skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has regulatory authority over healthcare providers within the City of New York.

Their 2020 Advisory #8 COVID-19 Update for New York City [1] directed towards healthcare providers states in the summary that "Outpatient testing must not be encouraged, promoted or advertised."

Additionally, "To preserve PPE for HCW providing medically necessary care for hospitalized patients, the NYC Health Department is directing healthcare facilities to IMMEDIATELY STOP TESTING NON-HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS FOR COVID-19 unless test results will impact the clinical management of the patient. In addition, do not test asymptomatic people, including HCWs or first responders. COVID-19 testing is only indicated for HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS."

[1] https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/advisory/2...
I'm looking forward to the day when the dust has settled and I can see deaths/total population. To be useful it has to run its natural course, rather than being stopped by a vaccine.

The only out way is to test everybody in a large random sample. Even South Korea doesn't do that - people volunteer or a pushed to get tested. The end result is all testing to date has been done on the parts of population who are more likely to be feeling the effects of covid-19.

That skews everything. Even "every person infects 2.3 others" becomes suspect if there is a large reservoir of people out there who have it, are infectious but don't know it. Kids in particular, being the little germ bags they are, areseemingly mostly unaffected by it and so could be a huge vector.

Counting the dead after it's over is one way to by-pass that measurement problem. In Australia, a bad flu season kills 0.015% of the population. My gut feeling is we don't as yet have any idea where covid-19 will end up. Italy is currently sitting at 0.0083%, so they aren't up to the flu levels yet. The current overwhelming of the hospitals could be caused by an extraordinarily high infection rate coupled with it being very, very mild for most people, particularly kids. Or it could because it's as horrible as the media paints it. We simply don't know.
It seems like there's a lot in common here with the idea behind design patterns and pattern languages: giving names to "chunks" of expert knowledge in order to allow those chunks to be communicated, taught, and put in relation to other ideas.
I'm working on https://pikaso.me.

It's a tool for taking screenshots of tweets. It supports themes and has an API too.
You've got a double-negative in there
Figuring out how to wire a raspberry pi to solar with battery and a Arduino to power it off at night and on in the morning. Just figuring out how to use a relay to control power to the pi. Figured out how to program the Arduino that was fun having it toggle an led on and off. Keep burning myself with the soldering iron and maybe next I should learn about breadboards... electronics are fun
The family may want to organize a closed casket burial or a cremation ceremony. Is it so absurd that they would want the body for that?

As the article states the emotional grief over losing a limb may be on the same level as losing a spouse for amputees. I wouldn't say it's absurd that someone would want to keep the ashes in that case.
The same-household infection rate in china was 10.5% last I read. I don't know if there's any data yet from other countries.
I created https://projectconnect.us a few nights ago as a central location for small businesses that are still open in our area to promote that they are so. The service allows for businesses in other locations as well.

It had a lot of traction the first day, but kind of lost traction. As long as people are able to reliably find the resources they need, then I’m OK with mine not being their first choice.
[edit: tldr; There is no such thing as "getting tested". Stop looking for reassurance over a cough and fever; YOU WILL NOT BE TESTED FOR MILD SYMPTOMS; you're wasting very limited and precious healthcare resources which people who are potentially dying from severe symptoms need access to. Just. Stay. Home! /rant]
Improving https://free-visit.net
> it sounds like “constantly restarting the chain of transmission” might be the actual reality?

Yes, but it's a tiny number of undetected cases restarting the chain, and those chains being detected and lopped off before they have time to go exponential. But it's just not possible that they have tens of thousands of undetected cases that are spreading the virus further. That'd spin out of control quickly.
Hey, this is awesome! Just a heads up that Greenwich, CT is labeled as Los Angeles on the map, not sure if other cities are mislabeled too.
directed selection is not darwinist evolution and does not exist in accepted evolutionary theory. it is artificial selection.

directional selection is a very different thing it exists, it is part of evolutionary theory, it means there is a bias toward a particular allele [natural selection is a form of directional selection.

selection does not lead to a path of improvements, it leads to changes in frequencies of phenotypes.

there are other ways of enhancing spread, and retaining lethality, such as being communicable before symptoms become debilitating, this removes selective pressure that is based on communicability. If the host does not get sick enough to to be bedridden, they can contact other hosts. If the symptoms are mild or unseen there is no behavioral basis for other hosts to avoid the infected host. so by delaying expression of characteristics the virus may be highly communicable and highly lethal at the same time. high lethality is not subject to selective pressure in this case and will remain.
Moderatorbot broke the headline.

Should be:
"Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined"
Thank you! Fascinating work. Easily readable, yet highly informative article.
Hope you are the ones that kill off VPNs!
I think it's also because they got lots of experience testing for SARS and H1N1.

I lived in Taiwan in 2012 and all airline passengers had to go through a temperature check. This was the only country doing this at the time.
As discussed in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"[0] it's inconsistent with their business model for Google to comply with GDPR and other similar privacy laws/regulations.

The benefits of the surveillance capitalism business model are seeing business values being recalculated as business owners recognise the value of exploiting vast amounts of data collected in the pursuit of a purpose other than for which it was collected. Microsoft for example has been heading in this direction over the last few years through their acquisition of Lynda/LinkedIn, Github and Glint. I expect other SaaS businesses to increasingly exploit this opportunity.

Personally I support the efforts of Brave in this case and there are other potential targets that I think are vulnerable to a similar complaint. It will be interesting to follow the Irish Data Protection Commission's progress on this.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism
Florence Owens Thompson
I agree when it comes to policy, but when it comes to individuals' personal decisions, there's this perception that it's going to be mild for anyone under 50 who doesn't have extreme special circumstances. This anecdote hits home the point that that isn't true, and that you should have a healthy amount of fear even if you're young and healthy.
Preface IANAD. I suggest that sniffles (rhinorrhea) as well as duration of flu like symptoms (elevated temp, cough) as differentials for your diagnosis tool. Covid-19 is marked by less rhinorrhea and longer duration illness than flu i.e. time before it is severe enough to require hospitalization. You can see the rhinorrhea in the aggregate data in Table 1
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
You can see the rather long illness period in Figure 2D
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316
Flu is typically 4days (3-7 according to CDC https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/clinical.htm) whereas this illness just last and lasts (both anecdotally from the NEJM paper) Apologies if I haven't captured better refs...

One other rather interesting comparison is:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DqfSnlaW6N3GBc5YKyBOCGPfdqO...
page 26. This may help also develop other differentials that your tool can use. Good luck.
sciugo.com is a site which gives biomedical researchers sharable repositories for their research.

If the site gains traction amongst COVID-19 researchers, it will be the first time researchers document their results in a format that can be easily be reused by other researchers across the world forever.

Any data shared on sciugo.com can be exported with a few mouse clicks to a clean spreadsheet for reuse by other researchers.

If this platform for data sharing gains tractions, it will significantly accelerate the rate of scientific discovery!

We're always looking for feedback from biomedical researchers.
Also, we're hoping to recruit software engineers to help build the product.

If you have any questions, I'd love to chat more!
This is some good research...reading it now.
Well try this then, force yourself to only use cash for a while and see what happens to your spending
I definitely agree with your recommendation. Much of that book describes the Titan missile that blew up in 1980 after someone dropped a wrench socket that punctured the rocket's fuel tank, throwing the 9 megaton warhead 100 feet. (The warhead did not detonate.) What I didn't realize until I visited the Titan museum near Tucson is that it wasn't a regular wrench socket, but a big, fist-sized 8-pound socket. This made it much more understandable how the socket put a hole in the missile.
Taiwan had a much more comprehensive and thorough strategy, considering their threat was much higher due to close economic ties and travel with China.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689
Speaking of cataloging, my children and I have been spending time identifying and cataloging the collection of minerals we've acquired over the years. I've found an amazing app, Memento Database, that has great UX, very customizable collection fields, and lots of functionality, including gsheets export and built-in cloud sync and sharing. I'm sure it works for books as well.
Pop-ups are highly disruptive and whenever I work on something that involves a modal window, let alone a pop-up, I ask myself if it's truly needed. I'd argue they're all the more disruptive for non-technical people-- especially if they aren't savvy to dark patterns and may not know how to dismiss particularly pernicious pop-ups (A tiny X in a subdued color located in one corner may be extremely easy to miss at first glance)
One party made a $1.5 corporate tax cut their singular issue of the current President's (hint!) first term. The other party's most significant recent accomplishment was a health care reform that reduced the number of uninsured by a few (ten-ish?) million.

There may (before 2016 have been) reasons to prefer either party. But to somehow observe the current incarnations of parties and conclude that the latter puts "big business above all else" is intellectually dishonest.
> The testing for Covid doesn't help anyone that has it

It helps you a lot once you've recovered after you test positive.
I do--it slows down the work because of the effort of finding big blocks of time to record, but when I'm recording I know I'm on the clock to hit my goal.

Basically I know I need to have a worthwhile video title, so I can't fiddle for more than a minute or two!
Just to point out, the members of some hackspaces around the world are a bit more "proper engineering" oriented + experienced with real world industrial design than you're alluding to.

Not everyone is still into low grade crap / toys. Although they're a useful starting point when first getting into making things. ;)
Hey HN! I have been working on a calculator tool that aims to clearly show you how much your equity is worth (including information like taxes on exercising and selling, which recruiters typically do not focus on) and show how you can optimize your profit.

Currently, the main way the tool shows you how to optimize your profit is to show how much money you can make from exercising early. We also help you exercise the options with no personal recourse to you if the company goes under (we take a % of the profit during liquidation).

This is a problem I have faced with my equity and my hope is that a tool like this can help others from making similar mistakes with their equity.

Check out the product at https://equifi.io/ and please let me know if you have any feedback/questions!
Slightly behind now at least in terms of this plug-in.
Cool idea, I checked out your site how’s that different from fiverr or upwork? I’ve hired killer expert marketers there for $20

Lots of design work to do too but decent MVP. How are conversions?
I've been using Taskwarrior in conjunction with Timewarrior to track time spent on work tasks. I used to be skeptical about it but the whole command-line first, spartan interface does wonders at keeping me focused. Better yet: it allows to set up work hours so I don't have to stop a task whenever I'm no longer working.
Indeed. Here’s the US Surgeon General spreading disinformation on Twitter.

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

>?They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...
Seems you know only a certain type of people. I know or have met quite a few people who almost every month worry how to get food on the table or what to do if their old beat up car breaks down.
> And the reason is that it was unmaintained, not that it couldn't handle multiple IP addresses.

Unmaintained sounds like a very good reason to me. It's not just whether there is 1 or 2 addresses per interface. The rot set in when Alexy re-did the Linux kernels network infrastructure back god knows when (its decades ago now), and wrote his own user space tool to configure it. That tool was ip. It not only handled multi ip addresses per interface - it handled multiple routing tables, multiple link types, routing rules and a whole pile of other things. And that single tool has been growing ever since - it's now huge. Type typing "man ip-<tab><tab>" on a cli that supports tab completion some time.

Effectively the task of keeping up with the kernel's new features kept growing and at some point the ifconfig maintainers gave up. It was all over bar the shouting at the point. The only surprising thing is the shouting has gone on for literally decades, and as this article demonstrates continues to this day. Lets hope the same angst over systemd doesn't continue for the same amount of time.

Just like like systemd there are things that rub me the wrong way of course. Coping the Cisco IOS style of command line usage rather than using the Linux style is for me one of those things. But it happened for a reason - Alexy set the standard when he wrote the first version of ip, and he was trying to emulate the features provided by a Cisco router at the time.
I've been working on an ad-free social network and group chat app that puts the focus back on the people who matter most to us -- family and close friends. It combines a lot of features I personally want to see in a social app - messaging, photo sharing, event planning, and more.

Check it out at https://get.thread-app.com
What is the meaning of life according to physics?
Basically I forked this code from another repo and worked over it so the initial work is theirs. I will look into optimizing this as soon as possible. What do you think? Should callbacks be used instead of Promise?
Been there, done that. So yes, it does feel like that. It is hard and can grind on you. It can burn you out. There are good days and there are bad days. It doesn’t always pay off. It isn’t for everyone. Doing it once, whether you succeed or not might be enough for you.

So yes, it feels like doing the work of 10 people.
That wikipedia article makes no sense at all.

Here's a good resource

https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/obesityandtheeconomi...

One out of 10 italians is obese. The 42% you're referring to is the data for children.
Exactly. It’s already done. Why there isn’t more or even any public outcry regarding the US/FDA refusing to use their testing kits/system is beyond me.
Maybe it's a labor of love and doesn't have shareholders who want big returns.
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Keep in mind that all of the data in polls comes from the type of people who respond to random polling with something other than hanging up. I'll admit, I may suffer from the mother of all sampling biases but in the social circles I frequent this is not at all a common trait.
Most payment systems allow the "bank" to make money in various ways. Either you've deposited some money and they get to collect interest on it for the time between then and when you withdraw it (like checking accounts), or they get a percentage of transactions (like credit cards), or the system is one where the tokens expire after a period of time (like gift cards) and some of them go unspent which allows them to keep the money etc.

A system can be private and be funded in any of those ways. The incentive to provide privacy is that it allows them to out-compete other payment systems without privacy, and then they get more deposits/transactions/unclaimed funds.

The primary reason this doesn't exist isn't that companies wouldn't provide it, it's that there are various laws that effectively prohibit transaction processing systems that provide meaningful cryptographic privacy guarantees.

This is where a lot of people had hope for blockchain -- most of those laws apply to the payment processor and it doesn't inherently require any payment processor entity for them to apply to. But with that comes a lot of other disadvantages (limited transaction volume, wasteful energy consumption, lack of a controlling party to provide up-front resources to address early user experience issues), not to mention the speculation-inducing deflationary nonsense, which would have to be overcome before it could expect to become popular with ordinary people.

Enough of those might eventually be addressed enough to make such systems enter common usage, but we would obviously be better off to do something about the laws prohibiting cryptographically private payment processing systems using ordinary payment processors instead of forcing people onto these ugly workarounds for something everybody should have a right to anyway. It's still not any of the government's business what books I read.
Note they said "everything I've needed", not "everything I need" or "everything I will ever need".

The most charitable reading is that everything they have learned about software engineering was self-taught, and that completing the degree is a poor investment of time vs. more self-learning or learning-on-the-job.
From what they said in the announcement they are able to get a lot of revenue from selling cataloguing software to libraries. Sounds like a different use case than GoodReads.
http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=AKEN.MX&currency=MXN&name=Ar...

763.84m

No decline, no turbulence, an entirely flat line the entire time.

Weirdly, this one, unlike every other one I've tried, runs at a crawl.
Indeed, thanks. Do you have any recommendations on which ones are the best? They have so many. Also, looking for Italian versions of those games, as some of my friends would be more comfortable playing in Italian, I found out that Quiplash is soon released in multiple languages [1], hopefully soon!

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111940/Quiplash_2_InterL...
>In Japan, the elders often live alone, sustain their life by themselves: it's a matter of proud. Even contact with their own kids is often sparse

I doubt this is true. In most Asian cultures including Japan the children live very close to parents and take care of them all their life.
Much has changed since Friedman was in vogue. The application of such economic theories has left a solid portion of Americans in the dust. Fully free markets are a great idea when houses cost 2x median annual income, a single family income can support a spouse and ~2 children, etc.
90% of people being tested coming back negative either completely upends or misses my narrative depending on the details on the population being tested. there's just not enough there in your hand waiving to address.

dismiss if you will but I was here where within a week everyone went from completely healthy to having the flu.

i don't believe I'm the first to suggest that test based results are completely bogus.
America takes the phrase, "Give me liberty, or give me death" very seriously. It's unlikely we'd be ok with massive federal clampdowns on our personal behavior. We also are a nation of 50 states with their own (differing) rules and governments and we aren't likely to usurp that system because of this.
Sam spent like 10 years in meditation studies before ever returning to college, but also dabbles in political debates (mostly to the left) so there ya go.

In-app purchases? Mmm I thought you subscribed monthly and then it's all unlocked. I can share a free month to anyone so e-mail me (see my bio / description.) Worth the try.
> ... catching less than 50% of virus sized particles.

This is true but irrelevant.

You want to catch larger globs that carry virus-sized particles, and almost any material will help to some extent with this.
Agree, the title could be improved to convey the message more clearly and directly
The key insight that made me want to post this is we should actively try to move to an older ventilator design (does bulk of the work, not optimized but easier and simpler). I have encountered this in my life as a software engineer. MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) in the mid 90s was hard to grok .. you had this huge book by Jeff Prosise to absorb. I cracked it when I chanced upon a manual for MFC 1.0. It was super simple and down to the essentials. All the fancy stuff they added from 1.0 to 5.0 was icing and made things complex.

I think people who are actually working on ventilators should seriously consider going for a simpler design .. it might be this or might be something else. The person in this article also said he is happy to give the design away.

I think if the Malaria Med+Antibiotics treatment from the French study don't work (we'll know in about a week I think), we need to move to a war footing and start producing ventilators. My back of the envelope math has scared the crap out of me (best case 500K Canadians dead, worse case 3 million).

I really hope someone who can make a difference sees this.
We were and some were being mocked who wore them and called racist (this is when the virus was only in wuhan).

This downplay is one of the major reasons for the slow public adoption of safety measures.
Yeah, and running something like LibraryThing would be quite inexpensive. It doesn't need a lot of updates, there would be minimal problems if a data leak happened (it's fairly open anyway AFAIK), and book cataloging is very light on resources. You could probably get away with a single developer dedicating a handful of hours in a given week, probably less, and hosting would be in the noise as well.
could this privacy policy also mean that if something illegal was collected on the site it is now yours and you are the sole owner?
Telling the truth ("anybody that needs a test gets a test"), taking responsibility ("I don't take responsibility at all [for the lack of testing]"), making tough calls instead of leaving states and cities to fend for their own.

And the switch from "this is a hoax" to "I always knew this was a pandemic" doesn't inspire confidence either.
All of them at one point said it was to serve underserved consumers. They changed their tune after the antennas and satellite cost was higher than they thought.