skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've linked at the bottom a great video from minute earth with some food for thought on this that I recommend watching, I found it really helpful/interesting.

R0 is not necessarily inherent to the virus (although I think australia might use a more restrictive definition that makes it more inherint to the virus), it's based on our behavior to a large extent. MinuteEarth has a great video (i'll link it below) that discusses how Cholera, for example, stayed very severe and yet had a high R0 because it spread through sewage and the sanitation system was not so great, so it didn't matter whether people stayed home since their fecal matter ended up in drinking water anyway. But after sanitation systems improved, cholera's R0 dropped and the less severe mutation meaning higher r0 thing kicked in since you needed more human interaction to get it to spread again.

So with coronavirus, if it mutates to become more severe, maybe it'll mutate back to a SARS like form where it's super lethal which also means it doesn't spread really far. Both SARS and ebola are on that end of the spectrum. But let's say people get overconfident and think they've beat it and don't stay home in the earlier days of the infection when they're not bedridden yet, you could still get a lot of spread. Or, let's say it becomes more severe, but also gains the ability to survive on surfaces for weeks and become airborne when dislodged. Now, your santation procedure for your instacart delivery is no longer enough and the virus could keep spreading through a lockdown. And then there are diseases like HIV, which are ultimately incredibly severe, but have a latency period that allows for infection to keep occuring even with a mechanism of transmission that is a lot more effortful than accidentally coughing near someone. As you mentioned, the asymptomatic spread aspect has echos of htis, where even though the mutation could be severe, it might not have the chilling effect on transmission you'd expect because of asymptomatic and presymptomatic spreaders.

So long story short, I don't know how likely it is that a more lethal mutation appears, but I do think you're right in intuiting that it is possible. Perhaps there are ways to estimate a probability by running simulations on the genome of the most common types of mutations to see what sort of effects we can anticipate. SARS-COV-2 is very closely related to SARS-COV after all, it's just a slightly different straing, even though the SARS outbreak and the COVID outbreaks look so different. I don't think it's impossible that COVID could mutate to have SARS' severity while maintaining COVID's presymptomatic shedding and asymptomatic spread. Maybe as we learn more about it we'll discover that both come from the same mutation and it's a fundamental tradeoff, but I think it's possible that that's not the case.

A disease's guide to world domination from minuteearth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4d9qEKmHE
No, I mean good-looking people tend to care a LOT more about their appearance than regular people. Not only their appearance but the appearance of their partners. Being good looking is part of their identity and has shaped their worldview.

Same reason smart people value intelligence a lot, rich people value money, and so on and so forth.
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OK, he has to be doing this on purpose to troll us all. You just can't make this stuff up. He even managed to outdo Trump's "jokes" about disinfectant, that's simply awesome.
Fate is a cruel mistress. Republicans are facing a decision between implementing leftist basic income policies or being decimated at the polls. They're trying to fight it by astroturfing resistance to wildly popular public health measures, but it's a bad look for them to be advocating the thing they smeared universal health care for in 2008: death panels.
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Taking 25 years to.build this facility is milking it on an almost astronomical scale. There is no incentive to get anywhere, which is apparently why executives there are being charged criminally. Hand waving about "many government contractors" is bull. This is a shitshow. I love the Columbia River Valley.
A military contactor? Not sure if you are aware but the money goes from corruption to private individual, not the other way around.
Making a RISC-V OS using Rust
One that has come in handy a few times: When a machine is so starved for resources that it can't even allocate a pts for you, but you want to run some forensics, use `-T`:

$ ssh -T user@host <command>

Even if you're plumb out of file descriptors for example, you can run...

$ ssh -T user@host lsof

...or whatever, and get your command output dumped to the screen, even if you don't get the niceties of a terminal.
We should throw Galois in there as well.
Thanks for your comments.

I know the documentation and examples is still a bit raw, will be working on it.

When doing the implementation, I was trying to mimic the original API(https://github.com/bhatiasiddharth/MIDAS) that was done in the C++ first.

This was in case someone wants to use the exact same API(for familiarity) in Go, they could. Posted this here to show that there is now a Go implementation of it. :)

After this, I'll be implementing a fit/predict api that mimics SKLearn's API and showing more examples on how to use it in a streaming fashion.
Thanks. Does bufferedAmount work better than it does on WebSockets[0], because I haven't had much luck with that.

[0]: https://github.com/websockets/ws/issues/492
Your payoffs are not zero sum.

> In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant's gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants.
I'm honestly surprised that Elon hasn't made some sort of tweet intimating that "Bioweapon Defense Mode" on Teslas may filter out covid-19.
It looks like this is currently in a private alpha, but the code is all open source. [1]

When Apple introduced something similar, I really wished that someone else would provide something similar. I'm glad to see Mozilla is gearing up to offer this. My main worry, though, is longevity. What happens when you sign up using a generated email address, and then Mozilla decides to shutter the service? You'd likely lose access to that email, and wouldn't be able to log into your accounts anymore. Thankfully Mozilla respects users enough that they'd probably offer ample notice so that you could change your email address.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/fx-private-relay
and then you have a function like:
`def printGreeting(lastName, firstName)`

and you call it like
`printGreeting(firstName, lastName)`

and whoops, the compiler won't tell you you did something wrong. Maybe your editor will, if it shows handy little param name stuff next to the args in your call, but a github PR won't.

So someone ordering the arguments in a method in a non-intuitive way makes your variable name much less useful once you have to pass it around.

Sure, this is a trivial example ("why did you order the params in such a dumb order!?!?") but that's what is meant by variables not knowing much about what they are. It's a String. That doesn't tell us much, and doesn't tell the compiler or interpreter much about which functions expect it in what places.
When people talked about Trump's actions being part of a grand 4D chess scheme, it's hard to believe, but EM may be a different story...we'll have to see
It would be too obvious. If you can't get to the site you know it's blocked. If it's just super slow all the time, you won't know why and may just get frustrated and leave.
I guess 99.9% of people don't notice.
I'm glad you quit. Would be interested to hear your experience.

And yeah, I think for the most part people learn to find some kind of joy or at least entertainment in what they do for work. Or they learn to be miserable sustainably.
Sneezing and coughing, sure, but lots of folks don't have easy access to clean water, a problem that is likely to exacerbate over the next few decades. Excessive hand washing among the people who do isn't gonna help a lot particularly in drought-prone areas.

I don't think it is a bad idea to keep looking for ways to prevent these outbreaks as close to whatever their origin is as possible.

Note that in some very poor countries (India comes to mind) it's not at all clear that more total lives are saved via lockdowns since they will result in famine and all sorts of other terrible consequences.

In Africa folks are worried about a huge spike in malaria that could dwarf the projected CoVid impact in certain populations.

Every country for themselves and the current lockdown strategies are what we are gonna get, and I'm not angry about it since the action-reaction-logic of all of this is pretty straightforward, but it's not at all quite clear to me that it leads to the fewest number of human casualties vs just some local minima.
This is a tragedy - but once again, outline.com saves the say.

It isnt the virus's fault that western nations dismantled their means to address this crisis before the pandemic hit.

Donate to your local Food Bank. Help out at Food Not Bombs near you. Feed people who need help, ya people. And help your community meet their needs!!! Even while Social Distancing.

As for student access - this absolutely shows that access to information and the internet has become a basic human right. Spectrum is offering free wifi to all in their service areas during the pandemic, after several hyper-local cooperative competitors did the same. Push for this trend to continue!

Countries where such access is either assured or alternatives for education are offered do exist. And they have better outcomes.

Notice how these schools which issued student-devices close much of this gap. This should be the case more often in our increasingly digital world anyway - to combat the need for impoverished families to pay for entire appliances to catch up.

As for the self-starter culture - thats what we want anyway. Hover-mommies aside, do your schoolwork before playing any games, kids. If it is too hard? Maybe other symptoms of ADHD already show themselves. This is one area where DRM might even be ethical for a change.

As for the parents - too often, theyre looking for something to do. Or parallel remote-working alongside your child becomes an option. Or do projects, like spring cleaning or mask-making.

Or, leaving the child unattended to work essential job becomes a daily hazard. This is where friends, neighbors, COMMUNITIES become essential for success. If you have a food not bombs branch near you, you'll likely find someone through the grapevine there willing to help. Helpers like this always want your needs met.

With student-issued devices, free/universal internet access, and effective decentralized food assistance? Proper child-supervision might be assured? The biggest challenge remaining is domestic violence - a scourge that has been hard to fight on its own since before we considered it a problem.
> Meanwhile Tesla and SpaceX have continued to succeed beyond expectations for over a decade now.

I think people underestimate how essential Gwynne Shotwell is to SpaceX.
One possible method: Write a script to request the site continuously and see if it fails to respond with any regularity. From there you can start dialing it in and determine what the rate limit actually is. A rate limit should be consistently reproducible unless it's implemented in a clever way.
> So the issue I'm referring to is this, which has been open since 2017

I probably don't appreciate the complexity of the issue, but I would say environment variables are not React's concern; it’s up to you how to architect your code. If you want runtime environment variables, then either add them to the html that React will render into, so that the javascript code can read these variables in before rendering, or have an api endpoint that your app will query before or during rendering and will get all the relevant config information from it.

> but I think next.js and nuxt.js does

Probably because they server-side-render. And even if your app renders on the client side; even if you don't use next, nuxt or whatever, there is no-one stopping you from dynamically serving the html skeleton with the relevant variables in it.

But then, it all probably has been mentioned in that issue. I wonder why it wouldn't be a good solution.
That's because he says lots of down to earth things except his philosophical warrants for these things are insanely conservative
In my opinion if you have a big platform and are an influential person, you owe it to the people who follow you to not tweet out stupid shit you don’t know anything about.

Elon should honestly delete his twitter but it’s clear he loves the attention of being a celebrity who can make headlines.
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Americans hate "big words", lets not forget
I read "But he does it, too" as "Everything you have said is perfectly accurate and I have no defense against your accusations."

> 99% of all humans are plain old every day decent individuals

Sorry. When you can build an entire political movement out of "But he's not hurting the right people", your statement is prima facie false.

What has become clear is that a very significant chunk of the US citizenry are very much not "decent".
Muggle is a term from Harry Potter meaning non-wizard.
Yes. Separate as much as possible, don't share a bathroom at all.
Over 500 Karma points? Dgraph Labs is hiring a Community Engineer 160-200K USD
my answer is: read and write open source documentation

I disagree. You need very little language skill to read technical docs if you're familiar with the topic, and only slightly more to write them yourself.
Is it so much to ask for him to tweet responsibly so we can enjoy the fun future stuff without all the bullshit?
Yes I agree, flatten the curve. Then what? We social distance for a year or two? The world economy goes to hell? Can’t buy a pork chop? All because boomers stuck their parents in nursing homes?

This is bullshit.
I want taking a side here, just noting a tradeoff inherent to the choice in programming paradigm. When you make effective abstractions, you make your program bendy in all the right places. It's easy to add new objects where you will need them, and it's easy to extend behavior in places you need to do that.

Of course, if you guess wrong, you're totally fucked. Well, either that, or you are smart and see it coming in time to rewrite the code that put the complexity in the wrong place.

Hope that helps with the context. I'm not some anti-OOP zealot, and those do exist.
Not to spoil your fine analogy, but as you probably know forestry services and farmers have engaged in controlled burns[1] for quite some time as part of sound wildlife conservation methods.

In keeping with your analogy, what may be wrong with current economic governance is the lack of letting a recession run its course and, for example, letting big banks who gambled too much fail instead of propping them up.

The revolving door between, say, Goldman Sachs and the Dept of Treasury has something to do with this, I think.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
My boss and I spent two weeks obsessively building a Covid-19 data hub
Is it possible that these proxies you mention could weed out compounds incorrectly? For example, if we have a liver proxy that fails on drug A, is it possible that drug A will work fine in the human body provided that there’s a lot of other processes that could contribute to the liver?
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I want to read a book (or a few!) full of these dynamics of wealth - what it means to be paper wealthy, what leveraging that can do for your lifestyle, and why people live in fear of the margin call. Can I please ask you for any recommendations?
Whoa, this is cool. Been here an embarrassing number of times ...
Port tunneling, X forwarding, keys + agents, sshuttle and byobu all make SSH a good solution for getting stuff done.
its not on 3 or Y
Antibody tests also help estimate how many people have been exposed to sar-cov-2, which helps in making more accurate epidemiological models...
Is this in the wasm version?
...why is 500 karma points on HN a nice-to-have? Does the job require downvoting other users?
Why would you want to save a dying language? Just curious. If the answer is in the interview you linked to, could you give a tldr?
Any of them? Including groups that want to oppress others?
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Just stop. You said it yourself, just re-google. Live goes on without bookmarks.
Of course. IPv6 is much more widely deployed to home networks, whereas businesses tend to go out of their way to disable it. So when people are at home all over the world, whether that's the Christmas period or this present crisis, it bumps up IPv6 numbers slightly.
Double the official NY COVID deaths figure because excess deaths at home weren't counted.
With the way the Chrome Web Store has been behaving recently, I'm also planning on moving away from publicly distributing my extensions on the Chrome Web Store.

I've been impressed with how quickly the Mozilla Add-On site approves extensions. I also like how it sends me an e-mail when my extension is approved and published. But the best part of the Mozilla Add-On site is that users can install old versions of your extension.

I've already dropped Safari support for my extensions. The fact that you have to pay the Apple developer tax to package your free web extension is bad enough, but now you need to use xcode which means you need to buy a Mac.

With the upcoming Manifest v3 changes, it's time to switch to using Firefox and stop enabling Google.
> dedicating the next 20 years of your own life (and the major part of your income)

Dedicating time and money does not make something unselfish, so this can't really be used as justification to show that having a child is not selfish.

We can start with a lower bar -- having children is definitely not selfless, right? Most people have children to give their life purpose and meaning, or because they believe they will be good parents and want to see if they can raise a child that will find success in the world. So at the very least, I think we can agree that a parent gains something by virtue of having a child, and they have a child so that they can benefit in this way. Ergo, having a child is not selfless, we can at least agree on that, right?

Next we can move onto showing why it is actually quite selfish. Let's just look up the word "selfish" to find some footing:

> (of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.

So if I can demonstrate that the parents lacks consideration for others when having a child, that should sufficiently demonstrate that the parents are acting selfishly, yes?

So who benefits (other than the parents) from the child being born? I can only think of one party you may suggest -- the child. But the child has not been born yet, so how can the parent be acting out of consideration for their unborn child? Can you act in the interest of something that does not exist?

This is where we get into the matter of opinion. Can an unborn child have desires?

If no, then the parent is definitely acting selfishly. The only one who desires the child be born is the parent, so this is by definition selfish.

If yes, then you may say that the child desires to be born, and the parent is acting out of consideration for this desire. But if you are in this camp, you must also admit there is a chance the child desires not to be born, yes? And if this is the case, then by bringing this child into the world without first consulting their desires, I would argue the parent is acting selfishly. They made an assumption about their child's desires, and acted without confirming them -- giving their child no say in the matter. This sounds quite selfish to me.

So I think this conclusively demonstrates that having a child is indeed selfish, would you contest this? The only reasonable way to contest this argument, in my opinion of course, is by taking the religious stance and somehow "speaking" to your unborn child (through god?) to first determine if they want to be born. This is impossible to reproduce though, so it's impossible to say if anyone has ever done this, and therefore I won't bother addressing it.

Of course, I'm not saying having children is "repulsive," but it's definitely selfish.
I saw videos from China with trucks driving down city streets spraying a sort of fog after they shut the city down. It was reminiscent of US efforts fogging DDT for mosquitoes back in the day.

I had to wonder if that is even effective against a virus...
The canonical example are the wild changes to the CPI buckets:

https://howmuch.net/articles/price-changes-in-usa-in-past-20...
There is an upcoming contest to write an AI for an (American) football based board game, Bloodbowl. The players have different stats as you describe, and the teams can be asymmetrical (though for the competition, both teams select 11 players from a fixed 12 player roster, so not too asymmetrical).

Here is a link to the competition: https://njustesen.github.io/ffai/bot-bowl-ii

(As an aside, just wanted to mention that the original article is actually about soccer, rather American Football. The comment I'm replying to is certainly about American football, so I feel my comment here is fair.)
Exactly! It's more difficult (for most) to become a teacher than it is to become a parent and I think we can agree the average teacher is better at their job then the average parent.

While homeschooling can work wonderfully in some places, it is exceedingly irresponsible to advocate for unregulated homeschooling while knowing the terrible home life some children have.
In these threads it feels like you are not reading what they are saying, or at least reading it in the least charitable way.

Defensive driving simply means to not assume drivers are going to take an action until they give evidence of it.

If a driver is going to stop at an intersection, they will slow down before they get to the intersection. A defensive driver approaching a crossing with other cars approaching will look for evidence that the other cars are slowing down before assuming that they will stop.

If a car is stopped at a pedestrian crossing and a defensive pedestrian is looking to cross, they will look for evidence the car is about to accelerate into the crossing. They don't assume the car will suddenly accelerate for no reason, because there is no evidence that they would! Evidence that they may suddenly accelerate includes things like looking down at their phone, or not looking at pedestrians. If the defensive pedestrian sees that evidence they approach the crossing with caution, ready to take evasive action or not enter the crossing if needed.

Right-of-way tells everyone who has the right of way, it makes the expected behaviour clear. Assuming that everyone else will do what you expect them to do is extremely dangerous, as even without malice or carelessness it's very easy for each invloved party to have different assumptions about the expected bahviour.

So, to be defensive it's important to

- have a well informed understanding of what you think should happen

- look for evidence that all parties are acting in accordance with what you think should happen

- be prepared to change your actions if any party does not act in accordance with what you think should happen
No, we stay away from negative actions.

Just indicates that the engineer is naturally active on online platforms. Which is exactly what the job needs.
Idk but my impression is SARS-CoV-2 was named that way because it causes a SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, though it’s not the SARS. “SARS” include SARS-CoV SARS and other “SARSs” like COVID-19.

Probably the SARS was too generic of a name... in complete hindsight, SARS should have been named as “SARS COVID-02” and MERS as “SARS COVID-12” or something like that.