skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also 12nm process node vs. 28nm for the Broadcom Videocore.
There's asymptomatic and presymptomatic (a very rapid spread could give lots of positive results before symptoms appear).
NYC shows that you will end up with probably 0.3% or more of the population dead before you get herd immunity. 0.3% of the entire US population is 1 million people.
Someone downvoted me, but on the chance folks ever come back to this discussion thread: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-new-y...
This function should absolutely NOT be a package. The problem is that JS has a very minimal standard library and despite tons of money going into the system, nobody's had the good sense to take a leadership role and implement that standard. In other languages you don't need to include external packages to determine the types of objects you're dealing with, or many other things.
Why NPM? I think that is the real question I do not see anybody asking. SO I will...

Why NPM?? What is the point?
Was going to mention Blender and Houdini, visual effects people use node graph editors all the time. Parametric CAD can be done very effectively with Rhino Grasshopper, which has such good tools for splitting and merging data stored in tables that I'm surprised it's not marketed for Extract/Transform/Load operations.
No mention of what kind of test was performed. And this article is not alone - most don't bother.

The kind of test matters. A qPCR tests the presence of an active infection. Antibody test determines past exposure.

Each has different expectations for symptoms, communicability, and prognosis.

It's not a lot to ask - just report the kind of test that was done, and do so with in the first two paragraphs. Then let me draw my own conclusions about what the study means.

That's a minimum. Ideally, an article would mention the exact brand of test that was performed. If heterogeneous testing methods were used, report that as well.
The Turkish girl dancing on the dabkeh
When WebAssembly gets direct DOM access we'll finally have options and we'll no longer have to tolerate JavaScript. I expect the JS community will settle down and get somewhat saner after that, too.
There are many different tests, from different manufacturers. Some of the tests have higher false-positive rates than others. Some have higher false-negative rates. Even a survey with an imperfect test can be designed to yield reliable data.
That’s not unsustainable, that’s risk.

That’s also describing a type of startup, not startups in general.
Interactive Covid-19 Charts
Who will win in this riveting chess game of Math.random() vs. Math.random()?
Thanks, sure will.
>BTW, I don't agree with your original comment for whatever it's worth.

Well, let's hear why.
Watching The Shining at midwinter is a tradition among South Pole Winterovers - for roughly 9 months there are no flights in or out.
> Imagine a point of sale system. Retail workers have to use that stuff the whole day. This means it nearly never makes sense to sacrifice power user efficiency just to be able to tell some manager who will never have to work with the damn thing: "Look how easy this is to understand".

The problem is that the sales teams for the POS machine don't interact with the retail workers. Instead they interact with at best middle managers, or at worst the C-Suite, which generally has minimal software competency and usually have little understanding of the various software solutions serving the domain.
These were exactly the assumptions of the RIVM in the Netherlands end Februari and March causing it to completely spiral out of control.
And there's an interesting discussion to be had if it shouldn't be one of those snippets that everyone copies from Stackoverflow instead. And how much trouble in other ways that alternative has caused.
The FT article refers to the scientific group advising the UK government: Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). On Friday (24 April), The Guardian published the names of the scientists who sit on SAGE:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/coronavirus-wh...
People used to believe that eating fat makes you fat, and eating sugar makes you sweet (okay, the latter is maybe an exaggeration), because it seemed so obvious. Later they realized that actually eating lots of sugar makes you fat. That's progress. The sugar producers want you to believe the old version; they love to emphasise how "low-fat" their heaps of sugar are. (Every time you read "low-fat", translate it mentally to "contains lots of sugar". Every time you read "low-sugar", translate it mentally to "contains lots of artificial sweeteners". Hint: the actually healthy stuff, such as fruit and vegetables, doesn't need to protest too much.) Education about this part is a good thing.

On the other hand, removing vegetables from diet goes completely against the currect best knowledge. You should eat a lot of vegetables, preferably raw. Like, okay, you can cook your broccoli; but then eat some other raw vegetable, and some fruit (uncooked, without extra sugar). -- However, I have never heard Peterson recommend removing vegetables as a general advice for others; it was always in context of finding out what works for his autoimmune disorder, because the standard medicine didn't help him much, so he experimented with crazy things.

So, these are two different things. One is highly controversial, the other not at all.
Plus, pick the consensus option, any problems that come up are that option's fault. Fight for anything else, and everything's your fault. Even if it is actually better it can make you, personally, look worse.
Note that this includes sparkling water. At least in Germany, I would estimate >80% of bottled water being sold to be sparkling.
If it were an antibody test then I don't think it would be correct to say that they "tested positive for coronavirus", and also it wouldn't make sense to talk about their symptomaticity
The fact that this has broken serverless for people is reinforcing my priors in a big way.
Fedora - currently 31

I do have tlp running on it.
I could have misunderstood! But when you can smell it when you shower and taste it when you drink it, there is a considerable amount of residue of chemicals in the water. Maybe I smell it because I'm used to water without it. I don't know if it's actually harmful, but when there are alternatives widely deployed, for instance in the Netherlands I don't see the reason for taking the risk.
I wonder if USB HID compliant keyboard can report their key map (like QWERTY vs AZERTY)? If yes is there some OS taking advantage of it and how?

In 2020 keyboard mapping is still a mess IMHO but may be I'm missing something :)
From the article: “The gcc options for the C code used was -O3 -lm, because my processor doesn't support AVX“.
Does anyone know if there's a way to upgrade a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a dependency of a dependency in my yarn.lock without actually editing the yarn.lock, and also, waiting for five packages to update their dependencies, especially if they're locked or specified by even one of the five in semver rules?

For example:

Running `yarn why is-promise` in a CRA app:

`Hoisted from "react-scripts#react-dev-utils#inquirer#run-async#is-promise"`

Currently, running a `yarn upgrade-interactive --latest` doesn't indicate there are any updates, so presumably, this is still a problem upstream.

Also, if anyone's in a pinch right now, luckily enough, I made this yesterday, for an interview I had only a couple hours ago. I lucked out! But if anyone else might need it, maybe it'll help someone:

https://github.com/cryptoquick/demo-cra-ts

Oh, and, uh, pardon the pun... :/
How many of those overlap with the 3 million people that are going to die in the US this year anyway?
You're not thinking broadly enough about the utility maximization framework. What's wrong with just including bread baking, hanging out with friends, etc. as things you find valuable, and then try and maximize those jointly with the value you find in productivity and working?
Been meaning to get into AWS, but every time I try something it seems very complicated. Very excited for this channel!
No way! I don't want to be downvoted off the page.
Yeah. Large companies are better at screwing contractors than small ones, on the whole. You're less likely to have a human relationship you can leverage.
That's the opposite of everything I've read
> They started with the Marion Correctional Institution, which houses 2,500 prisoners in north central Ohio, many of them older with pre-existing health conditions. After testing 2,300 inmates for the coronavirus, they were shocked. Of the 2,028 who tested positive, close to 95% had no symptoms.
But it was not artificial created. Which is not a bad thing. Because a natural language is created by millions of speakers, so it sounds a bit strange to me, that only one person should be the creator of a language.
Are you getting compensated for the content you produce here on hackernews?
EUvsVirus challenge – can you hack it?
There are many antibody tests. The one I’ve read about (from the Charité in Berlin) was designed (or found) to also test positive for the “original” SARS, and for very closely related bat viruses (neither of which should present an issue when testing humans today), but not for other corona viruses (such as the common cold etc.).

That test has also very carefully been validated, with excellent sensitivity (=few false negatives) and specificity (=few false positives). Not sure all available tests have gone through quite so thorough validation.
Randomization is not required to neutralize random noise, which is... random.

It’s required to prevent systematic biases like giving the drug that you think might help to the patients with better prognosis (instead of wasting it on those that are very likely to die anyway).
The key part of that press release is:

> As of 24 April 2020, no study has evaluated whether the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 confers immunity to subsequent infection by this virus in humans.

The most likely thing is that it does mean immunity, but the WHO isn't going to say that without clear evidence.
There’s preliminary data: https://covidtestingproject.org/
>The annoying part was the wifi card which sometimes Ubuntu would stop finding, so I'd have to re-install the drivers.

I had a 15 XPS (Skylake version?) a few years ago with Ubuntu - I just ended up buying an Intel Wifi card for $25 and replacing the oem one. The nice thing about that XPS was it was user serviceable.
This I don’t agree with: they should have left it as leg-assisted overhead press. So what that you helped with your back and legs? It’s a full-body activity anyway.
Not that it matters, but I traded lots of BASIC code on local bbs’s for free, and on floppies and cassettes for free. I didn’t really mind pedaling my bicycle to share my next release of “Pong” or whatever I was up to, kids love sneakernets, but I don’t think this program supports any form of sneakernet, that’s a real shame for kids who don’t have credit cards and most certainly won’t be given permission for “in game purchase”, few parents will understand or approve such a thing.

That’s fine, nobody said this is for kids, or for education, it is what it is, I respect the effort and design to some degree, but won’t fund it. it goes against the very spirit of BASIC as an easy, educational, and naturally open source language.

my other beef is why should content creators, who add value to the platform, pay more money?

I really enjoy publishing FOSS, I maintain half a dozen of pypi’s top 100 packages, I feel joy and pride when I see my packages fly by on screens of colleagues. but if pypi starts charging me “server tickets” to publish these packages, strange EULA’s that sign my rights over, and to have to delete the less popular packages to make room to publish new ones, etc. I’d feel really damn sore about it.

I’d publish it as PDF images and instruct users Like you to print it out and type it in, or dish out $9. This would be my rebellion for not getting a single penny for the thousands of volunteer hours that other people are now paying to receive a copy of. It just rolls my brain around and around to think about both players and creators paying money.
Subtlety is not a conspiracy.
I must say that for a community of rather technical people when not scientists and engineers, hackernews has a surprisingly high level of FUD-pushers and doomers on that topic. I put that on account of anxiety.
No. It wasn't meant for OP (is-promise) because that would require tests for the imports.

I saw some work around changing versions in the package.json and lockfiles in the github issue. Instead of that, you could just roll back to the previous commit. Way easier. The package author also changed the earlier version after fixing it.

It would stop your shit from failing at least.
It randomly stopped without completing - is there some kind of timeout?
One other API I've found that includes foreign exchange (as well as a bunch of other different asset classes) is http://iexcloud.io -- they have a free tier that is pretty generous.
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
Repeating the fun question originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284918
why the term robbery?

just because the seller couldn't detect a weakness on the buyer and artificially inflate the prices it is considered a robbery? Does someone who will need a car for a job or lose the house for non-payment "rob" the car dealership for not disclosing they really need that car they are purchasing at market price?

IMO, the robbery is that the business people consulted for the deal saw only the big sale and the possibility to get their costs subsidized (for what reason that was even offered by the govt?!) and they indeed made a nice profit and were not affected by the internal price hike as they were sellers, not buyers, while the US public lost 300mi subsidizing this mess and paying the higher prices. Indeed a robbery.
> Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu

> Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

> The Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, is a Dutch research institute that is an independent agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. RIVM performs tasks to promote public health and a safe living environment by conducting research and collecting knowledge worldwide.
Yes. Funny how North America shows the opposite correlation.
"And everything else in the CI. If we're treating this like a CI, then it's like saying a dice will land on 1, just because it's equally likely to land on 6. The actual P(1.5% | prevalence) is quite low at 3%."

You just said that you can't use a CI to estimate the likelihood of any point within the CI (you actually can, for well-behaved problems, but I digress) when I commented that 0% isn't a likely outcome within the interval.

Literally the same argument. If you want to argue that 1.5% is unlikely, then you have to accept that 0% is unlikely for the same reasons.
are the system76s better? I heard the hw was kinda iffy (crap) in the past. One of the reason I decided against it about 2 years abgo when I bought my Lenovo X1 carbon (for Linux).

The Lemur looks interesting (nice you can get it with more than 16GB RAM in 14")... wonder how the quality is on it though
!!null && false === false
null && false === null
I didn't say that I can't. Akrasia is a thing. A lot of this was getting done semi-automatically as part of my daily habit. As for all of us, lockdown wreaks havoc on that.

Policy needs to be decided on the basis of what people will do, not what they should do.

Thanks for your encouragement.
Needs machined aluminum case where bits of case reach down to the surface of the chips with just a small thermal interface pad or thermal grease between them. I don't like plastic with air vents, and fans.
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Md Saban account is created in 23/04/2020 the IP is on 10:10:223:47 on Malisevo....
My productivity tip:

Sit down, and read through `man bash`.

Thank me later.
And yet, somehow Debian isn't in the new every few months. There's a fundamental difference in culture, for one. But the fundamental difference in approach is there, too. Debian packages are vetted. npm packages are not.
+1 for conversations with Tyler, no matter your opinions on his politics, he's one of the best interviewers out there.
You're right, they get a positive result for almost all the population!

Wait, does that pass the smell test? Do prisions become huge flu hotspots as well? The Diamond Princess outbreak didn't have that kind of numbers... What's more likely at this point, the numbers from the article or human error?

My respects to anybody trying to do actual science with this kind of data in this kind of situation...
Okay; my response was to what you said, which was that my editor doesn't exist.
We did it as kids: "secret language" we called it. The big thing is the development of speech. From sounds to words. Once you have that, adding another language is not that complicated.
If I'm not mistaken, I hadn't many issues installing docker on WSL.

The problems started when I docker-compose up'd a pretty basic nginx-php-mariadb stack.
The Ohio prison system is probably testing for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, not antibodies. That testing is specific to the virus (the type of test can respond to multiple viruses, but being specific to the target is one of the design criteria).

An antibody test should also generally be well targeted.
Instead of downvoting, comment on the errors in the assessment.
I don't have much of an idea about Windows or OSX. Regarding Desktop Linux, I think I wouldn't be far off if I said it has no desktop security model. The permission system on *nixes (and Linux by inheritance) were formulated in the context of it being a multi-user system with multiple people logging in via a terminal. Your data had to be protected from access by unauthorized users. I don't know if security aspects of running untrusted or unverified programs was even considered which are significantly more important in the current context.

I think Flatpak is trying to improve Linux application security but still has a really long way to go compared to the likes of Android and iOS.
Yes -- pinning dependency versions does not have to be at odds with security.

In fact, how secure is it, really, to keep dependencies unpinned and welcome literally /any/ random upstream code into your project, unchecked? This is yet more irresponsible than letting dependencies age.

But even then, it's not as if you have to choose -- you can pin, then vet upstream updates when they come, and pin again.
Per other comments in the thread, this is the primary use case for Yarn's "resolutions" feature:

https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/selective-version-resolu...
We may have already seen the peak in oil demand
The article almost seems to be making a point of not putting all the needed numbers together for any given population that they talk about though.
FWIW, yarn.lock (and the lockfile for recent versions of NPM, IIRC) also keeps package hashes-- so a build is either fully reproducible and pulls down the same artifacts as the original, or it fails (if an artifact is missing or has changed).

`yarn zero` protects you against dependencies disappearing, and lets you install without network connectivity.
The Steelseries Apex Pro has keys that can detect depth, but they too use it for actuation points. They keys are omnipoint.

I really (really) like my topre realforce rgb although the apex pro is very close in terms of solid feel, and has much more interesting electronics.
Minimal.

Even with the increased alertness, it steals away that productivity from the next day, often resulting in a net loss due to lack of proper sleep.

It increases alertness, but reduces focus.

Reminds me of a friend's remark on why he quit pot: "the scary part was it really convinced me I was productive in my day when in fact I was not"
Bonvoro alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!
If you do (re-)visit this film, I highly recommend the "International Cut" that was shows and released on video everywhere except the US. It's the director's preferred version. It's more than 20 minutes shorter(!) making for a much tighter movie, and removes some bits that didn't move the plot or looked weirdly dated (spooky Skeletons towards the end, for example)
I should. And where I'm at, I could. Perhaps I even will.

But at scale, lockdown has broken our habits, good and bad. This has a price.
Looks good, but probably not very usable. I know some areas in germany, where you cannot drink the water because of too much chalk. But in general it is very good in germany.

But in spain for example I could never find a tab, I could drink of - way too much chlorine.
The benefit of masks is primarily that it reduces droplet transmission from carriers, many of whom are asymptomatic.

You can't propagate a droplet to your face by touching a surface and then your mask, if it never lands on that surface to begin with.

I'd really like to do away with this misconception: masks are primarily to prevent transmission, and only secondarily (and it's a distant second) to prevent infection.
Although I agree that there's no substitute for actually improving latency, I think it's possible to do significantly better at prediction. Mouse movements are not easily predictable but they are also not completely random; this is a good type of problem to apply machine learning to.

Ultimately you want the lowest possible latency and prediction, because you can never get the latency to zero. Once the latency is small enough, prediction becomes a net win. For example, all VR devices do prediction for head and hand positions after lowering latency as much as possible elsewhere.
I think discipline != penny pinching
12nm vs. 28nm process for the cpu...
If the asymptomatic rate is higher, then it is less dealt, no?
"No computer can beat a chess grandmaster"
(Shrug) McConnell and McCarthy don't make a distinction, and neither do I. In the absence of checks and balances, they are all complicit.

Trump didn't have to sign it, did he? The bucks stops where, again?
What are some of the best materials for homemade face masks?
Lets not get too excited about this. Whatever the numbers, that's interesting and worth recording for planning. But whatever they are, they result in "way too many deaths". This is still a very dangerous and rapidly-spreading virus.
This is a bit unrelated, but how do folks make those nice shiny landing pages like this one, which all seem to have almost the exact same layout and format (e.g. the animation with the little people at the top and the link to learn more, along with the tiles in the middle with different features). I'm interested in launching products like this while doing as little frontend work as humanly possible.
how do you ever make antibodies if you are perpetually asymptomatic though?

do you carry it forever? does it attack eventually?

what happens if you are an asymptomatic carrier and get a vax?
Yes, but for most keyboard makers, they come preflashed, and are indistinguishable from dumb asics
How's TornadoFX in terms of 'lightweightness'? Presumably worse than Qt but still much lighter than Electron?
It's a worldwide correlation. But of course communism is not the only factor at play here. Population density, total population, size of country, and so on. They all play a part. In North America the correlation is skipped because these other factors are so vastly different between the countries. In South America not so much. Except for Brazil.
12nm vs. 28nm...
Concurrent Hash Tables: Fast and General
After trying out a bunch of environments about a year ago, I settled on cinnamon because it had the best multi-monitor support.
I've used PictureThis with great success.