skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not fda reviewed, they don’t even have permission to ship it yet, per their own sales page.

Probably violating the master merchant agreement of every card network by selling it at this point, so proceed with caution.
You're missing that this is inhumane; Canada and the EU both have paid sick leave protected by law.
Perhaps I should have written "silver plating"
Very cool. Reminds me of the Light Phone version 1 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thelightphone/the-light...
This is standard fear-mongering from Apple fanboys. The truth is that consumers gravitate to lean, high-quality apps regardless of a review process - the market is the ultimate review.

I personally would not use any app that did what you described, and I don't see why anyone else would willingly use them.

It doesn't take an anal probe by Apple to push high quality apps to the top of consumer mindshare.

Also, let's for a moment assume Apple does give a flying f* for end-users. If they did, they wouldn't charge a $99 annual, per developer fee, and ban competitors (Steam, alternate payment methods, non Safari browser engines,...), retroactively revise app store policies, whimsically reject app submissions, purposefully cripple Safari's W3C compliance and force developers on to the app store, ....

Apple's review process is 95% rooted in monopolistic control, & 5% in what their PR/spin claims it to be
Why does the carbon filtration only remove the side products and not the desired products?
> I'm sure there are clients with the attitude of this virus being overblown. And won't be happy if my parents come off as weak for not working.

I'm sure with everything going on there's some external thing they can point to; we're waiting for guidance from the IRS, our supplier is delayed because of this, etc. Or just be vague enough in your response that it could be for internal or external reasons.
I think FTP isn't a very good protocol anyways. HTTP and Gopher are better. (HTTP does support most of the features, including authentication, uploads, etc. The thing HTTP doesn't have is proper directory listings; I wrote a document suggesting how this could be done, calling it "httpdirlist" specification; it is a new MIME type, and then each record is a list of records (formatted like a list of HTTP headers) separated by blank lines.)
Evaluating BigQuery ML by building simple models for churn prediction
I could see that happening, but on the discounted revisions. At the same price over time I’d expect more storage.
jupp0r is correct; this is a real problem for a disease that is so contagious.

Lets say the covid-19 (real) prevalence is 0.1% in the US now. That means 10k infected people for every 10 Million people. If 10M take the test, 97.90 % sensitivity means, of the 10k (true) infected people, 210 will show up as negative. If these people go out and "mingle", there is potential for the infection to pick up again.
You can get a VOIP landline pretty cheap. I ported my 20-year old landline phone number from Verizon to a VOIP provider. I now pay $5/month for what used to cost $45.
We have a rotary phone with a super loud ringer that only family can use (have the phone number). It’s super fun for the kids.
The Mathematics of Pandemics
As an iPad Pro user, I don’t feel that it needs a trackpad. It needs better software (and better keyboard hardware — which is coming along with the trackpad, thankfully).

I want to be able to use it to type long-form essays and develop apps (it also needs an escape key!). I want a command line and full file system.

I think they are adding trackpad support not because the iPad inherently needs it, but because it helps their initiative of convergence between Mac and iPad apps [0].

[0] https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/
These actions are for the ~5-10% of people who get this bug and who require intensive care in order to survive. The death rate is pretty low even for those who end up with severe symptoms if the full weight of modern medical technology and care can be applied to their recovery.

Right now, as I type this, many hospitals in the United States have had all of their excess intensive care capacity used up by Covid-19 cases. Not all, but many.

Once large groups of hospitals reach capacity, then there will be no choice but to black tag people who could otherwise be saved and leave them to die in the hallways.

Click this graph, then click Logarithmic at the top: https://mackuba.eu/corona/#united_states

You're right to note that this is a global problem. Given that, the vast majority of human to human contact is NOT cross border.

This bug is probably going to end up infecting most of the people in the United States. The main thing we can do at this point is to keep hospitals from being too overwhelmed, to keep the number of black tagged people, dying in the hallways, to a minimum.
> I don’t know if this is something that anyone official is talking about yet, but it seems like it should be.

I agree. I think this will greatly help with people's mental state, etc, plus they can help family and friends who are under quarantine. The question of how long immunity lasts, is it effective, etc is still a bit open. Also, how in a Western democracy do we distinguish (from the point of view of law enforcement personnel) between those who are immune and those who are breaking quarantine?
This is more of a joke story, but a few years ago a friend of mine who is neither ambitious nor succesful surprisingly scored 165-170 on their test.
When they offered him a membership and told him the membership fee, his reaction was - Alright, but as I am in the top 5% of your members - should not you be paying me to hang out with you? :D :D :D
This test will not be able to help by shipping it out to everyone. As someone else in this thread already described, if you give everybody in the US this test, the probability that if someone tests positive he/she is not actually infected is well over 99%. Also there will be a lot of cases where people are infected but haven't had an antibody reaction yet. Those will not test positive.
I'd buy that, especially when the tests are optimized for "objective" automatic grading rather than written responses.
-exactly- and why it's a bit concerning but I guess right now it's all they can do to rush it out the door and cover all the mistakes made to now

"cleared" is like "won't kill you" status and that's about it

Except I guess in this case if you get a false negative you can accidentally kill someone else?

The hindsight on this disaster a year or two from now is going to be stunning.
Just realising two things - firstly I could never write something like this in 256 bytes (I mean using two bytes miles apart from each other as the global clock while the melody is encoded in bytes around them - it's ... beautiful.

Secondly HN submissions are becoming my real bookmarks.
I hate to say this but working for startups really warps everyone's sense of level and career progression. Startup management cares to retain talent and they often give out titles (Senior, Director, VP) like confetti. If you really want to know where you are, the old-school behemoths (e.g. IBM, Lockheed etc) tend to have better (and more rigid) levels.
I threw together a Fiddle that demonstrates it here[1]. It shows the basic single column version, a multi-column distinct on, and an example that uses a case statement for a derived column. The only thing with the third example is that I don't believe you can alias the derived column within the distinct on field itself, so have to repeat the expression - once within the distinct on and again in the column list of the select statement.

[1] https://www.db-fiddle.com/f/7CCYFf14UtkuGYfGZAt5PY/3
Has anyone looked at Cuirass ventilators? The (seemingly only) manufacturer says they are great for clearing lungs and breathing. They even seem to indicate them for use with Covid. They are basically iron lungs revamped. They look easier to amateur build than invasive ventilators and with no intubation, anyone could apply one.
Yes this is a low tech war. There are simple ways to win it but people are curiouly unaware of what others are doing or have done.
That link returns 403 forbidden.
This group (Christian Drosten and the Dutch virologists who found a human monoclonal antibody against COVID19) has published a paper today which seems to be a better test:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20038059v...
Wacom Inkspace
Yes, of course you remove and trash gloves to avoid contamination. I did biochemistry for years. We wore gloves to protect proteins in samples from our proteases, and to protect ourselves from radionuclides. When I labeled stuff with mCi levels of I-125, I worked in a fume hood, behind lead bricks, wearing a lead apron, and three layers of PVC gloves.

But I always tossed the gloves before leaving the work area. And usually I'd put on fresh gloves before removing the lead apron.

That wouldn't be workable day to day. You'd probably go through 50-100 gloves per day, doing it right.
Not only is autopilot functionality preserved, but there is a seperate speaker for alerts (like the "take over immediately" sound) as well for if the display MCU crashes.
Having antibody doesn't mean you can't spread the virus. For example, antibody tests are often used to diagnose HIV, but testing positive for HIV antibody (i.e. you are infected) doesn't mean that life will be normal.
Why do you want an iPad instead of a really thin laptop with a touch screen? Just wondering because what you’re describing sounds like that.
> You can get an antibodies test that you can do at home with a finger prick.

Here's a recent discussion on $15 kit for SARS-CoV-2 serological test: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22641946

iirc, Singapore announced a plan to do these tests to find total infections.
The frustrating challenge to this is how long symptoms take to appear. Isolation will stop the spread from the individual but only after the virus has been spread around quite a bit already. So, sure, much of what you said about localized preparedness will need to happen but we won’t be able to do the kinds of things we did with diseases like Ebola to limit its spread.
Quinine hasn’t been used for malaria prophylaxis since the times of the British Empire. Even for its successor, Wikipedia has this:

> Areas of the world with chloroquine sensitive malaria are uncommon.[84]

The overlap between countries with few cases of Coronavirus and those with Malaria is tenuous at best. Turkey doesn’t have Malaria, and for that matter neither does Russia.

People in Malaria areas also tend not to use pharmacological prophylaxis, because the side-effects are impossible to tolerate in the long term. Prophylaxis is for tourists. That’s why mosquito nets are such effective intervention.
More accurate to say it's a centralized portal to all backend systems, including deployment, CI, documentation, code management, etc.
I wear my seatbelt whenever I go for a drive. But I also have a motorcycle license. Your rhetoric seems equally applicable to regarding everyone on a motorcycle as a sociopath and/or deviant.

When I read this sort of angry screed it scares me because it suggests to me that people are unstable, that behavior and reasoning can suddenly change due to switching contexts.
> will only be positive days after the onset of symptoms.

If you're asymptomatic, would it also be positive?
3 months is definitely not enough to grow the hospital and ICU capacity 7x, which is what's necessary to prevent deaths due to lack of healthcare availability. It'll improve some, and that will save some lives, but not most of them.

Pervasive testing looks like the best short-term hope right now - it's easier to drastically ramp up test manufacturing, and you don't need a full-fledged hospital for mass testing.
This looks great, will test it out, thx!
Here's the github repo for this interesting work: https://github.com/starstorms9/shape

(I couldn't find it in the linked article, might have missed it)
I was an Ooma early adopter and am still grandfathered into their initial "all calls free" program. I enjoy the call quality as much as how much I haven't had to pay for phone calls over the 11+ years.

Note, I'm not including internet costs because I'd be getting that anyway.
Also, the manual seems finished, which is unusual for a Julia package.
I talk to people who think a CS degree has the same content and the same level of rigour and challenge everywhere. Absolutely baffles me.
I am 90% sure there will be a useful antiviral therapy available soon, whether it is remdesivir, favipiravir or even chloroquine. This will change the game in humanity's favour. Antivirals are also the only solution which can actually scale to the problem, unlike these ventilator projects or even vaccines (at least not for a very long time, bear in mind that under ideal conditions the supply of seasonal flu vaccines is often dicey). The first use for antivirals will be to reduce the number of patients with severe infection requiring ventilatory support.

Making these antivirals as useful as possible is of great importance, and that means going all in on mass producing a quick and reliable and broadly applicable diagnostic test.

I would much rather see open source projects targeting diagnostic tests or manufacturing nasopharyngeal swabs. Admittedly, this is much harder to achieve for people not involved in life science research or without access to virological specimens.
You don't just "take them off". You carefully pull them off, inside out. And then dispose of them, as hazardous waste.
Are there any reviews? Any third party verification? How do I know that this is legitimate? These are sincere questions, I'm not just being difficult.
At some point it's not even fair to those most at risk for covid-19.
To clarify, I meant to say “along with”. I took the APs and their SAT subject equivalents
Occam's razor suggests simpler reasons: the CDC believed it had a viable test and government processes favour NIH (not invented here) outcomes. No conspiracy needed.
No. It does a perfect job because Puppeteer is just Chrome, not JavaScript :) Thanks though!
Helping our developers stay productive while working remotely
Microsoft bought Skype, and Paypal is independent now.
Slightly off topic question: do people who have been infected with those varieties have any sort of immunity against covid-19?
> 2. Understanding who has already recovered from COVID-19 and is thus immune with all that implies in terms of inability to spread the disease and reduced need for PPE

I've been looking forward to seeing this kind of test just for this reason so we can whitelist people. But since a large percentage of people don't have symptoms how can you tell if you're still shedding the virus?
> Right now, as I type this, many hospitals in the United States have had all of their excess capacity filled with Covid-19 cases.

Today Santa Clara county has 65 people hospitalized:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:COVID-19_Cases_in_Sa...

In comparison, Stanford hospital has 600 beds:

https://facts.stanford.edu/about/hospital/
I wish for that world to exist, but rasterized images are much easier to share and render nicely in iMessages etc.
Before the internet (and still, but less so), you could measure the GDP impact of building a bridge because it would allow people to drive back and forth faster and all that moving around leads to more commerce. You’re right, the economy literally is people moving around doing stuff.
They can ban eviction, however.
Selective call forwarding, if you have it, will get rid of a fair number of things. The do not call list as well is still surprisingly effective.
* If each infected person infects less than 1 other person on average, we'll have stopped the spread.*

This isn't exactly correct. It means that, eventually, the spread would die out even if there were an infinite number of potential hosts. But it's still spreading. If that number is exactly 1, ~everyone will still end up getting infected. If it's just a bit below 1, it will behave as a decaying exponential but will still take a long time to die out.
This looks so cool! But your demo link is broken :(
Do you expect these segments of the economy to survive 2mo+ of their business collapsing to near zero?

Airlines, Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Cruises, Conferences, Taxies, Hair Salons, Chiropractors, dozens more...

That's 10s of millions of jobs. Livelihoods ruined.

Maybe your job is safe. Mine too. But you have to put yourself in the shoes of someone who is being financially ruined, and whose life expectancy will likely be greatly diminished as a result.

There are major tradeoffs here.
I don't know why you are being down voted. The risk is for false-negative, but you are right that people might think this is going to clear them.

Even the manufacturer/supplier warns that: "Negative results do not preclude SARS-CoV-2 infection and should not be used as the sole basis for patient management decisions. Negative results must be combined with clinical observations, patient history, and epidemiological information."

They also indicate: "The sensitivity is 97.90 %, the specificity is 91.77%."

But when you read the technical document you realize that this was for a subset of patient. The real numbers are 88.7% and 90.6% respectively, and again these are for severe cases.
The only question that now matters: Do you like Trump? if yes, you are out.
Oh that's easy - just find one of those Floridian beach goers. Anyone still fine in three weeks is immune.
As far as I can read, this is literally the next sentence in my comment.
I wore a p95 (similar in performance to the n95) today while shopping. I'm in the Midwest, and the number of looks made me think I had two heads.

My daughter is also sewing cloth mask using a pattern from https://www.craftpassion.com/face-mask-sewing-pattern/

I know these aren't as good, but they probably improve my chances of avoiding SARS-CoV-2 by at least 10% when I have to go outside. I plan on using them once, then leaving them in a bucket in the garage. Once I've used them all up, I'll wash them and by that time (and hopefully the detergent + bleach action), the virus will be dead.
Wow, there are even some public servers, this is awesome!
Yup this is the problem. Workable but painful.
I didn't play Lemmings 2, only Lemmings, but it seems completely impossible there and very constraining on the design space, if you want to make sure that's always possible (you can never have a level that requires a blocker or a bomber, which are two of your 8 abilities).
I see from the article they added a lot more abilities in the sequel.

However, the article suggests getting gold stars across the board is mostly equivalent to not losing a lemming

> To wind up with gold at the end, you usually need to have kept every single one of the little fellows alive through all ten levels.
>But then what is the MacBook Air now ?

The Ipad Pro?
I was very impressed by how accurately the vodka expert ranked the taste of the vodka by how many times it had gone through the Brita filter.

To me that was quite telling.
Ask HN: Is there a script/app to generate a playbook from a running system?
I have a running server and would like to migrate to another linux distro for access to more recent packages and familiarity with the commands.
I figured it would be the best time to move towards configuration as code and Ansible seems to be the best way forward.

In order to cut down on the time required to write the playbook, it would be great if there were a script that could help generating a playbook e.g detect installed software, detect custom / user services, find and migrate docker-compose.yml to the ansible equivalent, etc.

Does something like that exist yet?
I would almost speculate that's precisely because of the limited bandwidth that text provides.

When starting a relationship, one of the most important things at first is to "not come on too strong". The other party misses out on all your social cues and tells, which probably makes the exchange feel less vulnerable.

Further, since you know hardly anything about the other person at the start of a relationship, text lets you conveniently project your own emotions onto the other person without their tone getting in the way.
To let air pass the filter easier, bigger surface is encouraged - bigger area, for the same pressure difference less flow per unit area. Why not to have two circular filters, on each side of the mask?
Enacting a lockdown is possible, but having the populace respect it - or enforce it otherwise - is another matter.

Besides, the worst lockdowns have only just begun recently. There are a lot of people who will go ahead with, say, a 2-week lockdown, but will balk at 3 months. The true test for the ability to maintain things that way is still ahead for Western countries.
Slowing down infection rate whether exponential or not is good because it lets more time for medical system to prepare and because it spreads cases over long period of time.
Yes since it’s an antibody test.
When conversing business matters, I don’t need to convey emotional information. The biggest advantage asynchronous text communication gives is I don’t have to waste time on hold. The next is that I have a record of who said what.
Ryan is one person and not involved with node anymore. Deno also has many mistakes IMO, so fine to agree to disagree on this one.
> Will we be more prepared for the next (epi/pan)demic?

If we keep washing our hands, sanitizing our surfaces, and working from home, I’d expect next winter’s flu season to be pretty light.
I drive an old car that is missing a nice, modern infotainment systems, so my experience is out of date, but several crashes in 8 months seems pretty frequent? My expectation is that it would not happen at all.
But not by default. It's related to ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY.

More here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/group-by-handling.ht...
My biggest annoyance with docs is when there is no example code. I hate it when I'm digging through a class and the methods don't show me, with usable examples, what they do.

This might not be a problem for those familiar with the library or domain the library facilitates. But for me it's always made onboarding longer.

My other peeve is when there is no simple basic implementation of the what the library does. I'm talking realistic drag and drop examples.

Lastly, one of the things I wish other Lang's could do is adopt using notebooks as docs. Using them has made documentation an absolute joy to read.
I have explored multiple JAMstack solutions such as Gatsby, Nuxtjs, HUGO and Jekyll with Netlify or Contentful but having to learn a front-end framework from scratch will take time that I believe is not worth it for a blog
Hands are absolutely an infection route, by acting as a transport vehicle to your nose and eyes. Gloves don't change that fact though, unless it reminds you to not touch your face. (It does to me: I work with gloves and epoxy resin a lot, and I've developed a pretty strong reflex to not touch myself with gloved hands even though I do it all the time with bare hands.)
This interaction model looks a lot like a hybrid between Blender's tool search, and FEMA.gov's site navbar, both being among my favorite UI elements floating around cyberspace. I don't have anything to criticize here, or any insight to add. I'm honestly just thrilled that this concept of a hybrid command-line is being explored more thoroughly.
That reminds me of all the obscure stuff DJ Shadow incorporated into his Boiler Room set, especially for me the song starting at 25:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ArSb3lCc28&t=1552s - you can understand the whole text very well but google yields nothing.
Early detection is utterly irrelevant at this point it’s endemic at most places now.
"For profesional use only"
Diemut Strebe / the Prayer
Microsoft was absolutely not right about tablets. They were right about touch screen laptops.