skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current scientific literature suggests that viruses change by small amounts all the time, and every now again (3-5 years for influenza) there is big 'jump' in which a significantly novel strain is identified and characterised. See this excellent review for further explanation:

The evolution of seasonal influenza viruses - Velislava N. Petrova & Colin A. Russell

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2017.118
President Trump signed the law and made it happen despite the fact that a good number of Republicans were against it. That's the point. He is making the right decisions.

As for your comment regarding accreditation for doctors operating outside the US, you are wrong. As a simple example, I refer you to the requirements for working anywhere Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières opearates:

https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/careers/work-field/gen...

My wife is a doctor with international credentials. We have friends and family members in various areas in the US, Europe and South America who are doctors covering a range of disciplines in various domains. And we lived in more than one country. Through them and life experience I know these medical systems, their drivers, advantages, disadvantages and issues very well. I am not pulling these statements out of a vacuum chamber.

With regards to US doctors not being able to practice across state lines. It's real, messy and complicated:

https://www.ortholive.com/blog/practicing-medicine-across-st...

And, yes, it is ridiculous. Either we are a country or a bunch clans. I can't think of any other nation where a doctor is limited to practicing medicine in a single province. To say this is crazy is an understatement. Doctors take time and tons of money to produce, they are a scarce resource...and we limit them to operating within a single state? Someone tell me why this makes sense.

On the topic of fixing the system with insurance. Someone please explain how the cost of insurance can be lowered without lowering the underlying costs said insurance covers first. This is a very fundamental principle of business. If you want to reduce the cost of a downstream element in the chain you have to first address costs upstream. Cause and effect. You can't reverse that reality. Impossible.

Or, to put it in different terms, if the cost of operating a business is $10MM per year and revenue is $1MM per year that business is not sustainable. You can't lower insurance costs artificially. The cost of insurance is an effect, not a cause.
In the article Ioannidis says:
"The most valuable piece of information for answering those questions would be to know the current prevalence of the infection in a random sample of a population and to repeat this exercise at regular time intervals to estimate the incidence of new infections. Sadly, that’s information we don’t have."

How does he know that this is not happening? It's been published for Sweden that they now moved to use "Sentinel tests" to track the spread of the virus (https://www.thelocal.se/20200320/fact-check-has-sweden-stopp...). This might explain the reason why the Swedish government is still quite relaxed. However, I would be very surprised if other governments would not be doing the same. Maybe this is the reason why governments really increased the response, because they are acting on this data.

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Yes, all my figures above are Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and not Infection Fatality Rate (IFR), which includes people with mild or no symptoms. It's much harder to estimate the latter unless one conducts antibody tests on a sufficient sample of a population. South Korea's extensive testing program should bring their two figures closer than those of other countries.

Credible estimates of IFR from noted epidemiologists I've seen are around 1%, assuming that the healthcare system still functions, and much higher otherwise.

COVID-19's CFR & IFR might not even be the biggest problem. High rate of hospitalization and broken healthcare system, with all their ramifications, could be considered even worse.
ReStructuredText also has list tables.
And CSV tables.
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Across the United States, 38 percent of those hospitalized were between the ages of 20 and 54.

Nationally, 12 percent of the intensive care patients were between the ages of 20 and 44.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-...
A decent TV/CRT monitor should have high-value bleed resistors to discharge the capacitors, but since high-voltage resistors cost money they probably stopped fitting them about the same time as TV's stopped coming with circuit diagrams.
Scammers from India will love this.
The same is true when you navigate a city with a paper map. You really learn how everything fits together while with your cell phone you basically don’t learn the city.
Stepping on the breaks perfectly align with what we know scientifically. People think of science as something very narrow – but it's also evidence and rationality. What China and South Korea have done works. What other alternatives do we have?
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Per another thread, the US has to start seeing the numbers they have had to date every two days for this to be worse then last year's flu. Per this article, Italy has to continue with their current pace to hit last year's numbers. For another few weeks.

Let that sink in. Italy had 25,000 deaths attributed to flu like illness two years ago. They are at 6000. Accepting that this is a hard flu like virus, we would expect them to have bad numbers. Why? What is so bad about Italy?

Again, comparing to the flu is not minimizing. The flu is already a terrible virus.
Yeah CRT anything is bad news to go tinkering with. High voltage components and the tubes can violently explode if you compromise them, I tossed a monitor into an empty dumpster once and very nearly soiled myself as it happened to fail just right. If you have one open and the CRT tube fails you could very well be picking tiny shards of glass out of your person.
Hello, from engineering's point of view, what does FrontApp do ?

* aggregate or wrap around all kinds of communication format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Message_format) and API (twitter). then provide a SPA to manage the aggregate

* cleverly encapsulate existing technologies and add a skin up for a unified experience

Business: the pricing (compared to slack for example) looks high. Any context: is FrontApp replacing several other paid services for your customers, or is your targeted customers used to such pricing (few accounts, high hourly paid employee) ?
The Rio had slow transfer speed (USB), hardly any storage (less than one CD), big ugly form factor... and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t rechargeable. My buddy at the time bought one. It did not impress.

The tech for the first iPod (Firewire and a 5GB hdd) made it essentially a different category of device.
And I did not claim any of those. Btw. a typical feedback loop for many of the compiled languages is 100ms (for example ReasonML).

My main problem with interpreted languages is the duality of their implementation. Especially Python suffers from this, the high-performance part of the language is in C, C++, Fortran. When you install a package you get all of the problems of those languages on the top the Python problems (versions, environments, installed libraries, etc.).

What I would like to have is the Rust way, compile the code on any platform and target any other platform, configuring even the libc that you want to use. OcaML also works very nicely, compiling the code to native or byte code.

I think the detour to interpreted languages set us back in the long run.
It has tradeoffs and can easily result in higher complexity, eg if you need a shared cache to minimize latency/memory.

I like the attitude the article takes. To successfully use concurrency, you should understand the tools available to you and their tradeoffs so you can make the right decision for your requirements.
You're 100% right. My toilet paper usage is 1-2 squares per trip.

I'm something of a bidet evangelist, even in non-invisible-war times. A coworker mentioned the other day that bidets had long shipping delays.

I just looked on Amazon. There are no prime options, some are out of stock + the model I have is priced at least 2-2.5x higher than when I bought it a year or so ago.

The run on bidets must have started around the same time as the run on TP.
This was terribly sad.
Certainly it is an isolated case, but heartbreaking.

Hope we all can learn few things from this whole situation, especially about how to respect and take care of our elders.
Leadership management mistakes people don't talk about
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On Friday, March 20, The Atlantic said over 100,000 people in the US have been tested.[1] More recently, Mike Pence said 250,000 people have been tested.

We're a few days away from Korea's testing capability, if we haven't already matched it.

I think southeast Asia in general handles pandemics better. The people know how to respond and do so more quickly than Americans. Wearing masks, not going on spring break, etc.

1: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/how-many-...
Is anyone aware of a repo with an introduction to Angular (2+) that's a similar style and equally high quality?
Sadly, I don't think the world is a paperless as one might hope. I'd imagine the bulk of the first recycled product is cardboard. The amount of paper saved in paperless billing or not printing out emails is easily outweighed by the amount of cardboard packaging increases.
They fixed dangerous exploit in XP after EOL. I think that they'll fix this exploit as well, unless it's not very dangerous.
The opposite happened with H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009, though. The CFR was estimated to be significantly higher during the pandemic but afterwards was estimated at 0.02% with 60M American cases. [0]

Policymakers should use conservative estimates to be careful, but we still just don't know how deadly COVID-19 is.

[0] https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/ese.14.33.1...
Coronavirus and Stuxnet Worm or Why Control Is Important
Why are we amplifying someone posting a compressed jpeg to 3,000 followers who lists no name, has a photo of George Costanza, and claims to be a virologist?
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I think what you are trying to say is that we cannot measure the difference.
> We don't write programs for machines to understand. We write programs for humans to understand.

True, but that program ends up executing on a machine. You normally want that program to execute as efficiently as possible. 'Efficiency' can be measured several ways... time to complete, resources required, financial cost.

A case in point is our company switched from using Cassandra (JVM based) to ScyllaDB (a C++ clone of Cassandra). Query latencies were the same if not faster, and we needed fewer nodes to handle the same load. All because the language used has some mechanical sympathy for the CPU it's going to run on, and no GC.

I see Scala is somewhat the defacto language used for 'big data' stuff. I have no idea why. I reckon if some bean counter translated that choice into $$$ things would change.
remember that time we fucked over Germany after world war 1?
Not entirely sure what GP is talking about, but just off the top of my head, this is the situation for anyone who's ever had chickenpox: you get chickenpox, the sores appear and then go away, but the virus stays in you. If you become immunocompromised/stressed later on in life it can re-emerge as shingles (decades later even).
As a devloper, I have never used S3, despite, of course, heard thousands of times of it. I'm kind of traditional: "Cloud" still means "just another person's hard drive", and "serverless" means "just another person's computer" for me. Having a feel for privacy, I still run a NAS at home, and it's terrible: I really appreciate the amount of work put into S3. Somehow, as a developer, I was able to avoid all that fancy cloud stuff. I prefer self-hosted, but I'm bad at finding good arguments which support my point nowadays :-/
Is it possible to add more specificity to the guidelines for REMOTE?
ie: US only, EU only, x-y timezones only, US/EU citizen, etc

Otherwise there ends up being a lot of back and forth and wasted time over something that's solved in 2 seconds.
and it's not a small travel (e.g. the British tourists that went on board the Diamond Princess).

If you are not in good health at the beginning, you don't adventure yourself 10 hours+ from your home.
So this group is likely in better shape than average population.
I don't argue for no countermeasures due to moral reasons, but I think this is highly misleading. More than half of the deaths from this disease are from people over 80. The majority of people over 80 contribute nothing to the economy, but do receive social services, take up housing, have expensive healthcare, etc. If thanos snapped away everybody over 80, I think the economy would IMPROVE because we suddenly have an enormous chunk of resources that can be used for more useful things than care for the elderly.
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You do it because it's worth it. The fully loaded cost of an employee that doesn't need an office space is more than made up for with a $1k or so budget. Getting someone out of a physical office saves the company thousands a year in many places.

Additionally, you want your employees to have a comfortable environment as it makes them more productive. If you're going to make your company a distributed company than you need to take some of the savings from not operating large offices and invest it in the remote experience.
I do work that can be done at home and my employer is cool with that. I worked at home a long time and got sick and tired of it, I'd prefer to go to the office, but it is better than getting sick. It is more challenging though since my teenager is home from school.

My wife helps take care of a sweet old man who suffers from dementia at a nearby care facility, they take her temperature, make her wear a mask, but she can still do that. She also teaches people how to ride horses, when the weather is good she still has people come out.

I live on a farm so I am physically isolated from potential carriers -- it's not like downstate, where it is just hard to find the distance. I am an introvert and don't feel the need to go out to busy places other than the gym to lift weights. The weather has been unpleasant the last few days so it hasn't been so much fun to go outside.

Despite all that I am still messed up by the stress, a friend of the family told me that he "feels tired" and that might be a good way to put it. Even if your physical situation is OK, you probably aren't going to be firing on all cylinders because of the stress and the first thing is to not beat yourself up over it.
I second this. Sure, there's a huge value in the beginner-friendly structure that Jupyter notebooks provide, but it's also a limiting factor as it's just a very small subset of the Python experience (I've personally never edited a single .ipynb file in my life)
I do what the GP describes as well. It’s not that bad.

When you want to enable some limited sharing, it helps to create a new group for all your user accounts.

For files and directories that you want to share, just set the group to your new user group, and use the OS group permissions to manage read/write/execute.
I would not consider that a false positive in the test, maybe in the procedure, but that's quite different.

Moreover it is statistically irrelevant, that would maybe account for 1%, but only if they would only note false positives.
Any advice for getting started in QMK? I'm an experienced programmer, so every tutorial that starts with git and the basics of C is frustrating, but I don't have a lot of experience with hardware, keyboards, etc.

For example, I have no idea what "keystroke inner loop" you're referring to - where can I read more about that?
Educate people for a universal discipline.

Prevention is better than cure, prevent infections by preventing unhealthy lifestyle.

If we have prevention and cure at the same time, people is going to be reckless. Enforce prevention methods as first step.
Once testing is widely available, I hope to see wearing masks in public as a precondition for ending lock-downs/quarantines and returning to normal life. This might be something most state governments of all stripes could sign onto.
Pretty much expected and no surprise there due to the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak made this completely impractical to carry on the Olympics. Postponement was the right decision.
Did anyone have to write lines as punishment in school?
If the island has been mapped with lidar, it would be possible to find it in such way. Lidar can penetrate the trees and give you a surface model of what underneath.
It's not possible now. I'd say a good 80% of the work I do requires at least a year of intensive study and/or hands-on learning to even be capable of attempting and another 5-10 years to master.

Nowadays someone needs a minimum of four years of college to be able to do anything. You can't start contributing to society until you're 20. Everything easy has been automated or outsourced.
Real developers use a CMS to build a showcase website with Netlify and Nuxtjs
I agree that this is important.

My personal choice is to use pyenv together with poetry on a Linux machine.

Yet, please understand that I teach this course to absolute (!) beginners. That is why I chose to use the Anaconda Distribution in class, which comes with every package installed that I want my students to study.

Making your first steps in programming is hard enough and so I want to keep the "boiler plate" as small as possible.

But dependency management will be part of the more "advanced" lectures I will do in the future.
Would the curve be different in an ideal situation where the hospitals weren't completely overrun and out of resources? Yes, of course. However, I would guess that if care was withheld, it was based on disease state and patient robustness. Age is part of that equation so it is hard to separate it out. In other words, a fit healthy, no comorbidity senior whose immune system is fighting hard is probably not having treatment withheld just because of age. I'm not there of course, but based on accounts I think this is right. At least I hope so.

As an aside, you were certainly not being judgmental about the clinicians in Italy and I applaud you for that. Those professionals are doing incredible work in unbelievably difficult and personally dangerous situations, so I hope we can all agree not to second guess their decisions from the cheap seats.
It works, all right.
> I still run a NAS at home, and it's terrible... I prefer self-hosted...

One could self-host minio which is nice S3 replacement: https://github.com/minio/minio
Sequencing has gotten really cheap.
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Wow this is really thorough and well thought out. It's not just an "intro" but goes into all the language builtins, and common usage patterns (e.g. zip, map, etc), which many "intro-to" style courses skip over.

Code in repo is MIT licensed and videos are tagged as Creative Commons (CC BY). Finally a good OER course for people to learn Python!
iTunes music store was launched in 2003, two years after the first iPod. By that time the iPod was already a success, if not the mega hit it became later.

iTunes’ proposition at the time was Rip Mix Burn, making it the repository for the music all from your existing CDs. Myself and most people I knew had big MP3 collections long before we got players.
I make sourdough breads. I highly recommend Mick Hartley's recipes and ebooks at https://thepartisanbaker.com/

His approach really appeals to me, and to other hacker-y types that I've shared it with. He's tested a lot of the various steps that people recommend during baking, and documented which of them actually seem to make a difference.
Glad to see the safety of athletes and the public is being protected.

I wonder why Japan seems to have such low numbers even though they had coronavirus very early as well as many cases from the cruise ship.
You can use useRef in React to get a DOM node and pass it to other parts if needed.

Saying that every framework should be possible to combine with every other sounds very nice but probably impossible. Unless you restrict what you can do in a framework a lot. Most frameworks has components that has an api and a life cycle. Since frameworks have different api's and life cycles they are hard to combine in one application. Not impossible but hard.

I have a feeling this is somewhat true for Svelte also. How would I how to update a state inside a Svelte component from the outside?

There is a standard for components, Web Components, but it did not exist when Angular and React was created. It also works in a different way and don't solve the exact same use cases.
Fight the Coronavirus with Eterna (game, solve RNA for scientists)
Good tips. I will look at this.

I am planning to use Google Collab for a totally remote class next weekend to set up group work.
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I read something recently which was something of an epiphany. (Can't seem to find it, unfortunately).
The idea was that humans and other animals incorporate some viral genes and produce the protein (and/or RNA I guess), and it's adaptive to do so because it gives something useful to develop antibodies against. Elegant, and kind of suggestive for all those retrovirus residues lying around in our genomes, among other things.
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