skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps a lot of those deaths were outside hospitals (nursing homes, etc.)? Here's a report for all hospitalizations in NYC from March 1 to April 4: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184

21% of patients who discharged or died died.
Ah thanks for pointing that out! It worked fine on my Mac with Firefox.

Does the face direction estimation work (see text at bottom)? Or is there an issue with getting video from the camera?
I don't know why it wouldn't work on Wayland. We are currently using "software" presentation, which is a CPU roundtrip, as described in the article. This means we don't depend much on the actual Linux compositor. As long as WebRender can run on it, and you have Vulkan support, WebGPU will be available. If you are having issues, please file a bug!
HN is notoriously bad at anything related to biology, evolution, and genetics. It's a combination of this (https://xkcd.com/1831/) and this (https://xkcd.com/793/) comic. People there are also fond of finding a bunch of psychology papers that confirms existing biases.

There's also a misleading phenomenon where many of the fields whose "experts" chime in on these questions are called evolutionary psychology or behavioral genetics, making you think that these fields are related to biology and enjoy the same methodological standards of rigor as well as the same consensus from biologists. In reality these fields approach the questions from psychology, and that one field is known for having a bunch of practices, biases and motivated reasoning that'd make many a biologist reluctant to touch it with a ten feet pole.

It's very elegant to see the sleight of hand in action: someone makes a claim about sex, arguing it's a biological reality, and when challenged backs up their claim with a psych paper from a field that disguises as one from biologists and pretends that his claim enjoys a widespread consensus among actual scientists (as opposed to just psychologists). Hence, the claim isn't ideologically motivated, it's just science. Beautiful
Lifestyle creep is incredibly hard to resist when everyone around you is caught up in it. My compromise has been to allow myself reasonable splurging on a few hobbies that prioritize experiences over consumerism while keeping the rest of my life as minimalist as possible.
The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities
Show HN: Launched my 2nd iOS app – 6 Pillars. Would love your feedback
Wonder if that's why sunlight is considered a good treatment for sick people?
Royce didn't set it up to disparage it. He set up his idealized flow and then proceeded to add details that he believed were critical to making it work. In the end, what he proposes is what most people understand to be Waterfall but with some extra details:

- Feedback loops (because problems or deficiencies will arise)

- Involving the customer (because you don't want to spend 12-60 months building the wrong thing)

- Build a prototype (good advice)

- Document, document, document (he thinks 1500 pages is a good target)

The only thing practitioners seem to have taken away is that last bullet. He still made a strong distinction in his model between analysis, design, and implementation. Though, to be fair, at the time "programmer" was more of a technician level and design often involved making detailed designs like flowcharts and such that could be more easily translated into code. These days, design and implementation are really tangled up, and the documentation is awful an non-actionable (I've been on those teams, it's nightmare inducing). People think prose can replace a diagram, so they fill out their 1500 page quota with lots of words but no clarity.

The name came later, and was enshrined in a DOD standard by people who couldn't read past the first few pages. So they entirely missed the lessons learned he was trying to apply to it.
I assume by “works” you mean in relation to COVID19?

Sars-Cov2 is a respiratory disease. I guess it maybe present in blood, but it doesn’t seem like removing it from blood would help with the respiratory issues it causes.

I can’t see how you would easily get UV light into the lungs. But maybe there’s a way... seems a bit far fetched.
Embedded Rust Pattern – Zero Sized References
And most people spend >40% of their income on rent & mortgage payments in The Bay.

The average person with a house in The Bay probably doesn't make as much money as you think. They mostly have very high debt to income ratios.
Definitely agree in regards to sourdough starter vs yeast. Although I thought most Neapolitan pizzerias didn't use sourdough anyways - would love to be wrong about this.
Yes, the meaning has definitely gotten distorted over the years. There’s also this frustrating tendency for people on forums to reply to questions about engines with advice to not make engines rather than answering the damn question.

It’s another example of how a useful piece of advice gets distilled into a saying, and then the saying turns into a lazy way to make it feel like you’re contributing to the discussion.
Well, maybe the president of the United States is...
And there will be NO inflation because this money is largely going to corporations who will figure out ways to maximize ROI -> invest it in the financial market. So although there might inflation of equity prices (as seen by the recovery of the S&P and other equities), the world is still out of work and starving and without the dollars to drive demand and price increases of goods and services.

We need to separate financial money flows (Gross Financial Product?) from the GDP to really know what is going on.
> Once it's 100%, delete the old serverless function.

I suggest keeping it around for a while. A function not being used should have cost equivalent to a database entry, not a running container or VM, so this should be cheap and the benefits are large. It's still possible to discover you need to roll back a change, even after you've been at 100% for a while. (And no, 'roll forward' is not a sufficient option, especially if that requires coding up a fix you may not even understand yet.)
Even under the most generous reading of Trump's statements, how in the world would it be remotely possible to "inject disinfectant" in any way?

His speculation, particularly in an area where he has no expertise (but of course he still thinks he knows what he's talking about), is wildly dangerous; but of course, he can't shut up and let experts talk.
Not sure I follow. What does the US Treasury have to do with private debt issuances? Did you mean that interest rates are manipulated by the Fed?
It may but your eyes are definitely a path for UV exposure of blood.
Yes. Censorship is worse than any falsehood that might circulate.
Not gp, but I've been wanting to give ChakraUI[1] a try in a non-trivial app.

[1] https://chakra-ui.com/
Absolutely this.
The more your game design or visuals stray from the 'standard' feature set of an engine the more time you'll spend trying to bend it to your will.

Bigger teams using an off the shelf engine will likely end up modifying large portions of the underlying engine code-base in order to implement what makes their games different from other games in the market.
College Students Respond Different Than General Public to Covid-19 Pandemic
Kim Jong Un – North Korean President Dead
Heard this on the Chinese news
Well, not no-one.
And then you realize that almost all R&D in Europe, from startups to multinationals, is subsidized by EU funding schemes and mountains of paperwork.

Couldn't agree more with this point. Also atleast in my experience they are there so just few people can be employed without much real pressure to produce real results... As long as paperwork is completed the results don't matter much.
Are you trying to suggest that diversity in banks leads to a market having more industry, or that more industry leads to more diversity in banks? And what is the cause and effect?
What's the saying these days? Money printer goes brrrrrrr?
the name usage of "gin" is quite common, it seems:

https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin
The scientist speaking before him was describing testing scenarios. If you have light you get one result, and then you inject disinfectant, you get a different result. So the scientist was saying the words inject disinfectant - except he didn't mean needles but someone assumed he did.
There’s like 3 verbs.

Select, for columns
Filter, for rows
Mutate, for adding rows or changing values

On top of that there are a bunch of sugared versions of these, like rename, instead of select or transmute instead of mutate.

When you want to do something advanced you either combine those or go out to see if somebody else has already made that function for you. I don’t think that having functions for joins or removing NA’s is something special to tidyverse. Everybody needs to put such operations somewhere.

I find tidyverse to have a simple, expandable vocabulary that is easy to learn, read and grow.

But it is slow.

I never found any kind of logic behind data.tables API, and I find it hard to read. I haven’t found an introduction to it that makes anything click.

But it is fast and it has these absolutely amazing rolling joins
You underestimate the power of racism and sexism.
Is the reason for using it, because Bulgaria population has lower cell phone use? In a very practical sense, cell phone seems like the most logical piece of hardware government would use here.

For the record, I hate it. And I hate that Poland's Comarch is adding to this growing panopticon.
> there are many cases

... where a developer was given 30 JIRA tickets each "sprint" and whose "performance" was evaluated entirely on how many they completed.
> "...Thank you for letting us know how we can do better. We will update our marketing materials, as well as provide more information about SMR technology, including benchmarks and ideal use cases."

I'd love to see the CEO read that with a straight face.
At least one person was suggesting it https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/health/sunlight-coronavir...
We failed our PH launch but we managed to get featured in the AppStore
... welcome to That Hideous Strength? http://www.lewisiana.nl/orwell/
Always glad to see philosophy on HN, I have fond memories learning about NE during my ethics class at Cal. We spent the most amount of time on this, and then slowly went on towards other ethic systems.
The secret skills of productive programmers
In this case, a prototype (which is probably worse than existing PAPRs [powered air-purifying respirators]) is demonstrated. It certainly hasn't been manufactured and the Formula 1 team involvement looks to be just of the design of a few components for 3D printing [1].

[1] https://engrxiv.org/rvcs3/
It is, because it has to deliver heat from the bottom at high temperature and for a pretty short time (around two minutes); it's not that unusual in Naples to have a wood oven in our vacation homes, but in the city many live in condos so it's impossible.

Leopard spots, also called "maculatura" or "mako" in some pizza-lovers forums, is considered by some a mark of perfect maturation of the "panetto" (the little bread, i.e. the dough used for a single pizza); to be honest it's quite a mystery to me how to obtain a good one, and as it often happens in this matters reality tends to conflate with legend: I've also heard sometimes that it is a sign of temperature mismanagement of the panetto, and I am not experienced enough to have a say on this :)
Yeah, I didn't want to get too regional, especially when it seems to be a single exception (possibly Vancouver as well?). As I understand it Toronto is almost like a different world, especially when compared to Western Canada, like using New York or Silicon Valley to describe all of America.
hah, that’s a laugh. normally it’s the guys calling for an end to superstitions that get called heathens. carry on good sir, defend to the death the right for people to sell quack medicine using someone else’s property. i am sure it’s what locke would have done.
I can't agree more with you
Hard disagree as that is exactly what pretty much every engine outside those meant to be reused are all about - as an example pretty much all of id's engines licensees got the source code of the game the engine of which they were licensing. Even engines like Unreal Engine and LithTech which had a higher focus on 3rd party licensing were essentially code dumps of the games Epic/Monolith were working on.

Of course not all engines were and are like that, some engines were standalone products by themselves, but i think the engines that grew out of games were not just "proper" engines but actually the majority of them.
China’s Mars mission named Tianwen-1, appears on track for July launch
I still use Webfaction for my webapps although since they were bought by GoDaddy, costumers seem to start moving away from it.. But it is quite simple to deploy a Python webapp, they have one-click installers and you can ftp your source files like we all used to do..

Prices start from 10$/month.
If this is the case Zurich sounds exactly like New York (other than the difficulty of buying property for non-citizens). Might just be the feeling of alienation that arises from living in a big city as an outsider.
Given the rush of people snatching up hydroxychloroquine, it's really not a matter of if, just how many.
In which country is that?
It could be part of the intubation process, if the patient is already that bad. Just theorizing.
> As a reminder, the vaccine Pandemrix, which was developed as a treatment for the swine flu, caused narcolepsy in over 1000 patients.

Another comment expanded on this that it's 3.6 additional cases per 100,000 vaccinated. For people like me lacking context and knowledge in this area, what's the 'gold standard'? Is the expectation that a vaccine has no long lasting impacts beyond the immunity it gives, and any increase at all in anything would be considered unacceptable? Or is there some complexity in that calculation?
> Also, this fails to explain the _disinfectant_.

Not only are there hundreds of doctors in the US who inject disinfectant into people to treat viruses already, there are medical textbooks about it and even an academy for certifying medical practitioners:

https://aaot.us/?

(Technically they advocate taking blood from people, infusing it with disinfectant, and then injecting the infused blood back into people, but close enough.)

I don't know to what extent it's safe or effective, but hundreds of thousands of people have done it without dying at this point and many of them credit it for having healed various problems, so that's something.
Huge recommendation for http://netgames.io, they have Secret Hitler and Codenames and the UI makes sense.
During the same briefing, Trump immediately attempted to clarify that he wasn't suggesting injecting cleaning disinfectants into the human body.

That didn't prevent the rabid anti-Trump media from making it a headline on every site, of course. Which then becomes:

"Trump says inject Lysol!"
Russell is up front about his biases and limitations in that book, at least. IIRC he divides most chapters into his best effort to describe a philosopher or movement's positions or ideas, then an analysis of how those have held up since (this is incredibly helpful and absent in a lot of texts that try to be dryly objective and not even report any more-or-less consensus passing-of-judgement by philosophy as a field) and, to varying extents, his own takes on them.

The funniest one I recall is Bergson, near the end of the book, which he prefaces with (loosely paraphrasing) "Look, this whole thing seems like total bullshit to me, and I've never read any description of it that doesn't seem like total bullshit, so when I try to describe it and it seems like bullshit that's just the best I can do. Sorry."
I would assume they mean the CCR5 stem cell/bone marrow thing.

A handful of patients (2?) have undetectable viral loads after being treated for leukemia. In these cases, the bone marrow or stem cells were from donors with a mutation in CCR5 that confers some resistance to HIV. The mechanism isn't completely understood, AFAIK, since people with the CCR5 delta32 mutation have partial, but not complete, resistance to HIV normally.

It's not a very viable treatment yet: the transplant procedure is brutal (a friend went through it) and you need to be unlucky enough to need a transplant, yet lucky enough to find a donor that has the right mutations (which again, are not completely known) AND is otherwise compatible with the patient.

Still, very exciting for a possible mechanism, but also probably not coming to a hospital near you this decade.

Here's one of the studies: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa0802905
Yes, very hard because it is like my lecture notes: good for an educated person, bad for a student.

However, I always make the decision: better getting the gist of it and if, possible, reread later on than stopping too much the first time.

Of course, it goes with personalities, I know.

I have read the Ethics. Tried the metaphysics and simply could not, though.
> After he went to the mat for hydroxychloroquine, it's pretty natural for everyone to be skeptical

To be fair to the inarticulate speaker: evidence for the efficacy of chloroquines, sparse and vague though it may have been, was very much more convincing than this stuff. Chloroquines are existing drugs with a long history and a reasonably well understood mechanism of action.

This thing is pure experimental medicine. It wasn't practical at the time, didn't survive as a treatment, and everyone involved in the original research is retired or dead. That doesn't make it wrong, but this is a long way from being ready even for a study.
Macaroni and cheese predates the Kraft corporation by hundreds of years. I'm referring to the traditional noodles with cheesy béchamel sauce.
"Michael Hamblin is a Principal Investigator at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital" - http://wellman.massgeneral.org/faculty-hamblin-pi.htm
Understood, but if the first step of advice is "move to SV", that right there is unhelpful to the majority of programmers. It cannot work as a piece of general advice, and for most people it's also unattainable and/or undesirable.
I hope this won't be US-only, does anyone know more details?
Lessons from Traveling and Moving to the Mountains
This is one of two last-resorts mechanisms by which the U.S. will maintain its hegemony. It may suck, but it is way better than the alternative.
Doesn't work on Vivaldi: "Camera/Microphone Issue"
Are there 100% medical procedures with 100% success rate?

To me it seems that failures happens pretty often, generally due to incompetence, limitations in the science regarding the problem or insufficient resources. Seems very similar to bugs to me.

The question is how bad is failure, obviously if someone's health is at risk, you have a much bigger incentive to have processes on the safer side.

Maybe you feel "bugs" are more frequent in software because the software you're referring to has an incentive towards innovating rather than stability.

I'm sure if you studied software used in critical systems, the failure rate would be more in line with a procedure at a dentist. You can't justify the kind of cost that kind of development has for most apps.
Mercenary army of the poor? Demographic composition of the post-9/11 US military
I said how to do it without being lucky, not how to do it when you are no longer in your 20's.
And how many people could read his 95 Thesis in that era again?
As someone involved in technical culture for a couple of decades, I've read enough parts of it to be able to understand its symbolism and dialectic usefulness, but had never really read it from start to end.

Coincidentally I found a couple of days ago a link to it and started reading it, I'm almost thru it.

It's unfortunately as current as when it was written, probably even more.
But also they've segmented away business users to Red Pro, Gold and Ultrastar drives for a few years, so I'd imagine sales of Reds today mostly fall in that range so more motivation to shave costs. With SSD pricing these days, <2TB hard drives just don't really make sense, but also I'm guessing very few home users need/want more than 8TB of storage.
I live in Oregon, and I am an avid whitewater rafter. Sometimes when you stop on the riverbank to camp, especially in more remote places, you'll happen upon an abandoned homestead and in the right season their fruit trees will be bursting with amazing fruit! I guess I hadn't thought about the idea that they could be heirloom types that aren't found anymore, but I will think about it when I find them now.
When you rebuild a drive in a RAID array the size of the CMR region doesn't matter though, your array is either going to explode due to the latency spikes that come or take weeks to rebuild.
Make the machine? Take an ordinary plasma donation machine, insert a UV irradiation gizmo into the blood path somewhere. Obviously not ideal but it could be built much faster.
And dividends/buybacks are a reasonable choice. It moves the choice of whether to invest into new markets to the investors instead of dictating it from above. Companies like Google are blown out of proportion in comparison to the part that actually makes the money, all in order to find the next toothbrush product that may never come. The core Google products barely changed in the last 5 years, yet the employee count almost doubled. Great for the engineers who get the cushy 200k comp jobs, but not great for investors.
It's literally crazy-making to watch this behavior and know that a solid third of the population thinks it's great. Stupidity has been weaponized, and I'm not sure if there is a counter-treatment.
Spotify's Failed Squad Goals
> he bakes those at 825F (440 °C), which unfortunately is unattainable with most regular home ovens

He was using a regular home oven, subverting the cleaning cycle: "The cabinet of most ovens is obviously designed for serious heat because the cleaning cycle will top out at over 975 which is the max reading on my Raytec digital infrared thermometer. The outside of the cabinet doesn't even get up to 85F when the oven is at 800 inside. So I clipped off the lock using garden shears so I could run it on the cleaning cycle. I pushed a piece of aluminum foil into the door latch (the door light switch) so that electronics don't think I've broken some rule by opening the door when it thinks it's locked. ..."

Scroll down to "4- The Oven" in http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm

Impressive dedication, which he eventually turned into a restaurant: http://www.varasanos.com/
Unfortunately its like my older family members who read stuff on facebook and think its true, not really understanding that anyone can write something, no validation is being performed. Then my older family member is promoted to president by less than half of the population but still goes to facebook to get advice and ideas.

Note: I am typing this as I sit drinking my daily cup of Lysol. Invigorating and I don't have Covid-19. I have picked up an uncomfortable case of indigestion, but I'm sure it will pass.
What Is the Job of a Startup CEO?
Personally, I like my Pizazz Pizza plate/oven thing. I make dough out of like 5 ingredients and let it rise for a few hours in the fridge. Top with whatever and eat--pizza is about enjoyment to me, not this Anthony Bourdain never ending quest for the perfect slice of sushi, its about making it, enjoying it, eating it.
> Job’s

You just gave me an aneurysm.
A global pandemic is truly perfect for a modern government:

- Good chance to kill off the filthy undesirables (economic deadweights such as those who dare to be ill or elderly people)

- Easy to roll out mass increases of police powers and surveillance without any real opposition

- Fuck it, you can basically do what you want and sycophants will still go "now is not the time to critique, we need to be united"

Modern liberal democracies have been absolutely gasping for the chance to roll out some of these measures. Expect to see a "productive work time tracker" soon!
SEC enforcement actions against 23 companies for claims relating to Covid-19