skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn’t say cut more than you need. He says it will feel like more than is necessary but that’s the heart of the contradiction. You can cut most to same some or you can go out of business and then cut all. This is existential. Make the right decision and you survive to have a platform to build from and help your customers, employees, community, vendors, investors, former employees. Or you can hesitate, fail, and help no one. Do the right thing. It’s hard but it’s right.
>I did it once, I can do it again :)

honestly i feel that a lot. if my internship gets cancelled i'll be mighty disappointed after having anticipated it for so long (years) but one thing you should (and i will) keep in mind is that you can probably get recycled to next summer. admittedly that isn't a consolation if you're graduating next year.
TotalSpaces 2 gives you a 2-d desktop grid again! Unfortunately it also requires disabling (parts of) System Integrity Protection because of the way it interacts with the Dock.
I think it depends on the culture of the group. If the group isn't cohesive enough to have a culture, you're doomed. I've been to conferences where if you didn't know someone important, you were just another mark.

My experience at YAPC, now "The Perl Conference" has been different. The culture there is very open. I made it one time, I'm no luminary in the Perl community, but Larry Wall invited me to lunch. The other speakers were also very open and approachable.
>> Fatality rate goes up drastically if the medical system fails

Based on my research, it actually seems like fatality rate will NOT skyrocket if our medical system is overwhelmed like in Italy.

Here is an actual study that looks at fatality rates in Italy vs China after stratifying by age group: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763667

The most eye-opening graphic is the first chart. To summarize the article:

1) Italy's fatality rate for patients younger than 60 is actually better than China

2) Italy's fatality rate for patients older than 60 is less than double that of China

3) Italy may have a higher rate of pre-existing conditions which makes fatality rate look worse than it is

4) Italy is only testing symptomatic patients which makes fatality rate look worse than it is

All of these results were surprising to me. The information being spread by the mainstream media suggests that if hospital systems get overwhelmed like they have in Italy, fatality rate will skyrocket.

In reality, it seems like we're dealing with a classic case of Simpson's paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox). If you stratify data by age group, you find that even if hospital systems are overwhelmed (to the same degree as Italy), fatality rates will, at most, double.
Pybuilder do it for you!
I find Garmin watches superior to Fitbits in everything BUT sleep tracking.
I tried the dark trick, it was marginal at best. compared to social factors (job that suits you, regular schedule etc) it was 0.1%. At that time I could sleep very (if not more) well even with some light and some noise.

since then stopped focusing on this kind of variables
That's the biggest load of bullshit I've ever seen on a HN post. You should get an award for how bad this post is before it's removed for endangering the public.

No, it is NOT pure speculation. We have plenty of CT scans showing permanent lung scaring in thousands of patients.
Absolutely, do you have evidence they are talking and consulting with each other? Obviously lack of evidence isn't evidence either, but departments do things all the time that are at odds with each other in companies like Apple.
Researchers Push for Mass Blood Tests as a Covid-19 Strategy
Superoptimization [pdf]
Do you feel tired? You didn't sleep enough.

Do you feel fine? You slept enough.

C'mon OP. What's a computer going to tell you that you 3-million year-old endocrine system doesn't already know?
>Just an idea, but looking back on internships from years past, three things they give you are experience/learning, networking/relationships, and a resume item.

you forgot one very important item: full time offer.
Optimist: the fatality rate is lower than expected

Pessimist: there are more cases than expected

They both mean the same thing. And for now, it is pure speculation.
Jobs’ hot takes aren’t the end-all when it comes to product intent at Apple. He was basically an embodiment of strong opinions weakly held. His superpower was focusing teams on what the right set of features would be to create a product that made sense to the market, and ignoring everything else. The phone / iPod / internet communicator trifecta was example of this - nothing but nailing those three mattered at launch, and any effort elsewhere was wasteful. Without that kind of leadership, eng teams will often dither efforts over many things that don’t matter to success.

The history of Apple is filled with examples of this dynamic. iPhone was a group effort among many talented and influential people and I doubt Forstall and others driving software had same opinion on third party apps. They just didn’t pick that battle before it made sense to. Every other computing platform at the time (including Windows Mobile, Palm, and BlackBerry) supported third party apps, it’s not like the use case was novel or difficult to see, and the webs limitations were considerable. Adding apps was a default path temporarily set aside.
if its really so low then why are they scrambling to pass a 2T bailout package. just let it rip through the population because 'its just a flu bro' and it will be over in a month and a half.

/s

as I see it this is BS propaganda from WSJ to normalize whats coming next, push to open businesses.
Should we save the economy or the old people? Should the economy be powered by literal human sacrifice? Isn't that what the "barbarians" do, human sacrifice?

People like that truly disgust me. Wouldn't shake hand.
But debugging C#, especially on mobile and WebGL platforms, is a horrible primitive retrograde nightmare. And it takes a long long time to recompile, with some projects taking a good slice of an hour to build.

That not only slows down and locks up both Unity and your entire computer and spins up the cooling fan like a 747 taking off while it's compiling for so long, but it also wastes orders of magnitude more time than what everyone is used to from interactively reloading and debugging JavaScript code, and it totally destroys the flow of getting into the "groove" and iterating extremely quickly and interactively like you can do with web development.

The whole point of UnityJS is to enable you to instantly reload your app and see your changes without recompiling, and use the modern high-quality off-the-shelf JavaScript debuggers built into every web browser to debug your WebGL apps live in a web browser, and your iOS and Android apps live while actually running on the device. And also to benefit from the gargantuan ecosystem of standard JavaScript libraries and the communities and companies that support them, instead of rolling your own half-assed bastard stepchild C# imitation libraries that require constant maintenance and quickly go out of date because nobody else uses them.

There are many application domains, especially AR and VR and accelerometers and cameras, that are impossible to simulate in the Unity editor, and developing them requires quick turn-around and interactive debugging. That's where UnityJS really shines!

Here's a demo of an earlier version of UnityJS integrated with ARKit on iOS for Pantomime:

WovenAR Tools with ARKit and Pantomime

https://vimeo.com/240612327
Exactly. That survival will be better for everyone, even those you have to lay off because you can build from there and likely hire some of them as things stabilize.
I have a lot of respect for Ioannidis's work, and kind of lean toward his perspective in some respects, but I think he's misrepresenting certain data and missing certain points.

He's right to point to the Diamond Princess Cruise ship for example, but his statistics are already out of date. As of yesterday, 8/712 infected had died; if you expand this to the Grand Princesss, it/s 10/800, which is at 1.1-1.25% CFR. This is a lot bigger than the statistics Ioannadis cites, and greater than the flu. There are some issues about how to extrapolate the cruise ship population to other populations, but that isn't straightforward (cruise ship passengers are probably older on average, but also might be healthier and/or wealthier). In any event, that number can only increase.

The other issue is that regardless of CFR in the population, the experiences of various locations points to the threat. That is, we can argue with Ioannadis all he wants about CFR and so forth, but in the end, if places are crumbling under the weight of hospital visits, it doesn't matter.

As someone else pointed out, fatality rates are only part of the picture, and in this case it's important. At some level, it's not the the fatalities per se that are the sole problem, it's the much greater percent of cases that require hospital care. It's not like CFR is a fixed statistic that applies everywhere all the time anyway; it will depend on resources and other things.

Finally, there's been a lot of discussion by Ioannadis and others about costs of restrictions and so forth but little data about that that's pointed to (even though it's available). For example, if you look into data about the Great Depression and Great Recession, it appears that overall there was a decrease in mortality that followed. Data on health effects of recessions is actually pretty clear: although there tends to be an increase in suicide and mental-health related deaths (e.g., drug overdoses), there's a much bigger decrease in deaths due to things like motor vehicle accidents, cardiovascular events, work-related deaths, and so forth. So this benefit-cost mortality analysis, as morbid as it is, doesn't necessarily play out in the way Ioannadis assumes.
About time, very cool
This is on my reading / testing list earlier today: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-fri...

Will have to add this to the list!
Covid-19 Global Hackathon 1.0: BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon
The more I watch American politics and how it plays out in relation to pandemic, actual outcome does not matter.

People are willing to believe and hope for things that were already disproven in other coutries. Facts won't matter at all.
A web browser in 2020 is a place to run vast swathes of untrusted code safely; it is not a digital workstation platform, that is the job of the OS.

I'm not sure how much that assumption really holds any more, nor why it should necessarily continue to do so even if it has so far. Technology evolves, and so does how we use it. In the case of the web, and web apps in particular, they have evolved to satisfy a need for convenience in software distribution that many traditional desktop OSes had hopelessly neglected for a very long time and where the developer experience for native mobile apps is less than ideal.

I appreciate your comment about the trust issue, but the bottom line is that these technologies do serve a useful purpose for some people -- I have the customer feedback at my own businesses to make that clear -- and the experience web developers can offer on Android with PWAs will now be significantly better than what they can offer on iOS.
earnest answer: because even if it had a 0% fatality rate, the sheer number of people who would be out sick for a week at the same time would decimate the economy. The bailout package is probably not going to be enough.
Yes, and they shouldn’t be taking a cut. Their services initiatives are bad for them and the users of said services. But as someone who did two tours in their services arm, it is overwhelmingly likely that the reason that WebKit is making these changes is their stated reason of making Safari more resilient to the attacks on their users vectored in by web badness.
New York City Is Running Out of Dogs to Foster
they dont need to do that, they just need a random sampling to identify the percentage of spread. Now if you want to quarantine everyone who had it, its another story. my problem is that asymptomatic transmission will still get you.
Assembly may be easier, but programming in assembly is a lot more tedious. A simple expression like "y=7*x+5" is at least four instructions, assuming you have a MUL instruction. And string manipulation is just as bad, if not worse, than in C.
I think the title meant to be "All Covid patients show rapid declines by day 25". The study looks at China only.
That's good to hear (that 100% testing will take place). Where can we follow up on the testing results and subsequent fatality statistics?
CoVidBid?
The fact that that is possible does not change the role of the web browser in the modern computing experience. If you want to build an entire VM that runs in Electron, be my guest, but that's orthogonal to the issue of how Safari should handle storage by default.
Show HN: Sapling - a planning tool for remote and distributed teams
The shape of MicroSD cards are presumably also covered by design patents from the SD Association.

The design and dimensions are similar out of an intent to enable UFS/MicroSD combo receptacles (which all UFS receptacles currently available are).
At one point, Apple was denying some app store reviews because they said they should be distributed through PWAs instead. If this is supposed to be a "feature", it seems like some product manager has their head up their ass.

Also, the entire point of PWAs is that they are supposed to have feature parity with local apps, but delivered via the browser. This change is obviously counter to that goal.
CURA, an open-source project for intensive-care units (ICU)
This looks excellent, nice work and thanks for releasing it at a time when this kind of thing is even more critical to free us from the shackles of commercial/closed source products.

I had a quick look only so apologies if I missed it, but are there any build/deploy instructions that do not require Docker?

Thanks!
There's an old IF (text adventure) called Bad Machine.

https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=3a9rb059miw9fc9h
The scary thing is that many of the deaths are more or less guaranteed even if we try to treat them, until the point a cure or vaccine is developed.

>Why would we have a choice not to have serious economic impacts at this point?

That's not really a choice at this point, but we do have two paths with unknown outcomes. We can choose to focus on limiting the spread at all costs (and hitting the economy harder) or we can focus on limiting the economic effects but give up on containing the virus. Neither is a good choice in any capacity, but it could turn out that either one minimizes death in the long-term.
That's been true for years, and yet the operating systems that aren't just browsers seem to be getting along just fine.
Anyone know if this method works with the disk filters you put on the half face mask?

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/company-us/all-3m-products/~/3M-...
I believe the first-party primary domain of the app will never have its data wiped — though the article could certainly be clearer on the point. What would be cleared in that case would be any other domains — if there's also a "Visit Zombo Facebook" link in there, and you only looked at Twitter for a week, the Facebook cookies would be wiped.
My endocrine system is only 31 :/
> What if I have flu and that corona virus which do not affect humans.

By definition, you can't have the virus which doesn't affect humans. The virus that causes Covid-19 is called SARS-CoV-2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

2 means it's only a second ever recognized such. The first caused the original SARS in 2002-2003.
Sounds like the The Programmer's PC Sourcebook (which is on my shelf, and yes, one could say it has a pink cover).
they just wanted to delay action until we are locked on the preferred course and they got it with testing screwups. more reaction time we burn in indecision easier it is to say its too late to do much.
That’s not a pragmatic solution.
Multiple lay offs creates constant fear. It destroys morale and team culture right when those are crucial for the fight for survival. But this really missed the point. The key insight Dalton offers (correct me if I am wrong Dalton) is: Get Profitable. It’s not about the cuts themselves. It’s about getting to a sustainable break even cost structure so that you survive.
Seconded. Didn't know about this tool, but have been looking for something similar with custom country selection and logarithmic graphs. Thank you for making this, keep it up.
This sounds interesting, but I can't tell what it is -- there's too much terminology I'm not familiar with. The list of features is all tech-centric and doesn't step back and say what the thing does.

I think it is a self-hosted video conferencing solution, which sounds awesome, but I'm not certain of that. I assume "RTC System" is not a real-time clock. I've heard of Go, and Flutter sounds like some sort of Web UI system.

Can anyone explain this a little more simply, please?
Okay, now imagine that in a decade or so, we stare down a new virus which is far more threatening than COVID-19. One that will outright kill more people regardless of age.

It's either your personal freedoms or death. Choose one.

In a pandemic situation we can't afford to be choosy about our personal freedoms. We have to accept that our privacy concerns are limited, then be prepared to take them back when the situation is dealt with. You can regain your rights. You can't regain your life, or the lives of those that were killed by your negligence.
Nice! A visitor to my super-old Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight site (https://www.massassi.net/) wrote and contributed something similar for Jedi Knight maps. (The site uses frames and thus I can't easily link to a page where you get the whole menu; if you start at the root just click "Levels" and pick a category.)

Example: https://www.massassi.net/levels/files/323.shtml
Github: https://github.com/stephanreiter/jkview

The textures are present but blurred to avoid the copyrighted textures issue.
Up 11% since yesterday. I know that it is risky, but I just figure at some point in the next 2 years it will work out.
Health care workers must move to reusable respirators now: Here’s how
Thanks! I feel honored you replied. I'm mostly a backend programmer who tries a bit of front end work so dont have a lot of time to learn everything. I will try again because every beautiful visualization I've seen is d3 based.
one important element is a behavioral pattern

A person with flu and fever would probably stay home and just rough it out, a person with fever fearing the coronavirus will probably rush to the hospital.

If everyone having a fever in a flu season would go to the hospital and would demand medical attention we would be running out of hospital beds in normal scenarios as well.
Epidemiologists in the USA must be going crazy right now. They badly want to help, but the data just isn't available because very few people are getting tested. Sad.
Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too
Autosleep's privacy policy was impressive:

> Anonymous Data Collection

> AutoSleep does not collect any information.

That's pretty much the whole thing. Apparently they do everything on-device.

http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/privacy
Guessing it refers to WebRTC, like "real time communications". Can't help more than that though. That README is not so readable.
For what it's worth, the target market for this will all know what SIEM means, and anyone who doesn't know what SIEM means isn't the target market. To a certain extent if you explain what it stands for you might have to explain what it's for and then how to use it... that's probably just beyond the scope of what they intend in the README.
I disagree that there’s no way to implement an alternative to Safari, besides Chrome there’s also iCab and other browsers that show not only a completely different UI but also innovative new features. Even if WebKit makes it impossible to remove this restriction, a third-party browser could find a way to intercept calls and keep its own local storage, read and backup native local storage, or provide other means to local storage via proprietary JS APIs, and if that browser is Chrome, it will gain traction. Especially if Apple changes iOS to allow users to change default apps.
Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks in an Influenza Pandemic (2013)
"the change you want was rejected" on creating new login...
https://twitter.com/jeffschweers/status/1242936058301558786?...
jqbx.fm uses only Spotify but has web, mac, android, and ios apps to sync Spotify listening.
Another factor is viral load. More evidence is coming out that the total exposure can be a big factor in severity of symptoms and risk of death. This is likely partly why healthcare workers, including young ones, are often becoming grievously ill and sometimes dying.

In a confined space that everyone is stuck in for an extended period of time, people are continuously getting exposed and re-exposed to the virus, and those people are getting infected and continuously re-exposing everyone else. The ship eventually becomes a frothing virus stew.

Maybe one exposure ends up with a bit in your mouth from a nearby cough, and then another from your hand touching a surface and then wiping your nose or eyes with the back of your hand, etc., and then those keep happening over and over. Without proper ventilation, everyone will be getting exposed from breathing the same air in certain rooms, too. The frequent exposures give it more numbers that need to be fended off and more footholds to gain in different internal areas.

Then combine that with the high average age, lack of adequate medical care on the ship, general ignorance over the virus at that point, maybe re-use of unwashed clothes or hats.

Extrapolating from an environment like a ship or a hospital should be done carefully.
Could someone please link a fucking study or report that talks numbers showing permanent damage if you disagree with this?

If it's true, link it. We have 20,000 dead it should not be hard to find.

The BEST I've seen so far is a study of 12 people

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/coronavirus-recovery-dama...
I do remember (and don't have to check [1]) but MS-DOS used interrupts 20h through 2Fh (mostly 21h). BIOS used interrupts 10h through 1Fh. 10h was for text and graphics. The "text" screen could be at either B000:0000 (physical address B0000) or B800:0000 (physical address B8000) depending on if it was monochrome or color, so to be pedantic, one had to make a few checks to see what card was installed (if you wanted to bypass the BIOS).

[1] Why do I even remember this stuff? I haven't used any of this since the early 90s! Sheesh!
The only things that will bend the curve downward are:

1. The virus begins to exhaust the available fuel (i.e., something approaching 60-70% of the population gets sick), or

2. Strict social distancing measures are implemented.

Option 1 means that ~200 million Americans contract the virus, ~20 million need hospitalization, and ~2 million die. At that level of hospitalization, though, the healthcare system will collapse, and the death rate (not only for coronavirus patients) may well go up significantly.

That's the logistic curve you'll get if you leave things to run their course.
HPE says firmware bug will brick some SSDs starting in October
It doesn’t matter what users choose, devs would badger users into using Chrome for their own convenience. It’d be the return of the “viewed best in” badges from the late 90s and early 00s.