skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The flawed decision making was right at the start, when this thing could have been bottled up, and then after that at just about every junction where decisions were postponed. Now it's too late and everybody and their brother will start telling the ICU personnel how to clean up our messes?
Let me rephrase it: If governments does nothing, 1 out of 200 people will die.

This study expects 510,000 people to die in the UK (depending on the R0 value) and 2200000 in the US. That's 1 in 135.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

It will be between 1 in 200 and 1 in 100.
Fun project thanks for sharing.
Interesting; back to the "iron lung" used to treat Polio patients in the 40's and 50's. Wikipedia [0] says they date back to the 1830's. The "Both Respirator" was invented in 1937, was made from plywood, and cost £100 to make. And kind of an odd echo of current events:

Visiting London in 1938 during another polio epidemic, Both produced additional respirators there which attracted the attention of William Morris (Lord Nuffield), a British motor manufacturer and philanthropist. Nuffield, intrigued by the design, financed the production of approximately 1700 machines at his car factory in Cowley, and donated them to hospitals throughout all parts of Britain and the British Empire. Soon, the Both-Nuffield respirators were able to be produced by the thousand at about one-thirteenth the cost of the American design. By the early 1950s, there were over 700 Both-Nuffield iron lungs in the United Kingdom, but only 50 Drinker devices.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_lung
I read a claim the the most reliable distinguishing quality between neanderthalensis and sapiens was that the former was never found in possession of something traded from far away. Would welcome correction or enlargement.
I really like my Autonomous chair (https://www.autonomous.ai/office-chairs/ergonomic-chair) - prefer it over Aeron and decently priced at under 400$.
Learning ES6/JavaScript – Part 2
>not using the same code, but the same algorithm.

Is it really that clear cut?
I think so, though I couldn't remember what it was
Yea but this not a permanent shock, it's a temporary disruption. As soon as this passes over, rents will likely revert back to where they were before.

In NYC there are many vacant commercial spaces because landlords hold out for the highest paying tenants. You're overestimating the desperation of landlords.
Yes, and for doctors that may make more or less sense. But that's very far from the ideal situation: that we had managed to keep things under control when we could and that right now we stay home as much as possible to reduce the load on the system. But since people aren't even doing that (see this gem of a thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22724268 ) I fail to see why we should at the same time break things even further.

Let's first all stay the fuck home, then ensure good personal hygiene and if and when infected self isolate as much as possible and leave the rest to the HCWs who are risking their lives in the most literal way possible.

All this well intentioned backseat driving isn't going to move the needle, not even a little bit.
Oh boy this why I love digital ocean ! There is never any surprize. Simple and intutive UI. Free alerts, free firewall. you can see all resources on single dashboard. not like aws where you forget to terminate instance from different region and screwed up in one night.
DNA Lounge already has a Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge and a one-time donation page at https://www.dnalounge.com/donate/ .

What happens if an alternative GoFundMe site, auto-generated by Yelp, results in a reduction of the overall donation stream? Then it wouldn't be "free money", would it?

So, who decides if this plan is appropriate for the business?

Hint: not Yelp. Which is why it shouldn't be opt-out.

Plus, Yelp was defaulting to a 15% cut for Yelp. So if people were going to send $1,000 to a restaurant, but did it through Yelp instead of directly, then that would be an overall net loss.
> The concise syntax particularly shines in interactive cases.

I think this is a good point.

In an interactive environment: you can iteratively build the expression up, and you have the right chunks of context in working memory as you do it. You'd still need to learn what the different functions/operations are; but in a one-line REPL the use of symbols would allow you to fit more on a line than using more traditional identifiers.

That avoids many of the things I'd be concerned about for writing code like this if I had to come back and read or modify it months later.
Stay at Home with Comfy
tell him that IE is almost dead (and killed by Microsoft itself): never heard of Edge Chromium?
> This language of addressing each posters as if they personally had this intention is pretty bizarre.

Oh, so it's just posturing. Forgive me then for taking you serious.
That's how I read

> The quality of curriculum and teaching was typically poor
Well it is completely reimplemented in C++ and I actually changed the algorithm in some places so it still gives the same results with a smaller time complexity. But it is still a derived work. Just not from the GPL licensed version: https://github.com/rhasspy/rapidfuzz/blob/master/LICENSE
Not sure about economic perspective... Lots of old people dying prematurely is basically a huge relief on pension funds and health insurance (old slowly dying people are the most expensive to treat).

Moral perspective is obviously different, though I'm not sure there's additional value to old human life over just human life.
I turned on a POC of a platform on AWS last month that stood up 30,000$ worth of AWS spend for it self... now where near this but the ease with which it came online was terrifying
Had a teacher come up with Repair to add to those. You could see the pride on her face the day she brought it up, as if she’d unearthed the secret that would solve global waste.
Great news! Python needs more JIT love.
specint2006 shows that A13 outperforms desktop ryzen 3900x. 5W vs 105W. 6 cores vs 12 cores. something is wrong with numbers here.
I used both leaded[1] and lead free. Only thing with lead free is needing a little more heat and making sure everything is clean. Anything tinned or with a flash of silver/gold solders just fine.

And I think I've seen tin whiskers once in 20 years. I'm dubious it's a problem for 99% of commercial applications. Unlike mil spec the temperature extremes are less, IC's are encapsulated[2]. And I suspect lead free alloys aren't as problematic as pure tin.

Either way industrial production, processing and eventual disposal of lead is bad news.

[1] Nicest solder I've used is lead/tin/antimony. Stuff was the shit.

[2] Early papers I read were all about pure tin solder causing problems inside hermetically sealed packages.
The economical value of growing veggies after paying city rents/wages/ and infra investment doesn't paint a good picture profit wise. The food business is mostly based on low wages paid to immigrant employees. It works because usually these people live in rural areas. Look at the milk price. I haven't seen it increase in 5 years..
If in four months, we have readily-available fast tests and plentiful masks, it is possible to end the heavy-handed mitigations and follow the model of the East Asian countries that have already brought the disease under control.
I'm entirely mystified how people can get pip to work for anything that isn't either quite simple or is a shrink-wrapped product with carefully, and manually, selected versions of every component.

Anyway, conda isn't really aimed at either of these scenarios. It's aimed at people doing research, data science, etc, where you are likely to use a sprawling assortment of packages, many of bewildering complexity, and entirely without the time to tinker with which package version works with which.

The naive algorithm that pip use, which essentially is to grab the latest version of everything often doesn't cut it in these scenarios. Conda, with all it's warts, actually does dependency resolution, which it's why it's so much "slower", it does something completely different from pip.

As pip and conda can coexist today, I simply install what's not available in conda/conda-forge with pip, and have a much easier time manage all my dependencies.

If you do anything in data science, or similar, it's rarely a problem that things doesn't exist in conda, because they almost always do, which is not the case with all kinds of packages.
Why are they so expensive? German electricity is ~2x as expensive as the cheaper US regions.
Ride-hailing app Didi plans car leasing service amid new car sales slowdown
Someone who is going to such lengths to save their employees should at least be given the benefit of doubt.

He did something similar 7 years ago, so I don’t think he has some ulterior motive with all this or a grand plan. IDK, Seems like a great guy to me.
That stock in unaffected areas is allocated to the affected crisis area seems like an incredible benefit though. Seems to me that this is an example illustrates the opposite actually. Human demand might be infinite but supply is always limited

Also, high prices sends information to producers that riskily ramping up or shifting production can be worth it. Might not be worth it at a lower price point.
Agree.

One Soviet 'November' class (K27) and all 7 'Alfa' class used liquid metal. It wasn't developed further or used after.
Starting an Open Source Project with No Corporate Backing
nostromo has made some good points.

We're not going to stay in lockdown for 18 months, which is what the estimate is for a cure.

If it's true that covid-19 doesn't like warm temperatures, that would be great, but that's still 2 months away for the USA.

Otherwise we need to start thinking of when to end lockdown, whether that's ideal or not.
Khan Academy is based in Mountain View. There are plenty of engineers getting that annual compensation at Facebook/Google/Netflix.
Citation/example?
Priceless, and just what the ICU backseat driver crowd needs to see.
Better look at Genode OS and what they are doing with C++, Ada and SPARK integration, than hoping any UNIX clone will ever use anything else other than C.
Star Trek Voyager 4K remaster using AI machine learning
Aside from competition being a good thing, Docker itself introduces attack vectors.
https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall

Chrome users can install this directly as an unpacked extension.

For Firefox users, there's an xpi hidden in the releases tab.
How to Bypass CSP by Hiding JavaScript in a PNG Image
Doesn't it vary highly on the location and its surrounding population density? That's probably why it's so vague. But why does it matter? Exponential growth can reach extremely high numbers in short iterations. Maybe a smaller hospital in Ney Jersey will be overwhelmed a few days before a larger hospital in New York would be.
> Being able to hold a paint brush is a very different skill level than painting a portrait.

Painful given some past threads on this subject.

Other than that: spot on.
Can you provide the numbers for those young people on ventilators?
Thank you for this. I wish it was as obvious to others as it is to pretty much anyone who has spent time in East Asia. Masks and the culture of being polite about not spreading disease would be a game changer in the US.
There is no Linux “platform” (pt 2)
100% agree. Thanks for creating the website. I'll spread the website link in my circle.
Does Lyft or Uber have something similar with other manufacturers?
According to Wikipedia[1]:

> Scientific opinions differ on whether viruses are a form of life, or organic structures that interact with living organisms.

And:

> Viruses are now recognised as ancient and as having origins that pre-date the divergence of life into the three domains.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
I like Rossmann, but I should have focused on staying on target here. He starts with the info about the shitty fundraiser scheme. But then drifts into a talking about them not removing fake negative reviews of his business. Though the second part is a valid complaint, just seems you shouldn't use this coverage to talk about your personal issues with them.

For the record, Yelp has been a scummy dumpster fire for years, they try this shake down shit with so many small businesses here.
Yes and when we do it like that the risk to mother and child goes up tremendously.
By "censorship", do you mean no numbers or fake numbers?
X band reception isn't expensive. LNB + dish is a combination that handles a large part of the X band for <100$. I'm not sure how expensive an X-band uplink is, but I think some satellite internet providers used them, in which case they are also likely <1000$.

And it's normally better to just have more redundancy instead of higher individual uptime, at least as long as space, weight and power are not an issue (i.e., on the ground).
As I understood it the government tasked Folkhälsomyndigheten to hurriedly create a plan for how testing could be increased.
Chinese scientists develop nanomaterial to combat coronavirus Covid-19
Epidemic Modeling 101: Or why your CoVID19 exponential fits are wrong

“Over the past few weeks, a terrible affliction has been spreading across the world. Otherwise healthy and productive members of society have been infected with this devastating illness that causes them to fire up Excel, Python or R and start extrapolating the latest numbers of confirmed CoVID19 cases in their town, state, country or even the world!”

https://medium.com/data-for-science/epidemic-modeling-101-or...
You absorbed a country?!
I’m interested to see if the numbers from Japan that are prevalent on your site hold up. They are doing even less testing than America...

https://www.vox.com/covid-19-coronavirus-explainers/2020/3/2...
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/coronavirus-maki...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm

> Among the first 4,226 cases in the U.S., more than half of patients who were hospitalized were under the age of 65, and one in five were aged 20 to 44.

No source on ventilators but "hospitalized" is close enough.
> critical patients

What does that even mean? The UK isn't testing unless you need hospital care (or you're special, e.g. Prince Charles, Boris Johnson, Idris Elba), aren't all of those patients somewhat critical? Or is "critical" just "hooked up to a ventilator" in which case it could be limited by the number of ventilators instead?
Do you see a correlation in the current data that has the country's jan-mar temperature as a significant component?
Hey, thanks for the interest. No, I cannot change the title because I don't have editing capabilities anymore.

I don't see the point of implementing it in c++ simply because I wanted to keep it simple, dependency free and easy to maintain. The fact that I know very little C++ also influenced that decision. Moreover, I am sure that way would be faster (from my understanding).
Not parent, but in my experience, PyPy is much faster than CPython on regular scripts, but has slower C API interop (more overhead calling Numpy).
It's OK that your 'belief' contradicts official WHO guidance but that 'MASKS-NO MASKS' graph went a bit too far as a misstatement (i.e. "presenting facts in an alternative way").

Let me paste the official advice here for educating readers:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

> If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infection.
> Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing.
> Masks are effective only when used in combination with frequent hand-cleaning with alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
> If you wear a mask, then you must know how to use it and dispose of it properly.

The kind of misinforming you are doing is dangerous in these times, especially that the official WHO standpoint is that wearing masks in a wrong way (using it multiple times, touching or taking off in a wrong way) is worse than not wearing them at all during already decreased social encounters (i.e. already staying at home, and going out at most for groceries).

Or are you stating that the WHO is lying?

Those Asian cultures have a different epidemic curve not due to mask wearing, but because a totally different social structure, prior experience concerning epidemics, preparedness, attitude towards authority & emergency measures and other factors. So it's a fallacy of cherry picking to say that it's 'because they wear masks and all our authorities are wrong'.
Claiming that untrained staff could administer a ventilator from a 30 day bootcamp fits under that definition.
Sr Web Developer, Engineers, Internships | Bellevue, WA | Full-time | Onsite or Remote (US) | https://www.symetra.com/

I am the hiring manager for this new product that we are building to disrupt the insurance industry. This is greenfield opportunity where we are building this as a startup (well-funded) where you get to innovate on the business, user experience as well as on the technology front.

On the engineering side of the house, I have open positions for UX/UI designer, web developers, full stack engineers, software engineers and interns. You will be working with a team that includes data scientists, data engineers, business team that includes CXOs. The product is being built all in AWS using modern web framework with lots of opportunity to innovate on the technology side.

Here is one of those open positions, where I am looking for someone who has strong expertise in one of the modern web frameworks along with experience building customer facing web application. If this you, apply here (and mention HN): https://tinyurl.com/tgo3h32

If you have any questions, feel free to comment or email me (available in profile).
Big fan of FuzzyWuzzy, so if it's the same API but with more performance, sounds great. The performance impact has bit me before.
It depends on the SNR. You can assume that almost all satellite connections use between 0.2 and 3 bit/s/Hz. It's likely closer to 1 bit/s/Hz though.
Thanks for the tip, I am indeed a non-native speaker!
Aeron. Look no further.
It'd be interesting to have a look at that news site forum (if you have a link?).

> messages are folding individually (i.e. only content is hidden but not the children)

Seems like a nice way to give a concise overview of the discussion (who replies to who, how long each thread is). I think it'd be nice to see the first rows of each message, so one knows what it is about (maybe one has forgotten).

> only new messages are shown in an unfolded state

(So that one directly sees the messages one hasn't read before, and can start reading them effortlessly, right)

> only new messages are shown

I wonder how they determine which messages are new. Maybe it's [new since one's last visit]? Or messages one hasn't read yet? Not that easy to know which messages the visitor has read, if many messages are visible on the screen at the same time :- )
Right, insect-based infection is one vector I forgot.

HIV is kind of special,in that it took years before it was recognized as the cause of AIDS, and, since it was mainly affecting stigmatized groups, government efforts to contain it were non-existent for years. I'm not sure that another sexually-transmitted infection would follow the same epidemiology in the current age, at least in the more tolerant countries.
Not in Sweden that’s for sure. It took me a long search to find some a while back when I needed it
astrophysicist =/= rocket scientist
> The day we trash the electoral college is the day we destroy America.

This is a crazy over-reaction.

The electoral college is a stupid mistake of history, that doesn't do anything positive but does undermine faith in our political system by making the loser win occasionally.

Getting rid of it won't do anything but increase stability a bit
The article makes it seem like lead-free solder is indisputably healthier, but in reality the conclusion seems to be based off of just the MSDS of the products. I presume these are generated simply based on the chemical composition of the solder, but do not take into account the actual exposure that really occurs when one is soldering.
As an Spanish without too much knowledge of the religious reality in the US, what is a mega church?
Yes api and results stay mostly the same.
A small difference is that return values are always float -> e.g. a ratio of 94.664 and not rounded to 95 as it is done with FuzzyWuzzy so the results can be compared in a better way.
Legal Tech Layoffs Begin as Disco Announces Crisis Job Cuts
its about timing.

Say I have datacentre in london, Sure I could plumb in 4 100gig lines. But they are typically on a year lease and have a long lead time.

Plus, once its on the datatruck its AWS's problem.
There is your first mistake: thinking the customer wants to solve the problem in a a good or cost-effective way.

Snowmobile was built because a pre-sales engineer sarcastically said backing up a truck full of hard drives to a customers datacenter would be the fastest way to import X PB of data. It's probably loading from a tape silo and spent 18 months at the customer site.
> About 4 years of medical school, and around 4 more years of residency training.

This is not universal in the US. You can do Bac + Med School in six years even there[1]. That’s the standard route outside the US’ former colonies and those countries with colonial cringe. Medical school in the UK and Ireland varies from five to six years with undergraduate entry. Graduate entry is four years like in the US, but pre-med doesn’t exist; you can start med school with a degree in dance[2]. Even in the US you can do med school in three years[3]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/noodleeducation/2018/06/18/3-bs...

[2] https://www.ul.ie/gems/programmes/bmbs-programme

[3] https://med.nyu.edu/education/md-degree/accelerated-three-ye...
Yes, it's pretty narrow. I've had double pneumonia somewhere in my 20's. Just playing a reed instrument (sax) was over-pressuring my lungs to the point that it led to more damage over time. And that's only a tiny little bit of pressure.
I think Lead Solder is Ban in Europe since 2003 or around.

I remember the change, where I was not able to buy the old one. I remember that it had a slightly higher melt temperature.

Can you buy it in America?
Have to agree with my sibling comment.

Just a few months ago I bought my first soldering iron. Not only was the little bit solder included with the iron of the Sn60Pb40 variety but also almost all of the solder products on the shelves at my local "Bauhaus" (a home improvement market chain).

For anyone that cares: brand of iron and solder was "Rothenberger Industrial". Relatively cheap but looked like a good and sturdy tool which from my yet limited hobbyist experience it seems to be.
Agreed, same here. When I finished it I felt that I had witnessed something profound and ancient and true. No other book has done what it did to me, though I'm not sure I can even describe it.
Please. Signing up to be your government's lapdog is not a "rite of passage".
> Or are you stating that the WHO is lying?

yes, the page does indeed state that. what do you think of the cited research, vs nitpicking the hero image?
Quite the coincidence that out of all places on earth studying this specific viral mutation, it was in Wuhan, which is where the initial outbreak occurred.

Not every lab on the planet is studying this particular virus strain.
Show HN: Tracking San Francisco Covid-19 Deaths Daily
Ask HN: Now that CO2 levels are down, can we see if CO2 causes global warming?
The Chinese virus caused an almost complete stop of all activities, at a level that would be impossible to achieve in a normal situation.

It's already been noticed that CO2 levels have decreased significantly.

Will we be able to observe temps and see if there is definitely a relation between CO2 and global warming, or will this not be possible?

I would think that this is a one-time opportunity.