skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In principle even if the tests are unreliable in individual cases, if the false positive and negative rates are known sufficiently well it ought to be possible to use mass results to get an accurate estimate of the prevalence of what they're supposed to be measuring.
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Do you have any links/papers that explain the Finnish estimate?
> should we have also done more for ebola, zika, SARS, MERS etc in the US

Obviously yes, and not only in the US. The complete lack of any preparation for this kind of events in most of the world is what makes this specific event so disastrous, and the extent of that disaster is going to be more visible only once everything settles -- we're still far from that.
Probably you're not looking at it from a laptop with touchpad...it's really hard to scroll, also it's really hard to use the keyboard.

I can imagine that with a tablet/mobile phone it's a nice experience.
>Mostly gTLDs were/ are a way for ICANN to make a lot of money exploring stupid people's greed.

In the '90s people told that buying lots of .com was a waste. And now we have domain hoarders making millions.
Bull. Smaller changes at a rapid pace allows for feedback. Meaningful feedback, since you get to see and play with the feature. It’s easier to know what you want once it’s concrete.

If you’re deploying continuously to a QA server, there is be no way halfass features get out in prod.

Also, no developer needs to know what everyone is doing, and is impossible to ask for it, since people need space in their head for real life problems and responsabilities, not keep track of the minutia of their peers day to day
Hence why I posted a link to the language list on my first comment. :)
Can anyone tell me what tablet and app he is using for the drawing?
Wait until you find our how little of the world's population builds and maintains the telecommunications, liquid fuel, and pharmaceutical ecosystems that we also reply on.

Yours,

David Ricardo
The application running is irssi, if that's what you're asking.
Yes, the "desktop" is basically Windows with some traces of Macs :). For server-like systems, Linux has pretty much "won" though. Which probably is the reason why MS is working on WSL. There are also a lot of GUI applications, which run mostly on Linux because their work domain fits in a server-like setup - and be it even for data protection reasons where the applications are running on a server cluster accessed by a remote protocol like Citrix.
Failure to understand what bytecode based execution runtimes is all about it seems.

Also failure to understand that C ABI does not exist, rather it is the OS ABI from OS written in C, and that other OS, not written in C, don't have such thing as C ABI across all languages.

Examples of such OSes, IBM i, z/OS, Unisys ClearPath, UCSD, Unisys ClearPath, Classic Mac OS, UCSD, Native Oberon, Mesa/Cedar, Windows (plenty of stuff is .NET/COM/UWP nowadays), Android, ChromeOS, Garmin OS, and the Web.

So no, it isn't the browser C FFI, all major ones aren't even written in C for the past 20 years.
> I’d expected the UK Spain and France to hit herd immunity first

Whoever has broad access to a vaccine first probably reaches herd immunity first. Natural herd immunity would take years to reach or massively overwhelm any health care system and kill millions.
Well, I was talking about "YouTuber", "Streamer" careers.
Deaths per 1m population in Sweden is currently 139. For Denmark it's 58, and for Norway it's 30.
Another important fact that is kept out of these discussions is that the whole point of social distancing and quarantines is to level the infection curve, so that health services aren't overwhelmed by epidemic cases and thus can remain functioning not only for covid19 patients but also any other type of medical care.
Rust has had Python interop through the Python C API since around 2015 [1]. It's pretty low hanging fruit for any language that supports the C FFI. Rust-cpython has had simple macros for interop for ages [2] and there's even a library that uses serde macros to encode/decode pickled object [3].

This article is just a fun hack using Rust macros.

[1] https://github.com/dgrunwald/rust-cpython

[2] http://dgrunwald.github.io/rust-cpython/doc/cpython/macro.py...

[3] https://docs.rs/serde-pickle/0.6.0/serde_pickle/
Maybe in this situation it's simply useful to understand what exponential growth means.

To see numbers go like 1, 2, 4, 8, 16... and react with "oh, this seems really bad" while everyone else is like "16 infected people among how many millions? that's nothing. flu kills more people".
>Just like the JVM and CLR I guess. (List_of_JVM_languages, List_of_CLI_languages)

I don't see JVM & CLR even with the dozens of language choices on top of the virtual machine runtimes as giving you ways to do "bare metal" programming. I guess one could arguably squint and say Java's JNI or C# P/Invoke and "unsafe{}" gets you some "bare metal" capabilities but that's a stretch.

I go back to the gp's sentence: "Imagine starting a project in an easy language, then migrating pieces to a faster "bare metal" language as needed in a super piecemeal way."

For example, JVM/Java doesn't have value types[1] (yet) and that's required for programmer's control of exact and efficient memory layout for many bare metal domains. It doesn't matter what flavor of JVM language you use because you're ultimately limited by the JVM's capabilities which causes excessive pointers to pointers which is inappropriate for some high-performance code.

In C#, some future tech like CoreRT might open up some more "bare metal" programming possibilities but that's not production yet[2]. I remember you couldn't even develop a Windows Explorer right-click menu shell extensions in C# because it was a bad idea to load up 2 different versions of the NET Framework runtimes (until NET 4.0). That's not even that low a level of programming and yet C++ had no such limitation.

I use C# as much as I can but I still have to do 50% my projects in C++ because JVM/CLR are not "bare metal" enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Java#Compound_val...

[2] https://github.com/dotnet/corert#user-content-net-core-runti...
>Blender fanboys argue for using keyboard shortcuts instead. The keyboard shortcut guide is 13 pages.

Well to be fair Blender is a professional tool. It is expected that users read the manual and learn the shortcuts, etc. Discoverability is something that should not be optimised for in a tool for professionals like Blender.
Sweden is also using mitigation strategies, just slightly less than other countries.
To make your Internet wayback machine experience more immersive, keep using Windows. The sluggish performance will make you feel just like in the 90s.
> I'm holding them accountable right now.

Why should they care? They just have to wait a week.
My parents were the antithesis of pushy, but were definitely narcissists - “why can’t you just be normal” was the standard refrain, as believe me, they hated being hauled up in front of the headteacher or being sent dismal missives over my behaviour just as much as I did. I made them look bad, as academic achievement was not important to them - popularity was. They’d organise absolutely agonising social events for me in an attempt to fix me, which just drove me further into the woods.

No narcissism here, mostly just self-loathing.
Linux GUIs have always been worse than Windows as far as I remember (going back to the mid 90s).
A disease can be killed off (or massively reduced) via herd immunity without requiring all individuals to have been infected.
Mirror: http://archive.md/maTHi
I bet you’re the sort who ignores politics 90% of the time

“Free markets, man, not my job, cut taxes, why organize collectively, that’s fascism, I ain’t paying for others!”

Murica. How’s that rugged individualism, living among all those exceptional people going?

Richest country in history is effectively a failed state internally.

Pointing big guns, shouting LOL NO we do what we want isn’t working?
Where can we access the C code used to create the original report?
What if I want to play a game?
I gotta hope proton supports it.

Or use Photoshop, Lightroom or any other non Linux creative application. I guess I gotta learn the free alternatives.

Also how's video acceleration in the browsers? Can I play a 4k60fps video?

Is there HDR support?

I use Linux everyday. But misrepresenting the desktop experience isn't going to get people to switch.
The UI changes in Blender 2.80 were exactly to get rid of the awful non-standard non-discoverable UI that has plagued the program from the start. It actually fixes a whole ton of issues that the article complains about! For instance, mouse button assignments are now sane (select on left button, not right) and Ctrl+S brings up an actual save file dialog with pretty unsurprising layout and behaviour (instead of that abomination that replaced the application window contents when pressing F12 and required an enter keypress to save - there was no button). There are many, many more of these changes and they were absolutely necessary.

The unfortunate side effect of this is that grumpy old users that were trained to accept the previous highly idiosyncratic UI started to complain because they have to relearn stuff. But it's worth it. And it opens up blender for more users.
I dont think that ratio to special education says all that much. A lot of it is heavily disabled kids who do need expensive tools to even learn to walk and have kids-teacher ratio like 6:1 or even less. Mostly because they need a lot of support to just function - whether they are learning or not.

The gifted education is comparatively cheaper.

Plus, it is about kids that are bordering to being a danger to themselves or others. They need experts just to function. They are getting special education for the sake of other kids too. And failing their education means more money spend on prisons or social system once they grow.

People imagine special education being about slightly slower kids. But these are not costing all that much.
The fatality rate depends on whether and how you can treat patients. The Finnish health care system has not yet reached capacity at this stage.
The Egyptian and Mayan ones did.
He is not exactly saying or promising heard immunity in May but that they do have some mathematical models that point to that. He also states the caveat that these models are only as good as their input values and he doesn't sound confident about the correctness of those.
> killed off (or massively reduced) via herd immunity

Natural herd immunity is the the end result of allowing infection to spread without limits.

Only with vaccine you can create herd immunity without getting infected. For the next 12-18 months the only way to get immunity is enough people getting infected.
Ask HN: Have you repurposed old iPads in an interesting way?
I have a few older iPads that don't get much use. Interested to hear any of your innovative ideas on what to do with them. Have you repurposed old iPads in an interesting way?
You sound like a peach.
Herd immunity isn't going to work if reinfection is possible https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/17/health/south-korea-corona.... Even if there's some protection (e.g. 6 months) it will be extremely difficult to maintain herd immunity.
We prefer ccTLD for local audience and .com for global audience. We even use .eu if audience is just EU.

Having a .com seems strange in my country.

But I think that more and more websites desire to target an international audience so battle over .com domains gets tougher and tougher.

I won't be surprised when I'll see the first .com domain being sold for $1 million.
A lot of things in iOS are counterintuitive. Everything happens via a "Share" option. You want to do something, you click "Share" option and hope there's that option that you need.

By the way, on my 7 at least, there's a "Folder" icon right before the "Reply" icon that can also be used to move the message and you can add move option in one of the swipe gestures as well.
To me, it seems that they started to use mitigation strategies because they figured the time/economic variable that I pointed out, and realized the impossibility of their gamble.
FWIW, my experiences:

I filed an EIDL partway through on the SBA site Apr 6, got far enough create an account, to save my work and get an application number.

Login UI was gone by April 7 when I went to finish my app. No hint of the UI I'd used one day earlier.

Tried again April 9 - different application interface. Got through primary info input, requested $10K as emergency bistro, received an application number (different from the first number), then the process closed down suddenly. Got two emails from SBA saying my application had been received. There's no way to check status. Still hearing crickets since April 9.
My family could afford most things new, we had the manuals. I think my parents read them too, as they knew how to use the timed recording feature. My grandma knew how to use hers!

Many people would keep the manuals near the TV, so they could remind themselves how to use the rarely used features.

The Panasonic VCR we had included a barcode reader in the remote. The printed TV guide has barcodes for each program. This interface was very easy to use -- scan, and press "transmit".

Edit to add a link to an advert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSGUbE1v5RA -- the sheet of timecodes was necessary if you didn't have a TV guide with them printed, as shown here: http://www.champagnecomedy.com/panasonic-barcodes-saving-you...
That depends on your heat source. If it’s carbon neutral then shipping is still worse.
I also figured it out just now after 8 years of Mac usage. But I already knew that I don't know/use most of the dedicated Mac shortcuts (thought I think I should).
I'm also tired of articles that are like: "Here's some bad examples, therefore everything is bad".

It's missing the constructive part and probably finds the wrong audience.
I’ve been actively using computers since CP/M. On windows, that I use daily, just random click and press and shake the mouse until I get a password prompt to login. Since there is slight delay until something happens after each action I’ve never been patient enough to figure out what exactly it is that works.
I like how you are using simple guesstimates to show how viable herd immunity is. Following on from this:

600,000 people in Stockholm
to be infected in, say, 120 days
= 5000 new infections per day
with, say, 1% hospitalisation
= 50 new beds per day

This does not seem realistic to me.
George W. Bush in 2005: 'If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/george-bush-2005-wait-pandem...

Bush Administration planning here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/planning-prepared...

It was all ignored. It's why Obama got heat during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, and Trump now.
Neither has the Stockholm health care (ICU beds) reached capacity yet.
Someone else below has shared a video on the same kind of thing you might be interested in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65n9h3tFpVg
>So much for the idea of the Internet breaking down political boundaries.

I thought the modern idea is to embrace diversity.
> if a 23 was a good ASVAB score

For those of us not familiar with the US military, it appears the answer is "no, that's not a good score". Apparently it's a percentile: they did better than 23% of the test takers, and it looks like that wouldn't qualify you to join any branch of the US military.

https://blog.prepscholar.com/good-asvab-score-air-force-army
I also am predicting collapse by 2030.

The mechanism follows from climate disruption. As the tropics become uninhabitable and/or unfarmable, millions will migrate (mostly) north, crossing borders and driving fascist / jingoist governments into power. (We see this beginning already.) Global war follows, disrupting all kinds of global trade, shattering supply chains. Famine ensues, and more war.

Preventing this requires preparation to absorb millions of refugees, and food aid to places not entirely uninhabitable. Temperate agriculture will be badly disrupted too, so we also need mass agriculture less dependent on clement conditions.
You're right actually. I was missing the point. Yes, this would be very useful.
I know precisely the kind of style you mean. I just googled <random technology> and 1997 and found this here cover pretty immediately: https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-IOS-Configuration-Fundamentals-...

Probably not what you had a hazy memory of but probably very close. I love this style too.

Edit: It's one of my favourite non-digital aesthetics in computing history, together with some of the stuff DEC did.

Edit 2: Another minor reason I'm somewhat familiar with that style is because MUMPS vendor InterSystems kept some variants of it around for longer than reasonable: https://www.slideserve.com/broderick/introduction-to-intersy... which I just adore.

And just for another search, Microsoft 1996 yields this here thumbnail: https://i.imgur.com/wlr0U6j.png for this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMC_uFdcWE
There are better ways to keep a child engaged than by just giving them more school material. No matter what the material is, if they’re in a regular school, they’re going to get bored very quickly.
It's common though right? There worst thing you can do is tell a kid they are brilliant. They think they always have to be brilliant and escape hardship because it might mean they aren't brilliant.
He said they tested people for immunity (my interpretation was antibody tests, maybe i was not correct in the actual type of test - but they are testing for "immunity" (antibodies?), somehow).
>As a Canadian, I know that a site having a .ca domain will definitely ship to my address.

Unless it's used as a domain hack by someone in another part of the world.
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> As a chief physician executive, I rarely get involved in my health system’s supply-chain activities.

This seems crazy to me. Maybe it's because I came from manufacturing, where even front-line managers are heavily involved in supply-chain activities. We constantly have discussions about how this-or-that global/regional/local event might affect x or y commodity and the tortuous potential paths that may have to affecting our business niches. However, high functioning bars and restaurants also generally seem to have an excellent grasp of their extended supply chain and market forces.

It blows my mind that hospital executives didn't understand much at all about where their necessary supplies came from.
What's your point? My point was that you can't make that calculation with a current fatality rate.
I wouldn't place too much trust in the Finnish IFR estimate. Their IFR estimate a month ago was 0.05% - 0.1%. At the time there was no data to support that, and it turns out that they had simply taken their estimates from a ten year old pandemic preparedness plan, which was designed for an influenza pandemic.

It was basically the same mistake UK did. Now they have very slowly begun to adjust away from the misleading path they originally set on.

The Finnish national health organization has been subject to severe budget cuts for the past ten years. They are still saying that masks do more harm than good, and that it's absolutely impossible to stop the virus, despite South-Korea having done so for almost 50 days already.
In case of influenza, you only need innumity for 30% of the population.
> People forget a key element of herd immunity: the immune ones are what’s left stand after the carnage

Has it been concluded that people do actually retain longterm immunity? I was reading[1][2] previously that there isn't proof yet that immunity afterwards is retained for long. Seems still too early to tell.

ref:

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/questions-remain-covid-19-reco...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/coronavirus-fi...
I suppose everything looks like a nail when you've got a few GPUs.

Besides, the sequence alone is not the full state. You have to also consider expression and regulation and all that; epigenetics.
They'll register whitehouse2.gov or therealwhitehouse.gov
Since when is WebAssembly bare metal?!?

Apparently you missed the Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 train regarding your "bare metal" compilation from C# and VB.NET code.

.NET 4.0 was released in 2008 and I have been able to use C++ as .NET language since 2001, so ....

In fact one of my first .NET projects, in 2002, was to integrate C++ RPC library into Managed C++, long replaced replaced by C++/CLI with .NET 2.0 release.

Going back to Java, IBM, Aicas, PTC, Gemalto will happily sell you Java compilers that generate AOT native code for embedded deployment targets, not to mention what is running on my phone, where 95% of the OS APIs are exposed only via Java and where your beloved C and C++ code needs to use JNI to access them.
But it isn't influenza.
Just to make it clear: after I posted this , I did some research and it turns out I am using KDE Cinnamon actually... I installed KDE, and now I have options when in the login page to select which "session" I want: Ubuntu, Unity, Plasma, Cinnamon, Wayland... I have Cinnamon by default, and it is indeed my favourite... Plasma seems very cool, but too different from what I am used to... I might play with it later when I have more time though.
> C++ has a hash map in its standard Library since 10 years.

OP was talking about C, not C++/STL.

> Anyone starting to use Rust, even with 10 years of C++ experience, will spend from HOURS to DAYS fighting the borrow checker.

You might have learned Rust pre-1.0 or non lexical lifetimes. They've made a tremendous amount of work to improve the language and make it beginner friendly.

A few weeks ago I watched one of my coworkers implement a simple toy state machine app after having just read a tutorial. The compiler literally hand holds you now.

The meme that Rust is hard needs to die.
Neither has the system in Stockholm, and in the rest of Sweden it barely ticks the mark.

For example in Skåne, a region with a population of 1.3 million currently 16 people are in ICU care from 6 days ago.

In Swedish: https://www.expressen.se/kvallsposten/sa-manga-ar-corona-smi...
Ask HN: What's the simplest way to run a cron script on the cloud?
I have a proof-of-concept script that should run once a day. I would prefer to not run a server all day for a one-time job. What's your preferred way to provision something like this on the cloud?
Popularity among whom? The hobbyists? I program professionally with Rust and that entails a lot of web development. Actix-web remains the most comprehensive, vetted solution.

You can't compare a general use networking server such as hyper with actix-web. Hyper is used for a much broader range of scenarios than just web development.

I truly hope that programmers continue to broaden the ecosystem, but progress has been slow.
Of course they would. What have they got to gain?

Now put a prize in there and I might well play.
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Sure but it's worth noting that they went with the Rust implementation in the end even though it took the longest to write.

Their reasons appear to have been that Rust code has fewer bugs (who cares if you get your JS code done in an hour if you spend a week fixing trivial runtime bugs?), had better performance, and they didn't like Go's dependency system.

I definitely have noticed when writing Rust code I spend way more time getting it to compile, but I also have that "wait it worked first time? Impossible, I must have done something wrong" feeling waaaay more in Rust than I ever did with C++ or Typescript. I'm even starting to get used to it and think "sure it worked first time, it compiled after all!".

I wonder how their opinions on Go would change though, given that it now has arguably the best designed dependency system of any language.