skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could have written the same. Would also include The Name of the Rose, The Remains of the Day, Dune, the Master and Margarita, Candide. Probably others.
600 Covid-19 cases, 0 deaths with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, zinc sulfate
Dr. Zev Zelenko, a doctor in a Hasidic community, has been using a similar regimen:

1- hydroxychloroquine,

2- azithromycin, and

3- zinc sulfate.

A report by Dr. Zelenko on his patients:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ulqf5NXhms

From the Youtube text:

PLEASE READ HERE BELOW IN VIDEO DESCRIPTION MY UPDATED OBSERVATIONS

To all governments, medical professionals, and patients:

Here is my outcome data since 3/18/20 – 3/26/20

669 PATIENTS SEEN IN MY MONROE, NY practice with either test proven or clinically diagnosed corona infection

0 DEATHS

0 INTUBATIONS

4 HOSPITALIZATIONS for pneumonia – patients are on iv antibiotics and improving

As of 3/27/20 6 am. As per WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC

World statistics – 531,860 cases / 24,057 deaths = 4.5% death rate
US statistics – 85,653 cases / 1290 deaths = 1.5 % death rate

Dr Zelenko statistics – 699 cases / 0 deaths = 0% death rate

PATIENTS TREATED WITH THREE DRUG REGIMEN

1- hydroxychloroquine 200mg twice a day for 5 days
2- azithromycin 500mg once a day for five days
3- zinc sulfate 220mg once a day for five days

CONCLUSION – TREAT AS EARLY AND AS AGGRESSIVELY AS POSSIBLE IN THE OUTPATIENT SETTING

Respectfully,

Dr. Vladimir (Zev) Zelenko

[Rudy Guliani interviews Dr. Zelenko:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJdjhd_XG8 ]
Swedens population is almost twice of Denmarks, so I am not sure saying 110 is signifcantly more than 72.
This guy samurai sword fights. Your list includes Moby dick, which stands out to me as pretty different (much more intense read) than the rest. What'd you get out of it?
Will that reduce the availability of Gas causing more dependency on Coal, though?
Swiss Propaganda Watch: Covid-19
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The government could push for policies policy, like workers boards, with it's equity.

We should nationalize and then spin off as coops. Something needs to break the anti-democratic workplace.

Or I'll put it this way: The government policy should be that capitalists might rather go bankrupt than be bailed out with concessions.
Sweden is quite different from other countries, that explains the slow spread of the virus.

Many companies allow employees to stay home for minor flu symptoms of the employee or their children. You will be fired in countries like Spain if you remained home so often. (update: I mean that you can do this always, not just now because the new virus)

Stockholm, the "big" city, has 2.5 million habitants in its extended metropolitan area. So, not so big. Swedish are not in love of big gatherings. Cultural behaviour than is the opposite than that of Italy or Spain.

All my friends at companies like Electronic Arts, Epic, King, Klarna... are already working from home. Stockholm is a technological hub. Office work has been moved home fast and eficciently thank to the tradition of “VAB'ing”. In any given meeting some one is working from home, anyway. The subway is emptier than ever. Many companies have shut down offices and operations continue from home. But, that is something that you do not read in the news.

The virus growth is exponential, we may not need complete isolation just yet. Probably it is just a matter of time. So, getting to conclusions right now is premature.
https://people.com/health/kaiser-permanente-temporarily-stop...
Disregarding Leap Day, it's been the same amount of days since last September as every other year, and while there has been little snow or freezing temperatures, it was still rather too cold to comfortably sit outside all winter (winter Sun intensity plays a role too).
Serious question, what is so amazing about it?

Based on recommendations (I'm a scifi fan) I bought it and read it. It was an OK read, not boring or anything, but also hardly extraordinary. For me easily forgettable. I don't have the feeling I missed some important part since it wasn't really very complex.

So I'm curious why people think it's so good.
Perverse is the right word here.

Perverse incentives are why things are the way they are. This will only change when a large enough competitor defects.
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome" Charlie Munger.

Socialism, or socialist measures like these, create perverse incentives. If by laying off more people than you need to the company gets more benefits from the government, it would be against their incentives not to do so. I'm not saying this is a good thing because this kind of crisis can't be easily tackled without government intervention, but that doesn't mean socialism is going to magically work.
Wished you would stop spamming your projects to multiple subreddits every few days. It's really annoying and it feels like all you want is money.

As other already stated the complex examples don't even run smooth at all.
They carry a lot of portable systems ( psp, various nintendos ). Some people also want physical copies ( me ).I get that internet as a gaming portal is here to stay ( I have Steam and GOG ), but I don't believe single ecommerce site should be the answer.
Photoshop and Lightroom are bundled together for $10 a month.
My analogy was that the pool of money available to fund health care was a “commons” and without being rationed by a government it would be exploited.

Perhaps the better public policy jargon to use would be logic of collective action, in the sense that the profiteers are the special interest group and the rest of us are the diffuse group, but the concepts are pretty conceptually related in my opinion.
This is why I advise clients to setup billing alerts delivered to management (not tech team) as one of the first things todo when adopting a pay-as-you go technology [1]

[1] https://www.futurice.com/blog/mastering%20bigquery%20costs
So if someone is in their late 30's or 40's, having made an entire career in oil industry, with a family and mortgage - your proposal to them is to make their jobs obsolete and that they should seek a career in an at-best tangentially related field like solar?

Look, I get that climate change is one of the most important problems we are facing. But if we want to devise a solution, it has to pass the "political viability" test. Else, you are only inviting a radicalized electorate.

Example: "yellow vests" in France, which is supposed to be a rich society with plenty of resources to withstand the shock from rearranging an oil-based economy, with people supportive of generous social safety nets. If France can't get a gas tax passed without fierce nationwide protests, forget about making oil jobs redundant in Texas, let alone in developing countries like Nigeria or Kazakhstan.
Algo is a great project and I also use it, but if you’re running it in production and not spending some time each month at least on security analysis and review, your self-assessd expertise may be more of the Dunning-Kruger variety.
Yes. This is just the ground station, though, you would still need to put a satellite in orbit to receive messages from, however. And remember that it's somewhat expensive in terms of delta-V budget to have the satellite over someone's house exactly when you want it to be. Most people that want to spy on their neighbor will just buy a $30 spy cam with a 4G uplink.
I think there is little "getting lucky". If they also run an intense detect, test, and trace capability it might be effective. If they rely only on border lockdowns, or lockdown and lackadaisical test/trace then it would likely be insufficient.
For some companies the choice is between laying off some workers now, or all workers a few months from now.

Large companies with cash in the bank may not have this problem, but small businesses often only have a few months of runway.
It must say something about a person which among Hesse's work resonates the most. I read Demian which has a more ruthless Randian will-to-power tone to it, and the Glass Bead Game. Haven't yet touched Siddhartha.
Maybe backend developers for Intel Linux servers will fire up a VM on AWS/Azure/Google and work there.

There will be some cross platform compatibility issues. Interpreted languages hide the CPU (think Python, Ruby, Node) but their extensions in C could need some extra work that not all of them require now.

On the other side there will be the rise of the ARM servers. Apple is notoriously not interested in running server farms for their customers but I expect that the big cloud providers will start offering ARM servers.

It could be the x86 developers to have to fire up an ARM VM on the cloud to be able to work in ARM Macs heavy teams.
No, not at all. But to provide a mathematical basis and proof that can then be extended to all walks of life?
It was probably not necessary to put words in my mouth. You also stay safe.
Browsing the next level up of the URL I also found this [1] that I had not seen before, I have a paper copy of the document for this thread.

[1] http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1986/CSD-86-297....
Isaac Asimov's Profession (1957) with the "House for the Feeble-Minded". The surprise conclusion has shades of China Meiville's The City and the City, about two virtual cities inhabiting one physical city. Our modern world includes public, non-public, national, extra-national, cyber and fictional worlds overlaying geographical spaces.

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

> For most of the first eighteen years of his life, George Platen had headed firmly in one direction, that of Registered Computer Programmer. There were those in his crowd who spoke wisely of Spationautics, Refrigeration Technology, Transportation Control, and even Administration. But George held firm. He argued relative merits as vigorously as any of them, and why not? Education Day loomed ahead of them and was the great fact of their existence.
> the 4k exports from iMovie or other video/image editor has been proven to be vastly faster on iPad Pro than the fastest Macbook Pro.

I'd only be impressed if both used the exact same high-quality software encoder. Most likely the iPad uses the fast but less quality dedicated hardware encoder of the A-Series SoC and the MacBook uses a high quality but slow software-only one, which is what you typically use in any non-real-time encoding scenario due to way better bitrate-to-quality ratios.

> Javascript Core (they have hardware-based JS acceleration support)

Do you have a credible source for this? AFAIK JS VMs have gotten to the same place that Java VMs (for which some people also envisioned dedicated silicon a long time ago, but it was a dud) reached: so frickin fast on standard x86 ISA that putting any special instructions for them into the ISA isn't worth it, because it's more important to stay flexible to be able to adapt future extensions of ECMAScript.

> It's why they added T2 chips to their Macs to help accelerate a lot of tasks like disk encryption, more locked down security with TouchID

That has more to do with having a secure element under Apple's control in the T2 chip and nothing with performance. Any modern x86 CPU can do accelerated AES just as fast as any ARM with hardware crypto support.
Sure - but would it make political sense to pay home to sit and do nothing? If so, can you point us to some locality where this has been accomplished?
https://archive.md/JynCI
DynamicPropertySource in Spring Framework 5.2.5 and Spring Boot 2.2.6
> After a long winter, it's just become warm enough to sit outside in the Swedish capital

Yeah. This sounds very weird. No, you do not want to sit outside. It is sunny, but cold (4 to 8 degrees).

> It‘s been a record breakingly mild winter.

Yes. It has felt like actually a short winter with spring stepping in early in the year.
Which is one result of near-zero interest rates.
Everybody is creating "models". How about asking the doctors? Don't they have some trustworthy studies in the three months that have passed?

Let's skip Facebook and Twitter and analyse the data that we have. What does it tell us?
Every small business owner in the US should check out the details of the CARES Act (the coronavirus rescue package, just signed into law).

Essentially, the US government will cover your payroll, rent, and a few other things for the next 2 months, up to $10M.

This is implemented as a “loan”, so that it can be rapidly issued from existing commercial banks - but the principal will be forgiven once you provide documentation that it was spent on covered expenses. You don’t have to pay it back.

It’s not perfect, but it might be just enough to bridge the gap for many businesses until things start returning to normal. Hopefully, Congress will extend it if necessary.
California got 170 broken ventilators from feds; Silicon Valley is fixing them
Please do your part to keep HN meme-free.
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Those are alerts though, not circuit breakers. (Although alerts can be used to trigger certain types of circuit breakers.)

What some people are asking for--and it's a reasonable use case but one that AWS, somewhat understandably, isn't really focused on--is: "Burn it all down if you have to, including deleting databases, but no way no how charge me a penny more than $100/month (or whatever my set limit is)."
You're assigning certain biases to government. It would be replacing a thousand small bureaucracies with one. Wasn't the talking point that single payer would put the actuaries and medical coders out of work?
Denmark is roughly the same, culturally and regarding worker's rights, yet had a very strong response from around 12 March.
this is where views/rating help out.
I kinda figured that was how it was going to go. First came the panic as everyone realized how "real" it is, and now we're into the stage where we're getting tired of feeling those emotions just because of things we've heard and been told. We're in the lull now, where certain people start calling for a return to normality despite no real change in the acceleration of cases. In a few weeks will come the slap and then the gut punch. The slap is when everybody knows someone who tested positive. The gut punch is when everybody knows someone, maybe multiple someones, who died from it.
Cat infected with Covid-19 from owner in Belgium
Let's remember that the businesses need this bailout because state and local governments forced them to cease operations for an unspecified amount of time.

It's entirely reasonable for businesses to be compensated by the government in this situation. It's also reasonable to point out that the compensation is not enough, and it won't come soon enough, and some businesses will need to lay off staff to survive until they get the check.
Google is a joke year round; no need for a one day affair.
I've repeatedly seen requests of this nature handled by AWS - 75% cuts to billing, 90% cuts even.
Does anyone here have more context to share on this trial?
Finland and Norway have also had much stronger responses than Sweden.
... why are your hands touching the top of the pizza?
Several have mentioned Terry Pratchett's discworld books, which are awesome, but I have a special place in my heart for one of his non-discworld books, Nation. Inspiring story about survival, helping others, finding truth, breaking down barriers, and with some great humor too of course. "Does not happen!"
Wow, ace feature right here. Sales team about to fall in love with you.
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Oh wow. That makes much more sense then, that it's mostly SQL Server licensing.

I was vaguely aware that some server licensing is per-core, but I never realized it could add up to costs at that level.

Thanks!
Fauci: US can expect more than 100k Covid-19 deaths, millions of cases
I kind of fell in love with the Anathem's monastic world.

Stephenson is awesome, I love some of his books, but others are for completely lost on me.
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Because the way the code is compiled or hand optimized even, which kind of extensions are used for ARM vs x86 (SSE, AVX and so on). Many of the worloads used in Geekbench are straight up directly accelerated, which is fine if the only thing that's requiring CPU power on your machine is Javascript, but not so otherwise.

Other synthetic benchmarks of memory bandwidth and so on use all acceleration features of the plafortm on ARM but don't support AVX2 or AVX512, although some other workloads in the benchmark do. And of course you would have to choose exactly which instruction is used in which scenario in which processor(Intel vs Zen 1 vs Zen 2) in order to have the same kind of optimization as for ARM processors. Then comes the issue that vector operations are "hand-tuned", which is not realistic and depending on the skill of the programmer and their affinity with a given uArch can yield vastly different results. Which is why they should either use the fastest library for each processor, or leave all the optimization to the compiler.

The only way to do a proper comparison between two uArch is with an open source benchmark compiled specifically for the processor.
You can run an awful lot of if statements in a microsecond these days.
BCG Vaccination and Coronavirus Spread
(This subthread was originally a child of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718785)
What if surgical masks were trendy?
Obviously, things are too late this time. But what if there were millions of masks and gloves sitting in warehouses with stupid logos and other designs. I'm sure the government could nationalize the supply in an emergency.

Wonder if there's a way to make ventilators duel use as well? obviously not with logo's but something. maybe make them more modular. maybe a programmable air tire pump.
> But the truth is you would not like the result of that purity should the government follow that advice.

I would prefer companies that buy back stock, pay ridiculous salaries and bonuses to execs, have giant golden parachutes, and so forth use the capital to secure themselves for situations like these. I think bailing out companies that have demonstrated that the government bailout is their risk mitigation strategy should be allowed to die. Yes, that would suck more right now, but it would mean that from here on out companies have to act 'just a little bit more' responsibly.
That’s because what you’re calling pizza is in fact an eggless, tomato and cheese quiche.
>The goal for the Saudi's is to bring the Russians to the negotiating table

the current oil skirmish is a part of much bigger war - Russia went into Syria and has supported the Shia belt (Hezbollah - Asad - Iraqi Shia government - Iran) against Sunni (ISIS/Saudis) despite having no religious preference between Shia/Sunni in particular to block Saudis from being able to pipeline the stuff to Europe (which is an oil and especially natural gas market critical to Putin's Russia survival, and where Saudis have been trying for example to send oil and LNG tankers to. The LNG is more expensive than pipelined NG while Saudis have a lot of NG, so they need a pipeline to Europe and that would be existential blow to the current Russia economy and its "soft" power (like the threat of turning gas off in winter) power over Europe). In this context i don't see Russia going to negotiate wrt. current skirmish. If anything i think it would go all the way in Stalingrad style, Russian population economical suffering be damned, in hopes of forcing Saudis to come to bigger negotiations in much weaker shape.
His ideas were good, but his writing style did not really click with me.
You need to create models to predict what will happen in the future, which is what epidemiologist do.
I saw a tweet along the line "US will be ready for the next pandemic with plenty of masks and ventilators, Singapore will just be ready"
The biggest problem with the U.S. political system is our first-past-the-post voting system. Are you fed up with your party and want to vote for a Green instead of a Democrat or a Libertarian instead of Republican? Go ahead, all it will accomplish is benefiting the candidate you like the LEAST because you would have otherwise voted for their opponent.

I'm of the opinion that high voter participation is critically important because if you're not voting, you're not being represented, and if you're not being represented, those who are will benefit (likely) at your expense. In the U.S. however, people are understandably unenthusiastic about voting, because it almost doesn't matter.

Imagine what would have happened in 2016 if we had ranked choice voting and Bernie ran as an independent. Many on the left would have been energized to actually vote because they could vote for the candidate they actually wanted (Bernie), but would have been able to say "well if Bernie doesn't win, I guess Hillary is better than Trump". Bernie wouldn't have won, but neither would Trump. More importantly, though, those that supported Bernie would have been represented. You could point to the actual election results and see that X% of voters supported Bernie's ideas above the other candidates'.

The problem with the U.S. is that we don't get to vote for the best candidate, we get to vote for the least worst.

And don't get me started on the over-representation of low population states in the senate and electoral college.
This would be probably enough if people would be wearing masks on the street, have temperature checks everywhere and increase hygene significantly generally to pair the remote work culture with everything that can decrease the infection rate to under 1.

I don't know what the situation is there (hopefully people accept other people better), but in Hungary I have heared of my friends being mask shamed multiple times: people speak badly of them because they wear masks when they go shopping.

In Taiwan it's the opposite: people who don't wear masks (at least a home made one) are the ones looked down upon, as they are infecting other people.
Please don't post shallow flamebait like this to HN. It has noticeably degrading effects on discussion, and the last thing we need here are political or nationalistic flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22718650.
Sweden has also a small population. Values from smaller populations are less statistically relevant. Once the number of infections growth the number will be more significant.

Small number are problematic. There are 2.27 Popes per square kilometer in the Vatican.
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Even within US (Washington - my state) has way lower numbers than New York even though it was hit first. The first reported case and death weren’t far from where I live.

So either Washington has flattened the curve or we’re doing a lot fewer tests than New York. I know a couple of friends who have covid-19 symptoms but haven’t been tested since there aren’t enough kits and they are quarantining themselves at home.

So my guess is Washington cases number are at-least 2X higher than what’s reported.

Overall at this rate US will hit a million reported cases in a couple of weeks. It seems we are the country doing a great job at testing and reporting but the virus is spreading like wild fires in metros.
There is nothing unrealistic about economies of scale. I bet the phones we have in our pockets are 10x as complicated to make as a ventilator. Yet they are a quarter of the price.

For something like this to work the government needs to have long term contracts in place and the demand has to be there.
We are an OEM/ISV, effectively. Even though our software is GPL'ed, we distribute binaries of it for a name-your-own price. There is no signing system when a user installs our builds.

Contrast with Catalina, which will not run our application by default (and makes it actually quite tricky for naive users to run at all).

I am fully aware of how linux distro packaging works, but that's not the only way applications are distributed, even on linux.
Yep, and an opportunity to educate on things like budgets and billing alarms to try to prevent this in the future.
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