skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah my old friend greedo. That's how it normally works, this time could be different, but we have no reason to believe that.

Generally for as long as you show antibody response you won't be re-infected because that's what antibodies do. The link I provided to the study I referenced was specifically for the purpose of, and I quote: "to assess SARS patients’ risk for future reinfection."

"To be clear, most experts do think an initial infection from the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, will grant people immunity to the virus for some amount of time. That is generally the case with acute infections from other viruses, including other coronaviruses." [1]

If you think this time is different the burden of proof is on you to provide studies and not provide unsupported, unsubstantiated conjecture.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/20/everything-we-know-about...
not precisely what you're asking, but there are two tools that annotate machine instructions with results from throughput and latency analysis, which helps with loop microoptimisation.

the original from intel, iaca: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-architecture...

newer clone, shipped with llvm: https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-mca.html
How did we get from OLED > LCD to "Pretty much every Android phone has a better display"? Are we including $200 phones as well?
There's no need to be snarky.

It may take years for a person to know if covid will kill them. There is growing evidence that every person who has tested positive will eventually die. I wouldn't be surprised if we discover asymptomatic victims finally succombing to the disease 10, 15, maybe 20 years down the road.
Every dollar not transferred to the oil industry is a dollar that can be spent on other things.

To put it another way, the number of people who benefit when oil prices go down far exceed the number of people who lose when oil prices go down.
Being outside isn't necessarily dangerous if you are maintaining safe distances. What continues transmission, more than anything these days, are infection chains that spread through families, at healthcare facilities, and at other essential services that remain open and include person contact or item contact.

Of course, the degree to which people take social distancing seriously impacts the R of contagion, but as the number of cases increase, so do the percentage of people that take it more seriously.
The South Korean data suggests there is a long tail on the death rate. It seems the very old and ill die quickly, but those that are healthier it can take a month or more to die.
I thing it was Niklaus Wirth (Turing award winner, inventor of Pascal/Modula/LoLa/Oberon, and general CS hero) who once said something like "I am a programmer who is a professor, and a professor who is a programmer."
The number of cases is a function of the number of tests. The number of fatalities would be a better representation of the lockdown effects.
> I still can't imagine any reasonable person thinking the "point" of a game is to win. Winning is the objective, not the point.

After skimming your comment, I’ve decided you’re intentionally splitting hairs to create a difference between point and objective.

Ask yourself: What is the point of going to the grocery store? What is the objective of going to the grocery store?
PyCharm is too bloated and under-designed for me.

I prefer Atom. Simple, fast, and pretty.
If you don't use formal methods, how do you know when your work is done?
> If you can't, then perhaps it might be a good idea to reconsider advocating for reopening the economy.

Can you prove that coronavirus didn't give me protection from some other more severe illness a la cowpox and smallpox?

No?

We can both come up with creative scenarios.

We are severely impacting the quality of life of hundreds of millions of people. We should have a reason to do so grounded in fact and educated guesses.

What reason do we have to suspect your scenario? What are the odds that it will occur? What are the odds it's going to be severe? What's the anticipated quality of life impact and with what confidence intervals?

Also: even if it did create this situation, and we know it for sure, what can we do about it?

We don't have a vaccine. We don't have effective treatments. Those are potentially years away, if they ever materialize at all.

How long, and how severe, should a lockdown be to prevent a hypothetical scenario? What are the impacts of a quarantine that's long enough to guarantee a vaccine with, say, 90% confidence?
> I'd love to drive to a city centre and then have a walk without the traffic noise

There's a huge inherent contradiction here though: You are creating the very problem you want to escape from for everyone along your path of travel. land tends to be quite expensive in the city center, and parking is not a good use of it. Are you willing to spend $50 to park your car there to drive to the city center?
That list is missing a level zero: "It already does, you just haven't found it yet." (Not applicable here, mind you.)
> the approaches of Sweden and the state of Georgia prove not to be disastrous.

Sweden's approach is having a strong social safety net, including for personal health, that makes acting in the way public health requires consistent with personal incentives without mandates. Georgia’s approach is to have neither positive social incentives in the general case not appropriate public health mandates in the absence of those incentives. They aren't similar approaches. Sweden's probably won't be completely disastrous (though their death rate is high, compared to neighboring countries), Georgia's is on track to be. Sweden mostly gets misused as a positive example because of a low known infection rate, but that largely reflects differences in the scale and distribution of testing, not actual prevalence.
So far, Sweden is a negative outlier compared to the rest of the region: https://twitter.com/MarkkuPeltonen/status/125390221709594214...
I asked the OP to tell me what the long-term effects of the virus are given that they said for most of the population, the virus is not that serious. They haven't provided that information yet, so I'm going to assume they don't have it.

I do not have that information either. Until we (and 'we' as in medical professionals) figure out the best way to deal with the virus and any potential effects in the long term then yes, we should stay at home. Because there's still a lot of unknowns.
Engagement, ad revenue... other crap.
Sweden doesn't have a particularly high number of ventilators per capita, so their ability to manage the peak is not necessarily much higher than other nations.
Thing is we know zero contact means no Virus. But what lives beyond that? Who knows what is right. The morals and ethics of this, confounded with our knowledge and technology is profoundly complex. People are failing to grasp nuance here.
we still trust software too much. I suspect that most software-controlled experiments are going to have errors like this! we should require that every experiment has at least two clean-room implementations of its logic, and a battery of smoke tests for common mistakes
I still have one of their t-shirts.
People are going to use whatever version of the facts supports their bias.
And why don't we have that capacity? If a federal government should be good for anything, response to predictable national disasters has to be pretty high up on the list.
Worth mentioning Pure Alpha was down 20% in Q1. Someone else observed Ray Dalio has been too busy building his brand as a financial sage (cough cough) and either not keeping his eyes on the road or he just got lucky in 2008.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-03/bridgewat...
How I photograph the Milky Way with medium format film
I agree we should consider years of life lost but the figures are a bit higher than they ones you're using. 14 years on average for men and 12 for women. Not 60 years but more than 5.
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75
Here's the comparison of the four Scandinavian countries: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-covid-deaths-per-mi...

Yeah, no. Sweden doesn't look particularly successful.
Paris isn't that hilly, and anyway ebikes are great at solving this problem.
I'm just learned about this game via Noita, which is a sort of Liero / Spelunky / falling sands mash-up. I don't know how I missed Liero. It's incredible!

Edit: link: https://noitagame.com/
Ask HN: What do you use to layout and model your home?
I remember seeing on HN a while ago free software that people use to layout and plan out the interior of their home. What do you use? (paid or unpaid)
> It’s working as intended.

By whom, to what end? Who is served by poorly-taught courses designed to turn students away instead of helping them become enthusiastic learners?

What's the point of a "course" that can only be passed by students who either already know the material or learn it entirely on their own without assistance?
Wait are you saying DWM literally hides the cursor and then draws its own cursor manually? I thought it would change to a different type of fallback rendering in the kernel or something. Interesting, okay thanks.
I’m sure people will be lining up to show their sympathies for the oil barons. I’ll hold my breath.
> putting its latest and greatest processor, camera, operating system (and almost its display) into a form factor that can sell for under $400

The camera is not as good as the 11 or 11 Pro. Very good, yes — and even better using third-party camera apps that let you bokeh non-faces. But still not the latest and greatest.
1) Sweden has significantly higher deaths per capita.

2) Even if this works out for Sweden, they took a massive gamble with their citizens lives going for herd immunity with so many unknown.

An extreme example but its like that guy that sold everything bet it on red/black at Vegas. He doubled his wealth in a day but it still doesn't make him a model of financial management.
I agree. Where I live, social groups and families have continued to meet in person without regard to spreading the illness. My state is seeing new case counts flatten but my specific county is still gaining new cases at a higher rate than the rest of the region. It’s hard to not feel a little frustrated with these folks.
Sweden: 10M population, 18K cases, 2K deaths [0].

North Carolina: 10M population, 8K cases, 300 deaths [1].

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
The old astalavista.box.sk. Surprising it is still running.
TradeGamesNow.com - Community was awesome and trading video games via the postal service was a lot of fun.
economics lectures i attended a decade ago indicated that china has already surpassed the US in gdp, but to give us face and to not decelerate their growth, china manipulates their numbers and monetary policy to keep up appearances that the US is still larger.

china has 4x our population and growing like a weed. it’s naive to think they haven’t/won’t/can’t eclipse the US economy. it’s another reason we should overhaul immigration policy to attract the world’s best minds while we still have the prestige to do so.
So many sites that technically still exist but have changed

slashdot

shoutcast

pricewatch

anandtech - now it has such a sterile, corporate feel - back in the day in addition to reviews they'd do write-ups on their own infrastructure - not in the nebulous sense, but actually step by step, detailing what they were running (ColdFusion at the time as I recall)

allaire.com (no longer exists) - before Github or any of the modern package managers were a thing, and before anything conceived of frontend components, ColdFusion's custom tags seem to encompass a lot of great ideas that today seem obvious, but not so much in the late 90s. I'd spend hours browsing through their custom tag directory

Not a website, but I miss the heyday of IRC.
http://bash.org
Some of the comments here are missing the point. Yes, Sweden has more deaths than it's neighbors. But obviously that's true... they didn't lock down.

The issue is that lockdowns can only last so long. The initial hope was that we can quickly find an effective treatment for this virus, but so far, that's looking unlikely. Hydroxycloriquine and Remdesivir were the best hopes and in controlled studies, they aren't showing effectiveness. While an effective treatment is still possible, it will likely require a new drug to be developed and tested, which is a far more time consuming process than using a drug that is already approved for other uses (since you already understand the side effects). Meanwhile, a vaccine is still a year or two away according to most experts, if we ever find one at all (some viruses are very hard to find vaccinations for).

So eventually, countries will need to lift their lockdowns. People in democracies are already getting restless. And once that happens, rates of infections will go up, and countries that have had very low death rates so far due to lockdowns will start to see their numbers climb. Meanwhile, Sweden will have already had a large share of their population who already had the virus and are (hopefully) immune to it, at least short term.

That said, Sweden's strategy might not work for every country even if it ends up working for them. They have a very strong healthcare system and a relatively healthy population. Other countries may not fare so well.
The password you need to Google for why it happens is "antibody cross reactivity." Not necessarily other coronaviruses but I imagine they're disproportionately more likely to cause it.
Are these antibody or antigen tests? I am extremely suspect that the antibody tests being used are not delivering false positives. There was a study that showed 800,000 people in Los Angeles likely have antibodies. This does not make sense given that the ICU admissions did not even remotely track that of Northern Italy, which shared a similar population size. I suspect that these antibody tests are picking up a positive on another another Coronavirus.
My choosing of phrase “A popular basketball player” is not to dismiss him on the basis of his profession but to contextualize his authority; that his authority comes from being good at sports but most importantly being enormously famous. This should not create undue relevance for him in this particular topic. But halo effects and whatnot, our stone age brains have the tendency to attribute importance to what he might say no matter what the subject matter is. If this is anti-appeal to authority, I believe it is appropriate.

Also, it is not the uniqueness of his skills that makes his wisdom questionably applicable on this matter. It is the totality of his life circumstances being radically different. Having enormous financial, social and athletic capital makes his situation very very divergent from practically everyone else’s. And it is not his wisdom about romantic relationships, how to be a father etc we’re questioning, it is about working at the expense of a balanced life, from a person who has a very special kind of work.
Lately I have been seeing a number of films that have been altered against the wishes of the director, such as Lynch's "Dune", Michael Mann's "The Keep", and various other WW2 movies.

I understand the want for studios to make movies palatable to an audience, but there is only so many people who are interested in watching these movies to begin with, so really cutting is just going to piss off the fans and won't earn you any accolades.

And it's a damn shame because in a number of cases the original footage has been lost, so there is no hope for some miraculous "Uncut" or "Director's Cut" version in the future.
What is dead may never die: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/
EDIT: I think users can only really easily operate with 2D data, but to borrow someone else's acronym, a ZUI with multiple layers / levels of data could be more ergonomic than a vanilla GUI, so in a way I am indeed arguing for 3D.

And yes to floating tables. Probably allowing users to also reference other sheets/tables semantically rather than just by row-column.

Also creating explicitly defined (visual) pipelines of how the data is being transformed so users can audit and understand complex "spreadsheets".

Auditing deeply linked calculations by following text formulas is too cumbersome for most users.
Why are they testing the major news networks staff?
What a waste!
Correct me if I’m wrong, I think North Carolina’s outbreaks began a bit later than Sweden’s?
> copied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw&start=46&end=62
galaxy.com - a late-90s+ curated internet directory. Example capture from 2000:
https://web.archive.org/web/20000815061436/http://www.galaxy...

It still exists, sort of, as https://www.einet.net/ .
A few years ago I used SketchUp to model some house extensions, was pretty useful to model window sunlight and shadowing through the year, and double check draft plans from the builder in terms of layout. It seems to have gone web-only now though, instead of an unpaid desktop program.
The main reason why we are severely impacting the quality of life for millions of people is because our government is not willing to act to either provide some sort of basic income, supplies or guarantee survival for small businesses.

As I've mentioned in other posts here, we're remarkably lucky that COVID-19 isn't something currently far more threatening. Considering attitudes such as yours would easily lead to mass extinction as we strive to save an imaginary economy rather than the people.

As for how long and how severe a lockdown should be, I leave that up to the medical community. You and I are not part of that community and are not nearly educated to make that decision for them, so trying to argue that the economy must be opened up now is an argument made from ignorance.
Why pick just Scandanavia? Yes, those are neighboring countries, but it also seems like cherry picking.

Here's an interesting article talking about why it is difficult to compare numbers.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/why-the-worlds-hig...
>I'd trade in my JavaScript for J2EE about as fast as I'd quit tech and move up into the mountains.

Sadly, I dream of doing this very thing every day. I'm at that notch on the thermometer just before "burned out". I love creating a working app from scratch. However, I'm so sick of today's tech. The app stores are full of useless apps that look like the majority of other apps whose sole purpose is to gather the user's personal data for monetizing. The web is also broken with other variations of constant tracking. I'm of an age where I remember time before the internet, so I'm not as addicted as younger people.
The context of the original poster's question makes it obvious that they are looking for help interviewing. I'm not disputing the importance of learning "actual fundamentals" and for those, I agree that CTCI isn't the right choice, but it's a very popular book for interviewees for a reason.
Not really. If you are counting fingers and toes you would not be surprised if all 96 participants had 10 of each. It is all about context.
That's the position I would describe as "we should stay at home forever". I'm glad we could get onto the same page that my conspiracy theory was indeed true! When people in future conversations insist that your proposals are a strawman, I'll make sure to step in on your behalf, and explain that some people really do think we should be required to stay home for the indefinite future.
Do you mean like Node-RED, or something different? https://nodered.org/
Email: My preferred note-taking platform
Whenever my results seem too good, I do a whole new round of checks above my usual. That said, I've had some real ones with effects that large...its just usually that effect is known already and not of immediate interest. Large effect sizes in psychological sciences usually means it has been discovered already :)
I'm currently reading Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan. [1]

The book discusses the upcoming world order from a geopolitical perspective and gives original insight into potential developments. For example, I wasn't aware the US Navy has been securing the maritime shipping lanes, thus boosting global trade; and if that stops, well, you can imagine the implications.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Disunited-Nations-Scramble-Power-Ungo...
Fravia's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia) old site on geocities in the second half of the 90's.

Some of the content lives on in the wayback machine under the 'www.searchlores.org' domain, but the period before he launched that site was magical to me. For several years there, he kept his identity deliberately secret (there was a bit of a mystery around it). The sort of reverse engineering techniques he described were fascinating, and frequently applied to real life.

It was fun to load his site, download a bunch of pages, and then hang up the metered dial-up internet connection and spend the next few hours reading...
wunderground. It used to be fast and simple even on a 14.4K modem. Now it's slow even on broadband.
Is Simulating Soft and Bouncy Jelly Possible? By Two Minute Papers
conversely, the weakness of the hommage just made me dislike 'Ready, Player One' even more.
And strangely enough. The 10.2 inch iPad is $329...
Kilauea is in Hawaii right? Those islands are all sea floor volcanos that reached the surface.
Python 2 is not dead. https://www.pypy.org
It wasn't particularly early, but I miss turntable.fm.

Crowd-sourced music discovery/sharing/listening and some great interactions.
While I applaud Julia for retracting the paper, I do wonder if she handed back the NIH grant she was given off the back of this false result. Some researcher just missed out on a NIH grant that would have been funded if not for this error.
Influenza starts being contagious a few days before symptoms start and stops being contagious a few days before symptoms end, so yes. But the profile for SARS-CoV-2 is particularly front-loaded compared to other viruses where peak infectivity is basically right as symptoms appear. With many other diseases if you catch all symptomatic cases that's enough to drive R well below 1 and from a public health perspective that's all you need.
Agreed. For sharing a filesystem, I assume the best you can do today is probably FAT32 (or whatever the latest of that family is), which is not great.

Why can't we get people from major tech companies together and have them develop a good on-disk format which supports the features we all need, and then everybody can go back and write their own implementations? Like we do with Unicode, or IP. And like we should do for many other features.

For all the talk about the importance of separation of interface and implementation, operating system designers really suck at it.
the comparison makes no sense, of course they will have more cases, the goal was never to match the number of cases.

Every country will have to reopen like Sweden, most plan to do so within weeks, note how no country has eradicated the disease - what do you think will happen when they reopen? Exactly what is happening in Sweden. The goal of the flattening is to avoid overloading the hospitals not to "win". There is no winning.

The only difference will be that they still have their economy in good shape.
Chapter 2 doesn't seem to be available there yet, but Dalio did post it on his linkedin page:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-credit-debt-ray-dalio
Where I went those courses weren’t exactly difficult. But they started at a low enough level to say “this is how things are built.” It’s not intended to frustrate students, but to help them realize what the major is about, and removes illusions they might have had about it.
> Some cities have seen greater business increases on pedestrian and bike converted through-ways because people in cars weren't just passing by.

First, a person doesn't buy a car but 100 pedestrians buy an ice cream and you think that's a triumph of superior central planning.

Second: so what? Since when does greater business justify fascist government behavior?