skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some good comments on another article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22648580

“This seems like a potentially game-changing discovery - if we could trivially diagnose 30%+ of cases, that could drastically diminish growth rate.”. I agree, especially if the symptom shows up early.

"Rapid Clinical Evaluation of Anosmia - The Alcohol Sniff Test" - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22650256

Google Trends shows trending before the Anosmia articles AFAIK):

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=%2...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

“I lost my sense of smell when I took a zinc tablet to prevent covid-19 (serious but funny). Maybe I shouldn't have dissolved it in my throat (as was suggested).”. Another comment mentioned Zinc in high doses can cause Anosmia.

Lots of good anecdata from people that have lost se se of smell/taste.

“ Post-viral anosmia is one of the leading causes of loss of sense of smell in adults, accounting for up to 40% cases of anosmia. ”.

I tried searching for how common this is a symptom for flus/colds. It appears to be rare, but if anyone can find some hard data that would be grand.
US Government has confiscated much more than facemasks in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
Full circle DevOps. Nice :)
I was wondering just now why in the midst of all this remote working boom Jitsi Meet is seldom mention. Jitsi Meet has been absolutely stellar every time I've used it. Great interface, not bloated even when running in a browser with 10+ other people, plenty of options to manage conferences with many people (raise-your-hand button, selective muting/soloing, etc). Creating a chat is as easy as typing a name and hitting enter, no account needed! And getting somebody to join is as simple as clicking a link to meet.jitsi.net/yourchatroomname.

On top of that it's open source and end to end encrypted.

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Paper press has been disappearing for quite a while even with subscription fees. They're often bankrolled by rich people or companies and likely aren't impartial.

I'm not sure TV is a good example either. The number of TV channels isn't that great. At the same time TV channels have a ridiculous amount of ads and they engage in all kinds of shady practices to sell you on something you don't want. Or in the cases of things like the BBC they extort the taxpayer.
This is not conclusive yet but yes, this is going to take more than a few weeks and will be quite a disaster in some areas...
For a comparison of scale, consider the (rare) healthcare worker [who does not work just for money (and therefore does not actually need the day's or month's wage) who still goes into work to help the sick during this time] to _the Facebook_ who has built its wealth via very questionable means and is now donating supplies it otherwise did not need.

Forgive my pessimism here, but I'm not impressed. Good that they did it, but countless individuals of minimal means regularly give everything they can to help their fellows without credit or reward.
The extent to which this is an issue depends on the field, though. In my field, you can get massively rewarded, in both soft and hard criteria, if you put effort into writing a good review paper. And many of the giants of the field have sunk even more effort into writing textbooks, which yield even greater rewards. People can do this precisely because the incentives are better than for internet comments; a good textbook can be celebrated for decades.
Which strikes me as coming from the rather strange view that there must be a single reason for everything.

When in my view, it's hard for a single person to have a single reason for anything, so when many people are involved...
"Nazis" in the context of WWII is commonly understood to mean the nation of Germany under control of the Nazi party.
720 is more than plenty of resolution. That's midway between DVD video and Blu-Ray. Resolution is not a major factor image quality. Lens and light sensitivity is.
Yeah GPS casts too wide a net (imagine being in New York- everyone in a 80-story office building would be within margin of error of a single GPS point).

Bluetooth seems like a better solution, and the Singapore one does it in a privacy-preserving way while storing all data on the phone. Only when a user is infected, then are they asked to upload data.

https://tracetogether.gov.sg
I have dumb bells, a floor mat, and a fancy chin-ups bar, and plan on getting back to my workouts starting tomorrow morning. AthleanX has enough to keep me going until the gym opens again. But I do fear it'll be difficult to put in as much effort as I normally would at the irl gym.

I am hoping to learn a few new workout techniques to see what a difference they can make - basically turning the experimentation aspect into a motivator. ymmv.
The run on toilet paper started here (San Francisco Bay area) a week ago when the shelter-in-place order was announced. I figured I'd wait for stores to be restocked, since by then all the hoarders wouldn't need to go out an buy more. But I went out yesterday and the TP shelves were still empty. No pasta either. Canned tomatoes and coconut milk (which we cook with a lot in our house) are all gone too.

Happily, we were reasonably well stocked before this all hit the fan, but I'm a little surprised to still see empty shelves after a week. How long does it typically take to restock non-perishables?
there is a ~30% chance you can still have it even with a negative test though
If you're wearing an n95 mask for particulate pollution there isn't a particular reason why you can't reuse it.

When I heard the numbers, I figured they purchased extra so they could also supply them to the surrounding community so as to avoid drama about facebook employees having masks while few others did.
Once the Hobart Phase kicks in and has a chance to to work its magic for a few decades, your sagely advice will be relevant once again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Clock_World#The_Hobart...
I can't seem to schedule meeting like Zoom?
This is true. But our bodies require very specific conditions to survive. We can offset them with tech, but only to a degree. Most of it requires some semblance of civilization to maintain. Disrupt that, and we are in for a very bad time.
Tools to gather useful information from PostgreSQL
> Also another technology banned because it don't work is the hollow point bullet.

1. Hollow point bullets aren't banned. The US Army just adopted them recently - M1153.

2. Hollow point bullets are very effective compared to ball ammo. There is plenty of research that's been done on this (see Martin Fackler). However, pistols are much less effective than rifles.

> Apparently killing a solider outright is not as destructive as driving him long term onto the medical system. This is also one of the reasons caliber has generally been dropped over time. The 1950s move to the 223 round is pretty explicit on this.

1. This is a pervasive myth. There is absolutely no evidence of this from primary sources. The goal of shooting people is and has always been to kill them.

2. The reason calibers have dropped over time has nothing to do with making them less lethal. It's because they're lighter and smaller (easier to carry more of them), and they shoot flatter and faster (easier to hit targets).
other links:

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/fn8g06/south_korean_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/fmejof/nth_...
That was very fast. I don't know what goes into building a ventilator and Musk's companies are known for quick iterations but this seems like something that would require a good bit of retooling to get started.
Do you need to broadcast everything pore and hair on your face?
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And their connections sucked

But my Jitsi instance was fine
Could you elaborate on how and why s-expression solve address the issues of yaml-based DSL? Thanks
Troff is still used (mostly for man pages, I think), and VT100 escape codes are still common, and I don't know what is meant by UNIX being "only for system stuff".
FaceTime has the best UX of all the solutions I've seen so far.

Seamless integration in the OS as long as you're in the Apple ecosystem and lightweight native clients (it seems to use hardware encoding/decoding does not make my fans spin like Zoom or any browser-based solution). No accounts or meeting/room IDs to remember or join, it just works with Apple IDs (which you're already logged into) or phone numbers for iOS devices (which work even if you somehow don't use an Apple ID).
Simplified requests calls mocking for pytest
I've only used it Web-based

Nothing to download, if you don't want to
Apple's own iMovie, and their iWork suite, seem to be notable holdouts
When someone does something good, I don't think it should be an impulse to point out that others have done better. Donating supplies is useful. Facebook should be lauded for that.
Oh, I didn't realise you're just spinning conspiracy theories. If any of that were true, we'd know about it. There would be leaks from employees of the companies who are receiving this data from Apple.
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"then that means they aren't (currently) sound businesses, and the market is correctly marking down their value."

There is definitely an unsound premise here - the market hasn't marked down public companies as if they are generally unsound...yet. All the "crash" so far has done is take us back to the levels of 3-4 years ago.

Your point about buying bonds not changing "fundamental soundness" is like saying keeping someone from dying of an acute condition doesn't cure their illness. It still keeps them from dying right now! What is the advantage of causing a preventable catastrophe, just because everything eventually ends?
Characterizing preparedness as 'hording' is a socially toxic behavior which will discourage future preparedness.

It's not like they had plans to sell them for price gouging purposes nor did they purchase them immediately ahead of a crisis and create/contribute to a shortage or anything anti-social like that.

For durable emergency supplies like masks. all of us should, if we're able, be maintaining a supply outside of emergency times to help buffer demand shocks at times of need.
You do because as soon as that person is confirmed positive, then you need to contact trace and quarantine that person's contacts. Every day that goes between a confirmed positive and a contact trace, the more that person's contacts are walking around, spreading it asymptomatically and making the cluster even more out of control.
It truly is insane how quickly the severity of the crisis ramped up. Monday co-workers on slack were messaging how the flu was more of a worry, after Wednesday it was mandatory work from home. And it truly feels like medical authorities were as caught off guard as the rest of us. Who was on guard duty? Was no one monitoring the situation? No one thought to increase production of PPE or RNA tests?
Does not look like sensitivity or specificity of anosmia is good enough by itself as a diagnostic criterion.
That's more for someone doing the trading than someone designing the trading robot (HFT).
If that's on iOS, you're not actually using Firefox since it uses Apple's Webkit.
if you have turbinates in your sinuses, and they inflame when sick/allergic, it can reach a tipping point where you can't smell any more. So one flu may inflame them more than another, or you have have grown more/larger turbinates later in life where you more easily lose your sense of smell.

perhaps covid-19 cause the loss via some other mechanism entirely, I have no idea.
As noted in a bullet point in TFA, one workaround is to:

> Rename ATMFD.DLL, or alternatively, disable the file from the registry

Caveat:

> Renaming ATMFD.DLL, the last recommended stopgap, will cause display problems for applications that rely on embedded fonts and could cause some apps to stop working if they use OpenType fonts.

Also from TFA:

> Monday’s advisory provides detailed instructions for both turning on and turning off all three workarounds.
Another reason for low Calibre rifles- despite a cultural focus on marksmanship, internal studies found number of bullets fired was the number one predictor of enemy casualties. And the more bullets you shoot, the more you have to carry.
Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympics will be postponed, says IOC member Dick Pound
I think people have overcomplicated meditation. At it's most basic, it's about clearing your mind and practicing keeping it clear over some interval. There are a lot of ways to do that, and lots of accessories, but they mostly have the same goal.

I really liked the way one Zen Buddhist put it: just sit. Don't think about something else, don't focus on passing thoughts, and don't push away passing thoughts, but you may observe them. The point of having a focal point (breath, a fixed point in front of you, an unfixed point) is mostly to give you something that's not distracting to focus on when you get distracted by a passing thought. That same master gave very specific guidelines on posture and whatnot, but at the same time he said to not worry about doing things wrong, they're just there to help you stay comfortable during a meditation session.

If you really want to give it a try, find a comfy position (not laying down, you might fall asleep), focus on something (feeling of your breath, an uninteresting point in front of you, etc), and try to avoid focusing on anything else, returning to the point you picked when you inevitably fail. It's surprisingly difficult, and you immediately get goals (sit for X minutes without distractions). If you like, pick up a book (I liked Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind), or better yet, go to a class, but that's really not necessary to just get started.
According to the wife of the deceased, they took it after hearing from the "President and his buddies" that it was safe and "pretty much a cure"

"We saw Trump on TV -- every channel -- & all of his buddies and that this was safe," she said.
"Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1242238268277755905

NBC: "Did you at any point hear that the FDA had not approved of it for coronavirus purposes or--?"

AZ Woman: "Yeah. But you know they kept saying that it was approved for other things...Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure."
https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/124225471769609420...
I assume the use case there is that you create a meeting and then put the link in the calendar invite that you send. But, I'd like to know more about how long your "own" that meeting URL before it expires. I'll ask in the jitsi forums.
The url simplicity is nice, but it doesn’t work on an iPhone which is weird because it works on an iPad.
It's fairly easy to live without a phone in Taiwan. It's not like China. Most payments in Taiwan are made with cash, EasyCard (or equivalent, depending on the city. It's a prepaid metro card you can use at some stores) or a credit card. Mobile payments tied to your identity (eg. WeChat) are not the norm. You can also use an EasyCard without providing a phone number but then you cannot rent bicycles or recover the funds if you lose your card.
I proposed Zoom vs Jitsi Meet the other day for a virtual hangout with a group of friends. They initially wanted to try Zoom... because of the virtual backgrounds. Yup, that is what they wanted.

I shall suggest Jitsi Meet again soon ;).
First inspection of this made it seem like a modern reskinning of Ibn Khaldoun's Kitab al Ibar which also attempted to explain the rise and fall of empires[1]. Turns out the wiki page calls this out as an explicit source of inspiration. It seems like it might have more work around the causal mechanism but I'm not familiar enough with the prior art. It also seems like they reject the notion of technology shortening their proposed cycle time, again citing human life spans & social standing as the primary mechanism for institutional change. While I buy the intuition behind the ideas I'm not sure what useful properties such an identification has. To instill confidence that newer generations, in a healthy society, can reshape the institutions they interact with reliably? To identify when this is not happening?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun#Kit%C4%81b_al-%CA%...
This comment hasn't aged well...
If you don’t have a strong need for it, paying for cellular internet for every phone plus a home connection becomes hard to justify, and the cellular ones are probably the more useful of the two, for most people.
I agree generally with what you say, but I think that the fed is not threatening price discovery but addressing a huge danger to it, which is an abnormal demand for credit. At all times there needs to be a certain amount of credit for people and business to function and in a crisis, demand suddenly spikes.
> HCQ is used for people sensitive to Chloroquine-phospate:
> Specifically it is used for chloroquine-sensitive malaria

HCQ is used for Malaria that is chloroquine sensitive, not people. Well that’s how I read it.

Looks like it was patented in 2005, which might also help explain why it became more common? But I”m totally guessing that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Aminoquinoline
Ah, I should provide context.

From a tactical perspective, the minefield is easy to clear.

In terms of long-term effects, the mines are definitely worse. We are still finding mines from World War II all over Europe, and it’s a huge problem in Korea as well.
None of that are chemical weapons any more than water in waterboarding. They are all chemicals including water.
> Unprivileged processes can load bpf filters though

No they can't. Calling bpf(2) requires you to be running as root or have CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
It really shouldn’t matter that much — using some open source software is better than using none.
I'm not sure that it's entirely accurate to claim that manifest destiny was a "cultural belief" (or at least, it doesn't tell the whole story), as that would imply a large form of consensus within the culture in regards to the belief. Many prominent Americans of the time, Whigs, and eventually the early Republicans believed that, rather than making their mission of expansion one of conquest, to expand by way of democratic example. Though "manifest destiny" was, for all intents and purposes, a "cultural belief", I think it's worth noting that there were many people in said culture who were vocally opposed to the idea and the actions the acceptance of such an idea would motivate.
Here in Australia, one of the major supermarket chains (Coles) made a statement about this. They said their biggest week of the year is the Christmas week. They spend 6 months preparing for this. Each of the last 3 weeks has essentially been a Christmas shopping week. That's the scale of the problem.

We have enough food and supplies. We have the distribution to get it to stores. We have the capability to sell it in store. The only scarcity we have is because of the hoarders. That hoarding and resulting scarcity is creating more hoarders.

It's textbook illusion of scarcity.
It's not medical advice. It's "hey, these drugs look promising, so the FDA is fast tracking things".

How could anyone construe that as medical advice?

If the president said "hey, the FDA just approved a great new cancer drug", is that medical advice for cancer patients? Of course not.
It isn't singling out, dude. It's just an example. Obviously from the guys avoiding signing anti-cluster-munitions and anti-landmines you can tell that they're all concerned about their military effectiveness.

Fine, go ahead and say that Admiral Donitz only got away because we used Unrestricted Submarine Warfare just as much as he did. Okay. There we go. Now we're all even.
Need some more insights into proper use. I couldn't get to work in mainland China