skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a good point, but unfortunately there is no action to be taken here specifically, since it turns out this thread is not really related. So I have nothing to add. I’m already past the deadline for deleting the comment. I’ll leave it to moderators discretion since I can’t do anything.

edit: I am within edit deadline, so I removed the body of the text.
I think Bayesian Optimization is what you're looking for here. There's an internal tool at google ("Vizier") for which a white paper has been published that solves this exact problem. I don't know if there are any public implementations of Vizier but you could probably reverse engineer some of it from the white paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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There are two studies with (potentially) conflicting results.

The first study (by Gilead) claims that drug is effective. This is the story making the rounds at the moment.

Gilead is coincidentally the maker of remdesivir.

The second study (published in The Lancet) says basically that remdesivir is no better than a placebo and in some cases it makes things worse. This study was funded by the Chinese Gov and has a lead author out of Department of Respiratory Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing.

As a result I'm sure the political camps will choose to embrace the message that aligns with their world view.
From what I can tell, the governor in my state (CA) took an appropriate level of actions at roughly the right time (after realizing that the federal government declined to be useful). We appear to be passing through the first big wave of deaths, and cautiously reopening slowly. It's unclear what additional actions would have changed things (in terms of reducing total # of deaths, or any suffering while sick).
I will tip my hat to Scaleway as well. I'm in a couple of the product betas and enjoy having access directly with the engineers via slack.

I happily host my side projects with them without too many issues. There was a recent outage on their block storage product, and the channels of communication were open and transparent in slack -- which is more than I can say for AWS.

I'm now up to 5 small dev servers and running hundreds of thousands of tasks per month across docker, serverless, and linux VMs.

+1 happy customer here.
I solve this problem using a bookmarklet [0] which automagically applies sane css to websites like these.

It’s insane that it’s 2020 and some people still refuse to use CSS haha

[0]: https://oxal.org/projects/sakura/bookmark
Would you be able to discuss this bug with us? We're in Beta right now and are looking to document and squash as many bugs as possible.

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You're making a sweeping assertion with zero evidence to back it up.

One obvious counterpoint to this argument is that this recession was not caused by markets realizing that many publicly listed tech companies actually had no market and no path to profitability.

Also, non-tech companies took on a large number of engineers in the late 90s to address Y2K - many of whom got laid off afterwards. Not an issue here.
> Does the amount of virus exposure affect disease severity? It looks that way.

Besides reducing the transmission rate, social distancing measures could also be reducing the initial viral load of each exposure, leading to milder disease profiles, lowering population hospitalization and fatality rates.
I think the URL is different now? The other blog was on Kong's website and was different.
This reminds me back when people built "supercomputers" by clustering hundreds of Pis.
If you get reinfected, can you expect the same level of severity? That's what I'm wondering. Does having antibodies for a a virus that's very close, but not quite exact result in less severe symptoms and/or a quicker time to showing symptoms? If so, that doesn't necessarily help the spread greatly right now, but it does point towards a time in the future where this virus actually is more like the regular colds and flus we are used to.
Just saw that this is on HN. Happy to answer any questions.
This idea of putting 50 years of any war/ attacks etc is misguided and it’s a wrong use of statistics. A better approach would be to take into account other diseases as you have with its close relative the flu. Others on the list would be other types of diseases. Because all of those dwarfs numbers from wars etc.
I was referring to these statements:

> This paper, just like pretty much any academic paper on the subject, ends with a backtest on historical data, not a real system

> Whenever you see a paper ending with a backtest you can already assume it's BS.
He's probably tweeting MAGA adjacent memes to market the Cybertruck
I'm not arguing that at all. I am recognizing the psychology in the macroeconomic environment and helping you understand why you are on the wrong side of the market today.
I offered an explanation, and then you dismissed it with a hypothetical that you don't even believe.

Not every company is on the Musk plan because there is limited pool of cult investors and his success is hard to recreate.
"...and assume (generously) herd immunity effects at 70% that halt the progression..."

That's not generous, or not generous, it's just a ballpark guess based on the best (conflicting) data we have so far. You're also discounting the fact that with every individual to gain immunity, the transmission rate is reduced. You're also extrapolating from what may be the worst possible phase of this virus. As time passes we develop better treatments and medications, we have more necessary equipment where it needs to be, we have better early detection and so on.

"...you're looking at mortality rate that swamps that of all wars, terrorist attacks, and natural disaster"

Lots of things swamp those numbers. For example, the flu.
Its not clear they compared to any control group?
They are. Procedural macros especially are a function that takes tokens and returns tokens, and have the full language at their disposal.
Facebook have 2 successful chat apps (Whatsapp, Messenger) and 2 successful social networks (Facebook.com, Instagram)
> SPAs are a lot of work to get right

I agree. It's trivial to render a component based on a route change but there are so many little problems and moving pieces after that.

I've been doing SPAs for 5-6 years and for my current project I've moved to SSR + hydration with Svelte.
So they're basically trying to simulate humans? What a world we live in
The issue is that if you cannot take off yourself, you cannot abort a landing.

So if you have to keep it, you're trading a bit of efficiency for a lot of complexity.
There are other papers that argue similar. On April 20, Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics: low population mortality from COVID‐19 in countries south of latitude 35 degrees North supports vitamin D as a factor determining severity

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.15777

It also notes:

> It could be argued that the virus spread later to the Southern Hemisphere and that countries there are simply behind those in the Northern Hemisphere but as time goes by this argument looks increasingly weak.
I love that it uses chunks and streaming to transfer the file. So many of these just try and load the entire file at once so you can’t transfer much.
Also want to point out that TSLA is up about ~6-7% in after-hours trading

Edit: accuracy
Bing was my secret weapon when doing data science contracts that were MVPs or side features.

Take a couple million preselected strings they needed to match to and then run them through Bing, page through the results, and build up the corpus I needed out of something like mechanize / nokogiri / headless browser.[0] Then clean up the data the normal data science way then do whatever mathy stuff I needed to layer on for whatever app they needed. There you go mister client something that has billions of dollars of R&D behind it and cleaned up for your specific use-case. You want something better? Go off and hire a team of Phds and spend a couple years and 50x the money I charged you to get your RoC curves (or whatever) looking 10% or 15% better.

Haven't done this in a couple years due to a startup and then after that randomly finding a client I liked working with so much I haven't needed to take on random jobs again, but I'm sure it would still work.

[0] I had also written custom tools to make this easier / saner. Also inspector gadget + CSS selectors goes a long way too.
Well it makes it the same as the flu. We get a new vaccine every year that is slightly changed to match the dominant strain of the coronavirus.
That's when you do a metastudy I think.
Flip through the many US Government's writing on "Plain Language". For example:

https://www.plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/dash-writin...

Many more: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/resources/articles/
Interesting advice contained!
http://obviousmag.org/archives/uploads/200ways.pdf
I've noticed that companies' stock prices don't always correlate to the performance of their past quarter. Wonder why
> Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.73 billion on average for March 2020, an increase of 11% year-over-year.

So despite all the hate and rumors that less and less people use FB, the numbers tell a different story
Looks nice, but could you explain what's the difference between other remote team workspace than your avatar.

BTW, I never used virtual workspace software. I might not have the problem that you're solving as your potential users
thanks, that was an interesting article.

however, this is not me at all. I have never wandered, am very conscious all the time, and thats why i have not left family, kids, job etc

my favorite ad would the SouthWest 'wanna get away'? I think the failures in life, and how i think others perceive them, and how my family perceives me make me have thoughts (consciously)

but the fact that i am unable to act on it makes me very sad.
I am sorry to disappoint you but no, things are not starting to get dicey in Italy, at least not yet.
I am italian and value that Guardian report as I value one written in "Novella 2000". Those reported are single episodes and UK journalism is trying to build a case out of nothing as happened other times in the past.

P.S: I live in Rome and here people are still singing.
P.P.S: "Novella 2000" is the unquestionable italian king of trash gossip magazines.
> And if people stop paying rent then they stop paying people to build. Construction workers lose their jobs and our housing problems are made worse.

So what? They've already stopped paying people to build. Construction workers have lost their jobs already. While having to keep paying their rent, or mortgage.

This is a temporary disruption, and needs temporary, stop-gap measures to stop the bleeding. Nobody's advocating to stop all rents forever.

> And don't have any illusions about the rich losing here. Most units are owned by small time landlords who will be wiped out by a rent freeze.

1. No, they aren't. Most units are owned by real estate companies.

2. Couple it with a mortgage freeze, and none of them will be wiped out. You can, in fact, kick this can up the hill until it hits the capital markets...
Thank you for everything you said. The reality is more nuanced and depends on the specifics. The "law" being zealously cited here isn't a rule. Nor is the thought an approach is wrong if a big organization failed at it.
browser > reader mode FTW! Really, it's that simple!
Get a sharper knife.
As sad as it is, I hope all those who voted for this are willing to accept the fate bestowed upon us from our 2016 election and the political stonewalling from both parties.
Well, once the glob gets expanded by the shell, the `rm` executable sees something like `-rf` `/home` `/usr` `/etc`, and isn't aware that the argument was `/*`
Thank you, this is helpful.

You could use this "for dev" and "for prod" as a marketing/business opportunity. Distinct bullets points of use cases in "For Dev" and "For Prod" sections. For prod there are also add-on options that would not make sense for dev, and could provide additional value (custom support, pre-built packages for distros, analytics on traffic/usage analytics about the tunneled services, etc)

Good Luck
Weren't both Airbus and Boeing "booked out" with year-long order queues pre-Corona?
Snibbets: Access code snippets contained in a folder of Markdown files
The Electric Recording Co. cuts albums the way they were made decades ago
Immunity != long-term immunity.

You can get temporary immunity that lasts for a year or so and still be able to get reinfected multiple times in your life.
>Putting this into perspective: in roughly a single month, we've already doubled the 7-year average annual number of flu deaths.

I am really surprised how often I have seen "it is just the flu" type rhetoric upvoted on HN. I thought this was an intelligent, technological, scientific, and logical community. I don't see how anyone can square the idea that it is just the flu with evidence like what you posted above. COVID-19 has already accumulated a higher death toll in the US than any flu in over 40 years (I'm sure it is longer, but that is as far back as I can find data on with a quick Google search). That is all with basically the entire country under stay at home orders. There would be hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths if we treated this like the flu.
From what I understand you build some resistance as you are exposed to multiple variants of the same flu virus so it's quite possible this would hold for coronavirus making refection less likely to lead to a severe infection.

Lets also not forget that there is likely to be well studied effective anti-virals at some point like we have for the flu today.
They likely have so much going on they have forgotten about the people they are bringing on board. Reach out with the expectation that you'll get a response along the lines of, 'let me check what's going on' followed by 'due to this unprecedented time we are unfortunately ...'
Interesting note that this guy's choice of PAKE, Cpace, was chosen about a week ago by the CFRG for use in IETF protocols. Cpace is new, but that's a big vote of confidence for it.
>A better alternative is the less sexy but more productive political action obviously with buy in from the power brokers.

This has been tried for many years with little result. People in my social circles have grown fed-up and tired with the U.S. political system, especially those who supported Bernie Sanders in 2016 only to watch entrenched power-brokers deny him the candidacy. Some allege similar interference in 2020 (see podcast with former Bernie staffers):

https://soundcloud.com/seeking-derangements/sd7-the-bernie-p...

>unrest is a medicine that is in most instances worse than the disease.

Millions of increasingly desperate and frustrated Americans may not be able to agree with you. People are never purely rational actors, and beat-down emotional people are among the least rational. The LA Riot's immediate outcome was arguably worse than its proximate cause, but nevertheless people rioted.
I think the grand idea is that with improvements to battery density and weight this will spill into commercial aviation market.

Small electric planes with lower per-hour operating costs are also a game-changer for flight schools and their students. Cheaper pilot licenses should translate into increased supply of qualified labor and lower the costs of starting/operating an airline.
Only tangentially relevant:

I hate the word 'nitpick' (bad experience with small insects - thinking about nits makes me itch), but I don't know any other word for these "small, trivial, but necessary changes." Does anyone have alternative words they use in reviews instead?
6 hours and no replies? Damn. I'm also interested, what would be needed to start a career as a technical writer, after 15 years of programming? Is it even worth it as a career, compared to coding? I like writing and, according to a few people, the result is of good quality; I would also appreciate a change of pace (due to health issues) for a while...
Just letting yourself be less connected helps IMO.

I ditched Netflix and listen to podcasts for example. I tend to not want to sit and do nothing while listening so I clean more or end up going for a walk.
"that causes the virus to mutate much more often than the original strain."

This is not claimed anywhere in the paper you linked to. They show a non-synonymous mutation in RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, and hypothesized that it could impact drug resistance.
Stock price is forward looking, not past.
He made a Google Home Hub but still...its a fun project.
Do notation is jokingly called a programmable semicolon. True, it is often used to model imperative computations with it, so that is the association people have with it. Also people come mostly from imperative backgrounds and look, we can bind something to a value. Finally something I get! And that is fine, let them play around with it like that.

But if they look closer, they find out it is not really imperative. Why is there a difference between let and bind? Why can't I reassign values. And they start to use more exotic and also more interesting monads and boom the imperative feel goes away.

For example with the interesting LogicT[1] monad. Or what about the probability monad[2]? Or the continuation monad[3]? Or the reverse state monad[4]? How imperative are those really? It really depends how you use it. And I think it adds more to the magic, that you think it is just imperative code at first, because suddenly you can create code that behave very different under various monads that represent computation models. I think that is a cool thing about this confusion.

I understand that if you are a professional that needs to get work done, it can be annoying.

[1]https://hackage.haskell.org/package/logict
[2]https://hackage.haskell.org/package/probability
[3]https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.2/docs/Control-M...
[4]https://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/mindfuck-the-rev...
Hanford is a truly interesting place to visit, steeped in Cold War scientific history. However, it’s not all historical, there’s plenty of new science being done there. For instance, the LIGO observatory at Hanford is a shiny new facility working on cutting edge science. I don’t know what if any other work is being done at the site, but it’s far from empty.
You might like "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes" by Stephen King

https://msu.edu/~jdowell/135/King_Everything.html
Some combination of momentum with the market or sector, pricing in future growth, an earnings call that does a good job explaining the bad quarter.
It's not a study, you can't have a control group in a retrospective review, you can only sort data from the data set. You can complain about the small N, though.

> Among ICU subjects, 11 (84.6%) had VDI, vs. 4 (57.1%) of floor subjects. Strikingly, 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had VDI (n=11; Table 2).
Who said it needs to be written well? I'd wager that the kids these days making messes in JavaScript could probably manage to do the same in Python or Ruby. Also, heck, this has been going on long enough that this point that some of them may even be starting to have a bit of grey in their beards and recognize a few of these tradeoffs...
If the news is expected to be bad, but is actually less bad than anticipated, then the stock goes up, even if it's bad. There's been a lot of that lately.
>You started with "these aren't constitutional rights violations by definition" which is specifically what I took issue with, and now moved into explaining why you believe these measures may survive strict scrutiny.

I used the latter as a means of criticizing the former - if these measures were unconstitutional by definition, it would be impossible for them to survive strict scrutiny even in theory. Even AG Barr's memo concedes their legality, while warning about the potential of abuse.

Otherwise I think we're in violent agreement.
Maybe I’m unusual, but use of Uber is overwhelmingly travel related. The only time I use it in my own city is transit to/from my airport, because I can’t easily use public transit.
Can't edit above post anymore, here's a small update.

The Suddeutsche Zeitung has a similar story to FAZ where there have been negotiations between gov and Lufthansa, but that the two parties are far apart and negotiations are not close to an end. Timeframe for finalizing negotiations is said to be before the end of May. SZ seems to have some insider sources too, so now I am really in doubt about the legitimacy of the Business Insider reporting.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/schutzschirm-lufthans...
Maryland's UI site implemented a queue for access, usually 5-to-6-figures long
Is there any evidence multivitamins are harmful (not just that there's no proof they help improve health?)

It's because of stuff like this I take one. Maybe I'm wasting money, but absent a harm I feel it's worth it to hedge my bets.
Ýrúrarí’s Uconventional Take on Face Masks
That may sound cynical but if we agree that software development is a show (bet, entertainment, whatever) for investors in 99%, then microservices are good to keep people excited.
The government definitely could let them wipeout shareholders, and then step in during the bankruptcy process.

In short, the bond holders would become the new shareholders, and the government would be able to drive it to the conclusion that the government wants. This is oversimplified, as reality has much more nuance than this.

That might actually be the best option going forward, as they could clean up a bunch of legacy crap and streamline the firm.

Plus, the government might want multiple companies ( e.g. commercial/defense/space ) instead of one monolith.
To reiterate the third/last sentence of my post, I'm explicitly not down-playing anything--I'm not asserting anything about covid WRT the flu, only cautioning against drawing conclusions based on potentially outdated information.
In what sense do you mean they don't correlate to performance? Overperforming or underperforming expectations will correlate very highly to the way the stock moves on the news
No, not a joke, you seemed to be talking from a general perspective rather than "in the results in this particular PCR test in South Korea". As if you had generally applicable information.

My understanding was there were many different tests being used ... so on what basis are you making that generalised statement.

> When you recover from it, you don't still have it, even if you test positive. //

A plausible explanation for specific tests doesn't make this a universal truth; so presumably you are relying on more information?
Also, there being an explanation for positive tests based on dead virus, doesn't mean all post-infection positive tests are due to dead virus; that's a massive assumption.
Fair enough. I mean if we are talking purely "getting a job as an engineer eventually" then .Net and Java own the market in my area. Though there are plenty of positions in Javascript, Python, Ruby, and even C/C++. I would imagine other areas vary heavily (and the data I have seems to show that). Pick the thing that will get you to your goal, I would say.
As others note it's super complicated with viruses. If you want to track the mutations in real time, check out the Nextstrain project (https://nextstrain.org/). The main person behind it, Trevor Bedford, is also a good person to follow on twitter for these topics and had a brief thread on mutation rate and immunity. (https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1244750382338719745?s=20) TLDR: Though there's some uncertainty, given what we know today, it doesn't appear to be mutating in a way that will substantially affect immunity or morbidity.
“Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully” by Stephen King
The article says Lithium Ion batteries deliver 1/15 the power per pound of traditional aviation fuel. That leaves a lot of room for improvement...
Quarantine only reinforced people's zombie-browsing (FB, IG) habits, since there's nothing else to do.