skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just chiming in to say I had the same "weird cold" at the end of February, all the way in Israel. I had just a day of a minor fever but before and after I had an exceptionally sore throat, coughing, general lack of focus to really do anything, and somehow no stuffy nose etc. at all. I'm used to some colds hitting worse at first then transitioning to a real cold afterwards, but a week later I only had the cough left. I didn't go to work those two weeks because of that cough, which got better but lingered for another (3rd) week.

And now I remembered 5-7 days before any cold-like symptoms started, I was at a couple work functions that included our entire US office. (So there's the possible trans-atlantic link)

I'm also waiting for an antibody test purely because of that weird experience.
Sure, it can. But its very unlikely.

0.2% chance of death for 30 year olds is roughly the same as a 30 year old's chance of dying in any given year.
The problem with your comment is that you're forgetting all sales are remote now.

Once the lockdown is over, I wouldn't bet on the company that keeps doing remote sales versus the company doing normal face to face sales.
Ask HN: Easiest way to launch a simple PHP website
Now “easiest” and “launch” could mean many different things. So let me be specific.

-A simple CRUD web app

-No new sytax to learn (just good ol' PHP)

-Simple flexible front end library (I have used Materialize CSS, is that the best?)

-Any easy way to make the MySQL pieces easier to manage? Any boilerplates?

-Any end to end integrated development environment? I have codeanywhere subscription and inmotion hosting. Is that good?

Essentially I have decent experience with PHP/MySQL from past and want to launch a simple CRUD website using as much off-the-shelf pieces as possible. Looking for the easiest path to get there.

It will be a bonus if I can wrap it into a mobile app someday as it uses location.

Also want to avoid commandline in the journey if possible. It trips me up bad.

Thanks in advance.
It might be less sensitive, but isn't there still metadata in there? Or signaling information that would let an (MITM) attacker downgrade the RTP connection?
I'd always assumed it was leadership by the shit, similarly to poppycock - https://www.etymonline.com/word/poppycock

But, that's a latin root, not greek.

Then again - it does suggest the same root: https://www.etymonline.com/word/*kakka-?ref=etymonline_cross...
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No we just need the samples and use the instruments we already have. Sequencing the viruses genome is not a complex problem technically.
RDP is definitely closer to the framebuffer style rendering than sending explicit draw commands. Newer versions of the RDP protocol have made this very efficient so it only ends up having to transmit compressed data of the changes per frame, but overall its still more of a video-like stream than true local rendering a la X11.
> the total number of Covid-19 _cases_ in the USA is less than a million

But herd immunity only kicks in if a large percentage of the population (The author mentions 80%, so 240m people in the US) is infected. And he wants those 80% to be infected within 4 weeks.

Wittkowski published a paper on March 31 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.28.20036715v... in which he predicted:

> As the curve of new cases is flattening in the U.S. at about 20,000 per day [...] the number of deaths is stabilizing at about 400/d [...]. With an expected total of less than 10,000 deaths, [...]

A look at the actual numbers (WITH mitigation strategies) demonstrates that his model is wildly wrong.
This is all temporary though. I don't understand why people fail to understand this. If you are young, there is little to worry about.
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And Whatsapp.

And how many people not having already their various metadata collected by Google and not having anything on the Apple servers?
This is true, but it might take a few hundred years. I think it would be better if we try and help the process along.
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I believe the idea here is that the tracing is done at the platform level, where you can both have different capabilities with the wireless functions of the device, and can have different privacy constraints on usage compared to those of application sandboxing.
Hah! Funny, I was just talking to my flatmate yesterday about Bernays :)

+1 on the recommendation for Century of the Self by Adam Curtis.

There's a snippet in there about how Bernays was brought in during the creation of easy bake goods ie add 2 eggs and some butter to make some fudge (as I did yesterday)

Anyway, they initially tried to just have no ingredients required but during trials with housewives, found they felt like imposters who lacked agency during the baking process.

The solution? The baker adds one egg, which isn't included in the ready mix ingredients
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)
COVID is unlikely dramatically more deadly than the flu, so the question is, if you're okay sharing your health data over COVID, why not the flu? It kills 650,000 people (60,000 Americans) every single year. The reality is widespread panic moments are when we lose our civil rights.

Remember 9/11? That year more people died slipping and falling in the shower than died in the twin towers. More people died because they chose to drive short distances instead of flying than died in the twin towers. And we got the Patriot act and a trillion dollar war. Humans have a way of overreacting.
> Using separate variables instead of reusing the same variable will sometimes actually increase the optimizations that compilers can do

LLVM optimizations, for instance, often need the IR to be in SSA form (static single Assignment).
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From a philosophical perspective, I would say this is an example of the inherent finitudes of human understanding. And I would add that such finitudes are deeply intertwined with many other basic finitudes of human existence.
People saying 6 trillion should remember that the assets being bought are probably worth more than zero but less than one so actually amount is in between the two
Maybe litigation about the earbuds being too quiet might happen if someone doesn’t hear something behind them like a car horn or oncoming something. I used to wear noise cancelling headphones while walking to work in downtown SF. It was too much cancellation that bothered me because I couldn’t hear anything approaching me from behind. I can easily see the opposite happen if someone was killed with the OG firmware. “Are AirPods too quiet? Do they put you at risk?”
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I used TP from 3.0 to 7.0 and a little bit of Delphi 1, and contemporary Turbo C; I dropped to assembly often, dropped TP bound checking often, and was well aware of all these controls.

Parsing with a *ptr++ in TC was not matched by TP until IIRC v7; 16 bit watcom often produced way better code than either TP or TC.

And, as you say, indeed when speed was really needed, you dropped to assembly; no compiler at the time would properly generate “lodsb” inside a loop, although watcom did in its late win3 target days IIRC.
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At an interview, Albert Szent-Györgyi states basically the same: "You shouldn't fill your head with "szecska" (chaff?). You should keep knowledge in books where you can look it up and use your head only for thinking."

The whole interview was inspiring. It's about learning and exploration. Worth watching if you understand Hungarian:
https://youtu.be/rtqhA4TtBrI
I still dont understand the proposition. Do you want to make loans to employees and get repayment from their salary like the link? Or provide employees with financial education? I have experience in the Polish financial services market, and worked in partnership with Polish banks, so would like to offer my view.
This lines up with a principle from the Toyota Production System (TPS) in manufacturing--reduce complexity.

In TPS, they found that a focus on reducing complexity leads to improvements in the metrics you'd want to measure: better quality, reduced costs, and customer satisfaction.
The ratio of asymptomatic to symptomatic people has been measured, and it's not nearly as high as you're saying. China has been quarantining and testing every single person entering the country, and they find that 2/3rds of cases are asymptomatic.

Moreover, Germany has conducted a randomized serological survey of the population of one town where there was a large outbreak, and determined that the true mortality rate was about 0.4%, which is an order of magnitude higher than mortality due to the flu. That's the mortality if there's excellent healthcare and the system isn't overwhelmed. Mortality will also depend on the age structure of the population, rates of obesity and smoking, etc.

Because a large fraction of the population is immune to the seasonal flu (both through vaccination and previous infection), far fewer people contract it than would contract CoVID-19 in an uncontrolled epidemic.

The combination of a much larger rate of infection than the flu and far higher mortality means that CoVID-19 would kill orders of magnitude more people in one year.
If you are surprised the I wonder if you have been paying any attention, at all.
A real Howard Hughes here!
I was using (well trying to use) FreeRDP/XRDP for a while to work with my multiple Linux machines from the Windows client. Soon I've discovered that it was not XRDP working for me but the other way around. I replaced it with NoMachine and and never looked back since.

Now I am somewhat curious but frankly from a practical standpoint I have very little motivation to stop doing what I am doing just to check this new one. It will disrupt my routine for the sake of completely unknown outcome which in the best case will let me have what I already have now. And in the worst case - the opposite of sky is the limit.

This is not to discourage developers but just to show what missed opportunity might cost should there be more people like myself.
Can you ask this person to write to me directly as I think they have missed what is novel about my proposal and have instead focused on what is not.
>My limited but non-zero experience in real-world situations has shown that "Angry Mobs" are far more likely to be armed than "Peaceful people"

And my point is that it doesn't really matter that much if the angry mob is armed or not, whereas you having one can have a huge impact on the outcome. There are a lot more of them than you. They can very easily kill you with a gun or without one. But you cannot possibly hope to dissuade any angry group of people from attacking you without at least a gun. Obviously it won't make you invincible, and gets less likely to help as the size of the mob increases (for that situation, you'd want to have a bunch of other armed people at your side), but that's not the point.

>which is why I've vouched/upvoted your comments - we're all allowed a personal & subjective perspective and it tests our ideas:

Downvoting to show disagreement is pretty sad behavior.
I’m honestly not sure how this relates to what I said. Are you agreeing? I’m not saying trump did a good job, just proposing that airport screenings may not have made a difference
Were people in 1957 forced to alter their behavior so significantly?

I’ve been spending $5+/day at starbucks every single day for the last 15 years. I’d often go morning and afternoon. Lately I’ve had to make my coffee at home. The first week or so sucked. The baristas did a much better job. But I had to make it work so I’d tweak things here and there until I got it right. Now I can pretty much make the same drink I was buying. It’s much faster and much cheaper. I don’t see myself going back to starbucks nearly as frequently as I used to when this is over.
Why is it good to have lower volatility? Doesn't that usually mean lower expected returns?
As a data scientist, most of my projects have been individual--I'm generally the only person writing and reading my code. No one tells me which language I have to use. Python and R are the most popular, and I use either one depending on which has better packages for the task at hand. I don't use Julia because I don't see enough of a benefit to switching at this point. But I really don't care, they're just tools, and I will use any language, Julia, Swift, whatever, if I see enough of a benefit to learning it. I would just take a day or two and learn enough of it to write my scripts in it.

So I think that's the good news--because of the more independent nature of the work, you generally can win data scientists over to a new language one at a time, you don't necessarily need to win over an entire organization at once.

Getting a company or a large open-source project to switch from C++ to Swift or Rust or whatever, seems much harder.
Take your concept from idea to a manufactured product in Shenzhen
Not if you select a strain with the right mutation.
I mostly use Ida for exploit development, and have been struggling to find ways to connect the debugger to a proc spawned by pwntools. It’s much easier to use gdb-gef and pwntools directly. I don’t know how much of a killer feature the debugger is to others, but to me ghidra still seems easier to use.
XHTML tried to do this after the webmasters (loosely defined) had fled the barn, and then it fell out of the world and the WHATWG ate everything.
A framework is usually the foundational code for an app, for sure. In this case it was a bona fide JavaScript framework, Ext JS.

It is that big because it implements a lot of things that other frameworks don't even try to try thinking about, things mostly used to build very boring line of business applications (think thousands of forms, huge grids, reports with charts, etc). Applications built with Ext JS can easily dwarf the framework itself; the biggest I've seen personally was ~30 mb of minified ES5 JavaScript.

...and it worked in IE8, BTW. :)
Wow, thanks for this. I hope they can get that fixed in the next version.
Why? None of what he said suggests to me than an incompetent women would be hired over a competent man. The outrage over incentivizing minority hires is ridiculous to me. You’re more likely not to get hired because of random noise in the interview process than because you happened to apply at the same time as an equally qualified minority. If companies like google were actually actively discriminating against competent asian/white male developers in favor of minorities their engineer demographics wouldn’t be 80%+ asian/white male. There’s also legitimate business interests for a company to have a diverse body of engineers and managers.
I’ve been picking up both ghidra and ida and have found ghidra to be much simpler.
The exponential curve in deaths and ICU admissions is independent of testing (and wouldn’t exist if the virus had been endemic in the population before March).
NN updates can take a long time to be trained, verified, and deployed. Especially if your talking a wide scale network of cameras.

Some of these approaches are 7+ years old and still work.
Of course, but in this pandemic we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Waiting for the perfect vaccine to be developed will have a very high cost. There are no easy options here.
Honestly, I'd wear that dress easily, even for regular outings, not just for hiding from cameras. Those hoodies, though, maybe I'm an old fart but they're a bit too "abstract". Sadly, those seem like the most effective option right now. I read the Adversarial Patch article [0] and it pretty much demonstrated similar patterns.

Trouble is, if these get widespread enough - they won't look out of place but the moment they become widespread is the moment updates get pushed to make them obsolete. It's an unescapable situation.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09665
> Currently, there is no evidence to support transmission of COVID-19 by food.

https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-during-emergencies/food...
You can't just compute 60% multiplied by US population, 20% of Americans are children.

You also probably only need contact tracing in certain high risk geographies, urban centers, and a few suburban centers.

60% of the remaining can definitely fall under the "knowledgeable, willing, personally able (authorized to install app), technologically able (app works with their devices), and vigilant". Even if you don't hit 60%, you're still reducing R0 by enough that you can carefully start to re-open certain parts of the economy.
I think the joke is that there were no Soviet housewives in the year 2000 anymore, so the statement "all Soviet housewives now have a nuclear reactor in their home" is correct.
good point! haven't optimized really yet for mobile
Yes I have, but the people I am trying to reach are not medical researchers, but people able to think outside the box.
I don't believe that pertains to software and advanced flight control systems.

Instead things like larger displays, munition mount points, and radar cross sections, etc.

The avionics provided are a modern variant of legacy systems, where the "cutting edge" is classified and held under strict expert control.
I was hopeful that Xpra would provide reconnectable remote sessions for me on my Linux workstations but I found it pretty difficult to configure with poor documentation. If there are any better installation guides out there, I'd appreciate a pointer to them.
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Lots of people up in arms about Zoom et al but I personally don't care. If Microsoft or Zoom wants to foot the bill to give me HQ video I'd rather take that then waste my own bandwith on p2p.

Some of the security threats to zoom are real of course, but I couldn't care less if Microsoft uses telemetry or whatever if I get a good service in return. I log into 20 different things with Google and Facebook and Microsoft already
I knew this would be in the comments before even opening the page. This thing has been getting shared a ton lately since it was just uploaded 2 weeks ago. I think it kind of goes to show how many people empathize with the video.
Anytime. You should still build one! It was a lot of fun to build.

Thanks for the offer, but right now I don't see a need for any donations/self hosting. Maybe that will come, but at the moment a relatively small single DO box is handling it pretty well.
There is a large percentage of the world’s population that can’t access any hospital, let alone get treatment.
I see articles in the news media about data other than U-3, so I don't think your question is well-formed.
>God damn, there is no way this is anything other than just brazenly obvious insider trading.

How do you figure?
also in the backlog! thanks!
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Anti-ALPR patterns really should be using diplomatic plates from the axis of evil countries for extra fun.
I see cool, ill look into some better error handling!
Except that in this case Google are trying to produce a new contact tracing dataset rather than just giving the government access to the location data they already have.

Some ideas as to why:

- lots of people have iPhones and Apple have made efforts to make them less trackable so maybe there isn’t enough data about enough people

- google are scared that this would lead to their data collection/retention being more regulated

- The location data google collect just isn’t granular enough

- google don’t want to give the government access to their location data because they believe strongly that it should be private between google and the people being tracked/they’re scared that people will react badly as they begin to realise how much data google collects about them
Bankruptcy (which doesn't always result in companies failing) is a form of government bailout. You can't criticize bailouts and government unwillingness to let companies fail, and at the same time point to bankruptcy as a desirable tool.
Thanks. I wasn’t using my battery anyways.
I'm not sure why it's a question of "going to be". The scenario in most states is better than New York, and has been for a while, even though many of them confirmed their first case earlier.
> Moreover, Germany has conducted a randomized serological survey of the population of one town where there was a large outbreak...

1. Results showed 0.37% mortality rate, which is an order of magnitude lower than the fatality rates being published, which is what I claimed -- so I re-iterate: "The numbers we're seeing are an upper-bound, by an order of magnitude." [1]

2. 14% of their town has had it already. [1]

3. That 0.37% rate includes all the old and at-risk folks which I was already suggesting we isolate. Since we know the fatality rate for them is 9% in hospital vs 0.1%, I'd suggest that the actual mortality rate of my plan would be incredibly low. [1] We don't know the demographic distribution of the town, and we do know that the disease is incredibly age-dependent so it's hard to project that onto the population.

Either way the flu is 0.1% so this isn't 10X worse, it's 3.7X worse. At most.

4. The study shows 15% of them are already immune to COVID.

[edit] I found the data [2]. Out of a population of 12,000, 6500 of them are in a risk group (over 45). So 55% of town. This needs to be projected onto the world population factoring into account non-linear risk response.

> Because a large fraction of the population is immune to the seasonal flu (both through vaccination and previous infection), far fewer people contract it than would contract CoVID-19 in an uncontrolled epidemic.

I don't think they are. The flu mutates regularly, and there's a ton of strains. Vaccinations are only 19-60% effective depending on the year. This is evidenced by the 650,000 worldwide deaths (60,000 US) and the 45,000,000 US cases of the flu each year.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/09/999015/blood-tes...

[2] https://www.citypopulation.de/en/germany/nordrheinwestfalen/...
Yes this is something that needs to be looked at more. How much does their wealth grow from the time they enter to the time they exit congress. Some politicians seem to get very wealthy while in congress.

“You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.”
It is true. A substantial fraction of the population is immune to the circulating seasonal flu, both through vaccination and previous infection with closely related strains.

Only 5-20% of the population gets the flu each year. 60-70% of the population would have to get CoVID-19 before herd immunity brought the reproductive number below 1.
Correction as per video at 8 minutes: https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU
> We document that a portfolio that mimics the purchases of U.S. Senators beats the market by 85 basis points per month, while a port- folio that mimics the sales of Senators lags the market by 12 basis points per month. The large difference in the returns of stocks bought and sold (nearly one percentage point per month) is economically large and reliably positive.

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How about an inkjet plotter and a big spool of paper... later revisions might dabble with erasable ink and surface combinations. If it is monochromatic, it might even be able to collect and recycle the ink.
If you're in the fortunate position to have some capital during this crisis, this is an ideal time to start a soft-tech or low cost R&D intensive startup that can be seeded remotely. Competition will be largely wiped out relative to supply of dollars and plenty of market share will be there for the taking when the world opens back up for business. I imagine there will be a disproportionate number of big winners that were founded in 2020.