skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No but The US and UK are far less notorious and so are not as good examples.

In what way is the US or even the UK less notorious? In terms of conquest and genocide, either easily outdoes germany or japan.

> I wanted to emphasize the enormous difference between the Germans and Japanese of today vs 80 years ago.

What's the difference? People are people. The Germans and Japanese of today are pretty much the same as the Germans and Japanese of 80 years ago. Did they evolve?

> In retrospect, I should have written Tojo instead of Japan even though he is not a country either.

In retrospect you shouldn't have tried to push propaganda.
I've always wondered why fonts are rendered programmatically...

Usually, font renderers are Turing complete in some way, and usually this opens up security concerns, and rightfully so...

One of the primary reasons why fonts are rendered programmatically is because there's a theoretically infinite set of sizes/styles that might be required...

Well... why not make fonts with glyphs that are say, 5000 x 5000 pixels... and then instead of rendering for a particular size, line by line, stroke by stroke, curve by curve, why not instead use an interpolation algorithm to shrink that 5000 x 5000 pixel glyph to the exact size you want?

If a font provider program were made to operate that way, then all that would be needed to audit the program for security - would be to audit the shrinking/interpolation algorithm -- which could be as simple as possible (it's just a function which shrinks a bitmap of size A to another bitmap of size B... not a Turing machine which ingests other programs...)

Yes, fonts would consume much more memory (I suppose they could be compressed), but doing things that way might make font-providing programs more secure. And yes, you'd need to provide extra glyphs for italic, bold, bold italic, etc. (much more memory), but you'd be making a trade-off for a simple, security auditable font-provider... (we assume it's open-source...)
Why are we letting egomaniacal billionaires set public health policy instead of experts?
One died.

I am not extremely confident in what is not even a conclusion. I am simply shocked at the pushback and resistance to a promising treatment with minimal downsides.

Medecine appears to be the only profession in the world that only accepts one form of evidence. That is what is maddening.
As someone with no knowledge of windows, what’s with their naming scheme? Is this some DOS remnant? Without context the name alone would be reason to fail code review.
I have felt the opposite. Older kids can self-direct much better than younger children, and they also understand the concept of work and are better able to entertain themselves. I think 5-7 yo are going to have the toughest time educationally during this.
If worst comes to worst, you can use your shower and your hand.

People survived for thousands of years before TP was invented.
Dogs seem to be super picky about where exactly they’ll poop. Ours when he has to go will only go in the nearby park (not on the sidewalk or the street on the way there). And then he sniffs around for five minutes or so before finding the perfect spot. I think his social cues are largely about smell.
What a waste of human potential. Is this really the best problem you could have solved with your skillset? The best minds of my generation are selling ads. This shit makes me depressed.
> There's enough stay in place restrictions in effect to drive it down after about a week or so.

Why do you think that?
Assume they don't, assume they manage to stop community spread of the disease instead. Then they don't have herd immunity.
The field of “useful reals” between rational and real numbers (2019)
Though why should it have weird side effects when used for COVID that it didn't when used for malaria?
Hell of a claim. Got a link?

It’s hard to imagine a resource distribution mechanism as harmful and inequitable as the free market.
thanks for the heads-up!
I don't think you can have shared IPC memory in rust. You have to use message passing. Of course you are on your own completely, and there will be weird logic bugs when you mess it up. However, there won't be any memory corruptions.
Apple holds a patent on magnetic charging, Microsoft holds a patent on magnetic charging + data ports, as well as a patent on magnetic USB-C now. I'm not sure how well these would hold up against Apple's patents in court, but I think the two companies both have so many lawyers and so many patents that there's a bit of a mutually assured destruction situation with either going after the other on charging technology.
Wow so that episode of Red Dwarf was actually based on this? My respect for PKD rises.
How's life up there on your high horse? What are you doing to solve world hunger or peace?
scientists have increasingly been doing this during covid by publishing on biorxiv and then discussing on other channels (twitter etc)

for ex, this paper [0] by UCSF analyzing 26 of the 29 viral proteins expressed by the virus was posted on biorxiv and publicized further via twitter [1]. they identified 69 FDA approved drugs that target these proteins, giving the medical and scientific community a massive head start on studying drugs that could potentially be near-term treatments

there are some parts of academic science that are stuck in the last century but scientists themselves are certainly not

for those interested in learning more about how science works and how scientists operate, the covid situation is a great way to see how its done. modern science is amazing

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.002386v1

[1] https://twitter.com/kevansf/status/1241936588164063233
I have this strange fascination with pneumatic tube systems (I wish we used them for everything). I think we just found a new use case.
Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could reshape society
If necessary, I'll tear up an old sheet into squares, and treat them like cloth diapers. After use, toss them in a pail of dilute detergent and non-Cl bleach. When the pail is full, rinse in the toilet, a couple times, and then wash and dry.
your link is to chloroquine phosphate, which has a phosphate group and is only like 75% chloroquine by weight. So no, not less than half. Moreover, you are trying to compare a hydroxychloroquine dose with a chloroquine phosphate dose (active ingredient is chloroquine, not hydroxychloroquine), which is any one's guess if they even have the same mechanism of action here. Just because they both work against malaria, doesn't mean much about this virus. All in all, it is nearly useless to compare the chloroquine phosphate dose and outcomes to the hydroxychloroquine dose and outcomes.
As of today they did 275,468 tests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xAyDSpzEp3n4iiu54_XL...

This is a post (sorry, in Italian) that describes the "strategy" adopted to test people, that of course varies by region. tl;dr: in regions like Lombardia (the most affected) they can almost only test people who really show severe signs, therefore the rate is around 38%.

https://www.ilpost.it/2020/03/20/tampone-test-coronavirus/

Official data is here: https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19, I just put it in a spreadsheet for easier consumption.

Edit: forgot a link
It's a meta-study looking at over 67 papers that address the question of the spread of respiratory viruses. Obviously, every virus is a new virus, that is always a problem.

Yeah, and if any of those other viruses caused a world wide pandemic, I missed it. The article is a specious disaster.

Why do we treat the virus like a black swan event, but not the unprecedented response of shutting economic and civil liberty down to a degree maybe not seen in 100 years?

An extreme provokes an extreme response? Of course?

Human lives are more important than economies. And economies can't function with massive loss of life anyway. Even more, this is a massive exogenous shock. Once it's done, the various players can pick up the pieces. Until then, it should be treated like a war. Society trumps economics (hopefully, otherwise both are headed for disaster, 1 million deaths+ was the Imperial College Report estimate for what happens if the US does nothing).
https://archive.md/b3IeX
This was done in about a week. Where's an example of a clinical trial to your liking done that quickly?
There's also Fedora. Part of what you're doing when you register with your no-cost developer license is tie into our repos of tested, patched, and supported (for paying customers) RPMs and containers. And you get that because you gave us your email and possibly/probably signed up for some newsletters that you can opt out of later.
> who the Germans voted into power

Most germans didn't vote for the nazis. Certainly the hundreds of thousands of non-voting young people and children who perished during the firebombings certainly didn't.

> You blame Americans for voting Trump into power, right?

No. Why would I? Not sure if you are trolling or not.

> and the Japanese for supporting their leaders' violent colonialism.

You do realize that was the era of colonialism right? Certainly there weren't a greater colonial power than the US, Britain and the Soviet Union.

> Japan and Germany were not the victims of WWII.

By definition they are. Victor and victim have a common root for a reason. And certainly all the innocent civilians ( men, women and children ) who were killed in the firebombings and nukings are certainly victims.

I feel like you are trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Anyways, the topic was "rules of war" and everybody violated it during ww2.
South Korea Flattened the Curve
Because the conflation of reselling ventilators with building ventilators allows him to keep Fremont open [1] even though its county "has seen some of the biggest increases of cases in the Bay Area." [2] All the while, the CEO is tweeting that a once in a century epidemic is no biggie. [3][[4] We live in strange times.

[1] https://twitter.com/BradMunchen/status/1242140626524573696?s...
[2] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/23/coronavirus-alameda-c...
[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-space...
[4] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/spacex-teachers...
Maybe get a physical newspaper subscription? I hear that's what people used for TP in the old days...
I have no strong opinion but I really hope that the fact that the US is not dense, and people are not very tactile, compared to European cities will help us.
Which people offer freely.
The trouble with realpolitik is when you get more cynical than reality itself. Instead of a binary---either the morality of chemical weapons caused their ban, or their uselessness in battle did---why not take a supply/demand, cost/benefit sort of approach? The moral repugnance of weapons of mass destruction makes them more costly to the users---if they delegitimize your war effort, what have you really gained? They ceased to be used when the costs outweighed the benefits. Therefore the moral repugnance of them likely hastened their abandonment, even if battlefield effectiveness was the greater influence.
But didn't the French revolution have highly intellectual leaders that sought to create an entirely new government?

I doubt they decided their rules of law while feeling panic. It was likely done over a long period of time with careful thought and consideration.
Technical analysis of the app [1]

It uses Bluetooth to find people nearby, and records their randomised id

Each randomised id is associated with a phone no

Link between id and phone is with ministry of health, so stealing the logs is not useful

Finally, you only asked to share data if you came in contact with a known case.

I guess you can choose not to share / say app got removed, but it is self-defeating; you really want to know details and who else is in danger

This is war-like effort, so keeping Bluetooth on is small price to pay

[1] https://medium.com/@frankvolkel/tracetogether-under-the-hood...
> Er, you're not trying to figure out how the ship victims already died, you're trying to predict how many other people might die of the same cause. To do that kind of thing well, you need a hypothesis, and then you need to test it properly.

What would be the randomized double blind trial that you would run, and what information would it give us?

> Basically, an epidemic is not a linear system, so you can't model it with linear functions. Look into the "SIR model" for a standard way to do that kind of thing. I'm not trained in this field so I'd look for a medical/science forum if you have questions.

I'm familiar with the SIR model. What you'll find is that if R0>1, the SIR model converges to a state where S=1/R0, I=0, and R=1-1/R0. In this epidemic, R0 is approximately 2.5, of course depending on conditions. That means in the U.S. population, 60% will end in state R, which means 60% of people will get the virus. That's the 198 million number from above. It's actually a little worse than that because the SIR model doesn't have a "Dead" state, so more than 60% of the population has to get the virus in order for 60% of the end state population to have recovered.
Thanks for the first-hand report. I've been somewhat obsessed recently about the topic of how we might use tracking data to control the spread of the virus, including the experiences such as China, Taiwan, and Singapore, but have found not much English-language material. It seems to be slightly taboo to talk about.

Off-topic, my son is a big fan. Neon Shore is one of his favorites, so I have that playing as I type.
My wife is a 3rd grade teacher in the Bay Area and to hear stories from the other side of the online classroom. She's perfectly internet savvy and there are a lot of online parent/teacher communication platforms that she uses. Normally, being a teacher is pretty damn stressful and the hours are looong. But this has taken a step into a new direction of anxiety and stress.

Adding to the list of things that a teacher already is responsible with doing is Tech Support. Because now parents are emailing her stupid questions that are easily google-able about Google Classroom.

* "How do I upload a picture?"

* "Can you email me the google classroom link again?"

* "What's the login for my kid? (omg this question)"

* "Where's the thing to click on? (fuuuuuuu.....)"

The district is now starting to have a minimum of 8 mandatory teaching sessions to parents on how these things work. EIGHT.

We cannot translate online classrooms 1:1 with the real thing. I wish the district would take a breath and approach this with a little bit more understanding that this is a whole new ballgame. I know parents need their kids to be somewhat occupied during the day (I have 2 kids under 4 so I get it), but overall it's not very pleasant for teachers.
Yeah but they have different memberships for businesses. They require a business license and cost extra, but get extra benefits.

The could totally have said "normal memberships get one pack of TP a month, business memberships get 10 (or whatever the normal average is)".
I sometimes don't get why some Americans worship the Constitution like that. It was written by humans Albeit educated, thoughtful people who greatly cared about it, but still more or less humans.
I've dug through everything I can find. I'm feeling really stupid at the moment, but I cannot find a confirmation of that 5pm start time, though it does appear to start today and "immediately." It runs through April 6, but could be extended.

Tweet is from 6:50pm: https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1242267557295321090

https://medium.com/wagovernor/inslee-announces-stay-home-sta...

https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/proclamation...
War is nasty, although the rate of invention during world war was impressive. Rocket technology really improved as everyone was trying to figure out how to make better missiles. Same with jet engines and submarines. Computation, Cryptography also got major upgrades.

When things get scarce, the only natural solution is to fight it out. Natural selection is very mean and nasty.
I used to run a gourmet food retailer. We would refund anything, no questions (except what we needed to improve).

The secret to this policy was that we had gross (?) margins of 60%+. Throwing away a $20 product would cost us maybe $8.

The other secret was that for the few incidents where we felt someone was trying to scam us, the next time you wanted to order, just as you were about to enter your credit card number, you would be redirected to our competition.
There are also those such as myself who instead feel that Azure's UI is by far by worst of the big three, and that GCP is not bad at all, and that AWS is big, complex, and ugly, yet practical. The long term support story of AWS is also great.
For better or worse here's the author of the study defending it http://www.leparisien.fr/societe/didier-raoult-pour-traiter-...

and r/coronavirus discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fncs5c/didier_...

Quote:

> With my team, we believe we have found a cure. And in terms of medical ethics, I believe that I have no right as a doctor not to use the only treatment that has so far proven successful. I am convinced that in the end everyone will use this treatment. It's just a matter of time before people agree to eat their hats and say, this is the thing to do.

And in the Irish times:

>“In my field, I am a star, worldwide,” he boasted to La Provence newspaper.

>“I don’t give a damn what others think. I am not an outsider. I’m streaks ahead of the others.” https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/coronavirus-fra...

Not the most modest of guys...
Right, which is why it's easy to fly under the radar.

It was poorly worded, but if corporate had a button they could press to stop new entrants buying a bunch in hopes of selling online at high markup, I believe they would.

Trouble is, there's no way to filter them out, and any attempt may in itself signal a lack of faith in the system and result in more panic buying.
What our contagion fables are really about
I think limited to 20mg per 12 oz now, so way too little for malaria treatment I think. Maybe it has some preventative effect at that dose?
China outside of Hubei has a CFR under 1%, actually. And they sure as hell didn't test everyone or even 10% of those infected in Hubei.
In this scenario grifter would be accurate, yes maybe they are an arbitrageur too, but price gouging of this form is in-fact illegal.
At the present moment, people may be buying the container more than the water.
>Yeah, and if any of those other viruses caused a world wide pandemic, I missed it.

They do actually. Several of the outbreaks studied among the papers were influenza pandemics, coronavirus pandemics, and SARS. (page ~110-120)

This rhetoric you're starting here about bringing out the war drums to fight invisible enemies is exactly what Ioannidis is afraid of. It is not scientific, it is not based on evidence, and it does not, weigh the tail risk of a global economic breakdown. Which may, in fact, be literal war in some places.

There is a trade-off between the economic effects and response to the virus. It is not a binary question.
> Usually, font renderers are Turing complete in some way, and usually this opens up security concerns, and rightfully so...

Most of the features of which I am aware in fonts are modeled as FSMs, which can certainly be turing complete but do not need to be. Off the top of my head you could figure out a “sane” max time for a “script” to run without any loss of font quality, though it would not technically comply with the intended functionality.

I am at a loss of words for why this was ever possible, although perhaps security didn’t matter until this past decade and I am too young to remember how low priority it used to be.... certainly, putting anything in kernel space for performance reasons of all things seems ridiculous for desktop computing. I’ll take a fucking massive performance hit to keep my data safer.
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They sell high end Linux systems, and maintain the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution. The Lemur Pro — and other Intel-only laptops — are running open source firmware developed by System76 in collaboration with Intel.

Who buys computers from System76? People that care about buying hardware that's guaranteed to work with Linux, from a company that supports Linux. That ranges from web developers to NASA.
The ones who were able to unload at the moment they purchased were arbing. If you could sell the toilet paper before you even got it out of the store at Costco, you have executed a successful arb. There was no risk in this trading profit.

The others who carried inventory for a nontrivial period of time were market makers, and carried market maker risk. Market maker risk is the bid-ask moving against you when you are carrying inventory. These guys were basically carrying unhedged physical long positions in toilet paper thinking they had a free option to unwind at par, but Costco changed the game on them.

Not all of these guys were arbing.
The Spanish Flu: Testimonies from a 1918 diary (2018)
South Korea got their infections down and their economy isn’t in the toilet. Compare to Italy’s reactive policy and subsequent failure.

Or look to Taiwan and Japan with economies running and infection rates under control (at present).

Your “perhaps the outbreak would have ended itself” will be shown to be false in multiple countries that lack the resources to manage their infection transmission rates... We have heard of Iran, but wait until we find out what happens in other poor countries...
A font can have hundreds or thousands (see CJK) of glyphs, plus variants. Good luck distributing thousands of 5000x5000 bitmaps (easily in the GB range).
In defense of my first statement: There's really nobody else to blame that I can see. Perhaps incompetence in the FDA and CDC management, but those are his people, not the rank and file. This is all had management and ignoring expertise, and there is only one person to blame for that.

Other countries with more developed healthcare systems and more competent leadership are staving this off quickly, which will let them return to full economic activity much more quickly with proper covid surveillance and tracking.

Here in the US, others have stepped up in the absence of the usual leadership that is provided by federal monitoring agencies. It's like we were attacked by invading ground forces, but the president had fired all the generals down to the lieutenants. We have other private individuals stepping up to our defense, but the normal defense infrastructure has been gutted.
There's probably not much of a stockpile for those in the first place. They would sell out quickly on any increased demand.
I'm talking about people in nursing homes, people in hospitals, people on immunosuppressants, for example, after a transplant (who wouldn't go on a cruise because of norovirus etc), people with other immune diseases, etc. There are a lot of these people out there, and these people would be very hard hit if we just let COVID run through the population.
small correction: NTD$100,000 (usd$32,955)

Taiwanese Dollars isn't that shitty (yet)
Wuhan Still Finding Symptom-Free Virus Cases
Concurrent Programming, with Examples