skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but it needs to be a 'proper' mask.

Yesterday I was in a shop and saw 2 different people with a scarf over their mouth. You would think this is no problem, but they both had to keep this scarf up with their hands... . Seems like the most effective way to spread and receive germs.

Govermnent needs to be clear what the protocol is.
I'll take a stab.

First, society is a semantic shortcut, not something that actually exists as something that can experience gain or harm. Only individuals can, and many have, and do.

I had an unbanked contractor, a refugee from Russia who could not get a bank account anywhere he went, and had to hop countries a lot as visas expired, and I paid him in Bitcoin even though he was completely unfamiliar with it when I proposed it, because we could find no other solution. He and I both benefitted substantially from that. I'm aware that other solutions exist, and we had exhausted all the ones we could find, as one by one my bank started rejecting transactions as fraudulent.

For most of what we want to do in the US or the rest of the first world, we have a reasonably functional banking system. For most of what we want to do internationally, at least commercially or with trading partners able to work with approved banks, things work pretty OK. There is a substantial part of the world that doesn't live under these conditions.
> What do you call a super fun game for few people? A dead game.

RIP tribes:ascend. Not fun for most people because not being able to move across the map properly for literal hours of learning the gameplay makes it incredibly unapproachable.

Fun as hell once you learn, but still a dead game very fast.
> Anyone know how difficult it would be to build something like it

Companies have been trying to build the perfect video chat system for about 30 years. Companies with tens of billions of dollars in cash and more in stock. Almost all of them suck in various ways.

You can stream one audio+video to one person, and you can stream it to multiple people. But then do multiple duplex audio+video streams to multiple people, on multiple platforms, with low CPU, memory, and bandwidth requirements, with user controls, recording, chat, screen sharing, drawing, and 50 other features. Get 49 of them right, and the 50th feature will suck, and your users will hate it and be ready to move to a different product. I think it's one of the most complex user applications that exists.
Yes, visit tracking has been around for years. Here is one product (https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/6100636?hl=en), I assume there are many more.

I guess it's not more well-known because it's not in the stores interests to publicize it.
That's true in theory and we should see aspirin doing something in vivo for coronavirus if it did, but we don't. Something else more important seems to be affecting it the other way.

In skimming the article it seems they used 20 mM doses and ranges which is an absolutely enormous amount of anything. We normally considered low uM the range where something is even beginning to be interesting.
Epic are anti-Linux.
But no examples how it would actually work in real life.
Would it be possible to create a similar list for the opposite purpose: Read these books to free yourself from the conventional Hacker News wisdom?
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Hydrocarbons are extremely stable, which means it requires a large energy input to break them up.

The article doesn't go into a lot of detail, but my guess is that the bacteria can break up the carbamate links.
No, because it's absurdly stupid.
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Just to be clear, this is not my story, just wish I had been proactive at that age!
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Vice has one of the worst privacy policies in the entirety of media, so it's kind of a curious thing to see them complaining about. They don't mention they phone Criteo and AdNexus on every page load, and I'm pretty confident I see them using Facebook events too.
In times when you cannot do in-class training, it is time to reinvent learning
My take on this is if the market is big, it's not going to matter anyways since large markets will naturally attract competitors based on the amount of people screaming for solutions. If it's a niche however, you're probably best keeping to yourself about it.

One caveat is if your target market is entrepreneurs then being open about it might help differentiate yourself from competitors.
I'm curious as a non-expert what's specifically worrying about their privacy model?

My intuition is that rapid adoption of a relatively transparent privacy-preseving option could preempt more heavy-handed approaches to what could be a very valuable public health intervention.
I am not surprised. People in the 20-40 range are more likely to be out in public exposing themselves to the virus. The elderly are by default socially distanced in this country. There has been no evidence I've seen that age affects likelihood of infection, but it does affect severity.

In countries like Italy where very few young people have tested positive, it's due to test triage. You aren't going to spend tests on asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic 25yos.
Carriers know where we are, are you referring to triangulation?
Hi HN,

We are YC rejects (I made it to the interview once!) but have benefited greatly from everything YC has put out to help founders like us. Since YCombinator has shared so much helpful content over the years in all sorts of areas, we decided to put some order around it for everyone’s benefit. The process looked like:

- We collected everything YC has put out scattered across different channels (and developed a system to keep it updated)

- Categorized it using a hybrid NLP-human approach to uncover key macro and micro categories along with identifying the people behind the advice. The goal was to 1. Aid exploration 2. Be able to quickly find the most relevant advice in any given situation.

- Our company (Polymer Search) specializes in converting a spreadsheet (or any structured data set) into a search and insights engine automatically. That was a huge part of why we decided to tackle this. We used our own beta stack to create YCAdvice.com. The spreadsheet is linked from the site in case anyone wants access to the underlying data (free to use).

Would love any feedback and happy to answer any questions.
This comment (as well as other from Yearscal) was from Dsplai. We have two projects here and I was inattentive and commented under another account. Excuse me for the mess.
Missing the point is an art, I must admit.
I don't understand why these lists make it so hard to find the USA. Every country is written out including the United Kingdom - but the USA is "US." Sometimes we're first because of ethnocentrism, sometimes last, but PLEASE BE CONSISTENT!

Also, thanks for this link - rant aside, it's the best dataset I've seen.
Ask not what your HN can do for you, but what you can do for your HN
My point is that using data from "the last couple days" isn't really indicating anything new in SK. Confirmed cases have been consistent for weeks.
You mean boiling the oceans for.... what?
Have you got any source on this? If you do you should contact italian authorities.
https://wefunder.com/fight-the-virus started a new program. I think their goal is (eventually) profitable startups and what you describe would likely need a business model.

With so many app/web developers trying to help on local and global level you effectively compete with volunteers (people working for free).
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Hospital resource use based on Covid-19 deaths
Also same as cash, amplified by scale and lack of geographic/political barriers.
I don't know if you can get highlighter toner for a laser printer.
Here's a study that exactly goes into your question:

https://www.faculty.umb.edu/peter_taylor/epi/oxford05.pdf

The conclusion of that article is that the basic lessons we learn today, were - in part - learned in 1918...

Back then, researchers had already traced the emergence of outbreaks to an encampment in France where men and animals were living in close quarters and unsanitary conditions.

As to the first part of your question, the answer is that more people encroaching on the animal and wildlife territory while not adhering to basic sanitary practices will increase the chance of new strains appearing and making the jump to humans.

Vox did an excellent video on how this works for Corona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54

Such events do not only happen in China in particular but they can happen virtually anywhere in the world.

Another ongoing pandemic is HIV/AIDS. Well, it is generally accepted that the jump to humans occurred in West-Africa in the 1920's. But it took time and globalization - increasing mobility - before HIV finally spread across the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS
Hi! Thank you for your interest. We will release android version soon:)
Inkjet has far superior color reproduction to laser. Even the highest end production color laser copiers can't do the same level of color matching that inkjet can

As for home/office use, yes inkjets are a huge scam
Adjusting RuboCop's Defaults
Even vampire bats do social distancing when their friends are sick
Saying "your own market" doesn't mean anything. Every monopolist has 100% of their own market. On the other hand, Clorox has 100% of the "Clorox bleach" market.

The question is whether your products and your supposed competitor's products are really the same market. In other words, are your customers the same individuals? Are the products substitutes for one another?

For Clorox bleach and other bleach they are. All bleach is the same, they're perfect substitutes, if the store is out of Clorox bleach and you buy some other bleach you'll never even know the difference.

For iOS app stores and Android app stores, they're completely different markets. The customers for iOS apps are people with iOS devices and the customers for Android apps are people with Android devices -- almost completely disjoint sets of people. If the iOS app store is down, it's infeasible for the average user to get an app from Google Play instead -- they would have to spend hundreds of dollars to buy an Android phone, then replace all of their other apps, just to substitute one app. It would be like saying AT&T didn't have a monopoly in 1970 because you could change carriers by moving to Canada. They're completely different markets.
Well, even if you decide not to quit the decision will be made for you if you choose to continue to develop a system without proper testing. Eventually your customers will fire you.
Thanks! We’ll figure out android soon.
Then they should just paint black circles on the wall, as that's all you'd see after the first few minutes ;)
I'm with you. I absolutely hate rotating displays. If I look at it with intent, it's only going to be what I want 1/N of the time, meaning I'm wasting time N-1/N of the time.

And if it's just a general information radiator, as with a big wall display, I still want it to be stable, because a) it's better for developing a correlative understanding between different variables, and b) I want to train people to look at it with intent.

The only time it ever made sense to me was a) when displays were expensive, and b) people were going to anyhow be standing around with nothing to do. E.g., the decades-old BART LED-matrix signs rotate. I still hate it, but I get it. Now, though, displays are cheap, and at work, hopefully people have things to do!
I didn't have any positive experiences with Bluetooth, it was always too flaky, so I didn't even activate it for years now.
Does GraphQL really make sense with MongoDB?

I love MongoDB but GraphQL is being used in many cases where it adds zero value, only another layer of complexity and abstraction.
Phone books are actually legally just a collection of numbers and are not considered a creative work, because there is nothing creative about the mere act of collating them. Thus, they cannot be copyrighted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

If NYT provides a "value add" here beyond mere aggregation and deduplication they are probably copyrightable. Otherwise they probably don't hold a copyright here (although they may attempt to claim it, just like RTS did).
Honestly UberConference works way better...
Even cloth filters out 70% of respiratory virus particles. The notion that only a properly fitted N95 mask is effective is ridiculous and is probably costing lives.
http://appstodo20.com/website/amis/gg.jpg
Very high end devices (the size of a printing press) will sometimes have spot color capabilities, for finishes like neon colors or clear coating
Thank you all for your thoughts and feedback! We appreciate it a lot!
Try it at 600 people, with at least 50 unmuted. (Not a made up example. Zoom worked, last week, for us.)
The kid would likely have died waiting for an ambulance in Los Angeles. Especially up in the Antelope Valley. If he had transportation, expeditiously sending him on his way was the right call.
"I Will have a chat with our IT people to ask people to avoid using zoom."
Foolish. What works better combining VTC and easy join phone calls? Surely not Teams. Was on a 400+ person Zoom call that went great. Problem is likely in your network.
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My experience learning IPFS and publishing my personal website
One thing about experts is that they’ve usually made it through the Dunning-Kruger “confidence pit” and come out the other side. They’re often cautious about making very strident remarks, and when they are really confident in a conclusion, it’s usually because it has a very high probability of being correct. When someone new to a field comes to a contrarian conclusion, they’re often willing to show more confidence in their conclusion because of the Dunning-Kruger effect. This makes it hard to take non-experts at their word, since they’re often unaware of how likely they are to be wrong.

Now, if a total non-expert had come out of nowhere with an analysis that contradicted the public health establishment, definitively showed that the danger was massively overblown, and was right, that would be one thing. But this medium post was incorrect in its conclusion, quite confident in its conclusion, and advised courses of action that would put many people in danger (such as reopening schools).
Is it common to want to keep all that history? My understanding was it's best practice to delete chats after a certain period to limit the surface area of any potential legal discovery.
The CLR is not "most other VMs." You might say it's the exception that proves the rule. ;)

Further, as I've pointed out to you before, the CLR does not really support unmodified C and C++ as well as WebAssembly does. It supports C++/CLI instead, which is not a superset of standard C or C++. And worse, the main (only??) compiler for C++/CLI has no plans for keeping newer features of C++ working on the CLR.

In the context of this discussion about integrating GC into a VM that supports C and C++, the CLR is an odd choice of example anyway. The CLR doesn't aim to support existing languages unmodified, every port I've seen has been similar to C++/CLI in diverging from its original definition, specifically because of its memory and object models. And those are precisely what WebAssembly does away with.
I've been meaning to update my personal website for a while - and learning IPFS gave me a great excuse to get started!

I had a great time learning IPFS basics and getting something published. I'm a total n00b with this stuff - but the IPFS learning resources were great.

I wrote a blog post too: http://justinpoliachik.com/posts/2020-03_ipfs_website/

Working on a Part 2 where I talk about building the blog and publishing via GitHub Actions.

Feedback welcome! Let me know if I missed any technical details...
> And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST.

No, they decided to abandon DST everywhere. What each member has to decide is whether they'd stay in Summer Time or Winter Time permanently.
In my part of the US they've changed the names of a lot of these places from "Urgent Care" to "Walk-in Clinic", which is really what they are: a doctors office you can go to without an appointment for pressing but non-life threatening issues. For point of reference the Emergency Room is where an ambulance would take you if you called for one. If you are in a similar type of life threatening situation and you choose not to call an ambulance but to drive yourself most Americans know they need to go to the ER.
Hey, thank you, for letting me know! We’ll look into it.
Genuinely curious: why was this downvoted when the parent comment was not?
Useful, I may purloin that.

I don't object at all to regular reboots for security updates, but I do object to forced reboots. Windows not being safe to leave alone for 24 hours without risk of it rebooting itself makes it no better than a toy OS in my mind. And it isn't as if it is just the one monthly reboot around patch Tuesday plus the occasional emergency patch: I think I can count on one hand the number of months in the last ~two years when my main Windows machine hasn't needed to reboot twice or more in a month.

Actually I do object to regular reboots if I'm more honest, at least as many as Windows seems to need. The fact that just about any security update requires a full system reboot instead of many of them being applicable with just restarting component services smacks of bad design.
Is there any actual evidence that this is true, taking the exchange rates in cryptocurrency exchanges into account?
Android app let's you estimate your toilet paper stock
Florida?
Interesting. That clearly violates GDPR and CCPA if it extended to all digital options rather than just websites.
Now we just need a version for neurotypical people to allow them to see the emotions of the autistic.

See ‘double empathy problem’.
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I was a young guy getting started in the music industry around this time... At the first studio I worked at, we used MiniDiscs all the time to do professional audio work. It was often the way we stored productions and the way we distributed them to other partners.

That said, any sort of mass production of MiniDiscs for the consumer would have been laughed away due to the costs.

> mass high quality digital copying by consumers

This has likely been a facet of the music industry's concerns ever since the cassette tape[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_Digital_Audio#Dat...
To any person living in Europe, I hope you guys know the bank account seizure that happened in Cyprus in 2013 has been used as a template to create an european law named "Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive"(BRRD). Some people are going to learn the hard way:

https://eba.europa.eu/regulation-and-policy/single-rulebook/...
The consequences of privacy loss can be severe, up to and including violent death (partner violence, anti-LGBTI attacks, religious persecution). A person with a moral (and likely legal) obligation to protect individual privacy cannot lightly discard someone's fundamental rights to favour the marginal benefit of others.

We haven't seen a Zoom log found in an open S3 bucket yet, or a leak via fb, but experience says that it is only a matter of time.

So if you're going to mandate Zoom, own the risk. Mitigation is possible: provide recorded streams for secured download (if safe/ethical/notified to record other participants!); provide a work laptop with a non-identifying config instead of a BYOD; many other options.
You are correct that there is history, but my point is that I don't believe the existence of long lived chat history (storing all messages longer than 3-6 months) will be a blocker for a company to switch to a better chat platform. Chat should not be looked at as a durable store of critical, long term information. Slack is trying to create a vendor lock-in that doesn't exist.
By that argument, does anyone have any software principals? I mean, if someon told me "use software product X, or I will horribly kill you and everyone you love", I'm going to use the software.
Love your layers of hate-keeping. Not only did they learn before uni, they actually learned before uni, none of that fake bs!

Never mind that most of the people learning before uni did so from opportunity - they often had an engineer in the family or lived in a well-to-do area where such skills were apparent. (This magnified even further the older you are).

FWIW, I studied CS at a great cs uni (cal), and most of my peers were not self-taught. They still ended up at the same companies in the same positions as those who did ️.
Why are you assuming that the Zoom software was the culprit? Perhaps you had an unstable connection with high jitter?
When I see datasets like this, I just think of how 95% of my work as a DS has been just getting to that cleaned table at the end. After that the modeling is straightforward.
PPE recommendations are a bit confusing.

WHO currently says that healthcare professionals in non-AGP areas who aren't doing AGP should wear surgical mask, gloves, apron, and do a risk assessment for eye protection. All of that PPE is single use. This is the current practice in English NHS settings. See here: https://twitter.com/OutbreakJake/status/1242020875328684038

If aerosol generating procedures are happening the healthcare professional needs a fit-tested FFP3, gown, gloves, and eye protection. https://twitter.com/OutbreakJake/status/1242233685392396289?...

Surgical masks are fluid resistant, and this is an important part of their protective property. Home made cotton masks tend not to be fluid resistant.
Gatekeeping is an immature practice of semi-skilled people that have too much free time and not enough motivation.

And what is it about a program being an IDE or not makes it good or bad? I bet a bunch of immature Smalltalk users would happily tell you that IntelliJ or Visual Studio aren't IDEs.
honest question: why do we keep looking to physicians for guidance? They are highly trained in case by case treatment but not epidemiology. They are not taught to make population wide predictions about the future, they just diagnose and treat. They have access to some anecdata and that's about it. Professors, epidemiologists, and medical researchers have a lot more training and practice in the arena we care about.
I hadn't seen that post before, and it does seem quite reasonable -- but I don't think it really vindicates the advice (nee propaganda) from government officials, unless there was no other way to alleviate shortages. The conclusion is effectively "we don't know for sure, but they do appear to help somewhat" -- which means that (all other things being equal) not recommending masks appears to be a net negative.
Ever encountered code where you have to load 2 modules in a particular order or else they don’t work? Or maybe you didn’t figure out why a module that works fine for others doesn’t for you.

Monkey patching is one of the top causes of that. And is part of why Ruby projects tend not to scale in complexity as well as Python.
Congress would write a law with general objectives, and leave the regulatory work to an exec branch agency. The regulations generally either reference or draw inspiration from NIST.

HHS uses NIST stuff to guide HIPPA. IRS is more prescriptive, but everything in IRS 1075 is still based on NIST stuff.

You have to separate the political puffery from reality. The Federal government is very good at establishing effective regulatory frameworks. They fall down with the long-term maintenance of regulations, as it's often difficult to keep the legal mandate up to date.