases N %
Ischemic heart disease 117 33.0
Atrial fibrillation 87 24.5
Stroke 34 9.6
Hypertension 270 76.1
Diabetes mellitus 126 35.5
Dementia 24 6.8 COPD 47 13.2
Active cancer in the past 5 years 72 20.3
Chronic liver disease 11 3.1
Chronic renal failure 64 18.0

Hypertension and Diabetes seems very prevalent in older people. Especially in western countries like the US.
Alas most people are incompetent when it comes to cryptography. It's another of those situations when if you don't know why something has to be done a certain way, you shouldn't be included in that decision making progress.
Exactly. Cracked up at the harassment bit.
Loved the language - "Each timeless data structure is a brick in the foundation of digital civilization."
on a gel you see the size, something coming up with exactly the right size even at 35 cycles indicates that there was at least some of what you designed the primers on in the sample. if you want higher certainty, with three primers you can get two different sizes ruling out any doubt.

with the rtpcr machine readout which only gives you the signal corresponding to how much was amplified over time you need tricks like the dual labelling.
If some untested and unapproved method like this is used and something goes wrong, I would image that being a huge liability problem.

Good on them for trying to save human lives, but our legal system does not always reward the ethical behavior.
> Infected people cough onto a surface, and later someone touches that surface and then their face.

And then what? How does the virus get from their face into the lungs in enough quantity to infect them?
I absolutely agree. I have a 5 year old at home due to closed kindergarten. Both my wife and I are supposed to be working from home for the next few weeks and without our garden I think we'd be off the wall by now.

Sending the lad outside to play in the sunny weather, while I can watch him from the window next to my workspace, is making a huge difference.
huh, no one else has mentioned this, am I interpreting this wrong? If 30% of deceased positives are female, then 70% are male? That's quite a big difference!
International Day of Happiness 20 March
you really think anyone cares how much of the corona you got in the particular blob of snot you gave for testing?
Dead Skin, Living Art the Museum of Tattooed Skin
My commute is a lot shorter, which does free up more hours for me, but so far I'm working the same number of hours -- possibly more because it's easy for me to let work bleed over into non-business hours when I work from home.
Well you said: "Buying Next brought Steve back, and that's the only thing that kept Apple alive." earlier and the on-going lawsuits were critical for Apple's survival with them having to compromise a deal with Microsoft in order for Bill Gates to save them.

The acquisition choice alone was half of the story even if NeXT or Be were bought and Apple still wouldn't be here without compromising a deal with Microsoft to invest in them since the lawsuits were in Microsoft's favour.
I feel like this is good advice but it creates a false dichotomy. It should be "study stuff... by building stuff."
I still don't get why it's "more important than learning 'classic' CS", sure it's important, but more important? I don't think so, and according to your article new technologies are basically new approaches applied to old technologies which are based on classic CS.
YOLO = “You Only Look Once”
I would hope that our legal systems account for the context in which these actions occur. It feels like a larger version of the Good Samaritan Act. They might do harm but they're doing nothing else but trying to save lives. This isn't carelessness or greed driving this behaviour.

Our laws are not a suicide pact and sometimes they must be broken.
https://archive.is/ZeThk
It's a global pandemic right now. Netflix has taken immediate action in a way that matters (ensuring internet access) and has yet to take action in a way that doesn't matter nearly as much (making their high paying customers happy). Yes, you pay more for HD content. But people are dying, so chill.
Show HN: TopTile Search – search articles from over 100 sites using any keywords
Nikolas from the Prisma team here, thanks a lot for the shoutout!

For people who want to learn more about using Prisma together with Nexus (which enables exposing DB models via GraphQL), I also recommend checking the next iteration of Nexus that we're currently working on (which will turn into a fully-fledged GraphQL application framework with TypeScript as a first-class citizen): https://nexus-future.now.sh/#/

Let me know if you have any questions!
author here on HN is yoshuaw (great guy btw!), someone should ping him on Twitter that his project hit HN frontpage and I'm sure he'll find you :) https://twitter.com/yoshuawuyts
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Coronavirus: Singapore develops smartphone app for efficient contact tracing
“Flatten the curve” is trendy but the graph everyone is sharing is just made up. It’s a nice visual aid but that’s all it is.

What if we all shelter in place but hospitals end up overwhelmed anyway? That seems like a real possibility and it kind of makes the argument irrelevant.

If we didn’t “flatten the curve” enough to get the imaginary hump below the imaginary dotted line, then the benefits of “shelter in place” are going to end up being a lot less valuable.
-And, while taking a break from that (excellent, I might add) book, you could do worse - a lot worse - than picking up Sebastião Salgado's "Scent of a dream", a photographic tour de force documenting how coffee is grown, processed and enjoyed around the world.

Heck, you could do a lot worse than picking up anything by Salgado...
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> In emergencies like this, there isn't enough supply available anywhere to meet demand

In the presence of price gouging laws perhaps, but not in general. I of course acknowledge the overhead cost of retrofitting existing manufacturing setups to produce masks, but that doesn't mean they can't still turn a profit, especially if they are not prevented from selling internationally by well intended but misguided laws.
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Isolate the elderly and unwell, let the virus spread among the rest.
...and to dig one layer deeper, the actual problem is diffusing blame in cases where the test is wrong or someone wants to blame the lab for the fact that they caught the bug, not safety. That's what certifications are for (in this case), and that's the real reason why running without one is risky.
Federal Deficit Will Likely Triple This Year, Cause Highest Debt/GDP in History
We pay for schools and our children stay home.

We pay for street maintenance and we're locked in our houses.

We pay for government and elections are being postponed.

We pay for healthcare and people are not getting the care they need.

We keep paying, because if we stop after the epidemic there won't be schools, there won't be road maintenance companies, there won't be a functioning government, there won't be hospitals, because they will have run out of money.

4K Netflix? Suck it up, or feel free to sue them. Courts are in lockdown as well so you might have to wait a few years to get your 10$ back.
IME most AWS users stick with AWS primitives rather than hosting those services themselves on a k8s cluster.
Time scales play a role. South Korea started to transition to a democracy in 1997, just to put that into perspective.

Sure, experience from SARS plays a role, too. But ignoring the emphasis of individual freedom and federal government structures and blaming leadership is a huge oversight.

Adult citizens should be mature and responsible in light of a crisis. The opposite is the case and the irrational hoarding of irrelevant goods (see the TP crisis) is a symptom of that.

The fact of the matter is that many European countries simply don't have the political means to react the same way a central government with compliant citizens can.

Just look at the Spring Breakers in Florida - they don't care about social distancing. Neither did the ski tourists in Ischgl and South Tirol where apre ski parties continued until the bodies started dropping (first metaphorically,later literally).

That's a cultural difference that's hard to deny.
I don't think it would take half a day of fiddling, but yeah I see your point. Especially considering transit cost for 3TB would be in the ballpark of $250 as well.

However, it would $250 the next month as well.

Backing up is an interesting proposition. Especially if you could schedule Movebot to do it for you.
Relationship Between NO2 and Covid19
Asthma is another, this guy prob did not smoke, got antivirals but we’ll never know if it would have made a difference earlier or if they would try it earlier
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/glendora-man-34-dies-of-co...
> Ask HN: Isolation (from coronavirus) is only a temporary band-aid that will fail

This is not a question.

> (I wish the above wasn't true, but my wishes don't count for anything)

I grant your wish.

> Where is the hole in the above rationale?

The number of people an infected person infects is hopefully driven (far) below 1 through lock down.

If no vaccine will be available soon enough, the curve can be steepened again as far as people can be treated to achieve immunity more quickly.

It's a good time to be a maker of ventilators.