skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like they are selling just the test for $249: https://rootmd.com/covid-19

I doubt insurance companies would cover something like this. Not a whole lot the company can do about that.
That is technically correct, but it does not answer the actual question. Why is there such exception? Why is nothing changing?
An article about minimalism with too many words
In a world where cranks use Curry-Howard to justify their ridiculous beliefs, it is refreshing to see not just a correct application, but a well-formed and aesthetically pleasing presentation. Thank you for not trying to obfuscate the material.
I don’t think that’s true. The ideas of Dark Energy and Dark Matter are the best explanations for actual observations. There is no pressure to believe that they must exist. They are just the best we have right now and competing theories must be able to be confirmed by observations which they usually fail at.
FIR filters are the last thing you want in closed loop -- for the amount of filtering they do, they have way excessive phase delay.

I'd use a derivative term with bandlimiting, and I'd accept that if I couldn't get the response I needed using feedback in that case then I'd either investigate using feedforward, or I'd work on changing the sensors on the plant so that they're less noisy.
What is the label that says hospitalization? All I have seen are "serious". And that has not been 20%. Am I just finding junk sources?
Robin Hanson has talked a lot about this. (https://twitter.com/robinhanson)

It seems to me to be the obviously correct thing to do (at least insofar as having immediate testing of the hypothesis at large scale with volunteers) but it treads on multiple cultural taboos and will therefore never be part of the gated institutional narrative.
How heavy is the bar? I use a short suburi bokken; about 60cm, roughly 1.5kg. Perfect for one handed practice in tight places.
I saw this is how they define its RNN. Anyone know more context?

0FEC4288E9A0AE55CBD348FD308F000B8D67AD954CA4AA9A21D50542ADDB3239F794790983C7ACC956B5C0C28AFED4902630A2C24800ECAA43EF7BD88A6B531A
Of the 712 DP infections, 145 occurred in crew average age 36 and 567 occurred in passengers average age 69. Far from every passenger was obese and few crew where obese. So, I doubt obesity was that far from US norms.
>the fact that the Labor Department still has this primitive technology //

Sometimes law enshrines the ability for access using particular technologies. That means until the legislation is updated (and after!) government departments might need to support "primitive technology".

Government is often about supporting as close to 100% access as possible. That makes it hard to adopt new tech, and harder to dispose of old tech.

The only need for a fax machine I've had in recent times (in UK) is by proxy, a pharmacy needed a fax from my nephew's doctor in order to issue an emergency inhaler. Of course billions has been spent inter alia on replacing fax, through having integrated, networked medical systems in the UK but the IT companies involved have been "unable" to provide working systems. £20bn in ~2007, £12bn in ~2013 - I don't think we have a working national records system yet?

Companies who can make £100s of millions without delivering a working product wish to continue being paid, the money stops when they deliver the project ...
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

66,560 (total deaths) / (66,560 + 252,658(total recovered)) = .208

Obviously that's going to drop though, as more people recover. It's pretty useless to talk about at this stage.
You must never use them to make calls. (The audio quality is absolutely awful when in Self Voice mode, which is enabled for anything that uses the mic, and you can’t disable it.)
No problem! Basic math mistakes are dangerous because they might take credibility out of the rest of the article, but this one seemed very well written and it shows that you know what you are writing about so I don't think it's a big deal.

I noticed only because something ticked on me when I read "0.005 (0.05%)", it "felt wrong" so I double checked.
Similar articles just show how spoiled and priviledged the authors truly are.

I've seen some baffling things here on HN too, such as people preferring to only be informed using push notifications about the crisis, personalized for their area, nothing else, because that's more convenient than looking up information, or the other day, deciding to block COVID-19 related news entirely, instead of selecting a trusted news source and rationing their exposure to the media.
FYI the basic design is actually within the preview on Google Books (page 47).

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Noma_Guide_to_Fer...

I recommend adding a wire rack so your container doesn't sit directly on the mat as well.
There are
Sure, it’s less than ideal, but come on. There are far worse apps and it’s required to update the firmware. At least on iOS you’re also prompted to install it when you connect to the headphones for the first time anyway, so I would imagine adoption is pretty high.
Yet another example of how 2020 institutional science is broken.

For the purpose of producing knowledge. It does other things.
I really love this. I showed it to my kids, though it didn't resonate as much for 7, 5, 3. Maybe someday.

As a novice pianist, I would love to see alongside the discussion some piano chords and progressions. That would be really fascinating to see with the commentary.

If you need help programming that part, I would be very happy to help.
People who are going to go out of their way to use some hipster framework aren’t really going to be concerned with such practical matters as tooling and ecosystem.
To be fair, plumbers do make more than the average code jockey doing maintenance type programming at regular computer jobs (outside of the faang universe, there are a lot of average paying computing/coding jobs - think programming forms for web stores, coming up with fillable pdf forms for ordering, etc)

Plumbing is an essential service, and in emergencies, hourly rates can go into $300+/hour. So why don't everyone go into plumbing? Cause it's a shit job (/s)

Jokes aside, my take on the science job contradiction is that current American society does not respect nor want the products of science.

Think vaccines - when we have an emergency, everyone wants one, but in "normal times", think about where the pockets of the anti-vaccination movement have taken hold: rich communities in California where science should have had the best chance of surviving, but is struggling.

Communities in the American Southern states who are having trouble keeping evolution and science curriculums in tact are another example.
No it didn't, commercial fracking had existed for almost 30 years during the '79 crisis.

It was horizontal drilling that made it cheaper.

That doesn't necessarily mean that these things will be cheap in the future. There are plenty of social, economic, or political events that could change that.
You're right. My hypothetical above was for a very limited context of answering its parent post only and not meant as an inference regarding the IFR for other age groups.
Yeah, Twitter is a boon to crazy people, and it probably can't be fixed. The best thing you can do is convince everyone you know to walk away from it and never look back.
> Really academia needs a way to request comment on an experimental procedure without requiring results or conclusions. Then you could publish negative or questionable results and seek speculation from other researchers.

I feel like anonymity could possibly go a long way for this.
Yeah this is specific to Europe, in particular Germany, where companies such as BMW would send engineers to work on a defined research project at a university, and then adopt the research if it pans out. In the US there’s far more leeway, and part of being a good PI is stealthily inserting yourself own agenda into the DOT grant proposal, and those in the DOT will give you the leeway knowing that’s “how it works”
It makes no sense to me... JCL, DB2, VSAM -- ok. SDLC?

If it referred to SNA, it should be SNA/SDLC. Not referencing that (or VTAM) means Software Development Life Cycle.
It reminds me of the paper reporting that neutrinos had been detected going faster than the speed of light[0]. It turned out to be an instrumentation issue. Some of the folks involved had to step down.

Yes, it is important to publish results that violate established theories, but if there's already a lot of validation of those theories through experimentation, you're going to have legitimate pushback, especially if your method of experimentation isn't the most sophisticated.

If the result of your publication is a theoretical breakthrough, then that's great, but unless you're in the top tier within that discipline, the likely outcome is that your research turns out to have a big flaw which you missed, and you invite a bunch of people to point out to the world that you can't do science properly...

[0] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/once-again-physicist...
Now _that_ was a fun read. Very well written!
Where the 1 million number came from:

https://qz.com/1599393/how-researchers-estimate-1-million-uy...

https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/features/where-d...

https://www.nchrd.org/2018/08/china-massive-numbers-of-uyghu...

Note the sources: Radio Free Asia (CIA propaganda group), Adrian Zenz (religious nutjob), etc.

Note the method: Estimates by satellite imagery and interviewing a handful of residents.

All of these reports that are used as evidence of cultural genocide are hearsay. Uyghurs are taught to renounce extremist beliefs not their culture as a whole.

Here is the actual report from the 'tribunal':

https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTr...

Note that their 'direct evidence' are also just hearsay. I see no concrete proof of organ harvesting from Uyghurs. Maybe you can find it.
The submission form only lets me add one item until review, so here are some from Spain:

- Museo del Prado de Madrid:https://www.museodelprado.es/

Virtual tour: https://visitavirtual.info/museo-del-prado-de-madrid/

- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid: http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/home

Virtual tour: https://visitavirtual.info/museo-thyssen-bornemisza/

- Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid: http://www.man.es/man/home.html

Virtual tour: https://visitavirtual.info/museo-arqueologico-nacional/

- Museo Dalí de Figueres: http://www.salvador-dali.org/museus/teatre-museu-dali/

Virtual tour: http://www.salvador-dali.org/media/visita-virtual-dali/figue...

- Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao: https://www.museobilbao.com/

Virtual tour: https://www.museobilbao.com/visita-virtual/anonimo_catalan.h...

- Museo del Traje (CIPE) de Madrid: http://museodeltraje.mcu.es/

Virtual tour: http://www.mcu.es/visitavirtualmuseos/museo-del-traje

- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/

Virtual collection: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion

- Museo Picaso de Málaga: http://www.museopicassomalaga.org/

Virtual tour: http://www.malagavirtual.com/mpicassom/visitans.htm

Great job!

Sources: https://sincopyright.com/museos-virtuales/
What are the alternatives for understanding the nature of quark interactions? As I see it, string theory first developed in order to try to simplify the process of calculating the possible different interacting paths. The fact that string theory can directly describe particles is convenient, but seems like an instance of the Microcosm Principle [0] wherein quantum particles can be described as collections of quantum particles. We could drop all of this, but then we would have to return to the problem of worldsheets another way, right?

[0] https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2008/12/the_microcosm_p...
Thanks a lot for the info.

> Proteins fold into their final shape from the chain of amino acids that DNA encodes. Protein folding in general is a hard problem.

My hope was that we had made progress in exactly that domain. Yes, the relationship between a nucleotide sequence and the resulting protein is extremely complex, but my impression was that we have tools to simulate the folding process for a given chain of amino acids (Folding@Home comes to mind).

So I was imagining a brute-force like process, where you (somehow) start with some candidate sequences, simulate how they would fold and use the sequence that comes closest to the molecule you wanted to have in the first place. Of course this only works if your target molecule can be assembled out of amino acids.
It relies critically on estimating the number of asymptomatic cases. To do this accurately you need either the PCR test to report a positive for a long time after contraction, or you need a serology-based test.

They are basing the asymptomatic case % from the Diamond Princess data and assuming that all people who tested positive where the only ones who had cornavirus. Is this warranted?

Has anyone seen any data on the period of time after contraction during which the standard PCR test will return positive?
What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us
100% possible! There's still the question of whether you'd put them on the existing site, or make a new (more general) site to host all the links on. Definitely keen for thoughts as I'm torn between the two
lostmsu probably uses the "block third party requests by default" policy so they'll need to unblock hcaptcha to gain access to the sites.
That probability is 100% because it has already been used. Multiple times.

https://www.energy.gov/fe/services/petroleum-reserves/strate...
> this is why I like science-fiction, especially the older one that's written/directed by people who focus on ideas, and not people. I hate the modern critique of sci-fi that characters are "flat". If I wanted to read about character development, petty squabbles and love affairs, I'd pick literally any other genre.

I don't think that they're mutually exclusive. Much of the sci‑fi and fantasy I've enjoyed over the years does both.

Certainly there's more tolerance for flat characters in sci‑fi than in other genres because you can focus on ideas, I agree with that.

But if all the characters in your story are flat, it does impact the quality. You can have good sci‑fi with flat characters, but great sci‑fi requires both interesting ideas and interesting characters. (And that's not quite enough either, but that's a tangent we don't need to get into)
It seems more like Copernican epicycles in complexity and accuracy to me. Hopefully, the mathematical complexity will lead somewhere interesting even if it’s not GUT. There are so many possible solutions (and data so difficult to get) that it’s more like a game than a theory.
Coming to the US from Europe, I find it striking how much more “Stuff” a typical household contains. I am still struggling to understand why and even after a number of years, it is jarring when I return. I think it is a mixture of greater disposable income, lower prices, peer pressure (“look at my new toy”), extra storage space, ease of shopping (easier to drive and park), and a slightly different set of decisions about what is important.

Back home, I would have a keener awareness of the opportunity cost, including “where am I going to put this”. My family back home seems more homey as with fewer possessions their homes feel more harmonious.

Of course I am sampling large distributions...
Fatality rate with treatment is basically irrelevant at this point. We need to know the hospitalisation rate, the ventilation rate and R0 under different levels of lockdown. The actual rare of deaths will depend on these numbers, 0.66% is just the baseline.
> If the screen is small, e.g. on mobile, Talkyard could probably be pretty certain which post one is currently reading, so might work ok well, automatically.

Modern smartphones easily fit a couple of comments on a screen, at least here on HN and on that forum that I mentioned in the other thread. Heck, I just dug out a 3rd-gen iPod Touch just to see how these websites look on its comparatively small screen. The result is that even devices with comparable screens (think iPhone 4S and other phones of that time) can occasionally fit a number of one-liners or, depending on a font size, a couple of longer comments.

The trick might still work though if you prefer much larger fonts, but otherwise smartphones don't make this feature easier to implement.

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Speaking of mobile: I once experimented with showing replies one at a time. It did a good job at keeping the context around, looked and worked well on mobile devices, but I'm pretty sure it would make harder to find new comments, skim over discussions (and, say, find interesting/insightful comments just by scrolling around), and probably worsen experience in some other way. You can have a look over at https://vthriller.github.io/tmp-hn-comments/carousel.html

> Could also experiment with mouse pointing on a post, to make it the keyboard target. And then pressing 'P' to jump to its parent.

People often prefer keyboard navigation because they want to minimize palm movement as much as possible, and that means reduction of mouse usage as well. Aside from that, if mouse is in your hand already, you might as well click on an on-screen button near the comment—that would be faster than bringing palm back to keyboard.

You might want to try to mitigate that by switching binding to a key on the other half of the keyboard, so that it can be pressed with the other hand, but even then only a handful of people that spend hours navigating through threaded comment jungles will teach themselves to use both input devices to aid reading threads, and it's hard to think about anyone that can fit into that category. (At first I thought about on-duty moderators of traffic-heavy forums, but they don't usually need that much of a context to notice violations.)

However, you made a good point about accessibility earlier: people with some sort of impairment might win from that kind of hybrid navigation mode. But would it be easier for them than, say, keyboard-only navigation? This area needs much more research.

> Maybe it's not only that Mattermost is better at marketing (are they?) but also that they are less "power user focused"?

Familiarity plays a significant role here. There's plenty of chat apps that look and behave in a similar way, so it's easier to pick up or switch to another one if you so desire.
I installed Matrix behind Caddy, so I followed:

- The archlinux guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Matrix
- The official doc of running it behind a proxy: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/rever...

I couldn't really test if it worked as-is, so I needed to install Riot web, still behind a proxy. It was also going to be my client of choice. That's where things got fun:

- Installing the arch package doesn't do anything, it's just a bunch of static files, so you have to know how to serve them after that
- Riot needs to go to your matrix's /.well-known/matrix/client, so you need to redirect it to your synapse server (and the previous redirect is not enough, because the previous redirect only cares about _matrix, not the root level)
- It failed for me because a setting in the synapse config (server_name) wasn't set, so I had to read the code of synapse to understand how this well-known endpoint is served.

All in all it was still doable, but took more manual steps than I expected.
I'd rather see a government order commitment. They should get cheap enough finance from the market with an order commitment.
I don't believe everything I see on the first page of Google, and you shouldn't either.
It does: for example, as djaque's comment points out, in their case this was published at conference proceeding. And of course advice can be sought in private as well.
Grep for "Exporting Types in ATS for Use in C" in http://ats-lang.sourceforge.net/DOCUMENT/INT2PROGINATS/HTML/...
> It reported that 0.04% of 10-19 year olds would probably require hospital care—as would 1.0% of people in their 20s, 3.4% of people aged 30-39, 4.3% aged 40-49, 8.2% aged 50-59, 11.8% in their 60s, 16.6% in their 70s, and 18.4% of those over 80.

This is quite a bit lower than the 20% number that people have been using for while.
What you’ve written there couldn’t possibly be reactive without compilation or wrapping it in a function. Is there something else wrapping it (a function), or is it being compiled into a different form? If it’s being compiled (so that the code means something other than it seems to), then I see no particular advantage to using TypeScript syntax, given it’s more verbose than need be.

For reference, in Svelte that’d be something like this, which is shorter and more obvious:

<div class="bold smart" id="abc" bla={true} on:click={() => { console.log("Clicked") }>
hello, {store.user.name}
</div>
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March 11; this person told Congresscritters "the CDC is overprepared for this crisis" among other odd fantasies.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?470181-1/cdc-director-redfield...

TFA asks him about his agency's "invisibility"... Assuring us they had everything in hand until it was too late; developing tests that don't work and blocking the use of tests that did... I have to say "invisibility" is the best thing they could pursue right now and hope to survive as an agency.
> "multiple cultural taboos"

Honestly asking, are Chicken Pox parties also considered taboo? I don't have kids, but it sounds sensible to me, and I've heard people talk about it like it's normal.

But if that's ok, I don't see where the difference would be to doing the same with the Coronavirus? It's just young adults instead of kids. Is that the crucial difference? Or is it because the lethality is considered higher? If yes, where does one draw the line then?

I'd consider myself a Utilitarian, so... everything is just a calculation of good and bad. Or, to reference pop culture, you could approach me with the same level of disgust as Androids are generally approached in Alien IV. But I truly have difficulty understanding how most people appear to tick, so pardon me, if I look at the numbers of the Coronavirus and just am generally confused as to why it's such a big fuss.

To me, this sounds like a great idea. Battling it with immunity and also paying the price of taking a few more additional losses outweigh grinding the world to a halt and attempting to contain it, at least, if you ask me. And since a vaccine will take too long (no one appears to deny that), there's no way around trying to get immunity, and once you've "accepted" that, the earlier we start, the better. In fact, the later we start, the more lives are at stake and the more economic damage we'll sustain.

In light of that... such a Chicken Pox party is a legitimate method as part of the immunity-strategy.
Coronavirus in sewage foreshadowed outbreak in Dutch city
Not sure what you mean by that, but Shannon's law applies with MIMO as much as anything else. A single channel is still limited by the Shannon capacity, but you can do tricks to constructively interfere on different paths, or use multiple antennas to create multiple new channels.
Not in the same price-range as SE. If I switch back to Android, I'd like to avoid the stupid premium pricing and get something cheaper, hence Android Once exclusively.
I use Directory Report on Windows. It is faster than WinDirStat
> Where did you obtain the figure of 21% outcomes being death?

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
You still have the same problem. The input is a GPS coordinate. You can just return the same value as the last X minutes but that obviously sucks since you could be X minutes off in the real time suburb of a fast moving train. You could find the nearest to the cache but then you might as well just have a list of places you're finding the nearest again. Which is what i did.
I think people often mistake bias in the moderation for bias in the moderators, ignoring that much moderation depends on flagging, which in turn is influenced by the bias of the people who were attracted to the conversation.