skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, it's amazing that we can do so much about a virus that didn't even exist 5 months ago. The tech angle of the history feels like an Start Trek episode.
All my lonely days are over
Actually, it worked out very well for Windows 10. It's the most popular desktop operating system on the market with a global market share of about 40%.

Every top PC manufacturer has a line of touch models and they've been continuing to make new models every year for the past 7 years, so they must be selling...

I think a lot of people just repeat whatever Apple/Steve Jobs said, but if you look - Apple has a long history of poo-pooing things right up until they do it themselves. It's part of their corporate playbook. They switched to Intel CPUs after talking shit about them for decades. They switched to multi-touch after sticking to the single mouse button for so long, citing how more than one button was too complicated for people...

That's what's happening now. Apple is trying to turn their iPad into a Surface. Of course the people who are wanting more freedom than iOS allows are going to be waiting a long time as Apple slowly and carefully adds general computing capabilities (as they have been doing), but in a way that stifles any sort of competition where they don't want it.
There are people in the world who live with very serious lung issues who do home management daily in order to survive. Non-mechanical lung clearance methods are a part of their daily routine.

I've left some comments here on the possibility of doing lung clearance in the absence of sufficient numbers of ventilators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22640905

I don't really care to argue it with anyone. Please go find somewhere else to vent your spleen about how stressful this is. My recommendation is and has always been: If you have no other option and you are going to die because of it, you can try this.

That's it. That's my entire point. All the accusations that I'm up to something nefarious and dangerous are completely unfounded.

Take care. Try to not stress too much. Thank you for trying to be part of the solution.
Specifically,
https://i.imgur.com/ekiFd9S.png
You will see that the largest outbreaks occur at the same temperature gradients
I agree to use it on the desktop.

Next, get a book on bash or other shell. You’ll learn the most important parts quickly. Then do the same for Python.

If you make it that far, read the art of Unix programming to approach greybeard status.
> but I don't ever recall hearing the name Eugene Debs, or say the Haymarket massacre.

These are both covered in the popular APUSH American History courses.
points not discussed well in western media:

1) they do crashing clusters very well based on this paper. wellhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v....

2) Why packed train in Japan still hasn't caused outbreak They don't speak despite the high density in train (remember - it is utter silence on public transportation in Japan) and all wear masks.

3) Intensive use of chest CT scan to find out critical conditions. They have highest number of CT scan per 1000 people in the world. https://data.oecd.org/healtheqt/computed-tomography-ct-scann.... Plus, remember, PCR has high false negative and testing everyone is waste of resources (look at Italy. they tested everyone regardless of severeness of symptom and totally fucked.) You can test a lot only if well-prepared like Korea with SARS experience.
My take is that we need to strive for effective regulation (so I'm not coming at this from a 'government is always the problem' perspective, just thinking out loud).

There is some incentive for medical providers and insurers to use safe and effective treatments (good reputation is good business). For products that are not immediately physically dangerous, perhaps retrospectively evaluating their choices would be similarly effective for outcomes as the current approach of banning things until they are approved.
I'm working on a tool that compiles SQL queries into type-safe code. It's called sqlc and it already works really well: https://sqlc.dev

Go and PostgreSQL are currently supported, with Kotlin and MySQL support on the way.

https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc
> COM interop in .NET is two-way, and the consumer doesn't even need to be aware that there's a VM running the code that they're invoking.

I understand that's because .NET components loaded into a native process via COM are done so in-proc but using a single instance of the CLR, means you can't have .NET 2.0 CLR and .NET 4.0 CLR components loaded at the same time into the same process. I also understand (but am unsure) about what this means for AppDomains.

.NET Core simplifies things considerably: by being utterly broken when it comes to COM support and generally requiring each .NET Core program to have its own independent process rather than supporting multiple AppDomains in the same process (okay, that's a bit of hyperbole: .NET Core supports strongly-typed COM objects but they removed support for using `dynamic` with late-bound COM objects - and I can't find any documentation regarding loading .NET Core components via COM into a native VB6/C++ process.

> But in a similar vein, if you always compile .NET code targeting x86 rather than AnyCPU (which is the default for new .NET VS projects - not sure when that changed, but it's been several years), you get the same exact behavior as VB6.

I understand the default for .NET Framework application projects is still AnyCPU but a new option called "Prefer 32-bit" is selected by default. Whereas for library projects and all .NET Core projects the default is AnyCPU ("Prefer 32-bit" is only an option for *.exe projects).

> If I remember correctly, it was Office 2007 that killed it as an officially supported scenario (you could still do it, but if anything broke, you were on your own).

> That roughly coincides with WPF, and I don't think that's a coincidence - but it doesn't mean that WPF/.NET was the primary cause.

I understand the reason was because very few applications in the wild depended on this functionality (that's what Microsoft's telemetry in Windows is for) - I think the only real application that made full use of this was MS Binder (rip 2002) - and I only ever got annoyed at the times when Internet Explorer would load Office Word or Excel directly into the browser shell.

Office 2007's radically redesigned UI required much more screen real-estate - whereas Office's support for being loaded into an OLE window was back when people were running at 640x480 or 800x600 (if you were lucky!) and Office had 16px-sized toolbar buttons - which is another reason to avoid wasting developer time working on it.
A New Effort to Create Guidelines for Treating Covid-19 Patients
I once shaved my beard off and couldn't bring myself to throw it away. I kept it in a paper bag for... oh wow LOL I still have it. Facepalm.
There are also varying levels of drunk. At the legal limit in some places, some people might show very little impairment at all. It's impossible to compare without saying what level of alcohol or cannabis they're talking about and for what person with what tolerance. People react differently and consume different amounts.
Maybe you should expand your circle of friends.
That's literally what I'm asking. What else did they do besides testing? My understanding is they've been aggressively quarantining people and tracing their contacts via phone GPS tracking, credit card data, and video surveillance [1], which is what really matters. Whereas in the US, they're telling people that testing them wouldn't change the health provider's response, which would be that the patient should self-quarantine if able. Now I don't like this fact, but I don't see why they would be lying about it. And if we assume they're not lying, then testing really would seem pointless. The problem here (as far as I can tell) seems to not be the presence or lack of testing, but the inability and/or unwillingness to provide the same kind of response in the US as in South Korea.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-south-korea-spre...
Those are even made in the USA with a local supply chain.

http://www.alliedhpi.com/mcv.htm
At a 4.3% death rate if the same number were infected you would be looking at 2 million in the US.
I had no idea this existed but seems useful.

Took a quick look at the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Notable gotcha: kids under 16 (in the EU, 13 elsewhere) are prohibited from using this.

(Also, it says "Au revoir mes petits choux!", and I think it's funny.)
I believe it's an ~8' ft. long RIS/Sportnautik from Croatia (have had some trouble finding any more specific information than that, at least through site pages I can use Google Translate on). That's really neat about the e-foil site- I'll definitely have to look more into that, I'm sure it could be a really interesting addition if/when I get this up and running! I know trying to put together a corrosion-resistant drivetrain assembly would be a fun challenge.
You had a fever and shortness of breath and you didn’t suspect coronavirus? No offense, but have you been living under a rock?
It's not an article. It's a tweet by some rando who just learned about demand and supply.
At this point it will hardly matter what numbers Japan present to the world, it is the rest of the world that will decide.

Continued lockdown will make it very hard to train properly, leading to a belief that the olympics should be moved. The show must go on does not seem to apply.

Already now the European football championship has been postponed.
Right... Because Macs are malware dumpsters fires of epic proportions.
Single Sheet of Toilet Paper for $1 on eBay
I'm working on a static site generator (Raise) that's taking a bunch of lessons from one of my previous projects, a testing library called Distilled[0].

The development philosophy with Distilled was to have a very, very small but flexible API, and to basically try to get out of your way. Distilled takes the view that some parts of testing are a lot easier than people think, so it explicitly doesn't do those things. It doesn't give you a test harness out of the box, it doesn't give you a `beforeEach`, stuff like that. It gives you a very solid, very predictable base that you can very quickly morph in different directions. I've been using Distilled for ~2 years at this point, and it's been a mild revolution in how I approach testing.

So the philosophy with Raise is very similar. With Raise, there are no built-in transpilers or templating engines, there is no CLI. I expect you to do whatever text transformation you need yourself, either manually or through a 3rd-party library. What Raise does do is make it very easy to recursively pipe directories through transform functions, and very easy to build complicated transforms.

So if you want to compile a bunch of markdown files:

await Raise({
input: './source',
output: './public',
transform: {
'**/*.md': async (info) => ({
[`${info.filename}.html`]: marked(await info.contents())
})
}
});

And you can also do fun things like recursively return transforms, which makes Raise really easy to extend and adapt to different projects. So for example, if your sitemap was being managed by a CSV file or something:

await Raise({
input: './source',
output: './public',
transform: {

/* structure: "page_name", "page_location" */
'pages.csv': async (info) => {
let pages = parse(await info.contents('utf8'));
return pages.reduce((result, page) => {
result[page[1]] = async (info) => ({
[page[0]]: marked(await info.contents())
})
}, {});
}
}
});

There are a few other cool tricks you can pull with it, but they're hard to explain in small code samples. But you're not getting any transforms for free, and I'm not trying to intuit anything about the structure of your site. There's no magical behavior. But what you get in return for that is an API that is extremely consistent, extremely predictable, very easy to learn, and very easy to adapt to novel situations.

Still a work in progress, but I should be done with the last few chores for the alpha within the next few days, at which point I'm going to start testing it out by converting some of my own sites to use this as the builder.

[0]: https://distilledjs.com/
Siri and Google now are both voice activated. Who wasn't using Android or iOS when they launched?
We use prices to ration access to scarce resources. What's the alternative? A command economy. Tons of historical experiments show that it doesn't work. And why shouldn't ability to pay affect the ability to access resources? What would be the point of money otherwise?

How do you know that the most productive user a resource is something other than the highest bidder? On what basis can you make that determination? Prices are universal.
Track infections through resting heart rate
Infections raise resting heart rate. so resting heart rate is a good indicator of an infections.

I've made an app that collect heart rate data from the apple watch and posts it to a public server together with an approximate location.
Data is anonymized.

Apple rejected the app, since it relates to human subject research and need IRB approval.

The app and backend are open source. If anyone want to push this through their university and do some research, you have my full support.

-- rejection

Hello Peter,

Thanks for your time on the phone today.

As we discussed, we noticed that your app is conducting health-related human subject research however the seller and company names associated with your app are not from a recognized institution and we were unable to verify independent ethics review board approval.

We have now rejected your app for the App Store Review Guidelines detailed below.

Guideline 5.1.3 - Legal - Privacy - Health and Health Research

Your app is conducting health-related human subject research, but we were unable to verify independent ethics review board approval.

Next Steps

Apps conducting health-related human subject research must secure approval from an independent ethics review board. You can attach proof in the App Review Notes section of App Store Connect.

Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

We found in our review that your app provides services in a highly-regulated industry and requires sensitive user information, however the seller and company names associated with your app are not from a recognized institution.

Per section 5.1.1 (ix) of the App Store Review Guidelines, apps that provide services or collect sensitive user information in highly-regulated fields should be submitted by a legal entity that provides these services, and not by an individual developer.
Have you heard of OpenAge? Its an open source thing with a similar aim

https://github.com/SFTtech/openage
Show HN: Cellars.la – help LA restaurants by buying their wine
Hey everyone - taking a hint from the sister project in NY (Cellars.NYC), today I launched the same initiative for Los Angeles: https://cellars.la/

This is a 100% volunteer/altruistic effort and it was the least I could do for the city I love.
If you look at South Korea's population, they have 1/7th the pop of the United States but yet have 1/3rd the number of deaths. They are doing almost twice as bad as the U.S. in terms of deaths per million people.
Working on Dipla, I mini social network for local communities, you can post things and comment anonymously, posts stays the area for some days.
We believe this could be used to warn about things around, or say some critics for shy people ...

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dipla.app
iOS : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dipla/id1501533164

Enjoy !
While I can appreciate the technical accomplishment of building this, I think most people should stick to official channels of news from their government or local authorities. I also don't think it's mentally healthy to keep tracking a live stream of COVID-19 news from around the globe.
Not sure about other platforms, but on macOS you can start up an XPC service that loads a single plug-in. There's communication overhead, but it can usually be managed reasonably with careful design of the cross-process API.
No, the requirement of complexity to maintain a functional conspiracy around this is confounding. You don't need a conspiracy, if the NIH principle is common because at scale, corporate US interest benefits anyway.

Why pay for something you're going to get anyway?
Apparently this started today? From the twitter thread:

Hangzhou government sent out a note today to cancel all temperature checks plus no need for green code in Hangzhou anymore. This is for entering public places and hotels are included.

But China has stopped reporting new cases for a few days now at least, no? It does seem they're cutting the testing short awfully soon, though.
> and say gamer words

what words are those?
I can't imagine trying to discover & isolate faults on something like this though.
>If he is who he says he is, then he would have find other ways to prove his eliteness/worthiness if subject tests were not being considered

No, that's completely wrong and totally incorrect!

The SAT II Writing subject test was the only way for me to make up for lack of AP English, which is basically a prerequisite for the school hosting the world's top English and Rhetoric departments.

>maybe he would have taken that same time and initiative to do something else to make his application stand out.

Nope, I would have simply crossed MIT off the very short list (Stanford, Cal, MIT) of extremely niche institutions fortunate enough to be considered within my purview for eventual attendence.

MIT's anti-meritocratic, clown-world decision to ignore SAT IIs makes me furious. To hell with MIT and their woke, filthy Epstein-tainted staff/faculty/endowment. They are pulling up the class-mobility ladder on kids like me while pretending it's for the sake of social justice.
This is also a good point!
Happy to see Omega in the list. I enjoyed so many hours playing that in college! Too bad the version I had was buggy and impossible to win.
Well I am actually really glad that finally some first hand reports turn up, which gives life to the numbers and the highly censored videos.

I would also be very interested to learn what affected persons do speculate about exactly where and how they could have been infected. Currently, most reports only state that the patient has "spent time in an affected country", which is rather unclear. The objective of asking this would be to learn how exactly the infection is spreading.
Ok? Doesn't make it right.

And your example is incorrect. You can buy or lease a car just as you can with a house/apartment.
I'm working on a tool called ui-editor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22116528)

Project is aimed to build ui-components and build an abstraction around frameworks. It is a UI developer tool that is web based built on modern stack - ReactJS, Webpack and supported by public npm modules and most importantly babel-core.

UI-editor is also aimed to generate code cross frameworks and it currently can generate code for ReactJS and storybook out of the shelf.

Web development has been misguided a lot by mix of paradigm yet the problem remains the same.

Link to project : https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

Demo to project : https://imvetri.github.io/ui-editor.

If you use storybook try this

1. UI-Editor -> Toolkit -> check "React - Storybook" button.
2. UI-Editor -> Components -> click "Page" component.
3. UI-Editor -> Components -> Page -> Export.

Extract the zip and import it in storybook project.
Anti-Vaccine Ex-MMA Fighter Sues Facebook for Kicking Him Off
Rapid7's project sonar forward lookup database is a good start. https://opendata.rapid7.com/
Covid-19 won’t stop without tech we need digital contact tracing says Oxford
tested, found positive, symptoms
not tested, no symptoms
This is an interesting perspective, especially in the context of our current concerns over the balance between emergency commerce restrictions and potential.

Do you think that we would have been better off with letting the market itself make more decisions regarding what should stay open during the crisis?
US Threatens ICC Staff Families With Consequences in response to war crime probe
It would make a big difference to me. :) But it would not change supply.

I have an airbnb off my garage. It's a granny flat, a bed, a small bathroom and a kitchenette. A sink, but just a hot plate a fridge and no oven. It's not somewhere you'd want to live for a long time, in my opinion. But it's a great place to crash for a few days, have a cold breakfast, some oatmeal, reheat left overs, etc.

There's people like me who it helps live in SF and offset property taxes, price of the house, etc. Bad actors/bad markets/etc certainly do exist, but like all things it's complicated.
I've been summarizing the debate here, and so far yours is the comment that contributes most to the top level: https://en.howtruthful.com/o/airbnb_should_be_regulated_beca...
Here's a test that works in 15 minutes:

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/20-20-bioresponse-...
There's a pandemic overwhelming the world right now.

You're going to sue Netflix for maybe $1 in damages per user?
Furthermore, each of the (binary!) checkboxes seem to linearly add weight to the total value, which seems overly simplified.
I’m working on ga-insights.com

Businesses are seeing insane volatility right now and we provide real-time alerts and reports for everything from revenue spikes to page speed lag to conversion rate drops from certain browsers.

If you have a Google Analytics tag on your site, you can set up the platform in a few clicks.
Dude I can't even understand this blog it is gross!
That was the CDC. The FDA doesn't develop tests - their only role here is to ban people from using tests that have been developed.
Right, he could pay the tax on it and then use the rest to make a 'commercial loan' to the company.
And / or basketball player
As if it were that easy for a Marriott or Hyatt to just turn random rooms into standalone apartments.
I typed "man jumping on bed" and none of the results match the term, on any of the result pages. Whereas Google Images is very accurate.
Ask HN: Software for Choirs to Harmonise Online?
Many choirs are trying to stay active and overcome social distancing with online rehearsals. Most of these are using zoom which is free for most community choir sizes but really only works well with a single voice active at a time. Can anyone suggest alternatives to zoom, or ways to configure zoom, which allow multiple (5-10 or 15-20) active voices to coexist and harmonise?
The analogy of a museum tour was exactly what inspired the name! When you want to really learn about something, it’s hard to beat the value of a guided walkthrough, that can provide you with just enough focus, while still allowing you to explore ideas on your own.
Clicking to zoom is giving me a React-style white screen of death and the error "bearing is required for transition". FF/Chrome latest, macOS 10.14.6
Very important question, surprised it hasn’t been asked. Yes they do, the gag reflex is very strong. Source, wife is a nurse.
Could somebody with medical knowledge speak to the lifetime of exogenous antibodies in another person's blood?

And, does their presence in any way "train" the host immune system to make more? Or is the benefit solely from the introduced antibodies?
Yah, seriously.

The guy either green screened in a room from Versailles or he's rather well off.
I do not think anyone is "motivated" to go to the bank. It is a big time drain to stand in line. People go there when there is no other option mostly. I personally have to go sometime and I absolutely dread it. As for limiting number of people inside the building you'll just create big line up outside with the same results. It will also clog people moving on sidewalks.
I use goodreads as a catalog of what I read, easy access to quotes from kindle, and a list of future books to read. Ml

The social aspect pretty much does not exist for me.
Why would the parent need to spin an obvious joke? Is the media pretending he was serious?