skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is a virus species defined ? As I understand it a species is a group of organisms that can reproduce viably with each other. But a virus doesn't reproduce like that, they clone themselves by hijacking a cell's machinery, so there is no notion of compatibility between viruses. The article says that Covid-19 is "similar" to SARS so it was put in the same species, but that seems a rather soft definition. Especially if there are trillions of different viruses like the article says, some objective criterion is needed. Not to mention viruses mutate all the time, at what point does it become a new species?
> Do they have any reason to believe that there's something special about the borders of India that cause the virus not to spread inside it?

Are you assuming there isn't?

High temperatures and muggy weather might make the new coronavirus less contagious, a group of experts says. See: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-cases-flu-like-d...
this post should be title "how i wasted hundreds of hours doing a simple task and now need to justify it"

use the right tool for the job... a real developer would know that. this dude doesn't know what he's doing.
But, as is mentioned didn't have long term ram reliability numbers published.
Two videos have the hum. This cannot be changed because the lecture capture system in the lecture room does not allow this (It's Panopto).

The quality is actually high enough. Maybe that is due as YouTube is currently lowering the quality due to Corona?

My plan is to incorporate the feedback everyone gives in the next weeks and do the recordings again in studio at the end of summer for the next semester.

The videos are actually intended to only support the chapters in the Jupyter notebooks.

The funny thing is this: Once I started doing the memory diagrams in the lecture, the students' work exhibited a lot more quality. Further, absolute beginners understand, for example, the concept of an iterator vs. iterable.

BTW: chapters 9 and 10 will be released soon on GitHub.
There are free govt run hospitals but they are unhygienic and don't have enough facilities.

The private hospital sector is better though. But not everyone can afford it.
Interestingly, Modi has not specified yet how people are supposed to get supplies. That should go over well.
I'm sorry, but there is no such thing as fixed per-TB price in S3.
What server-specific upgrades did you do? How did you tune it?
"Kennedy went to the moon", "Gates fights malaria".

Gates gives back some of the money that he earned with dubious business practices. Other people are doing the real work.
The next outbreak? We're not ready. Ted talk by Bill Gates (2015)
Few things I have seen in past couple days here in Delhi(which was locked down earlier):

- Many people are making excuses of getting groceries/milk/medicine to roam.

- Some people are just treating it as picnic and roaming streets to see what a lock-down looks like. Local police was perplexed with this thought.

- People who are in essential services are having hard time to get to their workplaces. For example: my sister is a Bio-medical engineer in local hospital and she is not able to book a cab or take local public transport. Today I went to drop her off and police stopped me twice to ask why I am out. We need to somehow make this easier. So essential services and their support can function.
They're adults, they can see that the world is dealing with something significantly more important than the Olympics.
Been using 2016 13" MBP. No issues with web or app development.

Also been using iPad 10.5" with keyboard as a thin client to do dev work on Linux VPS. With Blink shell and Working Copy, it is quite enjoyable. Also I got Shadow PC for my game dev projects (my MBP is not powerful enough to do that), I can use Shadow PC app on iPad and it is mostly usable.

I am definitely using iPad as a carry around notebook. I just wish it had real local dev environment so I don't need to worry about wifi.
no it isn't. wordpress is extremely powerful and easy for others to wrap their head around. if you haven't checked it out in awhile i suggest you do.
> BTW. a month's worth of food takes less space than a month's worth of TP.

I have questions... that I guess I don't really want to ask.
Wouldn't the fencing team have recovered fully by this summer?
And I'll second the first. B2 has been a great experience for me.
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Free to use Civil hospitals, free medical insurance for low income groups, almost free life insurance for low income group. Strong pharma and clinical base, as India is largest manufacturer of generic drugs. Still, hospitals are not proportional to population, so to flatten the curve this was required.
Lockdowns and panic leads to a 124% surge in VPN usage in the US
Can anyone recommend a good document camera / visualizer that works on Ubuntu Linux? The reason I had to use the lecture capture system in the lecture rooms is mainly because I don't own a document cam. Ideally, the cam would also work with Zoom. Many thanks in advance.
Isn't that just an inherent issue with resistance? I'm not super familiar with headphone internals so maybe I'm missing something.
Once you get used to it, it takes less than 10 squares to get fully clean, so there's not much wasted paper. That said, there's nothing like the clean feeling of a bidet (or soap or wet wipe) combined with the paper.
No problem, stay healthy!
Healthcare provided by government hospitals is free/subsidized. Though the number of such hospitals/doctors are not sufficient for our population.
Someone in my family is a prime example of this: got a degree in pharmacy, joined an actual pharmacy for a bit, then ended up working for an equivalent of FDA in the US. Worked there to gain experience,then went to work for a pharma giant. They hired her mainly because of her experience in the government's agency. Have been working in private sector ever since making pretty decent living.
Tourism is an import/export like any other.

Trade imbalances aren't good for economies and eventually lead to wars 100% of the time. Read about the Opium Wars if you want a textbook example of this.
What is your counter-argument to people who write for a living and say they need copyright to protect their livelihoods? Say fiction or technical manual writers? It's the entirety of their work product. Should they just find something else to do? How should they be rewarded for their time and effort? Not trolling, just trying to understand how an anti-copyright advocate would argue this case.
I'm not at risk nor particularly important, but 7 shots over a few months seem like a great deal, and a step up from the yearly flu shot. Am I missing something?
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Please don't make platitudes and decisions for everyone.
Hence the popularity of How it's Made. One of the few shows where I can enjoy the episodes more than once.
You might think that in a country the size and diversity of India that such a thing would be impossible to do. But I remember the curfew in 1984 after the Indira Gandhi assassination and it was surprisingly widespread. And I remember people helping each other in a frightening time.

Also newspapers continued to publish and be distributed.

Of course the country is so huge I only have my own experiences and that of family members (I happened to be traveling alone that day so had my own experiences).
TL;DR Don't use Markdown, use RST (reStrucruredText)

My take: meh.

RST is very comparable to Markdown, and the article makes almost no mention of why it is better. There is a downside, that it has a learning curve because most people are not familiar with it, whereas almost everyone has already used markdown.
Indians are lot more paranoid in general, because they can't trust hospitals capacity and are risk averse. Schools and Colleges were closed about 20 days back. WFH started in most tech companies about 15 days back. Most are avoiding unnecessary travel and gatherings. There is no culture of pubs/bars, eating out is an occasional thing.
We have a mix of private and public healthcare. Most of the lifting is done by private healthcare system (government seems to encourage that).

Public healthcare is abysmal unless you are in a tier 1 city or higher. Central government does little and most responsibilities is on the state government so you would see varied healthcare in different states.

I don't see many people using insurance to pay their bills. Most of it is paid by their pockets. It's changing but I don't want a situation where majority of the people have health insurance and companies start abusing the lowest section of the population who wouldn't be able to afford it. It's already happening. If you let clinics know that you are covered by insurance, they will do more quite a lot more tests and make you sit there.
Hi all,

A few months ago, I posted about my startup idea, Bail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250962

I've now finished building the application, as an integration with Google Calendars, and its just passed the Google oAuth verification process.

My original post got a lot of attention, both positive and negative. I'm interested to see how the conversation goes this time, now the actual app exists.

I'm aware that this is a terrible time to launch, given most people will have cancelled most of their plans due to COVID-19 anyway, but interested to hear feedback regardless

Thanks for looking,
Chris
There's no free lunch.

Anyone with valuable stock tips will not share them here.

I will share one piece of investing advice though. Good fund managers - on average - make their money on good sector selection and not so much on good stock selection.

Other special offers: Free trading on every major brokerage platform. That's a fundamental shift from just a year ago...
I can't stand reStructuredText, it's obtuse. Over the last year or so have converted all of our documentation to Markdown and I couldn't be happier about it.
You should be careful with the "can penetrate the trees" statement for people who don't understand the technology. But you are correct. Like light, some of the lidar can make it to the ground and give us a partial map of the floor.

I'm sure more passes from different angles would get a better picture as well.
> I wouldn't call it a faith because there is nothing really to be gained by wishing it was true.

Of course there's something to be gained; you don't have to follow any rules and can live however you want without expecting punishment after death.

> If a human-made device could produce sensation of God presence, it would diminish all the holy visions reported by saints.

Maybe, but not obviously; if a human-made device can produce a sensation of (touch|vision|sound), does that diminish reports of (touch|sight|hearing)?
That is correct.

But even then, I think in the future the data scientist role and the data engineer role will converge and the person doing this must know virtual environments.
With Pandoc you can easily generate LaTeX from Markdown and then turn that into a PDF. This gives you best of both worlds.
Who’s your target? You can do all of these with AWS already and much cheaper.
On top of that, getting all the necessary certifications that AWS has will take you a year and huge sum of money.
Free to use based on need. You can also buy private catastrophic insurance. It's also mostly affordable (unless you need specialist surgery). States have their own hospitals and prioritize their residents. You need a local id card and there are separate queues/checkin procedures for state residents (vs out of state) at government hospitals. Unlike the US, everything is priced (menus) and surgeries and hospitalizations are not seen as a way to gouge patients (i.e. a senior doctor poking their head in your room and glancing at your chart will not incur a 4 figure "consultation fee"). One thing they do there that I wish US hospitals did was: at the end of your surgery, they give you a list of all the consumables used (gauze/gloves/bandages/sutures/ports/i.v. tubes etc) and you're asked to either pay for them or buy those from a pharmacy of your choice and deliver them to the hospital.
The wonderful markdeep addresses many of the author’s concerns:

https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
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AsciiDoc is compatible with Markdown and can generate many output formats, including Docbook and Latex, which enables toolchain reuse. This provides more optionality than RST.

The most important property of documentation is existence. Markdown has a low barrier to entry and the markup can later be upgraded to Asciidoc.
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I was unconvinced going in, but this is a compelling piece. Not dogmatic, very open to various alternatives. Highlights their advantages and Markdown's disadvantages without becoming laborious.
I agree with the limitations of Markdown re: it being not great at doing some quality of life things like same-document references or embedding images as base64.

I would enjoy those two features, can we add 'em? MD files would basically be able to replace RTFs in all but the older OLE stuff in the latter.

But...even though I wish for those two, I have some sense that these things would start us down the slippery slope of bloating markdown to be HTML 2020(TM)
This is being handled at the state level. Message copied from my city's facebook page:
Due to corona virus threat there will be complete curfew in xxxx on 25th march 2020 also. public is requested to remain in their homes and not allowed to come out.

However milk, vegetables and other essential goods will be supplied to them at their home door to door by milkman, vendors and rehries etc. we are taking help of best price shop, swiggy, zomoto and other online companies and they will also be supplying grocery items door to door.

but when they reach in your locality , people should not crowd the vendor vehicle and should wait for it to come to their home. they should maintain the distancing norm of 5 feet while making purchase from them. all of them must wear mask and only one person should come out of the home to purchase from the cart. try to make payment online as far as possible.

General public is not allowed to come out of their homes during curfew. if anybody requires any pass to move in the curfew he should apply in the DC or CP office onlone.

However following persons can come out without passes during curfewbut some ID card of the Individual is Mandatory.

1. Doctors & other Hospital Staff of Govt and Private Hospitals.
2. Electricity and water supply Department Employees.
3. Municipal Corporation Staff.
4. ATMs/Banks.
5. Private Security Guards going to duty in uniform.
6. Patients having Medical Emergency cases.
7. Telecom Company Employees on duty during office hours.
8. All types of Goods/Fodder/Supplies carrying vehicles including Interstate goods vehilces.
9. Patrol Pumps (06:00 AM to 08:00 PM)
10. Hawkers of Recognised News papers (05:00 AM to 08:00 AM)
11. LPG delivery vehicles for door to door supply (06:00 AM to 08:00 PM)
12. Milk Plant vehicles and their Employees on duty.
I'm a big proponent of contract and document based development. Easing on boarding, and correlating the current architecture with active documentation. I usually keep software centric, in git along side the code.

Coming from Python I was a big fan of sphinx. With Graphviz we were able to embed flow charts of micro services. It worked very well. There are a number of extensions made it very powerful.

I switched because it felt close to markdown but not markdown. I now use docsify[0].js. There are a few things I miss. But it's an easier transition as my docstrings are also markdown. So no context switching.

Markdown is very bare. But that I feel keeps the documentation simple. With less knobs to twist, the documentation has less accents to it. With that limited range
I feel it's more important to have a style guide.

[0] https://docsify.js.org/#/
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There are public hospitals which are very low-cost but lack infrastructure, and there are private hospitals which are expensive but tend to offer better services. Insurance for private hospital chains or groups exists but not everyone has it. AFIAU, even private healthcare is relatively cheaper than many western countries.
Feature-wise, GCS is better. For example, it's much easier to set up a multi-region bucket with GCS.
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Many human concepts only approximate the underlying physical reality, and the concept of "species" is a great example of that, especially when applied to a population of viruses. It's unclear whether having a truly accurate concept of species is even an achievable or desirable goal.
You don't distribute state mgmt in S3 alone since there is no lock mechanism.
I think the limitations of markdown make it great for README documentation. It allows uniform, easy-to-parse instructions on how to use any repository. I don't even necessarily agree in terms of full documentation sites. Services like Gitbook or libraries like Gatsby allow you to set up great documentation sites using markdown. The points made about each unique syntax requiring it's own parser doesn't seem like a significant obstacle to me.
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7 injections once, no yearly flu shots and no flu? Seems like a good trade, IMO - pays off in 7 years or less.
Yeah sorry I think we have more important things to do right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_India
Yes, but people are very afraid of police and authority in India, so Indian citizens can be made to comply if the police is deployed in force.

Where I think it would falter is in keeping the essential supplies running. Even todays PM speech contained no indication that essential services will have to be running. Without that lockdown could turn ugly.
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> What if you want to have some things in the documentation be colored blue? You can’t!

Maybe that's good, though. "Blue" isn't semantic, either.
This reminds me of a comment on an anti-markdown post I read a few years back.

"As far as I'm concerned the best tool for writing documentation is the one that anyone can actually be bothered to use. Markdown might not be perfect but at least it's simple and commonly understood so there isn't much barrier to writing/updating documentation." - warmans

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4ck2lu/why_you...
I don't know if the policy was about "hoarders getting their comeuppance" so much as disincentivizing hoarding in the first place.
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rst is great because there are tools to handle it installed already on many Linux distributions, such as: rst2html, rst2latex, rst2man, rst2odt ...

Many tools that support markdown actually also support rst. For example, write a README.rst on github instead of a README.md.
Remember how we’re always saying to keep it simple here? Well, documentation is no different. These tools are very painful to work with. Stuff like sphinx will make you want to tear your hair out.

Keep it simple- markdown is simple.
In the UK / London, this is happening through a system of employer requested letters confirming to the metropolitan police that the holder is in an essential function and should be allowed to travel.
No, but it has caught on a little
You may be missing the forest for the trees. The oil market has fundamentally shifted in the last decade. The US is energy independent with its massive oil projects and unfettered access to fracking and tar sands and what not. Don't catch a falling knife.

Case in point: Look at natural gas. We've been in a gas glut for a decade plus+ (https://pages.etflogic.io/?ticker=UNG for example, https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=NG&p=m1 ). Big infrastructure builds and special cryo tanks are everywhere. Gas has never recovered from its 2008 peak... The same has played out and is playing out in crude.
Could you please elaborate? Storage price is fixed. Other costs are requests and transfers and those depend on your usage.
Sounds like a good idea. This time the discussion is about Amazon.
I beg to (partially) disagree... (shameless plug ahead!)

https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe/HastyScribe_UserGuide.htm

OK, you are right that ordinary markdown is insufficient because a lot of functionalities are missing for proper technical writing and above all proper content reuse...

That's why in my tool I started from an already fairly-advanced Markdown flavor (Discount) which already comes with a bunch of proprietary extension... then on top of that I added things like snippets, transclusions, fields, and even simple macros.
Please don't write long articles about why people shouldn't do something you don't like on the Internet.
It takes 45 minutes to shutdown or start up when updates are being installed and at least on windows 7, you wouldn't even know it was going to happen.
Sorry for not adding that. I don't post my location online as a practice.
80% of the population is uninsured [1]. They go to underresourced government or religious-charity run hospitals when severely ill but otherwise have limited access to medical care by western standards.

The upper middle class increasingly have insurance like people in the US, and the very wealthy pay for treatment directly. Both groups seek care at private hospitals that have equipment and staff that would rival those in wealthy countries - often set up and funded by Indian physicians abroad.

My family have to invested in such hospitals and I have toured them. No doubt they do charitable work on the margins, but they likely can't scale to a pandemic.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_India