skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your hospitals aren't overrun, and you don't expect them to become overrun in the future, improving your estimate of infection rates doesn't seem like a high-leverage activity. The argument for doing a lot of testing is that it enables good contact tracing, which Sweden doesn't seem to be planning to do anymore.
Donald Knuth and Larry Wall - I find these guys in the field of Computer Science the most intriguing.
The only thing that stops this biological contamination is developing community immunity. Treatments help a bit. Almost all else makes it worst.
Thanks for the well wishes skeptical but kind stranger!

No doubt we're aware of the analogs and risks. Have spent a collective month in Zoom calls with other platform founders to understand the risks but feeling really good about Zoom as a GTM platform partner. Have mentioned in other threads but there's long-sequence of strategic moves at play and this is the first of them.
Not true unless you actively modify it (or the page it was in). "RW" mapped memory that is not dirty is also discarded on memory pressure.
Found this website, thought it might be useful
It is in line with Iceland finding that 50% of people they tested were asymptomatic.

That's imprecisely stated. 50% of the people that tested positive were asymptomatic. Most of the people tested, both in Iceland and on the Theodore Roosevelt, have tested negative.

Esper's comments are ridiculous. It's been clear for months that there is some significant degree of asymptomatic spread, it's not new information.
The question I had was whether there’s a connection between delay and severity: if you’re one of those asymptomatic cases for a week or two, how does that change the likelihood of ending up on the worse end of the spectrum?
I see very little point in using either.

I basically use JSON based RPC for web type client and binary based RPC for native clients in my servers.

My servers mostly expose higher lever functionality (for example calculateSalesDistribution with parameters and return structure). I see no use in mental contortions required to map it to anything resembling GraphQL or SQL or WhateverQL. Works for more standard business like APIs just as well.
3% in the futures market is just noise.
Oh dear, another OWWM'er on HN :-) I lurk, but I mostly try to avoid that rabbit hole unless I'm trying to solve a specific problem. Turns out, I waste enough time on the internet already without drooling over the work people do there restoring old machines to better-than-new condition. Seriously, some of those folks are nuts (as you well know).

It sounds like you've got a nice shop going. I'm a little jealous. My stationary tools are actually stashed in a literal barn right now because I no longer have a basement to put a shop in. I work out of a makerspace, but that's closed due to present conditions, so I moved my bench into my living room. I gave in and fetched my band saw, and it's now sitting on my covered porch. And I have no blades for it at the moment. I'm getting a lot of exercise milling lumber entirely by hand. Honestly, my arms are going to fall off (or get huge) if the lockdown continues much longer.

I'm with you on the modern tools, by the way. On the vintage stuff, a lot of companies really took pride in their industrial design (as you well know). And even the totally utilitarian stuff has stylistic variation between manufacturers. The only difference between Grizzly and current Powermatic tools is the color of the paint. I remain hopeful that Festool having proved that there's a market for higher-priced tools means that somebody will start making nice stationary tools again.

That's probably a lot to hope for, though I recently discovered that Northfield is still chugging along and so is Tannewitz. They're out of my price range for the time being, but I hope they survive long enough for my price range to intersect their prices! It's a real pity that Oliver is now yet another nameplate on the same castings from overseas. The school I went to has a vintage 166 jointer and a 399 planer that I'm in love with.

> Checked out your website... Wow. I have a long, long way ahead to that kind of woodworking projects. ;)

Thanks! I'm a long way from making actual money at this. I'm lucky to be married to somebody very supportive. We'll see how the economy does. I have a couple of paid projects that appear to be holding, and we'll see where things go from there. I guess there's always software to go back to?
Thanks!

If the URL shortener has an API, maybe you could write a script that keeps a record of every URL passing through it, and then run curl on those records with a cronjob or something.

I’m guessing you use a plain text editor for your notes and want to stick with it, but some note-taking apps, like Bear and Roam automatically hide the URLs in markdown links, so you could keep them as short as their titles. This would bypass the need for a URL shortener.
I second everything about hitting the gym, seeing a physio, and focussing on back and glutes etc.. but for some tricks and cues, I recommend getting a great chair that you love, positioning your screen slightly higher and maybe closer than you normally would, get a MS sculpt keyboard which positions your shoulders outward more comfortably, pretend you're James Bond or some badass woman when you're walking around, and position your car seat at right angle if you drive. Also tell your partner if you have one to poke you when you slouch, and think abiut squeeezing your abs when you walk
To paraphrase Knuth in what I think was a Dr. Dobbs interview: the book isn't for those people, then; they should make their own book.
Some coding styles insist on tabs. I was referring to the third line of your configuration as quoted below.

; try not to use tab characters ever when formatting code
(setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
> It was discovered that there was a change made to the alarm text during this AGC update that caused the failure. Prior to the update, when the PII value exceeded +/-999 MW, the value in the alarm text defaulted to “xxxx,” preventing dispatchers from having an accurate indication of the amount of PII change. During this deployment, the two MW value fields in the PII alarm text were modified from i4 to i5 (4 digit integers to 5 digit integers) to allow for an additional digit.

> The original alarm text array had 79 characters which almost hit the max character limit of 80, and the change from i4 to i5 resulted in the alarm text increasing by 2 characters to 81 characters in length. Writing an 81 character text string into an 80 character fixed length array resulted in a run-time abort of the task.

I bet nobody expected that modifying a string can crash the entire control system due to a (caught) buffer overflow. Apparently the reason it went undetected was that the modification was not tested on a demo system first, since it was believed to be trivial.

> Lesson Learned: No matter how small the change is, validate changes in a test environment first. This requires using a thorough test script for the changes.
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Thanks Ed's friend! We're lucky he joined our team at the very beginning.
Anyone who actually knows this stuff would never say that it’s a matter of “simple math”, that’s absurd. Those people have not been saying that they’re sure about anything at this point, because they’re not.

There’s nothing to prove you wrong yet either, of course, but let’s see how your prediction does over the next few months: between 14,400 and 80,000 deaths in Ireland.
That's OK, as per Bezos Post, as long as the non-randomized study uses a drug not endorsed by the president:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1249738521654501379.html

Democracy dies in darkness, as it were. Never mind that the study was funded by Gilead and the results were written up by a Gilead employee. No conflict of interest at all, no sir. Also quite possibly causes the same QT prolongation issues as other antivirals, including CQ/HCQ, and it's expensive AF and hard to make in quantity.
That doesn't make sense to me. If you have a proven widespread outbreak and test everyone in your country, the number's still going to be below 15%.
GraphQL is only interesting for flexibility to fast prototyping/changes on the client side, to me. And it should stay there. Meaning your client JS should have a data layer that can understand GraphQL and translate that to a REST API call and cache the result.
UIs are built in trees? How so more than the RESTful JSON responses traditionally used? We shouldn't use SQL at all?
Purse.io Closing Down
The Changes Covid19 is forcing onto Business
The way the report was written, I suspect this was another open Gitlab server.

Most people who self-host Gitlab doesn't realize that between the default self-registration and "Explore" button at the bottom, possible for entirely random individuals to gain enormous access.

I have written the Naval Postgraduate School several times since December about their open Gitlab server (maybe it is supposed to be open though) which seems exposed via the "Explore" tab at the bottom: https://204.102.228.54/users/sign_in
Why can't somewhere.com have the public key for user@somewhere.com and serve it to other e-mail providers on request?

Letting one's provider hold onto the private key doesn't provide the same level of security as the user being the only one with it, but it's a helluva lot better than not bothering with encryption at all.

Private keys can also be protected with a password, right? So the provider could have a copy of the private key but not the password to utilize it. The user would just have to never forget the password as opposed to never losing their private key to a hard drive failure or whatever.
Sweden has 1/4th the population of California. It looks like the total deaths is around 50% higher than California although of course California might have deaths that should have been attributed to COVID-19 that weren’t.

It looks like it was estimated to have arrived in Sweden two days earlier.
Covid-19 Japan Web API: Support to Prediction
Yes, the numbers I am quoting are as compared to other years, adjusted for macro changes in population makeup, etc. The gold standard for reporting on this.
I didn’t realise they were still around, I thought they went under years ago...
You affirmation does not umake the reality of thermal sensitivity in this virus [1].

There are other factors involved in producing a higher mortality, like comorbidity and demographics.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25855727
Farscape did pretty well with having relatable characters played by puppets.
Thank you for taking the time to contribute this.
> but the trajectories don't lie

Except for when they do. Easter just passed and the the trajectories are plotted up to and including today, when Sweden for example is adding deaths to dates two weeks back every day, and the last 5-7 days _ALWAYS_ looks like a downward trajectory. The last little spike there from before easter has grown by 35% since after easter and is still growing daily.

You can't draw conclusions based on the trajectory of the last few days when an absolute majority of cases are added days, and up to weeks after.
How are we sure about this? We cannot anymore but are we sure that the lockdown will lower the global mortality? Why are we not acting rationally anymore? Are we sure that fear did not take over and now we just do as everybody because nobody ever got fired for choosing the lockdown?
Norwegia aka Norway :)

"Because Indonesians come from Indonesia, and Russians come from Russia, Norwegians come from Norwegia." - Urban Dictionary
Non-structured programming relies on GOTOs. While some unstructured languages (e.g. BASIC, COBOL) do have subroutines, in general the program-flow goes all over the place.

Structured languages rely more on 'if-then-else', 'do-while' or 'case' types of flow controls, where there is a constricted number of flows available. Coming from BASIC as my first-learned programming language, it took me a lot of effort to re-arrange my programs to eliminate all GOTOs.

If your code does not need to use a GOTO, it's flow is structured, and you have learned subconsciously (or you were taught) how to write structured programs rather than unstructured programs.

I once saw a diagram that showed how the program-flow formed nested loops in the code. The idea was that the program-flow should be written so one loop does not cross over another flow-line loop. The cartoon here ( https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Spaghetti+progra... ) shows the crossing of flow-lines.
There's like 5 or 6 data points that all point at the infection rates being reasonably close to the published estimates.

(Veneto, Gangelt, Telluride, Iceland, the Diamond Princess, the Theodore Roosevelt)
You can call it herd immunity or not, and Sweden has indeed picked "not". But their plan is to keep doing what they're currently doing. The Swedish government has no phase 2 where they expect to contain the coronavirus more strongly.
If anything, the new changes will be a huge signal (YC doesn't think this company is one of its most valuable investment opportunities), except in this case, outside investors without insider information will be the ones left holding the hot potato.
Select Wat from SQL
Fluorescent lighting, assuming it's not starting to fail, flickers at 120 Hz because each half cycle lights it up equally (+ or - doesn't matter). Incandescent also has 120 Hz flicker but the valleys are almost as bright as the peaks (slow response) so it's essentially imperceptible.

Cheap LEDs like some holiday minilights are rectified so they'll flicker at 60 Hz and I can't stand them.
You can avoid this by allowing only specific queries in staging and production environments, this way, the introspection query can be disabled too.

Not sure if this violates the GraphQL spec though, because, ideally the server supports introspection, but it is disabled in some cases for safety reasons.
I keep my passwords in my head because I can't put up with managing a dozen different authentication schemes, any one of which could be compromised or lost at the worst possible time.
What's normal changes all the time. The pandemic certainly will accelerate some changes and move other changes in a new direction but modern society doesn't stand still anyway. Normal just doesn't stay normal very long anymore.
ASP.NET Core Blazor has the same ability, for those stuck in a corporate environment.
You qualify for unemployment FYI, in case you weren’t aware.
U.S. Government Offers $5M Reward to Identify North Korean Hackers
What would qualify as hyperinflation?

If by hyperinflation you mean "several years of 10-20% inflation" -- something unprecedented in developed economies in recent history -- then sure, that's not unimaginable. It's also not a civilisation-changing problem. Many countries have lived through that kind of experience. I supposed I could be convinced that 1970s-style stagflation could return as a result of the pandemic.

If on the other hand you mean "100% per week inflation", e.g. like Zimbabwe experienced, then that one is harder to defend. You'd need to have the loss of a functioning reserve bank as a starting point (because otherwise the reserve bank would just push interest rates up to the point that inflation was reduced). Generally having a powerless reserve bank can only happen when some other country controls whatever it is that backs the currency that everyone in your country uses for trade. (e.g. being on the gold standard; being part of the Eurozone and not being trusted, large amounts of borrowing and transactions in foreign currencies; an economy based on bitcoin transactions; if any of these apply you have at least the basis for an inability to stop hyperinflation).

What's the trajectory that would get the USA there though?
that would be 30 million, not 3 million
Every developed country did testing and contact tracing, even the ones popularly seen as doing nothing. That was why leaders were saying it wouldn't be a problem in February; they didn't expect a magic cure, they expected their testing and contact tracing to handle it.
Ask HN: What is the most positive thing happened to you if not for COVID19?
This is more than that. The actual metrics come from erlang functions and aren't tied to observer. https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_dashboard/b...

Hook into telemetry is also really cool because any library can be instrumented.

The multi node cluster aspect allows easier monitoring of the full cluster
This is common company strategy. IBM used to sell upgrades to their hardware that would take a technician visit to upgrade the machine. The thing was that the tech would only have to make a small change to the machine to upgrade it. Tesla does this as part of their offerings.

It's not a bad thing. As a consumer I can buy a cheaper product and not have to buy features I don't need.

People seem to forget that companies need to make a profit to stay in business. I don't care if GoPro stays or goes but it has to at least break even to stay around to produce their products.
Yes, and no one should try to play competitive games across a continent. Competitions must be regional. Internet latency is great within a few hundred miles.
I mean, so long as you're willing to take a build-dep on that, in that case.
Again, there's nothing in the Wikipedia link which specifies that site certificates MUST exist for a specific duration. Because there's no such requirement in RFC 8446 4.4.2.2, "Server Certificate Selection":

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446#section-4.4.2.2

If you have information otherwise please do us both the favour of quoting the relevant language from an authoritative source directly in your reply.

You're also creating a dispute based on a claim I've not made. CA keys being "distributed to all major browsers and/or operating systems", my claim, which you quote, does not preclude other distribution mechanisms. That discussion is unnecessary here.

Your understanding, generally, seems in error.

Again: TLS sever keys have no minimum duration requirement, as the Let's Encrypt description previously cited makes explicitly clear: "renewal can take place at any time".
It's a big deal, but it happens and not always for the right reasons. Imnsho an investor should only walk away from agreed upon terms if something nasty and previously undisclosed turns up during DD.
In 2015 the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) rejected the Obama era EPA mercury emissions rule changes because the EPA didn't balance the cost of the rule with the benefit. The economic benefit of the reduction in mercury was about $6 million at a cost of $9-10 billion.

The SCOTUS rejected the rule changes because the benefit didn't appear to justify the cost as required by statute. It sounds like this balancing is part of the rule-making requirements for the EPA.

So, the EPA went back and included numerous so-called co-benefits into its accounting, mostly related to reduced particulates. The new analysis increased the economic benefit of the mercury reduction such that it significantly out-weighed the cost. This brought the mercury reduction rule into compliance with the SCOTUS decision.

The problem is that the EPA used the economic benefit of particulate reduction to justify a mercury reduction.

Why not just make a rule to reduce particulate emission? That is where the real benefits were coming from not the mercury reduction.

Probably because the EPA doesn't have the power to regulate particulates as they do mercury emissions, or something like that. Meaning the EPA would have to go to congress to get the authority to either regulate particulates directly or excuse mercury emission regulations from the cost-benefit analysis requirements.

Also, probably because mercury emission regulation particularly impacts the coal industry. Whereas, a generalized particulate emission rule would affect many other industries making it politically problematic.
They don't openly admit to not needing one at all, while still demanding one, do they? And if they did, they'd be obviously wrong to cry discrimination, right?
Yes! If I could use things like LiveView or TurboLinks exclusively, I wouldn't miss React and friends at all.
I don't imagine, if I picked 100 random people off the street, that they would get it either.
Forming antibodies (antibody driven adaptive immunity) seems like the most likely way patients are recovering. This would be typical of recovery from Coronavirus infection.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0819-2

I can’t find any research suggesting that patients (symptomatic of not) are recovering in some other way.

And in any case, recovery implies some form of immunity, either innate or adaptive. The virus doesn’t just give up after 14 days.
Through the atoms of progenitor stars long since gone supernova. Probably neutron stars too!

Or also by chance?
You might like the Shuffle My Life (available on Android/iOS). You can filter the type of activities you want it to suggest and there's a good variety.
Why even go that far? Software emulation is good enough for the vast majority of the users.

What would be very interesting would be a way to compile software emulators that have very consistent sets of rules for how hardware is expressed (such as MAME) into an FPGA.
thats why Rust might win in the long run because it have a common build system and package manager
From what I've seen, none of the high end Mac book pros have a good enough charger to provide enough power for a mixed CPU/GPU workload. And with the switch to USB-C and it's 100W power limit they can't even fix it now.
looking at latencies for framework vs framework tells another story https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=... Where ASP.NET MVC clocks in with 39.3ms average latency, 154.1ms standard deviation
> A patch I helped review that's related to this in LLVM just landed today

Cool. :)

> Also, note that you need a custom linker script to define those symbols

The code I posted above compiles and runs without any custom linker script.
There are few government run 0% equity accelerators. Start-Up Chile gives $35k in reimbursed expenses and six months of office space + mentorship. Their hope is you stay in Chile and they make it back in taxes.
Because they want to have their cake and eat it too. YC has followed a similar trajectory to many successful tech innovations. A novel approach that has aligned goals with their clients, strong & visible leadership, a huge emerging market, an appetite for a new approach - we're now essentially 2 generations of leadership removed from PG & co and while I have no doubt the people in charge are very smart and good at VC'ing, YC is now a totally different beast from 10+ years ago. It's motivations, goals and practices have changed and I have no doubt the next incarnation will come along and eat their lunch too.
Economic Recovery Will Require Lessening of the Wealth Gap Says Hedge Fund Titan
Less here, but WDS is all over the reddit threads about this. Condescending grad students talking about how condescending Wolfram is.
You'd be surprised that the adoption trajectory of zoom has only increased of late. The cases you talk about are the exception to the rule.
Saves you $2000 a month rent on a Bloomberg terminal. Though I think they have additional functionallity.
> There is a danger of them coming out of the woodwork and causing problems

That's probably one of the very few ways to make a lot of money out of Amiga IP.
"Humanity's understanding of this disease is much more sophisticated than the two comments above this would imply."

I think we can generalize this to pretty much every comment made in this thread, and others like it, regardless of how certain some of them sound.
... up until about 15 years ago we only knew of 9 planets so our sample size was pretty small
Opportunity for architects to rid of us of those horrible developer open office warehouses, and bio-research revolution will officially kick off to crush the industrial and information revolution.