skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well most things still work through API calls (Postman), but the front-end for the CMS might be ready in the next couple months. Right now is the only administrative UI component is the upload form that lets my wife upload her designs.

The source file content is served from disk, and everything else from the database.
At this point I think it is a frying pan / fire equation.

Although NY might not be the best place, where would, and can you get there in time, and without risk.

I see how the calculation is that NY ICU will be overwhelmed, not sure that there is anywhere which will not be. I see little difference between a 1% chance of getting an ICU bed and a 0.02% chance. If it was me, I would stay put.
Academic textbooks on Cambridge Core (universal free access revoked)
George Hotz Reverse Engineering SARS-CoV-2 GitHub Project
Download the client.
Very happy to finally post this. I've been working on it day and night for the past 5 days.

Quarantine isn't so bad after all...
Amusingly, if you look at the talk section [1] of the Wikipedia article on the Spanish flu, some folks really (suddenly, recently, completely by coincidence) want to call it the 1918 flu.

There's no con job like a retcon job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spanish_flu
In this study the aspirin used is actually a salt of aspirin, tradename is Aspirin I.V.
Do you have something like a mailing list for when it is ready?
Be aware that allowing everybody to continue following their preferences will result in the same proliferation that you see with text editors, email clients, and programming languages. Based on having only 4 different systems, I might predict that your company size is ~100-200 people (though that's a napkin estimate based on a single integer). There are at least 10 systems available, and certainly many more that are only accessible to technical people.
Not practical in all circumstances.

For instance, Really Big Enterprises don't always have consensus among teams on what tools to use, and so.. for war/peace rooms, collecting all the dashboards relevant for an operations event is the vital requirement.
It's not esoteric! It happens. I can't go into details, which should be understandable, but I've seen this happen. People I know and love were able to live freely in the last year of their lives; people I know and love are able to function mostly normally because of the drugs they buy illegally. What, please tell me, is esoteric in this? What exactly?

> is that all you can come up with?

No, but it's enough to falsify your claims. There are people who get tremendous value out of the 'depraved markets'. That's it.

EDIT: typo.
For something like Covid, I'd question how much time should be spent on "trying to spread" vs the amount of time spent on refining the idea.
Ask HN: Is HN a ‘healthy online community’? I’m doing a case study for a class
Hello HN! My name is Sankalp. I’m taking a class called Fixing Social Media at MIT (https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu). We are examining problems with existing modes of social media and exploring affirmative visions for social media that are good for individuals and society.

At this point, the class is working on case studies of successful and healthy online communities, where we are seeking insights from online communities we are part of, inspired by, or find interesting. The goal of the assignment is to figure out whether an online community exemplifies or doesn’t exemplify ‘healthy’ behaviors, from the points of view of their own members, on their own terms. I’m here to understand HN from your perspectives and I’m interested in hearing from all of you.

What criteria do you use to determine 'health' in online communities? How do these differ from those criteria you use to determine ‘health’ in offline communities you are in? How does HN exemplify or not exemplify 'healthy' behaviors? What behaviors of your own would you acknowledge may or may not contribute to the overall ‘health’ of HN?

How did you get into HN? Who introduced you? What makes you stay?

I began using HN as a source for news, projects, ideas, etc. a couple years ago when a mentor referred me here, but I hadn’t made an account until this week for this Ask HN. I check HN once or twice daily and I actually stay for the discussion as much as the links shared by HN members.

In case this is helpful for our discussion, something that our class recently discussed is that communities with controversy aren't necessarily 'unhealthy' — as in, the ability of some communities to work through a controversy and maintain coherence, and to exist as multiple voices coming out of a controversy can be an indicator of being 'healthy'.

I aim to share my findings as well. I hope these questions are interesting to you and that we can hear a variety of perspectives in the comments!
Wonder if CRISPR or similar could be used to knock out regular metabolism pathways. Seems like they'd be understood enough to do so effectively.
Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
I'm in the market for something like this right now... a reddit/discourse hybrid.

Will check this out.
It is a salt of aspirin, in addition to glycine, an amino acid...Lysine is also an amino acid but in this case is part of the aspirin salt.

https://www.drugs.com/international/aspirin-lysine.html
Hey! Thank you for your interest and comments!

Just a bit of background thinking.

The app named Introvert is a generative artwork aimed to help you stay off your phone.
Right now we´re being asked to lead a sedentary life (for the sake of others and our own wellbeing). Only the mind is allowed to wonder.

I wish Introvert can help us lead a focused everyday where mindful practise will direct us to make the most of these strange days a head.

It’s rather experiment/art project then productivity app:)

Introvert is free and open source.

Please have a try, I would love to hear any feedback!
Hey! Sorry about that. I pushed out a quick update for individual book pages to be titled {MapFilterFold - Book: [bookTitle]}

Hopefully that makes most of the bookmarking easier. I'll work on a solution for other pages later today!
Sure, but you would think that after seeing your parents' expressions for year's you would start to recognize them eventually too. I'm wondering what makes symbols that much easier to understand.
Wind back 5 years or more and this place was a Google love fest.

Somehow it seems that Google has managed to disappoint a lot of people.
True, more things are objects in Ruby than Python. But you can still monkeypatch classes in Python.
Walled garden approach to managing an ecosystem. The benefits to those who run the ecosystem include the ability to collect revenue from apps and the ability to set terms and conditions. From that perspective YouTube Vance (YouTube with ads removed) would harm Google so they wouldn't want it to be easy to install. App store works as planned.
Why is bootcamp bad? How'bout schools?

Self motivation is much harder than you think, and a little nudge from a bootcamp may be what most people need before they become 'self motivated'.
A new twist on quantum theory could solve its biggest mystery
Leave it to some ivory tower nerd like Guelzo to make a moral and legal point of a hospital's responsibility to torture grandma on her way out, then loot the estate after she passes:

"52 patients were given non-invasive ventilation at ICU admission, of whom 22 (76%) required further orotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation. The ICU mortality rate among those who required non-invasive ventilation was 23 (79%) of 29 and among those who required invasive mechanical ventilation was 19 (86%) of 22."[0]

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
How hard can it possibly be to replicate? Zoom walked into a market packed with established players and now they own the whole thing. That suggests the barriers to entry aren't so great.
Ya whoever took them there made a mistake but that just illuminates the fact the system affords this type of power to this person where any layperson is in position to make a life or death decision of someone elses life. What kind of sick fuck that works at these urgent care centers can look at someone that sick and send them away? Rotten to the core...
https://archive.is/Nq7j7
Make backups, would you?
> I can order comparable masks from China

Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China? There are good reasons those hospitals have such strict requirements.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/12/c_138870714.htm

> A joint law enforcement operation by government agencies including the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) was launched in early February, with over 80 million defective face masks and 370,000 other faulty PPE items seized, SAMR official Yang Hongcan told a press conference Thursday.

https://elpais.com/sociedad/2020-03-25/los-test-rapidos-de-c...

(350,000 tests supposed to have 80% specificity but actually have something like 30%).
sure, but this seems like a minor quibble. Much cheaper for govt to manufacture and distribute simple surgical or cotton masks than shutdown entire GDP/forgo all tax revenue. The masks in question are not complicated to produce, whereas respirators and n95 are.
I agree all things being equal. But they're not. The delivery guy or mailman or building super could infect them too.

It's a hard problem that I struggle with personally. My parents are elderly and not in great health. I live in fear every day that the efforts of my family and their support network (visiting nurses, etc) to help them can kill them.
Another pretty great thing with Zoom is that it'll keep a call up even if, say, your home internet drops out and you switch to tethering on your phone. It sounds rare, but with Australian internet or dodgy campus wifi, this is a really useful feature.
Not to present any kind of “whatabouts” or whatever, just speaking truth to power:

You’d be shocked (maybe) how much White-labeling and reselling there is in the communications/“unified” communications and presence space.

Especially now in the age of programmable voice.
That, lots of marine snow, and some bioluminiscent creatures here and there.
Yes we transitioned from Webex + Lync + Skype + Cisco phones to just Zoom and it is amazing (aside from privacy breaches of course). Conferencing is a pain and Zoom solves a lot of existing issue in that area so companies recognize this, especially when people in change also use conference software :) .
I'd agree if remote tracking was the only option, and if there was a guaranteed policy against public backslash towards those that don't comply out of privacy reasons (which would skyrocket in a health hazard emergency).

These privacy exceptions all affected goverments are talking about (Italy being a great example, viz. Veneto region governor asking for a change in privacy laws the other day) are not going to magically disappear once the coast is clear, just like post 9/11 emergency laws still being used in the US.

I believe there are other ways to help people and that, if you are a government that claims having to resort to remote control its popoulation, maybe your power is either insufficient for your secret expansion goals or you're an inefficient populist.

Every (western) government publicly hates the Chinese government but they do seem to have wet dreams about the population control bit, especially when backed by corporations.
Canada announces 75% wage subsidy for small and medium businesses
Having used a few of these lately, it seems to have the best quality of call.

Skype is terrible some days. Google hangouts is OK. Cisco Webx is dead in the water every time I have tried to use it.

Maybe I just haven't used Zoom enough as the other two do have good days and bad days.
I have some glycine. I can get lysine and aspirin. How do I make lysine acetylsalicylate?
Lessons from the Unix Stdio ABI: 40 Years Later
It is a joke and social critique and if someone takes it seriously then that's their problem.
not sure if your looking for multiple communities, but you might also check out indiehackers.com
The lockdown hasn't been effective at slowing the spread (of known cases) in Italy. So perhaps increasing the fine will stop the virus. Brilliant.
Ask HN: Why are companies firing employees while the world is in crisis?
There's a missing entry here which most teachers recognize as essential, and many privacy advocates would reject as unacceptable:

* The right of teachers to monitor their students activities during class.

(Also: Your list is unreadable due to the use of code no-wrap formatting. Please don't use code indents for blockquoted normal text.)
My entire city (Las Vegas) is closed. Most of my friends are out of work, not knowing when they will return. Of course, their rents are due in a few days. Everyone I know has cut all discretionary spending, because they either cannot spend or because they are afraid to - depending on their situation.

And then there are the folks who are better off and able to ride it out (or waiting to pick up assets for far less than their current price).

Preventative measures would have included...cutting off contact with the world's largest piece of almost every supply chain.

Something smells fishy about this "study."

> Though written by Fed officials, the paper is not officially endorsed by the U.S. central bank.
Phone Location Data Social Distancing Scoreboard
What they should do is make the APP ask permission to get the eye tracking data. The system can get the data without passing it to the app.
>it'll not harm the rich, I'll tell you that.

Inflation, once it is an actual problem, can be taxed away and we can structure that tax progressively. The rich will pay their fair share.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/16/18251646/modern...
> Boomers are still going to Home Depot and buying their home improvement goods.

It is worth pointing out that home-improvement stores were specifically exempt from the order to close businesses in several European countries. This is probably partly because those stores sell gardening products, and villagers need to be able to plant their vegetables now. However, the expectation on the part of public health authorities is presumably that that these stores remaining open, like supermarkets, will still not prevent the infection curve from flattening over the lockdown period.
Gottlob: Write Code in Frege's Concept Notation
I'm not sure which medium post you're referring to here. I'm sure people do sometimes write incorrect advice on Medium that would be dangerous if followed, but experts can do the same thing. Remember when the WHO said not to ban travel?

I'm also not sure that distinguishes the case I mentioned. It might also cause problems to assume some particular anecdote is true and representative.
Yep, printer ink has much more pigment in it because a few ml of ink has to cover hundreds of pages
I am not looking down on folks different from myself. Also, I am not a data scientist. Regardless, what you are claiming is not possible.

As I am sure you know, data science is a specialized field, one which draws upon a combination of statistics and computer science practices. You may be able to get some of the computer science practices down in a boot camp, but there's no way you're getting a boot camp to fill in the Bachelor's in statistics you need to be a good data scientist. Years of hard work and sincere dedication, however, I am sure can get you there.
Huge pressure forces pushing the materials to its limits would be one

And assurance covering bills.
I have a Logitech C920 (or very similar). I feel like he didn't even make an attempt to make it look decent. The brightness is completely blown out (and it is adjustable via software). I certainly wouldn't say a C920 is as good as a dedicated camera (with a much better lens setup), but it's much better than what's represented.

I have a less than ideal setup and I get results closer to the Canon camera.
Coronavirus (Covid-19) and CDC
I agree. If there's been a recurring theme in every single data-touching class in my DS major, it's been ethics.
Clearly they don’t “need” to do a thing. They were already gaining a ton of market share before COVID19, and this has only cemented their position.

The people who are concerned about privacy aren’t really the ones writing them big checks anyway.
Surely, though, there is a way for zoom to do both at the same time. That you and one of your sibling posts gives them some benefit of the doubt (or at least the appearance of it) is... sad.
China closes borders to all foreign visitors beginning midnight tonight
Blog post about it here: https://www.unacast.com/post/the-unacast-social-distancing-s...

"we combine tens of millions of anonymous mobile phones and their interactions with each other each day"
I don't think people care about the source of learning. We care about the people who fall into the Dunning-Kruger effect and think their self learning puts them above people who dedicated a large portion of their lives to learning the same subject. An important part of self learning is being aware of your own level of knowledge. So feel free to play around with this dataset. Feel free to post to Medium what you find as long as you are clear it is a learning exercise. You don't want to actively mislead or be used as a prop for others to mislead especially during this time of crisis.
There have been a few discussions about it on HN as well, where Alexey Guyzey, author of the criticism linked, joins in on the conversation:

(4 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546850

(1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22419958
I don't think setting up a timer on the very device that is distracting you will significantly help you stay away from it, especially on psychological terms. I reckon it will make you dependent on your phone as well, but in a different sense.

In my opinion, the development of deeply-rooted discipline and self-control must primarily--even exclusively--come from one's will, at all times and at all levels, in order to be successful. Otherwise, what are you going to do if you cannot access the app for whatever reason? We need to aspire to have a firm will, not a straightened one (by whomever or whatever external).
Because the business would likely not survive for months without said firings, which would lead to everyone in the company getting fired by default.
AnimationStudio Commercial
Nope, the efficiency is captured as profit only until other efficient competitors appear and lower the price.

The price does _not_ "trickle down" to consumers or employees until it has to. Again, theory: why would a company give away free money?
It's available on Mac as well. I use it as my default.
Sorry, there is barely any documentation yet.

What things would you want me to focus on, when adding documentation?

(How would you like to use it / maybe integrate with sth else?)
> The data is the product of dozens of journalists working across several time zones to monitor news conferences, analyze data releases and seek clarification from public officials on how they categorize cases.

> In most instances, the process of recording cases has been straightforward. But because of the patchwork of reporting methods for this data across more than 50 state and territorial governments and hundreds of local health departments, our journalists sometimes had to make difficult interpretations about how to count and record cases.

The "value add" here is original reporting.

I highly recommend reading the README in the repo, specifically the "Methodology and Definitions" section: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data#methodology-and-def....

There is no way that NYT employees were able to use that license/language without having the NYT in-house team of lawyers thoroughly vet it first.
I feel like this site can be a little negative sometimes. or worse crickets.

One thing I like is a lot of people back up their statements with links or examples. or other reasoning.
Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance
An inspiring critique of and response to confident realist materialism founded on a certain anthropocentric presumption of Cartesian dualism. It exemplified skill—its own powerful confidence—and experience, deserving great commendation. The education born from witnessing such activity has a high aesthetic value to me.
User : little bit of security

Store : Money
Ask HN: What are the opportunities in this crisis?
It has been said that opportunities abound in every crisis and some of the most valuable startups were started during an economic downturn (e.g.; Stripe)

What do you think some of the opportunities are around the current economic crisis caused by COVID-19?
> They would still be charged for the services later, but they would have received treatment.

And his family would have been bankrupt from the ambulance ride alone, never mind the cost of the treatment. A family that can't afford health insurance for a 17 year old cannot afford healthcare in the US at all. Let alone emergency healthcare. The family almost certainly went to Urgent Care first in hopes of getting their very sick son treatment for $5,000 instead of $50,000 at a hospital.
No worries. I was just curious, having done some forum admin in the past...how you approached spam. I would guess a "getting started" doc would be the #1 priority. Especially since the server is Scala, and many may not have worked with a JVM.
We all carry around a radio that broadcasts our location. I guess we'll end up switching off Bluetooth except to known good devices, or when we intentionally want to discover what's around us.
You sound like an American or German. Singaporeans have more trust of their government.
Any idea how it works? The site is not very helpful in that manner.
because half the country thinks our president and the GOP is competent and working on their behalf
But if you downvote anything that is not compatible with your own experience, where does that leave us?

To answer your other questions: this was not the first time and there are others here expressing similar issues. Teams works reasonably well from same computer & network.
If your concern is privacy, why are you using Skype and MS Teams?

If you don't want a third party getting your contact information, then use a private solution that's actually private. Jitsi and Matrix are open source solutions that both support video conferencing.
Italy has a very old and sick population. More of their seniors are already on life support with several other diseases. I would expect less developed countries with poorer access to healthcare to have fewer very vulnerable individuals.

Side note: when at the time of death you have 4 or more illnesses, and one of them is CV, on what basis is the cause of death attributed to just a single condition? It seems Russia has taken a different stance to the West in this regard but it's not clear to me which is correct. It doesn't seem ideal to ignore co morbidities.
The first line of their profile says:

> Mathematics (assistant) professor at the University of South Carolina.
Why TypeScript Enums Suck
You've passed the flame-bait territory and are headed straight for troll-land. I'm so angry at myself that I got caught in your scheme, you wouldn't believe it.
Thanks for sharing your story. I'm sorry for the Russian refugee, but that kind of scenario - although noble - doesn't seem to really justify what 'we are doing' with crypto.

Indirectly, your scenario seems to admit that for the vast majority of the world, cryptocurrencies don't add much.
1. This is written from the point of people developing desktop applications for Linux. It doesn't apply to a specific desktop envirnment.

2. The article isn't dated so I can't say for sure. Wayback machine doesn't have any copies prior to today[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.getlazarus.org/lin...