skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only country that has correctly dealt with the virus is SK, because the had the test infra ready to test enough people to actually do science.

The others countries have all had debate on optimistic vs precautious solutions, buying time vs saving the economy, but the reality is that none are able to correctly assess the spread of the virus. They can’t do correct science.
> it might still be in your good interest to pony up

It's not in our good interest, but yes, it is indeed in our masters best interest, so that's exactly what they're going to do. Socialism for wealthy corporations, rugged individualism for the rest of us. That's how it works here in the US.
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Why the Coronavirus Has Been So Successful
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Trust me they like swabs less they are by far more uncomfortable than a prick.
"have famously low standards of medical care"

I remember on another forum someone that used to post, who claimed to be a former IT worker who decided to go to nursing school, you know, because he wanted to do something "real" and then he graduated and could only get a job working in a prison. Some stuff he described was pretty chilling, even in its understatement.
So can we take it to the next level and give it a bunch of ML-generated photos of a scene that doesn't exist (from model B) and let this model A create the 3D view?

Take it one more step further and make model B create photos from some text description similar to the one described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640407 (although that one does 3D designs using voxels)
You're right that human lives are on both sides of the balance.

It's interesting that paying people's rent for them is on the table, but denying rent to the literal rent-seekers isn't. As though ensuring those who collect rent get their rent is more important than keeping people in homes.
Sure! I've been wanting to incorporate this exact thing for a "And let there be light simulator!"

Essentially, people in VR would be able to point and speak to create objects in a shared space.
Airlines are essential, and will be bailed out despite their past financial misbehavior.

Bars and restaurants will re-open, those are always in high demand, and easy to start.

Hotels have facilities and real estate that are valuable, and should bounce back once people feel comfortable traveling again.

Cruises can die in a fire. They've always been hotbeds of disease, and are now pretty much tainted.

Conferences might switch permanently to a virtual methodology as Apple is doing with WWDC. This could increase the reach of the conference since it's insanely expensive, as well as hard to get tickets.

Taxis (including Uber/Lyft), hair salons, all easy to restart, and demand will bounce back. Chiropractors are frauds, so I don't care if they fail.
I completely agree! The point is creating content.

I focus on choosing the "right" platform now so that I wont have to think about it 5 years from now.

I have had horror experiences with Wordpress in the past and that is why I avoid it.
Current distribution of Covid-19 across the globe (real-time updates)
In game development, the process of identifying, balancing, and pulling those levers is called optimization.

Source: This, specifically game optimization, is my profession and I've been doing it for 15 years.

Edit: To add, this is clearly a vocabulary argument, it'd help your argument if you gave context and defined what you think specifically optimization refers to. But even then, words are used in context, and the context here seems to be strongly game development flavored.
This whole incident hasn't done much to shake my impression that US doctors are interested first and foremost in making sure they get their "cut" on every prescription, even when the drug is relatively innocuous.

Like fine, we can have this discussion about chloroquine. It's behind-the-counter in the UK, so on par with sudafed in terms of access control, and OTC in a lot of countries that actually have to deal with malaria directly. But the same argument gets applied to stuff like oral contraceptives, which are straight-up OTC in a lot of countries too, and can simply be discontinued if you notice symptoms.

At the same time, we allow drugs with insanely narrow theraputic ranges like tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol (seriously, almost as bad as the chloroquine people are freaking out about, a normal dose is 1-4g and a lethal dose can be as low as 5g) to be sold OTC here with no questions whatsoever. We allow combination products despite obvious risks for multiple dosing, we allow combination products to "dissuade addicts" from abusing opiods (like any addict has ever been dissuaded by a risk bodily harm). And doctors don't make a peep about that, because they're not accustomed to getting their cut on that one.

That's also why the AMA resists nurse practitioners so hard. The truth is, a lot of those drugs really should be "behind the counter", a pharmacist should simply have to give you a quick rundown of possible symptoms and what to do if you notice them (discontinue and see a doctor or go to a hospital depending on urgency, same as you would do with a doctor-prescribed drug), but doctors won't allow that because they wouldn't get their cut, so we just call them "nurse practitioners" instead.

US doctors really like playing gatekeeper, to a much greater extent than other countries (where coincidentally, money doesn't come into the picture as much).
Thanks for being a mentor. Building and programming the robot was my first fun experience coding and making
Meh, the UI can also just crash on its own.

You can restart the car (in the middle of the road, even) by holding the two on-wheel buttons.

I've had to do that once before.
You can easily do this on your own.
> Shutting down the economy has externalities; those externatlities can be life or death as well. If the strategy of those implementing the "shelter in place" is one of just waiting it out: then I'm going to be off the wagon fairly quickly.

I think the problem with this very common attitude is the demand for immediate answers, or else. It's an ultimatum.

We don't expect programmers and engineers to come up with complete, ready-to-commit solutions to a complex problem immediately. Thinking like a consumer doesn't help. An alternative is to demand transparency and to be engaged in the process of decision making. But that requires an attitude/intellectual realignment.
I feel like false positives are less damaging than false negatives at this point. Unnecessarily putting people into self quarantine is not the worst, as opposed to giving false security to potentially infectious people.
At my first job I worked on a program that supported MySQL, MSSQL and Postgres[1]. Now I work on a project that's Postgres only and, honestly, I don't see the need to put any effort into SQL neutrality these days.

1. Only because I hacked it in during my free-time since it is such a trivial dialect to support.
I think they haven't been asked because I haven't seen them asked. I'm asking on a sibling top post.

I am seeing tons of extra reasons to panic every day. Not much on why to stay calm. That worries me.

For my plan? I'm taking the safe route for now. Though, I'm 99% that I had it a month ago. Week of steroids, then a respirator, then another week of steroids. Not tested, as I wasn't in the then current risk profile. Would be today, if even close to those symptoms.

Now, if I'm at all close to right, my entire family of six didn't even bat an eye at this. Why? Have we drastically misstated the risk pool?

Again, my plan is to take the safe path. Is an easy plan for me, as I can do so. Large parts of our nation can't.
Whoops, so used to the "it's so easy" comments on here that I missed that part.
That's how it should work. Excellent example. Automobile deaths account for over 3000 deaths per day, far in excess of what covid19 has or will do.

Given that information, it seems that you would recommend people "shut up and stay inside" due to the "risk to other people". This is not rational.

Giving up everyone's freedom and accepting simple authoritarian solutions a few vocal people want is not a good approach. Punishing perfectly healthy people by threat of imprisonment as a result of the absence of planning by the nation's healthcare and government is not a reasonable response.
Thank you! We're thrilled too by all the positive feedback and we'll continue to work on this :)
It's important to remember that we often over-inflate how much memory we think is necessary because of the consumption requirements of "modern" web browsers.

But the default Safari is incredibly resource light, both in terms of RAM usage and power consumption.

Safari users will find that they don't have any problems.
Check out Vivaldi browser. I find it unusable due to its performance, but they do some interesting stuff.

https://help.vivaldi.com/article/quick-commands/

Also, classic Opera had single key page navigation (and loads and loads of shortcuts).

https://web.archive.org/web/20111014104313/http://help.opera...
Not the best, don't know if it meets all your requirements, but I've been watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...
We're not even on the "couple of weeks" scale here. Unless we have a drug that can effectively treat coronavirus, we will have to shelter in place until a vaccine is available. 12-18 months.
How does a car company make a ventilator?
Some of the Core2Duo based books could do 16GB before the first gen Nehalem I5/I7 based books could, like the 2010 13" Macbook Pro I use at work.
Did you buy it for some sort of industry use, or as a regular consumer for personal testing?
I see the appeal of a "confederacy" in the abstract sense of loosely-associated states that fall under a common banner in times of war or intense need.
Your question is part of my complaint. There have to be models that this didn't spread exponentially in the severe cases. Where are they, and what were their odds?
Hold on. Has it been confirmed that recovered people do in fact develop immunity?
Yeah, that's the Base Rate Fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy.
> I'm curious what you're basing the 1 week off of?

There is a graph at the bottom of their homepage: https://coronachecktest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/antib...

The first red dot is at the 7 day mark.
You seem to be trying very hard to avoid the obvious reason, and the reason most people buy Macs - to run macOS.

"Worst company for consumer rights" is a really big leap, too.
How to make a reusable mask at home
According to the logo on this graph, it only works 7 days after symptoms appear: https://coronachecktest.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/antib...
Every time this company comes up, some part of me just shudders in horror at the thought of outsourcing the crucial act of voting to a company called Voatz.

Y'all the entire nation to put their trust in you and yet you have named yourself with a "cute" misspelling of one of the things you are involved in? Really?
And it should be emphasized that 100% of reported reinfections were just news reports saying "hey this person tested positive after testing negative" - there was never tremendously strong evidence for it.
Cargo isn't believed to be a significant transmission vector and has almost universally been excluded from border closures. If a country wants to be very cautious they can mandate that cargo sits in a warehouse for a few days, although that was almost always going to happen anyway.
Isn't FDA clearance the very definition of "third party verification"?
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html (at least showing your #1 and #2)
Simple DIY masks may be an effecive stop-gap measure until professional masks become available again in sufficient numbers [0]. Fully agree that official & media messaging with respect to masks is quite misleading, of course they work.

[0] https://medium.com/@matthiassamwald/promoting-simple-do-it-y...
Those are the most common corona viruses strains that cause symptoms of the common cold (which itself is caused by something like ~200 known different viruses, the most prevelant being rhinoviruses). I was under the impression many people already had these antibodies
that's been asked in literally every thread that has discussed this and no, modern tonic water is not as strong as the stuff the british used to make and is not an effective dose for either malaria or covid. You'd need to drink 30 liters or so a day to get a single dose, you'd kill your kidneys first.

tonic syrup/concentrate, maybe.
2 weeks is too short a time to expect the lockdown for.

It'll last certainly months, maybe a year (until vaccine found).

Accountants would be well advised to shift to all digital means, taking scans of documents etc.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-13/china-...
Global research on coronavirus disease (Covid-19)
When did we switch from 'flattening the curve' to 'trying to keep anyone from getting sick'? I thought we were mostly all going to get it this year, but we didn't want everyone getting it in a 1 month period?
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Which is really all that most countries are doing. In doing so also they're buying time by decreasing the number of people that get infected per unit of time, thus increasing the likelihood that more people will be infected later when possibly better treatment options exist and/or a vaccine.
We actually will not know even in retrospective, because the alternative scenarios will not play out.

I am not saying everyone should get sick at once, a certain period of isolation is acceptable - for now.

In the long term, it is not reasonable to isolate everyone. Covid-19 will stay with us for years.
I 100% agree. I've argued many times that GROUP BY is frustratingly bad.

However...

(1) AFAIK it's not default in MySQL (version 5.7.5+). You have to disable ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY to get this to work.

(2) Often you will care about which one is chosen. It would have been more useful if MySQL had let you influence this with ORDER BY.

(3) I create a current_value() aggregate which gives me even more flexibility than either approach for selecting the value.

SELECT a,
current_value(b ORDER BY x),
current_value(c ORDER BY x DESC)
FROM table GROUP BY a
Wouldn't it then make sense to have camps where young, healthy adults can go to get immunity by intentionally getting infected and recover ? Then they can go back to having normal lives. The epidemiology version of a controlled burn.

If someone take the gamble of intentionally getting the virus, his/her life expectancy is reduced by 3 months (a ballpark figure).

If someone stay in isolation until a vaccine arrives, he/she may consider it a greater loss.
Within the Julia ecosystem, you might be interested in Catlab (https://github.com/epatters/Catlab.jl), as we are actively working to build something very much along these lines. We already have in place a system for describing generalized algebraic theories (GATs) in Julia and generating symbolic expressions for them. In the future, we intend to implement pushouts of GATs as an algebraic approach to theory fusion. We are currently in the planning stage of this part of the project and hope to get something working this year.
Currently view coordinates relative to the volume are required so you first have to solve the SLAM problem before you can optimize a network representation of a given volume.
It's ok to take that on faith. If you recover from the virus, it's because your immune system knows how to kill the virus. We don't know of any immune system interactions that don't work that way.

There's a chance that immunity is short-lived, or that there are multiple strains of the virus which do not produce equivalent antibodies, but 100% of scientists will believe you develop immunity of some sort.
A month ago, I had a hard time breathing. A week in, I went to an emergency care facility. They put me on steroids. A week later, I went to my doctor still unable to breath well. They put me on a respirator and another week of steroids. (Plus antibiotics, since I had had a fever in that time.)

So, to that end, I suspect I had this. It also went through my entire family of six. Nobody else even got sick enough that we would have help them home, except the had a fever that lasted a night.

So, in not arguing this isn't serious. If you have trouble breathing, get help. Immediately.

I'm growing less confident in all of the simulations I'm seeing of it's out of control growth, though.

Why? Because from all reporting, I almost certainly had it. And if I had it, my kids school was almost certainly saturated with it. Such that I think of there was going to be exponential growth in cases, that skip sailed over a month ago.
Personally, I think that the criticism of physics being driven too much by mathematics is exactly wrong. The most sensible approach to quantum gravity yet came out of Wheeler's group. It's a really obvious approach: I came up with the basic idea independently, then looked up Gravitation to see if it was technically possible, and learnt that the authors thought of that 50 years before I did.

But it was abandoned, because no one could do the maths.

So I think we're waiting for another Laplace and Euler, to solve the Wheeler-de Witt equation.
Thankfully, though, Postgres' DISTINCT ON does play nicely with ordering and that's where I think it shines. If you have revisioned historical data this is one of the best ways to clearly and expressively pull off most recent records - it also works well for MIN/MAX based selections or more complicated ordering schemas - in my workday setting we have a common ordered data set that we order along a three component index and have ended up wrapping one of our most common DISTINCT ON expressions in a view.
In all seriousness, because people keep not realizing or forgetting, we're adding a 'theme switcher' little widget. I dislike the need, but lots of people genuinely like dark mode, and this seems to be the best compromise.
It looks a lot like the command palette of sublime, vs code, etc (cmd+shift+p). Combined with the navigate functionality of those editors (cmd+p). Where actions like back map to the command pallet and navigation like .articles maps to the file navigation.
It does feel odd that this links directly to the sales page instead of an FDA statement of approval. This headline should be changed. It clearly states on the site that "This test has not been reviewed by the FDA."
I really like https://www.covidly.com/.

The people behind https://covid19.fyi/ have been open-sourcing it (http://github.com/COVID19-OSS/ - I'm a contributor), and it's also pretty solid, although lagging behind right now.
Not used Airbnb too often because they had a very bad effect in Europe and other places. Really I wonder how they might not make money. It seems very easy to make money in this model. They do not even subsidize like ride share from anything I ever heard about.

Why would anyone conceal this story if already it is written in the Wall Street Journal? Is this because it is worse for such a story to appear on Hacker News?
Aside from the legalities, with COVID-19 already circulating in the neighboring states, would the practical benefit of closing California’s borders, to stop a few people still traveling for non-essential reasons, outweigh the costs?

Enforcing a closure at the land borders would tie up numerous law enforcement or National Guard personnel, who could be performing other important duties, such as enforcing health regulations and maintaining public order.

If the closure weren’t total—and given the interstate supply chains for food and medical supplies, I doubt one could remain so for long—it would also create highway congestion, impeding the movement of these and other essential goods. There are only so many trucks and drivers, and they need to be kept moving, not held up in long lines at checkpoints.
Phone calls are just terrible when you try to convey complex information. Just recently had that issue with a business deal where it only became clear that we were not on the same page w.r.t. some important details after I put things into writing after an IRL meeting and several follow-up calls. The lesson from this is always to follow up with a summary e-mail, and to avoid anything more complex than a simple yes/no or maybe arranging a time and date by telephone.
If we set the rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 to 0, a far greater reduction than actually occurred, we would be pausing the clock on global warming, which is a very far cry from resetting the clock. Yes, the emissions reduction helped, but not a fraction as much as you claimed.

> Increased funding for scientific output or more climate models isn't going to make a difference. People have to buy and use less. You can't have it both ways here either.

The science I'm most interested in isn't climate models. It's better solar panels, or better wind turbines, or better batteries, or better fission reactors, or (useful) fusion reactors, or space based solar shades, or ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and so on.

People buying and using enough less unfortunately does not seem to be a realistic solution to the problem. People buying less might be able to delay us hitting disastrous amounts of warming by a few years, but that only buys us time for the above kinds of research.
I've always been of the opinion that since the world of (web) programming moves so fast, a degree is largely pointless. As long as you have a natural interest in solving problems, learning new technologies and staying up to date, you should do well. You'll have a natural inclination to create some personal projects just because you can't stop yourself, and you'll find yourself having a couple projects that's worth showing off to potential employers–a portfolio.
I'm just starting to wrap my head around embedded development but what kind of audience is this aimed at?

Is it bare-metal embedded developers? Can it work with yocto or buildroot for those who rely on deploying linux on embedded?
It's not impossible that these tests measure something other than general intelligence, that just happens to correlate with social outcomes (like historical, relative familial wealth).

IIRC general intelligence also doesn't simply measure speed of cognition, but also ability to choose what to focus on ("intuition"), which these tests do not measure.
Quote highlight for any Tesla owners (and friends of Tesla owners) who may be concerned about this.

"This issue is fixed in any release >= 2020.4.10."

It looks like this release started rolling out mid-February 2020[0].

[0] - https://teslascope.com/teslapedia/software/2020.4.10
It's happening in a lot of United States!
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https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/20-20-bioresponse-...
> A 3.9 GPA from Caltech is much more impressive than a 3.9 GPA from Harvard

Having been an undergrad at one of the above, I can assure you both are super
impressive (in either STEM or humanities), and should garner special attention
from graduate programs.

> The subject GRE is a uniform quantitative baseline.

It seems we've moved off the topic of undergraduate acceptances to elite
graduate admissions. The dearth of slots at these rarefied levels relative to
the global supply of smart people is such that results from an arbitrary
exam coming out of New Jersey would only get a second look in the narrowest of
"splitting hairs" cases.
I thought ipv4 and ipv6 addresses could be provided simultaneously (or rather, ipv6 has provisions to be mapped to/from ipv4); you just wouldn't see any real benefits until you could switch wholesale (because you'd still be limited to whatever ipv4 can do)

That is, it was my understanding that there was no real blocker to supporting it in the interim, except for the lack of any immediate benefit. Though I'm also not clear on whether supportinf both introduces any significant complexity
> Those people can then start to go back to regular life (what’s left of it)

You sure that's not hyperbole? If you believe that, you need to turn off the news.