skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not an expert here but it seems dangerous to assume as you do that the baseline of “correct number of ventilators” is the UK number. They could be...

-Under provisioning for surges (not even Covid, even just a sudden emergency of another sort, a bad flu season, big accident, terror event, whatever)

-Going longer between maintenance intervals than is recommended

-Delaying ICU admission longer than is strictly recommended

-Relocating ICU equipment as needed more than other countries feel comfortable doing

-Using more reliable ICU equipment (does the German figure include any older and potentially less reliable gear in the former communist east?)

-Have less need among population for ICU

On the last point, Germany has accepted by far more refugees from MENA war zones than any other European country and I would not be surprised if this resulted in higher emergency medicine use.

Also a quick Google shows Germany is a bit older with 22% of the population over 65 vs 18% in UK.

None of this is to say Germany isn’t over provisioned but it is probably not 5X over provisioned, if it is.
These are all theoretical problems that have not shown up in real life in the west. Also there is no evidence that cryptocurrency will truly address those topics at scale, meaning full for a significant part of the population.

This reads like a religious text to me.
Snark aside, you realize that there's a middle ground, and that not every travel destination is 3rd world right?
ULA, Boeing and Lockheed didn’t kill them. SpaceX did.
This is a very uncommon esoteric situation.
yes there is but somehow it is not as good as the codementor extension (iirc you it doesn't play well with cell navigation bindings)
Maybe could make a site that tracks the Bayesian probability of infection rate? (not 100% sure if I'm using those words right)
The author seems to think the motivation was drag reduction, while I had heard the issue was one of countering undesirable lift, which is bad for tire traction. If these things did reduce drag, could someone explain how they achieved this?
Mirror: http://archive.is/dO21H
If you really didn't care you would not have responded.

The truth is that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are highly volatile and in fact a very dangerous alternative.
> Most people are fine with 720p quality video as you're not "watching" the participants like a movie.

Most people are fine with 720p movies too.
Yes, but cities have FTTH, rural areas have.. often times nothing that approaches >5 Mbps.
Striking is not just cause for firing employees in every developed country, except US

Strike is a worker's right
My personal theory is, that the German entity tasked with procurement has no idea how international commerce works.

I saw a intriguing change in conversations I had over the last couple of days. First it was, like, no need, we got this. Just yesterday I found a call for an offer from the Armed Forces procurement department in my Inbox, while you now find direct contact details for these kind of things online. Not sure what happened, but there sure is a change in how authorities are approaching this.
Yeah, even corrected for tests/capita, Cuomo/De Blasio have really botched the situation in New York.
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It’s becoming apparent that the 21st century will be marked by a series of natural disasters of various severities and speeds that regularly erode global supply capacity and quality of life.
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> Yes, because it's in alphabetical order.

> You don't have to craft anything for it to be in alphabetical order.

> You just put it in alphabetical order.

Again, if you get to choose the names, you get to choose the order.
One web never made it to the point where revenue came in the first place, so you can’t really learn anything from one web, outside of satellites and rockets are expensive - both areas that spacex has a huge advantage in.

A single contract from the US government that displaces their contracts with various providers could be profitable to spacex.
Right. There's no point in locking 6% of your doors. It's security makework theater, like trying to use a treadmill for transportation.
I am almost always disappointed in such lists as they almost never contain the books I have never seen before. I got lucky today.

The list has [0] Multivariable Calculus by Don Shimamoto. I saw it on Amazon first(so I have seen it before, but not on lists such as the linked one), but didn't want to pay $40 for this strikingly beautiful book. Turns out it's free.

The real analysis section has [1] by Lafferriere, Lafferriere and Mau Nam. It's short, sweet and very pretty. No bloat. Logically organized. For example, the section "Applications Of The Completeness Axiom" contains everything you need to know as pertains to the topic (within elementary analysis) in one place. Such things usually get lost in the weeds in regular analysis books. Another book I like there is [2] which is on Lebesgue Integral and Measure Theory by Cheng.

[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IB-fSe-KR6mbo89iFTJVSA0CrFf...

[1] https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

[2] https://www.gold-saucer.org/math/lebesgue/lebesgue.pdf
It’s really a great book, especially if you grew up playing old shareware games. I generally won’t read a book for entertainment unless it manages to hook me within the first few pages. I read the entire book in a single sitting, I was so captivated by the storytelling.
> I was skeptical, and I could verify it feels very disappointing looking into EVF.

My reaction is the opposite. I always felt disappointed by how primitive the optical view finder on modern cameras is versus electronic ones. It doesn't get the light levels right and it can barely show you any relevant information; there needs to be a separate 7-segment display on the body showing pertinent information. How primitive!

EVFs, on the contrast, show you everything you need to know right in the viewfinder (including advanced features like histograms, zebra stripes, etc., that an optical viewfinder could never possibly do).
> Today, DECN announces that the company, through its advanced development team in Korea, have finalized the configuration of the GenViro! Swift Kit test strip
We also see corrupt and incompetent companies that fraud states and customers everyday and bribe politicians to make their scams legal

Why don't you abolish them?
Buy a better behaving phone, or admit that you don't mind being spied on as compensation for features.
The Knight Capital incident lost $440m in 45 minutes to a mistake in software deployment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stoc...
It's not a rumor and it works fine. Should be there in public channels next quarter...
If you can forward the ssh port, yes.
Any word on what the instrument and cost per sample is on this Abbott platform?
This could be partially mitigated if they wanted to, by having starlink be a hybrid of 5G and satellite. These antenna are already going to be mounted in much better reception areas than a typical cell phone and have higher gain antenna. They could roam between the two transparently depending on the content. I’ve never heard them consider this but this is a potential in the long term if they wanted to increase reach into cities and still compete with incumbents without having to get rights to lay cable.
I hope the Covid self quarantining demonstrates that WFH works. We can do more WFH and cut down on traffic, time lost in traffic and our carbon footprint. We also might spread less of the flu around too.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recovery-damage-...
Elliott? The article only mentions Daniel Loeb (Third Point Capital)
Is that still true? These reported numbers for the US are very much outdated. Would love to see a source younger than a decade.

All seem to come from the same sources, a 2009 and a 2012 study. The Forbes article actually mentions an alternative source, an article from 2015 [2] which is actually looking at regional 2000-2009 data. You can also follow the links at Wikipedia [0].

For Germany, there are numbers from 2017: The German Office for Statistics is reported in 2019 28.031 ICU beds which is a rate of 33.7 per 100,000 inhabitants.

EDIT:
This [3] WoPo article references data from 2016-2018: 93,000 ICU beds in total in the US. That's about 36 ICU beds per capita (aged 16 or older).

For comparison, Germany, based on the 28031 ICU beds and 70976000 inhabitants 16 or older [4] has 39,49 ICU beds per capita.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...

[1] https://www.sciencemediacenter.de/alle-angebote/fact-sheet/d...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351597/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/23/map-place...

[4] https://www-genesis.destatis.de/genesis//online?operation=ta...
Yes, there should also be offices available nearby. I like having coworkers too much to WFH full time!
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The number of beds per capita is one thing, how many are free or can be freed in the next few days/weeks is another. At least in Germany it was reported that a lot of them were in use and less than half were available for coronavirus patients.
Lessons learned from working remotely for 3 years. How to save your bacon&sanity
I tried it. I like it but being 40+ I find the art it generates at the edge of too small for my eyes. Love the audio thought.
Or the UK is using regular beds where an ICU bed would be appropriate...
And probably get more lonely, too.
I think citationsy addresses a different public -- it looks to be more like ZoteroBib (zbib.org) or the web-client of Zotero than Zotero Desktop. Citationsy is going to be convenient for one-offs, but it's very common to shop around a paper until it is accepted somewhere, or submit a follow-up paper that builds on an earlier one, and each outlet may have different citation style requirements. Tools like Zotero (and Mendeley) make that fairly easy because you can just switch the style and re-render the document, and you're (ususally) done. With citationsy, as far as I can tell, you'd need to revisit every reference in the paper to adjust it to the new style. And while it seems to have fallen out of favor, I don't think citationsy can do ibid-style referencing.
> You don't have to craft anything for it to be in alphabetical order. You just put it in alphabetical order.

And you can still set your preferred order by naming and wording. Had they dropped "iOS" from everything, "Advertiser ID" would be at the top. I don't think they would've lost a lot of clarity with e.g. "Device Disk Space Available" instead of "iOS Device Disk Space Available". Or, if prefixes are their thing, why not call it "Zoom Application Bundle Identifier"?

Alphabetical order means nothing if you control the strings that are used for sorting.
Eureka robotics teacher uses 3D printer to make N95 masks
No after thinking about it, I think @bamboozled is right. Testing everyone trying to board a flight, or cross a roadblock is not a feasible use case for this device. They will not be used like this. It isn’t a magic wand you can wave, there is a real bottleneck at the hardware level.

It’s not 15 mins from the time you get swabbed. It’s 15 once it’s prepared and put in the machine. Then there will be cleanup time after. Either way, even if you could run them through assembly line style every 15 minutes, 1 machine would take a whole 24 hours to process 100 people.

Another commenter @nkrumm pointed out multiple good use cases. I think they will be used to allow health care workers to make rapid decisions, for specific patients, likely in emergency situations. Not to process large volumes.
This "unprecedented in our memory" thing gets me.

Polio was feared in the 1950s, and pools and movie theaters closed and physical distancing was recommended.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/10/16/1626708...

(The covid-19 numbers FAR outstrip the polio numbers.)
By reporting, I believe they mean how many ventilators the US has. See my peer comment to yours that has data from 2010 and 2012, which is the newest the US seems to have.
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I’ve found the Apple Watch team to be most responsive in Feedback Assistant, SwiftUI as well.
Hague court orders Dutch state to pay out over colonial massacres
yes, Hardy Diagnostics Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Rapid Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DXzQmlPt68
> WhatsApp and FaceTime both offer end to end encrypted group calling.

These are closed source, right? How do you know this feature works?
Dang it, yes!

Except for the trolls.
Is, for now. The parts of FF that Zotero relied on are being phased out (listed on the Mozilla docs site as "Archive of obsolete content"), so a transition to Electron is planned, and as part of that transition plan, parts are already being rewritten from XUL into React/HTML.
https://www.businessinsider.com/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-s...
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A brilliant man:
"Every tragedy has its victims, its heroes, and its charlatans. Victims suffer. Heroes do all they can to help. Charlatans deceive others for personal gain. Be the hero. Beware of the charlatans."
> The bottom line is when you use a service, that data is their data to send to whomever they want.

No.

That's all that really needs to be said about it but I'll add a couple of more lines here so no one thinks I'm lazy or posting a shallow dismissal:

- First, just because someone trusts you it doesn't mean you are free to abuse them. This should go without saying!

- Second: In Europe and I think California as well this is also illegal.
"My wife and I are planning to move further from the city, but one of our concerns is getting decent internet (we have symmetric gigabit fiber now)."

Exactly my situation. I have symmetric gigabit and due to a nature of my business requiring symmetric fat pipe I have to live in a city. The minute I could get that gigabit in a wilderness I am out.
Am I the only one who simply doesn’t see the point of using TOML?

Even though it’s easy to find things in JSON and YAML that you could pick on, it is always pretty obvious what is being declared. It’s easy to see the hierarchy of it all: it’s one big tree of dicts, lists and scalars (disregarding some of YAML’s rarely used features, like tags and references). With TOML, that hierarchy simply becomes lost. It all feels like stuff is/can be declared in random order. Why would anyone want to back to using INI files? I remember using them on DOS and Windows and I can’t remember liking them that much.

Even if TOML has certain advantages over YAML/JSON, those advantages are so incredibly small if you look at the bigger picture. For JSON and YAML I can easily find parsers/generators for any language out there, even fairly exotic ones. For TOML there is a lot less choice.
Becoming apparent from what?
If you ever go camping far out in the wilderness you will realise how hard it is to get away from human noise at night. The sound of planes flying overhead is almost constant over the entire continental US, even in desolate and wild areas.
I can't read this because of the paywall.
The headline is wrong, which doesn't give me a feeling that it is worth reading anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record
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COVID-19 vaccine study: participant information sheet [pdf]
If the marketing pitch is "made easy" it might be better supported by marketing emphasizing simple steps. The existing landing page seems to focus on a large scope of functions and the "request demo" is consistent with high touch sales of a complex product.

To put it another way, the landing page is more consistent with "a complete solution" than "easy." Good luck.
A new FDA-authorized Covid-19 test that can produce results in just 5 minutes
This is also a hammer blow to Soyuz and the European launchers. Payloads are becoming very scarce.
It’s an opt-out:

“You can opt out of this use or your Apple relationship information by emailing our privacy team at dpo@apple.com with the subject line ‘Apple Relationship Data and Apple Card.’”
I always assumed it was on the positive side. Buying likes and such, but not downvotes.
Very interesting; thought it was a bit academic, and finding somebody who has actually used it makes me more motivated to look into it.
I wouldn't worry. Class action suits almost always settle for a large amount but tiny per class member. So by buying off some people early, the remainder each get a larger share of the class action settlement.
Ah that layout just didn't make it obvious there is no syntax highlighting on any of that code.
Yes that’s the one I was thinking about.
Disable JS. I personally have a deciated browser for reading stuff with JS off by default and enable it for each site I consider it deserves JS (like if is using it for interactivity,maps or is a true app and not an article)
How cool! I have never seen space/satellites so intuitively explained. 2 ideas: Can you include spaceships or the ISS? As well it would be cool to see the satellites actually flying in time-lapse. Keep up the good work - thanks for sharing :-)
At some point under-provisioning is no longer an efficiency miss but a national security issue of how clogged your infrastructure gets during stress.
'No requirement' as long as you can live on poverty-level benefits, you aren't afraid of losing skill competency, and you think future employers won't kind the gap on your resume?
Apart from anything else this could turn out to be extremely problematic in areas where the average temperature is around 0 degrees C. Lots of melting of snow (and then refreezing as ice)....

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
Podcast: Leading in the Ebola Response
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I wonder if there are good subscription-based communities out there. Having to pay a small fee seems like a good filter for people who aren't a little more "serious". (Definition of "serious" left as an exercise for the reader.)
Since these have not been mentioned already:

* Brian Bagnall trilogy on the history of Commodore/Amiga: http://variantpress.com

* Severo Ornstein's "Computing in the Middle Ages", about how it used to be a professional programmer back in the early days. You can find his CHM oral history interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q243lfVdQ9E.

* "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer". A candid view about how the PC industry unfolded.

* "Introduction to Algorithms" by Udi Manber. IMHO one of the best books about how to approach problems with a programmer's mindset.
DSLRs have live previews on the screens on their back, so that at least you don't need mirrorless for.

I like using the viewfinder though, and I like digital ones over optical ones.
That's a good question. Is there anything to stop a disreputable advertiser/tracker hijacking the EME DRM scheme for tracking?

The evercookie project doesn't appear to leverage EME, for what that's worth. https://samy.pl/evercookie/
It increased the value of homes, and homeowners have more political power than non-homeowners in most American cities just by numbers.
All I'm hearing from friends is that WFH is way worse than it was hyped up to be and that it's so much worse not being able to work with your coworkers in person and to have separation of your home and work for mental health. Everyone is different and WFH is not a panacea.
The most efficacious way to make these conversations less “difficult” is offering a generous separation agreement.
I don't know about Firefox & Safari, but I think you're missing an important caveat here for Chrome:

> In directories where most contributors have already adopted clang-format, and code is already consistent with what clang-format would produce, some teams intend to experiment with standardizing on clang-format. When these local standards apply, it will be enforced by a PRESUBMIT.py check.

From the looks of it it's a lot of the tree [1].

Where manual formatting gives you some freedom in meeting the style guide, it also brings along with it errors (style guides are massive and it's not possible to remember everything) & sometimes you just make a typo. This also means that your reviewers are spending time validating against the style guide which is not only the most wasteful use of their time, it's still an imperfect process because reviewers are just like the author - they don't have the entire style guide in their head at all times and they may miss violations.

[1] https://github.com/search?q=CheckPatchFormatted+repo%3Achrom...
I'm happy to see people being proactive on the social front. Over time doing WFH, I've found that putting a little effort into getting into social situations goes a long way. My wife used to live in a coop and we now live in a marina where we play cards and have drinks with folks and that helps combat loneliness. We're in this together, we can improve it over time.
Okay, add the phrase “in recent time” which is the relevant assumption
Great, now if they would stop having an activity monitor that checked every process running on your computer, or made their web interface work with Firefox we’d be all set...
...or build a community of people around you not centered around work?

I worked remote for a very long time, at first it was lonely then I realized I needed to reach out to people locally who were interesting to chat with. I was able to grow friendships over lunches and coffees that ordinary office life would not have allowed.

Covid19 makes that impossible right now, but WFH doesn't mean lonely. It's just that your default is to get all your socialization from coworkers. Socializing with people in your community based on common interests is much more rewarding than by common employer
No, but that is wartime propagate for you. After a decade of failure to restock emergency supplies after 2005 swine flu, whatever they do now regarding mask distribution is just rearranging Titanic deck chairs.
You lose your folder organization (a.o.) that way. There used to be a direct import of the database into Zotero (much like Mendeley can do direct import of Zotero DBs) but that has become impossible since Mendeley have encrypted their database, for which they hand-wave to an unspecified GDPR article that apparently forces their hand, but not Zotero, Excel, or a million other apps that you use to process your own data. Plenty of people have asked Mendeley on Twitter to clarify exactly what article would compel this over the past two years, with not a single public response by Mendeley.
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That was awesome. Thanks for taking the time to write that.
I was a very early adopter of React at my company (fall 2013) and IIRC, using jQuery with React was still in the docs.

edit: and it still is today, just a tad updated: https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.ht...