skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, yet another person who looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. One would think reading only that, or the Twitter thread (!) the piece is based on, that to save money (or because the Trump administration hates science, or something) the entire "US Pandemic Response Team" agency was eliminated and everyone in a large DC office building was fired.

Actually reading the contemporary NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/tom-bossert-t... and Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0... articles the Snopes piece cites in the body, they seem to have been a handful of people in one team in the National Security Council hierarchy, that the new National Security Advisor reassigned to related agencies, as part of a desire to have his own hierarchical structure. Ziemer resigned because he wanted to keep his team the way it was.

COVID19 was not a surprise; that is, it was known to exist in China some time before the first cases appeared in the US. It is not unreasonable for a government to assemble a team to respond to something like a pandemic as needed, as opposed to having people dedicated solely to the purpose and nothing else. And that's exactly what the US did, implementing the ban on non-American travelers who'd been to China in late January, among other things.

You may or may not agree with this. But please don't claim that this is somehow prima facie proof of the Trump administration's malfeasance/evilness.

PS - No, Trump did not "cut the CDC budget" either. https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
I'm interested in research direction of using code-data dual algothms that modify each other and form natural selection process to formally abstract notion of evolutional open-endedness (like Turing completeness is an abstraction of algorithms notion). More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalPhilosophy/comments/dzghec/o...

Maybe you could advise some developed language or model for this task? The interesting part is to have code-data duality and enough rich language to kick start natural selection that would produce competing algorithms that would gradually become more and more complex (and gradually become closer to sentience).

Though the language might not even be Truring complete as it is. As natural assumption would be that the model should be finite in resources and it can get access to infinite time or memory only in time limit (assuming that the individual algorithms would survive for this to happen).
You are of course right.
What I'm saying is that the filter that shapes the bandwidth (on either Rx or Tx) is not a brick-wall filter. The channel width isn't exactly as stated, because there's a gradual roll-off.

If I misspecified the bandwidth, I can still tune into and broadcast at the right frequency. It's not just a convention, it follows how the transmitted and received signals are actually processed. I do not think it's more logical because setting the center frequency and setting the bandwidth of the baseband signal are two independent operations. Conceptually, they are orthogonal concepts. So it's logical to specify them in an orthogonal basis. Choosing another basis, as you're saying, works. But the current "convention" is more than just a convention. It's the natural choice.

If I take my FM radio and take it somewhere that uses different channel spacing, I can still tune it to the advertised frequency. That would not be the case with what your proposing.
Note to moderator: The title of this post got changed to "Designing GraphQL schemas", which isn't correct. Please fix it back to the original title "Getting started with Dgraph and GraphQL+-".

Also, looks like the actual article about "Designing GraphQL schemas" got removed from the front page. It was in the top 10 just few minutes ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22921571
Thrid party data geotracking helps against the Coronavirus
Yup, still Webkit, still essentially Safari in a wrapper. iCab just built a more powerful wrapper than most.
Not necessary I suppose. My brother's company (a couple of batches ago), made it to the YC interview (and eventually the batch) without a pre-screening interview. It just means you are firmly on one side of the fence. So do check :)
Consciousness studies will be the next frontier and may bring our race further, faster, than space exploration. In my opinion.
Of course private businesses are required to pre-fund their pensions (with some exceptions like religious organizations).

It's a requirement under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Lots more info here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2020/04/14/post-office-p...
Indeed, the actual numerical results in the article table shows that masks are very effective, so it's puzzling where their narrative conclusions came from.
Yes, well. More fascistic talk, the Roman empire was a great inspiration to them too. Again, try and contrast these ideas with the principles on which the UN was founded.

You and your fellow arms race proponents will win, of course. Your prize will eventually be a smoking, poisoned world, billions of people dead or suffering irreparable damage, unspeakable pain (much like large swathes of the Vietnamese and survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have endured), to a large extent uninhabitable where maybe, just maybe some tribe in the deep south will survive to tell the tale of the human folly that ruined the world for millions of years to come, a proud and conceited civilization who thought they knew it all. Congrats.
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Record high of 1,426 new Covid-19 cases in Singapore
A related read about how an Irish Dairy company conquered the discerning butter segment:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-10-02/how-irish...
Hey everyone,

I'm the author of this post, this post talks about an intuitive process to design GraphQL schemas and to autogenerate GraphQL APIs using the schema file as an input with Dgraph.

Happy to answer any questions.
Ask HN: Search for references: App data that is used for Coronavirus analysis
Coronavirus apps have the challenge to need mass downloads and usage to be successful. An quick alternative to an own app is to do bigdata / datascience analysis with third party data.

Does someone know if that is already done somewhere? Please share links if you ave or know insights that we can reference them in an article.

https://www.iunera.com/kraken/open-big-data-science/thrid-party-data-geotracking-coronavirus/
Can all the DAB stations fit inside FM if they were all to adopt it?
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There are many many stupid/dangerous things that people do that can land them in hospital (extreme sports being maybe the biggest example), but for better or worse these aren't banned.
Indeed it is so ignorant that I was amazed by the amount of upvotes the article received on HN.
What if I told you that North Korea has their own OS?
The last three months have convinced me that we are not prepared to handle an outbreak if it gets bad after re-opening. We can't just assume it won't mutate, or the risk populations identified will remain a static group. We've
already seen American hospitals resorting to homemade PPE --or banning it, or forcing unsafe reuse of PPE -- we've exposed how fragile this system is. Especially just-in-time manufacturing specifically as applied to health care goods.

Most people do not feel the government has over-reacted by requiring lockdowns, and it wouldn't seem like a stretch to assume this is the case because we have no better option. We know, for certain, we can't handle a second outbreak. Even with additional time.
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> Our national debt is skyrocketing to higher levels than World War 2 (as percent of GDP).

Funny, that you say that. What happened after WW2 with taxes and the economy?
This is a completely speculative conjecture known as risk compensation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation). It's often brought up in opposition of mandatory safety measures (quite prominently around seat belt legislation in the 1970s), but AFAIK it's never been shown to be numerically significant.
This article seems to be 90% a rip-off of the source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cat-ladders
Were you actually in SF? I moved here from Southern California, and the tap water in both apartments I've lived in has been extremely drinkable straight out of the tap. No chlorine or mineral taste at all. I'd go so far as to compare it to NYC tap water.
The interesting part comes at the end:

> "The circled CC symbol is a trademark of Creative Commons. As far as I’ve been able to establish, this is the first time that a trademarked symbol has been included in the Unicode Standard."
For personal use, sure, you'll probably get away with it. Try selling it and see what happens.
I don't think that's what's happening here.
Singapore previously discouraged mask wearing. Only recently it mandated them, and now community transmission is plummeting. The resurgence in cases is only in migrant worker dormitories, where unfortunately 10-20 people share a room and it's extremely hard to prevent transmission. https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/38-more-cases...
I haven't tried it raw, but buttermilk icecream is delicious and lately I have noticed a trend towards things like buttermilk-fried chickenburgers and similar foods, I've been meaning to try one.
I hope this can still be edited on HN to save people a click.
It's an emotive issue and as technologists we often feel an urge to do something, anything straight away.

I'm not suggesting delaying forever, and I do realize that there is human impact at the moment. I would not refer to the value of life in monetary terms that way.

There may not be easy solutions but there are plenty of other contract tracing technologies[1] that experts have been discussing, developing and critiquing.

I am suggesting that we allow those experts the time they need - no more, and no less - to get their work done to a sufficient level and report their findings to decision-makers.

After that feedback is gathered it could become apparent that deploying GACT as a closed-source, time-unbounded OS-level feature with app approval restricted to two companies situated in one nation of the world is less than ideal.

That could allow nations to collectively ask for changes to the proposal, with solidarity in their concerns and expert evidence to back it up.

[1] - "Unified research on privacy-preserving contact tracing and exposure notification", https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9o...
Might have been a mistake from the person you are replying to, a circle with 91m radius has a circumference of 571m, close enough?
I've stopped paying attention to battery tech announcements and just wait to see what shows up on the market. There are so many 'breakthroughs'.
Why is this handy? What advantage is there over just checking the expression?
We're still mid pandemic. The error bars are tightening but there is a lot we don't know about the disease. There has been no time to determine whether the response was actually good or bad when considering the costs. People don't even know what the costs are yet.

Marc Andreessen's diagnosis was a knee-jerk guess at where the problems are and is probably wrong. Cory does a good job of pointing that out. However, if anything makes Americans wake up to the looming strategic threat of China that has been around for at least a decade then that is probably for the best. The CCP are the same type of 'friend' as the Saudis.

The US hasn't been making sensible strategic decisions since at least '08. There is a lot of spending on wars that don't suppress rivals and a lot of debt that isn't making the economy robust. The research advantage that America once had is being chipped away; Huawei won't be the last time China achieves technical dominance over US tech companies.
I doubt that anything will happen, really. It's a negotiation, the Australian government says "give us all your money", Google says "you're not getting one cent" and in the end Google will favor traditional media companies' sites a bit more ("fighting fake news with real information"), donate to a few journalism programs and possibly start creator-ad-share on news.
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Do you know of a good pumpernickel here?
Which is a shame because broadcast radio via AM, FM or DAB(+) is at least still one-to-many, while streaming is one-to-one and therefore scales badly.
What kind of VR hardware are you using? I'm working on a cloud based virtual computer solution that leverges google's additive GPUs (You can add as many as you want to facilitate what you need to do).
People's lives are worth millions of dollars. Each. Government estimates are around $5 million per life.

It's the coronavirus causing economic damage, customers dying or having to stay home to avoid dying is bad for business. I don't know what planet this is not obvious to people on.

Fastest way to address this is to quickly contain & suppress the virus -- isolation, testing, tracing, eradication -- after which careful & gradual reopening can occur.

Of course this requires a competent government; a functioning health system would help too. So would a government capable of supporting businesses to put employees on paid furlough, pause interest on mortgages & debts, issue stimulus efficiently, etc. Many other countries are able to accomplish much of this -- unfortunately the US is largely not. Substantially due to the extractive capitalist/ monopolist attitudes of greed & "money at any cost" seen right above.
-At a former employer, I had coded some embedded devices to spit out their bus address and current error code in morse code using the buzzer in the keypad. Saved me lots of time during initial debugging of new installations, then I'd just disable the buzzer before heading for home.

(At least) on one occasion I forgot; years later a puzzled chief engineer calls me and says that his first officer had told him that E209 had a pending IGBT failure while they were discussing issues with the equipment we'd delivered over the din of the buzzers. Would that hypothesis have any possible merit?
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I could not figure out what the author's overall position is on the pandemic response - understandable given the format.

Is the author saying we had all the tools ("ability") but we did not have the people in positions of power that the author approves of?
Useless rant.

If some restaurant serves terrible food:

"Holy *#$ What Is Wrong with the Carrot Community?"
Nobody believed Japan. Trump had to call Abe to consider postponement and Canada was the first country to announce they wouldn't send their athletics to the summer Olympics in Tokyo on March 22.
History. Just what the regulators fancied at the moment it was standardized.
How could I have forgotten, they had Phil Schiller in 317.

https://atp.fm/episodes/317
Just so we're clear, you actually don't think there is wide scale systematic institutionalized racism? Not that there are not other contributing factors, that it doesn't exist?
Mayo has egg
Your analogy with the energy market is quite good, the only thing I would address is that coal plants aren’t more energy efficient than gas plants (roughly 40% and 50%, respectively). The reason coal plants provide the base load is that the raw material, coal, is cheaper than gas. However, with falling oil and gas prices this might change in the ‘near’ future.

The reason the US military (among others) buys so much equipment even during relatively peaceful periods is to keep alive the ability to produce massive amounts of tanks etc. whenever they really _do_ need them. So just not outsourcing these kind of essential goods to foreign nations might be already a great leap in the right direction.
I use a WM, not a DE, that's maybe why, anyway, I didn't see anything in the KDE connect settings.
> To my knowledge, these decisions have not had to be made yet.

According to people working in health care in Stockholm they have used these policies for a few weeks now [1], the article (from the 2nd of April, 2½ weeks ago) contains two references to cases where patients were denied intensive care (and, as a consequence, died) who would have received care before these policies were enacted. The (anonymous) nurse states that Sjukvården är inte öppet ärlig med att vi redan har en katastrofsjukvård där man inte prioriterar de som man bedömer är sjukast, utan de som man bedömer har störst chans att rädda which (loosely) translates to care givers are not open about the fact that we already optimise for throughput instead of prioritising those who need the most care

[1] https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/9v4z2q/sjukskoterska-vi...
Oh yeah, I forgot about Norway. I have a (Czech) friend there, they have to pull down the sunblinds when they want to drink a beer. Seems insane to me, also a Czech guy.
Yes, although in fairness to Twitter for this particular use case... publishing something of this length is not what Twitter was meant for.
Isn't that because of taxation? It is that way in Czechia as well, purely because of that; it is OK to make spirits at home though (up to some - albeit pretty large - amount).
Slighty off topic;
Is it me or is this whole era paralyzed by mental laziness? We have so much input and little dopamine hits that putting in hard work is easily forgotten, since you only have to look at your screen to be ‘pleased’. Curious if anyone some have opinions about this.
'Composers’ letters can make frustrating reading. But with Mozart, you get the whole personality — candid, perceptive, irresistibly alive and packed with filth'
all of front end seems pretty terrible to me, but react and SPAs seems like the worst of it all.

I think you struck a nerve, lol. but I totally agree with you.
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There are negative side effects from consuming the mushrooms which you don't get from purified psilocybin.

Dosage is important. There isn't a way to test for potency which would ensure a reliable dose.

Argument fallacies:

* your anecdotal positive experiences

* suggesting superiority because something is "from nature"

* referring to "mistakes from the past" without naming any

* suggesting superiority that "has been (done) for thousands of years"

Think about why these kinds of arguments are made on different topics which you disagree with and then rethink why you are making them here.
> There has been no time to determine whether the response was actually good or bad when considering the costs.

Lockdown takes us from exponential growth to linear growth. This has played out so many times, in so many different regions, that I think it's pretty clear as to what the response accomplished on the plus side.

You can quibble over what lockdown should look like, and which of the measures are not necessary to stop the exponential, but it's pretty clear that the form of it adopted in every country that has tried it... Works.
For a long time in the US (maybe still?), the vast majority of the schedule was set by the local station. Being a member of one of the national networks brought access to a catalog of shows, and a few requirements about the scheduling of shows that the network really cared about. In almost every nationally-produced promo you got the phrase “check your local listings” in addition to the advertised time because the local station might air the show sometime other than when the network recommended.
I found that the Twitter thread is filled with drama, probably because of the OP's tone of voice and communication style.

If you want to follow a discussion, here is Dan's reply: https://mobile.twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/12518552312410...
> What you propose here is asking every non-at-risk person to take an unknown, but possibly as high as a percent or two, risk of dying. I doubt many people will take you up on that. I certainly won't.

This is a complete farce. 1-2% of dying in not-at-risk individuals? We know that the diamond princess, the cruise where we tested everybody, had around a 1% mortality rate, and that was with a bunch of at-risk individuals (the elderly, in this case). That basically gives us an upper bound IFR, and other data coming out from places like Germany is putting us closer to .2-.6% IFR.

But yes, if someone has extreme anxiety that they are going to die from covid, even despite evidence to the contrary, they should absolutely stay at home. No one should be forced to go outside, but unfortunately in many parts of the world people are being forbidden from going outside practically at all.

The important thing here is the individual needs to be empowered to make an informed decision based off their personal risk tolerance. If someone decides that the unknowns are too overwhelming and they want to remain at home until a hypothetical future vaccine is hypothetically released, that's totally fine. But critically, I don't want to be living in a society that is forcing me to stay inside for reasons that are not based on evidence-based public health policy. And unfortunately so much of what we've seen (e.g. closing public parks, banning jogging, disallowing drive-thru church meetings until the decision was overturned) is not grounded in sane policy, but instead in panic-driven reactionism.
> Yes it will have a strong racial bias in it's outcome but does that make it racist?

Functionally, yes absolutely?

If racially biased outcomes just somehow keep happening, "racist" is absolutely a correct English word for that phenomenon.
The author is the founder of AngelList which isn’t a business. Business as in delivers goods and services in exchange for money.

AngelList is to angel investors what HN is to YC.
> you'll be bumping the speech rate up to 1.75-2X normal speech

Try 5-6x. I've met some blind people who listen to audio so fast, it sounds like noise to me. As someone who isn't blind, I regularly listen to lectures and audiobooks on 1.75-2.5x (depending on the base rate) without issues, but 6x is just something else entirely.

> Typos will be easily spotted as they just won't "sound right".

Really good way to describe this. It's almost like listening to an audio fingerprint which magically indexes the answer in your brain. My blind friend was doing law, but I'm sure she did something similar to help her map the dependencies between laws.
Cool project, well done!

Reminded me also of the Jesusonic [0] FX processor, by Justin Frankel [1] of Winamp, SHOUTcast, REAPER, ...

[0] https://www.cockos.com/jsfx/

[1] https://1014.org/
Yes.

The least surprising sentence after all of that was:

> It’s hard to integrate non-engineers – they aren’t valued.

This describes a bunch of hackers, not a company.
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Express interest in improving yourself to a more senior colleague. Too many people just sign off on PRs, etc because we "don't have time" to help our junior engineers grow. Encourage real feedback on your work. Companies do a dis-service not to invest in improving their employees.
> Taiwan reacted incredibly early

Pretty interesting to guess why:

- they're Chinese, so they understand what's going on in China

- they in fact understand it better than mainlanders since they are not bound by the censorship therein

- they get first hand reports since iirc a million Taiwanese are in mainland China at any given time

- they are on constant alert against Pekin aggression
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Present your data showing that authoritarian-led social distancing procedures helped, then. The null hypothesis is that an intervention does not work. I would like to see evidence that shows that these procedures had a meaningful effect in comparison to the trend of what was already occurring.
I loved iCab on both MacOS 9.x and on early iterations of OS X. Eventually, I started using Opera as my main browser on OS X, which had a lot of features that other browsers adopted a lot later, like tabs. Then Firefox came around, and the rest is history.