skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DevOps work for the Penn CHIME project (hospital capacity planning tool)

https://predictivehealthcare.pennmedicine.org/2020/03/14/acc...
There seems to be evidence (a lot) of asymptomatic people infecting others. If you only wear a mask when you feel ill, that doesn't seem like it could be the driver.

Japanese people have the oldest population in part because they live longer. Maybe it's genetic?
Fowler's story of abuse at the hands of the physics department at UPenn is absolutely harrowing. The way that they realiated against her was only half of the story though-the other student (who the department had, absurdly, charged her with taking care of) made false complaints against her and those where taken seriously in a situation not totally unlike the one in the article.
In the present circumstances there can be no presumption of good faith. We have unlimited evidence of bad faith already in hand.
I'm writing a computer game called The Eldritch Zookeeper (https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke...), it's a spooky management/tycoon game where you're a cursed zookeeper and have to run a zoo full of monsters. Very much inspired by old Bullfrog games. Lots of fun to dream up weird creatures and program a very data/systems-driven simulation that still uses lots of physics!

Indie game dev is my full time job, so this isn't so much a personal project as my regular job that I thankfully get to continue in my small home office. Getting to paint and animate and design monsters, as well as write code, or do the marketing parts - it's all interesting and engaging in different ways.
Marcel: A modern shell. https://github.com/geophile/marcel
The South Korean testing has been quite extensive, and not just limited to the people with the most obvious symptoms unlike in the west. Given they appears to have contained the virus without resorting to a full lockdown, it seems unlikely they would have missed a large number of cases. If they had, those asymptomatic or mild cases should be constantly restarting the chain of transmission.

1.1% of their cases have died, and an additional 0.8% are in serious or critical condition. And they're a best case scenario: the health care system was not overloaded, and their diagnosed cases are skewing disproportionately young.

The Diamond Princess also has had a fatality rate so far of 1.1%. In that case we know with absolute certainty that there is no massive hidden iceberg of infected but undiagnosed people. There might be a hidden iceberg of unreported fatalities though, since once they were off the ship, the cases stopped being tracked as Diamond Princess cases. On the plus side, the demographics obviously skewed very old.

Anyway, there's very good reason to believe that the IFR is at least 0.6%. Suggesting that it's actually <0.06% seems just ludicrous. Is there any evidence at all supporting that, or are you just arbitrarily demanding "absolute certainty" in a time-critical situation?
Here is a report from Yesterday with the same numbers: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Report-C...

Occams razor applies
I'm building an web app that presents information of your pc, like temperature, memory and power usage and so on.
The app will run in a raspberry, with a small screen attach to it, inside the pc cabinet.
Right now the proccess to make it run is a little confusing, so i'm trying to make as simple as possible to run it.
If you would like to try sushi you should spend time in Japan
COVID-19 is really the perfect exposure mechanism for all the failures currently going on in US society. It exposes (amongst others):

- Shitty politicians

- Shitty worker protections

- Shitty and expensive healthcare

- Celebrity culture: celebrities get tested easily

- Celebrity culture 2: a lot of initiatives to help do not come from the government but from billionaire philanthropists

Still if you’re in the US...I really wish you all the best.
They're telling people here to stay home. No lock-down, just don't go out if you don't need to go out. Life goes on as though nothing has changed. Super frustrating.
I’ll probably use my raspberry pi instead of installing a VM.
Is this full loss or partial? (article isn't loading for me)
Have you definitely tried the same recipe (except baking time) both with and without preheating? Maybe I’m not discerning enough, and I freely admit my results aren’t amazingly consistent at the best of times, but I honestly can’t tell the difference in the results.
I know this is not research, but two friends of mine that are reporting symptoms of covid19 and report anosmia are also reporting ageusia (loss of taste), not sure if this has been or will be confirmed by research though. It's been around 4 days since they started complaining about this already.
Love! I've been struggling with a way for my virtual assistant to know what needs to be ordered, and the manual workarounds I've thought of don't save much time. Thanks for making this!
Turns out working on many, many projects at the same time is actually a way to cope with a quarantine.

I've built a flight planning tool for complex itineraries https://flightnotebook.com/ (bad timing, I know)

Historical job vacancy tracking website https://careerspulse.com/

And topping it off with releasing a full-text search query builder for Postgres + Rails to github (https://github.com/wyozi/pg-searchable)
Our company just switched to WFH when we previously didn't have any tools. I guess this is a project on its own: moving the company operations from all on-premise and physically present to all remote.

Some tools we've adopted and I'm learning about as we go: Grasshopper (for VoIP call forwarding), MS Teams (we dabbled with Slack, but ended up using Teams because of our VS subscription), Zoom (for demos), and Stripe/PayPal (to accept one-time payments online from our clients).
I wonder if introducing newbies to makefiles and vim is super empowering, or ends up gatekeeping by making it look "as complicated as you feared it would be."

I feel like before any of that:

1. Do practical stuff with Python

2. Learn the semantics behind the Linux directory tree

3. CLI, piping stuff together, a little bit of bash.
Fowler wanted to be a physicist but can't now, then wanted to be an engineer but can't now. I'd call that a twice destroyed career.
> Maybe this one would be good? The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction

Free PDF in the author's (William Shotts) homepage: http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/
Looking for Old Drugs That Might Treat Covid-19
Exactly. What's up with all this nonsense that we should hide or suppress facts.

We can't make intelligent decisions without knowing them.
Walter, have you seen http://aardappel.github.io/lobster/memory_management.html ? If you looked at refcounting, this may be a way to make that compile time.
Why would the air be too good to be true. It's all the boring stuff everyone has been asking apple to do.
I can't imagine most posters here would rather do a speaking circuit then program.
I was just thinking... the state pays ungodly amounts of money to put away criminals. How is this different? Why are these two financially on the hook for justice to be served?
>EDIT: Lastly and this is a factor that none of us even suggested, is luck. Luck is important and impossible to control.

Luck doesn't work with this kind of scenario. You'd have to be lucky hundreds of millions of times (every time there was a potential spread)
No, it doesn't. In tourists' spots in Greece the fish is served whole, not filleted. There's no way you can order one thing and be served something else. Also the menu regarding fish products isn't fixed. It depends on what is available on any given day. What can and does happen occasionally is to be served fish that isn't quite fresh.
I just finished the 32-bit parts of a RISC-V emulator, and I have been doing performance optimizations. Just hit a wall and can't make it any faster, but I'm happy with the speeds now so it's all good.

Now I have this really stupid idea to replace my Lua scripts in a game engine with RISC-V binaries. So, if it's stupid and it works... I've already measured it to be wildly faster than Lua, but Lua has a convenient interface.

The emulator can be serialized to memory and restored elsewhere / later, but I have no idea what good that will do.
Indeed the first couple hours seem a bit tedious. I will say that the Ascension difficulty mechanic makes the game quite challenging at higher levels but scales quite well. And skill is definitely required to be successful in upper levels.
Some of the Digital Health startups working directly in the field seem to be well positioned here: https://carbonhealth.applytojob.com/apply/G797nYZuqu
https://www.nurx.com/careers#roles
It came directly from the Surgeon General himself. That’s the part that shocks me. It’s basically someone saying don’t use condoms because it’s not 100%.
Playing with firebase / react and just making an allowance tracking app for myself / kids.

Nothing amazing, but I'm a noob so it is fun.
If a site disobeys robots.txt, I see no particular issue in taking further measures to dissuade it.
For an auto metaphor, suppose you were really good at building race cars, and then you set out to make an entry for the 24 hours of LeMons.[1] Some people do that. I never have been a blank sheet of paper/greenfield sort of person and I always lose interest in computer games if I have unlimited resources.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hours_of_LeMons
Also worth noting that the pixel 3, the phone with the highest drops, had extremely deep discounts associated with Google Fi. At one point you could get one for free. That surely affected the prices on the used market. Of course, the fact that Android phones age less well is probably a factor too.
iPad OS (and iOS) has 1 major flaw and no one seems to be talking about it:

- The animations/effects etc take way too long. It is fatiguing to work on it because every action takes at least 2+ seconds with a dozen animations, each one lasting 100ms-300ms!

Try the following task yourself: Copy a piece of text from safari and create a new note in the Notes app, and paste it in there. While you're doing this, time it. Seriously, do it. And then do it 10 times. See how tired you get.

We need a completely new operating system with absolutely zero animations. You know what happens when you launch vim from CLI? It starts up. No animations. CLI is a pain to work with at times, but this aspect is so critical to putting a smile on the users face. Everything would instantly become insanely fast.

I understand the value of animations - they're there to provide context, where something slides in and slides out from. This is fine for iPhone. But not for a workstation. I also understand that I can disable motion in accessibility settings but it still doesn't disable all of them. Also, that's not the default so that's a moot point.

This is such a low hanging fruit to speed up things, but alas, we have UX/UI designers that insist on "sleek" and "sexy" UX/UI without delving into the fundamentals of what makes a product or software pleasant to use. While you're at it, you'd also improve the UX - battery life because you're not churning transparency effects and motion blur through the GPU pipes. Yes, battery life is "UX" IMO.
I'm working on the programmable outliner I've always wanted.

* User-defined node types
* Node properties
* Customizable node display & styling
* Programmable hooks for various events
* Links between nodes
* Dynamic "query" nodes

Starting with a web interface.
A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for the last little https://www.postgrescompare.com
You can and it's rather simple. You just need physical buttons and a deterministic interface, like pretty much every phone had until the iPhone.

Pick a number to call from your contacts, or type it out, or even pick a contact and type out a whole message using one hand without as much as a glance at the screen.
Have you seen axios.com? They used to start off with short paragraph bites of news articles, that had a one-click go deeper to an in-depth piece.
Why is the United States under 35 different states of “national emergency?”
That's like saying "GPUs support Master Chief". You can model Master Chief with triangles, and you can model parametric curves with triangles. But I wouldn't call it "supporting parametric curves", you're still rasterizing triangles, they're just morphed into the shape of a curve. And most practical, shipping versions of this technique would do adaptive triangulation on the CPU, since otherwise you don't have an idea of your mesh density and are either over-submitting or under-submitting triangles.

Loop-Blinn, similarly, is mostly a CPU-side approach and has a lot of drawbacks, but at it's core it's using the pixel shader to define a curve profile.
Sure there is. But it's styled not to look like a hyperlink, because that's a good idea? Anyway, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.12...
germany has a much more accurate infection count than italy. they haven't been overwhelmed yet.
Working on creating a SaaS app to help and facilitate customer demos. It's not impressive but I have never shipped an actual app or tried monetizing something, so I'll start with this.

Along with creating the app, I'm learning how to design it with figma.
A schema comparison tool for PostgreSQL. Evenings and weekends for a while now https://www.postgrescompare.com

Soon to include data comparison.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8674334

You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.

The retinopathy happens after several years of taking the drug for rheumatoid arthritis. The course of treatment is six days for coronavirus.
You had me at "Blazing fast piano roll interface" :)
We (wife and I) decided 2 weeks ago to go into producing learning materials, paper based and computer based, for several topics. Me appreciate making money, but have a better feeling when trying to make the world better by educating people. We will produce several smaller projects in 3 languages: German, Persian, English. We do not plan to "take over the world" with what we do, we just want to do something useful.
Next week we will have the first release of an exercise book for grammar (parts of it were written some time ago, but never refined).
Patent Troll sues Test Kit maker
I think the point the original commenter is missing, is that in tech the architect and the builder is usually (almost always) the same person. We don't have the same separation between architects and carpenters that the construction industry does.
Like a jazz musician.
Could the university investigation subpoena the information behind the email accounts? If not, why not? This seems like a basic investigative move, and unless they are not allowed to do it, makes me doubt very much that they were serious about the investigation.
Coronavirus sends local news into crisis
It’s been forgotten that PC parts are commodities.
YC Alumni Smarking is hiring: https://jobs.lever.co/smarking/d5238ad7-559f-4d93-9f4d-f4b4e...
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring a Senior Editor (New York City, SF Bay Area, Remote)
Setting up ceph on my homelab system. Introduction to ansible as well.
And even _in_ China, cases per capita are not that high (lower than most of Western Europe). In _Wuhan_ is another matter, of course.
For what it's worth, a lot of good software doesn't actually "do" many new things, other than support a specific use case with a better UX than existed previously :)
I don't think it's that he is smarter.

I would bet that plenty of people in the relevant agencies were fully aware of how unprepared we were, and that the decision makers were simply unconvinced that is was important enough oe politically expedient.
Out of curiosity, what kinds of small businesses run live auctions?

(I used to develop live auction software.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605363
You don't get tons of junk mail?
Why isn't that the evidence that mask is effective?
This. Having something to actually accomplish is much more important than finding the ultimate book or online course.
There are lots of those.

Pick one and move on to defining a realistic project that seems interesting and achievable.

Most important of all, finish it, and write what you did down somewhere. It took me 20 years to realize how important this is.
I'm rewriting Age of Empires II (multiplayer only) in C:

github.com/glouw/openempires

I just enjoy pain
When they report ageusia, do they specifically mean sweet/salty/bitter/etc?
I'm working on an automation app https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp
There are lots of other things that can cause coughs, especially now that spring allergies are starting to kick in.
in parts of American evangelical Christianity there’s a longstanding interpretation of the “mark of the beast” (which in the Book of Revelation is some sort of sign or mark without which people are forbidden from engaging in trade) as some kind of microchip or RFID implant.

I do not expect people who believe this to react well if they literally have to get a microchip implant to be allowed to go into stores or to work. These sorts of beliefs are more common than you might expect in large parts of the country.
Why is the NYT allowed to be linked here? They are shitty pay-walled articles.
Do you often feel in need of a fun and impactful idea for a side project? As a student I do need ideas+guidance. I was thinking about making a platform to connect organizations/open source with developers (esp. junior) and provide them with meaningful projects or challenges. This could be a win-win, what do you think?
This seems like a tough space to solve for. I checked your About page. I find social stuff interesting and I've studied it a bit

Respectfully, I will suggest that "buggy and not ergonomic" are probably not the make-or-break issues for the dating space you are aiming for.

Intended as constructive feedback in hopes of helping you succeed.

Best of luck.
You can learn a lot from watching other people play on nethack.alt.org -- sometimes realizing important stuff that you didn't know before.
prototyping scatter support for uPlot: https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot

discussion: https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/issues/107

also helping mom set herself up for continuing to teach Russian remotely via Zoom video, audio, screen-share + bi-directional android tablet control (via ADB debugging & https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy)
Why are NYT links allowed here? The articles suck and they are pay-walled. As long as it's a liberal publication nothing else matters?
As a type 1 diabetic I'm always a bit disappointed when diabetes is mentioned in an article without specifying the sub type. It makes me wonder if they only encountered type 2 diabetics, or other types as well.
You have an extremely odd definition of the word 'budget'.
For China:
https://covid-19.alibabacloud.com/

Here's a comprehensive guide for treatment of covid-19 for hospital operators. Search for chloroquine:

https://www.alibabacloud.com/zh/universal-service/pdf_reader...

South Korea (plaquenil is a slightly modified version of chloroquine):

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/03/12/South-Kor...
Nice!

If comprehensive, the back-end employment data may be valuable to DIY quants. Consider selling it on Quandl or the like.
I don't really have any critique of what you're saying, other than that you seem to think I disagree. My issue is only with anonymous accusations and people deciding guilt before an actual trial is held.
Star-Free Regular Languages and Logic
The states are important because they're swing states, and coal is important only because of what it represents about identity and messaging.

A lot of the rust belt was blue when Democrats focused their messaging heavily on workers protections.

People in the rust belt only have a few strong political priorities:

1. Their communities have watched their quality of living decline gradually over 40+ years now as industry and manufacturing in the US have become less competitive. They want jobs in their community, specifically ones they envision their community as capable of doing. Many of them take advantage of government benefits, and whether or not they are personally able to work or have a job, they know their community was better off when they had jobs.

2. Their population skews older and has more traditional ideas about social issues, but the rust belt is not the bible belt. Church attendance across the rust belt is very average compared to other states. Most aren't looking to push their beliefs on anyone else, but they don't see progressive social policies as something they personally want or need.

3. After long periods of decline, they don't trust promises. Many of them have grown poorer after every national election in their lifetime, as they've watched the rest of the country become more prosperous. For those growing up, success is measured by whether or not you 'made it out'. When someone promises them prosperity, they learned it's not for them, it's for everyone else.

4. While they don't trust politicians, they also don't trust businesses. They've had a front row seat view of what it means for businesses to chew people up and spit them out. They were heavily pro-union.... when they or their parents had jobs. Now many are questioning themselves, did unions help us or cause our jobs to disappear?

These people aren't policy experts or economists. They're working-class people with working-class educations and working-class expectations for themselves.

Whether or not Democratic platform policies would actually help them, the rest of the image of the Democratic platform rubs them the wrong way so much that it doesn't matter. Many of them voted blue for years, only to now feel like the party has passed them by and now only cares about the social and economic needs of people living on the coasts.
What EDA software are you using for the board, and what sort of work does it need? I've recently fallen in love with KiCad and I'd love to take a look at what you've got so far.
Worth noting the authors are from Porton Down:

"Porton Down opened in 1916 as the War Department Experimental Station, shortly thereafter renamed the Royal Engineers Experimental Station, for testing chemical weapons in response to German use of this means of war in 1915. The laboratory's remit was to conduct research and development regarding chemical weapons agents used by the British armed forces in the First World War, such as chlorine, mustard gas, and phosgene."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porton_Down
Society at large still has to deal with that person though.
I love career pulse.
I’ll give it the ultimate compliment: can’t believe no one thought of it before.
My story does not imply that at all. Prevailing interest rates are low so investors seeking returns are willing to take increased risks, especially if the bond is still prime (so as to match their mandate). Thus the rise of BBB. At the same time, bond ratings underestimate fragility of corporate debt (what's new, history is littered with "bond ratings underestimated fragility of X"). Combined with a bunch of moral hazard on the part of people packaging everything, you have the current situation. Basically, I fundamentally blame ultra low interest rates for creating incentives, but a more proximate cause is debt financing of buybacks.
A few color palette based PWAs:
https://colorpalette.app/ is a tool I'm building to quickly generate color palettes and https://accessiblecolors.app/ is the second stage of the process that systematically ensures color palettes follow an accessibility standard loosely based upon tailwindcss default colors.