skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-2019 has made 35,000 victims globally, out of which 10,000 just in Italy, just in one month, victims happening in spite of massive movement restrictions happening on a never before seen scale and it's been pretty clear already that this isn't "just a flu".

On the other hand the numbers are too small so they currently don't make a dent in the overall statistics, however this is a problem of potential and every single prediction thus far came true, with the news being all bad.

The disease is scary not only due to mortality rate, but due to hospitalization rate too and in terms of hospitalization, there's not much difference between the young and healthy and the old or sick. When 10% of those infected require medical assistance, this will cripple your economy regardless of fatally. Plus if the medical system is collapsing, the median age will go down, since the young and healthy won't necessarily get the needed ICU beds.

There's also the small matter of the population not having any immunity to this virus (compared with Influenza) which guarantees that if unchecked it will spread to 70% of the population at least.

70% spread, with a 0.5% mortality rate (an optimistic estimate) means 1,560,422 dead just in the EU and this in the ideal case in which everybody gets treated, otherwise that rate can easily be double or triple. Or 27,000,000 worldwide. Such a number is comparable with the victims of World War I.

You're being down-voted because of downplaying the severity of this disease, when the writing is on the wall — the Italians downplayed this too and now their hospitals are overwhelmed.

Of course, a discussion of where this is headed and what can we do to avoid a severe economic depression is worth having, but let's not downplay how bad this is.
I don't understand why the author thinks that the PAC learning framework is not useful. PAC gives quick back-of-napkin math for estimating how long it might take to train a network, what kind of quality level is acceptable for inputs, etc.
The economy and the stock market are not equivalents.
Von Neumann Universal Constructor
What's Up Corona?
Corona = Valley /restart or /reset or /delete ?
Because every company that has libraries, products, stacks, customers using Linux sooner or later runs into issues in Linux, that they can't wait around for someone else to fix.

Big orgs have lots of people just working on Linux full time. They start out fixing one small thing, which then needs to be updated, optimized etc etc and then things snowball.
Lord of the Rings. My mother bought first two books(translated into Russian) randomly because she heard it was good(it was one of the books that Party did not approve of before the Perestroika). I saw it lying around when I was 14. I proceeded to read both first and second basically non-stop skipping school next day. Then figured out that we could not find the third as it was not printed in Russian yet(at least could not find it where we lived), had to wait couple month to read Return of the King. I read it in English about 7-8 times since and as I became fluent the book only became better.

Besy/Demons, Dostoevsky. I read it after I finished Archipelago Gulag I was 15. It is potent stuff, the most powerful thing I ever read by far. Highly recommended. The more you know and read about Russian revolution and what followed the better.
Sweden case suggests that lockdown and pandemic spreading may not be correlated
Wow. That’s textbook bad engineering. Could’ve done guid.nonexistanttld but they just had to do guid.com!
Because democratic research is certainly going to do wonders in an era where the equipment and/or resources to reproduce any of the claims of these papers is way inaccessible to the average voter.

I'd put my finger that even random sorting would bring more value.
If you look at the standard equipment used in healthcare you'll notice that everyone wears mask and eye protection (goggles or face shields), because the virus can also transmit through the eye.

I'm not saying that masks are not effective, but I would be very careful with certain affirmations, such as: "going in public without a mask in a pandemic is like riding a motorcycle without a helmet", it's more like: "going in public with a mask only covering your mouth and nose is like walking through a fire while wearing a fire proximity suit and sandals".
Any kind of mask helps though. It could just be a cloth in front of your face and it will help a bit if everyone does it.
Are you asking if any companies have started offering new perks and or bonuses as a result of the current Covid19 situation?
He got out and never looked back is my impression, for instance it's certainly not where he first spends his charity money [1]. At most he's given some money to his former high school, but there are rumours that was done in exchange to them not contacting him any more [2].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/23/how-elon-...
[2]: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/why-did-elon-musk-...
VMWare Player is free for non-commercial use.
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_co...
Thanks for the information, I also realized that a while after writing the comment. No wonder the experience is worse than in their native client, data channels are still terribly unoptimized (sometimes even broken in some aspects).

Edit: https://bloggeek.me/when-will-zoom-use-webrtc/
Coupang Becomes Industry First to Install Around View Camera in Delivery Vehicle
How is this legal? They are essentially robbing their employees no? They have effectively converted government actions of bailing out the citizens into bailing out just me and myself only. The authorities should hit them with a big fine.
> None of these justify using React. It all boils down to "I'm doing it because I can and I'm familiar with those tools".

"I'm using x technology because I'm familiar with it" is exactly what most people should be doing. Many people try to create production sites with tooling they're not familiar with, or take too long learning something new.

Why do none of these justify using React? They probably care about different things than you do.
Benefits for startups in the new federal stimulus package
BS! StarLink's goal is not to go bankrupt. Full stop.

Musk said so himself. Delivering Internet to the 3rd world or even emerging countries is not part of the agenda.

Stop fooling yourself.
Harry Willcock
> Not everything has to run in a web browser.

Very true, and not everything should run in a web browser.

But if something is going to run outside the browser, I would like some explanation of why.
3M makes masks specifically for welding (3M 8515). Due to current circumstance, they can't be had for any price (they are also N95 rated), but normally that would be the solution to your problem.
Test and Trace with Apple and Google
Stack and register allocation in Haskell is under compiler control via escape analysis, however you can allocate native heap outside GC via mallocBytes/allocaBytes/free, and if they get integrated into mainstream GHC, linear types.

Besides, plenty of GC enabled languages offer the option to stack allocate, static global allocations, or native heap.

Some examples, including languages that for whatever reason failed on the mainstream market.

D, C#, Swift, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Mesa/Cedar, Sing#, System C#, Nim, Modula-2+, Modula-3, VB, Xojo, C++ (via C++/CLI, C++/CX and Unreal C++), Common Lisp.
If he makes money with this, then it's a prime example of how you can turn an idea that exists and make it better (Google Docs can do something like this as well).
Working remote? Automate your House
Excuse me, but isn't this a whole lot of hypotheticals and assumptions (we could do this, this and that) while disregarding the concerns of professionals in the field?

I still don't see your working: why do you think space telescopes will not have the same problems in management and development as Earth-based?
Reminds me of this Penny Arcade comic with a similar sentiment about video game players: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/03/25/bells
There's a mathematician in your compiler
>95%, which is why they are called N95.
TeXmacs package now available for Haiku
>This is the basic cloth masks that are easily manufactured

I get that. Just saying I don't think I could easily obtain one without going to a couple of shops (I'd need to try a few - no idea who stocks masks). People running around without masks to obtain masks sorta defeats the point.
Against DNSSEC
I'm not sure you understand that my point is that this is a compromise between dwo plights that cannot be resolved by armchair economists and epidemiologists. Sure, Bolsanaro might be wrong, but there are leaders out there who have to make a decision about which of the two options would affect their countries more. Simply defaulting to "just quarantine EVERYONE" might be correct from an epidemics perspective, but people don't only die or suffer from diseases.

So just keep an open mind.
The characterization as "hording" and "panic buying" though is resulting in bad public policy: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/san-mateo-county...

A comment I've heard from someone at a grocery supplier is that stores haven't even called in to restock many out of stock items because they're simply overwhelmed. It's not clear to me what good public policy would be to address that, beyond patience.

Telling people to hold off a bit would probably be prudent but with low item limits already being implemented by some stores and even ordinances being discussed, ... makes holding off sound potentially unwise. :( exactly opposite the needed effect.
Same gymnastics, as you've eloquently put, can be found in Eastern Europe as well. In my view it's a byproduct of certain meats/animals being in low-supply/high-demand, especially during the previous decade. The resulting indoctrination can be extensive. As an anecdote, I've seen a vegetarian being served chicken, because it's not meat.
These masks are fairly standard consumer use in the UK for various DIY activities in the home and supplied by hardware stores as such. Note P3/FFP3 are higher standards than N95.
Are the masks available in Australia? They aren't in Canada
Homemade masks made of a double layer of tea towel cloth are not only protecting others but also protect yourself nearly as effectively as N95 masks.

The original research was made by PHE - Public Health England and the results are:

B atrophaeus - ~1um :

Surgical mask 96.35% filtering

Double layer tea towel 96.71% filtering

Bacteriophage MS2 - 23nm :

Surgical mask 89.52% filtering

Tea towel one layer 72.46% filtering

The full paper is on researchgate, title:
"Testing the Efficacy of Homemade Masks: Would They Protect in an Influenza Pandemic?"

Also every super market should have the use of hand sanitizer obligatory at the entrance.

There is a pretty good video for simulations of the epidemic spreading [1] - it is not going to stop until we either have a vaccine or ~60% of the population have antibodies. So the choice is to sit the next 12-18months at home or we fight the transmission of the virus.

Masks cost nothing compared to the economic disaster that we are running into. The virus spreads via mouth and nose and secondary via the hands. So just stop it at the source.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAaO2rsdIs
Show HN: Try QUIC in Node.js on Docker
Publish, track and share data analysis results without development skills
Raising the value of a stock doesn’t make the shareholders money unless they sell their holdings (although it might incentivize doing that) as compared to dividends which encourage holding on to your investments so long as they pay out nicely.

The real beneficiaries of buybacks are executives and employees with vested stocks. They both lose money on dividends and directly benefit from the contraction in available shares.
Programming Books to Read During the Covid-19 Lockdown
So SpaceX was ‘cool’ to you before, presumably because of their startup and disruptive nature, combined with advances like landing reusable rockets and genuine plans to colonise Mars... yet all of this is invalidated by the impact of Starlink on earth-based astronomy? Have I got that right?
Most low level devs are so turned off by Apple that we don't need to try it to know.
Looks like you're right surgical masks does give the wearer some protection.
My GoodForm propeller chair, circa 1958. I bought it at Goodwill for $10, it has lasted years longer than any other office chair in my home office.

The styling is timeless, the construction indestructable. I have had to replace the castors and one of the arms is missing a piece of plastic, but that's not bad for 60 years of service.
No - but then they don't need the aid, so it's fine if they don't take it.
You’d have both those pieces of information handily available if you had satellites in space. If you don’t have satellites in space, not target customer?
Ticket Tailor has gone free for selling tickets to online events
Ask HN: Why does my game suck? Why will it fail, and is there anything I can do?
I'm a programmer, recently I have been working on implementing video and audio streaming algorithms which inspired a potential idea for a new game. A live EDM music festival simulator.

Basically what you have is a screen with hundreds of people all connected with their webcams, at the same time. You can move anywhere on the screen, and chat with other people.

There are three music stages playing at the same time in the game.

You can see hundreds of people simultaneously dance on their webcams live and chat and meet new people. Which sounds fun to me.

DJ stage sets can be pre-recorded, or I can even map live DJ sets.

In the app, you can create a friendship bracelet (called Kandi) and give the bracelet to other players. There is a Kandi editor. You can only give 1 Kandi bracelet to each other player, and the goal of the game (or score) is to collect Kandi bracelets.

However I have proposed the idea with different groups, and all three groups don't really like the idea. They don't see it as a game they would use, and do not seem to have any interest.

I have already found that because the streamed webcam is small (only 64 by 64 pixels) I can successfully stream 200 webcams simultaneously with no issues in any modern web browser. There are no technical issues, I have successfully implemented using getUserMedia a library which encodes streaming information via WebSocket to my own server which can mix the multi-source camera steam into a multi-destination stream.

I'm wondering is there something I'm missing why this game idea will fail?
Do you have any words of advice or suggestions on what would make this game successful?
Good answer. Nice to see licensing issues taken seriously.
Operation Red Falcon (2015)
One piece that may be useful for the puzzle: Approaching this from the perspective of psychology and familial trauma has helped me understand and discuss. Someone close to me had a clinically diagnosed narcissistic sociopath parent. Literature on working with trauma and how to work with the consequences of psychologically hostile parents helps to understand the model.

The narcissist-sociopath model is very simple and there's kind of always the same underlying base behavioral script. This is fortunate, because it can be easily simulated by a normally working mind once we are trained to do it. It's very unintuitive if we are caught unaware.
The app would look similar to https://imgur.com/a/41oAc60 :)
Totally agree, that's said most people cannot get surgical masks anymore, not to mention N95 masks. If we can learn the lesson from outbreak happened before modern tech invented, world would be a better place. We cannot produce or easily buy nanotech material used for N95 masks. However we can use whatever materials avail in our house easily. If need extra protection, add 2 layers of tissue between mask and face. Do not touch mask when you are outside. Stay away at least 2m from any human being. Do not touch anything outside. Immediately take shower and disinfect youself with 80p alcohol at home. :) hopefully most of us will not get infected, I do not want scenario in movie like Contagion or World War Z to happen for human race.
CryptoES: A cryptography algorithms library compatible with ES6 and TypeScript
Can't it get more whataboutists than just using a link on whataboutism?

I am not trying to be argumentative here but the question stands, treating one and another politician with a different set of parameters is a bit weird.

BTW, I disagree with both of them. I am not trying to defend one or another.
There are plans & ongoing tests to make them much less reflective.

If when they are invisible, they can still occlude a bit of sky very briefly but that's solved by astronomy already AFAIK. Also happens with the existing satellites.
Ignorant to even the basics of biology, I happily traversed the wikipedia rabbit hole and learned a ton thanks to this link.

Thanks!
Next.js generates a static site, so your opinion is based on falsehoods.
Selfishness > incompetence > evil
I applaud this measure. Please stay safe, wear the mask and think of the elders!
Having developed a discrete event simulator myself for my master's thesis I can guarantee that the usefulness of tools like this one depends heavily on the veracity and quality of the time parameters and the random distributions.

This one is a very cool exercise, but applicability is dubious.

Anyway, does anybody have any suggestion about job positions where the job requires developing this kind of stuff (simulators, process optimization, heuristics)? Being a fresh graduate in this time period is pretty bad, but doesn't hurt to do some research on interesting job positions. I only see web related job positions and "machine learning" job positions lately.
DNSSEC has long been incomplete. Whoever had control of DNS essentially could backdoor the entire system [1].

However, now with Handshake [2], DNSSEC has become incredibly useful. TLSA records can be served directly from the blockchain which means provability [3]. This is in contrast to the current CA system wherein any CA can generate a valid certificate.

[1] https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2016/10/27/14-dns-nerds-dont-con...

[2] https://handshake.org

[3] https://github.com/handshake-org/hdns/blob/master/README.md
Are you suggesting that Apple laptops are too expensive for what they're worth?

How is moving Macs to Arm going to improve this?
This is very important! It's great to push students towards those texts that are approachable for them.

It would be bad if we were to push students away from texts that are approachable for them, right?

And very important that someone who learns like you is not pushed towards the Feynman lectures because they are not a good cognitive fit.

I promise, we all learn very differently sometimes. I for one found logic as classically presented in CS studies - as symbolic text? - I found it to be very inefficient to acquire. There's a great deal of cognitive transformation that needs to happen. I do much better with wide-ranging abstractions and then then approaching the core logic in a variety of different mechanical approaches – then I "see" the core logic "through" the abstractions and implementations.

And that said, I honestly wish I had easier access to the cognitive style that works "directly" in mathematical symbols and logic and that classical logical training works for. (I don't know if that's you, but I've talked to people that think/function like that.) And I greatly respect that capacity. I.e. I'm definitely not saying mine is better. Only different.
Yeah that would be pretty cool. I’d be interested to use that to implement phonetic distance scoring.
CLV API: Powerful Customer Lifetime Value Calculation and Prediction
The fundamental reason that we started on this track is the need to get off of Python 2, which has reached EOL and from which the community is moving away. Because of APIs we're using and such, it's not easy to switch to Python 3. Because of API changes in GAE, moving to PyPy on Flex is also still difficult and doesn't solve the problem of still being on Python 2.

Performance is one of several important reasons for the move to Go, and not the top reason.
Refactoring CryptoJS in Modern ECMAScript
>We will slowly turn to cryptocurencies and detach ourself from this non sense system of taxation and fiat decisions that are totally out of our control.

What prevents the same sort of tight community of crony elites from developing in such a system? It seems to me the course of action should be precisely opposite: greater democratic control, better institutions, more literacy and education so people can make informed decisions and pressure their representatives.
You're going to be sad when you here about the non-thesis yielding master's programs which make up a majority of the remote degrees.
Yes... except the risk of this happening is theoretically priced into the interest rate on the loan. If it’s dirt-cheap it must also be a low-probability scenario. (Not that I necessarily disagree with you on principle.)
Not really, they will be available at the doors of the supermarkets / locations that are allowed to stay open.. so no worries of anyone looking around for them.
Daily random images for web development or design
Note that I never said this was "just a flu".

The baseline mortality rate in Italy is about 50,000 deaths per month, and that's averaged over the year -- it's considerably higher from November to April.

The concern should be about additional deaths, not the raw numbers of "how many people died after testing positive for Covid-19" -- which, it's worth noting, is the metric being measured here, not "deaths exclusively caused by Covid-19". We don't treat any other respiratory illness this way. If we applied the same logic to other respiratory illnesses (flu appears to be a trigger word these days, but it's the big one!) then a very large number of deaths we currently attribute to other things (cancer & heart disease to name two huge ones) would suddenly become "flu deaths".

(edited: I had an extra zero on the baseline mortality rate due to a calculation error)
Because when you don't, at least ~50% will complain that the ticket isn't well specced enough.

For every person who wants autonomy there is another who would rather be on auto-pilot, mindlessly coding up arbitrary ticket JIRA-1234 with a Twitch window open on their 2nd screen.
I have some experience with Akka. The amount of praying you have to do during production issues, no surprise it feels like a religion.

We tried it about 4 years back. Maybe there are some better debugging tools now, but for us both learning curve and prod issue pain did not make it worth it.
Scuba(normally) does not use any higher concentration of oxygen than air. The compressors used just pump high pressure air into the tanks.

Using a scuba tank filled with air does not pose any additional explosion risk due to oxygen. The only additional explosion risk is due to the relatively high pressures involved (2000-5000psi) and the risks surrounding the use of any compressed gas.

There are blends of gasses available that do present an additional explosion hazard, but those are generally not available to someone without the training required to safely handle. For that matter a scuba shop following the rules won't even fill a tank of air for you without verifying your certification.
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/generalFAQ.html
This is a fair question.

Once upon a time, I was aware of a similar problem on another social network.

The trouble was, a senior elected official in the US was violating the terms and conditions of the site.

The solution: create an exemption for them.

Let's be honest, doing this in Brazil is pretty low-risk for Twitter, doing it in the US could be existential.
Because Singapore has things more or less under control, and "we" (the US, I presume) manifestly do not.
There is a big market for this right now; churches across the world want to do group singing remotely just as they would do together a regular Sunday service.