skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Some people survive and doctors have a moral and ethical obligation to not throw their hands up in the air. Furthermore, without informed consent or advance directives, it's unfair and unethical to play god.

The circumstances of this situation is that ventilated COVID patients often drown in their own plasma, get bacterial pneumonia or their lungs are irreparably destroyed. Like ECMO, this sort of ventilation is a hail mary procedure to try to salvage patients.

Even COVID survivors with mild symptoms, they may have reduced lung capacity due to lung damage.. and that may well be permanent. I suspect lung transplant lists will be backlogged the world over due to this pandemic.
Yes - Unity supports the Quest (through Link mode). You can check out the XR Interaction Toolkit [1] for an easy way to get going with teleport locomotion.

[1] https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.xr.interaction.t...
One of the biggest reasons the rate may be too high is the method of attribution. For example, in Italy, post-mortem testing of people who were origially presumed dead of other illnesses accounted for a large portion of testing. When it turned out they had COVID-19 at the time of death, the cause was attributed to COVID-19 regardless of comorbidities: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-tho...

In other words, many of those who died today would have died within the year. Many were already in and out of hospitals for serious diseases.

So, not only is the IFR wildly unknown without serology tests. The CFR itself is also severely biased.

Currently in the U.S. you cannot get tested unless you have severe, life-threatening illnesses.

The fact that the U.S. has such a low CFR speaks very well of healthcare in the U.S.... considering the majority of those tested have severe symptoms.
Last time i saw they use many contractors and third parties to deploy mini data centers in other data centers. They ship them servers to install. Cloudflare doesn't have many private data centers.
That's not even true. I've had pain breathing for weeks, they still won't test. They prescibed corticosteroids, antibiotics and bed rest. They won't test until you're nearly dead. the CFR here is wildly overestimated.
Yeah, I'm seeing layoffs in sectors that I never would have expected to see layoffs. Its amazingly bad for everyone.

But don't worry, the government is here to save everyone! /s

We're definitely not volunteering for this every year.
That’s awesome. I’m not evangelizing it or saying you should use it as I did say “where appropriate” and at your startup it doesn’t seem appropriate.

There are probably 10x more engineers that have experience with k8s than with guix though so ... perhaps that could be a factor though not a reason to change out the infra completely.
Probably best for the code review StackExchange forum, actually.
As others have mentioned, they have ways of writing OCaml specifically to not trigger the GC or perform any excessive allocations. Helps when you have your own version of the compiler and a branch of the language itself.

This is talked about with an example in this talk around 18m30s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysBMdx9w6k

Also as someone else mentioned, Jane Street doesn't try regularly competing (to my knowledge as someone in the industry) at trading horizons that demand lowest the lowest possible latency.
Could you elaborate on your what your stack looks like and what tools you use other than Guix? What made you choose Guix over Nix?
Basically, VR as a platform requires a completely different input system if you want to make anything but the most basic game. Game engines by themselves fit very well with digital (buttons) and analog (sticks, triggers) inputs, but none handle positional and rotational inputs properly.

Yes it's rather easy to have the 3D hands tracked ingame, but VR requires much more affordable interactions than a regular 2D game, and that is way trickier to handle.

A practical example: In the Half-Life games, a common trope/puzzle is finding a door (or some other blockage) that has one of those "submarine hatch" type hand crank to open, but it has been misplaced.

In the 2D games, you just need to pick up the crank, go to the door, and hold the interact button on the placed crank to spin it. But in the latest installment (Alyx, which is in VR), you have to actually grab it with your hand, carry it to the door, snap it into place and spin it.

So now technically you have to handle physics joints between the hand models and the crank, ensuring it visually stays attached, but also tracking the position such that if the player moves away while holding the crank their hand doesn't just stay there forever.

And since the player is still physically allowed to move their arms with the model attached to the crank, you have to ensure other interactions that depend on tracked position do not engage, such as grabbing items from the backpack.

That is way more effort than just checking line of sight to a collision box while a key is down, and playing an animation. And writing such a system (even with the provided frameworks) is still a lot of effort.

That, and the level design has to change a lot between 2D and VR games, due to how a player can do tricky things like crouching to see under objects, and you as a designer/developer can never stop the camera from moving.
I'm not an expert on the topic but that sounds like the Fediverse.
They should have taken timely precautions instead of trying to go all out after they found out the cat was out of the bag. I find it apalling that they took forever to cancel Chinese/Iranian/Italian flights, but now it's time to disregard all civil liberties.
LISA, SCALE, Supercomputing, Gluecon, local DevOps Days, etc.

The thing is that cheap conferences depend on either a company running it for sales purposes (and mostly not then for big events) or volunteers providing cheap labor--both of which limit the options. Volunteers mostly get tired of running conferences when there are large commercial interests involved--as happened with Hadoop.
Thanks for the explanations.

Isn't there a way to oxygenate blood outside of the body like dialysis? Why isn't that used more?
I really wish people would develop some terminology to differentiate b/w the antibody screen and the viral test. A cheap and rapid viral test would significantly change the course of the pandemic but this is not it.
Steam game with price that breaks UI (depending on location)
Wow, this is very interesting and right up my alley. One of my many random hobbies is collecting images of artefacts and I have a huge dir dedicated just to ancient swords. Bronze tends to look very similar due to the casting methods but it's cool to see an older iteration and compare it to say the Scythian (my personal favorites), Mycenaean, Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, etc.

Funny enough, the ones I have marked as oldest are called "The Swords of Arslantepe" [1] (which the article mentions in passing) from the same general region as this one, and are said to be also ~5k old, and of a very similar chemical composition. The weapons of the royal tombs of Ur [2] are right behind these in age.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Swords+of+Arslantepe&iax=im...

[2] http://sumerianshakespeare.com/117701/118301.html

edit: From the article, a new one to me: "and the sword found in the Tokat Museum in Turkey", now I have a new something to search for!
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There was another thread about someone at a University making a testing kid and there were replies of scientists explaining all the materials needed.

My question about these. This one specifically says it tests for "COVID-19 IgM / IgG" anti-bodies. Could these kits also test positive for other non-SARS-cov2 Coronaviruses in the family, or are they accurate enough they only test for SARS-cov2?
It's usually just that the company doesn't want to have to deal with potential support calls that come in about their website not working on x os in x browser, so they do the bare minimum to disable it - then if a user complains about it not working, they can plausibly deny supporting the os/browser configuration.
Debian offers a dropbear shell in initramfs which you can use to SSH in and provide keys. I only have a handful of servers so currently I do this manually on a reboot but it would not be difficult to automate using for example SSH keys unlocking key material. The downside of this is your initramfs and kernel are on an unencrypted disk so a physical attacker could feasibly backdoor them. I'm sure there's some secure boot UEFI / TPM solution here.
Please make the option to save game. It's so interesting but I just can't take out more than 15 mins of time at a time. Maybe I'll run it on ec2 rdp until that feature hasn't arrived.
Why? I mean, sounds good if you are sick, but rather you stay home.
Do we know for sure that it* doesn't have an animal reservoir?

[*] The common cold is a half dozen distinct viruses.
Have you seen MMIX? It's my favorite RISC architecture (unlike MIX, which isn't RISC)!
So because this tests for antibodies, are you saying someone could test positive, but it's because they got it like a month ago? (e.g. this is more similar to those tests you have to take before you start at a hospital; so they can see what booster vaccines you need?)
Can you say a bit about how you know this? Like are all these trackers you tested compared against polysomnography/EMG? Wouldn't everything of course be not as good as that (since we're treating that as 100% perfect?

How do you know that the certified sleep tech is reporting good results? How do you know that the results have good external validity (i.e. the results are not due to the unnatural sleep study environment with EMG attached and being forced to sleep at a certain time in an artificial bedroom?
Oops, I wasn't trying to reopen an argument. I didn't recall us having discussed it before (still don't, but I forget things easily).

And yeah, I'd agree with your last sentence.
Needed: A metronome app that counts for family squeezing ambu-bags
We are a group of citizen scientists from government, academia, and industry. The nation will run out of ventilators. Full stop. Family will be pressed into service to ventilate their loved ones. Make a metronome phone app to keep them squeezing at a good rate (10-12 per minute in most cases). Please.
It’s a huge struggle to stay motivated during a crisis, especially when your co-workers are leaving. And this goes for founders, too.

Some show on HGTV about crazy houses interviewed a guy with a crazy big house. He had stuff in his house like a private shooting range.

He said he had flown more than a hundred missions while in the Air Force and been shot at in all of them. He figured commercial real estate would be easier to deal with than that and he ended up making a killing, probably because he had nerves of steel compared to most people.

Right now is not a good time to do something like volunteer in a homeless shelter to get perspective, but you can read up on the problems of people who have it worse than you. Everyone is in a world of hurt right now.

Everyone.

Even rich and established people are scared and trying to sell off assets to cover cash flow needs.

Your burden isn't particularly bigger than that of anyone else during this crisis. If you don't show up and rise to the occasion, tomorrow is worse.

Humanity has survived other big crises, like World War II. This isn't the first time and it probably won't be the last.

I'm trying to be helpful. Recent years were much tougher for me than this is proving to be. I spent several years homeless, etc.

(insert encouraging words or grim humor here, whichever is your cup of tea)
The United States of America

now (more) americans get to experience to misery, terror, and death that the u.s. has exported to to rest of the world in order to fuel its economic "growth"
> from what I've read it seems like

You're asking if a cannabis business is a good idea and you've never tried it?

Drop what you're doing right now, go to a pot shop, and get stoned. The easiest way to start is with a 5mg edible, and then work your way up to 15mg. If you can find the watermelon gummies that are pure sativa, it's a very gentle product for beginners.

I've never worked in the industry, but what I can tell you is that someone who's inauthentic won't go far. If you're worried about killing your career... IMO, for every lameo who won't hire you, there's someone who will get excited about you! Just don't act stoned during the interview.
Thanks for the very interesting submission! The followup post ("Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers Redux") is also great! The photo of the Fontana di Diana Efesina (Tivoli, Italy) is amazing. Looks like something from Angkor Wat.

https://pruned.blogspot.com/2013/02/gardens-as-crypto-water-...
One suggestion: put figure 1A from the test kit study on your page in huge / reactive size. Many stakeholders concern themselves with the mechanism of the test — if you make it easy for them to know how it works, then they’re more likely to buy. Way to go
I completely agree. I often use the car accidents as a statistical bar. Its really a big part of what made me realize how serious covid19 would be if we didn't adjust pretty aggressively. The numbers really could have eclipsed car deaths and that is already a huge number.

I don't think that is going to happen now, though, thankfully.
The bane of any SIEM is data ingestion costs. I need to put every log in it but with cloud, not only do I have to worry about resource costs but also data bases pricing models for the SIEM license. Imagine I need to ingest data from 500K endpoints including 500k users and their web,ip,dns,authentication and endpoint event logs (Sysmon for example). Can I do this for under $6/user ($3M) including support costs?
Edit: just a thought here, perhaps onprem agents to summarize logs before shipping to cloud storage might help?

Also, since this seems fairly new, do you have SOAR platform integration already? That's a major selling point these days, I need it to play well with automation.

Lastly,many have tried and failed to compete with Splunk's query language.Does this have a query langauge that can compete? I don't need it to detect threats out of the box, if I need a SIEM then I also need to rapidly change correlation logic and for that I need a good query language which is very rare even with top dollar traditional SIEMs.
That wouldn't generate an unusual number of 'fever' readings, and then a pretty simple model would do some accounting for repeated use of each thermometer (so 'extra' normal readings shouldn't be reducing the expected number of 'fever' readings).
As wmf mentioned, you may not be able to change the configuration of the VPN client.

You could, however, simply delete the default route yourself (from a terminal).
Comorbidity accounts for the vast majority of the deaths reported in Italy.

We cannot tell yet whether the total number who will die this season will be significantly greater or whether it is that the rate of deaths has increased.
I've tried this before in a Python script but quickly got rate limited by the 300 tweet update limit [0]. Does this get around that?

[0] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/rate-limits
This current situation had me wondering how hard it would be to coordinate a regular -- maybe not yearly -- global self-isolation for say 2-3 weeks at a time.

Aside from the difficulties of getting everyone in the world to agree that the first three weeks of February during a leap year are observed through social distance, it doesn't seem like it would be as bad on a recurring basis as it is during an emergency like this. You could plan for your self-isolation in advance, so there wouldn't be a rush for supplies the way there is now; you would already know not to schedule anything for February; you'd probably still have to solve some money problems for a large number of people, since being able to WFH probably anti-correlates with living paycheck to paycheck.

If you could actually eliminate -- or at least, dramatically reduce the incidence of -- common colds and seasonal flu through such a scheme, it would probably be worth both from a QoL standpoint for the everyone in the world (would you trade 3 weeks of cabin fever every four years for never having another actual fever?) and from an economic standpoint (three weeks of predictable low productivity is almost certainly better than the unpredictable constant costs associated with illness and death).
What material/chemical is on the test kit cotton swab that can determine if you Covid-19 based on a saliva sample? How does that work?
Lots of people, for lots of illnesses, are infectious without really having any symptoms.
All browsers on iOS are webkit (read: safari) under the hood. Firefox and Chrome are just skins.
A better headline is "Sword in Venetian monastery collection discovered to be 5,000 years old"
If you're over 40, and you cough, there's a chance you microtear your lungs. If you cough up blood for weeks, yes... you will increase pulmonary fibrosis (fancy word for lung scars). That's true for every flu you get... but this one is way harder on the lungs than any flu I've ever had.

I'm having mild symptoms, but it's been weeks, fevers come and go, and honestly it's like nothing I've ever had before.
As a web developer, I've never believed Apple has hindered web development on their platform, purposefully or not. [...] As I see it, their focus is on the user, which is why they've been slow to adopt APIs that are privacy concerns, or drain battery, or have other negative implications.

As another web developer, I find this entirely unrealistic. Apple's QoI even for popular new features like the HTML5 media elements was a bug-ridden mess for years before they fixed even basic problems. Conveniently, having managed to break the de facto standard for serving video on the web that had been working for years up to that point (Flash players), that left native apps as the only reliable way to do a lot of even quite simple things you might want to do with multimedia content. There is a deep irony that some of the breakage was because they were playing those media elements through effectively a separate plugin of their own that wasn't properly integrated into Safari and consequently broke other basic web behaviours like cookies.

At this point, the idea that Apple's motivations for the constant breakage and even severe regression of web functionality on iOS devices are entirely altruistic and for the benefit of their users is about as credible as Google and Facebook lobbying for privacy regulations because they want to decrease tracking on the Internet.
You could improve it by not tweeting in the first place.
"just making native apps"
The maximum, absent strong measures, will be immense due to the fact that some significant percentage of patients require intensive care/ventilation for weeks.

Imagine 5% of the world’s population requiring hospitalization all at roughly the same time. We don’t have 350,000,000 ventilators and hospital beds and health care professionals to take care of them, so the death toll and general suffering would be unimaginable.
> Maybe not since 1918

1957/58 H2N2 Asian flu 2 million global deaths atrributed

1968 H3N2 Hong Kong flu 1 million global deaths atrributed
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Supporting Safari reminds me of supporting Internet Explorer years ago.
Alright, I’ll go there. This is like claiming all German citizens were complicit with the Nazi movement, because it was legal.
"do a lot of people chose to use safari" No. On iOS, www = safari to almost all users.
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Yes that’s a valid critique, and one I agree with. I added my comment more as an elaboration for anyone else interested in more.
You're thinking of Solaria[1], from Isaac Asimov's Robot series. It's not a great society, all things considered.

We already have measles and chicken pox pretty well licked with vaccines. Smallpox was eliminated in the wild, polio is nearly there. There's no need to change our entire way of life permanently just for diseases we can easily vaccinate against.

1. https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Solaria
So any user on Edge can be hardware fingerprinted easily? I can see why other browsers stay far away.
For starters, in the early 1700s over 40% of NYC households enslaved people, not even in the south.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#C...
Why is nobody mentioning that distribution of apps is behind apple's doors and they can stop you from distributing anything they don't like or want for any reason?

On android, you can side load apps. On iOS, you can't.

You have to pay 30% cut if you are doing payments.

You have to adhere to their reviews and design guidelines. Which is OK but not ok if you are a small team and your users are fine with somewhat lacking app.
Be careful what you wish for! I don't for an instant believe that Apple's motivations here are purely for their users' benefit, but their actions do at least tend to have some beneficial effect on privacy. Letting them suffocate so Google's spyware-laden ecosystem becomes the only viable way to access the web on mobile devices would not be an improvement.
It's a sleep disorder- one that I probably would have been able to detect and mitigate decades earlier if I had the information I collect now (and the knowledge I have now).

"Quantified self" style tracking usually isn't going to unlock amazing improvements in perfectly healthy people, where heuristics like 'if you're tired, try sleeping more' work well. But you might be able to squeeze out some benefit- 5% here, 5% there- that you might not have captured without automated assistance.

And if your baseline is way worse than where you could be, then the potential benefits of tool-assisted tracking could be larger, and many 'common sense' strategies just don't help (enough).
You're absolutely right. Thankfully, in reality, I don't think the measures taken will be as strong as dismantling our civil liberties. However, if the dichotomy was either our civil rights at large (expand this to the economy, whatever you want) or the lives of the sick and elderly, I'd opt for saving human lives every time. I even think there is a Trek episode about this. Not very utilitarian of me I realize, but it's a trade off I'd make without hesitation.
This takes more effort than letting it just work. People running an OS more obscure than Linux are not the type that are going to call asking for support. We are used to supporting ourselves.

Did I mention it's the same code as a working configuration?

I think it's more likely somebody did not know how to properly parse user-agent and they blocked more than they intended to.
Something that would be a bit difficult when you only wanna use static files is code search. Would you need a backend for that or am I missing some obvious solution?
Haven't seen many people complaining about all the homeless people on social media much in the past two weeks.
And citizens had to fight tooth and nail, against institutions and against violence to achieve that. Trust me, US elites would have been happy to keep it that way.
For a checklist, you are better off contracting out a MSSP. If you pay for and maintain a SIEM, I hope you are extracting value from it.
It’s an era only just ending now with the emergence of Truffle/Graal.