skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of this can prove whether or when Xi made a deliberate decision to withhold information in order to imperil others.
...
> But even if it doesn’t Xi should be brought to account for his other crimes against humanity.

The author uses the title as a setup to show that incompetence may explain a single instance, but across multiple scenarios one has to consider intentionality...

Also of note: High Factual reporting, center political leanings
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-diplomat-magazine/
A lot of decent smaller phones are available in the developing world. The silliness is the market segmentation with frequency band restrictions that could all be handled in firmware.
There's good reason to suspect strong regional variation, which means that finding a representative sample of 500 is hard. But that would still be technically possible (look at South Korea and China); we clearly lack to political will to do proper testing in USA.
I'd like to believe we will start mass manufacturing all promising candidates long before testing is complete.

The stakes are so high this time that it's important _as soon as_ testing results are deemed adequate, they can start distributing them, even if it means manufacturing stuff that doesn't ultimately pan out.
For the practical purposes of decision-making by regular people, the distinction probably doesn't matter and would be confusing
That report appears to based on genomic analysis, which obviously only includes cases that were tested, not undocumented transmissions before the discovery.

The article you cite says:
"The common ancestor of circulating viruses appears to have emerged in Wuhan, China, in late Nov or early Dec 2019. Accordingly, the majority of sampled and inferred ancestral cases were located in Asia during this early period. "
> Actually the doses given for COVID are often higher.

Not just higher. The original article (the one out of China) that mentioned that there might be some positive effects reportedly suggested using doses that were a whopping 5 times higher than the usually prescribed amounts: 500mg/day vs the usual 100mg/day.

What more, the same article put forward that the drug was considered generally safe and without any potentially troublesome side effects. That raised more than a few eyebrows amongst the medical staff who knew the drug.
I know someone with this disease as well. The saving grace seems to be that he doesn't seem to notice his own ongoing demise. He was fired from work and divorced from his wife before the diagnosis, so obtaining coverage from work has required lawyers and is still unresolved. His care is expensive. It's such a tragic story because this happened in the prime of life, and like the article said the adverse behaviors were initially thought to be a mid-life crisis.
I don't know about you, but some of us can generate a rich stream of dumb and useless ideas without the aid of substances.
Google’s Xtreme Benchmarks Multilingual Model Generalization Across 40 Languages
Funny world we’ve come to when right-wingers are pointing to Sweden as an example of how they want to handle an issue.
Sample size is far too small.

If anything this study shows (albeit with small numbers) that HCQ doesn't make things worse.

But I have a feeling HCQ will be found to be effective. Big pharma have a lot of $$$ to make from their vaccine though.
It's a lot cheaper to test a known drug than to create a new one.
The title and focus here is on user tracking, which is the goal I'm commenting about.
> manipulate your whole OS in the similar pragmatic way to you iterate code in a git repo

I've been trying to do this for ages with a dotfiles repo and some git aliasing. I really want to try it out, though. Any gotchas or hidden pitfalls I should look out for?
According to this: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphoneSE2ndgen...

This looks like basically the same phone as the 8 & the 6s. I own a 6s, I'm wondering what the advantage is to buying this phone rather than replacing the battery on my current phone.

Hilariously, some of the changes between models seem to be mostly renaming features.

6s: HDR for photos
8: Auto HDR for photos
SE: Next-generation Smart HDR for photos

Looks like this one "goes to 11"

Also funny is battery life:

SE: Lasts about the same as iPhone 8
8: Lasts about the same as iPhone 7
7: Lasts up to 2 hours longer than iPhone 6s
6s: —

So the new SE lasts about the same as two hours longer than "—" Got it!
This study is basically garbage. It applies to people who're so damaged from Covid they need at least 2 liters of oxygen per minute. It studies treatment with pure hydroxychloroquine--no zinc, no azithromycin/doxycycline/ivermectin.
Hydroxychloroquine.

Patients who get their treatment from doctors less fraudulent than the authors of this study almost certainly see better outcomes.
Also a great way to ruin the contacts and disable it forever. Use compressed air and something other than a toothpick. Eeek.
The Diamond Princess likely had a very atypical (older) population than the general population though.

The CDC is currently estimating an R0 of 5.7, which has likely been repressed by shelter in place orders. But even if it was only 4 before any interventions, there's still a chance there there are closer to 20M cases in the US rather than the 660,000 now.

My point is just that there's still a lot we don't know, and small changes in our understanding could implicate massive changes in the reality on the ground.
> I think I'm in the minority, but I haven't really missed the headphone jack in my iPhone 11

You don't miss it until you do. When you are trying to join a meeting and your bluetooth headset absolutely refuses to work (and yes, even the fancy Airpods Pro do that occasionally), you wish you had the ability to just plug in an old-fashioned, analog headset. Which you can pull easily, with no fuss, from many devices, including computers and gaming consoles. Quick, no pairing required. No battery issues.

Analog headphones are also very cheap(good if you are not in a rich country), and will always be cheaper than bluetooth headphones, as there is minimal hardware required. You can quickly pick one up even from a shady street seller and you know it will work(longevity might suffer, but again, cheap).

The only problem with the headphone jack is that it is a very old standard. It's big connector, and takes significant real state inside a phone.
Complete BS 'cons', this product is great, admit it.
1. airpods you peasant
2. my hands are f*king huge anyways this phone is still probably too small
3. already donated to Covid research without going through a corporation, I'll take white.
Recently, I was thinking about what I'd do if I retire early. I pretty much settled on going and getting a PhD in chemistry.

Why?

I always enjoyed chemistry and research. I would be doing it because I find it interesting, not for the multitude of reasons for my career choices so far - money, geography, future potential growth.
And be out of support after 2 years? No thank you. Xperia is overpriced and Sony dropping its expensive phones from support left and right. After 10+ years with Android vendors should've put in the work to support their handsets in a streamlined fashion at least with security/OS core level updates relatively effortlessly. They didn't, Sony sure didn't. Apple is the only vendor with decent support, sadly.
Does this study change your mind on that 20-30% figure? After all, the study measured a 35% infection rate for people living in close quarters with other infected individuals. Surely, the overall population would yield a much lower infection rate than this?
He must really enjoy being in a position of authority.
For that kind of case, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the torpedoes deployed all the time at 100 meters or so from the main sub, so that they can counterattack after it gets destroyed? It could drag them behind it on cables.
Because it does not make sense to introduce delays to stiffle discussion. Throw-away accounts are used to say things one does not want associated with "main" account; in my case the "main" account is easily doxxable and I knew the things I wanted to say are not going to be popular. I don't care if site mods have access to the logs and can use IP address to add 2 and 2; I just don't want that post above to be associated with my real name forever, via simple google search. I'll have to look for a new job soon, if layoffs continue at the present pace.

I would be happy to have this discussion face to face without having to hide behind an anonymous account but the rules for in-person debates do not apply on the Internet forums.
Proposed Bill Would Give Americans $2k a Month During Pandemic
Sure, but no one's doing processing or organizing on the back of a DSLR either. Maybe the real problem here is that 13 years after the original iPhone, iCloud and Google Photos are still the least-bad solutions for archiving a family photo stream from multiple devices— there's a missing middle option between those and the prosumer solutions like Lightroom and Aperture (which in turn have their own issues, like the fact that AFAIK they mostly tackle organizing a local library; you're largely still on your own when it comes to things like collaboration and managing backups).

Anyway, I would have thought the dealbreaking issues with an augmented phone/camera would more be around the dearth of tactile controls, but that can be at least partially addressed by moving some of them to the strap-on accessory.
Interesting. So the smallest iPhone 12 will have a screen much larger than the iPhone SE 2?
“There's a correctly-done NNTP newsgroup joke in there, for pete's sake, and even at the time it was a number of years after that was topical.”

Not only that — it’s part of the joke! The nameless “you” who’s being dissed in the song is so much of a loser that their newsgroup is “alt.total.loser” and that they’re proud of having their own newsgroup at all when they NNTP is already ancient history to the narrator who views themselves as on the cutting edge of technology in 1999.
PBUI Project – Subset of GNU Coreutils Using Zig
"Have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers"

and

"Hopefully both will be used immediately. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST"

Both seem pretty ridiculous when we don't even know if its effective at all, let alone "one of the biggest game changers".
We're facing massive unemployment that could last an undetermined amount of time. We have models of previous economic downturns but this one is different because there is so much uncertainty with this virus.

When UI benefits are exhausted, consumer behavior will change dramatically. People will come out of this a lot more conscious about what they're spending money on. The fact that unemployment in the US is expected to peak at 20% means a lot of the country (and world) will have been affected. How will consumer demand look for the years to come after the pandemic?

We may not see a quick comeback in terms of employment because companies will be looking to replace productivity through automation as insurance against future disruptions. Additionally, small businesses which employed a large percentage of people will have been devastated by the economic shutdown. Many will have folded and won't be there when the economy resumes again.

In terms of socialization, bars and restaurants aren't going to magically reappear. It's going to take time, years in some areas, to rebuild downtown.

I think one thing is for certain: there are a lot of opportunities for tech to fill the gaps, but it won't be the same consumer world as it was before the pandemic. It's hard to predict what exactly those opportunities are-- this is uncharted territory.
The last few Android phones I bought have all come with a minimal wrap-around case (maybe not the iphone se, don't recall).
Resilvering on ZFS in not linear, it is quite some random IO.

A ST8000DM004 is capable of linear reads above 200MB/s, and a normal drive should be able to handle the same speeds with linear writes.

I would not recommend those drives for use with ZFS from my own experience: one of my drives disappeared after 1.5TB of writes while moving a dataset, and only went online again (with a SMART failure) after a power cycle.
China had more luck treating COVID with chloroquine phosphate (which is more toxic), but hydrochloroquine sulfate is more available in the US.
Yeah I’ve been asking about this for a while with no good answers. Why aren’t we looking into whether it would be helpful to enable every healthy person to get the Coronavirus common cold to help boost herd immunity?
I can see this becoming a very useful tool to be used along with Zoom or Google Meet since both of these don't have a robust way to handle this issues! Interesting tool Ershad!

Can I add a password to the session though?
No, I really just use the standard 3.5 mm EarPods to talk on the phone with family. But the conversations are long and it's much more comfortable to listen with the EarPods than to 'use the phone'. The conversations always begin with 'lemme rig up.'
With coronavirus forcing us to work from home, SUSE suggests the Linux desktop
> I don't like having to pay more money because I was born a different size.

If you eat more than the average person do you also expect grocery stores to give you extra food at no extra cost?
I love these kinds of projects! Any description of it that has me cackling by the 2nd sentence is gonna be a gem. Good thing i brought my FAT32 driver.
> I use IntelliJ for editing Java these days, but it's the only IDE I tolerate [1], and I still switch to Emacs for complex text editing. I live in gentle hope that growing language server support will reduce the need to tolerate IDEs.

I'm in a similar boat to you, in a different language environment. With OmniSharp, I'm able to do 80% of my C# development in emacs, and could probably do more if we were on .NET Core rather than .NET Framework. But I still have to go into Visual Studio for managing project files, and occasionally for debugging. While working remotely, I intensely wish I could just SSH into my Windows workstation and do my work in Emacs rather than having to use the kludgy remote desktop software we use.
Independent of whether that is actually right, where did I consider them to be connected in this discussion? I'm not even inferring a political motive, I'm just stating that it is a dumb thing to say.
Sony isn't having money trouble, they're huge. That's a sorry excuse.

And Spotify doesn't make much money because most of their users are freeloaders. Their poor business model should not become the problem of the paying users.
If this proves to be a feature that people actually want, what would stop google/microsoft from building it directly into their calendar? How do you plan to make this product defensible?
Hopefully not, we'd like to keep him here in Canada.
there are no studies done, because, as you note, it would be difficult and costly, and it's a simpler (and more easily followable) message to tell people to wear masks all the time.

but here's some additional intuition:

1. it's true that virus particles are roughly the same size as smoke particles, but infected people exhale virus "pucks" that are agglomerations of multiple viruses and water, leading them to fall while smoke floats (giving us the 3-6 foot rule, per prior coronavirus studies).

2. a single virus particle in the air without water could float around but is overwhelmingly likely to fall apart quickly. the air doesn't provide the countervailing forces to keep it together, and the bombardment of energies from all around also pull it apart.

3. the fact that a homemade mask allows smoke right through but filters out some portion of the virus pucks (as per your prior link) is evidence in itself of the differential affinities of smoke and virus pucks.

but let's face it, most people wearing masks (outside) do it because they think it's protecting them from the filthy other people. however, if you're sick, all you're doing is concentrating the virus pucks in one place right in front of a face we'll each touch 30 times an hour. no lay person consistently observes the contamination rules that hospital personnel do, especially when infection rates are <0.1% and failure to do so has no obvious downsides. masks could in fact be more dangerous because of a false sense of security.
Tax change in coronavirus package overwhelmingly benefits millionaires
Bill Gates thinks the same.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bill-gates-to-spend-billions-on...
This has been in the works for a year or two at least. Hardware cycles don’t happen in weeks.
Several people have already mentioned that gitlab is slow, so very slow. I've seen replies in this thread that make it obvious that this is being tracked, and that you're well-aware of it.

That said I can't help recalling the last time the topic came up, seven months ago even then it was old-news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995889

If the site hasn't gotten faster in the past year I think it is obvious that this is not a priority in any real sense. Despite claims to the contrary.

Gitlab has a great core-offering, the gitlab runners were wonderful when they came out. But it seems like new features are constantly being piled on top of each release, (time tracking?!) when it might benefit users to step back a little bit and focus upon the core.

I can only assume developers get recognition by new-features, not core-improvements.
The Art of the Con. A Custom Marked Playing Cards
I can generate those ideas sober just fine, its the doing them part that requires the substances.
Not necessarily. He/she/it/they could be limited in their capabilities or working under unguessable design constraints.
They saw people were getting heart arrhythmias in the original Brazil study. Anecdotally, a doctor I know has been seeing an increase in arrhythmias on patients treated with HCQ at lower doses if they already have a pre-existing circulatory problem. What is really irking me is that we still don't even know if it's really doing anything.

At the same time, my elderly parent is taking HCQ for arthritis and appears to think she is invincible, going to the store each day in the middle of Queens, the world epicenter. She tried to send me links to Trump's touted Dr. Zelenko about how it's a miracle cure.
Seems to be a pointless fluff piece so some people can say "see, not my fault"
As someone who second-careered into medicine:

It's a ten-year commitment, roughly, to become a practicing ER doc. And in today's industry, you'll spend the overwhelming majority of your time doing documentation on shit that should've been seen by a PCP, not an emergency department. And definitely not treating emergencies. You'll be lucky if you see one or two a day in a major ED; in smaller ED's, even one a week is optimistic.

If you want to jump in with eyes wide open, more power to you. Most days, I can't tell you whether I regret my move or not.
They’re struggling because you have chosen this regulatory regime. Generics factories are pumping it out right now.
In a way I think it's the current trend of rejecting GUIs. It certainly helps with automation, but I'm afraid we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

Does anyone remember Borland's VCL, Rox desktop or Acme from Plan 9? All vastly different, but all enabling great workflows. I would like to dive in GUI programming more, but I'm too picky regarding technologies. Closest to my ideal is Tcl/Tk and Lazarus it seems.

I say it as a guy spending most of his time in terminals for 15 years, mostly by choice.
Huh neat, I didn't realize there was a HTML tag (<abbr>) till just now, thanks!

EDIT: Just spent the last 45 minutes adding it in on my sites in various spots, hopefully this helps the readers.
No evidence of clinical efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 Patients [pdf]
It seems unlikely this was the cause though, you don't design and manufacture a phone in 2 months.

Also there had been leaks for months now.
See this leak from back in January.
https://m.gsmarena.com/updated_iphone_8_might_arrive_with_fa...
I'm saying I would expect the stock to have performed differently recently as more people found out. I checked and it seemed to behave exactly the same as other stocks.
I would consider myself an audiophile but I agree with you wholeheartedly. My AirPods and other headphones are more than good enough to listen to music when I'm out and about. I've never carried a DAC anywhere because, at least for me, the only time I'm listening to high fidelity stuff is when that's my sole objective. I don't need lossless quality when I'm listening to music on a train or on the subway or even while I'm working. I've never been taken out of my mindspace because I may have possibly heard a compression artifact.

It feels to me like people just want to complain to complain.
They are not getting anything from the US government – they pay less taxes. This article tries to make a case a if it was the same thing. It is not.
It doesn't matter what you do, there will be days you wish you had a different job.

How do you think a doctor feels when he sees some fat patient going into the donut shop (or all you can eat buffet) after he told them to go on a diet and lose weight. (is this worse than the person who dies of bad genes caused heart attack despite talking their medications, exercising and eating well - another thing doctors see)
Ask HN: Multi-Project Dev Setup
I have become fed up with my current dev set-up. It feels like I am constantly installing services with different versions and dependencies on my machine for different projects, and it just feels like a mess.

Some of the tools I use have version managers, which are mostly good, but you still end up restricted with some shared lib or other.

I have been using docker for a while, and it gets 90% of the way there, allowing me to easily spawn a complete environment for each project using docker-compose - but the actual development experience is left wanting. Complexities around attaching debuggers, laggy watchers, poor attached volume filesystem performance, slow build times, lack of access to my GPU, etc. There are ways around some of this, but its always time consuming to get set up - and then you get bitten by something else.

I am wondering if there is a better way to handle all this - where I can just 'check-out' an overlay or something that will give me a "native" per-project experience. I used btrfs snapshots for something similar a few years ago.

How does your development environment look? Any thoughts on tooling that can give me my dream setup?
If you already have severe symptoms the PCR test from a throat sample is likely to give a false negative.

The BPR is estimated from the known cases, so it cannot tell you anything about a hypothetical large number of unknown cases.

Antibody tests in a recent German study of households gave 15% infection rate.
Factory shutdowns near WWII demobilization levels in US
> In the US, we're now doing significant amounts of testing, but we're still primarily testing only those with severe symptoms

Its not a significant amount of testing if we're only testing those with severe symptoms

Here in SF at least there are scores of people I know who all were sick with a "weird flu" at some point from February to now who would all kill for a test to show that they have COVID immunity. These are people who could potentially go back into society and do more work / enjoy their lives instead of being shuttered inside with anxiety

It is currently _IMPOSSIBLE_ to get any kind of test to prove that
America’s embarrassingly mediocre coronavirus testing, in 2 charts
That is good news if that's the case!
Well, iOS 14 will only be formally announced by Apple in WWDC, which is in June. Apple hasn’t mentioned that release name anywhere yet. So any announcements you may have seen on device support would be speculations or rumors.