skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Milk it by tanking GDP? I'm sure that will do well for government revenue this year.

I'm sure Trump was just itching to shut down international travel, recommend reduced productivity, and mail everyone checks. He just needed a good excuse.
Aren't those good threads? PAIP is highly regarded around here, for example.
Sure.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-brazil-trial-fo...
> but I don't see why that's a critical feature for a plan to keep the economy running well

Wow, I knew HNers were "affluent," but I didn't know they were this out of touch. If the people buying the iPhone you're coding software for die of starvation or due to lack of access to medical services, where do you think your salary is going to come from?

> There are many important problems that just don't have much to do with income inequality.

Like what?
I have never heard about it. Thanks for sharing
Why LinuxOne is the perfect infrastructure for Blockchain
> but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones

This.
Well first of all, there are things that can be done in camera better than they can be done in post in any reasonable amount of time. Image stacking is one of those, since alignment even with the best software is spotty, and cameras could include fairly robust accelerometers to do a bunch of the work in the background. There's also currently no depth info in DSLR images, so image processing involving depth of field isn't going to work unless you do the work by hand, which is quite laborious. In addition, it would be very nice if HDR pictures could be taken by my full-frame camera. I don't necessarily want or need to deal with bracketing in lightroom just to get an extra couple stops of dynamic range.

You're right that the best image stabilization is opto-mechanical, but it would be very nice to have access to digital image stabilization as well as in-body and in-lens stabilization. Again, a decent accelerometer can go a long way.

Honestly, most of what I'd like to see has involved image stacking in one form or another. Digital ND filters are the same idea.

And don't get me started on ergonomics and usability. I definitely picked the worst camera brand in terms of user interface (sony), but all the DSLRs and mirrorless cameras I've touched are noticably lacking in that department. I don't necessarily need a giant phone screen like my S9+, but I would expect a device costing $2000+ to at least have a fairly high resolution OLED panel on the back of it with solid touch controls. Meanwhile touch controls are distinctly lacking in any camera I've tried.

Software is important too!
You’re overestimating the difficulty of this. But don’t trust me. Go talk to a generics drug manufacturer in India yourself.
Might be that some people still remember the Bluetooth from 2010 or so.

These days, I charge my wireless headphones once a week. When I turn them on, they are connected before I have opened the music app. The connection is stable. When I stop playing sound on my phone and start sound on my laptop, they automatically switch to that. Their microphone is perfectly fine for calling people.
Ok, so when you say "no file system should be doing random writes", you should make it clear that you're not trying to describe file systems that actually exist in any sort of production-ready state. I would generally agree with a statement that new filesystems should be designed to avoid random writes except to solid state media. But for users wanting to deploy a real filesystem now to commodity hardware, the recommendation has to be "avoid SMR", not "use a smarter FS and tiered storage hardware".
Tamiflu has always been a joke considering the 24h window you have to start using it for such little payoff. It's disturbing how much money is wasted on stockpiling it.
I heard that submarines are called "boats" because "ships" are targets...
So you think they were mistaken to stop the trial? Or what?
I wonder what happened with the WHO study: "20,000 healthcare workers [will receive] #chloroquine [and] will be tested daily as currently used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis for three months or until they are diagnosed with COVID-19."

https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/R...
"collected data to emulate a target trial"
I take it this means it's not an actual clinical trial, just a virtual trial? What's the point?
Of all the people that died, none were saved by the drug. Sounds like an insurance ad.
It's a computing device I use for at least a couple hours every day, and which I never leave the house without. Once my current phone breaks I'd just like to buy a new one I can keep in my pants pocket :)
The other side has an equal and opposite formulation of the division.
What is Anemic Domain Model and why it can be harmful?
Wildlife collapse from climate change is predicted to hit suddenly and sooner
Like Coke and Diet Coke and Coke Zero
Why is that the most preposterous hypothesis that doesn't warrant any review?

We have no reliable antibody tests, and then won't give the unreliable ones people because they are so rare. So where does the confidence come from that we can rule out this possibility?

What if this is already the "second wave". Something with lower symptoms wouldn't have warranted checking for a new strain, complications and deaths would fit into the normal distribution of last fall's flu season with no outlier spikes. We would then be deep into the second wave and can't even test most for people currently exposed to it, much less having already been exposed. This is enough not to dismiss the hypothesis.
Here are the first (1947) and last (1996) observations that are digitized. The last, one the spots are very faint, in the lower-right-hand side of the Sun.

1. https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/db/science_engineering/sun...

2. https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/db/science_engineering/sun...
His personal website is here. Sounds like we was about 48y.o when he started down the path of becoming a doctor.

https://drbrianlevy.com/
Dell (today) announced no raises for the year, no hiring, and for non-exempt, no overtime approval (without a lot of authorization).
I'm an American, too. It's funny that those Merriam-Webster definitions are so mild. I've always "known" nonplussed to indicate a fairly extreme state, like gobsmacked.

I quoted definitions from Google's search snippet.
I'm just going to buy 2 old SEs on Ebay and swap units when my current SE finally dies. No way am I paying $400 for a bunch of features I don't need (better camera) plus a bunch of anti-features I want to avoid (no audio jack, still too big).
Amen. The whole scenario seems like a bad statistics lesson.

Happy to change my mind -- but there simply hasn't been any effort to use population testing in this way -- which is one of the only useful forms of testing. Otherwise, why test people in the hospital? It doesn't change treatment. Finding asymptomatics is actually useful -- and random sampling seems critical for understanding whether we are simply fucked or actually fubar'd.
Our main business is improving utilization of physical meeting spaces (via the same scheduling product) - we are building out an E2E solution including meeting room tablet SW, guest check-in experiences & real estate planning analytics. The idea is that this will more than just a scheduling tool on top of calendar but rather a full suite of products to help real estate planning & utilization. This will also allow us to gather a lot more data about office space than currently exists in G Suite / Exchange giving us a moat as well
ah, well if OP wants me to get one and do something with it and my bi-pap i'm happy to help.
Scheduling is a tough problem. In my experience with Clockwise, my focus time has increased. Best of all, I don't have to constantly spend time to get the benefits.
So OnePlus released an expensive phone and Apple released a good cheaper phone. This COVID-19 surely has flipped the world upside down.
Most Android distributions (including Samsung's) have a one-handed mode that enables a gesture to shrink the screen into one of the bottom corners.
So, what you're saying is if we can teach burnt-out medics to code…
The most outrageous part is committing that lawyer into a psychiatric institution. (Almost) unbelievable.

More generally, the Corona virus is not an excuse to disallow protest activity, at the very least - even if one believes that such activity endangers the protesters' health. Not to mention the fact that it is quite possible (though perhaps less effective) to protest while maintaining a 2-meter distance from others.
Thanks for reminding me about this Wired article from 1995:

https://www.wired.com/1995/07/democoders/

Web version is missing all the screenshots and crazy '90s print design, unfortunately.
I don't think I've ever wanted to know that, actually. Void is totally fine for my use.
Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500k
Working on public policy is a worthwhile (and uphill) fight for sure. But it lacks imagination to suggest that impact at scale isn't possible in tech (examples: robust low cost medtech for non G7 economies, same for finance in those markets, support systems for large scale NGO efforts, access to justice efforts, etc. etc.). Clearly these opportunities exist, but they may be under resourced relative to lucrative tech options.
"A week after retirement, I decided to pursue my not-so-secret lifetime dream to become a Physician."
Rash looks great. You honestly sound way more qualified to do this than I do. It makes me happy to hear that so many people have had the same idea/wanted the same thing. Racket is uniquely positioned to do this. I would definitely be interested in the GUI portion of this. Who knows maybe one day something will appear in a Racket News blog post ;)
I had the great pleasure to walk through one of the original models used for shooting exhibited at Bavaria Filmstadt [0].

I believe the guide said that it had to be scaled up by ~25% to fit the cameras at the time and it was still incredibly claustrophobic.

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/uEKtGzQ4wHd78CWW9
>> Their mortality numbers looked to be about 0.6% early on, but eventually hit 2% a month after the peak with people spending weeks in critical condition.

I see this repeated often but this is a misrepresentation of the statistics. Case fatality rate (CFR) is not the same as mortality rate. The CFR is the ratio between deaths and confirmed cases, mortality rate is the ratio between deaths and total number of people infected. The former number is 2% in South Korea now, the latter can not be measured directly without testing 100% of the population continually during the entire timespan of the outbreak, but it is (practically speaking) by definition significantly lower than 2%, unless there is a huge number of unaccounted Covid-19 deaths, which is very unlikely.
However in this paper the authors tried to show is it's stability over time. So overall their "findings" indicate ip addresses should not be overlooked in privacy protection.s they stated as follows:

"... Over time, a
same device communicates with our server using a set of distinct IP
addresses, but we find that devices reuse some of their previous IP
addresses for long periods of time. We call this IP address retention."
Any high level official recommending it is a bad thing in itself.

The major issue is that there isn't enough evidence there for drug companies to put in money to ramp up supply. Heck, there wasn't enough evidence for Trump, who had just signed a trillion dollar stimulus, to divert a few tens of millions of dollars to ramp up supply.

Yet, you are telling a bunch of people who may never be able to make use of it to go buy the existing supply on the market. This existing supply exists because there are people who have actual proven needs of the drug, and as a result now you've also made the drug unavailable for uses where it's actually been proven to work.
That's nonsense. The marketing around Product Red are that you can buy the same product you want in a color that you want and donate to charity without changing your behavior at all. That's the only association being made.

You're projecting right now. So hard.
Lathi charge in Mumbai as thousands garther in lockdown protest
Well, you could use HTTP over an IPSec tunnel with a pre-shared key (obviously distributed face-to-face), and that would have been resistant to a CA being hijacked.

However, nowadays, I believe with CT HTTPS is really safe. But again, someone had to nitpick on the security limitations of HTTPS for CT to be invented.
I think you underestimate how things can go from apathetic to extremely violent in a short period of time. There have been lots of violent (and non-violent) mass protests in several countries of Europe, for far smaller reasons, during last few years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_England_riots, France has the yellow west movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_-W2_X5yS8 (this is happening despite the shutdown), Spain violently shut down Catalan independence last year, Italy is governed by a protest party, Germany had the Pegida and Friday's for Future Protests).
Surely this is what I’m paying taxes for.

Could go to healthcare for all, fixing my roads and access to education, creating a strong resilient nation for all of us.

But this is so much better.
What's with the US and Checks? Can your financial institution not get on with the time and offer internet/mobile banking? Not to be an arse but it seems very backward in many ways.
There's a distinction in HR. Colloquially, "fired" means "involuntary dismissal of any sort."

Edit: To be clear, by colloquially I mean how people tend to use the word in practice.
French news is pretty clear on that.

https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/la-justice-demand...

> stop the delivery of non-essential products until is put in place an evaluation of the risks and measures necessary to protect the employees health

https://www.capital.fr/entreprises-marches/amazon-va-fermer-...

> order the online shop to limit itself to sell "essential products" (food, hygiene or medical) as long as the sanitary risks of the activity in the warehouse haven't been evaluated

Edit: better source

https://www.lesechos.fr/economie-france/social/coronavirus-l...

>But the American e-commerce giant was condemned to "restrict the activities of [its] warehouses to receiving goods, preparing and shipping orders for food, hygiene and medical products", "until the company has carried out, with the participation of employee representatives, an assessment of the occupational risks inherent in the Covid-19 epidemic in all of its distribution centres and the resulting measures".
Past performance does not indicate future return, but so far I'm seeing no reason not to distrust Toshiba hard drives at the very least given the Backblaze stats. I've bought 8 Toshiba drives with zero problems over several years on aggressively used drives but I've had several failures across drive families over the past 10 years with Western Digital drives of different batches and lines.

One of the dangers of blending drives is that there are sometimes drive geometry incompatibilities that can screw up RAID. Saw someone show they had drives that are a few cylinders off and can't replace drives now with certain replacements.
Just FYI -- Most colo facilities are prohibiting customer access during the COVID-19 lockdowns and have gone to 'smart hands' only for health and safety reasons.
Do you have a link to that? I'd love to know more about why this would be the case.
What Natural Remedies Can You Take for Migraine Headaches?
Your quote does not dispute her being placed in a psychiatric institution, it only says that it wasn't part of the investigation - which isn't saying much; institutionalizing people is typically not part of a criminal investigation.
Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?
With reference to the other post here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22875106), I’m once again fascinated by Emacs and the following it has. I know vi (learned it quite sometime ago) and though I’m not a power user, I can do a lot of things in vi without putting in much effort or searching online for solutions.

So I’m here to ask for resources — text based tutorials, video tutorials and what not — that would help someone grok Emacs (from a novice level) and get into the Emacs way of doing things (including elisp?).

I would also like recommendations on what (package/source) you consider as the best to install on macOS and on Linux.
As soon as I heard that the Fed was going to do a cash injection. I knew that covid-19 was just a pretext.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22560017

And now we're seeing article after article just proving me right.
15% of pregnant woman in NYC that delivered had active Covid infections (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316) detectable by PCR. It's highly unlikely under 20% of the population was infected. I'd bet closer to the 30% in fact.
If you view it as them having to make a decision on 44 million items there is no time frame that you can make sound reasonable. Is categorizing 44 million in a day reasonable? I don't know. I personally wouldn't have thought categorizing 6 million was reasonable. But then again the fine is 2cents per item they stock per day, so it sounds pretty reaosnable.
So that's why it's so hard to find things like flour or toilet paper right now? Nothing to do with supply chains and manufacturing, just too much regulation? Can't wait until we repeal the 4-ply rule!
Why would the rest of the country have the exact same percentage of infected as New York City, the only place in the country where most people don't own cars, and almost everyone takes cramped public transportation. NYC clearly has a MUCH higher infection rate than anywhere else in the country.
Not entirely true. Look up 'Silicon Errata' and you will find some examples. Its actually interesting stuff
> Thanks for sharing this, not sure why you're getting downvoted.

Because TCM is - charitably - pseudoscience. Many of its remedies involve grinding up endangered animals into concoctions that have no plausible mechanism of treating the thing they're meant to treat.

> I've had anecdotal experience that it's helpful for milder coronavirus symptoms.

I have anecdotal experience that my microsorium musifolium plant has been effective in preventing coronavirus infection in my household. Unfortunately, just like your statement, this doesn't qualify as evidence and shouldn't be used to make public health decisions.
The case for better-than-random splits
>I thought any human trial needs at least a full one-year follow-up to make sure ...

Depends what you mean by "need". If you're talking about a risk/benefit calculation for getting a vaccination, I expect it will play out very differently for high-risk elderly folks vs low-risk young adults.
How did you go bankrupt?

Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Closed libraries are offering parking lot Wi-Fi, e-books, and Zoom story time
The latency difference means the two are suited for very different real-world workloads. But they're similar enough in the access patterns they prefer that the software work to make your IO fit those patterns can be shared between SMR and flash.
Everyone who feels passionately on a topic accuses us of selectively enforcing standards against them. That's the bias I linked to upthread. If you look at those examples, the pattern is quite plain. For example, if you held the opposite view you'd be accusing me of anti-China racism (people have done so) rather than pro-Communist shillage or whatever.

Users who post thoughtful, substantive comments on either side of this issue don't run into problems with moderation. The point is that this is a site for curious conversation, not ideological or political battle. We can't have both, for the same reason you can't have a tank battle in a flower garden.

I have zero idea what will please Y Combinator's investors. From my point of view, the only thing that matters is keeping Hacker News interesting, because that's what keeps the community thriving, and that's what's most in YC's interests. I realize that people have reason to be skeptical about such claims, but being able to run HN that way is why I'm willing to do this job. Most other places on the internet, this wouldn't be possible, because the site would need to make money directly (e.g. by selling ads) or to push growth at all costs, either of which would kill HN as we know it.

HN is in a sweet spot that way, compared to how other sites of its kind need to operate. The reason is mostly a historical accident of how HN and YC grew up together, plus the fact that YC's business benefits more from HN being the way it is than it would from a different sort of community. The aren't many businesses in whose interest it would be to fund a site like this.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Well we need to measure if people have it and if people have had it. The have it test is currently $3000 a pop, and the had it test is hitting accuracy road blocks [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-authorities-roll-out-new...
WHO issues guidelines for lifting coronavirus restrictions. Is Canada ready?
Thousands face Police violence in India amidst coronavirus lockdown protest
5.7 in Wuhan. That could be true for NYC as well, but is far less likely to be true in the rest of the lower density country. That said I agree with you that infections are likely in the 10M range.
Wow, currently a single thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878765

occupies the entire first page of these comments, with 367 replies. Is this optimal?

Edit: looks like this has fixed/modified, some of the replies have been broken out into top-level threads. Might be time for auto-collapsing of replies like Reddit.
Make sure you get a good perspective from a trusted friend in the medical community before making any big moves (if you haven't already). For the uninitiated, it's the furthest thing from a low-stress job. For some people, the passion outweighs the stress. But despite knowing countless people in medicine, I can only think of one that still professes to love her job - the rest were burned out long before covid.
Do you need any kind of doctors order for that or health insurance?

Like how does it work? Would love to go do that
Instructional Systems Design
I first got into coding at 15 after chatting with the admin of an MMORPG private server I played on often over IRC on QuakeNet. Eventually I discovered that there was more than QuakeNet, and a group of moderators from forum network I followed had an IRC server. There I made a couple of friends and started learning PHP, getting into building my own websites.

I enjoyed it a lot, and I decided that as I got older I'd start my own company building apps! It grew from there, getting my first job locally and a couple of years later joined a startup.
You need to have some selection beforehand. There's not enough manufacturing capacity to go around.
You are right, but b) has an obvious logical fallacy. It assumes essentially that only intelligent people can win the lottery. Of course, this won't matter for the political discourse.
You shouldn't limit price value or velocity, as evidenced by the perverse effects of rent control laws. However, a limit on price acceleration could provide a good balance, allowing the market to adjust on a reasonable time-scale, such that humans can react.

That's my theory for immigration controls as well. Economic theory suggests that unlimited flow of human capital is just as valuable as unlimited flow of financial capital. However, we know that shock movements of financial capital can be bad, and instinctively people dislike shock movements of people. A good solution for both is to limit not velocity, but acceleration. The economy can absorb a steady flow, but needs time to react to rate changes.
I don't think the headphone jack is coming back. Ever.