skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends on what you mean by deadly .. percentage of deaths among people to get it, or absolute number of people who are likely to die from it.

SARS-CV2 may not have the % kill rate of SARS-CV1, or other nasties like Ebola, etc, but it has potential to kill a LOT of people due to it's specific nature:

- Many infected people are asymptomatic, so spread it unknowingly

- It has a fairly long incubation period, so even those that will show symptoms (allowing them to be isolated) don't initially

- Symptoms may be mild and confused with those of other diseases (such as flu!), resulting in failure to diagnose, hence allowing spread

- The percentage death rate appears nothing to be complacent about. The Princess Diamond "experiment" (with 100% testing) indicates about a 1% death rate (10x that of flu), while in Italy it's running at about 10% of detected cases.

- This is a novel virus to which we have no immunity. If it's still around next year things may be better (and better yet if we have a vaccine), but this year it'll be bad if not managed

Apparently what caused Trump to eventually take this seriously was an Imperial College, UK report indicating that "do nothing" would result in a couple of million deaths in USA.

Of course it's a legitimate question to ask if the cure is worse than the disease, but it's both politically and morally impossible not to act when you know you could save millions of lives.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/coronavirus-us-uk...
Also, people who are driving drunk might also be using CarPlay. It's not as if being drunk makes you immune to the distractions of CarPlay.
Do you wager that the majority of news circulating today is written by pandemic experts and medical professionals?
“Non-replaceable batteries are necessary for good water resistance ” debunked
Not a helpful reply as the OP is most likely doing that anyway.
> Saying python is "not a good Unix citizen" here is akin to saying cars are a bad highway citizen because people can crash them.

I don't follow your analogy. The default signal disposition for SIGPIPE is to silently terminate the process. Normally processes compose nicely on the command-line and this requires no extra work from the programmer. By disregarding this convention, most Python programs pollute your terminal when used in pipelines, which is why I claim that in this case Python is a bad unix citizen.
Do you really use physical buttons on the dash without looking at them? I can't in any of my vehicles.
Related Paper:

Assessment of Rydberg Atoms for Wideband Electric Field Sensing

https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00646

Mentally replace the word "Electric Field" with RF when you're reading it, and you'll get it.

Also, according to the paper at least, in theory, laser interferometers can be used to sense RF... which leads to the idea that perhaps the entire RF spectrum, viewed as a single point in time snapshot, looks like an interference pattern of all sorts of waves at all sorts of wavelengths...

From a series of those then, Fourier Transforms, ran over the whole dataset, could be used to extract individual waves...

Also, there's some kind of vague relationship here with holograms too, because holograms are in effect, interference patterns of two beams of laser light...
No, I sometimes, rarely there's even porn, gambling, shady websites selling video streams. We flag them when possible but there's nobody doing it 24/7. Those would be obvious bad submission, much harder to identify those hiding behind URL shorteners or logins (e.g. facebook groups).
I cannot for the life of me understand why we aren't turning every available textile mill into mask manufacturers right now. It should be trivial to do and clothes aren't a critical item. I'm sure most countries have planned something like this as it's a common need during major wars. We're basically saying that since it's not 100% effective, so it's not worth it. Meanwhile, neither is social distancing, but that's super dooper important.
I had to drive 800 miles and not one store along the way had TP.
In normal times, a lot of people use TP for everything: Blowing their nose, minor cleaning tasks, etc.
Boeing got FAA approval for aviation-grade 3D parts during the 787 program.

I don't know if they make them in-house, through a supplier, or both, but they have the capacity to not only get the things manufactured but deliver them too.
That graph says that 1/3rd of households making less than 35k per year and 40% of households that make between 35k and 75k a year have prime membership.

I'm from the mid-west. Where do you think Meijer, Schnucks, and Jewl Osco get their toilet paper from? If the union insists the TP plant shut down there is no TP whether you buy that from the grocery store or Amazon.
“Heated” Debate Between Scientists Forced Boris Johnson to Act on Coronavirus
Now is the time for extreme caution. We can laugh about how it was an overreaction later.
True, but most Python programs don't do this, so they pollute your terminal with error messages when you attempt to use them as interior processes in a unix pipeline.
I agree with your general point but Amazon does have a pretty big problem with counterfeited products. If you buy some ultra-cheap no-name alarm and it doesn't end up working very well, you got what you paid for. If you bought a reputable brand but ended up with a non-functional knockoff I do think that it's fair to give a share of the blame to Amazon.
So now Italy's pandemic has gone from "horrible" to "reasonable?" It's CFR is increasing, not decreasing. The number of cases is increasing exponentially, not flattening, and the death rate in human terms is approaching 1K per day. I don't know what world you live in, but here in reality, this is horrible.
Great, so we just make sure there’s lots of testing being done so we can focus our efforts, and hugely expand our health care system to take care of that tiny 1% of the population. And we’ve got a whole week or two to do it. So why’s everyone so worked up about it?
Really sick of marketers acting like their "I write viral Medium posts!" experience is an epidemiological qualification.
And the surgical masks are so fucking cheap to. The amount of money this country will lose because we failed to up mask production when we say this coming a million miles away.
>I'd bet on the success of a Gates-sponsored healthcare solution over a government-sponsored one any day of the week.

So you'd bet that the US is going to deal with the pandemic more effectively than China has? That doesn't seem likely at the moment.
With the image recognition, I think the dream might be: take a picture of your shopping cart or basket, recognize any product that is at no more than 50% occluded. Put a red square around any item not recognized, let the user pick it up and rotate it until it's recognized.
Is it really so outlandish to blame the masks? Relative to Westerners, East Asians seem to wear a lot more masks, and are willing to improvise.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/02/25/national/japan-...

>A tweet from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s Disaster Response Division (@MPD_bousai) offers advice on how to wear masks and dispose of them properly, while a free DIY mask instruction manual is available in English, Chinese and Korean on the Oita Prefectural Government’s website

Can you imagine that happening here?
"Our focus here isn’t treatments but numbers. You don’t need a special degree to understand what the data says and doesn’t say. Numbers are universal."

That's 180' from what I believe and have experienced repeatedly in industry settings. Transforming the numbers to meaningful data is always fundamental to success. For example here the number of cases confirmed is determined by the testing approach and process - you must know that to be able to make meaningful comparisons (there are many other aspects to epi data but that's just one).
Airbnb is simply a listing service. If you have a problem, blame the host, not the platform. My advice: book with superhosts or listings with at least 4.5 stars. Maybe you just don't like the idea of vacation rentals in general? If that's the case, go to a hotel instead, but don't advocate taking away this option for everyone else.
Yes, I do. The US is not a theocracy, it's a secular republic. A person's religion should no more qualify them for office than their race or gender.
I absolutely develop tactile memory of the stereo and A/C control panels.
I fear that now that we have witnessed the economic turmoil it can inflict on any community where this virus is released, there are entities out there who have taken notice and will explore this as a means to future warfare.
Asteroid impacts and supervolcanoes have "happened already a number of times".

Certainly more than just "one little impact in Russia".
I think that as long as the availablity of tests is finite, this is a complicated process. Probably the goal should be to optimise for true positives: of the people that have the virus, we want to find as many as possible. In that case, if there is a limitation on the number of tests that can be performed each day, it does make sense to give those tests to the people who are most likely to be positive. Unless some people fit the symptom profile so neatly that they can be treated as though they were positive without a test. Can anyone with expertise weigh in along this line of thinking?
Haskell has a duality between flow control and data structures as a result of its laziness. It is a perfectly valid point of view to look at such a thing as a control structure, rather than a data structure.

Technically, if you want to really understand how the "IO monad" does its thing, this is actually how it works. Technically your program declares a probably-infinite data structure that contains all possible paths your code could take, e.g., if you have a "if user input is negative then do X else do Y", what you really have is a data structure representing the if-then clause. What keeps the infinite data structure from being manifested in RAM is that the whole thing is resolved lazily, so only one branch will be actually evaluated. That's why the "IO monad" is actually pure; it simply "purely" creates a huge data structure that is resolved by an interpreter later. In the theoriest of theories, an IO value in Haskell really doesn't execute anything either and the whole language is pure... it is only the interpretation of the IO value that finally interfaces with the real world.

It isn't always the most helpful perspective and you can become an expert Haskell programmer without ever looking at your program this way, but technically, under the theory hood, that's what's happening.
People are mentioning this is due to lack of testing, but if that were the case wouldn’t hospitals be overwhelmed like they have been in Italy and elsewhere?

Testing or no testing if hospitals run out of ventilators for people in need, or out of masks, that would still happen if the disease was spreading like it does elsewhere
There are large number of government organizations, pandemic experts, medical professionals, and research groups communicating in the social media and blogs.

There is no reason to post news articles or blogs from random Joes in HN when you can post directly from experts.
I don't think it is; assuming the questions of the original commentator asked can be read as a "how likely" sort of thing. I'm not saying look at the people here and you have your answer (aside from extinction level epidemics, which we can exclude because we are here), but complex life has existed for quite a while and even humans have on a relative basis. If the sort of thing the commentator is thinking is at all likely, it very well is likely to have happened before (assuming viruses more easily evolve than more complex lifeforms do). I'm saying that we should be able to learn from what isn't here, from what didn't survive... not from what did. When we look back at what didn't make it, I don't know of many (any) cases where we say that the sudden appearance of an extremely virulent pathogen likely did in this species or that civilization. This isn't to say its impossible, but unlikely... if you perform a historical study of random individuals that play the lottery, you'll find that it's just parting a sucker from their money... yet there is nonetheless usually a winner.
تطبيق يلا نتعلم لطلاب الشهادة السودانية لاجهزة الاندرويد
Sorry, but I think you're seeing what you want to see.

I'm perfectly "reasonable", and it's rationale to question whether German military spend would increase just because some US troops leave.

I understand perfectly well that some US and German interests overlap, but certainly not all. It's also the case that the US does many things that there would be absolutely no appetite for in Germany (I'm not judging those actions here, just making a reasoned point).
Most of the textile industry has moved to Asia in the last 30 years.
Slay the Spire is fantastic. The day they release their Android port is the day my productivity hits an all time low.
generally green names are brand new or have some low reputation until later, things like, but not limited to... bots, shadey IP ranges, obscene account names etc.

if the url comes from somewhere suspect use common sense thats your best defense. just like any open chat there are bad actors to recognize and avoid until you can flag.
They could unionize without disrupting the service, just to increase their bargaining power and unify their representation.
I live in Portugal and some producers are being told to make disinfectant out of drinking alcohol.

I assume the same is being done with mask production, or will be done. The same is happening with alcohol in other European countries, I don't know about the US.
The counterclaim is that Japan has an unusually high per capita number of ICU beds.
>the cost of public healthcare all of a sudden could very well be unsustainable

What about Space Force and the increasing military budget every year? How come there is magically money for that?
This is an article written by a “growth hacker” who knows literally nothing about public health, claiming to explain public health to all of us.

This crap shouldn’t be on HN. This forum has become next to useless, slowly, then all at once in the last few weeks. I would assert that this community could do better, but at this point maybe it can’t.
> I give my child the sea salt and coconut oil like you’ve recommended

I’d rather you not talk about your homeopathic alternative medicine in the time of a real medical threat.
today they eliminate SAT subject test, tomorrow MIT will eliminate regulart SAT test
I see, thanks for the heads up.

Interpreter languages is easier, given the existence of C and C++ compilers.
In the iOS implementation, a new dispatch queue is created on each 'set' or 'get' call, from which it switches to the main queue to call MMKV, wrapped in a try/catch block.

Inside the MMKV library, a NSData object is created, another class is used to write a single "int" value to it, then the data object is used as the "raw" value for the given key.

I haven't looked any futher but already this seems like a lot of work to set a number in memory. Is there any reason for this?
No. IFR is mortality rate at the end of the epidemic. CFR exactly matches IFR if all infections are diagnosed.
I believe it's the one mentioned in the article about how to achieve a color NTSC signal by just outputting ones and zeroes with proper timing.

It begs the question what was done in parts of the world that didn't use NTSC, though.
The 'Open Food Facts' and 'Open Product Data' projects could be of interest for barcodes:

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

https://product-open-data.com/

I just tested Product Open Data using the barcode from a can of Coconut Milk from my cupboard, and it returned the correct product (including a photograph) and the name of the brand and their owner.

Edit: updated to add Open Food Facts, given that Open Product Data appears no-longer-maintained
Ragnarok deserves more than one paragraph. Among many of it's great features was the one I personally loved most: sometimes you could meet a ghost of your past self, complete with all your inventory. Sometimes I even made this my strategy, dying as lots of scribes (weakest class at start, who carried a highly prized and rare item, a quill), then starting as blacksmith, which was easiest to survive in early stages. Quill was essential to win: you could always switch class to scribe after some level to write scrolls, but finding a quill was extremely hard.
WHO:

* wearing mask does nothing

and...

* workers desperately need mask

this is the problem when you lie to your audience to achieve some end. Your message not only gets disregarded but you don't actually achieve what you were trying to achieve with your lie in the first place.

We are all lucky to have Tedros as our one-world doctor.
Maybe you should because the fella has demonstrated sloppiness and ignorance on one issue, and that shakes my faith in the quality of the rest of it. If you are going to attempt to influence life and death policy you better be good. Compare the quality of this article to the Imperial College report last week.
In simple terms, this means blood transfers from recovered patients to currently infected patients. Transferred antibodies will give a boost to the recipients immune system, and give more time for natural immune response to develop.

If this were implemented on a massive scale, wouldn't it be a solution to mitigate covid-19 completely?
i hang around here a lot and see that sort of stuff, it gets flagged, but im only 1 of me. i forget how many flags are needed to kill a submission, i thought it was only 4 flag to kill a green name submission.
FTL did this, but once you figure out the mechanics, game becomes way to easy.
That seems to be discouraged by the official python docs.[0]

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#note-on-sigpip...
99% of those who died from virus had other illness, Italy says
Ask HN: Can you implement classic card games without getting sued?
Hi, I have a question.
Can you (re-)implement classic card games like "uno" change the look of the deck of cards and use the same rules and host this game online without getting copy right claimed etc?

What about other games like "Rummy"?
Can you use the same images for the deck of cards like poker?

Does anyone know about if this is legal or not?

The idea would be to create an online platform where players can play against each other on a server both, mobile users and online users.

Thank you,
Prince
Operation “Optima” Part 3
Study group consisted of 16 men and 0 women.
There used to be a banner in that site that said that white-knighting was not allowed. I understood that to mean that if someone posted something refuting another post that was criticizing that person they would get banned. I would agree with you if kiwifarms was a truly free site that aimed to stay objective but this does not seem to be the case.
I can't speak for OP but can echo the sentiments with laggy touchscreens in Volvos. I don't know about the 2020 models or even 2019, but certainly the 2017-2018 models had issues in my experience. Maybe they've fixed them, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. I've always been a fan of Volvo's interface pre-touchscreens, they just made sense to me somehow. This is why I'm looking at a late model C70 as a potential purchase.
I love it, great job!
Question for you: How was the idea born Alyssa?
Depends on the spin. Couldn't you argue this is exploitation of the health of desperate low-paid workers, their family and their communities?
Excerpts:

SE: SiC is well-understood in power electronics and RF, but is the main advantage the ability to run devices hotter than silicon, or is it to save energy?

Palmour: The goal is to save energy and reduce system costs. Silicon carbide saves the OEM money.

[...]

"Palmour: The reason silicon can’t go to very high temperatures is because intrinsically it starts to conduct.

It really stops being a semiconductor around 175°C, and by 200°C it becomes a conductor.

For silicon carbide that temperature is much higher — about 1,000°C — so it can operate at much higher temperatures."
Useful. Thanks!
I think they are trying to pretend they are doing this https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39956
Working on bsnes and higan were the things that made me most happy. Well, bug hunting was of course stressful but the joy of fixing a bug and seeing new games running was always well worth it! I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.

It was everything else that was a problem. If I could have just been left alone to code in peace and without all these pesky health and work issues, I'd be very happy to continue.

I think I still have a ways to go on the self-improvement, but it's hit a point where I think I need a few months' break to go at it offline, and maybe let my hands rest a while from typing so much. I ended up coming back to things the last two bouts of depression, so we'll see.

Thanks for the kind words, take care as well!
Heh, neighbor is a bank employee, now remote working, she unplugged her google home bun. Good call (sic)
Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
With the quarantine being placed in effect in a lot of cities across the world, we all likely have a little bit more time to focus on personal projects or learning something new from the comfort of our homes. What are you guys up to these days?
Being able to code is a bit of a funny goal, because it doesn't actually make you good at either software development, or academic CS. While coding is certainly required to be a professional software dev, it is just one aspect of a far more complex industry. Likewise, it is just one aspect of academic CS.

So the answer of whether you should continue is completely dependent on your goals. You certainly could step out into industry, learn the rest, and be successful. Or stick with school, and in 2 years have a wider selection of options of where you can take your life.

During the last recession (2008), most devs I knew found a place they were happy staying in for a few years and rode it out. If it were me, I'd ride out your CS degree, and in 2 years when business starts to return to normal, you have an array of choices in front of you. Frankly, that is always the advice I give my own kids - if you are unsure what path to take, take the one that does not limit your options.
Games aren't going to strain your RAM
I don't know what the parent had in mind but in Europe at least the word "war" has been thrown around a lot lately. The French president said that France was in a "state of war" during his last discourse for instance.
I had that thought too but apart from the Ti Powerbook my laptop hinges have survived for years. In fact around the house there's only one with a hinge that feels noticeably looser and it's about 10 years old. The hinge on the keyboard appears to be about the same size. So maybe it's OK.

Also I assume the iPad itself is coupled magnetically to the case/stand.
Because different environments yield different behavior. Just like in finance or business.

I feel like we've grown accustomed to a world where money is readily available (low interest rates), there's relative peace/safety, little trade friction, and we can ship things around the world cheaply.

Maybe we need to let the pendulum swing back a bit and do a little more manufacturing in the US? The problem is that it probably isn't economically viable except in times of crisis. So unless the federal or state government comes out and subsidizes it outright (something they do do in China, btw) it probably won't happen.

I do, on the other hand, think the last few years might be peak globalization. Wages are rising in China, there's more trade tension, and more environmental consciousness (shipping)...I'm no Trump supporter, but you kind of can see the outline of how some manufacturing might be coming back to the US.
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It wouldn't hide it FOR LONG. In a month, we'll know which hypothesis was correct.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...

So is this nonsense?