skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference here is that you test everyone entering a certain location, not everyone in general. This is much easier, and allows testing to be focused on most needed areas. In effect, if you only go to the groceries once a week, you will be tested once a week. If you go back to office, you will be tested every day. The more you interact with people the more you get tested to keep the interactions safe
My own experience is substantially at odds with yours, but perhaps your attitude magically protects you from bias, assuming you get the chance to pre-empt it.

That's an elegant sidestep from suggesting I'm biased by media framing to being biased by simply being online. Go on complaining about the media though.
Measure the deliverable, not the deliverers.

Reporting on random internal stuff instead of the actual problem at hand is the #1 problem I see with corporate reporting, everywhere. I see various combinations of people wasting time measuring:

1) The thing that is easy to measure, typically money or time.

2) The things they "understand", typically people for HR, compliance for legal, money for finance, etc...

3) The things their manager wants to know, no matter how irrelevant that is to executing their own job well.

Meanwhile what they should be measuring is the qualities of the end-product or the overall external customer end result.

It doesn't matter one iota if Bob the Developer Guy missed an internal 3-day deadline that John the Manager made up on the spot if the end product is a winner in the market and makes the users ecstatically happy to part with their money.

This happens everywhere, with everybody. For an IT-centric example, the common one I see is:

Helpdesk: "The users are complaining that the app is slow"

Admins: "The load is only 10%, but fine, we'll add more capacity!"

Helpdesk: "The app is still slow!"

Admins: "The load is only 5%! They should have no reason to complain!"

Do you see the issue? No, seriously: do you? Because practically nobody does, in my experience. Take a minute.

What happened here is that the admins measured the thing that is easy for them to measure: the load. There's a cute little bar graph in VMware, or a chart in their network appliance, or whatever. What they should have been measuring is latency from the end-user perspective, but that's hard to measure and practically no product tells you this number out of the box. So their entire process, their reporting, their troubleshooting, their forms, requests, everything becomes focused on the thing that they can see and control. Even if it's pointless, ineffective, and basically a waste of everyone's time and effort.

This happens with developers in exactly the same manner. Software quality is stupid hard to measure. Long term supportability is borderline impossible to measure without a time machine. Technical debt is hard to even explain to a manager, let alone keep tabs on in terms of numbers. So what's easy to measure? Time! Deadlines, sprints, release dates, etc... That's super easy.

That's why inevitably the unimportant internal time metrics become critical to everybody, but the actually important metrics aren't even measured and become invisible to management until it's far too late.
> Is there specific evidence to suggest that COVID-19 will cause extremely high rates of lung cancer in 30 years?

Perhaps not "extremely high", but there are lots of other cases where viruses attacking human tissue much less severely are known to cause cancer. HSV causing cervical cancer is probably the most obvious example, but there are many others.

This is well outside my area of expertise, but what I've read leads me to believe that the way viruses reproduce is particularly prone to resulting in mutations in the human cells it attacks.

It would surprise me a bit if Covid19 didn't increase the chance of cancer at some level, although it might be a very small effect.

> I think you have to compare the (very real!) risks of a challenge trial with the risks of not doing a challenge trial. Maybe it does only speed up development by two months, and the number of health care workers and other members of the public who will die in that time is low enough to not be worth risking the lives of study participants. But that is a question we need to actually look at and consider!

That's true. No questions should ever be off the table.

But it didn't sound much like asking a question when you said upthread, "I'm honestly a little surprised there's even a debate about this. The choice seems pretty clear to me." That's why I responded the way I did.
The best known treatment at the time the infection is detected. That can be as basic as rest and hydration, but hopefully we'll have something better down the line.
Paul, have you partnered with an epidemiologist to produce a paper on the method?
You make a valid point here. In a toxic environment where guilt and shame are tools of oppression, you do not, in practice, have the option to be candid.
You could probably use an app or just get their mobile phone number. It seems likely to me based on reading a lot of case studies that this virus is largely spread through talking, yelling, and singing. If we tell people not to talk for 10 minutes while they wait for their result, it could work if you could get people to comply.
"Oops, look at me!"
Peep Show is pretty good but a great deal darker than Seinfeld which tends to keep its comedy pretty tame- which in my opinion is what makes it so good.
You're getting downvoted but I think it's a fair question actually. I'd assumed they were referring to tapping into non-stressed supply chains. What you mention is valid though and something I'm curious about as well. Are the consumables reliant on chip fabrication? I don't think PCR machines themselves are scalable, maybe chips are more scalable than the optics systems for qPCR, but a valid point about whether the consumables are more scalable as well.
Younger people get it too, and some die. Not only that but many older or vulnerable people live with or depend on younger people. Separation like you suggest is simply impossible, and your misbelief that young people are invulnerable is dangerous.
Are you talking about the quote from Larry David?
Well, until you go to work. Then it's dictatorship which you can leave when you chose but until you do it isn't democracy.

If you have to work, the best you can do is a benevolent dictatorship rather than one with authoritarian people who are usually clueless at top. Which sadly is many and maybe even most workplaces.
And the middle one from Win 7?
Also the #StayAtHome seems to bring out the best and the word in people, and he mentions having covid-like symptoms right before all of this. That amount of stress can be bad.
I really want to hear from someone inside WD (outside the marketing/PR department). The level of organizational dysfunction that must exist for this to have happened would be a real spectacle.
The key piece is young and healthy. Very few people who are under 50 and don't have chronic health conditions have succumbed to Covid-19. A recent study of NYC patients [1] indicated that only 6.4% of hospitalizations (for all age groups!) were patients with zero co-morbidities.

I would also argue that being aged 45-64 isn't exactly "young". The share of U.S. deaths for those under 45 is 2.8%. Under 35 is 0.89%. [2]

It's also important to point out that the percentage of deaths attributed to a given age bracket is not the same thing as your chance of dying of the disease. I don't think you were suggesting this, but just in case other people read these statistics and are alarmed, I wanted to mention it.

I'm not saying that Covid-19 isn't serious. But we have a good deal of data at this point that indicates that if you are young and healthy, you are very unlikely to die if you contract the disease.

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184

[2]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
A story I love to tell is the time where I was in the medical device industry. A requirement was formally reviewed with the owner and he signed off on it. The design was completed and reviewed and found to match the requirement, I implemented it, tested it and found it worked as expected and handed off to QA. QA tested it and verified that it correctly implemented the Requirement. The feature was turned over to its owner for so he could use it and his response was "that's not what I asked for!"
Agreed but also without the directors and writers.
which indiana jones? i ask only in case you weren't aware there are two. they are both good, though the non-movie-tie-in is better.
"What writer? We're talking about a sitcom!"

https://youtu.be/EQnaRtNMGMI?t=108
I don't know why, but I was expecting this to just take a list of choices and decide on one randomly, with the idea that sometimes making a choice is more important than what choice is made. I know there are times where I've gotten stuck on something because I couldn't make my mind up on retrospectively, relatively unimportant decisions.

Thanks for sharing.
Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.
The CBC should be using British spelling!!
Hi, Walker here, one of the PreDxion co-founders. Up until recently we've been focused on developing our technogy as a point of care biosensor for us in patients experiencing dysfunctional immune responses (e.g., sepsis, ARDS, and the immune responses induced by certain cancer immumotherapies).

The technical implementation of a viral detection assay is much simiplier to implement than our quantitative, multiplexed small MW biomarker sensors... But there are certainly many other hurdles that remain as you point out as well as the additional biological uncertainty that remind around SARS-CoV-2 it's infectious course as well as our bodies subsequent immune responses.

There are certainly many hurdles left to be tackled but that's exactly what we're working towards.
I wonder why we always jump to the China approach of forcing people to do things.

Why not use an incentive system instead? You’d need a lot of work to design a good system but for example pay $100 for a positive test and proof that you isolated that day. (For proof of isolation maybe a system texts you at random times and asks for a picture of something in your house. Eg. 10:13am you get a text asking for a picture of a pillow.)

Please don’t critique the plan, I’m only offering it as an example of an alternative to having the national guard show up on your doorstep.
I monitor their Twitter feed and generally see reasonable takes, so I was concerned that they are considered anti-Semitic. I asked for an example, but got down voted, so now I'm really concerned.
It’s a thing, but doing a saliva test with limited sample prep (which you need to be beat PCR, otherwise you might as well just make more known to work qPCR machines) is not something anyone has accomplished with it for any virus. It’s a promising technology; but not for having a widely deployable test before we have boring old ELISA antigen tests. Which we have developed for plenty of viruses, and which some individual companies alone can manufacture at a rate of several per second with existing production capacity.

I’m glad more money is being put towards research in this tech (I used to study plasmonics from the physics side), I don’t think it’ll make a difference for COVID specifically before it’s too late to matter.
The last 3 paragraphs talk about explore/exploit ratio in bee colonies - most bees "exploit" what others found, small number of bees "explore" new grounds.

We do exactly the same. We exploit in the times of plenty and explore when the going get tough. The same evolutionary forces act on us as a society as on the bees, so it is unfair to say that bees know better than us how to get that ratio right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit#Optimal_sol...
Coronavirus Genome
can you give a citation for this or is it just sinophobia
Shareholder rights plan
Hats off to her.

I ran a marathon-distance run each of the last four weekends and all I managed to spell was "O".

Good way to escape the news cycle for a few hours!
Fair enough.

I'm out of ideas for countering this particular argument which has been coming up on HN on almost every virus-related thread recently. Ignoring it doesn't make it sound less convincing and engaging it just results in hopelessly-long back-and-forth citefests between two sides that cannot be convinced by anything the other says. I'm open to other suggestions at the email address in my profile.
But of course you need to package it as an unique, never seen before, game changing solution and write a blog post about it. He’s shilling his startup
How does this work on iOS? Safari tells me that I cannot execute javascript via URL.
The commenter who spawned the thread may have worded it that way, but the point is much bigger, the point is the WHO was responsible for spreading misinformation.

So even assuming the commenter worded it properly “no clear evidence” WHO tweet is still misinformation to the public because they Tweeted on 01/14/20 but as early as 12/30/19 China had evidence the virus was was being transmitted person to person in the Wuhan hospital, and on 01/08/20 the a Dr. had contracted it.
Good point about Jerry being the straight man. I was trying to explore the difference between onstage Jerry and offstage Jerry and draw a comparison to Rintaro/Kyouma, but I don't disagree with your interpretation. I think if we bring in the sequels, Maho is the closest we get to a straight (wo)man foil to Kyouma's color man.
This whole thing may have ignited when one of the maintainers put an entry in the fortunes file that made fun of that: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/c3b796aca...

Smells to me like they deliberately set him off so they'd have an excuse to stage a coup. Could be wrong, but this distro looks like it's maintained by a den of vipers and I'm sure as hell not going near it.
Thanks for the link! A useful ethical-social concept with examples.
An important clarification: You never upgrade across major versions in place, or you never `apt-get upgrade`? I understand not jumping versions, but never applying security updates seems... imprudent.
Odd objections. We test people already with infrared thermometers but they miss many cases. This would be similar but work better.
This is my experience with Agile projects. All the good parts for the developers have been stripped out and all it remains are the parts which benefits the management. How it’s followed in most orgs, it’s a low key leash system mostly however harsh it is to say.
which is irrelevant for this userspace-only fix
Dread Ep 02 – “Doom” clone for Amiga 500
They learnt from the previous SARS bout, reportedly thanks to a number of political factors aligning properly.

The sad thing is that basically nobody else did, among major players. Even other countries in the area (i.e. Japan and China) just went “phew!” after SARS and didn’t substantially review their response strategies. Which is how China was caught napping, Japan is still fundamentally in denial, and everyone else got their asses handed to them by covid19.
This aggressive segmenting of drives into colors/use cases just serves to confuse me. I wish they'd just clearly state on boxes exactly what feature set the drives have - i.e. "vibration sensor, sustained write speed, SMR/CMR" etc
New York (state) deaths per infection assuming ~10% overall spread:

10000/(0.1 * (20 million)) = 0.005

Arithmetic to scale that to ~60% of the US:

0.005 * 0.6 * 330 million = 990000

Of course that is hugely sensitive to the assumptions about the overall infection rate in New York and the immunity factor, but like I said, the arithmetic on what you said leads to ~1 million early deaths.
They fixed them. Most have thin covers now, and fancy ones are plastic.
Since you also mentioned, how does it compare to NixOS? IIRC it is also a distro-on-git(hub), with stronger guarantees on separating package dependencies?
Unknown number? Don't pick up in the first place.
I have my own problems with his daughter’s profiting off his back. I don’t see what you posted there as more click bait than anything else.

Many research bodies and authorities on health have flipped the food pyramid around. The CSRIO supports a low carb diet over the traditional carb heavy food pyramid. She’s just repeating what the experts have said. That part is the opposite of pseudoscience, and it’s lazy parroting.

Jordan has reactions to foods we don’t normally have a problem with, as does his daughter. They share methods that work for them and hold up the idea of eliminating everything and then working foods back in as they prove to be okay for them.

There’s been countless documentaries about the effect of big pharmaceutical money on the likelihood of certain drugs being prescribed by doctors and the money the docs make. It’s standard fare in America, no judgement about that from me.

Apart from a few eccentric behaviours and saying dumb things occasionally like his comments on godel, Jordan states the obvious in an inflammatory way and people are surprised when he’s actually rational under the flames. Zzz.
That sounds like a great episode!
True, but that's unavoidable with every test. Even PCR doesn't work until you're body has produced enough viruses to be detected.
Be good at what you do and be humble. The best way to talk yourself up is to have others do it for you.
I probably still stand corrected, but commutativity is a much stronger condition than the existence of an identity!
Ugh. I sometimes miss software development, but I don't miss any of this.
You don't really need to pay. At the infectious disease place in Marseille they offered free tests, hundreds lined up to get tested and the the number of infections in community dropped dramatically.
The flu comes every year, and it’s not even a order of magnitude less fatal. Maybe COVID will come back every year too.

What “solution” are you looking for to solve this relatively small share of “death from natural causes” that we call COVID? How much damage should we inflict upon ourselves in this moral quandary?

How many people should die because we’re willing to spend trillions of dollars due to our innate fear of a virus rather than our innate fear of much much bigger problems, like poverty or starvation?

Why can we muster so much energy in this case, and so little on much bigger problems? My theory is that you can’t catch hunger on the subway, you can’t catch underprivilege from a doorknob, and you can’t catch climate change from shaking hands with constituents.

There’s a lot wrong with our planet, it’s too bad we’ll all go bankrupt and unemployed chasing such a trifling disease as COVID when there were actual real problems we could have solved with mountains of cash that large, rather that burning the cash in effigy for modest to no effect once COVID has run its course.
What... "Standard - Infrequent Access" & "One Zone - Infrequent Access" is cheaper than Glacier Deep Archive??

5TB in ap-southeast-1 is what I plugged in.
No. What’s happening is that poorer, less creditworthy people are getting better rates and more likely to be approved than more creditworthy and wealthier people. That is a distortion.
Cyberspaces: Social Games over Video Chat
This is honestly probably an unexpectedly good heuristic -- remove anything pulseaudio depends on, and you'll likely get a more stable system.
Really great animation by the way...it really captures some of that old magic/chemistry.
MSCI factor indexes in perspective: Insights from 40 years of data [pdf]
bit odd but only visible after selecting options for both:

"Where is your data currently?"

"Which tier are you using?"
Perhaps, but it's not clear this would fall under any syndication rights. It's also not clear if he was honest about having part of the deal, from your link:

> During the New Yorker’s investigation into the veracity of the claims, reporter Connie Bruck was unable to find records of payments to Bannon. However, it’s possible his deal was capped and paid out between Seinfeld’s syndication in fall 1995 and Turner Broadcasting’s merger with Time Warner in late 1995. Following the deal, Turner’s Castle Rock came under the Warner Bros. umbrella and the company started sending out all of profit-participation statements. Prior records from the earlier months of syndication are not readily available.

And:

> On the other hand, when Bannon submitted an “income and expense declaration” during a contentious court battle with his ex-wife, any Seinfeld profit participations should’ve shown up. The New Yorker surmises either the profits weren’t substantial or Bannon failed to disclose them in a sworn statement.

I bet he made a few bucks in the 90s and and used the allure of the show to impress people since then. Seinfeld is still generating massive amounts of money so someone should know if they're sending any of it to Bannon.
We’ve already got a “Value of Statistical Life” in the US, and it’s higher than that. So you could justify lockdown on that alone

EPA recommends that the central estimate of $7.4 million ($2006), updated to the year of the analysis, be used in all benefits analyses that seek to quantify mortality risk reduction benefits regardless of the age, income, or other population characteristics of the affected population

https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...
Lots of good weirdness out there in the ultra running world.
This dude ran 70k around his kitchen table!
https://twitter.com/kilianj/status/1253576272707551232
This might be a "no right answer" situation honestly, I'm here to challenge my own opinions -- so your thoughts, opinions and data are always welcome and appreciated.
Pretty good historical account of pandemics based on facts, but might wanna make it more apparent that this coming from a fictional novel.
Well, let's see.

West has billions, is a recognized musical genius, is now setting fashion trends and will go to bed tonight with Kim K.

I'd say he's doing pretty well, compared to most.
I'm using LXC from ubuntu packages for that very reason, got burned when a cluster upgraded automatically. I guess I must be very out of date if the debs no longer exist.

I actually really like snaps and that's the only bad experience I've had. I don't know why LXC would come in that form, very weird.
It's like the cold for young people. Stop being a pussy. Everything can kill including driving. We are all going to die.
Apple and Google pledge to shut down coronavirus tracker when pandemic ends
I tried to order some of those off Alibaba in feb. The current ones never took off because they don't work very well, I think.
The usual connection is Bannon's work with Breitbart News. They had no problem working with folks who themselves had histories of antisemitic .... or just generally a lot of xenophobia, racism, and the usual hate associated with nationalism.

To be clear I personally don't know of any statements from Bannon himself regarding a specific case for antisemitism, and I'm not looking to make a case either way on that point specifically. As far as Breitbart News goes their history about other hateful things is pretty apparent, personally I'm not really sure it matters if it is antisemitism, or racism or whatever, and I'm not sure the folks running the show there cared either way.

Getting hung up on anything he said or didn't is probably missing the forest through the trees ;)
If you like this sort of thing you might also like Raymond Malewitz's essay, "Anything Can Be an Instrument": Misuse Value and Rugged Consumerism in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

DOI: 10.1353/cli.0.0092
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/383575
Maybe? Don't confused the increase in media coverage with it actually getting worse.

If you go by the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI (which has reporting bias), it has gone up, but it's still lower than it was during the late 90's.
Maybe it can be accompanied with an app which would send you test result so you don't have to literally queue. And then use the result to enter the building.