skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epidemiologists know a lot about epidemics, but they're not necessarily as good at figuring out the total effect of pandemic in the long term (for example, how economic effects could kill large numbers via suicide and general want). It's very important to have people looking at the total picture.

Beyond that, even the politics is not falling in predictable lines. There was a report this morning that the mayor of New York wants to reopen the schools in a few weeks.
Ugh, the API is down again. Not a lucky day.
https://corona.lmao.ninja/all

Will ping you when it is back onine.
Hi, I've often worked in corporate environments where it wasn't necessarily allowed to spin up a VPC, or to create an internet gateway. In the time I was creating this, many companies who are in healthcare or are otherwise locked down, could not use kops due to its requirement for an internet gateway. I created keights to fill that space, so that anyone could run Kubernetes in AWS, even in air gapped environments. This is pretty common nowadays, by the way - enterprises have a team to manage all AWS accounts, and they set up VPCs and connectivity ahead of time, before development teams get access to the account; access to the internet is through a proxy only, and no one can modify the network. Not to mention, most of the access to Amazon's services can now be done without an internet gateway, using VPC endpoints. Keights fits well in this world of locked down network access, and it works well even in GovCloud (you would need to build the AMI there as my public AMIs cannot be shared with GovCloud accounts).

Keights and Kubespray both use Ansible, however they do it in a very different way. (Disclaimer: I haven't used kubespray, only looked over the documentation). Keights uses Ansible roles to build CloudFormation stacks to produce a cluster. The nodes in the cluster bootstrap themselves using systemd services that are baked into the AMI; Ansible does not run on the nodes in the cluster. Kubespray, as I understand it, uses a traditional Ansible approach of pushing configurations over ssh to nodes in its inventory. To my knowledge, it does not actually build the machines in the cluster, it just configures existing machines. Keights does the full end-to-end automation to bring up a working cluster, including the creation of all required AWS resources (autoscaling groups, a load balancer for the apiserver, security groups, etc - though you do provide certain resources as parameters, for example your VPC ID and subnet IDs, due to the aforementioned requirements to fit into locked-down environments).
Tech giants are donating millions of masks to health care workers in the U.S.
I am not a fan of Chávez or Maduro or Evo Morales and that sort. There was some more optimism when that political wave started, and I in particular used to be more optimistic about them than I am today. This is probably true of a number of American left leaning people.

I have not been to Cuba. I hope to some day. (I speak fluent Spanish btw and hear about these places in their original, local non-US sources.) I do understand that they are said to have good health care outcomes, which is especially remarkable given how the rest of their economic system is going. The United States health care system is very terrible.

> Here's a video [2] where Chavez is seizing the means of production on national TV.

Yeah he does look kind of like a dumbass appropriating buildings on a whim without investigation or any kind of review (for the TV cameras and that silly applause), that was pretty much his way, but it's important to note that Bernie Sanders is not Hugo Chávez and can't be held responsible for the actions of another person, living or dead.
Try "actual" content videos. You can press ctrl+alt+shift+D to open a debug overlay that shows the playback resolution.

The actual DRM limitations also vary by content (and region) - with some titles I get 720p on Linux while some other titles are limited to SD, while I get 1080p on Windows Edge on those same titles.
Battling Coronavirus Inside a NYC Hospital
Fully anonymized medical history/demographics data across countries and open to the public.

This would allow crowd sourcing and statistics to be applied by the best minds in the world.

I know regulations can make this difficult but many difficult boundaries are being pressed now.
If you want a good palette, try https://gif.ski
You can skip this clickbait:

> he would prioritize keeping people across America in isolation to “flatten the curve” of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is literally the content of this article
I've tried Mendeley, Zotero and Jabref and stuck with Jabref for my masters thesis. Couldn't recommend it enough, even though haven't given Zotero a serious try.

Synced bibtex and pdfs folder in linux and windows with dropbox, worked like a charm.The best part was configuring it based on this blog post (http://griechenzicken.blogspot.com/2011/10/configuring-jabre...) and making pdf links work on both machines. I wrote a blog post about why Jabref, but unfortunately it is in portuguese (https://gtpedrosa.github.io/blog/gerenciador-de-refer%C3%AAn...).
About the creator: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/business/media/coronaviru...
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

> Mozilla Firefox up to 720p
Yeah... but that last part is crucial "... when they visit their website"

It's like a title saying "US government tracks travelers when they visit the US"

I wouldn't right off the bat assume that the US gov't is tracking all travelers all the time. I'd assume it's only when they land in the US
At the time of OCaml choice at JS (I guess it was circa 2008-2010; I also strongly suspect that it was not at the start of JS) Haskell already had multithreaded RTS with very green threads, software transactional memory and multicore support.

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.6.1/docs/html/libraries... (Control.Concurrent contains forkIO - thus, green threads!)

Guessing from what information is available to me, it was a matter of personal preferences, not technical decision.

PS
From [2] in some other comment, it really was a matter of personal choice.

[2] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2038036

At [3] it can be found that ghc had green threads at 2002.

[3] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/5.04/docs/html/base/index...
Feds charge Venezuelan President Maduro, others with narco-terrorism
I think that when you look at both the properties of the virus (fairly long-tailed inhibition period, large proportion of carriers not displaying any symptoms, being infectious even after becoming healthy yourself, life-long consequences even for people who survive, aerosol spread and so on) and the results so far (the human lives + medicine systems of so far only a few countries + The Next Big Depression), it is not 'a fairly dull viral weapon'.

Sure, if you think of it in terms of being a weapon, it's not an armageddon weapon, but very few madmen want those anyway.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
>I think it's weird to point at Nancy Pelosi given the current state of politics. McConnell and the republicans denounce any Democratic bill that is passed as partisan, so why would this be any different?

This is not about the current state of politics. People are dying. Immediate measures to fix this need to be taken to save their lives. This is not the time for politicians to push their agenda, even they believe it makes the world a better place.

It makes sense to talk about all the things that you mentioned you liked after this emergency is over, so that we can be better prepared for next time. But right now, the bills should be hyper-focused on what to do now, to deal with the emergency that is happening now, so that we can resolve it now, so people don't die tomorrow.

(FWIW I agree with most of what was included. It's just not the time to discuss it)
These are the same kinds of assumptions that lead engineers to think they can build a [any product] clone in a weekend. It's unlikely that the problem or constraints are nearly as simple as one may think.

Consider: single auth across all the state's services, external APIs, identity verification, address verification, employer ID verification, federal/military ID verification, income/tax verification, phone verification, bank account information, translation into multiple languages, accessibility features, etc. Also, there's probably a lot of legacy infrastructure and process.

Also, if "ability to burst to 10x normal filings per week that might happen once every 40 years" wasn't in the spec, I think they were right not to engineer for it.
I can confirm! My high school was in Slovakia and I know other people had the same experience with Pascal.
1. What happens in the middle, between a lock-down bringing down the infected numbers and vaccine.

I've read a few things from epidemiologists, but there seems to be little discussion in the wider media.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-th...

2. What's going on with the PCR reagent shortage? Where are they produced? Why is it hard to make it quickly? etc.
A thread from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17606929

A little bit from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=319975

Related from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18977461

(Links are for the curious. Reposts are fine after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
I'm not sure this is true. Bosh's site says "Which detection method is used in Bosch’s COVID-19 test? The COVID-19 test is based on a combination of sample preparation (including process controls): Multiplex PCR (Polymerase-Chain-Reaction), μArray-detection to allow the identification of SARS-CoV-2."
I had a quick look at Zotero's github but couldn't quite work out how they render their desktop UI - is this an electron-style app or a browser extension of some sort?
The magic import is great, but I wish it understood links from more sources, including https://www.semanticscholar.org/
Pretty sure I'm the author of the plugin you're talking about :)

I did a few updates recently, but I welcome any additions/PRs anyone wants to send.
The stimulus package includes guaranteed loans for small businesses.
I've used this for years, it's one of the first applications I add to a new build. Keeps all of my reading synced including backup copies of the material.
So does Zotero.
How to get Verizon and AT&T data-cap fees waived during the pandemic
Don't they already do that? They are part of the MDN Product Advisory Board since 2017.

Blog post of the announcement: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/10/building-unified-documenta...
There are assholes in a 1B+ country. Shocker.
China to temporarily bar entry of foreigners to stop spread of coronavirus
I think we're going to find that libertarian leaning countries fared far worse in this pandemic than authoritarian ones.
China understands what matters most and that is controlling the narrative. An authoritarian government excels at manipulating the raw data and thus the narrative.
I don't think anyone taking the money will be doing any stock buybacks
SARS-CoV2 shows no signs of genetic manipulation. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

The absence of a confirmed source does not put disproven conspiracy theories about its origin on the same footing as actual science.
Of course shutting the institute is severely irrational, just like the parent comment.

Spouting the nutjob conspiracy theory and complaining about how everything is labeled a conspiracy theory. Then effectively calling for war.

Some insane people with real brain issues on this forum. Everything is a big conspiracy and the big shadow government tries to hunt them down in their shitty Alabama basement.
Yeah, no, I voted Trump in 2016 thinking he couldn't help but be an improvement on Hillary/Biden-style neoliberalism, and I was wrong about that.
This has been essentially the tileset approach for a long time.
Obviously its implied because that's the influx of patients a lot of hospitals are seeing.
> ...here's my current ranking of the candidates: 1. Sanders 2. Trump 3. Biden (well, more like 999. Biden)...

> ...literally can't fathom the idea that a person could hold my stance...

I'm not blinded by rage, but these two top choices really do seem incompatible. Is your political goal mostly to shake up the status quo?
What were the provisions?
Why doesn't everyone just use Tor?
The author is Nassim Taleb. A highly respect figure on HN among many other circles. You might have also heard of one of his books "The Black Swan"
As per:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

In China:
Total Confirmed = 81,782
Total Recovered = 74,181
Total Dead = 3,291
--------------------------
Remaining = 4,370

* I am assuming the number 4,370 will fall either into Recovered or Dead.

Can someone confirm this theory?

Is this going to the same for US?

Total Confirmed Cases = 69,684
Total Recovered = 619
Total Dead = 1,049
--------------------------------
Remaining = 68,016

Does this mean the fate of 68,016 not known yet in US?
A similar concerning number exists for Italy too.
Great guide on How to create a strong password
Incidentally this property is why most of the "translations" of APL expressions into another language you'll see online are cheating- they assume a specific rank for arguments and "bake in" an appropriate degree of mapping.
I agree that the graphics (with mods) were acceptable but the inconsistent UI made it more difficult than it needed to be. Some of the AI could use some tweaks as well. It definitely is a fun game (dropping lava on an orc/troll army and watching them run was awesome)
Data by itself doesn't cut it. That nurse in London didn't commit suicide because of data. She did is because she couldn't face the reality of treating so many patients dying in agony.
France Transfers Coronavirus Patients on High-Speed Train with Mobile ER
A reasonable, modern ICT class would be infrequent, and replace the "Library" classes I had about once a year in the late 1990s. We were taught how to find a book using the library catalogue… and I've forgotten the rest.

> the university admissions process…

University admissions for computer science is mostly demonstrating a strong ability in mathematics and reasoning, and an interest in the subject.

The ICT or BTEC qualifications are pretty much irrelevant for showing ability, but they might show interest. An open source project (or any project) shows a strong interest.

> Japanese / French…

I'd guess you have a lot more interest in Japanese than French

> Why are history lessons built around remembering which year King John died?

They are not.

They want you to understand how events in the past shaped later events, society, and the progress or downfall of civilization. Reeling off some dates is worth very few marks in the exam, although knowing the sequence of significant events will help any argument that depends on them. [2]

> Why don't maths classes include any work with computers?

Because it's better to learn the fundamentals, before using tools to take shortcuts.

> the written exam requires them to write syntactically correct Python code

Seems unlikely. The example exam paper at [1] asks for pseudocode.

[1] https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/computer-science-and-it/gcse...

[2] https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/history/gcse/history-8145/sp...
> definition of "mostly dead"

It's easy enough to understand — just look at when they were very much alive.

"UbiquitousApplications:Embedded Systems to Mainframe"

http://www.davethomas.net/papers/ubiquitous1995.pdf
It does dispatch on the types of all arguments, ... that's the point of it.

Some sample code (I modified it to be commutative on the argument types):

https://gist.github.com/arunbear/caef7546d297c01fddbd3f67117...
What is particularly infuriating is this specific leader made it much worse by doing things like closing the pandemic response team a couple years ago and calling it a big Democratic hoax until recently.

TBH, it's very difficult to look at that 538 chart and not come to the conclusion that a large portion of Americans are idiots. And I'm not even talking about whether or not they support Trump, I'm talking about how it is quite clear they are not able to make logical inferences of true cause and effect (e.g. what Trump is possibly responsible for and what he's not), instead they are just like reeds in the wind blowing whichever way their TV sets or friends tell them.
> Solaris, Illumos, the *BSDs, Windows -- all tried to emulate the Linux kernel ABI, and could not do a good enough job, so they all pretty much abandoned the project. The Linux kernel ABI won and that's that.

I think the fact that they tried to emulate the ABI is a much stronger argument for the ABI than the fact that they abandoned doing so…
I've never used elasticsearch and only had a brief toy project with Algolia. The demo on the github repo looks awesome.

Can this run on top of my postgres database?
https://nationalpost.com/news/a-brief-terrifying-history-of-...

> SARS has not re-emerged naturally, but there have been six escapes from virology labs: one each in Singapore and Taiwan, and four separate escapes at the same laboratory in Beijing.
2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9914534

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153406

2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14191186

(Links for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
I started using zotero after reading about it in the nytimes, I guess it's about 11 years ago. I'm pretty sure it's this article, because its the same date as the first book I added. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/defeating-b...

I mostly just used it for keeping lists of books with tags (to read, which library has them, on my kindle etc) and some notes. The bibliography report is nice. I know its is targeted toward research, but it really is good for people who just like to read books if for nothing else to remember what they have read!

I think the really nice thing about it is how easy it is to add books. When I was using a kindle a lot, just add it from amazon. Recently I've been reading a lot more books from archive.org, and again its really easy to add it, just one click.
during WW2 people were glued to BBC broadcasts. people in shelter want to know whats happening outside the moment it happens

Same reason why news readership has gone up a huge amount this week
Bandwidth and latency being more important than perfect privacy in some cases.
It's a lot like languages that refuse to change syntax (Erlang vs Elixir, both still not that great on syntax) because it's a luddite adherence to cultural experience or thinking.

It shows a disregard for users and a self-imposed barrier to adoption. DF is horrid for usability. Just because I can screenshot notepad, print it out, and send mail on a turtle, does suffice to say I support an e-mail feature. Military squad mechanics are as byzantine as you can get.
The graphical version will have mouse support.
Since when do cover artists pay royalties?
How do you export?
Seems like a wiki but proprietary?
How do you have an economy that's more robust against disasters? The economy is built on work. If people aren't working then there's no economy. The only way around it is production by robots.
Far as I understand sk tested and quarantined contacts ill or not.
One day when I am retired and my kids are grown up I will have the proper bandwidth for DF and play it. Until them I am an admiring fanboy from afar.
Thanks for the TLDR (TCBDR?) ... this message is still important given Trump's desire to restart the US economy (by having everyone return to work) and his continuous dismissal of and disagreement with the US Surgeon General. Gates for president actually seems like a pretty good idea at this point.
Because like the current US administration, local officials punish and silence the bearers of bad or ideologically-inconsistent news.
This is not productive commentary. Looks like his numbers are true, thus his statement is worth something.
The fact is this is a good pandemic to practice on. We are very very lucky, to even be debating the economy right now.

If this virus was far deadlier and affected young people, I think the tone on this very site would change in a heartbeat.
One thing worth checking out if you're looking for DF-Lite with nice graphics: Odd Realm.
Try this one weird trick for a flatter ~belly~ curve!
well I stand corrected on that, it looks like he does have some experience with what he's writing about

However I don't agree with the comparison of the 2008 bailouts with the current stimulus bill at all. Those definitely were corporate socialism, but I think we have progressed as a country since then.
I thought Tor had exit nodes set up by the government. Is this not true? Serious question.
Consumer SSDs are typically rated for 0.1–0.5 drive writes per day, for a warranty period that's usually 5 years but sometimes just 3 years on low-end drives. So a single pass of sequential writes uses up somewhere between 2 and 10 days of warrantied write endurance, which is a more conservative measure than actual expected functional lifespan.
What should governments be doing for maximum practical containment?
I did that O Level without actually doing the course.

I paid £4.50 to sit the exam sight unseen, did the programming exercises and got a grade B.

Just saw it as a cheap and easy qualification. :-)
I was thinking about a particular announcement where Mozilla announcing that they are working with Microsoft on MDN.

Color me surprised when I discovered that also Google is mentioned there! Here is the announcement: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/18/mozilla-brings-micr...

Reading that announcement makes b1tr0t's statement "We've started to consolidate docs under web.dev" even worse, as they previously said they are gonna contribute to MDN, but now they have turned and use their own shit anyways.

Screw you Google.
I haven't used it in a couple of years, but then it seemed to be using Qt/GTK/something.

I believe there is a browser extension too, but the main program is (was) a non-electron stand-alone deal.
What does successful containment look like 3 months, 6 months, and a year from now?
I believe most of them are the same, but with a different name. So, for my convenience, I don't need to think what citation style a journal uses, I just go and download the citation style with its name, even if I have the same style installed for another journal.
Have you ever used Tor? It's incredibly slow.
It's interesting that NOW people are concerned with this impact from the economy, yet when people became alcoholics from getting fired when the economy was good, no one seems to care.
Covid-19 and the Creative Economy: Takeaways from Patreon’s Data Science Team
I upvoted you. I agree with decentralized hubs. The future will be city states and a lot of Singapores rather than nation states.
Another good one:

“It is really tragic that the economic effects of this are very dramatic. Nothing like this has ever happened to the economy in our lifetimes,” Gates said. “But money, you know bringing the economy back and doing money, that’s more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life. And so we’re going to take the pain in the economic dimension — huge pain — in order to minimize the pain in the disease and death dimension.”
Because it's horrendously inefficient to bounce your traffic all over the place. Most people won't trade a 10x slowdown for abstract privacy gains.
Make sure you have the .gif extension on your filename. Fixed it for me on Catalina. See https://github.com/justinfrankel/licecap/issues/71#issuecomm...
It was meant more as a "there is no real response to a contentless statement like this" comment, though I admit people don't seem to be taking it that way.
> Weird that people still put up with that

Well, they don't, right, at least those who are aware of and comfortable with alternatives? My impression is that the market segment for radio in 'normal' times is very small, at least compared to what it used to be.
usually shipping the samples to a lab. this test can be done on the spot in the hospital by a doctor.