skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many HIV deaths can be directly attributed to the virus? Italy’s way of counting may be preferable to the method in other countries (which I assume will be revised at some point when the full history of covid-19 is studied). And even Italy is undercounting!
The US response to Covid19 is nothing like the Swiss cheese model.

The Swiss cheese model is a perfect storm of unlikely failures that leads to a negative outcome, a failure that slips through multiple safety nets and checks. A real “Swiss cheese failure” reads like a bizarre set of coincidences within a highly rational system of disaster prevention controls, with a unique outcome that never gets repeated again - like some plane accidents where every level of check/balance has had a miss.

Other countries have not failed (Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, China) which shows that rational actions could prevent this.

Many other countries have failed (Italy, Spain, US, Iran, etc) which shows this isn’t a Swiss cheese model.
Italy is known for having particularly resistant bacteria compared to the norm in its hospitals (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30124425)

Can anyone shed light as to whether this is a contributor to the heightened level of deaths compared to other similar European countries?
Well, in extreme situations the best thing to do isn't to fire the pandemic response team three years prior cause "never gonna happen".

Those regulations (and most bureaucracy to be honest) is to provide guidance and constraint during normal times - these are extreme times and it's perfectly rationale to restrict burdensome regulations that hurt the public good right now.
> “closeness” does not necessarily exist in a vector space.

The asker will give a definition. For example, two vectors are close if sqrt of dot product of difference of the two vectors is smaller than some number delta.
This is an option in the mobile app, but only if you're a paid premium user. Otherwise, to listen to audio only on mobile you need to keep the screen on.
I'm also surprised that there isn't more talk about the sensitivity of the standard nasopharyngeal swab + RT-PCR. When the FDA approved it, they showed it's extremely accurate... if you use swabs saturated with the virus at various concentrations. Then I read about the poor (70-80%) sensitivity in the real-world, which isn't suprising considering you (1) have variably expert technique in positioning swabs into uncomfortable body spaces, and (2) apply it to people at various stages of the disease with low viral shedding initially and also at end stages. Apparently you can swab two different areas and may raise your sensitivity 10% to 85%.

So if you are "negative" with say a 80% sensitivity, that leaves a lot of room for actually infected people to think they are in the clear. There's a reason why screening tests need to be highly accurate. I'm all in favor of at least recognizing the positives and quarantining them, but with a high R0 disease, the false negatives could be a problem.
Yes, though "slightly expanded" is probably a misnomer too, in maybe a Lebesgue measure sense, since 100% of useful reals are transcendental.
I haven't read them. When I was a homeschooling parent, they were popular with some people covering either French or Latin as part of the homeschooling curriculum for their child.

I know some French and some Latin and my mother's a German immigrant. But I found it to be too steep a learning curve to get excited about, though I wanted to be interested because I wanted some way to further my study of French, among other things.

There are English language resources for helping you understand it, such as this which goes into explaining the Latin jokes, among other things:

https://www.everythingasterix.com/

That's not at all intended to be discouragement. I also feel like I've missed out, but that's not likely to ever be remedied. There's only so many hours in the day.
I use a similar setup in Microsoft teams, here using two iPads. One for video and audio, and another for writing with a pencil, usually on PowerPoint slides. With the Apple Pencil, I am drawing, with my finger I am pointing (with a long press). I like this set up, but I’m still looking for a good microphone, though.
I thought it was $189 for the whole kit and caboodle, but as you said its not.

$189 is a little expensive for what you get.
seriously, are you trolling?

in general, measuring the cost of government decisions seems good.

But here, you seem to be suggesting that
a) if the government acts, it should pay the income you'd had if you had kept working (and assuming corona hadn't stopped you anyway) or
b) if it doesn't act, I guess you'd like to claim damages for that family member that got killed by corona because the goverent allowed the epidemic to get out of control?
HN Became Cringe
I’ve been visiting HN in RO mode for a long time. The usual content right now descended into

a) snake oil abandonware almost useless project plugs
b) snake oil abandonware proj.. by the way here is my shitty startup that does nothing useful: http://iam10yearslatetotheparty.com
(90% of all content)
c) wrongthink downvoting
d) discussion of technology-unrelated garbage like politics

What’s “hacker” about that? It seems that cancerous “startup culture” hivemind completely infiltrated this place long ago. Percentage of valuable technology news/discussion here is close to that found on MSN front page.

Now you can downvote me, thank you for attention.
I and five other volunteers, with backgrounds in customer relations, UI/UX design+engineering, medicine, digital design and psychology formed a team and created a website in 48 hours during the weekend: https://homenauts.com/

The goal is to inspire people who stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and to share tools for making the most of the time.

We did the challenge as part of the the HackCorona hackathon: https://hackcorona.world/ This was my first hackathon and it was an amazing wild ride! I had signed up for it just a couple days before the start date and only got confirmation I was to participate a few hours before kick-off. Going into it I didn’t know if I could do much to help, since I’m a psychologist with a kind of mixed bag of other skills, instead of say a straight-up data analyst or programmer. I feel incredibly lucky to have met the others, who welcomed me and found ways to make use of everyone’s skills. Coining the term “homenauts” is probably my biggest contributions - otherwise I mostly tried to do some research and write content for the website, while the other members collected content, wrote, made illustrations, built front/back-end functionality, acquired the domain... Every time I checked back in there was something new to see. Exhausted, we finished the hackathon in second place out of more than 30 teams and received a lot of positive encouragement for the idea.

We plan to continue work on this project, albeit at a less intense pace. So I and the others would love to hear what ideas you might have for the user content sections, or any other feedback! We all want the project to help our fellow homenauts as much as possible :D You are also very welcome to submit links to be added to the site if you want - in that case, check out the icon at the top right of the site.
Long enough from now that we'll forget, in case they conclude they can't do it without jeopardizing ad revenue.
Makes sense. I looked at LaTeX, but indeed it was a little bit too much! Asciidoc does hit the sweet spot for my particular needs.
That's without eMMC though. Having a bunch if normal Pi's running SD cards would end up in tears at some point.
>Astérix and the Goths was an early and very unfavourable depiction of the Germans as militaristic and ruthless

As opposed to the real life French experience of them?

>My point here is that "political correctness" has a point.

That we should ignore historical experience and portray peoples and cultures as totally the same and interchangeable except in purely decorative areas (e.g. cuisine, music)?

Because a Germany that shed cruel blood and huge toll all over Europe was for 5+ years the direct experience of Europeans that wrote those comics, and for many decades still a trauma...
Yes I suspect those that went for the bargain basement network connections with massive contention are going to feel it.

I am on (UK) the business voda connection (35 mbs) in the uk and pay about 80% more than the cheapest you can get but not seen any problems
You're underestimating how much more leeway the executive branch gets when given emergency power. In recent history alone state of emergencies have been used to: bypass Congressional war declaration powers in the form of at least one "war", ban entire countries from entering the United States with the recent travel ban, and bypass Congressional power of the purse with the border wall. Not to mention emergency powers were used to suspend habeus corpus for almost two years until Congress could meet during the Civil War and pass a bill making it official, in direct defiance of a circuit court ruling written by a Supreme court judge.

The act of declaring a national emergency is enough to give the President substantial powers that can be used immediately in the form of executive orders. Judges would be very hesitant to approve any injunctions in a real crisis.
Yes: https://godbolt.org/z/72Dvpe
Historically the Linux kernel used GCC extensions that Clang did not support, and this is just a thin shim around the ordinary Clang frontend, so to the extent that's still a problem: no.

Otherwise: yeah. It's just clang's main function with a different name slapped on. Linking semantics may differ slightly which could be problematic. But in theory, yes.
A Theory of General Impairment of Gene-Expression Manifesting as Autism [pdf]
Add TWO rooms to that house. It sounds like you live in an area with inexpensive housing. Folks who rent face an entirely different economic reality.
Testing Positive for Covid-19
Months? This is going to haunt the US for decades.
Beware - what this article calls a "spacer component" is nothing like <img src="spacer.gif">. Rather it is a container that specifies the spacing between its child components.

The article just argues that spacing between sibling components should be specified by the container rather than by the individual components.

This makes sense in some contexts where you have a uniform spacing between components. In other contexts, like an article with headers and paragraphs, it doesn't make sense. But you probably wouldn't use React for that in the first place.

In CSS you can do both and the article is not pro or con CSS in any sense.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Covid-19 Critical Care Clinical Guidelines
What's their opinion on Rust?
well trying to use a cable network is your problem there
It's also worth noting that OS X has been free as in beer since at least 10.9, and it looks like 10.1 was also free if you had 10.0.

For all intents and purposes, these wallpapers are free to the end user. Additionally, resold versions of the OS also have a cost approaching 0. Finally, the marketplace for resold wallpapers that were effectively free to the end user is nonexistent. Though there may still be interesting legal questions here, as you point out, the creators of the wallpapers almost certainly retain no rights anyway.
Seconded. I use one on my Surface Pro 6 and it makes it a substantially more versatile system.
little mistake:

"Vi <> Vj for all i,j"

fails if i == j, which isn't forbidden.
Bummer. The keyboard feels near as close to perfect for me. I just don’t have the 2k to get the laptop that I want right now.
How does 4K video prevent somebody’s online class? I have attended numerous university level online classes. None were latency or bandwidth sensitive.
Graphics and network stacks are very different. It sounds like macOS is going to have the entire network stack in the kernel except for extensions; this could be the worst of all worlds for performance.
> The administration let the country down enormously.

Is this a failing of current democratic system. Are there no check and balances for this sort of let down by the administration. How can we design a system that has nothing to check it if its making mistakes. Is that the job of the opposition or does opposition lack intelligence to find out in time.
(Harvard President and his wife are SARS-CoV-2 positive)
Is there a similar site for all the iPhone/iOS wallpapers?
Why do you think Edge, Firefox, and Safari have chosen not to block all ads by default?
Another argument that's not completely non-constructive.

The real numbers have to be constructed. Typically, a number is represented by a Cauchy sequence or a Dedekind cut.

To determine if a real number is representable symbolically, we simply need a finite sequence of symbols which stands for this Cauchy sequence, lets say.

Theroem: The real numbers and definable numbers are the same set.

Assume a real number exists but is not definable. This means at the very least we have a mathematical statement saying there exists a number such that some logical predicate is valid (we may not even have a construction in ZFC), which can also be constructed using a Cauchy sequence. This mathematical statement is embedded in ZFC, and since we are humans it must be finite. In fact, you could come up with a binary representation for such a statement using methods from Godel, by mapping each symbol to some binary representation. Therefore, this number can be represented as a sequence of zeros or ones, a contradiction.

QED
> If countability is important to you, you should change the rules so that the property that the field is closed w.r.t limits of Cauchy sequences does not make your set uncountable.

Ok, fine: I hereby declare that the set Q of rationals is a closed field, because I define "closed" to mean "closed under Cauchy sequences whose limit points are rational numbers".

Does that seem OK to you?
It doesn't appear to me that the article linked in the rebuttal thread appears to address any of the points made in this article. Instead, the author offers that he's written two books and thousands of blog posts in Markdown, and claims (without substantiation) that 98% of all code documentation could be written in Markdown.

Where does that leave us on any of this article's concerns about extensibility and cross-reference? I'm persuaded by the need for a richer set of tags and non-local references for writing code documentation on most of my projects.
Why not? Privacy?
I wonder if people who like to call things "stupid tax" also say robbery is not a crime but a "weaking tax"
A div isn't the right thing to use here. Am I missing the point of your example? It seems like it could be a way to demonstrate how people don't know HTML, but I'm not sure.
I use makefiles and that works fine. Haven't gotten CMake to work because it specifically expects clang-cl, not clang.
Because when the barrier to entry is getting your company to spend more money to try a product that you've never used before, it might help to sacrifice a little bit of revenue up front in order to keep them as a customer in the future.

That's how I see it, at least.
Why not when you have time to spare?

I personally am trying to spread good information, and push back on misinformation as my part to help, but I feel I am seriously losing that battle at present.

Part of fixing “world on fire” is fixing your mistakes. And honestly, just because the US is on fire (due to lack of effective planning and mitigation), doesn’t mean Japan or other first world countries are on fire.
There are still subcultures around, too.
At least on reddit there is /r/LTB_iel which is a spoof of /r/me_irl: https://old.reddit.com/r/LTB_iel/top/

There are a lot of jokes in those that went over my head as a kid.
QNX is also a certified UNIX for embedded deployment, yet it is a micro-kernel OS.

https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/resource-center/qnx-certificat...

UNIX certification doesn't say anything about how a kernel should be implemented, or what kind of driver architecture is used.
You reckon Hulu, Netflix, et al, are just sitting on all the user data you are giving them, totally respecting it... definitly not monetizing from it? When was the last time you read T&C?
I'm guessing the build system of Linux depends on more than just a C compiler, and that's why the answer to the question is "no". If the build system of Linux only depends on a C compiler then my answer would be:

That would be a nice stress test, which would undoubtedly lead to bugs discovered. After enough bugs fixed, the answer would be "yes".

I'll try it!
It also requires population participation in testing and that requires making the tests accessible including providing them for free or cheap[1] and without judgement[2].

1. This is currently not the case, Payers have widely agreed not to charge co-pays for tests, but deductibles may still apply and the uninsured will pay the full cost.

2. Hey Trump Administration - you know how you've eroded all the trust and faith of the immigrant community? Yea, that's not so great suddenly (I mean it wasn't great before, but now it'll effect you!). Even legal immigrants have expressed concerns over the census, the chances they'll go to a testing site where there will be LEOs (police certainly, maybe national guard) are slim to none.
The US benefits from economies of scale. We just choose not to implement public health infrastructure.
Linux and GCC today have the ability to compile and run fully static executables, I don't understand why this isn't done...
"packed churches for easter" is pretty much round2 for haunting for months to come.

This is like a massive IQ test for the country, we failed.

These "leaders" didn't self-anoint, they were put there and sustained.
Just as additional information for anyone interested, this is the paper about the development of the test distributed by the WHO:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6988269/

This was published on January 23, and it contains all the information you need to establish this kind of test in your own lab. And while I'm not an expert in this area, the controls done to ensure avoiding false positives based on other viruses seem pretty thorough to me. And this validation is the part that I would suspect to be one of the more time-consuming and important aspects.
His English name was Ptenisnet.
Then maybe Honduras should bail out them?
No, they can just follow the link and rerun it with all the uploads and a transcript.

[edit]Also, I'm pretty sure that since our instructors are at home they would probably prefer we put something a little more polished and formal on YouTube to represent their work[/edit]
Normally a flu epidemic ultimately infects 1/3 of US population. If 2% need a ventilator we need 3 million.

The numbers are not pretty, however you run them.
Some example topics that took me a lot of reading from different sources to understand.

- how to write a python library that you can host for public/private use

- adding test coverage to data science python projects

- learning libraries like matplotlib, seaborn beyond what you see in tutorials

I think material for all fo this exists in different sources like documentation/stack over flow but either it's too detailed or too superfluous. The middle (intermediate) layer is often missing.
It isn't about the bandwidth to your home, it's about the bandwidth further up the line. It doesn't scale to infinity.
First glance at the examples in the repo (not in depth by any means), I'm getting a lot of spacy vibes.
the issue is that you can't easily trademark a common word. It's possible (e.g. Apple for computers) but you run into problems. Apple ran into some notorious trademark problems.

Trademarks don't need to be officially filed to be real in common law -- you just have to use a distinguishing mark for a certain period of time. so the GNU/FSF screen would have rights to Screen in the computer program industry even if they haven't officially filed. Filing just helps you defend a trademark, it's not strictly necessary.
A well engineered DOCSIS network can really scream. Unfortunately it’s way cheaper to oversubscribe since 99.99% of the time no one complains.
Restaurants call for ‘Great American Takeout Day’ to boost revenue during crisis
> ...someone thought it would be a good idea to use a full-blown SAT solver for package management

Relevant: https://research.swtch.com/version-sat
Wonderful to hear, thank you for the reply! Given this I'll be sure to pitch this at work, I think it looks like a wonderful solution.

While I do take a lot of interest in law, I am by no means a lawyer. Personally, I would feel good about: "Neither Screen nor these third parties store or record media data as part of the Service, nor process it other than necessary to provide the Service to you."

I'm sure corporate will have opinions on this when I propose it, and I'll be sure to pass those on. As an additional point of feedback, it would be wonderful if you listed payment options somewhere. Although maybe it's an artefact of your early launch or by design that you don't.

EDIT: changed "our Service" to "the Service" above for consistency
Covid-19: Protecting Your Family, Video by Pulmonary Dr Dave Price from New York
What’s your point? The WHO lost all credibility.

As late as January 14, 2020 the WHO tweeted that there is NO evidence of human to human transmission of covid-19

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20
it's good to see the "real numbers are fake" crowd out in full force!
Sounds to me like an example where project implementers are unwilling to write it, not that the platform prevented them from doing so.
Your editor should be able to help with that. For example in vim: `gqap` will reflow the current paragraph, or while in visual select mode you can use `gq` to reflow your selection).
If you want people to do the unexpected, you go first
On 1/24/20 the WHO said there’s no human to human transmission of covid-19

https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152?s=20

They are to blame as much as anyone else
Interesting interaction: the lower the marginal cost of an additional bedroom, the more of a splurge it is to have your own place.
Landlords and tenants alike it seems.
It's not illegal to ask for payment, they just can't legally force you to pay or return it.

> I was surprised and disappointed that our public school would partner with a company

The company gave money to an admin or the district.
Feb 1st in Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/tests-for-coronavirus-us-mig...

Feb 12th in the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/health/coronavirus-test-k...

Feb 12th in LiveScience: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-testing-kits-flawed....

Feb 12th from Physicians Weekly: https://www.physiciansweekly.com/some-u-s-states-launch/

Feb 13th on FoxNews: https://www.foxnews.com/health/some-coronavirus-testing-kits...

The media has been all over this, news stories just don't have the penetrating power they used to. Plus, Trump admin officials kept saying the tests were fixed and would be shipped shortly even though it was patently false, so I don't think people thought much of it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/trump-aid...
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Ruby is just for plumbing, i.e. preparing queries and whatnot, it's still pg_dump under the hood.
During the early OS X days Apple was battling for survival, the were pretty much like this during the Mac OS days.

Plus it isn't like they aren't providing an upgrade path.
> This kind of salesmanship sliding into fraud is getting more common in the US

No, but you are getting older and wiser.