skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there an argument that either NY should have had 40k ventilators on hand, or that they aren't in urgent need? This seems like literally the #1 option for deploying these right now to NY state.

Your argument sounds like "states should prepare, but when they are unable to because of the scale, and have an urgent need, that is the only time when the federal stockpile should be utilized". Given that NY can't procure more because every state and the feds are bidding against them... isn't that why the federal stockpile exists?
> it’s more about an argument with NY state vs federal.

For now. Give it 3 days, a week at most.
Not sure if you’re joking or trolling, but for example ‘remote control car’, ‘remote control helicopter’, ‘remote control boat’, ‘remote control bomb disposal robot.’ The handset you use to control them is itself called the ‘remote control.’ That's what they mean.
I think that one issue is that there is a significant difference in the ability of a corporation to shop around for favorable differences compared to an individual or small business.
Thank you for that summary! ^^
That sounds like a great environment to work with. I will definitely keep a look on flutter.
We have recent data from Wuhan.

We have old data from 1918.

This is a white swan, not a black one.

More importantly, the mortality, while much higher than flu, it's still relatively low.

Now imagine a virus as contagious as this one, but with 10% mortality over all age groups. That would be unprecedented and probably cause society meltdown.
A Tiny Epidemiological Simulator in Go
> 2. Motivated reasoning is rampant.

This is an important point. Scientific scrutiny is extremely important, but there is still a difference between a judge that is stern but fair - and one that actively wants you to fail.

Motivated reasoners have no problems holding opposing parties to impossibly high standards while accepting claims without any evidence as valid arguments for their side.

Today, climate scientists have learned the lessons and improved communication and modeling considerably, even to the point where we now how "attribution science" we we can discuss climate change in the context of particular weather events. We also start seeing changes in weather patterns that are hard to ignore even for laymen.

Nevertheless we are still having the same discussions as before.
I keep this distinction in mind:

- Models are deliberate simplifications of reality, in order to guide thinking and otherwise pull in only important information

- Formulations (formalizations) are encapsulation of principles into a mathematical framework

While there is significant overlap, the two categories do not overlap 100%. I see formalizations of physics as the latter, and we use the former to help keep our understanding of the latter clear.
Virus vices take a toll on Americans
I read the parent as saying "sales tax is incident on the consumer" which is mostly true, and not refuted by anything you posted. Why do you think sales tax can't be incident on the consumer as you imply here:

>There is no framework in which "sales tax is paid by the consumer" is true.
This, plus I also said "Maybe I'm just irrational".
It's pointless partisan "gotcha" posturing from the press and nothing more. Anyone with half a brain understood Kushner perfectly well: this is the emergency stockpile to prevent hoarding "for the future" by states. Resources are delivered to individual states at a short notice after they tally up how much of the already allocated resources they are already using, to make sure e.g. thousands of ventilators don't sit in some NJ warehouse for days while at the same time CNN is telling everyone there aren't enough of them.
Are there distinct events in the real world or we simply draw the lines arbitrarily simply for the sake of practicality? The whole existence could be the light of a match, experienced in an immensely detailed spacetime scale.
I've been clearing land all day and bought 50lbs of buckwheat. I intend to try sowing/harvesting by hand. I will use this mostly for breads and pastries. This is something of an experiment.

Building skills, I'm almost finished a chicken coop. I made a dry stone arch bridge but it failed because the frame sank, I will try again. I am learning carving to make wooden animal toys for my child, who will be born in July (I have made a bear and a fox, soon an elephant, but they still need to be sanded). I would like to learn timber framing and make a small cabin on the land but it may be too expensive, now.

I'm trying to make an animated village for my site background with HTML Canvas, and originally I was making it procedurally, but its too ugly, so I will have to learn some digital illustration until it's beautiful.
Just that the shorter names make for a more concise presentation, which in turn is quicker to scan than having to see and parse all the long names to reach the same conclusion.
My experience with data is: you never get good data. Always, the closer you look at it the more problems you find in how it was collected.
That's of course a completely sensible stance, but what's the current standing protocol, or it's just what Trump feels at the moment?
Buildbox for game development.
Well spoken mate. Let me think hard and try to be more specific.
To me, the headline reads like it's saying "this probably won't work" rather than "we don't yet have enough evidence to say that this works." If I had to headline this article, I probably would have written something like "Hydroxychloroquine data still inconclusive, don't get your hopes up yet" to better convey the meaning.

From reading it, what the article actually supports is that we have seen two trials that are inconclusive. This is the meat of it in my view -

==

A French study of HCQ suggested that it had was effective in decreasing the viral load from nasal secretions. When azithromycin was added the magnitude of the effect was larger.

[...]

And a Chinese study of 30 patients doesn't prove that HCQ worked. Or that it doesn't. But the two groups, control and treated, showed no difference in the amount of virus in the throat on day seven, the length of time for the fever to go away. There was an apparent difference in the progression of the infection (determined by x-ray), in the two groups but this means little since 5/15 treated patients got worse vs. 7/15 in the control group. This effect could easily be by chance and nothing to do to the drug. Furthermore, this trial did not include azithromycin, so it cannot be compared to the French trial.
I could certainly believe that "similar" molecules behave alike, but it would be a cheap belief, like e.g. some of my friends believe in psychics. There would be no discovery, just a pseudo-scientific bullying.
http://archive.is/Jk1SZ
I'm not sure where it can possibly be more needed than in NYC at this point. Or do blue states not count?
A little off the beaten path:

https://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/entrance.html

This is an archived copy of a Library of Congress online exhibit from around '93 or so. There's a shoutout marca@ncsa in there, etc. I think there's a very decent chance this was the first 'virtual museum/exhibit' type thing on the web.
How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe
True it does. Maybe it’s useful as a final tool to encourage break up such as now, when whatever tools were meant to be discouraging consolidation fails. Saves years of hearings and court battles trying to use legal means to do it. Still need to strong regulatory oversight to prevent anti competitive behavior and killer acquisitions etc.
Epidemic Modeling 102: All Covid-19 models are wrong, but some are useful
HN can be hostile against Dart and Flutter (and Java, C# and other non-hipster languages), but there is no technical reason for it. JavaScript is a mediocre tool for software development, but for some reason people think they will be using it until the end of times.

If Flutter works for you, keep using it. It is open source (!= Google service), it is productive, and there are no signs that Google is abandoning it; on the contrary, it seems that more efforts are put behind: Dart language and tooling improved a lot since 2.0 (+ non-nullable types coming soon), Flutter getting support for Web, Mac and potentially other platforms...
The Koala Challenge: A new challenge is born
Just replace Eastasia with Centralasia and it feels about right by now.
It isn't "too hard" for me; it's just one of my irrational personal preferences. I don't claim that my solution is more efficient; I just don't like typing a leading comma and I think this "feels" more pleasant for me, and perhaps a few others.
favipiravir is alot cheaper to synthesize and is used as a drop in replacement for remdesivir all over asia...

Good things to have on hand during this covid-19 pandemic (because you can't rely on hospitals to give it to you) are:

1) hydroxychloroquine sulfate taken orally 400 mg per day for a week ($180/kg on alibaba)

2) azithromycin taken orally 500 mg per day for a week ($150/kg on alibaba)

3) Camostat mesilate taking orally 200 mg three times a day for a week [1] ($50/g on alibaba)

4) favipiravir one dose of 1600mg two times on the first day, and then 600mg twice per day after that for a week [2]. ($40/g on alibaba)

5) covid-19 rapid test kits that use blood antibody tests and produce results between 3 to 10 minutes and cost about $1.50 per kit [3] .... although it looks like in the last week or so Alibaba has been blocking searches for these kits for some reason... although the search below does work but you have to look at the suppliers to find the ones that are actually selling it.

all this stuff can be bought on Alibaba and delivered in a week

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04321096

[2] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/anti-flu-drug-effe...

[3] https://m.alibaba.com/products/covid-19_rapid_test_kit.html
More like some states only, like Florida. The Governor of Florida, if I might point out, had been declining calling for a lockdown/quarantine well into need, but Florida still has a much less sever case than NY, which has been asking for aid for weeks along with other states.

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...
Does anyone know some similarly good source on food science? This is interesting.
Affectn. Your smart dating assistant
When businesses give me an itemized bill, wherein I'm required to pay the taxes you're insisting are theirs to pay, then it's me, the consumer, paying taxes. It's semantically true businesses are required to make those payments to the government, but they're coming directly out of my pocket.
Large companies are handling the fallout from the pandemic better than most other American institutions, and we would be a lot worse off dealing with the coronavirus pandemic if they had been broken up.

For example, most of the US population is currently under lockdown, most local businesses are closed, and households are dependent on delivery services for many products. A weak, broken-up set of former Amazon companies would have less capacity to provide such services, or even to survive.
One terminal (which has beamforming capability on both ends with hundreds of elements) can connect to multiple satellites with the same frequency band.
It would take a true psychopath triggered into spittling rage by my comments to figure out who my tenant is based upon what I have written.

I think the real issue here is some find the fact inconvenient that someone with asthma can be on full, never-working-again disability in the USA. This is a truth, and I haven't passed any judgement on whether it's good or bad. It simply is a fact that people such as this exist and live off society's tax dollars. You can pass your own judgement, I have no comment on whether it's positive or negative.
The NYT graphics team is one of, if not THE, best graphics teams in journalism. You need a significant amount of JavaScript to work on the team. Yes, the team does have designers, but there are many developers on the team, including Harris.

If you look at the Svelte repo, the project didn't appear overnight. The first commit dates to 2016, and since then there have been many contributers. Don't think Harris solely built the project to where it's been. He's had help.
My days right now are full of Chef, Terraform, Bash, etc. The coding I am doing is usually scripts and utilities. It's more about glue and automation vs actual product/feature dev.
You can politely ask Bose to disable Alexa the same way you can ask Facebook to "delete" your account. They disable the functionality you have access to while still collecting all the data they normally would and having remote access to turn on the microphone and listen in whenever they want without letting you know about it.
This. LogicApps it's a great low-coding tool that I enjoy as a developer.
This is talking about the "plodding" nature of the science done by Charles Darwin and his meticulous care to have experimental support for his theories. (not just the one in Origin of Species)
I agree. But who bears the responsibility for that immorality? The smallest single group with the power to actually rectify the situation is Congress.
CNN isn't telling people there aren't enough of them. The governor of New York is telling people there aren't enough of them.
Star Friends
The article is comically incomplete:

> The complicated part of this arrangement, if you want to have a go at building one yourself, is the enclosure.

> Consideration needs to be given to full weatherproofing and heaters need to be fitted inside the dome to keep it dew free.

> We’re going to simplify ours by dispensing with the enclosure completely.

They need to collaborate with some makers with a 3D printer.
Social distancing, of course. How do you think people get the flu?
Sales tax (and value-added-tax) is different from corporate income tax. CIT is due where the profit accrues. So the "tax shares" should be allocated upon the registration of the company to the corresponding state/municipality/country.
FCC, FTC Demand Gateway Providers Cut Off Covid-19 Robocall Scammers [pdf]
Not a state that can sway Republican, unlike Florida. [0]

[0] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/3/21206170/us-emergency-st...
Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Elsewhere (US). Why Is That?
I don’t think there’s value in doing this, unless the second opinion disagrees with the original model. It’s not hard to find a second “expert” to agree with just about anything, if you look hard enough.

The number of people who agree with something tells you, as a rational person, practically nothing - it reminds me of the absurd compilation argument “One Hundred Authors Against Einstein”: https://archive.org/details/HundertAutorenGegenEinstein/mode...

Einstein’s famous reply: “If I were wrong, then one would have been enough!”
The direction is purely philosophical. Things are changing from one state to the other. Even if it was backwards, you'd still convince yourself that it is the forward way. Things simply change.
The reference to the George Box quote in the title is what originally got my attention.
It’s funny, but when you point out that a bad analogy is actually pretty accurate if you actually know anything about the other concept, people don’t want to talk about it any more.

We all know that hill climbing algorithms are often naive and sometimes hilariously wrong. Nobody will disagree with you about this, until you start talking about prioritizing work, and then everyone vigorously defends their favorite hill climbing algorithm, from task management to performance tuning.

My preferred strategy for optimization more closely resembles how a fruit grower would pick fruit, and the term, “low-hanging fruit” galls me because you would go bankrupt using that strategy. And probably lose most of your trees to disease. It could be a quite good analogy, if the lessons taken from it weren’t just so childishly naive.
Python's typing package (mypy) uses indexing or square brackets for generics. Not sure if I find it confusing in complex situations.
I wonder how long it will take for this thread to be buried by people as eager to cover for the regime's ineptitude as Kushner is.
As the article mentions, there's 'real' programming languages made for configuration, that solve at least some of the issues outlined, like Dhall, Cue, Jsonnet. After using both approaches a number of times (a general purpose language vs. one of the three), I'm imploring anyone trying to give this a shot to _not_ use a general purpose language.

For instance: I'm mostly familiar with Jsonnet, which has guarantees that make it much easier to use than a Real Language: no arbitrary file loads (paths must be static), no side effects, no ambient state (like env vars or Internet). Relative imports make it very easy to drop in the language somewhere in a repo and not have to worry about venvs/PYTHONPATH/system libraries... The interpreter being a single binary and a thin C library also simplifies integration quite a bit, compared to interfacing with full-blown interpreter/compiler installations.

The downside is, of course, that you must learn a new language. But we're all pretty good at this (unless you're one of those people obsessed with using JS/npm everywhere for some inexplicable reason). Also Jsonnet still has the pedigree of being a superset of JSON, which is painful (ie. magical int/float number type). But the alternatives (Dhall, Cue) fix that, and also provide a vastly better type system.

I've been using Jsonnet in production for a couple of years (after leaving Google where I Saw The Light with BCL), and couldn't be happier. The infrastructure of the Warsaw Hackerspace (a production k8s cluster) is all brought up using Nix and Jsonnet and is open for all to inspect [1].

And yes. Let's please stop using JSON and YAML for everything. Even Python is better than yet another YAML templating tool.

[1] - https://gerrit.hackerspace.pl/plugins/gitiles/hscloud/+/refs...
Doctors and clinicians on front lines in NYC and greater NYC area say it's not helping at all, that they've by and large given up on using it.

So I could reply that right now I choose to believe these MDs and ARNPs on front lines rather than commenters on HN. But that's not helpful compared to research.

This one is a mess, and the tiny sampling of articles we have are not definitive.

// Disclaimer: Lived in Africa for a decade, took anti-malarials. These and others can be nasty for a lot of people, some folks have to hunt to find things that aren't worse than the occasional bout of malaria. In fact, while my family took them, I never found anything tolerable. Curiously, the rest of the family got malaria, I did not.
Csound: A sound and music computing system
I agree with some parts of the problem (those < > chars already have other uses), but not others (guillemets are even shorter and they read just fine). I don't care for the proposed solution: it's just robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Now people are proposing digraphs and trigraphs as alternatives. Have we learned nothing from C?

I'm annoyed that (even in 2020) every programming language restricts its syntax to ASCII characters (1967) which can be typed on an IBM Model F keyboard (1981). Unicode has dozens of unique styles of brackets. Everybody's using an OS that supports Unicode, and an editor/IDE that autocompletes most of their source code anyway. We're even using programming languages which allow Unicode identifiers, so ASCII-only viewers have been in trouble for 25 years already. People are even using emoji in commit messages. That ship has sailed. Unicode is safe to use.

It could be List⟦Int⟧ or List⟬Int⟭ or List｢Int｣ or dozens of others. They're big, they're clear, they're easy to parse (one char, no other uses). All you need to do is pick one and make it part of the language, and update a few editor modes to support it in some templates.
It depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

For building websites, Webflow is powerful (and allows for fine-tuning).

Among utilities, Parabola (a kind of no-code extract, transform, load tool) is very neat.

For getting data/creating APIs without having to code I've built Simplescraper - https://simplescraper.io.

Currently working on an integration for Airtable that allows you to create a dynamic CMS using any data source, without code. Hopefully useful to non-dev and lazy-dev alike.
Show HN: Personal search and note taking without switching windows
Why oh why must this be written in tweet format? Is this some kind of meta self referential post-modern exercise that I just don't understand?
No need to apologize. If you didnt catch my meaning then probably many other readers didnt either.
That’s not nessisarily true from the headline. It could be midsized companies paying the most tax, or midsized and small companies paying the same rate.
Harris has started a few notable projects outside of Svelte as well, including Rollup (alternative bundler) and buble (alternative es2015 compiler).
There are cool things somewhere in the middle now too, e.g Cue [1], which is really cool.

I was recently thinking that its a shame there isn't a cross language proto-lite kind of thing (I'd settle for json with structures and pointers) that has a great devx. The multi step transform that configs are right now (from the serialization representation to the code one) could be eliminated. IMO interop is one the most important things for configs, so I'd be hesitant to use a thing that needs a preinstalled runtime.

[1] https://cuelang.org/
That sucks :( My QC35 are one of my favorite purchases still, something like 5+ years on. The battery life is simply astounding. I've worn them on entire journeys, from lounge to plane to plane through customs and to my destination and been shocked to find them with 40% battery life reported remaining after 16+ hours of constant use.
It sounds like there's absolutely something faulty with her product, and Bose customer support should really step up and make it right.
Thank goodness somebody else realizes that not everyone likes to be crammed in small areas with lots of other people. It’s amazing how much diversity (which is a good thing!) is praised by many of the same people who think everyone likes big cities because they like big cities.
HN seems pretty close to what it has always been: a technology oriented forum with occasional politics flare ups. Comments outside the technocracy consensus are nuked with downvotes, but trolls are pretty effectively moderated (thank you dang, despite our run-ins).

As the technocracy consensus has reacted to the election of Trump the band of acceptable discussion has narrowed a bit, but it isn't awful.
All my scripts are in one directory [0] that's added to the front of my $PATH [1]; listing files in it would be trivial.

The author's solution does seem much better; I just use my approach instead because I don't like the feeling of typing a leading comma :). I might switch to using a leading char sometime.

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/dotfiles/tree/master/Executables/s...

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/dotfiles/tree/master/startup.sh#L1...
I side with the comment above yours. The model you are talking about in my mind has no such assumption, from the experience of owning a tiny company. So this make me angry and is novel every time I read more about it.
Pentaho Data Integration is an ETL tool that I have been using it for the last 11 years or so. The main use is for loading a data warehouse. I also use it for exception reporting and dumping some analytic data to excel.

https://community.hitachivantara.com/s/article/data-integrat...
Leaving dough out too long will overproof it. Leaving it out not long enough will not rise enough, or, in the case of sourdough, not develop that sour taste people are looking for.

Your first loaf is unlikely to come out great, if your starter is not matured yet - because the yeast/bacteria ratio in it is unlikely to be optimal.
> More or less all senators are lifetime appointments

Where are you getting this information? Senators serve six year terms and must be re-elected by their constituents.
Causality, I guess would be my answer there.