skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using silverblue as my daily driver for the past few months, installing rpm's into the 'toolbox' is the recommended way, I have a few rpms related to power management that I layer onto the ostree, but other than that everything runs in a container. It's a wonderful OS.
I'd love to hear more! Part of the reason I put this out is to encourage other people with technology for fast, easy, cheap testing come forward.

Is your protein test able to detect as soon as people become contagious? That's where a lot of ideas fail, but I think getting R0 < 1 likely requires it.
Brazilian chloroquine study halt after high dose proved lethal for some patients
You know I can't encourage your 1 month throwaway account calling a 2009 account a shill behavior by rewarding you with continued conversation.
Is a pig's ass pork? Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear shit in the woods? Gonna need some data and studies to back that up...
Government records show why Covid-19 is ravaging nursing homes
Product Roadmap Done Right
Make an alias that adds ls --hide the same way you do for ls --color.
Thanks for noticing this. It must be https://predxionbio.com/ (he really buried that part).
It doesn't have to be good enough to catch all cases immediately, just good enough that isolated outbreaks can't sustain themselves.
It worked very, very well on Unity. It also works with other DE like Plasma but I personally find it horrendous on other aspects.

I'll probably give Budgie a go.
What if you infect someone on your way back?
Yes, no, I read it. I just don’t think there is a bill of sale for rented servers anywhere that has the recipient as “Elite Nation State Hacker Group”. If the trail is IP address, I trust that as much a “spasibo” being proof of Russian Hackers.
13s boot time is still good regardless of the comparison phone.
> First of all, it’s not “just the flu”. It is something much more dangerous.

It is for some demographics, not all. It's safer than the flu for young folks, especially the under 10's which the flu hits pretty hard. For some it's worse, especially over 70s.

> Catching this virus is a bit like playing a round of Russian roulette. You’ll probably be fine, but you could end up dead.

Also true of the flu. Yes, even for the seemingly young and healthy.

It's amazing how freaked out people are getting over this. All the data points to it being worse than the flu, but not drastically [1]. Certainly not "immunity checkpoints at all building entrances" worse, it's not ebola.

[1] http://cebm.net/oxford-covid-19-evidence-service/
Is it because the discussion isn't needed? Anyone who is of moderate intelligence and thinks for a few seconds can see the next logical step. I don't know pb and he might be wonderful and original etc, but I have to agree with the original comment - this is just miles from an original idea. The constraint is tests, not ideas of what to do when we have simple/fast/abundant testing available.... "A third solution" makes it seem like it's... an original idea.
If you have the latitude of moving from file storage to block storage you should already be doing it. I'd say you chose the wrong use case from the start, which also backs up his point.
For a British flavour, try:

People Just Do Nothing, two pirate radio DJs and crew trying to hack it
https://imdb.com/title/tt3762198/

Detectorists, two small town “smartest guys in the room” try to rediscover their friendship through their shared love of metal detector operation
https://imdb.com/title/tt4082744/

And for a Japanese kick:

FLCL, a coming of age story about nothing, but writ LARGE
https://imdb.com/title/tt0279077/

Steins;Gate, hard to generalize and hard not to spoil anything but it feels like if Back to the Future were made as a modern anime
https://imdb.com/title/tt1910272/
I really hope that cubicles come back.
Biden ad exposes a rift over China
It's not that customers don't "get to". It's more that customers don't "have to" because they can see working software coming out of the team, and they are confident that things are progressing.

There are no "rules" in agile that says who can do what, just teams of people negotiating what works best for them. "Individuals and interactions" over process.
This is what the WHO has been saying for a while. From over a month ago:

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

"But we have not seen an urgent enough escalation in testing, isolation and contact tracing – which is the backbone of the response.

Social distancing measures can help to reduce transmission and enable health systems to cope.

Handwashing and coughing into your elbow can reduce the risk for yourself and others.

But on their own, they are not enough to extinguish this pandemic. It’s the combination that makes the difference.

As I keep saying, all countries must take a comprehensive approach.

But the most effective way to prevent infections and save lives is breaking the chains of transmission. And to do that, you must test and isolate.

You cannot fight a fire blindfolded. And we cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected.

We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test.

Test every suspected case.

If they test positive, isolate them and find out who they have been in close contact with up to 2 days before they developed symptoms, and test those people too."
> Canonical security team is top notch.

They need to, for a long time, Ubuntu has been shipped with EOL Kernel versions https://ubuntu.com/kernel/lifecycle
I've worked in both fields. Few people who are experts in one of those fields can be useful in the opposite field, but there are some exceptionally productive individuals who are. Reading through Bucheit's article, he seems to fall into the 'wow, biology is really easy, you just have to do <X> and the problem is fixed' camp. In my experience, that does not correlate with a good understanding of how to produce a successful medical diagnostic.
Thanks for sharing this , I wish they can recast the show and come up with new current episodes. Curb your enthusiasm is close to this but not the same
It actually works really well in practice for the example I'm thinking of (and this is deep in the bones of a code base, not just something I thought of for fun). Each functionality is a true subset of the other. It's not different families of functionalities.

Also, I don't see how your suggestion would help with

void foo(const AInterface& someObject);

What type should foo take instead if it can handle all levels of guarantee but might engage better code paths the more guarantees are available?

Would you use a sum type (which in C++ boils down to type erasure, i.e. polymorphy but hidden and costlier)? Would you overload it (and then have code duplication)? I'm not convinced you could make it simpler.
It's not that bad. Linux threads attract the biggest drama queens in the galaxy.
$4/mo, not $40/mo
> they insist on converting every binary angle to [] degrees

Bit of hypocrisy there, since degrees are literally the same thing, just with 360 sectors rather than (say) 256. Though the extra factors of 3 and 5 are sometimes useful.
I really like that one too. Cheers
"Test and release" only works in science fiction. In the real world there is no absolute test that would enable practical test/catch-and-release processing of infected persons. From an epidemiological perspective, when applied to an entire population even tiny false negative rates will let countless infections slip through. False positive rates will see some people doomed to perpetual lockdown as, for whatever reason, they repeatedly test positive.

Setting aside the science of disease, the concept of government agents performing a test to determine one's ability to conduct basic civil liberties (movement, work, basic speech etc) is antithetical to liberal democracy. Such things were not contemplated at the height of the AIDS panic, or SARs, or ebola. It would take something far worse than COVID-19 to implement such a regime in the western world. COVID is a threat to our way of life, to our economies. It isn't an existential threat to the state let alone the species.
Thank you for the reply. We probably agree on more than what this discussion makes it seem.

I think the disagreement started with the your response to my question to someone else:

> Are you recommending people stop giving money to charity?

And your response

> If they're not, I will.

It looks like your position is a lot more nuanced than "stop giving money to charity" :)
> he doesn't even mention ... Foucault.

It was written during WWII, before Foucault had published anything. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have been a fan, though.
Let's hope this works, and if it does, that we use it for every other kind of disease as well. I'd sure like to never get the flu, or the common cold again, because we brought their R0 to near 0 also.
You’re still in a much better position than we are today, where you’d infect several people in the store, and again the next day, and the next.
I might be misreading your comment, but I don't think the blog is promoting antibody testing? It sounds like the blog is about a method of detecting viral particles directly, perhaps using an immunoassay based on the wiki for SPR, but not to test for antibodies directly.

And in terms of medical records laws, the regulatory environment has loosened so quickly with the advent of this virus that I'm sure regulators and legislators will be favorable to making it easier for the company if the test demonstrates the appropriate sensitivity and specificity in clinical trials. People are getting reimbursed for sending emails to patients, health visits done over zoom, would have been impossible to imagine this level of regulatory flexibility just six months ago.
I don't think you're characterizing HN accurately. If you want to convince me, I'd need to see more convincing examples.

The lesson in this case is not that a generic flamewar about Trump belongs at the top of the #1 thread on HN. If the argument is that I shouldn't have moderated that, I disagree and am pretty sure the community would disagree.

Rather, the lesson in this case is that, because the topic was attracting attention because Trump, this was the worst possible moment for HN to be discussing ultraviolet blood irradiation. A curious discussion was not possible. Thus I downweighted the submission off the front page at the same time as I moderated that flamewar.

I think your fire analogy is off. A better one would be fires in a city, and those don't promote quality. Quite the opposite.
We hopefully would reach herd immunity far before that point, but even with herd immunity only requiring 70% of Americans to be infected, we're looking at over 2m fatalities. And that's not even counting the hospitalizations that will be over 20M.

What we need to hope for is an unlikely vaccine, or a therapeutic treatment to mitigate the worst of the diseases effects.
I'm sorry, I actually didn't get what the code was trying to do. Result should have been named "empty_car_ids" to signal.

What is this "select" function, why isn't it called filter? I actually don't know how to Google this because the HTML select gets in the way.

I'd really do it in two lines, because I want to get the first half right and then the second, and be able to inspect the first half independently of the second while debugging. The pipelines don't let you do that.

car_ids = [f"car-#{n}" for n in range (1,6)]
empty_car_ids = [id for id in car_ids if car_is_empty(id)]
Create high quality content that other people will appreciate, and put it out in the world for free.
My Google Pixel 1 isn’t running this patch level, because Google dropped support for it entirely. Which just sucks, because there’s no reason not to support it anymore, it’s just planned obsolescence.
Using CFR to determine fatality rate of COVID is as effective as it would be for skydiving. If you only count people who go to hospital (because they're frightfully sick -- or splatted out of an aircraft) and compare that to those who walk out of hospital you're exhibiting massive adverse selection bias.

For H1N1 swine flu, CFR was between 0.1% and 5.1% depending on the country. The IFR was 0.02%.

For COVID it's between 0.07% and 15%. The IFR is probably in the lower quartile of the 0.1%-1% range. [1]

[1] http://cebm.net/oxford-covid-19-evidence-service/
Same! Unfortunately we have a system is more or less tethered to use of LXD. While other workloads have moved to CentOS or Red Hat systems, LXD is supremely broken on those systems (or any distro that uses SELinux). It's extremely frustrating to be tied to Ubuntu for this one reason. It's even more frustrating when one of the key selling points from Canonical is "cross distribution!" Which appears to only be true for basic cases, or in the sense of, "Sure it's cross distro if someone other than us is willing to put in the work for their distro!"
Frankly this is the idea that a software guy comes up with. It’s like you translated the idea of checking every API request for malicious payload to a real-world situation and left out the 99.997% of the parts that make the problem hard. It’s like assuming the existence of a teleporter.
I think it's the mandatory part that's rankling centimeter, and I see their point. Once you give powers to the state in an emergency situation it's really hard to roll them back. See the PATRIOT act for example.
Is there a way to effectively get universal compliance without implicitly granting permanent new powers to violate civil liberties?

I suspect relying on people to test themselves daily without mandating it would do a reasonable job, but I have no idea if it would be enough.

Edit: typo.
But unlike the flu there’s significant spread from asymptotic people, so the young are walking time bombs.
But contagious status is not fixed. If you test someone, they're negative, but despite sheltering in place they pick up the virus while at a necessary doctor's appointment, then their status changes. Granted, frequent follow-up tests might identify that change, but daily tests of a sufficiently large portion of the population have a number of challenges beyond just access to the tests.
> includes libraries like ggplot2, for which there really is no peer

lattice is largely ignored but it is quite similar to ggplot2 in terms of features, and (as a matter of opinion) the plots it produces are aesthetically more pleasing, also great for making subplots using conditioning variables
Unfortunately Steve Bannon will make money off of it.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/04/larry-david-didnt-kno...

Larry David just found out that Steve Bannon made money off Seinfeld, and he’s pretty, pretty pissed off

"I had no idea that he was profiting from the work of industrious Jews"

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon’s rise to power as the President Whisperer comes on the heels of his leadership of Breitbart News, the alt-right website which has a reputation for espousing anti-Semitic views. Prior to Bannon’s involvement in politics, however, he was involved in a Hollywood deal giving him a small ownership stake in Seinfeld two years prior to its syndication. Unsurprisingly, when news about Bannon profiting from the show reached co-created Larry David, he was pretty, pretty, pretty pissed off.
South Korea: No reason to think Kim Jong Un gravely ill despite U.S.
Times New Arial
Gates Foundation, WHO, NIH, and Wuhan Institute of Virology Hacked
There are reports that the virus attacks the bloods capability to transport oxygen as well:

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-covid-infects-t...
Show HN: Colorado Antibody Test Window Watcher
Not to quibble too much with most of your criticism, but this one seems minor and trivially solved:

> this does not allow the screener to differentiate between "has COVID-19" and "had COVID-19"

As a policy matter, this doesn't rule out the use of the test in a pandemic management protocol at all, it just changes how it needs to be administered. For example it might require that people who are antibody-positive have a standardized note confirming recovery (in Contagion, this was a cute electronic bracelet).

The critical requirement is that we detect unknown positives, and this test would do that.
A shopping mall could have screeners at literally every entrance, and there are sometimes dozens of entrances at a shopping mall.

Even then, traffic might be reduced, but it would be enough traffic for something like regular life to resume. Some businesses would be able to survive, even if not all.

* IDEA *

They could also do checks in the parking lot of any business. You drive up, someone comes out to start the process and marks down your license plate. After 10 minutes they return to your car and tell you your results.

This way nobody is standing in long lines possibly spreading the disease to each other. And it scales well to large numbers of people being tested simultaneously.

There would be a lag time of 10 minutes, but throughput would be nearly the same as before COVID.
I fully agree, this is what I would go for in this case. The only caveat is that this is duplicating information that RTTI already has available, i.e. space overhead. That's not a strong argument, but still a pareto-optimal niche.
For a practical, home-bakable, sourdough recipe I can vouch for:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HXAW2GseICs

Top comment: "There is more drama in this video than in the entire Transformers franchise."
> Several trillion dollars is still worth it

$2 trillion is 10% of GDP or the losses in ~6 months of a lockdown resulting in 80% productivity (with the assumption that everything goes back to normal immediately after the shutdown, which it won't)

So it seems like a ~6 month lockdown is warranted if you crassly value saving a life from COVID at $1 million. That's not long enough for a vaccine.

Alternatively, working backwards, you need to value a life saved at $3-$4m each to make a 18-24 month lockdown worth it.
That doesn't really change anything. To the extent the vulnerable are holed up inside, everyone else is welcome to get it, display mild flu-like symptoms, and develop herd immunity.
Well, that's a symlink. It's a good idea, and something I should remember if I ever do start using Linux again—but the downside is that if I do need to temporarily enable hidden files, I'll see the same directory twice.

I'm being picky, I know! But I still think the Library approach is cleaner. (Again, back when it wasn't hidden by default!)
> we're talking about saving ~1-2 million people in the US alone by doing this. Several trillion dollars is still worth it...

No, we're not. 88% of people on ventilators in NYC don't survive (in a predictable pattern - 97.2% over age 65 don't for example). You might remember that just a couple of weeks ago, everyone was calling for more ventilators and every company with a workshop started building one -- because it was assumed (a) they would be needed, and (b) they would be very useful; neither is considered self evident truth (or truth at all) three weeks later.

There is no vaccine yet, and no medicine yet, and either may take a year or twenty (TTBOMK, no successful vaccine for the corona family was ever made, and not for lack of trying). Unless you assume a miracle, the assumption is everyone will get it -- and so far, our ability to significantly "save" people has not been demonstrated.

The only reasonable assumption right now is that everyone will get it, and while keeping the hospital system function is important in general, it makes little difference to those who get COVID19.

A more reasonable model is that we're avoiding a 6-8 month reduction in life expectancy, at a cost of (so far) 2 months of normal life. Whether it is worth it or not is not for me or you to decide and obviously depends on your point of view -- but it is clearly not self evident one way or another.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/22/coronavirus...

edit: someone is systematically downvoting all my posts on this thread. Whoeveer that is, I am not advocating for or against a course of action - I'm addressing the math. It is your right to downvote without explanation, but if you think I'm wrong, I would appreciate an explanation.
jews will complain about anything.
Paul, I posted this is part of another comment also, but for places like shopping malls, testers could also test people while they're in the parking lot.

No lines to spread the disease, and better throughput if you're testing many cars simultaneously rather than whoever is at the front of the line. (Although I suppose many people could be tested near the front of the line too.)
Buys batches of faulty electronics and fixes them on cam
> I'm not sure this "test and release" strategy works unless absolutely everybody gets tested simultaneously.

This is misunderstanding exactly the text you are quoting. The goal with epidemic management is NOT to seek out and destroy every last case of the disease.

All we need to do is reduce the spread rate so the exponent in the equation goes from above one to below one. At that point, the outbreak will shrink over time on its own. Critically, new/undetected outbreaks with an R0<1 won't get purchase and grow, because they can't.

At that point, the population is "safe". Individuals aren't, people might still get sick randomly. But this isn't a policy for individual safety per se.
There are so many possible ways to not deserve soup!
What Is Serverless Architecture? A Simple, Detailed Guide
If I want to build a language with those optimizations, what resources could I use?
In your mind what has happened to those "shitty jobs"?
Cite your sources or stop spreading obvious lies.
>This essay asks the question, why are larger organizations so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time?

I'm not sure I buy this premise: Menlo Park, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, major universities, the US military/government. Giant organizations like these provided enormous innovation and discovery in the last century. Maybe they don't anymore, but the question of why isn't the same as proclaiming "larger organizations [are] so bad at performing feats of brilliance most of the time".
Is that not the driest sourdough starter you have ever seen?
John Legere resigns from T-Mobile board of directors ‘to pursue other options
I'm reminded of people who use S3 as an eventually-consistent database. Encode your rows in CSV and use them as names of empty objects. Query using paginated LIST requests for a prefix of the columns.
Kanye West Vaults from Broke to Billions with Yeezy in Demand
of course not, the only progress so far has been people coming up with horrifying workarounds: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1620771
"The quality of life provided by middle class America is the life of the 1%"

It's been said many times before about similar statements, but this is not true or mathematically possible. I believe it's off by about an order of magnitude.

Middle class in the US is something like $45,200 to $135,600 in household income, which is roughly half the population.

Half the population is about 2% of the world population. And every American is not wealthier than everyone outside the US.

If you google something like "global income percentile" you will find a considerable amount of BS claims - the first one I found was on Investopedia. For fun or ideology or whatever, the meme that middle class Americans are in the top 1% is something that people will just go on the internet and lie about.

I didn't spend enough time looking to find really satisfactory sources, but in trying to find something relatively unbiased I ended up with something that suggested the US middle class might very roughly be around the top 10% globally.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/07/08/a-global-middl...

(Note that in the terms of the linked article, it seems like the global middle class is a tier below the US middle class, so if about 85% of the world is "poor" or "middle class", then the remainder or 10-15% equates to the US "middle")