skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the line of thought that automated tests are too time consuming to add. You know what's more time consuming? Manual testing. It takes forever. And if you have to fix a bug somewhere, have fun manually testing everything again, if you can even remember all the manual tests you should be running.

For example, a project I work on is available in Asia. They put their last name first. So anything related to names needs 2 tests to make sure it works right. Oh, there is legacy data, so customers might be missing first, last, or both names. So add another 3 tests onto the pile. You're looking at 5 tests right there.

Let's say the feature you're working on related to names has 3 dimensions. Well, now you potentially have to run 5*3=15 tests. If one of those fails and you bugfix, you have to re-run those tests. Have fun with that if your tests are manual.
This is exactly how zooniverse works. The first thing you do is go through a few known pieces of data to verify you know how to identify things correctly (more important for galaxy types, etc).

As you start labeling data everything has to reach a consensus. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it does have multiple people verify each piece of data.
Which of course is a theory that is being walked back.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6485/1434.1
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Because other teleconferencing software worked just fine under the same condition.
thanks, I hadn't heard of that community before!
I believe you are very, very, very wrong on all 3 assumptions my friend.
Now that's taking social distancing seriously.
It says something about the disparity of intellectual depth in the community that Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged shows up next to books actually worth reading like SICP, GTD, or Cialdini's Influence.
I just realized this yesterday when Zooming with someone in China w/o a VPN.
out of curiosity, why not Teams?
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Or you could just wait for Ventaleon's [0] inhaled LASAG (D,L-lysine acetylsalicylate • glycine) to be ready.

[0] http://www.ventaleon.com/news/18-ventaleon-presents-phase-ii-results-with-inhaled-lasag-in-severe-influenza-at-isam-congress-2017
If you’d included that second paragraph in your anecdote, I personally wouldn’t have downvoted it.
Making it the snapshot behavior based and comprehensible to the product owner helps with that.
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Without windows the passengers might suspect they were the victims of a glorious scam.
A bad law tends not to change until there are enough people breaking the law.
Jealousy. Can’t have some people seen having masks when others can’t get them.
This has to do with the bandwidth of Bluetooth.
https://www.howtogeek.com/354321/why-bluetooth-headsets-are-...
The purpose of random testing or testing of more people who have exposure but no symptoms would be to limit household spread by separating people from their households or having the households act differently knowing that they'll be constantly exposed.
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The Atmosphere of Uranus Is Literally Leaking Gas into Space
Good question. I updated the link to a more original source, which says the data is from X-Mode Social https://xmode.io/
From the documentation:

> Nami is a decentralized binary package manager, she allows software authors to publish their software anywhere, without having to request a merge from a software center for each update.

If you're trying to install a decentralized binary package manager which doesn't require maintainers to merge anything, you're presumably planning on taking far greater risks than curling this installer.
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The EC50s in the paper are in the millimolar. These are physiologically irrelevant concentrations.
That's true! This is one of those instances of parallel evolution. The MSO construct predates even Boost's `enable_shared_from_this`, as I recall. FWIW when I was there, new code was encouraged to use STL smart pointers where possible - people were always looking for opportunities to shed legacy patterns where we could.

I totally agree about the danger of implicit conversion to raw pointers - it breaks the whole point of smart pointers. The reason it makes sense for Office is that huge swathes of code are written in "c++99" style - no exceptions, all functions return HRESULT error codes, and most functions are very explicit about who owns what. By convention, functions accepting pointers almost (?) never hang on to those pointers. Those functions that _do_ take ownership of (or retain an interest in) a pointer argument, explicitly ask for a smart pointer.

Like I said, not really suitable for general use, but darn convenient _within the context of Office_.
This. People need to understand that these clinics are not equipped to deal with this stuff, they do not have ventilators and equipment like that. They are not hospitals, some are no bigger than a dentist office. Some clinics like this may only have one doctor on staff with just Nurses and PAs seeing patients. If this kid was in that bad of shape they probably couldn't have helped him at this facility.
I have seen this paper. The blog post does not report, that they were able to train a better agent, than A3C. Only that ES allowed them to use more compute power to train in parallel.
Ask HN: What's Sfstory.googleplex.com?
Someone behind this url referenced my GitHub project: http://sfstory.googleplex.com/20964485

i'm very curious what sfstory.googleplex.com is
Then maybe you'd find this interesting: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-... "How Hacker News [or Reddit] can be improved"

(If / when you find things that don't work like you want, I'd be happy for any feedback: https://www.talkyard.io/forum/ )
The irony might be the massive human scale effort the NYT is putting in to gather and vet the data. The most interesting self learning side effort for this, might not be analyzing the data, but trying to automate the data collection from public sites checked against the nyt data.
CBC Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/pandemic-ventilator-de...
We need a bluetooth tracker of sorts that can alarm people if they get too close. Only Apple (or privacy focused) companies can do this responsibly, without uploading any data and keeping everything in the secure enclave. Messages over bluetooth are encrypted and simply contain nothing but the proximity data. But there is a problem:

1. If you're already showing symptoms, you're gonna isolate yourself

2. Coronavirus spreads during incubation period.

Giving access to contacts is the only way to get traceability even then you meet and greet people who we don't keep in the contacts (Grocery store clerk).
I run NetBSD on my Mac Quadra 950 as well as MacOS. I usually give up trying to run autoconf on it after a few days.
Sure but they probably all have a worse ROI
Just added form to the bottom of the website. Thanks for pointing out.
Could you elaborate on running WebKit on Linux? Is it the same engine that latest Safari release is using?
Is there any new information on them? I can't find anything recent about them.
The bit about masks is my own conclusion based on a lot of different local sources.

The closest thing to a comprehensive source about the distribution of infections in South Korea that I can find is [1], which still contains too much Korean-in-a-canvas that can't be automatically translated:

54.6% of cases are related to the Shincheonji cult

0.5+0.7+0.5% various other churches and religious groups

1.3% Daenam Hospital (almost all cases occurred in the psychiatric ward, as well as the attached funeral home where the Shincheonji cult leader held his brother's funeral)

1.2% related to gyms

1.2% related to the call center in Guro-gu

3.6% nursing homes

6.3% related to other mass infections (this includes other call centers, nursing homes, etc.)

11.3% contact with people infected from one of the other sources

3.3+0.6% infected overseas

14.9% other/unknown

Of course this doesn't say anything about masks. But you can clearly see that unlike in many other countries, ~70% of cases in Korea are concentrated in a handful of clearly delineated groups, with relatively little spillover into the general public. It takes a bit of familiarity with the religious landscape of Korea and the workplace culture to recognize that most of these groups are where people don't wear a mask. (As for nursing homes, the elderly often have difficulty breathing through a mask, not to mention they're together 24/7.)

Some people still got infected while wearing a mask, though, so it's not bulletproof. But it seems that the effect becomes visible as a kind of herd immunity when aggregated over a large population.

As for the government not publishing locations visited with a mask on, here's an example from my city's official Instagram account [2]. It says that the infected person's movements on some days are redacted because she wore a mask on those days (among other precautions) and therefore didn't make any epidemiologically significant contact with other people. You can compare this with other press releases by the same account that contain a lot more location data for other people.

[1] https://coronaboard.kr/en/#source-card-slide

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Iy3G7lTQs/
Ah, but Slack doesn't delete the history either unless you pay them: https://slack.com/help/articles/203457187-Customize-message-...

On the free tier it's still there, on their servers.
I had high hopes of running Sketch on Linux.
But when they did, they must have realized he was in a life-threatening situation. Covid-19 doesn't make you go from a minor cough to death in a few hours.
It's all about ergonomics though. In Lisp, it's super easy, and even fun with macros. They can probably do roughly equivalent things in the other languages, but it's so fucking painful it's relegated to rare use and for relatively short code sections.

For Lisp users, it's like holding the knife by the handle. For them it's like holding the knife by the blade.
> We need a bluetooth tracker of sorts that can alarm people if they get too close.

Why do you need an app and Bluetooth for this, don't you have eyes and ears lmao
I’ll added waiting list to the bottom of the webpage. Since it’s react native we probably can figure out android version quite fast.
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There is a difference between stockpiling and panic hoarding. Stockpiling can involve, canning, preserving, dehydrating, bulk purchasing in times of plenty, and setting up gas generators and petro. Panic hoarding is going between one grocer and the next and buying the entire stock of an item, sometimes with the intent of price gouging your neighbors, or just out of a general sense of fear. One is orderly and planned, the other is a dickish move.
For a lot of industries, deleting internal communication is illegal. For any publicly traded company in the US, all internal communication needs to be archived for five years.
We've used this at Patreon to get data from our various sources in the application to Redshift. We've since replaced this with Kinesis Firehose
> arrogant and condescending

Arrogant and condescending don’t mean “wrong”. Djikstra (the king of accusations of arrogance), once pointed out that his native language has no word for “egghead”: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E..., principally because his native culture has no history of dismissing the educated. OP is using (I interpret) “bootcamp data scientists” as a shorthand for people who know far less than they think they do. That seems like a fair characterization, honestly: that’s entirely the philosophy behind bootcamps in the first place.

The idea behind them is that a four-year education in computer science is unnecessary for routine software development jobs, and one can be trained up to useful programming ability in a much shorter time (and less cost) than a full-blown university education takes. While it’s difficult to say how true this is, OP (I interpret) and I have both observed that bootcamp types seem to presume that a few-month intensive bootcamp experience actually does cover everything that a four-year degree does, and are often surprised (as well as defensive) when they come across something that their bootcamp didn’t prepare them for.

A close analogue would be a paralegal thinking they know the law better than lawyers or nurses thinking they know medicine better than doctors - not that they don’t know a lot, but there are a few things that, while not as commonly useful, do come up in actual practice that are important when they do.
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>and shutting down the "exchanges" like coinbase would tank the value for crypto

Sure it would, but you can't close decentralized on-chain exchanges like uniswap or Kyber

I'm pretty sure there will always be a fiat<->crypto bridge, you can't "shut them all down" IMO
That is awesome! The retro box is fantastic.

I discovered that my son (17 months old at the time) loves to mess with stereo controls. So I bought a few rotary encoders and neo-pixel rings - build a wooden enclosure with a plastic faceplate, and wrote some code to generate fancy light and audio effects when he turns/clicks the knobs. He loved it. We call it the "Max Distractor".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtE8oE9GOsM

Inside it's just a RPi. One of these days I really need to make it do something more fancy.
lol, I just realized that it's useless because people spread before they even know.
Those are so distant to what Lisp macros achieve. Also, I can't believe you brought up Java annotations in this discussion.
Educational.
No thanks. This is a social problem, not a tech challenge.
Getting started, from the point of view of a site admin / moderator?

(Rather than how to install the software? For that I hope the readme file works ok.)

Hmm, you mentioned Scala and the JVM — I'm wondering if you have in mind "Getting started" with editing the source code

(I'm curious about what forum software you used in the past, as an admin, and how did you like it?)
I’m curious how many vets in AK wear an Apple Watch.

Though I get it that your brother wants to do something.
GitHub link in case NYT is blocked at your... home-office?

https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
What is in doubt here, value provided by cash?

A friend of mine uses (used?) cryptocurrency for transferring/receiving money to/from a sibling across the ocean. Converting to/from local currency is apparently cheaper relative to PayPal rates. (Plus, in some countries PayPal et al. restrict accounts not associated with a bank, making it even less attractive to unbanked.)

What is unclear to me personally is whether benefits outweigh other implications, once everything gets amplified by scale.
What do you think "fraud and theft" mean in this context? Sick people aren't great fraud targets, they're frequently unable to work and have already lost what money they had to medical bills. The "fraud" is insurance fraud, for which the PII would be things like your name and policy number (i.e. what's needed to file a fraudulent claim against your policy) rather than your actual medical records. And the parties most interested in having access your medical records are the insurance companies themselves, as already mentioned. There is a fairly large financial incentive for a shady insurance company to use patient medical records to poach low risk patients.
Ok I checked -- you can tell firefox to proxy dns too when using socks proxy.
Interesting and Positive WSJ Read: Insiders Are Buying Their Own Shares
Did you even read the article though?
Please please, read this before trying to make a ventilator: https://hackaday.com/2020/03/25/ventilators-101-what-they-do...
This app on launch immediately phones home before any user interaction, or granting of consent for such spying.

https://postimg.cc/QHgN35PS
https://nextstrain.org/ncov shows there is a massive number of genetic variants. I have yet to see anyone successfully show that the variants have different behaviours, as that is hard to do. However any strains that are more contagious should dominate over other strains.

Due to international travel, and especially citizens returning home, the different strains are coexisting within the same country.

They have even used strains and genetic trees to trace individuals that transmitted the virus.
Well I think this a standard feature of conference call software, you can quit and re-join at any time.
Singapore is doing it: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-03-24/corona...
I don’t think it’s as ridiculous as it sounds. Eyes and ears don’t work around corners in grocery stores, and not everyone has an intuitive sense of what 6 feet of space looks like. Even people who are virus free and/or asymptotic should keep their distance from others.

Also - What about people who are hard of hearing or have limited/no vision? A vibration could help them not be at risk if they have to be out.
Slightly tangentially, as someone that worked on games entirely in C# more than a decade or so again, it still sometimes makes me sad that most C# work in games is just Unity scripting today.

C# is a very performant and efficient language that I thought a lot more games would be written in top-to-bottom today, at least in indie circles. (Sure, performance tuning C# is a different art to C++ performance tuning, but it is a very similar art [know your data structures, keep an eye on your allocations, pool memory where you can].)

That "Safety isn't something game developers value highly" says a lot about why that C# bubble popped and C# right now is "merely" that weird scripting language choice for Unity.
As an American, I was really disappointed in the CDC response. Even in the initial confusion, it's their fundamental job to prepare for and monitor these crises. Despite SARS and MURS, they still weren't prepared on a basic level to confront a respiratory disease (no meaningful stockpile of N95 masks or ventilators nor plans for ramping up production of the same) and then the whole debacle with the CDC vs WHO tests. The experts seem to be saying that tests are the most important aspect of the response and we botched that royally; only recently has our testing capacity begun to trend toward adequate (failing to address this sooner means the loss of life is exponentially greater). Note that these failures are independent of whatever initial confusion there may have been about this particular disease.

And I don't think this is a simple case of hindsight: we've had several respiratory epidemics in the last couple of decades and we were still caught unprepared.

I'm no expert and perhaps there is a reasonable explanation for all of this, but I suspect it was really negligence to the tune of thousands of American lives and who knows how much economic damage.
I'm not defending that, but here's recommendations for preserving PPE: http://www.ihi.org/communities/blogs/covid-pandemic-conservi...

> Other potential considerations being explored include:

> Limiting use of N95 masks to only procedures where respiratory secretions can be aerosolized, including intubation for PUI or COVID+ individuals. Use loop surgical masks for all other encounters. Read the latest guidelines on keeping the coronavirus from infecting health care workers.

> Limiting use of loop masks to only encounters with patients on droplet precautions such as PUI or COVID+ or other flu like illness investigations.

It sounds like their department has implemented this second recommendation. I feel like that's sub-optimal.
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It's a necessary evil for many of us students. Institutions just aren't willing to deal with compatibility/pricing issues with such short notice. Zoom found its niche as a bootstrap crisis averter, I guess
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Your MAS link on the homepage links to the Russian language version of the MAS.

Amounts in English are written with a '.' as the decimal separator, not ','.
If you had MiniDiscs spread all over your desk you had to be some cool hacker.

Around a similar time I bought my first MP3 player with a 16MB sd card. I think I could fit 3.5 MP3 songs on there and I had to figure out a way to edit one song so they could fit.
That's an informational rfc that has no weight in this manner, router requirements is a standards track document.

"4.2.2 Informational

An "Informational" specification is published for the general information of the Internet community, and does not represent an Internet community consensus or recommendation. The Informational designation is intended to provide for the timely publication of a very broad range of responsible informational documents from many sources, subject only to editorial considerations and to verification that there has been adequate coordination with the standards process (see section 4.2.3)."
> Why would you buy safety critical equipment from China?

Hospitals have done this for decades.
I also like when there are links or examples to support the reasoning behind a statement, though I don't mind if statements don't have them. Can you say more about what makes 'crickets' worse?
In addition to that, I want to know the number of hospitalizations or deaths in those age groups. Even better would be to know the percentage of those hospitalized/dead that had underlying medical conditions.
Seeded with most jobs from this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665398
> Vo has 3000 inhabitants,

How can you consider the fatality rate over an uninfected population? A year ago 8 billion peoples were not infected and 0 died! I have no idea why we worry. /s

What's matter for the fatality rate is the 89 persons infected, which isn't statistically significant.
This is needlessly cynical. TraceTogether uses client-side logging so as to leave data in the hands of the users up until it's actually needed for contact tracing.

Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? If so, I'm not sure what to tell you.

Otherwise, apps may go a long way to improve the speed and accuracy of contact tracing. Here in the US, I'd much rather use a protocol like TraceTogether's Bluetrace that goes out of its way to preserve privacy, than adopt an actually-privacy-violating centralized approach where the government simply gathers everyone's location data and processes it centrally (Israel's approach, for example).
Well, it's Uranus, of course it would be leaking gas...
Pretty sure I used to take L-lysine for cold sores. Maybe it has general antiviral properties.
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Yes, thank you.

My thought experiments have been hand-wavy expected value calculations like this:
P(failure) = P(infection) * P(critical) * (1-P(icu))

0.1 * 0.8 * 0.9 = 0.072

and cost of failure is, well, infinite.

That infection probability is optimistic, considering what you mention above. That ICU availability probability is the situation we're facing in NYC.
> Running an VPN on an Azure/AWS/Digital Ocean instance is not viable because the whole ip range is blocked by automated services like cloudflare, even if it's static.

This is not my experience, on AWS and also lightsail. But it may be because I've been using the IP for so long it's become associated with my accounts. Of course for some services (netflix) it's a non-starter; but I don't have a problem with recaptcha.
Teams is way better than Skype, provided everyone is on a computer.
lets not write like this
This struck me as clueless part of the article.

Perl coding was a significant portion of my career, and much of that involved web services, involving XML. I've never come across code that attempted to parse XML with regexes in Perl. It was always done with easy-to-import-and-call XML DOM or SAX parsers.