skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is still no compelling clinical evidence that it works either as a prophylaxis or "cure".

has any double blind study with more than 100 participants actually reported yet?
This is how I explain AI to clients...

Think of your best employee. You show them how to operate the videoconferencing system, and that's done.

Now think of your worst employee. You have to show them how to operate the videoconferencing system 3 times because they keep getting it wrong or not understanding how to start a meeting. Eventually, when they've got the hang of it, they're fine too.

AI is like an employee that needs to be shown how to do it a million times. Unless you have the time or the data to show the AI how to do a simple task millions of distinct times, or someone else has already done it, AI can't help you.

Here deepmind is just showing that for slightly more complex tasks, that ~1e6 factor turns to ~1e11...
My own experience using various laptops (mostly thinkpads, but also a couple of asus and one dell) over the last 10 or so years under Fedora has been pretty consistently good. There was a period between Fedora 28 and 30 when it took 10 seconds to un-suspend (instead of it being instant) but that is fixed again in Fedora 31.
Remember those people on FB/IG that have photos of travelling to exotic islands and Europe while working minimum wage jobs? That up to now used to be every second profile I would stumble upon on social networks, not anymore.
> A public resolver user’s IP address (referred to as the client or source IP address) will not be stored in non-volatile storage. Cloudflare will anonymize source IP addresses via IP truncation methods (last octet for IPv4 and last 80 bits for IPv6). Cloudflare will delete the truncated IP address within 25 hours.

IMO, truncating only last octet of IPv4 address is not anonimized enough.
Coronavirus How India, japan and Singapore are doing better than others
Another lie propagated by those who wanted to save mask stockpiles for healthcare workers.
Good for them. I guess I won't hold my breath for AWS SREs to go on strike in solidarity, but if there were ever a time it would be now.

Edit: No strike threat, but there's a petition here https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/amazon-must-protect-work...

Better than nothing!
> Our meetup pre-dates them existing but we tried listing on their site and got an immediate and sustained boost in numbers.

Do you have rough percentages on how many attendees are recurring, and how many are new?
I'd say the opposite is true, there isn't enough evangelising, not enough people are discovering and accessing projects where security is prioritised.
Escaping Web: a retrospective about starting a podcast
Did we do this because Trump pushed it through? Or do they actually think it might work?
The placebo effect and psychedelic drugs: tripping on nothing?
These are good suggestions, but it seems that xsecurelock still can't provide a workaround for the bug where the screen doesn't lock if a popup menu happens to be open or the pointer is grabbed in any other way [0]. I couldn't find any good way to fix this and the only suggested workaround seems to be to switch to Wayland. I've switched on all of my machines (for this and for other reasons) but please make sure you know the details of this if you still use Xorg.

[0] https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#known-security-issues
Indian Railways coaches converted to isolation wards for coronavirus patients
Moon bases could be built using astronaut urine
Even for them tripling the cost of deliveries would not make that much of a difference.
Tour the cherry blossom festivals in Japan through VR
Only on Hacker News could you find some describing strikes, which were invented by workers, predate everything Rand wrote to cynically invert history and reality, as the “opposite of Galt’s Gulch.”
I completely agree. Just management also has to do their job rationally. Everyone should be negotiating.
Show HN: Crowdsourcing Corona Virus Hiring impact tracker
The eyes are a possible entry point for droplet transmission, so yes as it being part of other protections (mask, washing hands). Some have used/made face shields.
But then they could advertise using home made masks no?
We compared DVC and a bunch of other Git for data" tools here:https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2020-03-06-so-you-want-git-for-...
Forty growth tips from a remote marketing manager
Transporting materials to the moon is expensive ... This is why so many things designed from space travel are lightweight.

Whaaaat?!
Do you think Bezos did not pay taxes on his earnings? His "fortune" is majority equity in Amazon, not cash sitting in a bank account. Any income he received was taxed
Can you explain how that could possibly be true?

A surgical mask is just a simpler cheaper, less complete and less effective mask than an N95 mask, used in lower risk situations or when N95 is desired but not available.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/UnderstandDifferenceInf...
The Mathematics of Epidemics
> hangouts can’t handle many users (is it 10 the limit?), which is a deal breaker for me. we’ve tried and people couldn’t join the call.

My company had a 17 person Hangouts (Meet) meeting on Monday. Actually, we switched to Hangouts from Slack because Slack has a 15 person limit.

Is the limit maybe different for "Hangouts" vs Hangouts Meet?
Does it inform the user or otherwise stop functioning for telehealth once the signal is received? If not, then does that mean that someone is considered e2e encrypted if it in theory can support e2e encryption even if it isn't using it right now?

It looks like the situation has not been fully thought through and the government is creating a Kafka trap when its laws.
Dropbox app does this and it is a very useful for some use cases.
I'm concerned that the exigencies of pandemic will cause people to get used to a system that tosses privacy out the door. Not sure how to stop this.

A couple of nits to pick:

> in Australia. Interest in telehealth has gone from zero to infinity over the past two weeks

Slight exaggeration; wouldn't you call the royal flying doctors service telehealth? And HIPPA is a US law.
Root-kit authors: watch and learn!
Group Facetime but that is only available for Apple users.
Part hail mary, part public relations?
Office buildings all around the world are empty
“C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
Well, there should be plenty of patients for studies soon.

The timing actually makes some sense. Getting it into the field in a "can't hurt" way allows us to start studying its effectiveness quickly, before the medical system gets totally overwhelmed and studies become nearly impossible.
Haven't tried that, but the actual compilation is something like this: you need to create `classes` folder, add it to the classpath, call `clj -e "(do (compile 'hn.core) (javafx.application.Platform/exit))"`.
There is more and more evidence that the only proper trial where it worked was a "nothingburger"

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/29/mo...

EDIT: Hmm I haven't seen this one before, that actually looks better https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...
I had native plants in the gardens of my house I listed for sale (before things ground to a halt, alas). The real estate agents wanted then all replaced by "more attractive" plants that need more water. Sigh.
Thanks for [ii]! Didn't know that Economist reused the Orwell's wisdom :)
Amazon or jeff wouldn't be as it is if they giving out money for nothing.
CDC has said the same. Now people defend them saying they lied because they didn't want the public to hoard them but mask supply chains have been effected since probably January. I went to multiple Home Depots (upstate NY) end of February and they all told me they've been out of stock for more than a month. We couldn't hoard them even if we wanted to. Why even lie? It's pretty damn infuriating. Sk, HK, and Taiwan all have it under control because people there have been a lot more careful. They don't leave the house without a mask. Meanwhile in NYC, people were all casual about it up until maybe last week. Partly because of the delay in government response.
Try the "Mkt. share %" column.
So, as a foreigner that seems an entirely reasonable question. Interesting that you got downvoted.

Edit: why would I wonder? Not only because the commander in chief is quickly flipping between standpoints, but why is the CDC silent since March 14?
This system worked so much better when the Applications folder was placed in the Dock by default, and everyone used that folder launch applications (which weren't common enough to keep in the Dock directly).

It was actually a really beautiful synergy—you install applications by copying them to a folder, and launch them from that folder. Same way you'd acquire and open files. Lovely.

Then Apple ruined it in Lion with Launchpad. Their app install flow for anything outside of the app store doesn't make any sense.
I can download DVD images over insecure transport and then check their signature. Not so if I'm piping code straight to shell from a http server.
I'm interested in knowing more about why closed captions would imply not end-to-end encrypted. Wouldn't it be possible to build a model and distribute the model with the client-side application, and run it at the edge?
Agree that process is more important output, as long as the output is there . . .
Which is why the government should step in and impose rent freezes and increase unemployment pay, as they've done in other countries.
Impressive! Even more impressive would be outperforming a human with the same amount of training...
Aside from the pictures, the article was a bit lacking in information. According to wikipedia, it only seats 2 people, has a maximum range of only 100 miles, and a maximum flight time of only 1 hour. The batteries weigh 390kg, which sounds like a lot of weight relative to the small size of the plane.

I get that electric flight is new, and it's going to take a long time before anything happens at scale, but given the limitations (and of course the fact you need an airstrip at either end of your journey) I can't help but wonder who is going to actually buy them, and what they would do with them?
I myself have quoted the WHO and asked my friends not to wear them unless they're sick. Shouldnt have :(

Even in HN, until last week there were many articles linking to studies which said that surgical masks were not proven to reduce your chances of getting the virus.
Marketing works -- and AMD has been marketing hard.

But they also offer reasonably competitive offerings at decent prices. Intel, nearest I can tell, still has faster chips, but AMD has closed the gap enough and isn't struggling with internal issues like Intel.

Disclaimer: I built an AMD Ryzen box a couple of months ago, running linux on it and gaming -- works like charm.
It seems The future has arrived, and now it is on a forced march to reach us all
Mux, a Go HTTP router with typed parameters
There is a specific exemption for medical use...

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter9/secti...
I'm guessing it's more like "There's some hints that it might work so if a doctor wants to try it, we promise we won't say that they're crazy, committing malpractice, or breaking any regulations around off-label use."
What is CEO Coaching like? A live recorded session with a CEO and author
give them some time. And there's a Go API bridge for Qt
From a recent episode of This Week in Virology[1]:

"Historically, in a lot of health care settings there was limited attention [to eye protection], and part of droplet protection, part of being protected when someone coughs or sneezes is protecting your eyes as well. Actually, going in to this I was pretty heavy on re-education at one of the hospitals about: if someone's on droplet, you gotta protect your eyes. Because influenza, you get that in your eyes you can get infected. SARS-CoV-2, you get that in your eyes you can end up with COVID-19. So eye protection is important as well."

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-593/ at about 1 hour and 58 minutes in to the program
This is why we need a tech workers union
is it part of the same pipeline? Graal is compiling to native while Gluon on Android I assume is running JFX on Dalvik instead of JVM (it possible I don't get how Gluon gets JFX to run on Android)
I looked into the problems in this field in the past, my impression is that the difficulty lies in how the signal diffuses through the skull and top-most layers of the brain. It’s all about resolution, and this sounds like a very similar problem. The question always is how much non-linearity is there, and what’s the frequency and density of the sensors relative to how often you have to sample to characterize it. Very excited to see how the field develops!
> If getting a brain implant were as cheap, easy, and safe as getting a tattoo, the ethical problem would be largely solved.

But how realistic is that?

Your brain is a vital organ. It's encased in a hard skull. There is very little margin for error.

It just doesn't strike me as the sort of procedure that could ever be made as cheap, easy, and safe as getting a tattoo -- at least not in our lifetime.
Those other systems don't have Reagent. Reagent is simply the best way to write user interfaces I've seen in 25 years, bar none. The only comparable jump in productivity that I can recall is moving from assembly language to a compiler.

Spending time with a profiler, we can probably improve the size and speed of a Clojure application (I've never tried using it for desktop software). No amount of time playing with Qt/Lazarus is going to give you Reagent, though.
It looks like the title was modified again, to include "despite marketing". Thank you, moderators! Please feel free to delete this comment and my comment above it.
The key point is that a video consult with a doctor is now (as of last week) available to most of the population, including those in the city, and can be claimed on Medicare. That’s a huge change from previously where it only applied in specific scenarios.
I’m sure the RFDS did some video/phone consults but their patients are literally remote - some hundreds of kilometres from the next property.
Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy's seven practical tips when working remotely
US physicians have already been able to prescribe and administer those drugs to COVID-19 patients. This order merely opens distribution from the government stockpile to mitigate current supply shortages while production ramps up. So it's a good move. The efficacy in treating COVID-19 is still being studied but in the meantime patients who need the drugs for other conditions have had trouble filling their prescriptions.
Good news. Lots of studies being done on this.

Here’s a Recent promising study.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v...
resReitna.7z

Reminds me of tech support XD
https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/conservation-biodiversity/wil...

Royal Horticultural Society UK Garden & Wild plants for pollinators by month.
The opposite of the market is government.

I'll tell you why that doesn't work- corruption.
What are the chances that these strikes can lead to a union? I imagine a grocery store workers union could do a lot for the health of its workers now.
First of all, lack of testing and government denials that there is a problem here been a hallmark of the response worldwide. It is hardly a conspiracy theory to say that it happened in Japan as well.

Secondly for a couple of weeks now I've been running across articles of the form, "Japan should have had a problem by now, why are they an exception?" Which is more likely? That they were an exception until now, or that the Olympics provided extra motivation to stonewall?

It is clearly not proof. But extra motivation to fail to try to detect their own problem combined with reason to doubt their version of reality (in the same way that happened over and over again elsewhere) makes my estimate of the conditional probability very high that their government was simply a bit more deliberately blind than elsewhere.

And, as with everywhere else, the cost will be dead citizens. Only the further you let the problem go and the older your population, the worse it is. Japan has the highest concentration of truly old in the world. And may have let it go longer than anywhere else. The result? The final body toll won't be pretty.
Might be a good time to retell the story of how the US tried to stockpile ventilators a decade ago As Project Aurora, but were stalled and eventually made zero ventilators thanks to a company called Covidien (actual company name, not an April fools joke).

Covidien bought the company that was to make the cheaper ventilators for stockpile and then stalled and finally cancelled the project. Covidien incidentally already made a much more expensive ventilator.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/sns-nyt-us-failed...
With cars, we've seen a lot of companies going the hybrid route, combining multiple small electric motors with a combustion engine. I'm curious if the same could be done with aviation - perhaps a turboprop or jet engine to get to cruise altitude, then electric engines taking over.

Anyone know if there are any promising hybrid planes on the horizon?
One wonders why Apple didn't just treat DMGs like Application Folders in the first place. If they had an icon and you could run them directly then there wouldn't be any confusion. AppImage works like that and I think it was a wise decision.
‘Escape communities’ are the newest hideaways from the pandemic
The NYT and other media is very friendly to federal bureaucrats who complain about political interference.

If the WH was directing them to approve something against their judgment there would have been headlines on major news sites.
Tool for managing emergency supplies during Covid-19
This order has nothing to do with any of those issues. Off label use was already allowed.
Right but the comparison is being made against "ground transportation" in the video. Light aircraft are already a component of urban travel (notably helicopters) and merely making them electrically powered isn't going to dramatically increase their utility which again is what the visualization in the video shows.
Which standard way? You have:

- Install from App store

- Drag and drop the .app from zip/dmg

- Using a .pkg installer (mostly based on Xcode templates)

I'd argue that a lot of users don't know all of these and some even run most of their applications from the ~/Downloads folder.
> (two rubber bands and a paper towel, if you have to).

Two paper towels and a tissue paper actually.

The different materials lead to better filtration and absorption. The theory is to absorb the microscopic moisture that has COVID19 on it.

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I think the "cut t-shirt" design is easiest. With a bit of sewing effort, you can make it 3-ply or 5-ply for additional protection. Try to get the grains to go in different directions.
But they already could do that.
Thanks for setting out an arbitrary criteria for us ...
Walmart to begin screening employees for Covid-19 symptoms
Does the device prevent the collection or storage of a persons DNA? I all collected material destroyed / sanitized?
MIT's beer game is a classic one in supply chain: http://web.mit.edu/jsterman/www/SDG/beergame.html
Can someone explain what he didn’t like about string theory?
i'm not sure. i'm not a doctor. at minimum, flattening the curve is buying time for therapies and vaccines.

that study may be overly pessimistic. elsewhere, i think i saw 50/50 survival rates for ventilated patients but i don't have a source at hand.
Is there a way to page sql results? Also, it would be awesome if I could use rlwrap with `dolt sql`, so I can use the shortcuts I'm used to in an REPL environment.
I can't help but feel that people are bending over backwards now to deny the potential efficacy of this treatment because Trump tweeted about it.

The potentially positive results are some 2 months old now, there have been multiple (admittedly nonideal) reports out of China first, then Europe, that these drugs may work, and we have a theorized mechanism of action.

These drugs were also reported to work on SARS.

A tweet may not be an appropriate venue but it was absolutely a good idea to give people hope, and these drugs undeniably do show promise. Any other president would have been lauded.
A lot of One Step from Eden, Dead Cells, and Hades. I've been on a bit of a roguelike kick ever since the quarantine started. One more run...
My reef aquarium, novice banjo, getting the yard ready for spring, helping more with the kid's school work, and learning more about investing. Oh, and playing through a video game (very rarely done for me). I consider each of these as various levels of productive.
New blood test can detect more than 50 types of cancer
There were other reports before this weird doctor. Including out of China.
It's worth pointing out that chrome is pledged and unveiled. Even a compromised chrome can only modify the downloads dir.
IGST: What to Know and Its Overview
I honestly cannot imagine how that would be more performant than just using Electron by itself the typical way, unless this was a very CPU intensive application like a video editor.
> We "only" have 2-5 deaths a day, so it's not a huge sample size, but if the drug were extremely effective, you wouldn't need a very large sample size to see a difference.

I'm not so sure about that. If the goal is to get from 97% case survival rates to 99+%, the results may not be all that obvious from small sample sizes.
Memento Labs, the Reborn Hacking Team, Is Struggling
We drop the last octet at the edge. Then we keep the truncated IPs for 25 hours to deal with attacks. Then we delete it completely.
Because arbitrary "Thou Shalts" do not prevent security holes. Make a restriction, and hackers will find the cracks around it. The only way to stop them is to fill the cracks, and the only way to find the cracks is to look for them. Now, certainly if there was an exec() replacement that was more secure, you should use that; but banning exec() entirely is doing more harm to functionality than good to security.

Particularly, the exec() bug here is one of misunderstanding the security guarantees of interfaces; particularly, that there are none. Not validating inputs is the single most universally known security practice, and yet it wasn't done here. On top of that, not using typed objects further increases potential for attacks. This was just shit security design. exec() had about as much to do with the bug as your brakes have to do with you locking up your wheels when traveling too fast in rain/snow/ice. (that you should have been going slower, not that the brakes are defective)
Growing fresh veggies with Rpi and Mender
You don't have to follow their `advice`, and most who want such plants would plant the ones they want anyhow and those who like native plants would be a plus point sales wise. So you may find the effort and expense would not yield much of a return and may be detrimental profit wise.

Saying that as I'm not aware of anybody who was put off a house sale as they didn't like the plants, though aware of many who would landscape/redo the garden to their taste irrespective of what's there and the only thing that may have merit would be a tree or bushes that would factor in some buyers, not the plants. Unless of course it's something like knotweed.

Did you consult with other agents?
The situation is a lot more nuanced than that.

I challenge you to find an example of a blanket ban on all masks, that doesn't rely on other factors like threatening violence, rallying, intent to hide identity, or a respresenting specific gang design/color.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_law
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/workshopx
What if one pays $200/mo for the HIPAA-compliant plans?
> Or maybe it’s that authoring and supporting drivers for actual hardware is tremendous effort that is mostly thankless.

Oh, if only drivers were the only part of Linux Desktop that was broken...