skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like RT-PCR tests. Serological tests probably aren’t available in that scale yet (unsure).

Regardless, it’s going to be extremely interesting now that countries start doing random serological tests.

I read today about a group of Swedish athletes who visited a competition in Wuhan in October and some developed severe respiratory issues afterwards that couldn’t be diagnosed.

Edit: 5 were tested and 1 was positive which was interpreted as being a later infection. So no October infection.
Ask HN: Where are the 'good' conversations happening about Covid-19?
Where online are there productive & intelligent conversations happening about 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

I have found myself digging through HN comments for some of the smarter commentary on the topic. Is this my best bet right now?

I'm having a hard time talking in-depth among my network of friends/family/colleagues since there are so many potentially polarizing topics, misinformation. I'm looking for places where people are talking about fact/knowledge/data-driven opinions and conclusions on all of this...

There's obviously so many questions, and unknowns, but can we collect links to places where good conversations about 'all of this' are happening so we can all dive in and learn and start forming some evidence-based opinions?
I mean complete replacement of a currency and its German savers that have the fear that their savings will become worthless
@dang can you update the link to https? That seems to also work.
Several Utah startups have had layoffs due to COVID, not sure about the numbers for most of these though.

Rainfocus

Domo: 10% of workforce

Vivint Smart Home

HireVue

Divvy employees have been told that layoffs are inevitable.

No whispers yet of layoffs at the two Ycombinator startups in the state (Weave and Podium)
Note that essentially all modern battery systems essentially do this under the hood. The "100%" shown to the user isn't the most you could charge the cells, just as high as you want to charge it to meet lifetime degradation targets. Tesla just goes a bit crazier here and exposes more headroom because they can rely on drivers being more involved in charging strategies.
If it's trained off of bug tracker data, I have to wonder how often it's simply detecting the employee provided description of the security risk.
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It still takes extra staff to make this happen. Normal grocery staff isn't just wandering around the store aimlessly; they're restocking and doing other administrative tasks. Most of those tasks don't just go away when you move to a curbside pickup model. You still need to hire and train more people to fulfill orders.
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maybe not, but it's probably not much worse than the optimal charge state. you want to keep a lipo cell at 3.7v for optimal longevity. usually this corresponds to above 20% charge but below 80%, but the concept of "charge level" is sort of arbitrary. the manufacturer has already set safety buffers on either end of the spectrum, but the exact amount will vary based on risk tolerance, application, etc.
Those are all British now. Just as words have etymologies, cuisine (and probably most aspects of culture, really) travels and becomes adopted.
Today there's been a new result from antibody tests in the netherlands done on blood dononrs which showed about 3% infection rate. Extrapolated to the population that would imply 500k infections, 20x higher than the official stats.

The Heinsberg study isn't the only source pointing to this. Almost a month ago the NYT also ran a story on randomly tested Iranian airplane passengers which suggested that as of that time there may already have been 500k-5mil infections in the country.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/dutch-study-sugges...
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I find the use of the word "midget" to be insulting.
This article is basically just saying we don't know enough to be certain how long immunity will last. It's packaging zero new information under a clickbaity title.
3 Day Fast Results: How fasting affected my productivity during quarantine
Blind is the resource I use now to scratch the same itch
And cigarettes. Smokers must be going insane.
Adding to that, Netherlands' study of antibodies in blood donors' samples shows about 10x difference between the number of reported / tested cases and actual cases in the general population (i.e. a lot more people got it and were not sick):

https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/16/world/europe/16re...?
I appreciate this effort ... when we thought things were going to get bad in late February, we put about 3 months of food in our larder (like a root cellar but reachable from the basement of our house). We've been ordering about every 2 weeks just to keep it replenished just in case things get significantly worse. I've got three at risk people in my house so we can't really afford for any of (the five of) us to catch this.
How does the price compare to traditional survey methods?
workspaces (in my personal point of view) would cover a chunk of what this company is talking about but doesn't tie into or focus on the developer workflow. that product is perfect for general office machines, but developers likely want the option for more control and need different features
Sure, but people with PW managers are reducing their long-term inconvenience by paying a little bit up front. I don't use a PW manager for any security benefit but because it makes it easier to sign into things.

Hell, I store my 2FA keys in my pw manager and have it autofill those too -- a reduction in security! But there are some services that refuse to not spam your phone number if you don't set up some 2FA.
Worldwide Cases and Deaths
Yeah, but even for fairly technical people, there's a lot more of a learning curve there than there needs to be (starting up an instance is easy, getting all the security stuff set up is more of a pain). Having something which is easier to manage without all the complexity of AWS seems reasonable.
You're really just describing a bespoke scheme to create an ad-hoc good image. It's much simpler (and therefore secure) to just do a bit-for-bit full image copy.

Hashes etc are the DRM direction I was talking about. A continuing push to lock phones to some remote root of trust under the guise of security, while making them tougher to actually secure by making them less transparent.
When you read API docs, what's important?
Are you of the opinion that this is simply just a slightly worse flu?

> All the data points to the fact that coronavirus is more widespread and less deadly than most outlets are reporting

You couldn't be more wrong. There are nurses and doctors working on the front lines dealing with patients, and they're completely and utterly overloaded. Lack of resources. Lack of help from local and federal governments. They're the ones telling us this is way more deadly than it seems.
They could probably get away with changing what is technically 95% to read as '100'

I realised the other day that Macs don't give 'battery time remaining' anymore, although I'm not sure when that was removed

Edit: apparently you can still see time remaining in Activity Monitor
Is there a 4900HS laptop around already that can be recommended for Linux usage?
I use it both on iOS and macOS and it’s become substantially better in the last year or so, especially in terms of the two clients syncing with each other.
Are you using Amazon Prime Now for Whole Foods delivery? In SF I wasn't able to get a delivery window for several days (admittedly I wasn't checking more than a couple of times per day), but on night on a whim I decided to check right after midnight and was able to schedule a delivery for 2 days in the future. Obviously a tiny sample size, but it appears they only ever schedule for 2 days in advance, and they must open up new windows at midnight (and perhaps at other scheduled times throughout the day).

Several days before that, I had a very annoying problem, which was that I checked the Prime Now app and saw that there were delivery windows, so I added all the items I wanted, and then there were no longer any windows. Also, every time you refresh, it apparently just silently removes from your cart any items which are no longer in stock, which means you better keep your shopping list written down somewhere if you don't have it down by heart!
> It's not at all clear yet that recovering from COVID-19 confers any lasting immunity.

Coronaviruses aren't new...
Huh. That explains why my MacBook Air is doing so much worse than I expected from the number of cycles it’s reporting.

It’s a mid-2013, so I’m not expecting much, but a few times I’ve seen “100%” when waking it unplugged, only for this to be immediately followed by an emergency shutdown, and when the reboot completes it claims “42%”.

It’s plugged in almost continuously these days.
It’s not at all odd, Antibodies aren’t forever. Chances are you’ve been reinfected with something you built up antibodies for dozens of times in your life.

For reasons currently unknown to science, exposure to some diseases confers lifelong immunity (chickenpox) but does not for other diseases (Flu, coronavirus, various types of common cold).

We’re actually starting to see the first reinfections of COVID-19 patients.
What you need to know about unit testing
A lot of manufacturers do this. Many of the Flir thermal cameras share the same sensor and limited only by software. There are tons of hack for Rigol oscilloscopes to flash better firmware. On the recent ones, the manufacturer lets you unlock features with a software key. Tesla Model S has its battery capped by software. John Deere limits its tractors HP in software, and the list goes on.

The hardware itself is cheap. 50-80% of the price is R&D.
It's cheaper for them to only develop one hardware version and limit the features in the software, than develop multiple versions of the hardware.
I think we should also consider that some members of the military depending on their duties get exposed to chemicals that the civilian pop don’t get exposed to at the same levels.
What would you use the GPU for in a home server?
The other side of this, is the company I worked for about that time, purchased the entire set of office furniture from a defunct company to setup our office when we moved. Turns out we didn't need it all, and sold a lot of it. At the end of the year, the majority of our profit was the furniture hussle.
thanks for the reccomendation!
And that's why the fund ran out of cash within a week.
Is Rizon still the crime haven it was?
Even w/o those non-positives, the death count for NYC is in the neighborhood of 8,000[0] (and still rising at a decent clip) for a population of 8 million. That's 0.1%.

You can also look at individual counties[1] and you get some variation but the same picture. Ex. 2.7k deaths in Queens for a population of 2.3mil, 0.4k deaths in Richmond for a population of 0.4mil

(That's 0.1% for the entire population and not even nearing the maximum yet, so obviously the IFR's and CFR's will be even higher.)

[0]https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-d...
[1]https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Track...
standard installations (set yourself up with the tools you want running on the machine), keeping track of and managing the security parts (security keys/access credentials), mapping to any static IP or domain name you may want to use for ease of access, and other niceties could make the process smoother if you were purely focused on the developer workflow
It's not OK to be actively trying to make those edits, especially after a history of lab containment failures.

After the USA banned this research because of the danger, some of it moved out of the country. At least one of the researchers moved from the USA to Wuhan, China. The ban should have been a clear message: such research is unacceptably dangerous.
Could you please explain to me why Signal is the superior messaging platform?

I can't understand why it requires ID/passport from you to use it. I guess if you want to use an encrypted messaging platform then you don't want it to be tied to the government issued ID.

p.s. you phone number is tied you your ID, so it's basically your ID
I did an online shop for my in-laws due to the shutdown and it's working really great with Stripe and Woocommerce. So massive thanks for that.

We had one hick-up, which was the fault of a wrong PHP setting and we got several duplicate orders as a result. In the stripe dashboard I could clearly see failed webhooks in the post mortem. So if there were some kind of email alarm if an error threshold is exceeded that would be nice. I did not find any such feature, if I should have missed it please point me towards the right direction. Cheers.
Here are a couple of more suggestions I’ve noticed the comments seem to have miss,

Eclipse Theia: https://theia-ide.org/
Basically, they repurposed VSCode and made it able to run from a web browser (and remotely).

Codeanywhere: https://www.codeanywhere.com/
AWS Cloud9 clone but not tied to AWS.
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What system of application deployment and maintenance are you picturing where a new crypto algorithm shows up on a machine without an opportunity to make a one-line commit to your codebase?

And in a SaaS setting, what operational environment is going to want you to start using a new cryptographic algorithm with no formalism around the process? Someone is going to want to flip a proverbial switch.
Someone who is looking for job flexibility would prefer the startup setup, where you can test the waters and see how it goes. As for the commission rate, I think most early startups would be willing to give a very high rate, especially to a salesperson who can operate independently and who has industry contacts. They wouldn't really care if that person worked full-time or not, so long as they could bring in leads and help close sales. In software, the margins are so high that you could give a very high commission on all of your early sales, knowing that your later/larger sales wouldn't be affected.
You might be able to freeze it. My mother stores some lesser used flours in her freezer, i.e. maseca, corn meal, almond flour.
When we find out obese, smokers, asthma, were considering themselves "healthy" and not "at risk", it will explain a lot.

Until then it seems day drinking has gone up, suicide, and home abuse has gone up.

All because there's a 20% increased survival if you can be put on a ventilator. Flattening the curve may have some unintended consequences.

My kid couldn't get his surgery in all of this..
Checkout https://Catchafire.org
it has an extensive directory of NGOs that which you filter by various criteria.

I had the privilege to lead all product UX and UI on this new version. happy to do the same again for the right startup. just DM me.
- Web: No framework, I mostly use https://goswagger.io but for basic stuff then just the standard http library + https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter

- Testing: https://golang.org/pkg/testing/ + https://pkg.go.dev/mod/github.com/stretchr/testify

- Mocks: https://github.com/golang/mock

- Dependency Injection: None, current user of https://github.com/uber-go/dig and I regret it.
Good point, yes, but I bet that Gulf war soldiers where also extra-healthy when they enlisted. Not so much when they returned home.

Army, is an activity with lots of health risks, chemicals and strange diseases exposure attached. Not the best choice if you expect to live for one hundred years.
That's more or less how I've always rationally felt, but thinking about permanently ever after being unable to even think triggers a sudden terror as if death were a looming predator. And the basic conclusion I have is that it's an unnecessary primal impulse that doesn't actually say anything about my views on death.

It's just an introspective version of instinctively smelling something after someone tells you it smells bad. Just... don't and you'll be better off.
Thank you for this..

When I see the picture in the article, I was wondering what kind of editor he is using
Which has a huge impact on battery health. Good and bad battery management explains a non trivial difference between high and low quality LiPo battery products.
It's a little suspect that you and multiple other names made accounts just to post simplistic glowing comments about how excited you are to work out with your mom, just like the person who posted this.
I've been making lots of little business apps and integrating them with Stripe. My main handicap has been the need to create a different Stripe account each time. It would be nice if I could have multiple sets of api keys under one account for each of my businesses
You can write "meta" programs that help you maintain existing applications.

Whenever I start at a new company, before I get thrown into the heart of things and become "too busy" to write these kinds of programs, I like to write things that automate the boring stuff.

Some recent examples:

- a cli for inspecting, adding comments to, and updating the status of JIRA tickets. because our hosted JIRA instance was god-awful slow and their web interface is a mess.
- a tool for monitoring things and pinging me with macos native notifications when things crash or complete.

Was my net productivity positive for writing these tools? hard to tell.

There are some companies full of engineers whose actual job is to write tools like this; I'm not sure what they would do for fun :P
Facebook wants content reviewers back ASAP, slows return plan for most employees
somebody should write an org-mode-like clone in TeXmacs, taking advantage of the structured editing features there. Is powerful enough to play tetris (https://github.com/mgubi/tm-tetris) , sure you can do org-mode kind stuff there too.
It's not about cold-calling, it's about monetizing your network. If you have experience and contacts in an industry, and a startup offers you 30% commission on the revenue you bring in, it could be worth the time to see if you can make valuable connections for them. This is especially true if you're not tied to a full-time schedule with them — you could literally do this while still working another job.
I don't know how to show you an actual list compared to my Steam library but I only know a handful of games that have been removed (The Longest Dark was big drama a few weeks ago) but I'm sitting here testing a bunch of my most popular games (Bannerlord, DOS2, POE2, Destiny 2, LOL, Space Engineers, etc) and I haven't hit a game yet that I can't play.

Some publishers have been very anti-competitor regarding it and taken down their entire libraries but there is still a ton to play.
The various haskell IRC channels are some of the best places to learn and get help/mentoring with that language - so many patient, genuinely helpful people. It's one of those things that made me go "Oh, that's what everyone is moaning abut" re demise of the old web etc.
Dashboard built on top of LiveView, which is elixir-specific.

* For any other language it means trying to replicate the project from scratch (also unlikely to be of any use on php, python, ruby etc)

* For non-phoenix elixir projects you could make it work but you'll rewrite half of Phoenix framework anyway so i don't see the point
I use meditation. I spend 20-30 minutes sitting on the floor focused on my breathing and muscle tension. Without anything to support myself, as I relax, I'll slowly find a pretty good posture. It's hard to hunch over when you aren't leaning on a keyboard. I find that it tends to translate over to the rest of my day.
What you're saying is that it's worth it to lie because it's too expensive to give a truthful answer. That is something that your customers likely would not agree with.
> Are you of the opinion that this is simply just a slightly worse flu?

I mean I'm about 95% sure I already had it. Had literally every single symptom but the local health authority (Alberta, Canada) wouldn't test me. My SO had it worse but again, they wouldn't test her.

Felt like a worse flu + more coughing and shortness of breath. Worse fever. My symptoms were bad for about 3 days, then felt like a cold for about a week, then a cough stuck around another week or two after. My SO had bad symptoms for about a week, was moderately sick for another week and a bit, but her symptoms disappeared pretty quickly afterwards. In either case, because we didn't require hospitalisation, AHS wouldn't test us.

Anyhow, there's a massive body of evidence that there's many times more people infected than confirmed cases. Are you disputing that? Do you actually think there is no one infected other than confirmed cases?

Our health authority, until a few days ago, wouldn't test anyone that wasn't a severe case or an at-risk group... You could literally have every single symptom and they'd simply tell you to stay home. Now they've only expanded testing because there's way less hospitalisations than their models predicted...

Edit

> There are nurses and doctors working on the front lines dealing with patients, and they're completely and utterly overloaded. Lack of resources. Lack of help from local and federal governments.

Maybe that's a failing of your health care system? In Canada hospitalisation rates are way less than predicted. Our province also gave away a bunch of PPE because it doesn't appear as though they'll get used.

Edit 2 - described more symptoms
They should just make 50% the new 100% and then let you "supercharge" to 150% when you need to.
I'm kind of surprised Apple hasn't done this already.
I use IRCCloud, the app is decent.
That's an entirely different set of combinatorics. Life and ATP and energy transport within cells arose from inanimate molecules and DNA is just inanimate parts and that led to evolution and intelligence. A computer has far more limited resources to work with (processor, memory, storage. That's it.) and cannot "jump the box" in the way that is possible with chemistry and physics that gives rise to chemistry.
But it would indicate the we may be closer to herd immunity than we thought, which would be great news.
>It may not be as bad as it was in the 90s, but I still find nicer stuff in supermarkets in Spain, France, Germany.

Sainsbury and Tesco are on par with Carrefour and Mercadona. Waitrose is on par with or better than Albert Heijn. But the Chinese supermarkets through Europe have the best value and range of ingredients for cooking, imo.

>I don't much enjoy most Asian food

I'm so sorry. :(
If gaming has taught me anything, it's that a wide field of view makes it appear that you're moving much faster. I found a simple video showing a person walking the same path with three different fields of view.

The 120 degree FOV makes it seem like they're sprinting while the 40 degree FOV looks like a slow walk in comparison. Also pay attention to the little box the person walks past halfway through the below video. Imagine you're skateboarding and that is a parked car. The difference in speed and perceived danger is huge.

https://i.imgur.com/s4IrpJU.mp4
Herd immunity varies by disease. A lot.

For each disease we estimate a number called R0, which is how many people the average person will transmit it to if no precautions are taken.

Herd immunity sets in when only 1/R0 people have not managed to get it.

With the flu, R0 is about 1.3. Meaning that herd immunity to a particular strain starts slowing the spread after about 1/4 of us are immune. (It can continue spreading for some time after that point.) I calculated that from the fact that 1 - 1/1.3 = 0.23076923076923076...

R0 for COVID-19 is likely around 5.6 +- 0.9 per https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.07.20021154v... we take the middle of that range, over 82% of us have to get it before herd immunity starts to work in our favor.
By hostile you mean stolen GPL and included into proprietary tech? Or another, competing GPL product?