skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To repeat: don't take this as a sign that Korea believes it has successfully managed the outbreak.

South Korea has had fewer deaths than other nations, South Korea has a semi-open economy now. What better model for managing the outbreak is there? (The condition of Europe and the US look very dismal) It's kind of strange seeing this claim with no substantiation beside "repeat" apparently staying on the top of HN for a while.

South Korea hasn't entirely averted the danger and is clearly still keeping it in mind. The virus is going to be around for a while and normalizing life is needed and it seems South Korea has to the testing and contact tracing infrastructure needed for this. What is the counter-argument?
Other than the cryptography, how does Scuttlebutt really differ from UUCP?
Most funds that include a volatility trading strategy are going to do well right now (because volatility ~ downturns). 2008 and 2011 were also really good years for vol arb desks. Not to downplay it, just seems Renaissance gets outsized credit (likely intended on their part for recruitment and fund raising) for things other shops do all the time.
Glad to see Dr. Patrick Hsu (https://bioeng.berkeley.edu/faculty/patrick-hsu) among the recipients. He is one of the smartest and most impressive people I know, so at least from my limited vantage point, this money is going to the right people :).
As written, someone who exceeded the income guidelines won't, regardless of how they lost their job. Then again, that gets into a question of need, with the assumption being that high-income earners have savings as a product of that income.
NZ considering $100M contact tracing ‘CovidCard’
I considered this because my faith also believes it. Regardless, I believe the principle stands on it's own.

Meanwhile, I'm pondering the apparent conflict. To that end, these are some of the points I'm considering.

1) Children aren't generally able to fully embrace faith on it's own merits until they are young adults. Until then, their faith is mostly proxied thru their parents.

2) Children have no practical ability to repay debts.

3) Faiths that teach pure service as a calling tend to extend it to parenthood.

4) The principle I'm advocating is a principle to family and to society.

More 4) In my experience, when a personal or societal principle appear to conflict w/ a religious principle, it's often due to an incomplete understanding of the principles in play. I found it is spiritually & ethically safe to allow those principles to co-exist in disharmony until greater knowledge reframes the conflict in a more solvable way.

More 4 tl;dr ver) There is great risk in pushing immature conclusions - much less risk in holding inconsistent ones.
I see a lot of comments about sunshine exposure. Just want to make a counter-point. My neighbor died of skin cancer after a lifetime of sun exposure. He was in his 60's, not a spring chicken, but not elderly yet either. Now I have a new next-door neighbor :(

Also some very young people die of sun exposure.

I have anecdotal experience that vampires often look many years younger than their sunshine peers. As well as some hard evidence from truckers with the left-side (window facing) of their face greatly aged compared to the right.

It might be wise to moderate the time in the sun. Get some vitamin D, but everything in moderation.
If DNSSEC were free, rather than a many-tens-of-millions-of-dollars proposition, and if it were safe, rather than a demonstrated reliability nightmare, and if it was a well-contained solution to a specific problem, rather than a transparent attempt to bootstrap a government-controlled PKI, and if complicated new protocol deployments weren't a giant source of new bugs to exploit, sure. Sure, it would make sense to deploy a little bit of 768-bit RSA to fix some marginal problem the rest of the stack already heavily mitigates.
Thanks! 100% agreed that zoning is just redlining. We've given municipalities the ability to discriminate based on wealth rather than race, but wealth is a proxy for race in America: https://www.thebalance.com/racial-wealth-gap-in-united-state...
Investing in electrical infrastructure aligns with the way the world is going -- higher consumption (not only EVs but growth in general) + higher local generation (local PV)

I expect it will just happen anyway. Meanwhile hydrogen will require all new single-use infrastructure.
I think they don't know yet, even the US were saying it might be 25-50% a couple of days ago. For example the testing of the aircraft carrier, one of the few cases of total population testing, showed 60% asymptomatic cases but had a young population, and it's not clear from the information we've heard publically if some of those will develop symptoms later.

So at the moment no-one really knows for certain.
didnt read the article. only headline.

my philosophy is:
help yourself. only then you can help others.

be selfish in a good way.

and it works well for me and those who I help.
I think it’s too early to judge success. Most countries haven’t even been through one wave yet. We’re going to have to live with this for years.
> because of the inherent corruption, greed, biases, and prejudices at play.

You and I must be thinking of different professionals.

At any rate, here are two very very very simple models of this epidemic: a) cases will grow linearly, b) cases will grow exponentially.

Super simple. extremely different outcome. Now, one still has to make policy decisions.

I think the solution is not fewer professionals, but more and better professionals.
50% keeps recurring because multiple mass testing efforts found that half of tested people were asymptomatic. However, that is mostly a function of a long incubation period. A significant portion of the infected developed symptoms later.
Trump said he doesn’t believe China numbers. And he probably knows the real numbers from the NSA.
Quite the opposite it seams to enumerate the arguments of both sides (while admitting the authors bias) and doesn't seem to make conclusions either way.
Your story has an extra dimension - Bravery.

Some people will just jump on the grenade, run into a burning house etc. It's an instinct baked into some small part of the population. No thinking involved.

Helping others day to day doesn't always require bravery (physical strength/low fear of physical danger) or courage (mental/moral strength). Situations where its required (as with the lifeguard) training definitely helps.
Their competitors would treat it as an illustrated guide for patent infringement suits, for one thing. Security through obscurity still works for that purpose to a great extent.
I don't think option 1 as you wrote is is any good. There appear to be strong signs that even with very mild symptoms patients can have significant lung damage, and also damage to other organs.

It is not clear yet how far that will heal. Only time will tell, but from the extend, I've seen discussions that the people affected might be patients for the rest of their lives.

(eg. https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2020/04/tag-C... in German)
How you dragged Amazon in the mix at the end is perplexing to me.
There aren't any inherent problems with Docker, VMWare, Unity games, or Adobe apps on Intel Hackintosh machines, if that's what you mean. Apps just work, and when you do encounter a bug in some app, you can be quite confident it isn't because you're using Hackintosh.

I expect AMD is always going to have some oddities because no AMD CPU has ever been used in a real Mac.
What's the chance of passing this bill? If it were to bail out stock market, both parties would be so happy to join forces to bail out the investor class.
Resiliency in the Time of Covid 19: Psychological First Aid [pdf]
This is a great initiative, and it's heart warming to see that the list is getting quite long. Most of these go far beyond my level of understanding, so I'm guessing I'm not the target audience. Nevertheless, it would be great if they could a one or two line elevator pitch-style "why this is important" section to each recipient's blurb.
Ok, but surely thats true with the dollar too? Some states depress the value the dollar would have if only NY and California were in the Union?
Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss.

I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are:

- Are there blind frontend engineers?

- What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only?

- Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?

- Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they?

I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste.

Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!

Edit:

Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community.
Proud to see a number of Canadian researchers and institutions on that list. I wish them all success in their work on this.
So this will help:

1. Security researchers, so they can see what malware may be lurking in FPGA bitstreams.

2. Open source developers working on FPGA bitstream compilers.

3. People who want to steal proprietary IP cores.

It hurts:

1. People who chose the part because of the closed bitstream particularly. In part because they made security decisions that the bitstream wasn't open.

2. Anyone who bought the products based upon the marketed security claims of the product (Hopitals/DoD/etc)
How to use Zoom safely on Linux
Clearly we (in the US) need quarantine now when things are out of control (and we need adequate PPE equipment for those working and financial support for those not working, two things that seem to be failing, likely to our extreme detriment).

But once the "fire" has burned far enough, we will testing and contact tracing. And so we need to be getting these up and running NOW so they will be ready when the "fire" has subsided sufficiently (and hey, we are failing on this too).
This man Tom Brown in North Carolina went "viral" last year for his similar hobby and website:

> My Hobby: Finding "Lost" Apple Varieties

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/dbvyv7/t...

https://applesearch.org/Junaluska_Apple_Discovery.html
You have to read the study’s details, not just the number in the headline. The IC report’s highest number was looking at what would happen if strong countermeasures were not taken, and they subsequently were — it’s like criticizing the justifications for mandating seatbelts because so many fewer people die in car crashes now.
You can pay these devs by purchasing one of the machines the software comes bundled with, that’s what pays their salary.

Apple is an integrator, they are not in the business of selling you just commodity hardware. People who buy their products do so in large part because the experience is better than what they would get buying the same hardware from random Chinese OEM 274.

But if you’re on the commodity hardware spiel: I challenge you to match the specs of any laptop Apple sells in a laptop by another manufacturer (and actually match, not replacing NVMe ssds with some random SATA part etc) and come anywhere near 50% or even 70% of the price.
A $1,300 smart crib is vulnerable to a hack that rapidly rocks babies
> There were 18 new cases two days ago, and 8 new cases yesterday.

> Korean government is planning to drop the 'social distancing' policy on May 5th.

Are the people divided about whether it was a good idea to wait until new cases got this low before making decisions about moving forward? Or is there very broad support for the kind of discipline it takes to wait until May 5 despite the cases being so low already?

Have people's opinions about the appropriate level of response become politicized? Have the facts and statistics and science of it all become politicized?
It makes that case but addresses a number of emotional issues as well. It’s a more sophisticated and insightful discussion than a blunt utilitarian argument.

Note that such decisions are routinely made every day. In the US, the DoT, HHS, and DHS put a price on the benefit of saving a human life differently (e.g. if the cost of upgrading this section of road is more than $X and historical fatality rate has been Y, then don’t bother). Ditto environmental laws.

On a more microeconomic scale we do so through pricing of treatments (Or its equivalent under different systems, queuing), deciding how much excess hospital capacity to invest in, etc. Whether to tax tobacco or not. Et al.
Independent journalism has never been better. Personally I don’t get my news from “retired” intelligence agents and CIA directors, but I guess I’m a conspiracy theorist in that way.
Sounds about right. Like everything in the US, some group is trying to figure out a way to siphon money from those to earn to those who “need it more”. I don’t care to support this, I want all the money I make, thank you very much. I’ll decide who to help with it. Or, I’ll help no one at all with the money I worked for, which according to college students and other people who have no skills and have paid no taxes, makes me “greedy”.

Now if you want to fix the screwed up healthcare system, I’m all ears.
It's not impossible, but the network is still far from "already in place". Wikipedia says US plug-in EV ownership is only 3.4%, and those drivers had better all own houses with attached garages.
car manufacturers leave expensive countries because there's an opportunity cost. If they can move their infrastructure from Australia to Thailand they make more money. Google already is everywhere. When they leave a country they just lose money. The marginal cost of production for large tech companies is close to zero so leaving a market virtually never makes any sense. Which is of course why all of the tech companies would personally grovel in front of the CCP if they let them in regardless under which conditions.
What's the current patent status?
Yes. I'd say:

No UBI without good affordable health care for all.

No UBI without good affordable education for all.

No UBI without humane unemployment benefits for all.

No UBI for all, because you already managed it.
>GM and Ford had no problem extracting itself from Australia,

The only thing they extracted were their manufacturing operations, GM and Ford still sell vehicles in Australia. They even have the Focus which Ford dropped for the American market! Unless Google and Facebook are going to close their offices but still provide service to Australia, that seems like an entirely different scenario.
It seems to me that the ideal pattern is to 3D print the rough form, but it is likely to take some machining to get it finished to the final shape and surface treatment you want.

Or am I missing something?
Wow thanks for sharing. Being a Pakistani I loved how he actually won the games.
Perhaps you just dont want to answer it.
BBC Earth – Everybody has mites living on their face (2015)
> The crib is fitted with a motor and mobile app that connects to WiFi, and security researchers found that they could hack into it and cause the device to shake at high speeds.

Wow! When your baby gets older, you can use it as a paint mixer.
The Teladoc program will actually upload some of your ios health data if you permit it (I might, but the privacy granularity is inadequate). So in theory the doctor could get my BP, HRT, BG etc...assuming I, the layperson, used the cuff properly.

Instead I just tell him/her the readings.
Tbh, SG should have never let people come particularly from countries with covid outbreaks during March. While spreading across the dorms is a big part of the internal spreading, it's clear the outbreak that started in March were clusters involving people coming to sg from abroad.

Almost everyone shut down travel from China (particularly Wuhan) but no one shut down travel from Europe during March. Biggest mistake ever. I don't know enough if it was tourists or whether it was returning Singaporeans but they should have instructed them to remain where they were for the sake of the country.
What people are dreaming about during Covid-19
One reason it works so well is that it makes your computer wide open. If you dispense with security and privacy, of course everything works just so much easier.
"Factored in" covers a lot of ground.

Here, for reference is the IHME model preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.27.20043752v...

The parameterization of social distancing is on pages 3-4. They considered four coarse categories of interventions, with the total effect given by a ad hoc score of 1, 0.67, 0.334, or 0.

It should be blindingly obvious that can be improved upon with more data and work. Moreover, the effects of social distancing aren't even constant--compliance certainly varies from place to place and over time (enforcement changes, people get restless).
You're right, I fudged Darwin and FreeBSD in my head and got Debian.
Oops, I did indeed miss that. I suppose that shows that it was helpful to spell it out.
> What you describe is not in conflict with the Apple/Google proposed solutions.

I didn't mean to suggest that it was. Rather, I was objecting to your earlier claim that there must be an internal and proprietary Apple API used to validate diagnosis keys and that only Apple could mitigate the abuse risk.

> As long as Google/Apple aggregate the diagnosis keys across multiple servers

There's nothing that inherently requires Google or Apple involvement here (although realistically I assume they will end up providing the majority of the servers as a service). All implementations and services including the framework, any apps, and the data server can be done completely independently (if desired) and still interoperate with any Apple or Google provided implementations. That's what's so great about a decentralized system.
Yes, it is true, but the difference is that the US is also a fiscal union, which is not the case with the EU, making it fundamentally unworkable in its current state.

https://blogs.imf.org/2018/02/21/the-euro-area-needs-a-fisca...
THIS! I'm surprised that it took me so far down this list to find it. The first use case has so far been the only use case in practice that I'm aware of. Its also a HUGE use case, money makes the freaking world go round!

Good or bad, it's exciting to see what the future holds for these currencies. I have my own theories on whats going to happen, but no one actually knows. Obviously some peoples theories will prove correct and they will come out with "yeah I was positive this was going to happen". Not looking forward to that part.
> get into Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale

Based on everything I've seen over my roughly 20-year career in academia, plus the 18 years before that living in that world (my parents are both professors), what you get from going to Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and all the other "Big Name" schools is just that: the name.

The education you get there is not better than the education you can get at a small liberal arts college—in fact, it's often worse, because you're just one of tens of thousands, lost in the crowd, and you're extremely unlikely to get one-on-one attention from the professor if you have any trouble with the material.

Small liberal-arts colleges, on the other hand, so long as you're avoiding the ones that are specifically party schools, generally tend to focus much more on the teaching aspect, and especially on the personal attention aspect.

For more specialized degrees like engineering you may need to narrow your pool of those schools to find one that has a good program, but there are enough that unless your field (at undergrad level) is suuuuper-niche, you're very likely to be able to find one that works for you.

And while it's not universally true, they tend to be pretty good about taking transfer students.
I’m no expert, but this is close to my assessment of the situation.

One hope is that you open up a bit, and keep R0 low enough so that over 18 months it doesn’t kill many people. Just have to keep R0 as close to 1 as you can. After some practice treating it as a control system, you could get quite good at it. This is where testing would fit it - feedback into your controller (which would be public policy).

More generally it seems to me that historically herd immunity has always been the way out. By that argument, only something truly novel will help - only example I can think of is exploiting smartphones somehow to do contact tracing. That doesn’t mean it will work, just that it’s the only thing I can think of that hasn’t been tried before in this situation.

If our assessment is correct, then China’s situation seems to be miraculous... either it’s a matter of time before we’re proven correct, or contact tracing + authoritarian state is enough. And then the question is, can that work in democratic countries?
>No one has done a controlled study on this, so no one really knows. It ranges from zero to many.

Can't remember seeing any controlled studies on the efficacy of social distancing either.

Many of the healthcare professionals in the countries that dealt with SARS are calling for universal mask wearing.
I'd much rather trust their intuition and judgement than governments and media outlets passing the buck to the WHO.
that's what I am trying to tell him. comparing his prediction a week ago with measures to a prediction a month or more ago without measure is pointless.
Launching products is super hard I wish you luck. Getting detractors means you are doing something that at least garners a reaction from people. If there are negative reactions, there will also be positive ones.
Amazon's ad network is growing incredibly quickly, and op may be referring to the content against which these ads are placed.
> Blockchain could replace that, and save them all some money.

I don't think that can be proved to be true? I can easily imagine that any blockchain would introduce obvious weaknesses in the process for everybody, and such which can be avoided by having a central authority, which keeps the central authority option being cheaper for everybody.
Use a text editor such as Emacs or Vim.

Migrate from front end development to backend...

Learn to live in the command line.

Take car of your soul
I don't agree - to me it seems that one can easily identify and therefor avoid clickbait without clicking on it.
According to healthdata.org (IHME), Sweden has 79 ICU beds. If this is true, it seems that slowing the curve may not be worth it with so few ICU beds available.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/sweden
Its interesting to me to reclassify language schisms slash internal wars in this context. The C programmers(masochists) vs the C++99 programmers(Obsessives) vs C++11 programmers(Obssessives who want to move to Hysterical). The Raku vs Perl split as a move toward sociopathic behavior. The resistance in go to generics as an aversion of the masochistic to the hysterical. Its super fun.