skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the alternative ? Mass hysteria ? Hoarding of basic necessities ? It's like people feed off of this apocalyptic porn atmosphere, very disturbing.

It's been weeks now that people have been throwing the same line: "well wait and see in two weeks".

According to official stats, there are 17k deaths worldwide at the time of writing for 450k confirmed cases, assuming the number of cases grows exponentially, the death rate will eventually be much lower than what people are projecting.
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Thanks for that! Great resource.
Why a fork rather than contributing this back upstream?
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Having FireWire onboard allowing you to transfer songs in seconds instead of minutes was no less a gamechanger than anything else. The Nomad Jukebox was USB 1.1 and filling up a 6GB hard drive took hours.
That's actually a profoundly interesting insight I haven't heard before.
Some European countries weren't as deep into bad HC as the US so there are going to be a wide range of reactions and adaptation. Weird thing: in my country, the political entities responsible for budget cuts in HC are applauded at the moment for their handling of the situation they made worse because of those previous cuts.
> people don't see a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese people

Which is entirely the Chinese government's doing. They have been pushing the narrative that they represent the entire ethnic Chinese race for a long time.

Unfortunately many ethnic Chinese people welcomed this narrative -- even though they are citizens of other countries -- because it profited them as China's economic power rose. The current crisis reminds them that they can't have it both ways.
I think I remember seeing colorful noise on top of a weak color signal. Makes sense given the color burst is there.
Japan shows nothing besides doing a better job of the appearance games that US tried and failed to play. Everyone I know in Japan is saying the response is a disaster and bracing for the worst. There was a huge uptick in cases just reported and the media is starting to break their government-imposed silence and warn people.
police also executes people they deem unworthy of wasting courts time.

proof: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50682262
Bacteriophages are so cool. They look so futuristic yet they are incredibly ancient. Some researchers are also starting to look into bacteriophages as a potential treatment for antibiotic-resistant infections
It's vaporware created by a leading alt right/NRx figure[1], which explains its popularity.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus perhaps?
I will here simply point you to the countries which have had great success combating this epidemic, such as Singapore and Taiwan. They exercise strict quarantine of infected (note, not uninfected) individuals plus contact tracing.
This topic is covered in this book.

I cover the February 2020 and March 2020 notifications from HHS.
Thanks. We started with fork, so that we can contribute back to upstream in the near future.
More than anything Urbit is impossible to comprehend. All I understood from it is that it's some bizarre distributed something with an alt right attachment.
Question Copyright has many ideas (and there are also counterarguments in the comments, although there are problems with some parts of some of the counterarguments). I would buy a book if I want a printed copy, at least. There is also possibility of agreeing to write or modify it in exchange for payment, and there is also trademarks (including the "Creator Endorsed" mark), and I am not suggesting to abolish trademarks (although a lot of fair use should be allowed in many circumstances, maybe more than the current laws I don't know). Also, I am not suggesting that someone should be forced to publish something, but if they do, then someone could copy it (if they want to), with or without modifications (although the author should be allowed to specify (if he want to) that altered versions should not be confused with the original version (except for technical compatibility purposes in some cases, e.g. if a file format requires the file to contain the text "This file is authorized by [company name]", then it does, although the documentation that comes with the file would mention that it is not true and is only included for the compatibility reasons)). You can also charge money for a CD, DVD, admission fee for a concert, etc, or even for download if you want to (although I am not advising it, and even if you do, others do not have to change for the download too). If you have not sold any DVDs yet, then nobody is allowed to steal one in order to copy it or trespass on your property in order to make a copy, but once you sell a copy to someone who wishes to copy it, then they can (including format shifting). Also, a company providing it as a service could still have terms of service that say they can terminate your service (but cannot force you to pay for it in this case, unless you have already paid and received the service in exchange) (also, someone can still set up a competing service if they don't like their terms of service, anyways).

[0] https://questioncopyright.org/understanding-free-content
A shotgun is pretty simple.

It'll still blow your head off.
Counterpoint: no.
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I can send it to you if you want.
I agree with your initial reasoning, although given the long incubation period that was initially unknown I still see a high chance this would have spread either way. But

> and could have provided earlier warnings to the world to prepare for an epidemic or pandemic that might not have even happened.

Not in a thousand years. The west was sitting on their hands for almost two months, busy armchair-commenting on the CCP's failings, preparing half-heartedly at best, taking no proactive measures whatsoever. I'm utterly disappointed with my government and don't see how this would have turned out any different for us had we had twice as much time to prepare, or had this originated in a western country.
:) An Atheist (hopefully) doesn't need to be forced to not murder people, but they can eat bacon, sleep with a prostitute (where legal), and tell a "white lie" without fear of punishment.
I'm curious, can you give some details on this?
I’m curious why you are digging in like this. OP wasn’t insulting anybody.
From the twitter page: "

A NY Doctor shared with Hannity his Hydroxychloroquine/Azithromycin results.

- 200mg 2x daily Hydroxy Chloroquine

- 500mg 1x daily Azithromycin
- 220mg 1x daily Zinc sulfate

350 patients
• Breathing restored 3-4 hours
• Zero deaths
• Zero hospitalizations
• Zero intubations"

Note that the chloroquine dosage he used is lower than that for malaria - a bonus.

Note the use of zinc sulfate, possibly following

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4182877/

and (PDF)

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/jo...

i.e., the chloroquin allows zinc ions to enter the otherwise-impermeable cell wall where the ions can halt the RNA viral replication process.
I'm constantly reminded of Rich Hickey's point about good platforms providing few but powerful verbs.

Put another way, if you look at your service's API and it's complicated, you probably don't have the abstraction right.
> the panicked middle (/r/coronavirus)

The Panicked Middle leans heavily towards the Apocalyptic Left.
The site does not seem to load too well right now, but using using cell phone location data, it might allow us to identify problem areas ahead of an outbreak, especially when we know there are local transmission already taking place.
The US just crossed a dangerous threshold
I don't think the positions are set though. We'll always want more compute, storage and smarter platform that is reliable and affordable.

As long as Google keeps on positioning itself as reliable and does a few things really well, they'll win those segments. They're already doing that with K8S but their recent emails about per hour pricing was just stupid. It sends a message that their VPs just don't understand what people really want.
I get your point, but India is country where most are multi generational homes. Supplying food and essentials to people who need it during a lock down is easy, treating people when medical infrastructure is overwhelmed is a lot harder. Also, when the medical infrastructure breaks down even cases which need basic care like IV hydration could turn fatal.

If we had a lock down in beginning of March it would be over in a week or 2. Now the lock down is 21 days. It may get worse.
Could you propose a better solution to balance both sides of this equation? A very large government gift to a (what seems to be) unsustainable private business could also be seen as totalitarian.
>Which is entirely the Chinese government's doing. They have been pushing the narrative that they represent they entire ethnic Chinese race for a long time.

That doesn't excuse you or deny the reality that doing something that insights hatred is wrong. Again we are talking about blaming (b/m)illions of people for the actions of their government.... shall we paint all Americans with an orange brush and assume the actions of their president accurately reflect them as well?

>The current crisis reminds them that they can't have it both ways.

The current crisis is a global crisis ... using it as an opportunity to direct hate to an ethnic group is not moral and is dangerous. If you can't see that you should really self reflect on what your motivations are on it and who it helps.
Even the Europeans used curved swords:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre

Generally curved swords are better at slashing and straight swords better at thrusting, which is particularly useful against weak points in armors.
A greater depression?
I work with some Indians and heard them talk about kids in the street playing "corona tag" ....

Perhaps a lockdown might prevent those sorts of things ?
Who gets to decide this ?

The colonial experience basically pointed to this flaw -- that India has to be at military and economic level be a Union. Will India in future fragment, possibly.

But the history from 323 BC till today is the same -- fragmented states and weaker prince seeking bargain with foreign force.

India is imperfect will remain choatic -- top down design of making something out of it will make Syria and Holocaust look like picnic. Be careful what you wish for.
That says nothing about Urbit's technical merit.
Come on. If you have the 6gram "crypto" on the page, please don't have an expired certificate. I just stop reading at that point.
So do we treat anyone outside the group of 20-50 year old with no preexisting conditions as acceptable collateral damage to keeping the economy afloat?
The method of infection matters. Singapore and Taiwan have done amazingly well specifically because they enforce quarantine of infected individuals along with various levels of testing to identify those individuals, for example people having their temperature checked outside public buildings.
why can't they just say "first multi-cellular organism"
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>it's the poor who are going to be affected the most.

since there's more poor than rich, thats just statistics. if you select 1000 random people, most of them will be poor.
The technical content of your comment looks correct, but "Chaos" is the first word in the abstract of the paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/3/3932/5...

The blurb that's linked to HN is not very lucid, but the scientists who wrote the paper make it very clear that they're just talking about deterministic chaos.
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Over 1.5 million deaths, families separated, 4 wars fought and countless other small conflicts, extreme animosity towards each other to this day, all of which can be traced back to the wounds of partition. I don't know how you can say partition was not a failure.
So you think the number of cases in Washington will hold around 100 cases a day over the next few weeks?
can confirm, i died.
At the bottom of the page, I had to chuckle at:

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A handful of countries were able to prevent an epidemic in their own country because they responded quickly. The vast majority of them ignored the virus and claimed it wouldn't come here, and changed their tune only when it was too late.

China gave a perfectly fine head start as evidenced by countries that were able to contain it. Everyone else just wasted the head start, and I see no evidence that they wouldn't have wasted it even if China gave them a longer one.
Some sectors like sea fisheries have totally shutdown, how the millions of people working in them will get wages, how they will be able to obtain essentials etc are serious questions.

Also no suspension of EMIs, loan repayments, rent collections etc announced till now.

More questions remain.
Wow! Thank you! It is embarrassing and might be impolite to ask people how do they clean themselves, but today I learned something that might be useful when I travel. Thanks!
I'd wager that "personal satisfaction" is (or can be) something different than "pleasure".

To me--also with little philosophical study--"hedonism" refers to just pleasure. It's the sugar of life.

But I've gotten the greatest satisfaction in life from things other than sex/drugs/booze/games/etc. From creating new things, solving problems, and helping others. This is the protein of life.
I am in India and work full-time a US-based firm. We weren't permitted to work from home by our SOC department. But due to this situation we are being allowed to do it.
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If I may ask, what it takes to publish a book like this? Obviously, beside personal time invested in writing, how hard is to get in touch with publisher, talk with them about specific topic, have it approved and reviewed and so on? Do you have to invest own money as well?

How much publisher is inclined to work with you when you want to donate 100% of the profits?
Oh please! The Muslim population voted in large part to create a religious state cut off from the Indian civilization.

These people largely consider themselves (much like the Anglo-Saxons, Christians, West...) as having done India a favor by destroying its grand old self, and continue in this 'noble' goal of 'civilizing the natives' by constantly waging genocide against the natives (even inside India).

Little wonder, the subcontinental Muslims are extremely violent, and are almost single handedly responsible for most medieval forms of barbarism that Islamism breeds.

Disliking such a community, which identifies India's natives as its mortal enemies is only natural. Would you fault native Americans for doing the same ? No ? Why? Beaucause they've lost, that's why.

Europeans and Islamists aren't too different from each other... Little wonder they've historically been allies in the war with India.
Thank you for a well reasoned and measured take on this situation. My parents (in their 60s and 70s, living in India) made mention of the callous attitude you refer to as well. Culturally and practically (because of population density social distancing will not be effective unless it is implemented strictly/forced upon people. Forced isolation/curfew is a hard thing for people with different cultural backgrounds to reconcile with, but is just about the only way to stem this tide in India.
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I disagree, first you need to program a few toy projects with the dangerous primitives, to really internalize how tricky they are.

It's because of my concurrent C homework assignments that I was able to really appreciate Go's channels in my first internship.
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The confirmed case graphs have a lag time of a week or two, because you can only get a test after you start showing symptoms, and they take a long time to run.

We also don't know what the graphs would have looked like if we didn't enact social distancing -- even if the graph is not flattening right away, it doesn't mean that we should give up. For all we know, the graph could be way worse without these measures (assuming a hypothetical world where we have perfect knowledge and have enough PPE and swabs and machines to test every person who suspects they have COVID-19, which the US currently doesn't).

Please don't give up!
Right, and then he realized that it was better to bring users into the Apple ecosystem rather than just the Mac one.
There are whole different ways of life. For example, before the abundance of oxygen on Earth, the first bacteria lived on sulphur-based biochemistry. It was slow and inefficient, but better than being poisoned by that oxygen plague! Remember that it's an extremely destructive oxidizing agent (even in us it causes aging etc). It actually took millions of years for living organisms to start breathing oxygen (which was the real new and exciting breakthrough of the time).
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I'm not sure that's a model to emulate.
Correct me if I'm wrong on this... but from what I recall the Indian subcontinent was never a Union except as a British territory. Even the Mughals never managed to conquer all of southern India.
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Not a huge difference if you add your own obfuscation layer, but the UI and tooling isn't built around that use case.

Does Drive require a google account? I haven't tested that. If so that's really sad. I know you can share with non-google email addresses but maybe they have to already be logged in with a google account for it to work.
While once they make up their minds to act they can be extraordinarily effective, getting to that point can be a mess.

For a while they suppressed information about what was going on in the region, suppressed information to the outside world about the virus, and generally said "Everything is fine" delaying their response.

Now, to their credit, once they committed they did an excellent job. And the population has complied in amazing fashion. But the slow-moving party has a weakness that it won't broadcast when things are starting to go wrong until they can't ignore it any longer.

You can also imagine what would have happened if they continued to lock up critics for even longer.

Enlightened authoritarians only work if they are, well, enlightened. Once corruption seeps in those same levers of power can be exploited for personal and Party gain.
Not to mention he left the project last year.
which is still orders of magnitude harder than create an account and pay a bill
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You still need to know SQL, and algorithms are helpful unless you expect to be spoon-fed pristine datasets that are ready for analysis.

The applicant pool seems to be full of those who took an online course and whose "personal" projects consist entirely of projects ripped from fast.ai or similar. Anymore, I get seem to get more spam on LinkedIn from people looking to be hired as a data scientist at my company than I do from recruiters looking to hire me. And looking over their resumes, I can see why they need to hustle so much. Successful candidates need to know how to do more than classify pet images from the Oxford dataset.

So to answer your question...Maybe? I mean, these candidates are certainly trying much harder than I ever needed to for a job. But presumably they eventually get hired into roles with less discerning companies.
Bailouts are very unfair and undemocratic. I can understand for Boeing where the military absolutely depends on them and if a war were to start, being able to build planes is essential.

But Carnival cruises, who cares if they go under? another one will prop up with a better business model that is sustainable.

Every company should be able to weather a couple of months if they rode the bull for the best 11 years of stock rise in history. If your executives fucked it up, too bad. You can get a low interest loan, but no free bailout money.
I have a question for those more knowledgeable about physics:

Everything we know so far points to time invariance * , right? What would happen if we discovered that some things truly aren't time invariant? Would it crucially change the fundamental understanding, or would it just be a new class of phenomena?

* except maybe TFA which isn't really right based on the other comments I'm reading.
I feel that isn't really humane. The people found violating curfew could just be educated on why restriction is necessary and what their rights are in present situation, whom they can appeal to if they are not satisfied with the explanation.

Instead, they are subjected to humiliating corporal punishment. This can't be good advertisement for the country.
A predicate is really just a test that accepts an input and produces true or false. The expression only becomes necessary when you want to translate the predicate somehow (e.g. to SQL).
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One answer is that what comes out is a lot less calorically dense than what goes in. This isn't arbitrary--it's practically a fundamental principle of metabolism/physics.

Less isn't zero, though, and lots of life forms live on the output of others. Dung beetles, for example.
Michael Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, said that large, densely populated countries such as India will determine “the future of this pandemic.” It is “exceptionally important” that India take aggressive steps to contain its spread
The simple answer is use D2D/Dwrite for low level render code in new projects. If you use C# there’s probably higher level wrappers over these. Some of the older C# APIs wrap GDI+ which is pretty slow and renders text really poorly so go with whatever new stuff they have now.

I don’t know of any specific blogs/resources. I used to work on Excel’s render code so had a bit of an inside view.
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