skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You clearly haven't done the math.

EDIT 1: Even if my statement is off and the number is 10% to 25% --pick a number, any number-- it is still more serious than the fantasies we have been choosing to focus on.

The calculation must also include the massive mortality rate that would result from the collapse of all supply chains, medical systems, transportation, etc. People with "minor" medical conditions would die on the streets everywhere. The virus would kill indirectly by destroying society. Think it through. If the world did nothing the loss of life would be massive.

EDIT 2: Imagine a world without hospitals (at scale), doctors, nurses, transportation, factories, food, water, medicine, power, gas, petroleum.

You are focusing on direct mortality from the virus while ignoring that, without any mitigation at all, it would absolutely destroy society.

Look at what happened in Italy. Now shut down all hospitals and remove all mitigation. Get the picture? Now, go do the math on that scenario. A scenario where people die from strokes, heart attacks, infections from cuts, appendicitis, diabetes (no drugs), hypertension, tooth infections, etc.
It's not common for the flu to overload the healthcare system as you've seen in several places across the world. The reason it hasn't been worse is that people have acted and started to stay at home before the government issued orders

Not sure when it last happened, 1918?
Ask HN: Text Editor Survey
Is there a text editor that combines 1) the choice and ecosystem of VS Code with 2) the performance of native code and 3) the ease of use of a modern editor such as [insert editor here]. I currently use VS Code and, although it’s a good editor, it is quite slow for big workloads and a bit of a resource hog. I continue to read here on HN how others feel the same, so there has got to be some white space in the market. Am I right or wrong ?
Yes, they are correlated. But they are not correlated in such a way that you're going to be looking the people that you've just condemned in the eye. Nor do they have voting family members that will remember that when ballot time rolls around.

So this utilitarian argument you are making is going to be a very difficult one to put across and if you feel otherwise about it then it is up to you to stick your neck out, I want no part of it, and neither do most people. The argument that the handicapped, aging and ill should be disposed of has been made before, it didn't end well.
There‘s a really good one for Germany: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823...
Ask HN: Tool to create visual flowcharts/documentation from code comments
Nearly all tools product and eng teams use today are web-based. Documentation lives outside of the context where it's implemented, i.e., code.

Say a new feature is being developed and the team draws up a flowchart of user or data flow. This will most likely be done in a tool like Confluence, Google Docs, Whimsical etc. However, it will probably get outdated pretty quickly as the team starts writing code (things change). The context also lives completely outside and divorced from the source of truth in code. I've worked in a number of teams over the years where the technical specs are horribly outdated and there's almost no point reading them to get an understanding of how something works.

I've been thinking of building a tool that enables developers to create documentation that is accessible to everyone, but from within code. The main problem it solves is linking documentation to actual implementation details. This is often very useful when debugging something or when on-boarding new developers. But more importantly, it would mean fewer docs are out of date. They're front and center in a place where engineers spend a large portion of their day.

Would this be of value to you? Does it already exist?
There are still plenty of real news outlets, they just aren't on TV. You can pull up the Reuters web site, spend a few minutes reading the front page, and come out with more actual information than somebody who spent all day watching CNN.
Musk himself has no credibility when it comes to coronavirus. He's spent three months demonstrating that he knows nothing about it:

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-has-played-an-extremely-dange...
There's literally no proof of this. It's based on a paper that's purely untested conjecture and hypothesis right now.
> Chloroquine prevents the virus from affecting hemoglobin

This virus attacks the cells that live in the throat and lungs. The "spike" as far as I'm aware does not attach to haemoglobin.

> damage is already done and the hemoglobin is already compromised.

Its the lungs that are damaged, not the blood. The reason why people die is because they drown in thier own fluids, as the cells walls of the lungs are broken down by the patient's immune system.

If Chloroquine was effective, it would stop the virus reproducing. This would lead to a detectable change in viral load.

Sure, it could already be to late by then, the damage is done. But, the viral load would have a measurable change. These studies don't really show anything conclusive.

This means that its unlikley to work as a prophylactic as its not actually stopping the virus from attaching or reproducing.

> Azithromycin

Thats there to stop any opportunistic bacteria from causing more damage. Typically when someone is admitted to ICU for covid they have a lower than expected white cell count.

> Antivirals are much more promising

yes because they actually disrupt the virus replicating. Chloroquine doesn't appear to do that. This is the problem with making drugs. Something that works in the petridish doesn't always work in the body. This is why Gilead's new wonder drug wasn't in production, because it was designed to target ebola, but didn't really work.
In what metric is it slowing?
“ I believe that P2P, decentralization, cryptography and virtual reality will create a new universe of services that will become more and more present.”

If anything it will be the opposite. All you mentioned is a concern of a very small part of the population.

I believe that in this regard we will be seeing more control and centralization from governments in order to try to predict/prevent future occurrences.
We have 70k dead as of 3/6/2020 and it's already slowing. One would definitely have to take 70k number with a grain of salt. There are many deaths that have gone unreported because there weren't enough testing kits. Many countries aren't reporting deaths because their government wants to save face. Iran comes to mind.

What's different about this virus is in just a span of a few months it has claimed 70k deaths. At the rate people are dying, if we just let it run its course without any social distancing (like flu runs its course), we could have millions of deaths.

COVID-19 is ~10X deadlier than flu looking at the current numbers.

If we just let the economy go as is, with our healthcare overwhelmed and >1% of our population dying, that would be terrible. I don't know if I want to live in such a heartless world. Remember even young people are dying albeit at a lower rate.

One of my friends who did get COVID-19 explained that its not like a regular flu. The feeling of having a brick on your chest and not being able to breath is real. It really tires you and brings your worst fears to life. The worst 2 weeks of his life.

That is not a description of regular flu ^
Heck, tobacco is a greater threat to human life than covid-19. How many millions die every year, year after year, because of tobacco?
100%! I actually prefer it now over elixir. Once you get to use it and spend a few weeks working with it, it becomes so expressive and it feels so clean to read and understand.
You're using "direct persuasion" differently from parent. And I have no clue which is accepted. Parent seems to equate "direct persuasion" with "charismatic persuasion", but for you it seems more like coercion.

Right?
> Try to stay away from stimulants, like caffeine

Something of an aside, but I've actually found caffeine (400mg/day + variable amount in drinks) _helps_ with OCD-induced panic attacks. If I do have an attack, it seems somewhat worse, but it makes it _significantly_ easier to shift my attention away from obsessive thoughts, thus avoiding triggering the attack in the first place.

I was pointed towards it by this paper - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19573497 It's a pretty weak basis for making treatment decisions (n=24, caffeine was used as the control against d-amphetamine, both showed some effect), but my doctor and I reasoned that there was fairly limited risk in trying it. Other studies seem to have shown similar results - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559101/
> Now, losing confidence that everything you've written is garbage and refactoring the same systems over and over again until you give up- that's the hurdle I choke on :D

My recommendation would be to pick a very small project and have specific goals for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Try to define a project you can complete in a week or two. Keep the list of specific features you want very short. Then, remember that the code doesn't have to be perfect, it only has to be good enough to implement those specific features you wanted. It doesn't have to handle epic amounts of traffic, etc. It's ok to cut some corners round as long as it does the job for what you're trying to achieve.

Otherwise, just as a general mindset, I try to remind myself that a lot can be done incrementally. Sometimes it's important just to build a working version of your software so you can try it out and learn some lessons by playing with the working software. If you stop and refactor endlessly in an attempt to try to build the perfect system, you'll never get to the point where you're actually trying a working version of your program... Which is the point where you realize what's really important or not to achieve what you want.
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The SDK could have a command line tool (or option) to dump the config in JSON format, if that config is meant to be consumed by other tools. I can come up with examples where config files are a bad idea all day long. Bottom line is neither is a silver bullet, and there are always trade-offs to be made.
And what consquences does that have? As in, did anybody lose their job, go to jail or faced some other stiff penalty? If not then it doesn't count.

In NL a minister resigned because he got caught in a lie. Imagine that. It wasn't even a big one, it is just that that is unacceptable here. I'm sure they lie all the time, it is just that getting caught is enough to do you in. So not a perfect system by a long shot but it does the job.
iPhone never had Flash I don’t believe. I was an Android user at the time and the only way Flash on my device could be described is in terms of locomotive incidents. Flash games and applications almost worked, although virtually none of them were responsively designed, and they mostly worked pretty poorly with touch controls, and unlike HTML there was no way to reasonably work around or improve this at the browser level, because it was just a big proprietary black box.

Worse than this was sites that used Flash in non-essential ways like ads. If you had Flash enabled on a blog or other site that just happened to pop up a flash ad, it would make the whole page janky, greatly hurting pan and zoom functionality and killing your battery life for no benefit.

Worst of all, Flash frequently crashed my browser and sometimes even caused the entire phone to reboot.

Phones now have better CPUs and GPUs and I am relieved beyond words that Flash is totally dead now. It was never ideal for what it was most popular for (videos, streams) which only became apparent after the alternatives stabilized. But even for games and other software, I just don’t think the NPAPI browser plugin model was worth keeping. Would the problems with touch usability and accessibility be resolved at some point? Maybe I don’t know - I presume Adobe Air was able to do it for native apps, although my experience with Adobe Air apps was also not very good.

J2ME may have been not the most thrilling platform, but I’d not be surprised if it had a better security track record at the end of the day. I disabled Flash before most people, and was using a userscript to use the then-new and buggy <video> tag for YouTube. I still, before that point, had been personally hit by a Flash 0day, and a couple of my friends got hit later by a malicious Mediafire Flash payload. There was a period of time where it felt like there was a new use-after-free in Flash every month. And when you look at all of the functionality stacked into this unsandboxed blackbox to keep it competitive and alive, I don’t feel it’s terribly surprising.

I don’t enjoy everything about the bloated platform that is the modern web, but the design of it is a lot more sound. It’s designed more as a platform than a product. You get a lot of totally brand new functionality, like WebRTC, that just wasn’t really going to happen with Flash.

Flash had to die. It wasn’t a part of the web platform, it was part of an Adobe product that was shoehorned into web browsers. If it has a good legacy, I reckon it will mostly be from nostalgia fueled denial.
With all the social distancing going on and my general laziness towards staying active without being forced to, paired with the massive hype surrounding Half-Life: Alyx, I decided to build a VR ready computer.

Newegg was fine. I'd been using them since my first build 15 years ago. But this time I also had access to the amazing website pcpartpicker.com. Not only do they make it easy to find parts that are all compatible with each other, but you'll also be given multiple shopping options with discounts.

Most of it I got from Newegg but I was able to save about 75$ by getting the PSU and MoBo from bhphotovideo.com which was a surprisingly good experience.

BTW, HL Alyx is as amazing as they say and you really don't have to spend a fortune to play it. My entire build was only 650$ and my VR headset of choice (Samsung Odyssey) only 270$. I was worried I'd made a mistake by going with a cheap headset but it works very well.
You're thinking about things correctly. The statistical and scientific methodology of clinical trials are by and large the same thing as A/B tests. I don't think anyone is drawing much from this sample of n = 11 except to say it's definitely not a miracle cure. No approval would normally be given to a new treatment for any study of this size.

If an A/B test took a form from almost 0% conversion to almost 100% conversion, you might only need 11 users to show that. But even in that case, the devil is in the details. Were your users really a completely random sample from your population, etc?

The other side of the coin is, can we say these are non-interesting treatments with only 11 subjects? Or are the studies too underpowered to say much of all?
"Politicians should shut up and leave it to the professionals"

FTFY.
In my experience, this writing style is indicative of the author speaking to an ongoing conversation where people are writing about the topic in many places.

As a stand-alone essay, this is very bad. As a contribution to a conversation, as you might see in an online forum, this probably makes more sense.
The article doesn't disagree with that. Here's the relevant parts:

"An event like this is thus a uniquely powerful way of taking people's measure."

and

"Now that we've seen the results, let's remember what we saw, because this is the most accurate test of credibility we're ever likely to have. I hope."
Ah it looks like you are correct. It used the NAPI. Per wikipedia:

> In November 2013, citing the planned deprecation of NPAPI browser plug-ins by major browsers, Quake Live began to phase out its browser version and began migrating to a standalone client. However, this change necessitated the removal of OS X and Linux support from the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_Live

Now I remember why I stopped playing as I only had a macbook at the time.
> Maybe I need to invent an imaginary supervisor to report to at the end of the day.

Heh, someone had that idea too and turned it into a startup: Boss as a Service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18512197
Opendoor Eng here - Cloudflare workers with Optimizely Full-Stack A/B testing have been awesome for improving experiment velocity without ugly URLs or any client-side experimentation code.
The "official" 200k estimate (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043752v...) assumes that China isn't lying about their numbers, that Italy's official numbers are correct (Even though the death rate in some places there is 5-10x higher than normal), that the US will be able to implement "lockdowns" as effectively as China did, and that the rate of decline of new cases of COVID-19 will match the rate of increase before the peak.

I'm not sure any of those assumptions are warranted.
In those industries, would you then also get a requirement not to delete emails? If not, those wouldn't appear in those investigations.

Because I work in aeronautics, and we've never had such requirement. Unless my company retains all deleted emails without telling us.
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No, _you_ are left without an email address. I don't use gmail.
Being wrong and being in charge are different than just being wrong. Responsibility should come at a price.
That only works if the lungs are viable. In this case they are so damaged they just fill up with fluid. Thats the issue.

effectively the patients drown. Its not like CO poisoning at all.
Well it does not allow coroutines to migrate to different OS threads and handles to be shared across OS threads, but that does not mean it doesn't support multiple CPUs.

It's more correct to say that it doesn't come with that support out of the box, but it certainly does allow for it and nudges you towards a specific direction (no shared mutable state).
"COVID-19 attacks hemoglobin and that is how it damages the lungs."

COVID-19 is not the virus, it is a disease cause by SARS-CoV-2.

And no, SARS2 does not "attack hemoglobin". The lungs are filled with fluid from an overly zealous cytokine response and the bacterial infections that follow.
It did come from all political quarters, however one political quarter stayed in denial much longer. Notice how many of the clips from your video are from January or early February.

The POTUS was still publicly pushing the coronavirus = flu comparison in early March even after we saw what happened in Iran and Italy. Remember, he said on February 28 that being worried about the coronavirus was “their new hoax” from the media and his political opponents, so he himself recognized his political opponents were pointing out the severity by late February.

Edit: i don’t want to get too deep in the politics with this, I do agree with your ultimate point that most won’t learn from this and will simply return to their team’s side regardless of who got this one more right.
Which is already true for any type of software.

Bugs exist everywhere. Of course you finde some if you put in the effort. That is not something that marks the quality of the code.
Wii was the third best seller, and the only non-portable in the top 5.
All I get is Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://content.quakejs.com/assets/manifest.json. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
I do the same thing for this slightly longer alias

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(committerdate:short): %(refname:short)' refs/heads/

Including the dates is crucial; I'll frequently go in and clean up personal branches that are older than X months.
Azithromycin helps with pneumonia which is a common progression of covid.
Pretty much every virologists I listened to said "this stuff might work", because it's entirely plausible that it might work.

> That's a long read, but it's pretty damning.

It actually isn't. All it says is that the evidence is poor and done by people with questionable reputation. It doesn't say "it doesn't work". What if it does work, but only in the early stages, when symptoms aren't severe (yet)? You wouldn't know.

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are somewhat dangerous drugs and are therefore far more likely to only be given as a "last resort" rather than as a "precautionary measure", given their unproven status.

What are the odds that a reputable person is going to put their reputation on the line, doing such a dangerous trial on patients that aren't at high risk? Early on, a disreputable person is way more likely to do it. There won't be any good evidence for a while, in the meantime it's all a gamble.

This study is important, but limited in its scope. It shouldn't poison the well.
https://openarena.live/

Here's a link to the open source version of Quake called Open Arena, compiled to WASM and using WebRTC for matchmaking.
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It seems to be an instance of Wadler's Law.

> In any language design, the total time spent discussing
> a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
> the power of its position.
> 0. Semantics
> 1. Syntax
> 2. Lexical syntax
> 3. Lexical syntax of comments

https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler's_Law
How many times have you seen Johnson, Trump, Merkel, Macron etc. in facemask?

Whenever they shown Xi Jinping in Wuhan or any member of the politburo visiting hospitals and such they were all wearing masks, sometimes even rubber gloves too.
That's entirely false. It is primarily related to how easy it is for google to determine whether you're a real human. If they have to keep reidentifying you as human (due to for example fingerprint resisting or tracker blocking).. surprise you get captcha'ed
As a prof (fortunately one who is not lecturing this year) I always wanted an easy method for students to anonymously ask questions. Maybe they will push it onto the students!
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Those % you are citing are highly misleading. Because they are % of tested positive cases. There's likely an order of magnitude more actual positive cases which have not been captured.
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I would prefer it not in a per email basis but I've signed up regardless. High probability of eventually marking these emails as spam but I might learn something before that!
It has a looooong way to go before it's as bad as flash.
Even so, ventilators do harm patients. The hope is that on average the benefit is greater than the harm. They're no joke, though.
That's $16 a day for 3 people.
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Why are viruses considered to be non-living?
Obviously the US Administration is urgently planning and preparing for this?
> A “container” is just a term people use to describe a combination of Linux namespaces and cgroups. Linux namespaces and cgroups ARE first class objects. NOT containers.

Amen.

Somewhat tangential note: most developers I have met do not understand what a 'container' is. There's an aura of magic and mystique around them. And a heavy emphasis on Docker.

A sizable fraction will be concerned about 'container overhead' (and "scalability issues") when asked to move workloads to containers. They are usually not able to explain what the overhead would be, and what could potentially be causing it. No mention to storage, or how networking would be impacted, just CPU. That's usually said without measuring the actual performance first.

When I press further, what I most commonly get is the sense that they believe that containers are "like VMs, but lighter"(also, I've been told that, literally, a few times, specially when interviewing candidates). To this day, I've heard CGroups being mentioned only once.

I wonder if I'm stuck in the wrong bubble, or if this is widespread.
I read "direct persuasion" as a reference to "authoritarian control" as quoted from the Wikipedia article.