skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this deserves a little bit more scrutiny in particular because the OP is asking about making a difference.

1. I would argue they're not a net positive. Making markets more efficient is fine but markets are already extremely efficient. The biggest social good can be achieved by working on issues that are classical market failures and full of externalities. Climate change, healthcare, basic science, education and so on. The man-hours invested in these prop trading platforms compared to the benefit to society is maybe positive under the microscope, but negative when one considers opportunity cost.

2. They're freakishly proprietary. They're corporate black boxes full of 200 IQ people who could be solving and distributing knowledge, but they're basically locking them in the basement to make money. Put any of those researchers into a public university and over the course of their career, they could educate thousands of fine researchers.
look at the other top level comment. the quote includes the very important qualifier "at this point" which was omitted in your post title.
Love Zotero. I'd love to install it on my own server instance, although, I think by renting the Zotero storage space now, I'm helping support you and the whole Zotero project.
It would work as "a piece of cloth".
I don't think so -- my impression is that most people are under the impression that we flatten the curve, end the lockdown, and the end result is that most people will not ever get the virus and it will no longer be a problem.

I don't see people acknowledging the fact that a large percentage of people, if not a large majority of the population probably, are eventually going to get it.

Right now what people are talking about is "lockdown now" and "we don't know when it will end".

Not about when the right time is for it to end, or the reality that there will obviously be a surge in cases once it does. (Assuming that the virus doesn't spread to large/majority percent of the population during lockdown anyways.)

I think most people are hoping a vaccine will show up in a month or something and that will fix things. When the reality seems to be that a vaccine is something like a year away.
> Also, there are other solutions like serological testing, aggressively developing ways to manage the illness, testing vaccines, etc. It's not just quarantines, folks

Unless we want to completely overwhelm the medical system within the next couple of weeks and potentially have over a million people drop dead from infection or lack of adequate healthcare, quarantine is the one tool we have at our disposal right now to manage this pandemic.
do you have evidence to support your claims? Italy has not seen any reduction in new cases from its lockdown. Many epidemiologists have posited that a blanket lockdown does more harm than good when instituted after the virus is already widespread.
Is the UK really going to have serological testing up and running that quickly?
> Whenever the lockdown ends, it's almost like we're back to square one.

The part they're not telling you is that that conclusion is not an output of the model. It's an input to the model. The model tells you cases will surge up again after lockdown ends because that assumption was put into it.

More precisely, the underlying assumption is that, even if you get to the point where there are no new cases and you've waited long enough that the incubation period has passed, so everybody who was exposed to the virus is either symptomatic and being quarantined or asymptomatic and has no issues, it is still possible for new people to get infected. But if the incubation period has passed and everyone is either quarantined or asymptomatic, how is anyone new supposed to get infected? The people who are symptomatic are quarantined, so they can't, and the people who are asymptomatic shouldn't be contagious any more, because the incubation period has passed. Yet the computer models predict new cases. So the models are assuming that somehow people can be exposed to the virus, never develop symptoms, but stay contagious indefinitely. That doesn't seem to be a realistic assumption.
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Wouldn't this encourage people to seek out the virus and get sick so they can get back to work sooner?
By "worst" I am assuming per-capita figures. Obviously the US has a larger population than Spain and Italy, so comparing the raw number of cases isn't a fair comparison. On a per capita basis, we're not quite up there with some of Europe yet, but we will be.

But most of the US didn't really get their act together with testing until this week. We're a little delayed both in transmission and in testing, and the US is not showing any deviance from exponential growth at the moment.
My man, a lot of these things are symptoms of zombie startups. Maybe once in a while a legit business has to do these things to survive, but most of the time the businesses doing these things are zombies. They’ll never succeed, but they will also never “fail”.
Taxes are derived from monarchy as well.
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Are there any other articles answering this question? I would like to compare them in my upcoming paper:

"How different are different 'How different are different diff algorithms in Git' articles?
My favorite quote regarding alleged South Korean government sponsored groups hacking:

Aitel argues that the group's sophistication should serve as a reminder that countries considered "second-tier" in their hacking resources—i.e. countries other than Russia, China, and the US—may have surprising capabilities. "People underestimate the risk. If you have this level of capability in a second-tier cyberpower, you have to assume all second-tier cyberpowers have these capabilities," Aitel says. "If you think 'I'm not being targeted by the Chinese, I’m ok,' you have a strategic problem."
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For SAS drives I would recommend sg3_utils [1]. You can basically query what the drive supports via `sg_opcodes`.

smartctl isn't really designed to handle SCSI protocol I think. It can do basic things but for anything deep you better use sg3_utils.

[1] http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
This is entirely incorrect

The ultra-rich will have a variable level of "decreased performance in their portfolio". They're still rich, especially if not over-levered. They are also well positioned to take advantage of any hyper-inflation event.

The average american, with the loss of their primary income and no real UBI is going to feel it the most.
this is a very white-collar centric view of the world. Anyone who's living paycheck to paycheck in an hourly job, or a small business owner, is unlikely to be able to work from home. And how do you work from home and homeschool at the same time? Anyway, even if you personally can get by, there will be mass failures to make rent in both commercial and residential sectors which will destroy financial markets and that will actually affect you even if you have a cool tech job in SF.
If you want to understand how this is spreading the way it is and why go look at the Westport cluster: 50 people attend a part, 20 of them come out positive.
No, I think that’s pretty apt. I’m specifically talking about the US. Capitalism won’t fall, but the kind of capitalism we have in the US is literally falling apart at the seams.

We know what the solution is to the problem, but it is not compatible with our system. We are fighting it every step of the way. So either the system changes or a lot of people die… which will force even more accelerated change.
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There is nothing to say we were right to let the flu do that, and I would argue that we should reassess our moral compass in the face of all suffering and death as a society. This event should be a wake up call. We should invest much more resources and mindshare into alleviating suffering and stop accepting that these deaths are "inevitable".
American living in America here.

It is amazing as to how easy it is to tell Canadians what to do (heh joking).

You're mostly right, though I think people are starting to catch on where I live (West Coast). We don't have the same kind of, how to put this, "social unity" we had after WWII where basically every big company and most of the government was staffed by veterans of that war. So it is a little hard to get people to comply, and convince them that this kind of mobilization is necessary.
Thanks for the feedback! We'll always be evaluating new features.
What? Saying I'm sorry I was wrong? Ok, I'll stop saying that.

Edited to add: This article was shared with me. I read it. I read the other one on newscientist.com. I thought it was huge news. I began to question my assumptions about Covid-19. I wanted discussion of it on HN so I could get help thinking about it because there are many good comments from careful people here. I got the help I was looking for, and my thinking is clarified. If you think I should have just kept it to myself and gone on my merry way with my new assumptions, spreading them around without trying to get a discussion going here about it, well then... ok.
Tilde: think Geocities but more modern.
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Some research the Helpful Engineering group did a couple of weeks ago included an interview with a doctor who claimed that Covid had less than 1% mortality, but that health care workers had about 4% because of how heavily they are exposed to it (source is a google doc in the slack group).

Every health care worker deserves a massive, massive bonus this year for sticking their necks out for us all
>Young people are not affected as badly as old people.

we are increasingly coming to the realisation that that's probably wrong.
EndNote Libraries shouldn't be stored in the cloud, either, for the same reason. See the "General Safety Notes" at http://clarivate.libguides.com/endnote_training/home

Also, Zotero just revamped the Web Library interface. Check it out, it's very nice.
I find this focus on CCP not healthy for the learning process. Certainly something to take into account but your preoccupation with it seems to be excessive.

There seems to be no reason currently to disbelieve Chinese numbers. They are encumbered by unknown, possibly very significant measurement errors, for sure, but so are european or american ones.

Due to nature of exponential growth I think it is unrealistic to believe that the virus grows rampant. All signals point to Chinese economy coming back from the nap and I find it difficult to believe that would be happening if internally Chinese state was still struggling to get the virus under control.

Just use Occam's razor. The simplest explanation, given no facts to point otherwise, is that Chinese state used its power and control over population to actually successfully push back the spread of the virus.
The only thing untrue is that we'd officially call them something else. You don't have "death panels" if you call them "community wellness committees".

There is no economy anywhere in the world that can support an infinite demand for healthcare. We keep inventing new healthcare too, so it only gets worse. There will be limits to healthcare, though we can lie to ourselves about that.

If we don't place a price on life, then 100% of our money goes to healthcare and then we still end up dead in the end.

With socialised healthcare, the politically viable solution is to promise more than can be delivered. This causes waiting lists. Waiting lists for "free" (tax funded) care will grow as long as demand exceeds supply. The supply is limited by resources. The demand is only limited because people die while waiting for treatment.

There is a huge opportunity for corruption and bias here. Instead of a simple waiting list, we can move people ahead if they are politically favored.

It's all simpler and less corrupt if we let market prices sort out how we wish to prioritize the care of one person, the care of another person, and all the other possible economic activity.
99% of cases are mild as per Korea's data, so no, we would not have 10% mortality
Sounds like a call for the emperors new monarchy. Robin Hood "stole" back money that the monarchy had excessively taxed and "gave" it to the poor.
> But if the incubation period has passed and everyone is either quarantined or asymptomatic, how is anyone new supposed to get infected?

Because that's obviously an unrealistic assumption.

Realistic lockdown still has tons of people mixing at the grocery store, at the doctor's or hospital, with all the essential services. During lockdown tons of new people are getting infected constantly. There's zero way to bring that down to zero. Lockdown is just about reducing it.

And of course, even if a single country managed to achieve the impossible and bring it to zero -- somebody from another country is going to visit at some point and reintroduce it.
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> The only ones who will really see their lives change significantly are the ultra-rich, who need us riding around in Ubers, renting Airbnbs, and buying plane tickets so they can fund their wealthy lifestyles.

[citation needed]
They did but with 3.5" drives which were not USB specific. This is done to save space and noone cares for space with a 3.5" drive. If you ship with a converter board it is impossible to make it this small.
> The real question that I'd find interesting is why the translator/style updates must be "instant". For my use, once a day or once every few hours would probably be more than sufficient.

Before Zotero had push-based auto-sync, translator/style updates were indeed once a day, but that meant that, if a high-profile site changed and we pushed out an updated translator, we'd continue to get reports of the site being broken for 24 hours. We could say to update translators manually, but that would only help the people who made it to the forums.

When we added WebSocket support for syncing, we decided to send translator/style update notifications over the same connection. For anyone using auto-sync anyway (many/most users), there's no difference. If you don't use syncing/auto-sync, it's more debatable, but it's a choice between trying not to expose IP addresses that are likely already making at least some other anonymous requests (app updates, retraction checks, OA PDF checks) and decreasing the amount of breakage that users encounter after we've already fixed something.
One good habit is to never import using the browser plugins until the page is fully loaded. Otherwise, papers often get imported as web pages with no PDF attachments.
People have short memories. If hoping for change is optimism, then you're too optimistic.
> The big danger with card decks was that you’d drop the deck and the cards would get out of order

At my first job, my boss told me the story of a colleague who was taking a box of cards out to the car. You had to drive your program to The Computer, of course, because this was back when there was a The Computer. It was out by the airport.

They took one step out the door, and just at that moment a foot of snow decided to let go and slide off the roof. Oof.
There's a limit to how many people can work remotely. Certainly, factory workers, restaurant employees, healthcare professionals, retail workers and bank tellers can't do this.

And homeschooling isn't for everyone... But it's virtually impossible to do if both parents are working full time.

Not to mention the effect this has on children. It's very difficult for children to be socially isolated. It's good for their mental health to be around other kids.
And they themselves said that it's not a good idea, it simply was a time of desperation. They're not shucking externals now, now that proper drives are available.

Also they have a lot more tolerance for disk failure than almost anyone.
Also germane: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/26/21192191/coronavirus-us-new-yo....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22693706
yes, this article left off the word "severe", but other articles did not editorialize that way.
It does not matter much whether the tests are 30% accurate. See... this is exponential growth. Due to its nature it will overrun any linear factors in a short time.

What if the reported Chinese numbers are only 30% of reality compared to US numbers? If you understood the nature of exponential growth you would know it will take just about 4 days for US to have three times the numbers China has.

It currently only takes US about 8 days to increase the number of cases tenfold (see here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) which means 4 days to get 3 times increase.

What really matters is to get people to stop moving around and spreading the virus.
This is great insight, thank you.

I'd originally just looked at the LICENCE.txt file in the top level, thinking this was presented as a standalone application suite from a single author / company - so I approached it with certain (perhaps naive) expectations.
"very fit" - not from a purely medical perspective. He had a pre-existing and related respiratory condition - asthma
Thanks, edited as was too pointed with the "it"

But I also do not agree fully. I have seen altercations in supermarket lines where someone oversteps the "tape separation" line and has been asked nicely "please step back" to get told off, or better yet spit on.

Things are not right. This is not how civilized people interact with one another.
in regards to 2):

It's true that multiple overwrites are overkill. But for SSD's it's has been shown that it's possible to read data after a full overwrite [1].

[1] https://static.usenix.org/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei....
Interesting how so many startups get a break by effectively email spamming (or “cold calling” as they refer to it).

I’ve seen this a lot in stories like these as a way to get started and gain initial traction.
1. The economy is going to be destroyed regardless. Right-thinking people currently don't want to travel, don't want to eat out, don't want to go to entertainment venues. If you lift the lockdown tomorrow, without actually controlling the virus, all of those industries are still going to die (Along with a few million people), with all the knock-on effects. Also, once everyone expects a recession, people reign in spending, thus making that expectation self-fulfilling.

2. There's every reason to believe that a lockdown significantly cuts down R, even to below 1, thus buying a lot more than a week. It certainly did in Wuhan. Instead of griping about the economy, why don't we actually work on measures that will let us leave lockdown?
Paul Dourish reviews some work on this topic in his book Stuff of Bits, see pages 8-9:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/stuff-bits

It's related to, but definitely not the same as, linguistic relativism. Programming "language" might be a bit of a misnomer, because it creates a false equivalency to natural language. Just as different subfields of mathematics were created to solve different problems, so too were different programming "languages" inspired by different subfields and their notations. With that view, it's unsurprising that some ways of doing things highlight certain methods of solving problems and obscure or impede others.
The way it is written makes it seem like 79 is independent of 77 and 78. You can pursue a claim through a supervisory authority (77) and if you are not happy with the result go to court (78), or you can go to court directly against the processor/controller (79), or maybe even do both.

79 specifically specifically says that pursuing a judicial remedy under it is without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge an Article 77 complaint. If this was meant as something that has to come after not getting satisfaction from an Article 77 complaint it would make no sense to say it is without prejudice to the right to lodge an article 77 complaint since that would have already had to have been lodged before getting here.

This also fits with what I saw on assorted EU and international law firm blogs, back when they were all writing articles on what GDPR would mean.
There are people arguing that it would be better to stop the quarantine now and get it over as quick as possible. Everybody over retirement age would be refused treatment to reduce the long term burden on the social security system.

Fortunately there isn't much serious discussion of this approach outside of certain think tanks because the optics are bad even for true died in the wool libertarians.

You'll even see arguments like "more people will die of the quarantine because they have no job if we keep the economy stopped for much longer".

IMHO this kind of one sided thinking comes from only considering the markets when making a decision. The markets don't care if you live or die, only that money is being made and spent.
Just extrapolation of the trend from plot my friend has prepared: https://covid.matemaciek.com/ - I won't be surprised if the number of confirmed cases in the USA reaches 300k in a week and overtakes cumulative number in mentioned group of core European countries in two weeks.
forget the economy. Imagine the practical consequences of letting the virus run wild in the population. The deaths are not an abstract number. It would mean northern Italy in every city. Doctors overwhelmed, patients suffocating on hospital floors. So many corpses you actually have to transport them away on army trucks. That's where Lombardy is right now.

It's a joke to even think society and the economy would go on as normal even if you would ignore the health impact, it would destroy the reputation and fabric of pretty much any modern state.
Very cool! I'm interested in learning more about the memory model of multi-stage streaming systems. From my limited understanding of distributed data systems, we went from saving files and checkpointing completely on disk a la MapReduce to a disk/memory hybrid with Spark RDDs and lazy job execution (not sure at all?) to pure streaming like Kafka. Could somebody please enlighten me? I'd love to learn more.