skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are in contact with infections substances all day every day you need 99.99999% (I'm pulling this figure outta my ass, but you get the picture) protection. To bring R0 below 1 you need 75% protection. That's why we saw advice like "just wash your hands" - ultimately inadequate, but it wasn't apriori silly.
Well, the problem isn't that the bootcamp people lack a computer science education, it's that they lack any formal education. I've hired epistemologists and physicians to program computers and it turned out fine. The bootcamp process might in fact work well as training for otherwise educated people.
> Plus I said "And if YOU are infected you should not be out anyway"

The point you're missing there is that some people are asymptomatic. They don't know they're infected.
> US DoHS Keeping Track On World travelers movements, potentially leaking data when visiting the US.

Even with you changes it still looks easy to tweak or turn into click bate. "Potentially" is a weasel-word, because even safe things could potentially go wrong.

"Every time you fart you spread germs, potentially infecting everyone in the room around you with cholera or other diseases"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
As far as I can understand, the point of layoffs vs. reducing hours/etc. is so that the person losing their job can apply for unemployment benefits. In Vancouver, for example, I have a number of friends who work as fitness instructors and have been impacted by layoffs.

For these people, however, they will be hired back by these studios immediately once the studios reopen. In the meantime, they are able to get EI benefits from the government.

It is great to see businesses like Starbucks commit to paying their staff without revenue during these times but this is untenable for some of the most impacted industries. Most restaurants, fitness studios, etc. that I come across locally operate on very precarious balance sheets where a single crisis will make the wheels fall off. Though fortunately, the government is also working on programs to help these businesses weather the storm.

As it relates directly to the article for those businesses that continue to operate during COVID-19 and struggle to decide whether to trim the fat. I worked at a company during my career that was working on a Series A raise which took about 2x longer than expect (as they do). The end of the runway was looming and the executive team made an offer to the entire team: anybody who is willing to forego a paycheque right now will get a xx% bonus once the raise completes. Many team members took this option (surprisingly based on the statistics of how many people live paycheque-to-paycheque) and it allowed the business to continue at full headcount until we finally closed the round.
For anyone further curious, this is how python's `mock` module works - structured application and removal of monkeypatches.
> That experience made me add an interview question later asking the candidate if they played any team sports in high school or college.

Surely this isn’t a requirement...!
It's at GitHub too: https://github.com/debiki/talkyard

(What OS do you use? Sometimes the website won't load in iPhone, although works for me in my iPhone 7)
Last time this came up the options were the Mozilla TTS service or do it locally with tensorflow lite and DeepSpeech.
Thanks for the links. Will dig in more.

I'm looking to build a forum/discussion for a non-technical audience with some of the policies that HN has implemented well... community will be non-monetized, but it'll be connected to a separate, sponsoring monetization channel.

I've not actually spent a lot of time on a Discourse forum, but have liked some of the plug-ins they support, and the wiki topic element, the ability to theme it, and the ability to limit or lock categories based on karma and groups. FYI on where I'm coming from.
> Your second point I disagree with; I think if people raise objections, encourage people to switch, and volunteer to shepherd others through the technical details -- then people will be agreeable, and we'll see a shift which will gradually become pervasive.

This doesn't square with any experience I've ever had trying to get $alternative_technology adopted because of $principle in favor of $default_thing, and from what I've gleaned talking to others, and reading the experiences of others online, the problem isn't me.

Maybe post Cambridge Analytica the world has changed -- I at least don't get looked at like I have three heads when I tell people I'm not on Facebook anymore -- but if folks are still responding to complaints about privacy issues like this with what amounts to "meh, don't have the energy" then I'm skeptical. If zoom becomes "the standard," I don't think the inertia will be much easier to overcome.
If this works effectively I think it's a valuable choice to offer to autistic people - whether they choose to use it or not is totally valid of course. Often what people with disabilities are forced to do is choose an imperfect "accommodation", or choose to not participate in something at all, since it is not an option to instantly convert our society to a more compassionate, understanding, and fair place.

I agree with you that the real thing here is that we should accept all people regardless of how they view/prioritize our emotions and meet each other where we all are. But until we are all in that same agreement, I'm all for tools that provide increased agency/information to people who want to use those tools.
I'm happy to hear that. Ethics is oft-neglected, but I believe it's imperative that we guide our efforts using it.
I created quarantchat.com, to randomly connect quarantined people
That's why they wouldn't have been able to do anything for him. They don't have the means to intubate him. They only handle minor physical injuries, x-rays, vaccines, and things treatable by routine prescriptions.
> Europe and USA don't understand how exponent works.

Oh, they know how exponents work. They only care when it affects their bottom line. It's clear that the working class are just lambs for slaughter when the corporate overlords look at them.
You can also build the docker image locally to get consistent dev setups. In the end, you will need to pull things from the internet to install, whether in docker or on the host. The consistency is huge. I've seen this prevent a lot of mishap from incorrect versions being around.
Reminds me of the barely visible yellow tracking dots that some color inkjets produce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
That’s how it works in most countries. People with more money can buy better treatment.
This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds. This is tracking signals that an optional device optionally broadcasts (and has for years). You can easily avoid this tracking by not having your phone broadcast bluetooth or by not carrying a phone.

Not to mention any number of actors could have already been tracking this signal for years. It's the nature of how bluetooth devices broadcast their presence.
So you said:

> Sign up with an email address to read all of the articles on this page.

I said I tend not to sign up for things, and your response is:

> Do you actually do everything that websites tell you on the Internet without thinking for yourself? You can read the article without attaching an e-mail. Gosh!

I was replying to what you said. If you choose to be misleading, don't then accuse me of not thinking.
Great points. I know people in there 40s and 50s who are still lost.

I had one friend who started uni and decided they did not know what they wanted, worked at a hotel for 4 years and then went back.

I also have known many many people who struggled for direction in the 18 -24 year range. Many joined the military for a few years, and most, not all, like 85%, had a good handle on life. Several have been very successful.
What's your point? We're talking about a hypothetical.
Seems to be getting HN hug of death, but my tips:

Plantronics Blackwire headsets don't cost much and the noise cancellation of background noise on the microphone is superb. Your colleagues will thank you for it. I don't need noise cancellation on the headphones myself, but getting something with a decent noise cancelling mic will make life more pleasant for others, so do invest.

One place I worked a few years back was almost entirely remote before it was fashionable, and the #remote channel in Slack had a topic of something like "Wires are great. Trust me: wires" or similar.

I have come to agree - WiFi is more a packet loss protocol than it is a networking protocol, especially in built-up areas with neighbours networks, microwave ovens and other disturbances. An ethernet powerline extender giving me effectively ethernet from my Mac mini to my DSL router might be the best investment I've ever made for home working.

Bluetooth is possibly the same: being wireless might look like you're from the future, but nothing beats wired headsets, keyboards and mice, period.

Zoom, WebEx, Google Hangouts, etc. all have preferences and settings. Learn them and get used to them, and learn shortcuts. For example some people still aren't aware you can stay on mute in zoom and just hit the spacebar when you want to talk. This is great when you're not presenting.

Lastly, dedicated webcams are worth it _unless_ you're on an iPad Pro. I think you'd have to spend hundreds to get a webcam as good as the front facing camera on an iPad Pro. Otherwise, a decent Logitech camera can make you look less tired - trust me! :-)
What Tomas Pueyo did is create a massively viral piece of content that, regardless of accuracy, encouraged the right actions. In doing so he saved at least thousands of lives. So forgive me for not caring how robust his analyses are.
I agree this is bad, but I don't understand why it is. Not an iOS developer but I was under the impression apps can run in the background to maintain Bluetooth connections.

Assuming Apple's policies are in fact preventing them from running in the background, does Apple have a mechanism to grant them an exception for this use case? Does someone have a contact at Apple who could reach out to them?
Hi, we licence Photopea to them. They provide it to their customers, together with the access to their stock photos and other features.
Are you still using kafka? Does Kinesis Firehose read from Kafka?
> Feel free to post to Medium what you find as long as you are clear it is a learning exercise. You don't want to actively mislead or be used as a prop for others to mislead especially during this time of crisis.

Some people can profit from this. Hence, the incentive.
> Time to move on, C was already outdated in the mid-90,

Objectively false, given the consistent popularity of C.

Plus, of course, the bad things about C are also bad about C++, in that C++ is more similar to C than different from it.
Source please. I don't appreciate my govt behaving this way but I am also skeptical.
Sync: New internal semaphore based on intrusive lists
This is very similar to https://CheckForCorona.com

The team at Luminare (https://luminaremed.com) has been working with epidemiologists and doctors from Harris County and the City of Houston to build out a screening tool to help prioritize public testing. We are doing about ~10k screenings per day and ready to ramp up as more testing becomes available: https://checkforcorona.com/harris-county

We are providing this tool free for any hospital or public health organization that needs it. Please reach out if you have any connections!
Since you will never have any way to seriously lern if that question works you can just as well ask in an interview if the candidate ever wanted to be a panda. I think people who wanted to be pandas are lazy and shouldn‘t be trusted.
Says you, and probably me, but not the VP for the last event I participated in, which had hundreds of participants across the globe.

Instead the project coordinator used a Chrome plugin to rotate the various dashboards, which were used, if not optimal, for the event.

This tool serves a purpose, and if it does it better than the Chrome plugins that are out there, it'll could provide a lift.
Stop coronavirus related scamming together
Blood plasma from survivors will be given to coronavirus patients
I wish the privacy policy linked to a site-specific one, not the generic /legal/privacy.

Perhaps they couldn't get lawyers in time.

Edit: oh, if you start screening there is a site-specific one if you click "Learn more" next to "Your answers will not be shared with Apple or the CDC without your permission."?

https://www.apple.com/covid19/
That's assuming that there is a culture of going to the hospital when you have bad flu conditions. It's safe to assume that for the vast majority of laborers in third-world countries, hospital services are not within reach. They just tough it out at home.
??? you don’t need to commit software upstream to use it, audit it, or publish obvious vulnerabilities and improvements. Right now consumers have a feudal arrangement with Apple: accept the software at any conditions or not have land on which to work.
Too slow for daily use, and not really worth it if you're just trying to keep your ISP or other low-effort groups from annihilating your privacy.
Have you heard of FB/IG?

So not really worth considering, image sharing requires network effect, and that exists already. Why go where no one is? Who am I going to share with? Why am I hanging out in a ghost town?
Show HN: Zoom Roulette
Curated list of the highest quality* peer reviewed medical research on Covid-19
Cynical for sure, don't know about that "needlessly" given it's an endless fight where everytime you give up a right it's taken away forever. This time they give you the opensource bit, next time it's "a matter of emergency", then they stop asking and just punish you if you don't comply.

>Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? If so, I'm not sure what to tell you.

I have never said that so I am not sure what to tell you. The only method that works is quarantine, remote control is a copout to address the lack of contact with the population. Moreover, what I am addressing is how the tracking is NEVER going to go away even after the emergency is gone.

> Israel's approach for example

On this topic, Israel tech companies are right now sending out business proposals to the Italian government to try and implement their methods (viz. https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/primopiano/coronavirus_z... last thing Europe needs during this crysis is ANOTHER political mindset shift towards walls and a iron boot.
They are probably as dangerous as silverfish to your book collection.
The paid version has a feature where the organization admins can listen and watch in conversations without anybody noticing or giving consent. I am quite sure that doing so would be illegal where I live (Germany).
Here's something really stunning:
Through publicity, diplomacy and propaganda, China was able to change its image of the perceived source of Corona Virus to the savior of Europe. China is stepping in with help to Italy where the EU is failing (Germany banned export of med devices, including masks, to Italy). China's winning big time in Europe... on social media, everything. Read the journals Foreign Policy and TheDiplomat.

Thanks for bringing this up.
For one, Teams doesn't include dial-in/dial-out, that's another $1.50 per month per line (still cheaper than Zoom if you have Office 365 already).

But another, more important one is: the last time we tried using Teams/S4B meetings, if you are contacting a client where they are in a different Office 365 tenant, and the security settings are turned up on their tenant to not allow logging in as a "guest" to other tenants, they can't join your meeting. (or at least, not without launching an incognito window and reopening the meeting link) Azure AD tries to login as their user account, fails because they aren't allowed, and leaves them on an error message screen without any way for the meeting host to troubleshoot. Zoom, since it's out of band of anything that IT usually touches (unless you turn on the "only allow people in my organization to join this meeting" function), won't have this issue since the outsider will automatically be offered the choice of logging into a Zoom account or just giving a name for this conversation (as far as I've seen).

It's one of those scenarios where Microsoft being so entrenched in the environment actually lessens productivity. You can argue that people shouldn't be blocked from joining outside meetings, or that shadow IT is evil and should never be encouraged, but when security steps in the way of productivity, shadow IT usually naturally results, as so many SaaS vendors (Zoom, Basecamp, Dropbox) rely upon. Zoom acts like malware (to a degree) by installing to user-only directories and working around corporate security to make it easier for the end user to use the product. At a big company, approval for a video conferencing system could take months of PoCs, vendor meetings, implementation, and so on. But if you can just say "Join my Zoom meeting! It takes a minute! It integrates with Outlook so we don't have to even go to another website! And it's cheap!", then all of the corporate BS is cut through, and by time IT finds out, half the company is using it and they'll start paying for it so the enterprise stuff works (i.e. SSO).

(Basecamp is another good example of this. It gets tons of adoption by running in a browser window and only costing $99 per month for unlimited users, so it fits on a manager's expense account and user onboarding is super simple from there. and it's really easy to use.)
Look at the 'worldometers' that someone else posted. You will see sloping lines there. You can judge for yourself when it has actually hit.

Because of a lack of ICU facilities, governments are hoping to push the critical point out as far as possible.
Interesting! I'll have to revisit my comparison I made a while ago, it's possible I read the results wrong and came away with the wrong conclusion. Thanks!
"Definitely experienced the stigma of wearing one in public"

People can be deeply illogical when it comes to personal protection. I did a summer stint during college with a factory, assembling some part of an air conditioner system for cars. This was done with huge, incredibly loud machines. Fiberglass. Etc.

The company offered ear plugs, eye protection and masks. No one used them. There was a 0% utilization rate. It was bizarre. I did, however, and earned snarky comments, critical suggestions, and lots of sideways glances. People really seemed to feel that my concern for myself made the threats more real.

I'd like to say that when I left everyone had followed the path I blazed, but it was the same as it always was. People still sabotaged their own health and hearing to avoid looking "paranoid".
As I understand it... the reason they think they need to have the Lysine is that it it makes the body absorb it better. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
Chinese security guards use smart glasses to find people with coronavirus
The implication is that they would have more if they were not open source, not that open source software is bug free. How could you interpret it like that in good faith? You can’t.
>In the last 14 days, have you traveled internationally?

It is strange that this is still one of the screening questions considering the US now has more confirmed cases than anywhere else in the world. You would very likely have less exposure to the virus in Beijing than you would in New York City.
> Haskell is full of these little decisions where it just won't let you do something because it's not "correct" code, and they kind of don't care if that makes coding in it a fight against the compiler.

They care more about predicability and compositionality than about a novice's struggles. Professional programmers should prioritise those things. Certainly you can not care about those things for personal projects.

That said, Haskell could of course use plenty of ergonomic improvements, but the ones you describe are not among them.
> I currently get the distinct impression that polymer-digesting microbes are not currently considered dangerous, with the current impacts being negligible.

Well, you've just answered it. I would like to know the scientific rationale for this or an opposing belief. I currently have no opinion on the matter because I haven't read any material to think about in any way other than "these things exist".
>I think we saw a rise of the easy, anything-goes, screw-performance scripting languages. I think the next fashion seems to be in enforcing "correct" coding style. They all have their place.

Having freedom to do what you want is great. Even if you shoot yourself in the foot, you learn your lesson and become a better developer. But as you work with increasing numbers of people, many making the same mistakes you have made, and especially as you end up having to fix their mistakes, you begin to look for a tool that takes away their ability to shoot themselves in the foot. That was one appeal of Rust when I was learning it. It is a pain to fight the compiler over memory, especially coming from a garbage collected background, but it both protected me from myself and protected me from others. At a certain point, at least on large enough group projects, the benefits of that protection outweigh the costs.
Anyone know where we can get county level data of bed capacity?
If the death rate were within 5x of the flu, and if the death rate did not increase dramatically when our medical system is overloaded, a hard lockdown would probably be a mistake.

It's not 5x, and it does increase dramatically, though.
Rock climbing and mountain climbing is the only team sport I know where you have trust your life to your team members.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. By delaying the response they made their bottom line sink exponentially deeper.
If you want an example of how to do that good, I find this the best:

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

as a simpler start, see the logarithmic chart here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

Note how easy is to estimate the time frame in which the next factor of 10 could be reached with the growth that continues.

Compare with the logarithmic chart of China:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

Search for the date since when they had their measures applied in Wuhan. Then follow how long it took for them to be visible in the chart. Then mark on the US chart when the measures started. Compare. Also mark the day of the following quote: "And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away."

One can learn really a lot just from the data.
Would Wikipedia not be the best place to do this (an objective evaluation of the literature)? With links deep linking into the book with Open Library (and Internet Archive initiative)?
This. Also, nobody ever talks about double masking. You know, if you've got no N95, then put on two surgical masks (each facing the other way). If you don't have surgical marks, wear two cloth masks and wash them with antiseptic solution daily.
I saw the abstract, and ever since I've been wondering about whether that Bismuth paper includes bismuth subsalicylate as well as citrate, or whether chugging a bottle of Pepto Bismol a day would be a mistake equivalent to aquarium cleaner guy.

On the other hand, if it's the glycine that causes most of the effect, that's a cheap nutritional supplement.
CDC: Seasonal Flu Activity Slowing
boring, not much to this. I suppose another avenue to access the same information (how many hundreds of sites telling ppl to social distance for weeks) is fine but the assessment tool is what, a Q&A form using same path as gov sites are already using in Canada, UK etc...open sourced forms too

Shrug apple marketing.
Sorry, I missed a zero. It's 0.012% - but over two weeks, instead of over a year. So, the 30x number is correct... But not the 0.12% one.