skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we though? How? It has already spread as far as I can tell. Maybe back in early Februrary it seemed more containable, not anymore though.

The reason I care more about ncov is it's about to overwhelm our hospitals far past capacity and even without that has what seems to be a _much_ higher fatality rate than the flu.
Thank you for the links! I didn’t know about those gremlins in the supplementary info. Hopefully the WHO trials recently announced will give us a better answer soon.
No machine works like the high level languages, including C.

Many believe the portable Assembler story and aren't aware that ISO C is defined in terms of an abstract machine.

The abstraction level that functional programming allows for, all the way back to Lisp, is to take advantage of the underlying hardware without being forced to hand code lowlevel details.

Something written in ML like language could be running on 70's, 80's, NUMA architectures, GPGPU, whatever, without changing one single line of code. Naturally we are not speaking about the same runtime implementation.

Whereas a language like C, requires a bunch of dialects to actually make use of the low level details, only exposed via Assembly and not part of ISO C.
Yes I can understand how it could end up like that, it’s just that I think there must be a better way by now.
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After watching a number of downturns over the decades I've become prudent, even parsimonious in my approach to outgoings. The result is that even though my pay is average and I live where house prices are high, at times like these I don't have to lose sleep about losing my shirt. From a position of having missed out on ridiculous house price rises over the years, and driving my old car whilst so many other people swanned around in fancy new cars they could not really afford but for credit plans, it's extremely difficult not to feel like the chickens are coming home to roost for those that refused to learn the lessons of history. I mean, the GFC is barely a decade past!
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"How to lose your customers and ruin your business in a few shortsighted steps"

From making quick layoffs in a highly volatile economy to automating support inquiries during a time when customers more likely need personalized responses, I don't know if there's a single thing on this list that isn't the equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.

> 10x your product.

And 1/10x your customer support! This is definitely the time people will buy the most expensive product with the least decent support.

> Turn fixed costs into variable costs.

So you can have more surprise bills!

But my favorite is:

> Be committed to building a high-performance culture. In a downturn, everyone must perform. This becomes non-negotiable.

Ah yes, the "work hard or else" mentality that will definitely help you keep your top talent during a tough time when significant parts of your workforce are likely to get sick and need flexibility.

Let me make a different recommendation:

This is a volatile time. Volatility works both directions, and it may mean both ups and downs. Focus on what differentiates you - and usually that means answering the phones when your customers call, having staff who can actually solve problems (eg, good talent who is happy to be working with you) and a real product that brings value.

Yes, there is value to being adaptable, and part of adaptability is letting go of non-value focused things. There are ways to do that without being a jerk to your employees and customers. Those who don't understand this are doomed to fail no matter what they do.
Agreed that sched_yield() is unlikely to be the right approach. A better approach is to use nanosleep() with an exponential backoff.
You can't prevent transmission of colds or the flu while living a healthy, normal life.

20 students breathing together in a classroom are going to pass something on no matter what.

Short of living under eternal quarantine, there's no "healthy lifestyle" that prevents.
That's not a misconception. It's a totally different problem space.

> so anyone without experience in distributed computing assumes guarantees that Rust actually does not provide.

[citation needed]
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We need to let Japan know that this is not their fault.

It's ingrained in Japanese culture that they often put too much pressure on themselves. They might think if they had put extra 120% effort, the Olympics would have gone as scheduled. But this is not on them.

Although it's only speculation, we wouldn't want another case of heartbreaking suicide[0] because of a Japanese blaming himself/herself too much.

[0] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-confirms-t...
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>> The economic harm of losing 2 months of production -- or even a year of production -- is much smaller than the economic harm of supporting people disabled by coronavirus for the rest of their lives.

That is a tradeoff? I don't understand how you are disagreeing with what I said. You are literally spelling out what we are trading off, the fact that its a very good trade (in your opinion, which is based on expert advise and almost certainly correct, but there are no guarantees) doesn't make it stop being a trade. In fact, that is how all tradeoffs work, one option is better than the other so you pick it.
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Empirically, most of them seem to emanate from unreliable, sensationalistic publications.

Methodologically, "beware the man of one study," [0] especially when the language is vague ("suggests").

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-...
Here’s what works for me (I think/hope)

1. Think of money put into index funds as an “expense”

2. If investments are on fire, that’s okay. You weren’t gonna use them for the next 10 or 20 years anyway

3. Invest in yourself

4. Diversify your income streams. Even $2k/mo on the side can really help

5. Cash savings. Never let a loss of income impact your livelihood

6. Keep adding to savings even when you think you can’t

7. Your skills and your network are an asset. Use them
Super interesting. So, 2.5% of the tests are positive. I heard (it think somewhere else here) that in Germany it is 3%.
Apologies. I meant the ongoing direct impacts like forcing you to get up in time for class, enforcing a curfew, consistently encouraging time to be spent studying. The impacts on the changes to a child, are another impact, and one that is even harder to account for.

Take a simple example of waking up in time for class. You can have a college freshman who was taught by their parents to be up on time. You can also have a college freshman who always depended upon their parents to wake them up and is thus oversleeping.

The former seems more in line with the true potential, while the latter is a temporary benefit from parents. A kid who taught themselves how to wake barely on time will do worse than a kid whose parents makes sure they wake up with time to spare when parents are present, but if the parents don't instill the values of waking up on time to the latter child, then in college the former one will do better.
> Some studies have shown that telecommuting can contribute to a significant reduction in vehicle miles traveled—and, consequently, in greenhouse gas emissions. But it’s difficult to quantify the effects on traffic and energy usage, the forces that directly inspired Nilles’ book.

I wonder if the current crisis will supply us with some numbers.
>"Psychopath"

"Capitalist", you mean. Though the difference is subtle and mostly trivial.
“Jobs has always been big on timing and marketing.“

Totally agree. He was really good at seeing when all necessary ingredients for a great product were close to being available.
I don't think this is an uncommon strategy. It's used in other caching scenarios where data is put into the fastest tier, then expire or age out to slower tiers as necessary.
The group at Charité Berlin which developed the WHO test claims they had no false positives in hundreds of trials.
I agree no one should kill themselves as a result of this. If a social condition were to force someone to that point, perhaps the social condition could be questioned.
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The author can go immediately to the bottom of the ventilator waiting list.
Yep, that's correct. There are a lot of things that biologists tend to believe are out there, but are waiting for examples, which makes these kinds of discoveries very pleasant surprises.

For example, it could kinda be assumed that we would find a phage that contained a CRISPR, and that turned out to be correct (it uses it to target other phages that infect the same host cell).

Another fun example is a reverse-transcription based replicating plasmid found in a fungal mitochondria. Theoretically it was possible, but that madlad did it.

A phage that I assume exists is one that replicates via reverse-transcription, but that hasn't been found yet. I hope they find it soon!
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It's also at it's heart distributed state management, and that is generally speaking very hard to do for anyone to do correctly.
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What’s Wrong with “The Chinese Virus”?
The mobile application needs some work. The essential and basic operations of creating a room[1] and sharing a link to that room[2] are confusing. Other than that, the video and sound quality were great.

[1]: There's no "Go" button and no automatically generated room name like on the web app.

[2]: The menu option is hidden two layers deep and is named non-descriptively "Room information".
What's interesting is that none of the answers seem definitive.

1) 'Mask wearing' - we know even cloth masks will help reduce spread, but not by what factor overall. We don't know the real vectors here.

2) Someone mentioned 'hygiene' - do the Japanese really wash their hands every time they enter the house? Or do they 'rinse their food' i.e. maybe package handling is a big vector.

3) 'Early border closing' - it only takes a handful of cases to cause the spread. Nobody has been able to 'keep it out' this way.

4) Some cynical commenters indicated it's due to low testing and governments wanton to 'keep the numbers down' which is hard to buy because the truth would hit hard when hospitals start to fill up.

5) Timing. Taking strong measures early may have made all the difference. If you can truly keep the numbers small, it becomes more manageable on a case by case basis.

Or all of the above.

I hope we are able to isolate the real transmission vectors that affect R0, but we may never really know.
When one has nice tooling like Visual Studio graphical debugging, not so much.
> It wasn't that long ago we were forced to go through harsh winters using the harvest of a possibly failed summer and autumn.

Well, not really. Lots of people would fail to prepare and rely on their community, and during times the community couldn't afford to help them, they would starve to death. Lots and lots and lots of people just starved to death. They didn't prepare enough, and then they slowly and painfully died from not eating anything. Lots of rich people said "they should have prepared", but it's hard to imagine what it's like to have to decide whether your children will have to be barefoot all winter, or just not go to school at all this year if you don't decide to sell a few extra potatoes instead of saving them.
Had to happen: If they tried to have it, there would have been no crowd and all the athletes would get it like wildfire (The Olympic Village has a lot of Tinder activity, at least).

That doesn't even account for the sad reality that some athletes can't go due to the virus (already). At least three of the South Korean Fencing team (Very likely medal contenders) are confirmed positive, for example.
"plumbing"? "installation"?

It's connecting two screw fittings, and then installing toilet seat (two bolts + nuts). If it's a particularly fancy model you may have to plug it in.

This is about as complicated as replacing a furnace air filter, and takes about as long. If you get someone to do it for you, you're paying for them to drive to your house, not the actual time installing it (which is trivial).
I'm pretty sure you could simply mine microbiome data. They have lots publicly available.
Your example wouldn’t even constitute a lie. It would be “misleading” at best.

But it’s not that, either. You’re making up a completely fact-free accusation:

The aquarium is mentioned in the headline

The second sentence is:

“It does not appear they took the pharmaceutical version of the drug, but rather "an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks," Banner Health said in a statement.“

If that constitutes „lying“ to you, it’s beyond hope.
30 patients would be statistically significant. Problem is that they were non randomized, open-label, and they seemingly discarded some of the bad results. They also measured viral load, not cure, and the measurement was not done correctly in all cases.

It's basically a "there could potentially be a causal link here; needs way more research" type of study.
Yeah because it's not urgent and it's a clean understood protocol. It's absolutely not optimal if your goal is to get to enough confidence fast.
I’ve found the overall price to be quite reasonable. We have about 10TB stored across maybe 40M objects - the biggest cost is for PUTs, but even those requests + storage keeps the bill around $150US. At the enterprise level, that’s a negligible cost. YMMV, of course.
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This seems like a statistics question that doesn't have much to do with JSON. A starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomaly_detection

You should probably start off trying the simplest thing that could possibly work for your use-case.
While that may be the precise definition of a panacea, the vernacular definition is a breakthrough or unexpected good thing.
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The docs for using QMK are pretty good, but trying to actually understand the code made my head spin; that's why I decided to write my own firmware. Right now it doesn't have any of the fancy features of QMK, but it currently clocks in at under 200 lines, so I have a suspicion it'd be easier to implement those features from scratch in Microscheme than understand their current implementation in QMK.
Which is consistent with what I wrote.
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I am from the US and the premise is ridiculous to even consider. The cruise industry in no way should be prioritized or considered essential.
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Can I suggest adjusting it for some other consumer platforms, such as, for example, Pyhtonista on the iPad? That would make it easier to divulge in these turbulent times when many people are stuck using somewhat unusual instruments and platforms.
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It's a standalone company now, last I checked they only sell in Japan; but I loved my Z Series so much I had to poach another one when the old one gave up the ghost.

I can't forgive them for the interior design, and how the lynchpin of the entire laptop is a PFC with two of the most awkwardly placed sockets I've ever attempted to repair; but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the most pleasantly ergonomic laptops to use.

Just try to avoid having to open up the case at all costs.
>I'm kind of traditional: "Cloud" still means "just another person's hard drive", and "serverless" means "just another person's computer" for me.

I agree for the most part on cloud, but isn't "another person's computer" just a server? Serverless is more like a service running on a server that requires zero configuration or maintenance for you, just add your code and it works. Typically that means no messing with apache, nginx, no language nor framework setup/configuration, etc...
That comment about outbreak ending itself was specific to small outbreaks contained to hospital inpatient units.
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In late January 2020 during the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak, Chinese medical researchers stated that exploratory research into chloroquine and two other medications, remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir, seemed to have "fairly good inhibitory effects" on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the virus that causes COVID-19. Requests to start clinical testing were submitted.[43] Chloroquine had been also proposed as a treatment for SARS, with in vitro tests inhibiting the SARS-CoV virus.[44][45] However, at least one case of self-medication with chloroquine for COVID-19 has caused a fatality, and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has stated that such self-medication "will cause harm and can lead to death."

Chloroquine has been recommended by Chinese, South Korean and Italian health authorities for the treatment of COVID-19.[47][48] These agencies noted contraindications for people with heart disease or diabetes.[49] Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were shown to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in vitro, but a further study concluded that hydroxychloroquine was more potent than chloroquine, with a more tolerable safety profile.[50] Preliminary results from a trial suggested that chloroquine is effective and safe in COVID-19 pneumonia, "improving lung imaging findings, promoting a virus-negative conversion, and shortening the disease course."[51] Self-medication with chloroquine has caused one known fatality.

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MicroPython would not work; a basic hello world in MicroPython takes 3x more memory than the total amount of RAM of the atmega32u4.
Of course; we just can't say that part out loud otherwise there would be a run on masks and the healthcare workers would be in such a shortage it would further exacerbate the strain on the healthcare system.
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You've spent a lot of words ranting, but you're not telling me anything I don't know. I specifically did not engage with most of your rant in your initial comment because it seemed like you weren't interested in discussing trade offs. It seems like you still aren't. For example, I don't see anywhere in your comments where you acknowledge the benefits of a small standard library. Instead, all you do is lament the costs. Which is fair, and is why I answered your question matter-of-factly.

> If some developer starts using "xml-rs" or whatever, and 3 years later the diesel crate uses "rust-xml", then he's in for a rewrite through no fault of his own. There is literally nothing he could have done to protect himself from this eventuality.

This kind of thing happens regardless of who builds the libraries.

> With languages like Java or C# I have to trust only Oracle or Microsoft. Literally just two evaluations, and I'm done. I pass on Oracle and accept the risk of Microsoft, and then get on with my programming task. Easy as pie.

Last time I checked, both Java and C# have rich open source ecosystems. So yeah, if you don't use anything from that ecosystem other than what is developed by Oracle or Microsoft themselves, then sure, you'll do a lot less due diligence there. You don't really need to write hundreds of words to make that point. If that's what's important to you, then sure, there's a lot of stuff in the open source ecosystem (including probably Rust, depending on what you're doing) that you just won't be able to take advantage of. Which is fine, not everyone has the same risk profile.

Technology like Rust doesn't have to be All Things to All People at All Times. In order to hit your use case, it probably needs a company or an established/respected organization to start taking responsibility for maintaining a lot of code. I don't see that happening any time soon, but it's not like it's fundamentally impossible for it to happen. I think it's more likely that others will figure out how to adapt their risk profiles, personally. But that's just speculation.
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All of that was already implemented by the toolkit. The way programs used to do it is by simply calling those 3-4 toolkit functions to move and resize. You can verify this by looking in the code to old versions of Audacious/XMMS/Beep/etc, which still used GTK/GDK to handle those things.

I can't stress this enough: this kind of thing was already supported for quite a long time and app developers were doing it long ago. The only thing GTK3 added was a common look and feel for it. Qt also has that now too.
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Those are old numbers. Roche alone is sending out 400k test kits per week (over 1000 per million people).[1]

According to [2], more than 290,000 Americans have been tested for the coronavirus (close to 1000 per million people) and in Washington and New York, over 3000 people per million have been tested.

What is South Korea's testing capability (tests per week)? They've had several weeks to get a lead in absolute number of tests performed, but if they've only done 6000 per million people in all that time, we've probably matched them in testing capability.

1: https://diagnostics.roche.com/us/en/news-listing/2020/roche-...

2: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-map-shows-how-many-cor...
The authors characterized an obligate parasite that lost its mitochondria and steals energy from the host instead. While this is technically the first animal to be found to lose its mitochondria, it's not the first eukaryote.

They didn't find a novel eukaryotic energy system. There are many parasites that lose essential cellular machinery because the host provides it, this is just a relatively complex one.