skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This won’t apply to private rentals. You’re out on the street if you can’t make your rent.

Their $1,000 offer doesn’t go very far in California. It only pays for 2 weeks of rent. Or maybe 3 months of grocery for one person.

And, if you make too much money, you won’t get any assistance. You’re screwed both ways.
There are some and I'm working on it. But every extra step adds delay.
Not in English, but the direct translation is used in other European languages.

Danish: klokken 14

German: 14 Uhr

That does mean native speakers of languages like this might say "14 o'clock" when speaking English.

I very occasionally use this if I need to be certain to be understood by someone who rarely speaks English, "we'll arrive at 19 o'clock". (A friend's parents in rural rest-of-Europe, for example.)
How do you keep track? Are there a standard list of sites you monitor?

Curious what your thoughts are on the value - what markdown from market price can one typically expect?
Euro here. Would you send me an email (in profile)?
Twilio numbers don't receive Short Code messages (the weird six digit phone numbers) which most 2FA messages come from.
I don't know that gaming laptops necessary cost more than comparable high-end laptops. I had found it a way to get high-performance hardware somewhat cheaper if anything. The gaming segment is probably more price-conscious than the whales who splurge on the typical high RAM/SSD/i7 versions of laptops.

Calling it a "gaming laptop" does make it a bit harder to get the purchase approved at work though.
Why is that? Is it really impossible to do the test on a simple PCR machine, or is it just too slow?
Anyone care to explain the risks of using this drug?

- I know one must get tested for G6PD deficiency or it may lead to a hemolytic crisis. But I'm unsure how probable one is to have it or how long until this potential problem arises.

- I heard this drug can cause heart attacks in some people, Can this be predicted by a test? Some users on r/covid19 were advising against taking it without doctor supervision in a hospital for this reason but didn't explain nor gave statistics, as usual. The problem was related to prolonged qt intervals
It's not exactly "different sized people mess it up". It's not just different lung capacities, but different lung compliance-- which also changes over the course of disease.

Most simple pressure regulators will not fare well in the environment, either, because of the bidirectional flow, etc.

The "Y" hack definitely has use, but finding matches and keeping patients matched definitely means we will only be able to use it sparingly.
Yet it wasn't like this in the past. And while I won't make the same accusations I do think it would be good for you guys to look at the culture that gets encouraged here. There is a viciousness to the voting here and an intolerance of opinion that just doesn't match the seemingly sophisticated comments.
Or you could just run the PCR product on a gel for much cheaper...

Edit: A gel gives you the ability to select for size as well, which a qpcr machine does not. Not sure why I have to reply in the form of edits.
Coronavirus destroys lung tissue and weakens the immune system. Then bacteria move in. It's the bacteria that cause the pneumonia. Different people will likely have different bacteria in their lungs.
This is some sort of click farming / per-post commission site associated with a shitcoin called GeekCash.

Everyone who replied about html6 not being a real thing took the bait.
What you are talking about is the still part of the document and the document structure. Generally where writing something you will have a beginning, a middle and and end of a document. You will have parts of a document that will have lists, tables etc. These are structural elements. You can look at the markup itself (if done semantically) and you will be able to ascertain its meaning.

Yes a table will need to have the correct elements in the right order. This isn’t presentational it is semantic.

HTML5 does this better than HTML 4 as it has more semantic elements as a response to the more complicated layouts of modern web pages.
Makes one wonder, why doesn't europe have a netflix of their own?

Considering europe has a GDP comparable to the US and a few hundred million more people, you'd think they'd have one or two or more netflixes of their own.
thanks for sharing, would def check out.
A Nvidia 2080Ti costs $1,199.99. A Xbox One X costs $499.

And this one of the main reasons why consoles will continue to thrive. Because not everyone can afford to drop 3k on a gaming PC. Or 2k. Or even 1k.
It's instructive I think to look at the job ads for these technicians. It's frequently something on the close order of: can be professional, knows how to drive, can handle close proximity customer service, knows some handyman skills, and oh by the way maybe has seen an Ethernet cable before.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, everyone was entry-level at some point, but engineers who do capacity planning and traffic engineering they are emphatically not.
...love a bit of rick astley with my morning Covfefe....
FYI, the same core equipment and supplies will also allow you to do dna-based lab work, such as crispr/cas and fingerprinting for phylogeny, at home. If you're clever, you can replicate the same cutting-edge work step-by-step from published research papers and then use that knowledge to run your own experiments.

I'm currently working on adding the gene for bioilluminescence to p. cubensis fungi. If I can successfully breed offspring with the desire genotype, I hope to sell the novel spores and use those funds to invest in a variety of altruistic research like individualized DNA-based cancer treatment.
200 million surgical masks but only 600k n95 masks, per the npr article gp linked to.

The machines to make the n95 masks take both the Germans and Chinese about 6 months to make.
I live in Hong Kong and there are many failures like
- Unable to activate the location tracking wristband (activation code sent by SMS not received)
- Quarantine is done by people themselves, traveling from port to staying places = no monitor & unprotected

Many people (medical people) have experienced SARS in 2003 and they stay on alert this time. Except there are still enough people (especially the government personnel) not learning from / haven't experienced SARS.

If the current measure can eliminate the spread, I will feel lucky. But if the virus keeps spreading, I won't be surprised.
Because video chat exists, I am currently alive
Are there any reusable masks that are effective? It seems like throwing away these masks after a few hours of usage is partly to blame for the shortage. Generally damp materials are good at blocking particles better than dry ones. So is there any possibility of reusing the mask after washing in soap water?
> Have you actually read anything about either of those APIs or are you just reacting to the names?

I admit, this is exactly what I did :(

appreciate the info
I agree with you.... but no one wants the responsibility of securing the servers and keeping the hardware up to date. I assume NASA has an abundance of outdated hardware and no one to sell these outdated systems to. My fear is we will lose this ability to create our own servers in the future. My degree program had nothing dealing with cloud, I would tell the professors that IBM blumix and M$oft Azure was the future. My outlook toward the future was close, who knew the book store would be the biggest cloud provider. Nearly every company I worked for had a big initiative to go to the cloud. One infrastructure guy told me the final decision came when they realized they had no way to train the next generation, cloud upfront cost is less risky, and its nice to have someone else to point fingers toward when things do not work as expected.
You trust the Stanford whiz kid with access to the lab.
This is difficult point to make delicately, but there is a difference between a million young healthy men (or women) dying for their country, and a million people dying who are mostly at a much greater risk of dying from sickness compared to the general population.
Have you watched or read The Expanse?
Google exploring using location data to slow the spread of coronavirus
I'd call myself a libertarian. I've gone through phases of many different flavors, but ultimately all united by a general belief that people should be free to make choices for themselves, and ultimately know themselves better than a centralized government.

Having said that, there is a huge blindspot of this philosophy with regards to public health. So much so, that when public health officials do their job, we can comfortably take them for granted. Wasn't it great when the CDC was simply a "waste of taxpayer money" ?

In general we shouldn't blindly trust the government to take care of us. But we all implicitly did anyway, by not already having stockpiled all of these goods far ahead of time. As this has now become acutely apparent, everyone is looking to stock up for themselves aka hoard.

We're about to see what happens to Freedom when this centralized response is not performed early enough to nip the problem in the bud. In a month, the national guard is likely to be patrolling to keep order, as the supply of hospital beds severely lags demand.
I just tried this.. and it worked amazingly well. It was smooth and seemless
Coronavirus Cager
The distinction between "want" and "need" can be made in practice. Doctors have been publicizing what they know about risk factors for COVID19. If you don't fall into one of those categories, you're in the "want" crowd, not the "need" crowd. Which of those classifications you fall into has no correlation to your ability to afford personal protective equipment.

Price gouging can easily make a scarce critical good unobtainable to poor people who need it before the price is high enough to discourage all the rich panicking hoarders/preppers.
Sure it is, because apparently they get support for doing stuff that Microsoft gets bashed for, like the way they manage their Linux changes, or their own Java dialect.
>economic enslavement story

This is enraging.

Please do share any articles/data/documentaries so that people can know what really is going on with this multi-billion dollar industry.
It seems like such a strange nit to pick here over my use of the term miraculous. I don’t know what else you would call the results of the study I linked (supported by the reaction of many national health orgs). Yeah, maybe this isn’t the cure to this disease, and of course we need more testing, but the result as reported are incredibly hopeful. It seems to have hit a nerve with some people that I used the term “miraculous”, but I will continue to defend that term. We are looking at a virus that has disrupted the global order. Here is a study claiming incredible efficacy. That isn’t a miracle in the divine sense, but if definitely reports as being extremely helpful during a dire need.
Yeah, my jurisdiction has a pretty high test rate (3800/million people), but there's community spread, and they've explicitly stated they will not have the test capacity to test everyone who's symptomatic in at least the short to medium term.
Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus
It feels more like rotten free beer actually.
EMS provider in WA state - our current plan is "Assign N95 to provider. Use on calls as appropriate. If pt has flu-like symptoms/ upper respiratory/ etc, place mask in paper bag in warm space, write date. Re-use after two weeks (i.e. a safe time for virus to die)". Otherwise, re-use as needed. Disposal in case of blood/sputum/etc contamination, only.
Veer Earplugs help to reduce the volume around you in one twist
Pandemics and Propaganda: How China Shapes Conversations on the Coronavirus
Mortality rate without a ventilator is probably what you see in Italy and shortly the UK.

Yes you want to get sick, but the old fashion way. The way I think of it - if we get sick with healthcare services or without.

With healthcare services intact, I likely won’t know anyone who does from covid-19 (1/200, 50% infection rate, 1% fatality).

Without healthcare services I’m likely to know at least one person who’s died. (1/20, 50% infection rate, 10% fatality).

The more we flatten the smaller the denominator.
I'd advise against this unless you really know what you're doing. Equipment is just one thing. You need a very well controlled environment that absolutely prevents cross-contamination and environmental contamination. My lab is a very clean molecular biology lab and it isn't good enough for that.

You need processes in place that ensure that these types of contamination are prevented, and constantly checked for. You need a very robust pipeline from sample collection to result dissemination that ensure no mix ups.

All these things are possible, but PCR is ultrasensitive and processes are hard; you could have a huge amount of false results if not very very careful.
> but don't go putting words in other people's mouths.

It's not "putting words in other people's mouths" to explicitly spell out the direct consequences of what they're saying. When the price of a good spikes to several times its everyday market price or even higher, it's reasonable to assume that it's gone up by enough to make it inaccessible to a meaningful portion of the usual customer base.
The steps are trivial to write out but executing this for someone inexperienced is not trivial. However, someone in the field, no doubt can do this, I'm sure.
Can someone please identify and name the DA who's not doing his job? This guy needs notoriety. Where best to put a billboard?
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever (2005)
The case fatality rate of being 80 years old is 5.77%. Each year this many people age 80 die of various ailments. I don’t remember staying home for months praying this number goes down.
While 25million in 8 weeks might be exaggerated, the number reported by chinese is not credible neither.

The US flu death in 2018-2019 is estimated to be 34k. [1]
China's flu death in the same year is 144. [2]

China's population is 4x to that of US. While the numbers cannot be compared directly, the difference in magnitude says at least something about its counting methodology, if not straight out lying

If I am to extrapolate, the corona virus death in china is at least two magnitude under reported

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

2. https://www.yearbookchina.com/downsoft-n3019102807.html
Thankfully it seems like US and French governments have seen the study and immediately decided to remove red tape for larger sample sizes.

https://med.umn.edu/news-events/covid-19-clinical-trial-laun...

I just hope they don't wait "weeks" if they see in 10 days significant results. They can wait weeks for the formal, 100 page study, but hope we see some tweets saying go/no go in 10 days after rolling this out.
Aren’t the primers supposed to be pretty selective for the RNA sequences being targeted? Otherwise any other random RNA in the sample (like from some other viral infection) would result in a false positive, right?
There is a fundamental difference between money and blood.

Save the lives! Deal with the paperwork later.
> Stories like this one usually give me bunch of really uneasy thoughts and feelings.

Stories like these are exactly that - stories. Nobody is a saint. Not in this world.

People said the same thing about mother teresa and she turned out to be an awful person who enjoyed seeing the suffering of others.

Gandhi? MLK? [insert any name of a media's "saint"].

Ultimately, we find out that they were all too human and the sainthood bestowed on them by the media is bullshit.

> And here I am, sitting countless hours behind screen,doing all these irrelevant things, writing code which maybe will increase someone's profit insignificantly.

The true heroes are the ordinary people who labor away in anonymity. There has never been a truly good person on the BBC or any major "news" site.
MIT/BSD OSes like mbed, NuttX, RTOS, Zephyr, or bare metal like Arduino and ESP32, is where people are heading into, when they aren't using a commercial RTOS with security and real time capabilities that Linux has yet to fully support, like INTEGRITY, QNX.
No you wouldn't. Everyone would be in your boat. He has info you did not which is how he did it. It's not smart. It's just unscrupulous. It may also turn out to be really, really dumb. At least I hope so.
Well, and now we have at least 4 GOP Senators who, after receiving non-public briefings, made in the order of $35M in trades, and/or told private lunches for large donors about projections that were extremely different from what they were standing in front of a TV camera saying.
The inability to just requisition, demand resource, mobilize people and so-forth, is breathtaking here. The start of WWII saw the quick re-purposing of industries for the war effort.

Today, it seems an inability to see what's necessary and get it to people is disturbing. The situation is effectively a war and one that's being fought very quickly.

I could brainstorm and mention the "fast fashion" is renown for creating conventional clothing to a variety of specifications, quickly. It seems like that talent could be harnessed for various kinds of safety equipment. Just an example, I'm sure there are a hundred similar things conceivable but despite the looming collapse of conventional procedures, somehow all bureaucratic hurdles remain in place.
It's still equipment, and tea is more 'fire and forget' to make.
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Thanks! Sent some details.
> In what ways is civil society challenging shelter in place orders?

By tweeting apparently. Not sure how not to sound dismissive here honestly, you're probably just concerned, but this "us vs. them" / erosion of democracy framing seems really unhelpful. Your beliefs have nothing to do with the medical reality of a viral outbreak. If you dislike what your executive does here tweets about some third political power are not going to achieve anything. Have you tried reaching out to those people instead?
Tell me how a virus that started in China (a country with 1 billion humans and grew unchecked or for months), could really have less fatalities than Italy, a country with 25x less people...

Unless the numbers are crap, then it makes total sense.

But the WHO disagrees, ah well, then I guess we should stop using our thinking machines.
> the latest games with zero performance issues

I don't know what you're playing, but it's a joke to imply that games on consoles run without performance issues.
While it's obviously not unpredictable, it was a widespread failure, across a range of political systems - EU, China, and US. We've seen success at scale in SK, which is a smaller, homogenous, high-conformity democracy.

In theory, a free-market democracy would solve the misallocations caused by these blunders more efficiently than the other systems. But the US doesn't have a free-market healthcare system -- or even a free-market mask manufacturing system. As this thread indicates, we're about to see a lot of people die from red tape in Western countries.
Wonder if an ejector pump, sucking ambient air and driven by air from a compressor (like auto compressor), would work adequately.
Infrared thermometer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_thermometer

Thermography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermography

IDK what the standard error is for medical temperature estimation with an e.g. FLIR ONE thermal imaging camera for an Android/iOS device.
https://www.flir.com/applications/home-outdoor/

I'd imagine that sanitization would be crucial for any clinical setting.

(Edit) "Prediction of brain tissue temperature using near-infrared spectroscopy" (2017) Neurophotonics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469395/

"Nirs body temperature" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=nir...

"Infrared body temperature" https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=inf...

"Infrared thermometer iOS"
https://m.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=infrared%20the...

"Infrared thermometer Android" https://alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=infrared%20therm...
You implore people not to encourage panic in one breath then make the absurd suggestion that the US is going to impose "mandatory lockdown to the whole country soon".
pPCR is quantitative - measures fluorescence. End point PCR just measures whether you have the sequence there or not. It's slower, more work, and prone to false positives (see edit above).
Supply chain issues, for one.

Eg. Not enough cotton swabs: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/coronavirus-testing...
Thanks. Also mailed.
Interestingly, Sky News in the UK tweeted (and then deleted) a message stating that the UK government had asked mobile operator O2 to provide them with similar data.
Not european, but the non-US ones I know of are

- https://gitea.com/ by the gitea project is hosted in China by a Chinese company. It's probably the safest one to use.

- https://bitbucket.org/ by Atlassian is probably hosted in the US but is owned by a company headquartered in Australia.

Personally, I don't think searching for alternatives in other jurisdictions is the right way to tackle this issue. With the way things are devolving in terms of hosting reliability (i.e. getting automatically banned by big tech for vague reasons) and US laws that overstep their boundaries, the best way is to host mirrors across as many services and networks as possible and switch your workflow (incl. issues) to a mail-based one.
I can empathize that GitHub has to abide by laws more stringently now that it's part of Microsoft but oh boy does it's automatic flagging system need work.

One day I was randomly permanently banned because a hacker starred some of my public repos from hacked accounts (only ~6 stars btw). I had no involvement whatsoever, it was likely an attempt by the hacker to dilute the target of the repos they were trying to star. It took me ~2 weeks to appeal and they still blamed me for hacking even though the IPs of those accounts were different. My ban was eventually lifted but I doubt their system works nearly as well as it should.
How many zeroes are you talking about?
What about Instant Coffee?
Zero Overhead Data Sharing Between JavaScript and Java/Scala
You still don't get accurate data if you just count bodies.

The issue here is every death is attributed to COVID-19 if the virus is present even if the actual reason is some other underlying health condition. Given that most victims are elderly and had serious pre-existing conditions this leads to massive mortality rate over-estimation.

You also cannot reliably compare EU/US data with Chinese: initially most deaths and cases of pneumonia in China were attributed to other illnesses. Secondly, Chinese government is notorious for flat-out lying in their official stats.
No, they probably under reported the numbers. Do you think they locked down wuhan with only 600 confirmed cases or were they way further along the curve?

The world was shocked when they started to build the new hospitals that the numbers didn’t seem to justify. Maybe the numbers were right and they understood what they were in for, which would be a real feather in their hat for their country’s model.
I added some arguments to TXR Lisp's hash-uni (which merges two dictionaries) to be able to do this. It already has an optional join function to resolve values with clashing keys. Now it will take two additional functions to map the left and right values.

If we have a pair of dicts with values that we'd like to list, we can do [hash-uni h1 h2 append list list]. The values are turned into lists, and clashes resolved with append.

A list of hashes could be merged into lists with left-reduce, like this.

[reduce-left (op hash-uni @1 @2 append : list) hashes #H()]

Our initial value is an empty hash #H(). The reduce kernel function is hash-uni. The values of every has in hlist are turned into one element lists, and then accumulated onto the lists in the hash merged so far with append. The initial accumulator is the empty hash.

It's more than vaguely monadic: the two functions are like "unit" and so on.