skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nitpick: it's been about 40 years. E.g., the US officially switched recognition to PRC in 1979.
You're welcome :) Hope you enjoy using it!
So they’re going the Pinterest way now.
The whole citation [0]: "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission".

Should they have not posted this at all?

[0]: https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
"One reason we could charge the price we did for the service is that we were treating the data we had access to as an investment. Thus the data we accessed was done so to ensure the service could be maintained."

Would a judge accept that argument? From me? No. From the lawyers Amazon can afford? I wouldn't be comfortable betting either way.
I did not mention movies once. I said music and podcasts that I use daily. My routine would look like following:

1. Get in car, plug in power and aux cable

2. Press play on (playlist or podcast)

3. Press start navigation on google maps

I'm glad that storage isn't a limitation for your use case, but for me they would be a major inconvenience that I can happily avoid by using an Android with an SD card
> The WHO advised against the public wearing masks

Nope. Your article is actually about the UK's government's advice and lumps in the WHO. Here's a WHO publication from 30th of January 2020 [0] that advises all sick with "flu-like symptoms" be provided a mask (as well as healthcare workers).

The WHO, like every national government, have recommended prioritizing masks to the sick and healthcare workers since the start of the year. Canada didn't contradict that and still doesn't as far as I've read.

Giving masks to asymptomatic members of the public only makes sense when there's a large enough supply to do so without starving essential services or known carriers.

> and advised against travel restrictions.

Your own link contradicts this claim.

> However, in certain circumstances, measures that restrict the movement of people may prove temporarily useful, such as in settings with few international connections and limited response capacities.

> Travel measures that significantly interfere with international traffic may only be justified at the beginning of an outbreak, as they may allow countries to gain time, even if only a few days, to rapidly implement effective preparedness measures. Such restrictions must be based on a careful risk assessment, be proportionate to the public health risk, be short in duration, and be reconsidered regularly as the situation evolves.

They then go on to essentially say that it won't work (and spoilers: It didn't work, they were 100% correct).

It also fails to show how Canada acted against the WHO advice? That was the core claim above, and your response doesn't even attempt to show that.

In fact Canada has been in lock-step with the WHO since the beginning and still is. Even according to your links.

[0] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/risk-co...
Well I spoke too soon. Initially I did see the controls pop up on the bottom, but I just resized my browser window, and now for the life of me cannot get them to show up again. Oh well. I'll keep messing with it.
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Feedback noted!
I agree, once they have data to support that antibodies prevent reinfection at a level that would be contagious.
> All the antibody studies in the US so far are showing that antibodies are present in at least an order of magnitude greater number of people than the official number of people with Covid-19.

These results may not be accurate either, though. At least some antibody tests give false positives for antibodies to other Coronavirus strains.
Yes, we are fully aware of that. There must be a line drawn somewhere between work that we can make portable, and the work that is platform-dependent. Enforcing any ordering on storage writes is completely unfeasible.
Qemu can do it, but you explicitly need to configure it to use kvm. And then you need to set it up to use GPU passthrough.

It's a somewhat involved process, especially for GPU passthrough.
Unfortunately, the voters of the US have determined only people over 65 are eligible to receive that pricing.

Medicare might pay the least, but I assume they must still be a net profit center if healthcare providers accept them.
This level of isolation can’t be sustained for the year or so it’s going to take until a vaccine is created.

Testing for active infections will help identify people who should self isolate to slow the spread, which is good, but we also should be determining who has antibodies and is able to end self isolation. We need to release some of the social pressure building up and allow people who are ok to go out again to do so.
Are you aware of GiveWell? https://www.givewell.org/

They evaluate charities; their top-recommended charity Against Malaria Foundation can, for $5, provide an insecticide-treated mosquito net that can protect individuals from malaria for 3-4 years. It's been proven to effectively decrease incidence of malaria in regions where such nets were distributed. This is very cost-effective.

Charity can be very efficient in helping people. You just have to find cost-effective charities and give your money there.
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>contacted their customer suppor

The fact that this is even necessary just screams monumental f up.

Here is a free upgrade. (With surprise data loss)
I've been following this company for years. They used to be overly optimistic, but got a reality check along the way and now are more careful in their statements.

Anyway 400Wh/kg are available as samples - that's not far away from 500Wh/kg.
I’ve continuously questioned the antibody tests...

My understanding (from NBC news) was that at least some of the antibody tests were derived from a couple who were on the princes cruise. They never showed symptoms, but tested positive. IMO it’s quite possible that they never had it and those tests were inaccurate (right at the start of the outbreak, no symptoms, etc).

Further, these antibody tests likely weren’t fully vetted nor were the samples they derived it from. For instance how often does another coronavirus set off this antibody test?

Personally, I’m just waiting to see. I actually do suspect 20% have been infected, so it fits my expectations, but that’s not validation.
What I learned from an article of a major German newspaper is that in order to really estimate the quality of testing, two criteria are important: sensitivity and specifity of the applied test.

If the real infection rate is still low throughout the population, a random sampling will not lead to reliable results (you could also toss a coin).

Although the article is in German, it is worth to have a look on the graphic in the middle of the page, it should be understandable.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/corona-test-antikoerp...
I am surprised they don't mention the moving of manufacturing to China and pressuring the local building force with "undocumented" immigration. This created a society where nobody wants to do the building jobs and created a service based society. The people who do work in actual physical building type of jobs are mocked and berated by the elite because they don't subscribe to their every changing cultural shifts. People here ask why Germany or Japan got such a great infrastructure forgetting that those two countries are first and foremost an industrial countries that give respect and protect their blue collar workers.
One drastic difference between the US and almost every other system is the first-past-the-post, winner-take-all system of representation. A party receiving 5% of the votes in a German vote can receive 5% representation. A candidate winning 49.3% of the vote in a US race wins 0% of the representation for their party. The US system is not built for coalition-building or decentralization. Power is concentrated in the singular candidate rather than the collective party.
The alternative is to beg a risk-averse committee (public ones are much worse than private ones in this respect, but they are similar in this context) to invest in big bets.

When Elon Musk went to Russia to try to buy a rocket in 2001, they thought he was full of shit. So he went to work on building his own.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/how-tesla-...

Tesla had to vertically integrate its supply chain to build the Model S because none of the existing suppliers would take him seriously.

To the extent that they have earned their success and steered clear of regulatory capture and the like, billionaires don't need moral justification for existing. Having said that, those billions are used to fund big bets that would otherwise not happen. I am glad they exist!
I don’t know much about the subject - when one of these institutions discovers a vaccine, do the rest just give up and settle the loss of having come second in the race? Do the private companies then automatically switch to producing as much of the successful vaccine as possible to meet demand and turn a profit?
As more data comes in the estimates will continue to be refined.
I am simply trying to slow the spread of non-sensical numbers. The total population divided by number of deaths provide a factual lower bound and arguing against that is not sensible.

Flaws in the Stanford study has already been highlighted extensively, see for instance https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw... and the insightful comments. The issue is not to take it up with the authors but whether the authors might listen and take back what they claimed on popular political TV shows. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NjCitwKJSQ
+600 from the feds per week. In most states, it is higher.
"In March, the company announced it will hire 300,000 new full-service shoppers on top of its existing 200,000 shoppers. It has since met that goal, and with today’s hiring news, Instacart’s shopper network will be 750,000 shoppers. The company also announced earlier this month that it is more than doubling its care team, from 1,200 agents to 3,000 agents."

I am really surprised they have that many people doing this work! That's not meant to be a comment on the work or the people or anything, just those numbers are HUGE. I had no idea they had so many people.
Those were the dirtiest business tactics of Amazon
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The end of Mad Men implies that Don Draper is the creator of Coca-Cola's "Buy the World a Coke" ad[1].

Is he also responsible in later years for New Coke?

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtZpFl3pPM&feature=youtu.be
Thanks for the comment. Sure, I would be more than happy to chat. You can get in touch with me via the chat widget on the website https://presentify.compzets.com/

Looking forward to it.
Some of those are legitimately good brands (Anker and RAVpower being two I'm personally familiar with). Anker has even grown in North America to the point of having distribution within physical stores such as Sam's Club[1].

That said, your point still stands. These are not household names in the North American market, and it's not immediately obvious what is a legitimate and reliable option vs. a throw-away brand selling imported fire hazards.

[1] https://www.samsclub.com/p/anker-6-port-qc-blk-spring2017/pr...
There are doctors who disagree with WHO and we should be able to hear them.
Well, rather than issue a lengthy explanation of why I think I'm right, I suggest this instead: Try turning the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1] to the forces of good, and keep an eye out for this sort of thing over the next month. Assuming that there's nothing special about what you do in the next month, the delta between the number of times you think about it in the next month vs. the amount you've thought about it in the previous month is a rough guess for the amount of times you've read a statement like this and it just passed you by with your brain not registering an objection.

If you do this honestly, betcha it's more than you think. It's something I see a lot, personally. In fact I tend to be surprised when someone public says "We're doing X because of Y" and it actually makes perfect sense. Most reasons given in the public sphere are quite garbage.

[1]: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...
Been toying with joining github, but think I'll stick with self-hosting gitlab after all
I imagine they keep going since side effects could be better, or it could be more effective.
Those are the people who constitute the denominator for the CFR. It's a completely different metric. You would never try to impute population exposure from such cases. This study is trying to to impute population exposure. There isn't any comparison between the two in terms of which has more/less selection bias, they are completely different things.
> It takes a single President to ensure something doesn't become law--a literal veto.

That single president has to be elected though and by definition represents the majority of voters/electorate (modulo whatever special voting mechanisms the country has).
They want people like me to register and increase the user count. I happen to get to an Instagram page once or twice a year following some link, look at a few pictures and quit. I remember it stopped me to scroll through pictures after a while or something like that, again to lure visitors to register. But I don't have a use case for Instagram so I won't. I already send pictures to people I care about via whatsapp.
I've encountered far more esoteric, game-breaking issues during Arch upgrades than I ever did with Debian-flavored ones.
First rule of medicine: there’s never a silver bullet

That said, I personally know doctors here in the Bay Area who were part of the remedsivir trial and it does seem to genuinely help in very specific cases.
> Anyone who's a minor doesnt get to see this "unsafe" content.

Even that is an authoritarian nightmare. We already have laws that restrict minors from participating in certain activities.

You're saying you want YouTube to be the parental guardian of children based on their current whims. They should bar content from minors where the law requires it. Let the legislatures battle the people over whether the law-of-land should include barring minors from information that "contradicts" the WHO.

How easily we drop our freedom and liberty for a tiny bit of supposed safety. Unbelievable.
In normal times, true. However unemployment insurance has been significantly boosted by the CARES act during the pandemic
Hm? Switzerland also predates the formation of the EU. And the EU has been agitating for and against centralization since the mid 2000s.
Absence of evidence of an effect does not entail evidence of absence of that effect.
Haha, I did that once while I was testing the app and our video conferencing app froze for a couple of mins :)
Summary by Professor Akiko Iwasaki:

"A super useful new study led by @awyllie13 shows that saliva is a better diagnostic sample for #COVID19 testing than nasopharyngeal swabs. Switching to saliva solves problems of shortage of swabs, PPE, saves healthcare labor and gives better sensitivity and consistency "

Summary and additional discussion here: https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/12530383813716623...
> To take an obvious example, the US healthcare system is not failing in its primary mission, which is to transfer wealth from the population at large to a specific group. It is in fact spectacularly successful.

The goal of every business is to transfer wealth from the population to the business. It is a capitalist[0] society's job to ensure a system that aligns those goals with society's. When people refer to the healthcare system failing, they mean the system is not doing a very good job of delivering on society's goal's.

The abstract healthcare system itself doesn't have any goals. Doctor's, hospitals, and insurance providers all have goals, but many times they no only conflict with society but also eachother.

[0] - In a non capitalist society you are trading the "aligning firms with society" problem for the far more difficult "aligning individuals with society".
Surely that doesn't work in the age of cellphones?
Yeah, the lack of notifications of hacker new is unsual.
I did alot of research on Dukascopy, including on reddit. It seems that bank really fit my needs. Thank you very much for that suggestion.
The concept of 'fake news' was invented to bring power back into the hands of large media companies and the corporations which control them by discrediting all alternative news sources.

I don't believe in fake news or conspiracy theories, but I do read conspiracy media and articles from 'fake news' outlets because it helps to get perspective.

There is definitely a grain of truth in many conspiracy theories and 'fake news' articles... And unfortunately this grain of truth is often never mentioned at all on mainstream media.

For example, some scientists found that covid-19 shared some non-trivial segment of RNA with the HIV virus. This is a fact but mainstream media does not mention it at all because they don't want to invite conspiracy theories that the virus could be man-made. Of course they could mention this and also add that this particular RNA sequence is also shared by many other viruses and not just HIV. But mainstream media will avoid the topic entirely because of political and financial pressures. They prefer to turn any scientist who mentions this fact into a social pariah rather than admit that there is an element of truth to it and that it could deserve further scrutiny.

Also, mainstream media would never dare to point out just how grotesquely massive the recent bailouts by the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States are. The amount of fiat dollars which will be injected into the economy is so alarming that even the billionaire fund manager Ray Dalio hinted that it would usher in a "new world order" (in an economic sense) but the gravity of the situation is not conveyed at all by the mainstream media.

Consuming conspiracy and 'fake news' media is mind-opening if you consume it in small quantities alongside mainstream media.

If you hate how divisive the world has become, then it's your moral duty to expose yourself to the other side's perspective. Mainstream media is becoming complacent and just like 'fake news' media, it's loaded with political and economic agendas. The only way to see past the agendas is to consume both.
Update: I see the Lubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released [1] since I posted earlier today. :) Kudos to the maintainers!

I forgot to mention in my post above that I had purchased an SSD a while ago and this is what prompted me to consider the available options for updating/changing the OS.

[1] https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/
FTR, The WHO's stance on masks was criticized by a post on the British Medical Journal blog[1], which called it "confusing".

[1] https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/03/11/whos-confusing-guidance...
If that was the reason, why ban instead of just demonetizing those videos, like YouTube already does with tons of other videos that are not "advertiser-friendly"?
We don't have anywhere near enough tests. We also don't know how many tests are actually available or will become available as the administration has repeatedly thrown out incorrect numbers without coming anywhere close to them.
I think tech moved too quickly and in some ways, due to power being left on the table by government, tech became responsible; much like how businesses have taken up the responsibility of American healthcare due to the issue being under-addressed by government.

Now that YouTube is used by people of all ages, Google has to make social and political decisions about what kind of content is appropriate for different ages.
Sure. Conceptually is fine. But I'm pointing out how ridiculous it is to water down CSS/SQL to "Basically just _____". Nothing is hard by that logic.
Radio Influenza: An Artwork by Jordan Baseman
Wait, as in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio? Really? I don't remember that!
Virus researchers cast doubt on theory of coronavirus lab accident
Probably because I've never heard anyone contradict it until just now. If you have some reliable references, I'd be happy to learn from them!
Complex multiparticipant systems don't have goals, other than to perpetuate their own existence. The health care system isn't conscious. It's the collective interaction between a number of constituent organizations: health insurers, private hospitals, doctors, taxpayers, government, patients, employers, etc. Some of them may have individual executives making decisions over part of the system, but if those executives' personal goals are significantly misaligned from "transferring money from the population to their organization" then the organization that pays them would've long since gone under. Hence the observed behavior.

Similar evolutionary dynamics can be observed in all complex systems - life, biomes, religions, community, government, law, capitalism, tech companies, etc. Any system that does not optimize for its own survival will be replaced by systems that do. And the way to align that with the continued benefit of the humans that the system was supposed to benefit is to make systems "default dead", and then hinge their continued existence on them providing the benefit that they were created for. Unfortunately this is easier said than done, because another human evolutionary impulse is the drive to create systems that will continue to exist and benefit the person who created them (though not necessarily stated collaborators) without any additional effort.
It was backported for this Ubuntu release
Cuba's ration book stages comeback due to coronavirus pandemic
Thanks for the link. It's a good read.

That said, science is enamored with significance levels, p-values, etc. Most people just do that because that's what they've learned, and think that's how it should be done. They don't think it comes from Bayesian inference, where you put a very low prior probability of a drug being useful (because the very vast majority of chemicals we could put in our bodies are either harmful, or have harmful side-effects). In this case, the Bayesian prior is that common colds in general become less prevalent during the Summer, and Covid19 is caused by a coronavirus, which is related to viruses causing the common cold. The burden of proof should be lowered many, many times, but I nobody who did these statistical surveys did that, because this is a total no-no in the field.

So, I'll state my conclusion, after reading your link: the infectiousness of Covid19 is more likely than not to decrease in the Summer, based on the studies that were performed. It will not decrease to zero, so that does not contradict your statement that it is transmissible in hot countries.
Criminal conspiracies by corporate execs are not all uncommon in the history of business and presuming that you can't possibly run into one because you personally haven't is taking an unnecessary risk. One thing due diligence is supposed to look for is criminal behavior. This is not because they never find it.