skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone saying 90% have no symptoms is simply lying.

China’s case fatality rate is over 4% which is likely inflated. Dimond Princess tested everyone and has a 12/712 or 1.7% case fatality rate with many still in critical condition and the majority of positive results showing symptoms and a high percentage needing hospitalization.

A wildly optimistic estimate of 1 death per 200 cases x 70% infections is over 1 million dead Americans. And that’s assuming we could provide care for millions of people in critical condition.
At least one. :)
I emailed a local comic shop that’s closed to the public, but I was able to order $100 worth of trade paperbacks. Got it 2 days later. No “online” shop, but still worked. As best you can, try to spend money with the local stores you used to go to.
AFAIK, Foursquare was also the first mobile app to start the if-you-think-there-are-tabs-your-users-don't-use,-now-they'll-really-never-use-them-again-in-a-separate-app trend.

I thought they still had a pretty good differentiator making an effort to make recommendations in the main app based on your specific food tastes etc. Too bad they were a bit half hearted focusing on it.
> I think there are plenty of examples of monolithic architectures that also have huge technical overhead, builds breaking for unrelated changes, huge amounts of regression testing, not to mention the build times...

Yes – I was talking about those same monolithic architectures in that comment ;-)
You're describing self-documenting code. Well written code shouldn't require any "what" comments, only "why" comments.

Too often you see code with a generically-named function/variable, and a comment next to it describing what it does. Why not just name the function/variable correctly?!

There's a strong cargo-cult idea that "real" programmers use short/abbreviated names, and yet there's absolutely no value to using "idx" over "index", or a more appropriately named "last_name_index".
So I gotta ask, is this legal? I recognize a few of these are paid boardgames.
Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
Is it? They rung me up with it - it's up to them to decide what to charge me. I'd put as "bank error in my favor." I only noticed later when I was making sure they didn't overcharge me when looking at my bank account. (They had to charge and refund about 3x)
WHO was saying almost until the point that China locked down that there was no evidence of human to human transmission, even though Taiwan has warned them that had strong evidence of this on December 31st 2019.
Kind of an underwhelming read: was this a lifeform dropping off? Most likely not. What was it? Probably ice melting ("calving") and the comment splitting in two. While I'm glad to have learned more, I kind of expected the data to keep going and more theories to build, instead it just goes "Well, we just don't know." I can admire that sometimes but it left me unsatisfied on this occasion.
Paypal is less of a tech company and more of a finance company.

This kind of behavior is caused by rules that put the cost of fraud on the payment processor rather than the customer, even though the payment processor's primary tools to prevent it basically involve locking the customer's account based on vague suspicion and hearsay.

When someone has stolen your identity, there isn't really anything you can tell someone to prove you're you. Having your password or SSN or access to your email or the answers to your security questions tell them nothing. The perpetrator could have those things. Your account may have been created by the perpetrator to begin with and the person whose name is on it has never even used their service. How are they supposed to tell? Even if you're you, the perpetrator may still have access to whatever method was used to access your account to begin with and if they turned it back on there would be more fraud (which causes the payment processor to lose money instead of you). So your account is locked forever and you can pound sand.

The alternative to people getting locked out of their accounts is having accounts without reversible transactions. You don't want this for your brokerage account, but you do want it for the account you're using to buy things with petty cash. Because then the account never has more than $1000 in it to begin with, which limits your losses to that amount, but then the payment processor doesn't have any incentive to ban your account because the losses are yours. If you're careless and reuse passwords, you might lose the $1000, but you don't get banned forever from making financial transactions. Then you learn your lesson and do better next time.

That would also result in lower transaction fees, because most of the transaction fees go to paying the cost of fraud protection. And it would reintroduce the incentive to prevent fraud to the people best situated to do that (stop reusing passwords, people), so there would also be less fraud, which is better for everybody.
This is why I read HN. Thank you for recommending a good retailer.
Boris Johnson in Intensive Care
Doesn't just about everywhere collect sales tax online now?

BHPhotoVideo is my go-to place for tech and music stuff. I got their affiliated payboo credit card that pays the sales tax for you, saves me that 10% on every order.
I also highly recommend Dr. Greger's work! He also has a podcast and very informative website with tons of sources and further information.
An argument I’ve had a few times and wish I didn’t:

Yes, this situation only happens a small fraction of the time, but it happens exactly once to each user, and the first time they use it. It doesn’t matter what the stats say. The facts are that every user will see this problem and it will be their first experience with the feature.
Here is an echo server that uses some of the 5.7 features:

https://github.com/frevib/io_uring-echo-server/tree/io-uring...

One of the 5.7 features, IORING_FEAT_FAST_POLL, gives a (free) performance boost of up to 68% compared to epoll:

https://twitter.com/hielkedv/status/1234135064323280897?s=21
UK prime minister moved to intensive care due Covid
This is about how I eat. Jerky, caffeine and water in the morning (just enough to get through the day), dinner in the evening.

I never liked eating, it's a hassle and you get used to not eating during the day, especially if you get zoned into work.
It's remarkably easy to make fun of Quibi:

* Most experienced media executives I know expect it will be a spectacular failure.

* Most experienced TV reviewers have panned the shows, the format, and the idea.

* Many commenters here on HN are looking at Quibi almost in disbelief ("Wait, they spent how much? On what!?")

But none of these opinions and prognostications will matter in the end. The only thing that will matter for Quibi is whether people around the globe sign up for the service or not. There are billions of people glued to their mobile phones every day around the planet; even a tiny fraction of billions is a big number. How many will sign up?
Stage four requires admitting guilt, it should be "We've always known we should've done something about it, but (opposing political party) didn't let us!"
“No handshakes, please” (Feb 2020)
This seems to assume there's always space in the ring during submission at various places in the code.
Rosetta home, now on ARM64, like your Jetson Nano
I don't understand why they ever had to be different. Can't you have a rich set of place information, and still have check-ins, mayorships, and all?

I was an avid foursquare user when it first came out. Going to a place your friends hadn't been felt like you were an explorer charting new territory. I used it for years until check-ins were split off. Swarm felt like it was built to be neglected. Like Netflix with Qwikster, they wanted to focus on another area of their business to secure their future and the existing users were a distraction/liability. But given that either pursuit is nothing without engagement, and they had more location-based engagement than anybody, I don't understand the decision making in throwing all that away.
Triage Protocol Design for Ventilator Rationing in a Pandemic and Ethical Values
This was my exact experience working at Nike 4 years ago. In this scenario, I was the guy sitting. I got this type of "talking to" when I submitted a bug ticket because jQuery was being loaded 3 times on the same page.

The Nike.com software group was over 1,000 employees working on a microservices mess that performed horribly on the customer side. They could have built a much better product with about 50 competent software professionals.
No kidding! Ok, that makes more sense then.
looks great but without a mail activation system
I can sign up to pyrus as bill gates with bill@microsoft.com
as microsoft corp. :/
“I can tell you that I’m shaking hands continuously. I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were actually a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know and I continue to shake hands”. (March 3rd)

https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1234828026933805057
Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care
I don't know if he was watching the news or not but here on HN that was the predominant spirit and some incorrigibles still hold to that mantra.
He's been looking rougher and rougher as the week has worn on, I don't like the guy but wouldn't wish this on him.
There is nothing about what has happened that should surprise anyone who has read the book Superforecasting.

It explains that we naturally trust people who sound smart, well-informed, and CONFIDENT. We don't want to hear uncertainty, probabilities, or the other signs of someone who thinks in a careful quantitative way. We want to accept a cognitively simple answer, then move on. This is what we find comfortable.

However this is a good way to select people who are terrible at making actual predictions. They appear to predict, but often with sufficient weasel words that it is hard afterwards to say whether it was violated. (The book gives real examples.) But if you put them in a setting where they can be tested, they perform worse than uninformed monkeys. And the part of the future that they are worst at predicting is exactly what they were supposed to be experts at!

The book Superforecasting walks through how this was demonstrated, and the discovery that there are people you will never see on CNN or Fox news who are really good at forecasting. A fact that is extremely interesting to various TLA agencies (one of whom paid for the research in question).

The long and short of it? Bayes' Theorem actually works in the real world. The revolution that started with quants on wall street, analytics in baseball and Nate Silver in politics is still ongoing.

When you are done with the book and have processed it, hopefully you will understand why the author said in response to an audience question after a talk, Here’s my long-term prediction for Long Now. When the Long Now audience of 2515 looks back on the audience of 2015, their level of contempt for how we go about judging political debate will be roughly comparable to the level of contempt we have for the 1692 Salem witch trials.

Hopefully the contempt that some of us have for how talking heads in January and February of 2020 dismissed Coronavirus is a step on the path to that future.
Radiocarbon dating wouldn't be affected by meal frequency, unless I'm missing something. It's just identifying the oldest material in the specimen.
NYC ICU Dr. David Price's Zoom call: How to protect yourself and your family
I need to say I have exactly like you. I was unable to finish anything though many years. Than 1,5 year ago finally everything changed. This is by small but significan tchange. I choose for myself subject that is big enough that a lot of experimentation can fall under it and specific enough that all experiments have common denominator. Single guiding idea. For me this was enabling my father to create application (emotional importance! we are all animals after all. btw. he didn't care. I cared.). Since then I'm experimenting with new stuff and doing the thing that interest me but this theme is always there.

I'm doing tests of different stuff, writing prototypes, all good stuff.
First there was more strategy and later there is more tactical planning and execution but I still more do what I feel I want to do right now than follow so roadmap or something. I sit down and think what I want to do right now and I write myself one post-it with tasks to do, stick it to laptop next to the touch pad. Than I do this fully or partially and than new post-it. I think that my mind is telling me the place of maximum development for my level of skills and I keep faith that this path will take me to some destination that is original.

After 1,5 year and 3 throw away partially working prototypes I have something that is quite cool I have something like creator to generate application for production systems. I discovered my own cool frontend architecture. Thinking about everything from first principle and go to place of interest giving really cool results in retrospect.

No I'm a bit forcing myself with last 2 post-its because I have company that want to use this system and I need to finish details that I didn't care about to do because I was going around it. But now when I see it almost finished and useful somehow it goes easier.

Soul of the explorer is a great gift, no need to change it.

Generally for me 30 yo it was mark of stopping being my own enemy and started things that I always wanted. To this time I was just doing this random stupid stuff and thought that it will all fall together. (Disclaimer: It did).
That was weeks ago. The facts changed and he changed his mind. Yet nothing he has said since then erases the original sin apparently.

Now he’s in ICU and may not survive.

Let those without sin cast the first stone.
I’ve been privy to how a few of these highly regulated organisations are handling WFH, and the main challenges they seem to face are compute/network capacity on their virtual desktop/VPN/conferencing/instant messaging infrastructure. Which usually tend to be hosted on site. Of course people could bypass the systems completely, by say getting a private slack for their team. But doing so would (usually) be a policy violation, and from a compliance perspective, policy is often a valid control. Not all regulations require technical controls, and if they do, there’s often room to make exceptions to implement alternative controls when circumstances require it.
LOL.

I don't have time to compile the numerous examples of CNN maliciously, cynically, and shamelessly to their users, so I'll just post my favorite example:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787749117502119936?lang...

Chris Cuomo looking into the camera, and telling America it is illegal for them to go to wikileaks. But it's ok, the media is exempted from that and they'll make sure to tell you ALL of the important information you need to know.

Sorry, but give me a break. Not only do they lie, they try to scare you into not informing yourself.
Fox "News": https://streamable.com/l8agkx
Honestly if the Iraq war didn't result in media accountability I doubt the Coronavirus will either.
This is false equivalency.

When you have to seek to find bad examples from other side, and it's the every day modus operandi the other side there is no comparison.
Where did all of these leaders get their information about covid from? Surely not from the people who were watching the crisis develop in China.

Another stupid thing:
People have been burning down cell towers because they think 5G causes corona.
Only to leave their area to be less covered by telephone network, possibly making it harder to reach emergency services.

edit: I know many leaders have changed their views to more realistic ones, but I do wonder how they could be so misinformed in the beginning.
QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten
A scientific name for that, interesting, thanks :-)
Boris Johnson admitted to intensive care
Staying consistent helped Failory grow to 800$ MRR
>A prediction that "this will happen, some time in the future" is not very useful

Yes it is, if taken seriously.
De Blasio was telling people you couldn't get the virus on the subway and other nonsense well into March.
I've probably put in 100 McMaster orders over the last year via work, side gig, and home projects. My take on this is that their prime customers (businesses) do not put shipping costs in their top 5 or maybe even top 10 priorities. Businesses pushing out products or engaged in rapid prototyping or meeting a deadline are much more concerned with speed, and McMaster always beats Amazon in shipping time to my workplace (usually less than 24 hours from order to delivery, no joke). Their customer also values accurate technical data so they've put a lot of effort into CAD models and are very responsive to customer service calls.

In short, they know their customer persona. I wouldn't hold my breath that they'll add upfront shipping costs any time soon!
It sometimes feels like there is the perception that twitter is worthless and devoid of meaningful information, but like you I've been increasingly relying on it for news. I'm not sure where else you can collect so many different perspectives on any given piece of news. Overtime, you learn how many grains of salt to take with each person in your timeline, and you get a sense of their personal biases. And if you can brush off the trolls, it's instructive to read the arguments that happen in the replies.

The way I use twitter, it serves the same purpose as hacker news, but with a much broader scope.
Compass: An open-source CSS Authoring Framework
Oh didn't see it, thanks.
You can delete my post then :-)
Err on the side of caution works quite well when modelling things that are rare but that can have devastating effects.
Releasing music on a custom-built Game Boy cartridge (2019)
But everyone can do that to an extent, so what keeps their edge, that they're first and are on a lot of devices? Having a strong social aspect might let them get differentiated insights on what people enjoy etc, but otherwise location data is almost a commodity
For the impatient, the final product is here: https://youtu.be/UCPUPO21Cwk?t=17
linked from the fifth page of the post: http://spritesmods.com/?art=frekvens&page=5

It's an eye that follows movement around, pretty cool.
Conway's Law applies here [1]. Poor architectural design can be rooted to how managers organize the team. If you want to see the architecture designed a certain way, organize the team structure along that line and the architecture desired will naturally emerge from the teams. If you have a misalignment of teams and architecture, you're always bound to hit friction along the way.

As you move up in leadership, the tool that you have is organizational design. Doing it right and you have a highly efficient org. Do it wrong, and you'll constantly hit roadblocks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
Most prominent companies have just a criticism section. That particular company has a dedicated page. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22796906
:ThumbsUp:
My wife & daughter have been playing various board games via Duo with my in-laws. They went with this approach to add a level of "hands-on" to the gameplay. They have to limit their options to games both parties have, but that leaves literally dozens of options.

The nice thing is that any video-enabled platform will work for this.
There is still a concerted, coordinated effort to signal boost reckless armchair epidemiologists arguing that COVID-19 is "just the flu" and the response is destroying the economy for nothing and/or a prelude to totalitarian police state.
When I was in San Jose, there was a "Cash and Carry" foodservice store where one could just walk in and browse the food (I once randomly met the properietor of Psycho Donuts there, looking for new flavor ideas.) It appears to be operating under a slightly different brand now, but seems to be open the the public still?

https://www.smartfoodservice.com/locations/store/san-jose-57...

Looks like there's a click-and-carry option, but no deliveries unless you Instacart.
Rich shared with us insights from Failory, his open startup. He has a unique perspective to learn from failed startups and not only those that succeed. Pretty insightful.
Not particularly dumb-days but I do have days where I am much more effective. Sadly it's the days I take Adderall.

That said, I do realize that it's just as likely that I only _feel_ more effective. If I had a decent way to measure developer productivity, I'd be a rich man...
A couple weeks ago someone brought up High Frequency Trading and while in theory it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already know, I’ve been chewing on the thesis of the linked article ever since: that the real trick to doing things quickly is to do them consistently. That variance causes far more kinds of practical problems than does average response time.
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Criminal charge for spreading fake news laid against South African man
Politicians have survived worse.
VHDL support for open-source FPGA toolchain YoSys
There are some apps that if my TOTP secret is lost, as horrifyingly annoying as it would be, I'd much rather need to take the time to get a registered public notary to stamp that they saw me in person, and checked my ID or other such documents, before the account recovery process can begin.

The "old ways" are usefully slow, have protections built around them for centuries of our culture, and I'd rather the annoying administrative headache and "slow" over the quick abuse of account recovery systems for theft and fraud.
I agree, I also ask this question in the form of "What can I do to move the ball forward?" or "If I'm stumped, who can I ask and what information might they need to solve the problem?"

TODO list breakdowns are great for this.
Would this be easy enough to setup for a class of 11-year-olds who'd all be in their own homes?
HN commenters are responsible for delivering valid criticisms in ways that don't damage the container. A thoughtful explanation will be better received anyhow.
I've been experimenting with using Google's midi generation to be as a starting point for phrases. It's not great but can be a useful starting point. Like radiology, it seems ai can be good enough to prepare work and then have it finished by a human expert. We don't need this stuff to be human, we just need it to complement our own skills and unlock productivity/creativity that we then refine with a human context/touch.
You really posted a link to some random blog post, not a peer reviewed journal, not even an expert on the subject? In the year 2020? I'm not even sure where to start because there is just... not enough here to even.. oh forget it.
Fooled by Narratives
Do you think the Red Sox are not like the Yankees?

They're just different teams playing the same game.

Fans always defend their team and vilify the other. Always. With every dispute they're able to convince themselves it's the other side that are the cheaters. They can't both be right, but yet each side feels equally certain of their position.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to ICU this afternoon as condition worsens
A Curated List of Resources Gone Free / on Discount Due to Covid-19
https://archive.is/XWPLj