skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP was talking about GGP's suggestion, which was about a US state (Michigan).
Damn. What is safe though? Is it safe to rent a car? Better to drive across the country and stay with family, where healthcare systems aren't crumbling? Or find a random cabin upstate NY to rent, but risk access to healthcare?
According to [checks notes] the internet, you can't make this observation. If you do, you want people to die!!
My pet theory is that this is actually a geo-location type of tracking, combined with the recency illusion.

Let's say person A was doing research on a product they're interested in buying. That product category is now associated with person A. Person A goes and visits person B. Because our phones track where we go by default for most people, now there's an association between Person A and Person B, and a potential likelihood that person B is also interested in that product. Thus the occasional ad shows up for the product Person A was researching. Since Person A and Person B are friends, it's possible Person A will talk about the product they're interested in. Person B now notices that they're getting ads for the product that Person A talked about.
Maybe you can add some breathing exercises to your routine to strengthen diaphragm breathing and lung capacity.
Good thing it runs on a RPi then.
Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone
For the US, the COVID Tracking Project have tested, positive, negative numbers for most states.

They also have the dataset available as a spreadsheet or a JSON or CSV API:

https://covidtracking.com/data/

The project was started by some journalists from The Atlantic. Seems to be a lot of duplicated effort in this area, although perhaps they are sharing data.

https://covidtracking.com/about-team/
> 18 million results in Google.

That's not a response. Those results are overwhelmingly not synonymous with the phrase "the poor", which would be clear immediately if you looked at them.

If I search for "the poor people", I get told there are 22M results. The entire first page is taken up by references to a proper noun, The Poor People's Campaign; searching for '"the poor people" -campaign' cuts reported results to 12M, and the new results prominently feature The Poor People's Crusade. This is not a compelling argument that the phrase "the poor people" is permissible in the same contexts that allow "the poor" (which would be necessary if this were a case of ellipsis).

> Another example: "the Chinese people" (we'd just say "the Chinese"), 10M results.

That's a much better example; I'm willing to concede that "the Chinese people" and "the Chinese" mean the same thing and can be used in the same ways. But you haven't made the argument that the equivalence between "the Chinese people" and "the Chinese" transfers over to an equivalence between "the poor people" and "the poor".[1] I claim you cannot do this, because "the poor people" and "the poor" are not equivalent.

Note also that the parallel construction to "the Chinese" is "the Italians", not "the Italian". But we obviously can't claim that "the Italians" is ellipsed from "the Italian people". We also shouldn't claim that "the Chinese" is ellipsed from "the Chinese people".

[1] For one thing, people in "the Chinese people" is not even the same word as people in "the poor people"; "the poor people" uses Merriam-Webster's sense 2 ("plural form of person"), while "the Chinese people" uses sense 5 ("singular noun of which the plural is peoples; a body of persons that are united by a common culture, tradition, or sense of kinship"). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/people
IIRC, Pixlr has been around a long time. I last checked it out a few years ago, and it was _way_ different + had a very limited feature set. My guess is that they may have seen sites like Photopea and decided to copy that model... ?
I’ve always seen parallelism described as a special case of concurrency where the concurrent processing happens to run physically at the same time, while general case concurrency is about logically running at the same time (whether its actually at the same time or just appears that way).

The use of the word concurrent here is consistent with that definition and the literature, where concurrent data structures are data structures designed to for safe concurrent access (whether they are accessed literally at the same time or not).
It's a start. You're unlikely to learn why somebody is angry unless you know that somebody is angry. And humans are very good correlators. If me doing X repeatedly leads to immediate anger, I'll learn not to do it even if I don't understand why.
Do they get fat and lazy?
[Maybe we should invent Netflix for microbes, then]
So I was in agreement with this, and the science is that yes it only helps in containing the infection if the person infected is wearing the mask.

However, if healthy people aren't wearing the masks, and only the unhealthy are, then the unhealthy don't want to signal they are unhealthy so they don't either. A huge part of getting the infected to wear masks is to get the healthy to wear masks so the infected don't put a huge label on themselves that indicates: "diseased", "corrupted", "infectious", "frail", "unclean" etc.

Logic says one thing, but people are not logical like machines.
Huh? What does that even mean? I'm replying specifically to the notion that lean manufacturing is a bad thing
Dyson Designed and Built a Ventilator in 10 Days to Help Fight Coronavirus
I see nothing constructive to debate here, so I'm flagging this.
Wow, that same article says "As a reminder, you don’t need to wear a mask unless you are sick"...
The pieces of Snips that were OSS before Sonos bought and ditched the community are being leveraged along with new work in Project Alice https://github.com/project-Alice-assistant It continues to strive to be modular and offline. By design, the choice of online/offline elements including Google ASR and Amazon TTS along with corresponding quality and privacy tradeoffs is your choice. Come give a hand.
Ask HN: Anyone working on N95 fit test kits
There are a lot of impressive efforts coming out of the hacker and DIY space in an effort to fight COVID-19. One thing that I haven't seen yet is N95 fit test kits. While there is a lot of press coverage about the lack of masks themselves I haven't seen this critical piece of the puzzle mentioned widely. Without a fit test kit, the N95 masks are at risk of being ineffective. I know of physicians who have masks but can not source fit test fits to ensure they are using the masks properly. This is especially critical as health workers are already being forced to re-use the masks.

Here's 3m user guide to the test kit for more background:

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/473960O/guide-to-using-the-3m-qualitative-fit-test-kits.pdf

If anyone knows of a resources for these kits information would be greatly appreciated throughout the healthcare community.
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https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing-source-data

The key metric is tests/confirmed case.

When I've looked, this is very predictive of confirmed cases (2 weeks ago) per death.
I wonder if other salicylates would have the same effect, given the research showing that Bismuth inhibits SARS and the fact that Pepto Bismol is bismuth subsalicylate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6193909_Bismuth_Com...
Thanks for the tip! Both Rhasspy and PicoVoice look great. Anyone can recommend a microphone array that works with the raspberry pi?
According to the Medcram youtube series, NSAIDs in general are known to impair virus replication, but also impair immune function. What is the net result? That is less clear. Many believe that aspirin had a negative effect during the 1918 flu epidemic though.

Video link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT6mHi_8V5E
NHS certainly don't need a central IT system but there are massive gains to be made inside health boards. My wife works in the NHS and the fragmented nature of a lot of the data makes their work incredibly inefficient.
> In light of the current public health emergency, The New York Times Company is providing this database under the following free-of-cost, perpetual, non-exclusive license. Anyone may copy, distribute, and display the database, or any part thereof, and make derivative works based on it, provided (a) any such use is for non-commercial purposes only and (b) credit is given to The New York Times in any public display of the database, in any publication derived in part or in full from the database, and in any other public use of the data contained in or derived from the database.

How is this form of license valid for what's essentially just numbers from publicly available data? Do I get to take numbers from various sources and then require credit and that nobody can use them for commercial purposes?
I've been treated by urgent care for an anaphylactic reaction and a major cut on the hand. They definitely can and will treat and triage something seemingly as mild as flu like symptoms, if you have insurance.

Given the situation, urgent care clinics should be allowed to bill Medicaid or a similar program for treating uninsured people with covid19 symptoms. Sometimes, they are the only general medical care available.

The question I have is if hospitals are unprepared for the surge of covid19 cases, how much can most urgent care clinics do, since they are by design much leaner operations. The whole point of them is low cost, low overhead emergency care.
Is there actual good data on aspirin/NSAIDs? Because what I've read was a theory communicated in a letter to the Lancet, and the actual data might suggest the opposite.
One thing i thought of and wanted to test: what if you yourself don't do any internet queries but someone on the same network as you does? I've had conversations with people, one time we were talking about a concert venue which i did not look up, but i did start to receive ads for that concert venue. It creeped me out initially, but I believe the other person on the same home network was googling or looking for information on that venue on their phone. I believe we were just associated together for advertisement purposes.
The dispute between object-oriented and function-oriented
I hadn't heard about this, but that's fairly baffling. According to Johns Hopkins [1], Taiwan has ~300 confirmed cases at a population of 23M+. I'm not sure how accurate nor reliable the numbers are, but if anywhere near true, that's a herculean effort with great results. Of course, the measures outlined in the article you linked didn't come out of thin air, but are the result of massive cooperation and work.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
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Is that odd?

I think of teaching something as a separate skill. As you say, teaching is about helping a student where they are. Mastering topic X doesn't convey knowledge of how students A, B, and C each relate to topic X.
Well JS simulate 6502 with canvas ...
(Paraphrasing because of my limited understanding of what my wife did)

The biological pathway that makes them eat plastic is pretty card to keep activated. It's not a very profitable pathway, so the bugs tend to try eating other stuff if there is even a little available, or they are even a little outside the optimal range for eating plastic.
Look with suspicion on any in vitro data. There are so many differences between in vitro and a living organism. Nevermind the fact that in vitro tests usually use concentrations that would never be achieved in the body, a fact usually lost on the public. I’d definitely lean towards the “aspirin is bad with Coronavirus” camp on this one.

Source: Myself, a former tester of in vitro effects.
I don't like it when people make these sort of link-dropping comments, so this is a bit hypocritical of me, but take a look at https://qntm.org/abolish
Wait, which countries are we referencing outside of those three?

Thailand looks straightforwardly exponential so far and has fairly heavy mask use, agreed. But Singapore, Taiwan, and arguably Malaysia seem too early to call: they're still plausibly on either of a European curve or South Korea's ramp-then-flatline.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, and Burma all seem to be below the line for meaningful data. And Hong Kong isn't broken out. So I guess my questions are: do Indonesia and the Philipines have "mask cultures" to a level comparable to South Korea and Japan, and are their testing regimes wide enough to rely on those curves?

I don't know the answer to that. And I agree that the "masks work" graph/meme circulating is questionable. But unless I'm missing something/somewhere, this data just looks like "too soon to call"?
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https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

The NYT spent more effort patting themselves on the back than they did compiling the data.
I don't agree. Nobody of the readers would care about the programming error made 25 years ago in some closed source code.

However, timers wrapping around is a very current problem every programmer should be aware of. Not too long ago we had a problem with corrupted video files. After weeks of investigation it turned out that some code used an 32 bit unsigned to count microseconds. Well, that wraps around after approx. 1 h 10 min... Obviously most test cases were videos shorter than that.
> If the majority of people knew, the current system would collapse and be replaced by something better.

Such as what?
Android doesn't listen. You can check by yourself using adb logcat
That experiment is meaningless my friend. Aside from it not being applicable, ads are only a fraction of the issue.
It's very odd for me to conciliate that you work on a big enough company to have red tape and that you are worried about accidental renew of nine dollars per year.

Do you think a one-time license with the price of $1,000 would be an easier sell within your company?
Becoming a master of the mute button is, in my book, the modern remote equivalent of knowing how to use Excel or Salesforce.
Stripe increasing settlement time to 14 days for some industries
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<rant>

The problem is not people writing buggy software or them crashing. At least for me problem is we keep on reinventing the wheel, without corresponding increase in productivity. I don't see people cranking s/w better or faster then they did with Delphi in 1998. Instead of standing on shoulders of the giants we disrespect them, our whole industry is built on abusing all the hardware and technology gains for frivolous wars and gains.

</rant>
The big thing I can think of is assisting the patient with breathing when needed, yet allowing the patient to still breathe naturally when they can. Things like not forcing air in when the patient is trying to exhale, or removing air when the patient is manually drawing in a breath..
Software is just numbers too.
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Evasive.tech Daily web artoworks in quarantine times
That was the best I had also found, but it is not of decent quality to me. sources seem to be quite out of date and often based on news articles, not actual daily data.
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You're saying companies exist to make money but an isolated factoid like that doesn't make for a productive discussion. Lean manufacturing may be good for individual corporations but it's clearly bad for society and society needs to continue existing for corporations to exist.
What are the wildest challenges you’re aware of here?
I don't think syntax is the big limitation here; it's library and behavior design.

The One Language concept could still be considered to be accomplished by a language with two syntaxes provided they have a low friction to interoperability.
This reminds me of codeq, a clojure+datomic project that intended to move source control from lines of text to functions and expressions. From their introduction [0]:

Backstory

Programmer Sally: "So, what are you going to do today Bob?"
Programmer Bob: "I'm not happy with the file baz.clj residing in my/ns. So I'm going to go to line 96 and change 2 to 42. I've been thinking about deleting line 124. If I have time, I'm also going to insert some text I've been working on at line 64."
Programmer Sally: (what's wrong with Bob?)

Short Story

codeq ( 'co-deck') is a little application that imports your Git repositories into a Datomic database, then performs language-aware analysis on them, extending the Git model down from the file to the code quantum (codeq) level, and up across repos. By doing so, codeq allows you to:
- Track change at the program unit level (e.g. function and method definitions)
- Query your programs and libraries declaratively, with the same cognitive units and names you use while programming
- Query across repos

I never got to use it, though, and it seems that there have been no more updates in the repo [1] since 6 years ago.

[0] https://blog.datomic.com/2012/10/codeq.html
[1] https://github.com/Datomic/codeq
Your personal data is also just numbers. But it does seem weird. These numbers are already only authoritatively available from the government health services, right? The New York Times doesn't own the data either, if it's public it's public, they're providing a convenience. It's actually pretty analagous to news: they don't own the fact that an event happened, but they own their wording and they provide a service in getting that wording to you.

edit: Yeah, "Over months, our journalists have recorded the details on newly confirmed cases as reported by state and local officials." It's all government, just aggregated by NYT instead of the federal government.
> As quarantined millions gather virtually on conferencing platforms, the best of those, Zoom, is doing very well.

Why would Zoom care about their privacy issues if they're doing so well off? Seems like that's a good amount of positive reinforcement that their current approach is the right one to them. Maybe they'll lose a few thousand customers because of it, but given what I'm sure was a huge increase in the past few weeks, why would it be something they're concerned about?
Vulnerable world, meet modern academics.
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CS472 Data science and AI for Covid-19
Hah. The $9 license fee is something I worry about _personally_.

If I can put this on my AMEX (which is where the red tape comes in), it's a no-brainer. It's an even bigger no-brainer if my team finds it interesting and I can do `$9 * TEAM_SIZE`.
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That's a good thought. The next step is going in reverse, selecting the best referenced material and auto generating a quality non-fiction book from it. That's my dream.
World Offline Day
In Jitsi there's a cool push to talk feature where you hold down the space bar to unmute and when you let go it mutes again.
"There's probably more people who see a successful product in a space (thus social proofing the brand) and want to pay to use it than those who will actually pull their finger out and build a competitor."

Of course there are, in fact I drove a few customers to them based on this post! Never heard of the service before and it looks interesting in the right setting.

However, it only takes 1 or 2 determined competitive efforts to start taxing your saas business even in small ways that only make life harder. Is showing your hand worth the trade-offs? That's up to each individual to answer. I know entrepreneurs / developers sitting on both sides of this table - doing the copying and being copied. Way of the road.
> Nevermind the fact that in vitro tests usually use concentrations that would never be achieved in the body, a fact usually lost on the public.

But the reason large doses are used in vitro is because it's easier to show that a chemical actually inhibits viral replication if you can slow down replication by 99.9%. But in real life, you might only need to slow down replication by 10% or whatever to meaningfully improve clinical outcomes.
Given how contagious it is and how much faster information moves today, that is highly unlikely.
> Yeah, the team sharing stuff (kinda like 1Password vaults) would make this an absolute buy for my team

I admit it would be useful on my team too, I'll have a think about the best way to implement it.

>Either way, I've submitted this for a security review

I appreciate it, thanks!
According to https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441, the aspirin doses that were used in 1918 (8.0 - 31.2 g/day) were much higher than what people normally take today (usually a max of 3.6g or so).
Or even a less radical step: guaranteeing healthcare for all citizens so it's not tied to employment at a large company.
"Just numbers" well not quite. They are data which can be interpreted as information. This is like saying books are just a collection of letters.

This link may be informative and provide a US context. Sorry I don't have a more content specific reference.

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/63139/public-da...
their home page has gone all errory.

Error establishing a database connection
Silicon Valley Is Saving Us–For Now
> I've been treated by urgent care for an anaphylactic reaction and a major cut on the hand.

Good to know. How major was the cut?
Mobile app developers need to gather install/purchase data so they can optimize user acquisition spend. Most are not using PII so I don’t see any problem.
The article implies that this microbe was found in the wild, rather than engineered in a laboratory. The paper confirms it - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.0040...

Bacteria that eats nylon was first found in the wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria

With this in mind, it may be worth considering that plastic-eating bacteria that currently exist in the wild do not appear to present any significant threat of a catastrophic event. I'm sure it's just an oversight on my part, but can you help me understand why this newly identified strain would pose a threat?
Pricing table doesn’t render right on iPhone 11 safari (although I have a pi-hole so may be related.)

I like the idea of the product but I don’t like the name. It’s hard to remember and it has ai in the name which makes it seem related to artificial intelligence.
The discussions in these threads are just so demonstrative of the erosion of trust that now exists between the lay people and the experts of society, and even amongst experts themselves.

Fake news, profit motives, political expediency, political correctness, and so many other social factors have made this a real CF for anyone trying to make sense of this and genuinely do the right thing.

I am sorry if I don't have anything positive to contribute, I'm just so disappointed in the state of affairs right now and how selfish forces have coopted the means of causing positive, effective action.
If you are in the EU contact the government agency which handles GDPR complaints.
While these are all correct and proper, everyone I know is on first terms with it and so we all call the virus and the disease Corona.