skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my rough translation (not Google Translate):

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Eight of ten corona patients survive intensive care

Published Sunday 12 april 17.33

More covid-19 patients are now being discharged from hospital in Stockholm region, and eight out of ten patients survive intensive care.

After having examined the first 175 patients admitted to intensive care with covid-19 at Karolinska University hospital, the conclusion is that 48 out of the 62 patients that were discharged did survive intensive care. The other
14 patients died.

- I am cautiously optimistic as the immediate survival rate seems to be better than what we were expecting when we started doing this, says David Konrad, head doctor at the ICU at Karolinska University hospital in Stockholm.

- We had read accounts and reports from other parts of the world that said perhaps 10-25 percent of the patients admitted to ICU would survive.

- This is a very preliminary result and we don't know what will happen in the longer term. We don't yet know if anything will happen to the discharged patients, or in what state of health they will be. We have treated too few
patients so far to be certain of any of our conclusions, says David Konrad.

The ICU at Karolinska University hospital currently has 126 covid-19 patients and the hospital has a total of 177 ICU beds.

There are 78 remaining ICU beds in all of region Stockholm, and there are about six to twelve covid-19 patients being admitted to ICUs in the region per day. Despite this, David Konrad thinks there are signs of a slowdown in the influx of new patients.

- We have also started to discharge more patients. This indicates that we've reached a plateauing phase where there's a better balance between the number of incoming patients and patients who can leave the ICU, says David Konrad, though he does point out that the situation may change.

The Health Authority has also updated the nationwide statistics today. 899 people have died in association with covid-19 in Sweden, which is an increase of 12 people compared to yesterday.

The government has pointed out that one should be careful to not draw premature conclusions from what's being reported, due to time lag.

In total, 10 483 people have been confirmed infected by the virus in Sweden thus far.

Marcus Admund Funck
marcus.admund_funck@sverigesradio.se
If you'll pardon a naive question: would that be the end of hackintoshes?
Keep in mind pesticide research is a multi-billion dollareuro business, and that a pesticide 20 years ago has little to do with a pesticide now. Recent techniques such as seed coating also have had big changes.

Nobody contests the use of pesticides and pesticide research, but we should also not underestimate the role and pervasiveness of these stuffs on much of our planets acreage and soil.

The chemical implicated in bees demise, neonicotinoids, sounds like it actually may have something to do with tobacco production though!
They started removing features for the sake of branding and their "desktop vision". They cut down on customization options that a lot of people were used to when they moved from gnome2 to gnome3.

To me, it felt like they started believing themselves to be great innovators in an Apple model of "we know what's best for you, this is revolutionary. You'll take it and you'll like it. Witness our works and tremble." [1]

I may be slightly hyperbolic there, but I worked on minor bits of the gtk code base and the way some of lead devs were talking I found frankly alienating.

To be fair there were also practical reasons to limit customization for greater testing coverage and I think some of the changes were driven by RedHat's move towards being an enterprise vendor. But those changes in addition to the change in tone I was hearing was jarring.

In any case several efforts attempted to move forward with the earlier code base or at least with the earlier philosophy. And I found one that was near enough to ok.

[1] and eventually stuff like https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/open-letter-stop-gtk-the...
JavaScript-this a little utility to edit any text using JavaScript
I love that they include a "Failures" section. It is most interesting to learn from.
Lockdown protestors need to understand this. If you're unhealthy or unlucky enough to require intubation, you will likely die.

I don't understand why people aren't taking this seriously.
Not sure we're talking about the same thing then. SDL, glfw, SFML, Monogame.. I don't think any of them contain physics code.
What do people make of the 14 April update?

[Sydney Morning Herald] states the woman, Aishtan Shakarian, who is accused of damaging the fiber-optic cable, denies doing it. Ms. Shakarian is quoted as saying that she isn't strong enough to have damaged the cable:

"I did not cut this cable. Physically, I could not do it."

The Morning-Herald says that the Georgian Interior Ministry notes that all claims of innocence aside, Ms. Shakarian "has already confessed to cutting the cable."

The Herald also states that ".. Georgian Railway Telecom insists that the 600-kilometre cable has 'robust protection' ..."

False confessions under pressure are certainly not unheard of. And some of the alternative causes would have associated with them interests of keeping the real cause obscured.
Just how (im)plausible is it that Ms. Shakarian would be able to break the cable?
Walmart has third-party sellers in their online store as well.
Severless frameworks you need to know about
It seems to make more sense around the rumors iOS and OSX will merge into a single platform.

One of the issues back in the PPC days was lack of applications on Macs. Partially due to the chip, as more apps supported Intel architecture. As soon as the switch to Intel happened it made porting existing software much easier.

Assuming they move to ARM. I would bet my morning coffee that the plan is to merge iOS and OSX then start porting over mobile apps into the desktop system as opposed to requiring existing software packages to rewrite desktop software for the new platform.
Not directly with constraint programming itself. And also, I'm not doing a deep dive on these topics. But having an ideal of what is happening under the hood makes gives me more confidence in working with a tool and reasoning about choices.
I hope the open sourcing helps accelerate the pace of development.

Tangentially, my needs are very minimal and I have a couple of ProtonMail accounts on the free tier that don't get much mail (the size of the mailboxes put together would be 5MB or so). I also aggressively delete unnecessary emails quickly and empty the trash. I'm waiting for multiple account support in the official mobile client for users on the free tier (this was promised quite sometime ago).
As always with these links, lots of data, very little information...
YMMV of course, doesn't mean that what I say is not true, neither I'm saying it's the same for all countries. In my supermarket (central EU) a kg of pepper is 3-4 Eur/kg, chicken breasts without bone are cca 4,50 Eur/kg, whole chicken is 2 - 3 Eur/kg. Not mentioning pepper is supposedly 94% water. I'm definitely going to be fed more times buying 1 kg chicken instead of vegetables.
Five years ago, I never would have believed you. But this is sage advice.

It is unbelievable how important these technical leaders are, and you don't know how important they are until they're gone.
Has anyone ever criticised a bank for lending to someone who needs it most at a rate they are likely to afford to minimise chance of default? I mean banks aren't charities and maybe they're not/shouldn't be obliged to do this, but it's not like everyone is being hypocritical - we're allowed to expect institutions to do things that are in the public interest rather than their own private interest (freedom of opinion and all that).
+1 Anecdata: I have a hub (USB, network, charging, HDMI) all going into a single USB-C port, really convenient. Watched the CPU usage of kernel_task for a minute while it was plugged into the left (which I have done by default), it hovered around 20-25%.

Switched to the right side port, CPU usage for kernel_task dropped to around 4-6%.

Switching back, letting it chooch for a while, still hovers around 5% but with more jumps to 6 or 9%. May be down to that side having cooled down a bit.

I'll keep an eye on it, that's pretty interesting.
I find it hard to believe that Minecraft today has thousands of engineers working on it.
Straight Talk About a Covid-19 Vaccine
But the thing is, that was their stance. I agree that their tweet might show a lack of scientific communication skills or scientific education of the general public, the official recommendations have been very clear. Countries and public health organisations don't base decisions on a tweet. They go to the official guidance.

A Jan 1st interim guidance: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/surveil...

The first thing they recommend:

"The primary objectives of surveillance are to:
1. Detect confirmed cases/clusters of nCoV infection and
any evidence of amplified or sustained human-to-human
transmission;"

Then on Jan 10th:

https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/330374/WHO-...
"As information about the etiology, clinical manifestations and transmission of disease in the cluster of respiratory disease patients identified in Wuhan is limited, WHO continues to monitor developments and will revise these recommendations as necessary."
> but even if it didn't say that, isn't it obvious?

If it's obvious then it should be equally obvious that a comparison with something that has long term knowledge is nonsensical.
Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale
Looking at today's figures here:
https://www.svt.se/datajournalistik/har-sprider-sig-coronavi...
Sweden is currently at around 200 deaths-per-million, as against Denmark's 68, and Finland and Norway in the 30s per million.

If you're driving a bus full of people towards a cliff, is it ok to not hit the brakes just in case the bus might get back-ended by a truck driving behind?

I live in Stockholm - had to walk through town the other evening to get a piece of equipment I left at the office (chose the evening to meet the least number of people was my plan). The bars and restaurants were PACKED and people were everywhere in the parks and open spaces.
I like the idea, but taking UX ideas from Android or iOS app stores leads only to frustration. For now there are only a couple of screens worth of apps, so it's not a problem.

Search is quite useless. It seems to only display list of matching names. So I can't even search for "game". It does not filter.

I think the UX is supposed to encourage experimentation, but I always find it daunting whenever I try to find an app for something. There is this bunch of huge icons, not enteirly clear names or just straight up deceiving ones and a rating. To get to even a slight neutral description what the thing is one has to tap in, many times also dive deep in description just to have an idea what the thing is trying to be. I guess with web platform it may be easier than normal apps, also I feel I must trust an app much more to install it, but this gives me the same vibes. A channel of spewed icons and mostly unhelpful names.

Sorry if it sounds harsh, I just can't stand how useless Play Store is at finding things.
Yeah, another way of putting it is a link is great for GET requests while a button is better for POST requests (form submissions, AJAX, etc.) If you use a link for these, you have to think about what the href points to, you can’t just use JavaScript alone when it’s a link. If it’s a button, JS is more acceptable due to the inability to open new tabs, etc.
There are a few free alternatives but beyond compare is the first prog I install on any new laptop,windows or linux I get.
Neither, looking into it now - here's a link i'm also about to read:

https://www.somagnews.com/microsofts-spotlight-like-new-tool...
Yes. Fastapi also uses the same - https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/settings/#pydantic-set...
> The company is not your family. Some of the people in the company are your friends in the current context. It’s like your dorm in college. Hopefully some of them will still be your friends after. But don’t stay because you’re comfortable.

This one hit hard. It’s amazing how many of the close work friends I had over the years were only close because of the shitty circumstances we endured together. Once that was gone, we actually had very few things in common.

Not that I don’t have any former colleagues I’m close with, but the ratio of kept/lost has to be in the 1/10 range or lower.
Thanks, it's the EFRX.
Right, the existence of Friends doesn't make films like Schindler's List any less serious or meaningful.

But you'd be a bit frustrated about being taken seriously as a film critic if the only movies people in the mainstream had heard about were Adam Sandler comedies from 20 years ago, and you had to write about them.

Or at least, that's how I get to understanding how someone who writes about games doesn't "get" why people find Animal Crossing fun, finds it boring, and writes something like "it's actually political".
If you're trying to make rational choices, then risk minimisation is probably not what you want to do.

You probably want to aim for utility maximisation within acceptable risk bounds.
Taiwan != Thailand.
> It got into ridiculous situations where a friend who is an urology doctor was on paid leave for last few weeks, simply no work for them under these rules. Another friend, radiologist in a hospital heavily hit by covid, worked only 4 hours/day shifts, instead of usual 10-12 ones.

I'm assuming specialists ain't allowed to work as generalists, then? I'd imagine that specialized doctors (like urologists) should be able to double as PCPs should the need arise (like, you know, a global pandemic). I ain't a doctor, though, so I'm perfectly willing to accept "specialist and generalist practice are too different from one another" as the answer here.
> Should we ban cars?

From cities? You'll find that many will agree with that.

I do agree with your general point though.
We already have hunger despite our industry producing too much food.

The problem is political and economical, not technical.
For scripting, if you use Python and Go, give Nim a try.
Designing good Django models – Example
Ethereum touches $190 for the first time in over a month
It's difficult to go through everything with specific examples, because that would be an essay onto itself.

But, for example, in Book 3 (via the Rackham translation; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...):

"If then whereas we wish for our end, the means to our end are matters of deliberation and choice, it follows that actions dealing with these means are done by choice, and voluntary. But the activities in which the virtues are exercised deal with means.

Therefore virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it is right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

But if it is in our power to do and to refrain from doing right and wrong, and if, as we saw,1 being good or bad is doing right or wrong, it consequently depends on us whether we are virtuous or vicious."

These types of passages assume or assert (1) free will, (2) the notion of responsibility for behavior as a consequence of this, and (3) a schema that is framed in terms of broad evaluative personal characteristics rather than specific decisions. If you believe that the notion of free will is specious, even partially in significant cases of vice, the entire Ethics starts to become questionable. To be even more specific: what if you believe that society (if not now due to scientific-technical limitations, then some day) has a moral obligation to address criminal wrongdoing by means of neurobehavioral intervention, to treat criminal predisposition as a disease? Is relying on an Aristotlian view of ethics as personal responsibility then unethical because it elevates an erroneous assumption of free will above the societal consequences of reducing suffering from criminal behavior?

This is taken out of context to some extent, as Aristotle also discusses free will, voluntary vs. nonvoluntary actions etc. But I'd argue that those discussions are kind of beside the point, and amount to logical loopholes of sorts in that they amount to something like "I'm not talking about cases where there isn't free will." But what if that is the main issue at some level?

The discussion of virtue ethics in general, to be contrasted with deontological or consequentialist ethical reasoning, for example, is a whole other topic, about which books have been written.
You’re missing some important facts.

December 25: Wuhan Municipal Health Committee posted on social media, “An Urgent Notice on the Treatment of Pneumonia of Unknown Cause.”

December 31: China contacts WHO and informs them of “cases of pneumonia of unknown etymology detected in Wuhan.”

January 1: Huanan Seafood Market is closed.

January 3: China informs US CDC and other countries

January 10: The gene sequencing data of COVID-19 is posted online and shared with other researchers.

January 23: China goes into lockdown.

Taiwan, themselves, had a press conference where they showed the email they sent the WHO and it did not say human-to-human transmission.

> As there were no confirmed cases in Taiwan at the time, the [Taiwan] CDC could not definitively state that there had been human-to-human transmission of the disease, he added.

> “We would really be giving a misleading message if we firmly stated that there was human-to-human transmission, so we clearly alerted the IHR about the information we received,” he said.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2020/04/12/2...
Strangler Pattern
The "it's gonna take years to know" is the line being pushed very hard by Swedish authorities locally. Makes the massive difference in deaths-per-million here compared to our Nordic neighbors much easier to swallow.

The policy will look extremely unfortunate if one of the vaccines that's already being trialled actually works...
I did know about the SL-1 which makes it an even more glaring oversight. Maybe I associated it more with Argonne? I dunno.

But that SL-1...dang.
Backtracking to a known working state is a legit troubleshooting strategy. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
I feel like a broken record at this point, so I'll just copy-paste from a comment I wrote yesterday:

"Universities are closed, high schools are closed, elementary schools are half-empty, people that can work from home do so, a lot of employees have been furloughed, restaurants have switched to mostly take-out, bars are closed, large events are cancelled, grocery stores reserve hours in the morning for senior citizens, elder care homes don't accept visitors, travel is way down, and people generally self-isolate and self-quarantine. Field hospitals have been constructed, recently retired healthcare workers have been asked to come back to work, vodka producers have shifted to making hand sanitizer, and other companies have shifted to making PPEs, etc."

You can also check out for example Google's mobility reports: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-04-17_SE_Mobil...
"The size of rlibs on disk has also shrunk by roughly 15-20%."

This is very welcome! The size of building a few rust projects on a laptop disk is fairly incredible sometimes. I guess cargo needs to learn clean up prior-to-latest deps directories too.
Minecraft the Java game certainly doesn't but the whole IP probably has a lot more people working on it than people think. You have the Java version, Bedrock version, AR game and all the ancillary porting involved as well as all the backend services etc. powering Realms and the other bits and pieces. I think thousands of engineers is a massive exaggeration but it's certainly going to be a lot.
Unrelated, but this new website is way better than the old one which was online just weeks ago (https://web.archive.org/web/20200323070430/https://www.eurom...).

Graphs are client-side rendered now ! And we can have the raw data too ! Great :-)
Selling stolen copper isn’t hard, there already is a network of scrap metal dealers that exist to purchase legitimately collected metal scrap for eventual reuse. All one needs to do is find one that’s willing to turn a blind eye to suspicious volumes, which is basically just the process of finding a fence in any other criminal enterprise. It’s not exactly rocket science.
Payday lenders fill this gap.

Everyone hates them as well.

Everyone hates student loans and they fill a different gap.

Basically, people hate people who lend money.
Expedia Names New CEO, Confirms Investment from Private-Equity Firms
For those interested, there's a breakdown by sub-region by French National Institute of Statistics:

https://www.insee.fr/fr/information/4470857

Needless to say, it matches closely the COVID-19 clusters. Kudos to this institution used to release yearly studies for the quick turnaround. (and all the data is available to download).
But that lists like ten classes which map/hash in their name.

None of them stands out, as being THE standard Pascal map to use for everything.
> there were warnings from Taiwan about human-to-human transmission very early on

This has been proven to not be true. They had no more information than anyone, and the WHO also did not exclude the possibility of H2H at any point.
How much slower is rust as opposed to C or C++ for production sized builds?

Traditionally people have thrown more hardware at these kinds of problems. As someone who has yet to use rust for anything more than small hobby sized projects, I am naive about rustic in terms of speed
There was a notice when I launched it first time.
What?

The price of oil has fallen sharply. USO has fallen sharply. This is what USO is supposed to do.

The service USO is providing is giving traders a symbol they can use to be directionally exposed to oil without personally maintaining a tricky futures position.
I don't see anything in that article saying that there is a significant under-reporting (only that there is an above average number of deaths, which is expected). Since FoHM and SCB use the exact same register (where FoHM just filters out everyone not diagnosed), I find it difficult to believe that the discrepancy would be very large.
It's pretty hard to make something that is not turing-complete. I've always wondered if it wouldn't be beneficial to have a turing-incomplete language given that Rice's theorem then doesn't necessarily hold and thus very powerful semantic analysis might be possible. But the language is then probably not practical due to limited expressiveness.
> Should we ban cars?

To put it in perspective, approximately 37,000 people die per YEAR from automobile accidents in the USA

With all the measures already in place, and strong possibilities of under counting COVID19 has already killed more than 50,000 people in less than 4 months.

A better argument would be banning obesity. ~300,000 people die from obesity related diseases every year
Famine and other large scale hunger are often more political than logistical. The capability to feed everyone exists, the will to do it does not.

Or, in more tragic cases, the will to make certain some people can’t eat occasionally exists at the highest levels.
We have a pretty good idea
Florida = America’s trailer park

Georgia, “Hold my beer”.... “let’s open er back up”...
If you want to survive to COVID-19, don't eat too much ! High blood sugar is very bad for this desease. Time to make a diet.
There's a reason usury was historically a serious sin.