skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is reminiscent of what happened in 2008, when Roche was the only manufacturer of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir)[1] and the Indian drug company Cipla managed to get legal approval to release a generic clone of it called Antiflu in India. And the rest of the world followed soon enough.

Governments can and do lift up patent protections in times of emergencies.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oseltamivir
Your frustration with US rules, to me, only emphasizes my point. You want the rules to work. Versus the US born/bred idea that they never will. Flippant, I know, but that's my observation.

It's also completly possibile that you're an outlier German that is frustrated with the current rules. For sure, I've seen that in spades. it isn't the mainstream though.
Maybe this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath:_Population_Zero
Does it have to be uniquely identifying to be PII? Or is there some minimum threshold for k-anonymity?
Practical tips to ease your fears about coronavirus
Oskar’s tweets showing his city-builder are some of my favourite things on the internet. His combination of 3D rendering and artistic style is just black magic to me.
These days most investors would probably look only at developments in the medical field; Covid19 is affecting just about every business everywhere.
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> If the population assumes they've tested positive, and acts like they are

That is a fair point, and I agree that testing is most important when there are a limited number of cases - a stage which was essentially missed by Western governments but hopefully will have another opportunity.

I don't agree that populations are acting like they have tested positive, though, or can do that en masse.

If you know yourself to be positive, you should ideally be taking stricter measures - like having people leaving food at your doorstep.

Only people who are not infectious should be involved in food and resource distribution.

In order to enact that, you would need to actually test.
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The do still share something. In response to this headline I installed the Zoom app and picked to login with Facebook. A browser popped up showing the facebook webpage and said "Login as Gregg Tavares?". Since I just installed app how did Facebook know it was me? The only possibility that comes to mind is that Safari was using cookies from some other app's embedded webview.
The consumers who place the orders already have the option, today, of paying them as much as they think the service is worth or should be additionally paid. It’s called tipping.

Nothing is standing in the way of them being paid better other than consent.

Forcing people to pay for things to which they do not consent is deeply immoral.
No! We should rigorously scrutinise epidemiologists and do lots and lots of competing analysis.

What makes you think epidemiologists are so great? The one who has guided the UK's response has been severely criticised by fellow academics in the past for bogus low quality modelling. The Imperial College paper has basic errors and flawed assumptions that are obvious even to untrained laymen.

I think you're wildly over-estimating how much statistical and logical training most academics get. This is one of the basic underlying problems that the replication crisis has exposed: an unending flood of academic papers, especially those doing modelling, that fall apart when examined by people with statistical and mathematical training.

You're right that a 4 week bootcamp won't make someone a flawless handling of data. But it might still be a more rigorous form of training than epidemiologists get.
That's right, currently reading it for my uni course :)
> Privacy is built in from the beginning. Our products and features include innovative privacy technologies and techniques designed to minimize how much of your data we — or anyone else — can access

https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/

Apple sells privacy, brags about privacy - yet Privacy is abused in from the beginning in the store apps.
Great post, I especially appreciated the extra detail on generating the gifs for the post at the end. Thank you.
That s mostly an issue for airports, and health officials, cities cant expect all landlords to test their tenants regularly. Airbnb owns no properties, they ll go in recess and probably scale down but i see no reason it s the “end”

In thr meanwhile, it will be transformed to a platform for normal, long term rents

(If anything, trusted, and possibly provably tested renters from airbnb will be preferred )
https://bit.ly/2QTW8St
Someone's built the entire Earth in Minecraft – to scale
> why on earth is Germany running five times more beds that it generally needs?

I feel like that question is asked the wrong way around because you are assuming England has "exactly enough", that's how you end up with Germany supposedly "running five times more beds than it needs".

But there's good reason to believe England has not enough ICU beds, even outside of a pandemic, the result of years of austerity cuts to the NHS [0].

There's also the fact that Germany is a healthcare powerhouse. Often forgotten among all the "cars and engineering" exports, but pharma and vaccines are the other two German top exports [1]

These are fields you can only really innovate in if you have a matching clinical and medical infrastructure behind it, which Germany has.

It's this combination that allows Germany to have such low fatality rates [2]. To put them in numbers: The UK right now sits at 11 deaths per 1m population, Germany at 5, and that's with Germany having tens of thousands of more cases [3].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/01/perfect-sto...

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/country/deu/

[2] https://apnews.com/ad9a6af47c3b55fd83080c9168afaaf4

[3] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
The FT article I think claims that after the bankruptcy there will remain a small team to maintain them for now. Don't know if the plan is to de-orbit them, maybe there are still some stakeholders interested in running some experiments on them...
And I see thousands of storks flying on a deserted airport since few days.
No. Apple charged a premium well before they started talking about privacy.
I think that's because they are worried about the supply limit.

They are pushing that advice as a matter of prioritising the supply.
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The menu of papers for the associated class, https://heather.miller.am/teaching/cs7680/, looks really rich. The class is from 2016. Looks like the book dates from 2016-2017. My first impression was that this was work in progress ...

I'd be curious to see what from this set Adrian Colyer
https://blog.acolyer.org/ has already digested.

A perhaps interesting follow on would be to see which of these programming models are manifest today across the big cloud services .. or how they have advanced from this legacy work.
Would any cloud-hosted analytics be acceptable? Is it just Facebook that’s problematic? What if they switched from client-side analytics to server-side so you couldn’t detect it all? Would that be any better? The bottom line is when you use a service, that data is their data to send to whomever they want.
The importer is considered to be the manufacturer in case something bad happens, caused by the product. Meaning, worst case,you import a mask. It fails. Patients in the practice you supplied the mask to get infected and some die. Now we are talking tens of millions.

I asked the Allianz and Munich Re (the insurers insurer). Both declined to insure that at the moment.

Which sucks. Because the gap between FOB and DDP would otherwise just be logistics. Ignoring prices, that is rather easy to solve. I try to get hold of someone at the armed forces department charged with that. Hopefully it leads somewhere.

EDIT: Product liability is th problem. Transport insurance is easy to obtain and no problem.
I think this is done in Czech Republic at scale.
mitmproxy or Charles proxy on your laptop. Charles proxy also has an iOS version, I imagine there is something similar that can run directly on Android.
From my perspective at least, you've always handled it with grace. Thanks for your work Bob.
A possible end to ‘forever’ chemicals
9 months of runway with 0 income is a lot, especially for a company that size.
DHH on monoliths vs. microservices
A real challenger to the Return of the Obra Din Devlog :)

https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=qvfvkcqtfr9...
Right? It’s a bafflingly huge number, and almost everything I’ve seen mentioned so far would support 2x tops.
Thanks, that's what i was attempting to submit. Mods, feel free to fix.
Yeah, let's look at where hospital money goes:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hospital-bosses-face-1...
They aren't in a low orbit, the decay time is a lot more than 25 years.
Until July 1 the premium version of Hangouts Meet is made available for free to you if your university has access to Meet. This means up to 250 people in a single meeting:

"Starting this week, we will begin rolling out free access to our advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally including:

- Larger meetings, for up to 250 participants per call

- Live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers within a domain

- The ability to record meetings and save them to Google Drive " [1]

Zoom definitely has better crowd control (for lack of a better term) than Meet does. Meet does have some relatively unused but helpful features though like the questions that you can ask as an audience member and upvote others' questions. Can be very helpful in a lecture.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/helping-busin...

Edit. Add reference, quote.
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> Note that the UK spends a lot less (per capita) on healthcare than Germany: (£2,989 vs £4,432 in 2017)

If Germany have provisioned 5 times more ICU beds than they generally need, I can see why their costs might be higher
Not only that - China has refused to participate in an international WHO serology study to see the % of people with antibodies.

...it's not much of a leap to imagine that the reason is to hide the true number that were infected.
> he UK right now sits at 11 deaths per 1m population, Germany at 5, and that's with Germany having tens of thousands of more cases [3].

The UK has done around 110k tests, Germany more than 400k. Don't confuse positive test results with actual infections. If the UK tested more, it'd very likely have more "cases".
So this will be the final OneWeb constellation:
https://space-search.io/?search=OneWeb

(shamelessly plugging my own website here)

Such a shame about OneWeb though, met some of them at a conference in Spain just a month ago, where the elephant in the room was StarLink already.
Bit of an aside, but Dräger is a fascinating company. Aside from their core medical devices, serious scuba divers know them for their rebreathers, which collect, scrub and reuse the air you breathe, instead of just venting it out like typical scuba regulators. Rebreathers are notoriously expensive, fiddly and dangerous, because there are all sorts of ways things can go wrong if the gas mix isn't just right, but Dräger's kit is the gold standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather
Iridium launched a complete, working constellation before going bankrupt.
Both are kind of true. The air freight / train / sea freight part would ve easy enough to solve. Getting the masks distributed locally is already a little bit trickier,but I am working on something right now. Basically a regional hub, supplied by air train or sea, and a couple of Kanban loops to local distribution centers (hospitals, practices, whatever).

Maybe I can convince someone to give it a try. If not, I'll just go back building my company as planned. Would still suck so, to have look at the mess from the sidelines.
Let's add some context we can all get behind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_health_consumer_index
I think good EVFs were available since about 2013. I compared the optical viewfinder of the Canon 5D with the electronic of the Olympus E-M1, and the EVF of the Olympus offered an equally large image, that also was brighter if the outside light wasn't very strong. The only complaint might be the limited resolution, but since then much higher resolution viewfinders have become available. And basically any optical viewfinder for smaller than 35mm formats is inferior, because the amount of light in the smaller format makes building of a large and bright optical viewfinder basically impossible

The big advantage of EVFs is that it can do so much more than an optical viewfinder. You can enlarge it, display focus peaking, but most of all, you get a preview of the image you would take - especially previewing the exposure is very helpful. And of course, if you want to do video, the viewfinder of a SLR wouldn't be usable at all.
If they’re using ASWebAuthenticationController you can’t read passwords. You can’t even see which URL they’re on.
Or you could just use a scarf/cloth mask for nearly the same effect without tapping into actual medical supplies.

People who are handy with a sewing machine can even make pretty decent ones themselves [0]

[0] https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-...
It's probably not even true at an absolute level. China likely had over a million cases.
>> The history of space industry is full of companies that ran out of money when attempting to launch massive satellite constellations.

As Elon recently said, they have ALL gone under. The goal of Starlink is to not go bankrupt. Well, it's actually to fund the Mars mission, but a first step is to not go bankrupt like everyone else did.
Is there a citation for that? I’d guess there are large parts of northern Maine that only have logging roads.
Camera aren't terribly expensive, but if you have 8 - 10 pro grade lenses which will cost on average $2000 to replace with E mount variants that might sound expensive. Particularly if you don't produce more money by switching to mirrorless and buying those lenses.
Source: https://en.ssi.dk/news/news/2020/03-ssi--solves-essential-co...
For those who didn't figure it out - instead of raw markdown you can read the book already in html format that browsers can render: http://dist-prog-book.com/chapter/
California saw dense housing near transit as its future. What now?
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And that goes to show that our capitalist economy is an abject failure, partly due to a government that doesn't enforce anti-trust law, so monopolies become favored. There is no way for anyone to compete.
The US has the most ICU beds per capita among all countries. Germany is a close second.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...
The parallel here would be running a test, not writing a test.

If the test [likely] takes up more resources to run than the [likely] benefit, then don't run the test, I agree.

I wouldn't count that as a diagnostic test at all, though.
Skype, Jitsi and MS teams also have this feature for some time now.
Might be a dumb thing to post on hacker news, but I tried using the word boid or boids in Scrabble and my competitive wife wouldn't let me because it wasn't in the dictionary. It fit so well too!
How would you design a new economy and government?
Most people self censor here. Alternative points of view are not debated, they are flagged. Ask yourself how good of a job it did to help people get the picture about Corona, while other places (like my twitter) proved much more valuable. Health level 50%. It s a legacy community largely saved by having a more aged demographic than reddit.
>Surely there are open source video chat solutions already? They haven't taken off for one simple reason: video hosting is expensive. It's quite literally one of the most intensive network activities you can partake in, rivaling torrenting.

There are, as you state OSS solutions [0]. But the video hosting is not akin to Torrenting. Most people are fine with 720p quality video as you're not "watching" the participants like a movie. And as you scale up the number of users the required bandwidth for each subsequent user goes down in a linear fashion due to reduced screen real estate. A conference with 8 users, from a video perspective doesn't reasonably take up more bandwidth than that of 2 given the smaller stream. I am on almost constant conference meetings with 4-12 users, many times with video and I have a full packet monitoring solution at home and can tell you it's not remotely as intensive as you've claimed here.

[0] https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
Very interesting research domain, on the one hand computers are so powerful because they can decouple us from our spatial reality, on the other hand we need the spatiality to be able to navigate the computational structures.

If you are interested in this kind of stuff definitely also research Embodied Cognition theory.
This is something I love about living in germany, actually. In the UK (where I was brought up) you're very used to the kind of absurd situations that develop from common sense not being applied to rules. If you talk to somebody in a position of authority, you absolutely expect them to pick the least reasonable, least constructive application of any rule they have at their disposal to ruin your day.

I don't know why this is so different in Germany. I've more often observed the inverse - where people (mostly well-dressed middle-aged men, for whatever reason) are extremely rude and condescending towards secretaries, ticket collectors, etc.
Very very true of many countries, the level of testing and how they record deaths has been done at the discretion of individual countries and in many ways, makes comparing data not as clear-cut as you would think. THough if you don't know that, you end up comparing, what are hard numbers that you take as golden and end up down many wrong turns.

With that, who really thinks Russia has so few cases compared to the rest of the countries?

Even deaths, which you would of thought would be pretty clear cut, some countries will not count deaths with underlying conditions when many do. Then you have those who died at home and nobody knows about it.

I do know one thing, I feel for the postal workers in months ahead as there job will become a lot more morbid seeing who's letterbox is rammed and with that, possible dead people inside that nobody knows and for those postal workers - they will be the ones raising the alarms.
I also have an implementation [0] that shows the paths of the boids. Based on the parameters, some very interesting patterns emerge!

[0] http://jzlabs.com/
A friend of mine is coordinating Airbus effort to build ventilators. I know Airbus manufacturing base, and theoretically possible. Getting a design together that works, and can get certified for medical use, is the difficult part as far as I understood. But they are in contact with various universities and so on.

One big issue can be IP. Dräger put a lot of money behind that. Just opensourcing the design and specs would kill the company. But why not negotiate liscense agreements or sub-contracting production out. Could be a solution. Just shows how everybody is still trying to adopt to the new reality.
It has grown in real terms, but not as fast as either demand or costs. Healthcare inflation is very high, and greatly outpaces the CPI index that we use for 'real-terms' comparisons. Basically, the same funding in 'real-terms' doesn't buy you the same level of care as last year in any country.

Plus Britain is getting somewhat older, and somewhat sicker (partly because of medical advances meaning that previously-fatal conditions are now chronic and need ongoing treatment). And we can treat more now, so there is more demand.

Bluntly, the proportion of GDP which needs to be allocated to healthcare to maintain a good quality service is rising unsustainably in all countries. The NHS is beating CPI inflation (and in doing so doing way better than other parts of government: local government has seen >25% real terms cuts, which has trashed the social care system amongst other things) but not nearly enough to keep up.
I am wondering, could this being more efficient by the aid of computing.

But when major countries entering massive infection condition, the contact tracing measure looks unnecessary.
And came very close to deorbiting it all in the bankruptcy.
The reusability fallacy – Part 3
Who cares? Once you're editing text in a browser you've failed.
You can't have a walled garden and not be responsible for the things that take place in it
Maybe that they count them as beds and have more that can cater for ICU than others.

However, let's not forget historical factors and was case of many countries having armies in Germany for legacy war reasons and that may well of seen the mentalities to have a higher number of such beds than most places.
> Don't confuse positive test results with actual infections.

I don't, I'm mostly going by deaths/1M pop, and afaik even if the UK tested more, that number wouldn't change and still be more than double that of Germany.

So Germany must do something right that the UK doesn't.

Maybe it's the extra ICU beds, maybe it's the rapid testing, most likely it's a combination of both of those in addition to the better funding?
are you blind? this is a comment on a post about jupyterlab - a browser based IDE.
Part 1: https://www.ufried.com/blog/reusability_fallacy_1/

Part 2: https://www.ufried.com/blog/reusability_fallacy_2/

Part 1 was posted previously but without much discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583605
Really good project. The only issue that I am facing is entire resume is messed up while printing it from Firefox.

Everything else is perfect!
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/singapore-claims-fir...
Should still months to create the setup right? I see that it’s stated than not having any but it doesn’t serve the immediate need.
omg jesus christ the hn trolls are out in full force today. what a valuable hard-hitting insightful opinion. really turing award quality stuff here.
is that their stated reason?
Your case of the treaties of Westphalia is an excellent example of why trying to draw a sharp line between transformational and other changes is unhelpful, as the treaties were at most a ratification of a series of connected changes that had been building over long periods. The treaty serves as a marker for the conclusion of a phase of history (insofar as things ever do have a conclusion), but it certainly was not the event that caused the transformation.

To summarize the effect of WW2 as "The world before ww2 was a "western" world order. The world after ww2 was a "western" world order" is to avoid the issue, as it ignores the transformation of how the world was ordered within that broad characterization. The pre-war powers that you list (USA, Britain and Russia) were either incapable of or unwilling to exercise their alleged dominance over the Axis powers; afterwards, the Axis was gone, Russia was, for the first time, globally influential, the British empire existed in name only, the USA was exercising its influence to a degree never seen before, and the era of the nuclear standoff had begun. That was not a cementing of the status quo ante, and it is not obvious that these changes were less transformational than the fall of Constantinople.

By the way, some of your posts in this thread have been downvoted, and I just want to make it clear that it is not me. While I do not agree with your position, I support your right to make it.
Of 6 people I know with corona 2 tested negative despite showing the same symptoms as their positive partners...

I think it's just false negatives.