skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corona virus seems plenty happy to infect people in warmer climates.
... so far.
I don't think the poster intended that to mean the conferences should go ahead in the face of specific risks just because of the money involved. It was a simple statement regarding the economic impact of the virus.
You don’t ensure upvotes. Just luck. Getting your mates to upvote is against the rules, so best to just see what happens.
Well, isn't that the case today with the flu? We always think 'it's just a cold, I'll tough it out', but we could be (and often are) fighting the first symptoms of influenza. Shouldn't we treat it as such, to avoid spreading it to the most at-risk? Influenza is basically as deadly as this new virus, and a much more present danger. But we don't treat it with anywhere near the same degree of caution. Why is that?
If that happened, it'd be analogous to iMessages going open-source. Even if most people pay attention in Autopilot mode, the current system is already somewhat demanding. If it were greater, I think it'd lose its appeal.
I'm not going to disagree with you on this point. I was more just reporting what I saw at this dance studio in Chinatown.
Or you can produce it with electrolysis: https://www.electrive.com/2020/02/28/trillium-orders-1-mw-el...
This. I read maybe half a dozen of the stories and just kept thinking “they don’t have great quality control measures in place”. Like you said four eyes principle.
The fair value of options is heavily dependent on the strike price to begin with (see [0]). The wording you quoted from TFA is strange at best, and it's inaccurate if interpreted literally - an option with a higher strike price is less valuable than an otherwise equivalent option with a lower strike price. If anything, I'd expect later-stage startups to issue options with lower strike prices relative to their current valuation (since they have less remaining growth potential than early-stage startups), which does mean employees at later-stage startups would be more likely to be impacted.

For what it's worth, you can get far more upside exposure from $100k worth of options (the maximum tax-free amount per year under this plan) than you'd get from $100k worth of equity if the options are far out of the money. I'm not familiar with the specifics of how option values are calculated for early-stage startups, but I'd expect that a startup worth $20M can issue options with a strike of $100M and report those options at a fair value very close to $0.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black–Scholes_model#Black–Scho...
Would you be more okay with it if it was Musk talking about Tesla, or Krafcik talking about Waymo?
> I have asthma and one of my biggest fears is suffocating to death

Same here. (Also a fellow portlander)
Can‘t imagine that Munich would ever decide to cancel. I would expect that by then, all containment measures have failed and we have widespread infections all over the place and people will let it run.
Elon Musk: 'The fighter jet era has passed'
I posit a problem you didn’t know you had is a problem the founder knew you had through some wisdom of the crowd or even just luck that their own itch is yours too.
Classic britian: out electric train is 4 years later than the German one, with a tenth the range for double the price.
APL is cheating since all the magic happens in highly pipelined SIMD-heavy loops :p

but if it's really true that other than array languages, no modern FP language can outperform Miranda then that's really depressing.

I was under the impression that GHC attempted to generate decently good code, maybe it's all the little allocations that slow Haskell down or something like that.
> * "And then a miracle happens..." Some aspect of the idea assumes magic technology or dependencies that don't exist.

Except someone else managed to get funding for such a magic idea and you are pretending to work on a solution to it. Self driving cars, AI startups as an example.
Thank you for the answer! Glad to know I was wrong. Appreciate it :)
Maybe they were shipping over the used ones.
Of course, the field is full of doctors with God complexes
Electrication in more rural areas means over head lines. That's so you can use high voltage and not suffer power loss over long distances. Those are hard and expensive to setup and much more likely to break during extreme weather. So they're not really suitable for places with weather or low numbers of trains (as all rail costs are ultimately per passenger).
Smoothly done! I’m going to try your tool out. And thanks!
Not sure how long you've been here, but summers are the worst for cold. Average high temperature in July is significantly lower than that of Alberta Canada. And yeah, wind. The hotter it is in the central valley of California, the colder and windier it gets in SF.

Glad you are enjoying it here though.
There's nothing thinly disguised about musk talking about tesla
Staff allege assault and sexual harassment at Chan-Zuckerberg family office
My girlfriend takes medications that are critical to her and there are a few effective things she done that are legal.

Ups the dosage to twice as much and breaks the meds in half. Usually the price is still the same but now there’s twice as much.

Stops taking the meds on some weekends to create a buffer.

Asks a doctor to try another similar medications and express fear about going off the current med incase the new one doesn’t work. Unintended side effect is that you now have twice as much for that month.

Gradually reduce medication dosage and occasionally stop taking it. If you can live without it you’ll be more independent.
Joe, please don't post like this, regardless of how provoked you feel. We have to ban users that post like this on HN, and I don't want to ban you. I'm going to put it down as going on tilt this time (it happens), but please don't do it again.

Also, while I have you: can you please stop the inflammatory political comments? We don't want those either, and you've been doing it a lot lately.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I just finally read the The Stand a couple months ago. Not the best timing in retrospect. Also had just started playing Pandemic Legacy, but I had to stop when the cover image of the game started looking the same as the front page of the newspaper.
Agree with you 100%. I have a family member that specializes in communicable disease - she's got 25+ years of experience working on the front lines specializing in responding to disease outbreaks like this. She literally writes the policies and training material for professionals in this area. She's absolutely livid at the way the media and politicians are dealing with this. The CDC and WHO are being forced to respond the way they are because of the political and social pressure. They're trying to keep people from panicking but they just get accused of trying to cover up 'the truth' if they try to downplay the media driven frenzy.
> No, not if you "loaded in the past". But if you have recently engaged positively with it, sure.

There was a lady who used YouTube in April 2018 who went to Google and shot three people. I recently engaged positively with YouTube. I also engaged positively with YouTube in April 2018.

Am I linked to a shooter simply because we used and enjoyed the same content on the same website?
Curious, why mono + .exe as a default, instead of .NET Core?
without some kind of genetic engineering

That's basically eugenics, which is largely considered a negative today.
Even this year… 16,000 people have died from the flu so far, and this is a particularly mild year, save for the high amount of childhood deaths.

COVID-19 seems to be almost completely manufactured hysteria based on fuzzy math which includes using very low estimates of the number of infected to artificially increase the fatality rate.
Additionally the flu virus going around this season is a particularly bad one.
s/talking about tesla//
So before the corrections the growth was -0.1 percent for debt levels over 90 percent. After their corrections the growth was 2.2 percent. And then they try to pretend that that doesn’t really change the main conclusion of their paper, which was that high debt levels destroy growth.
Bad idea. I prefer a big gong in the office we ring when someone has merged in 1000 LoC. With a trip to the Bahamas on 100KLoC. Our LoC OKR is being crushed!
Roll20 requires a lot of upfront work to create those integrated character sheets. Many games on roll20 are only partially implemented, and many more are not implemented at all. An untold number could not be implemented on roll20 because they have requirements which were not considered early in the development phase for the system, and therefore are impossible to implement.

It also requires a lot of GM research and development, even for those games that are at least partially supported.

Roll20 also has a marginal audio chat solution. It was so bad that we chose to replace that part with Discord in my current campaign.

There is a background music solution available in roll20, but I was never impressed by it.

In my current game, we found it was better in the long run to convert everything to Discord, because it was better on the collaboration and audio chat functions, which helped the humans communicate with each other better and resulted in an overall better game. We lost the interactive mapping functions and the mostly kinda semi sorta integrated character sheets of roll20, but in the end, those were less important to us than the other collaboration functions of Discord.
If that can make you feel better, Germany also has its own classic clusterfuck :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Brandenburg_Airport
I use both VSCode (in Vim mode) and Vim+Tmux in my work these days.

VSCode is good for working in TypeScript codebases—I couldn't find any way to show helpful and long TS compiler errors in Vim nicely.

However, VSCode’s terminal is semi-broken and sessions do not persist, so for other kinds of work that might involve grepping around, running builds and one-off data migration scripts, etc., Tmux+Vim (with respective shortcuts to unify pane navigation) work perfectly.
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Dude! I live in Norway! Bernie speaks highly of my country all the time! xD

On the other hand, even in the USA, it is in the interest of the state, and not least your many companies, to defend against this epidemic. Without workers, or much less customers, then I'm afraid a lot of companies are going to go bankrupt. Moreover, supply chains may break down, and you might see shortages. The implications are pretty serious, and so testing shouldn't be a matter of who can afford it. With such a disease, it's everyone's business.
I hear you. Too bad a mask cannot possible come with a manual. /s
This is a very silly post, especially for one claiming to be focused on being "science-oriented." Do you not understand incubation periods and exponents?

> what is currently the probability of catching the virus

Yes, that is the sudden cause for concern: we don't know. The incubation period is as long as 2 weeks before showing any symptoms, and there are now cases that have lost any connection to known vectors. To suggest that there isn't at least cause for worry is a bit ridiculous. We don't know how those people got it, we don't know how many other people got it, and we won't know for some time.

Some spread is thought to be possible before any symptoms manifest, which paired with a long incubation period with no symptoms, and the exponential way in which people interact is potential cause for concern...

From the CDC:

> The virus that causes COVID-19 seems to be spreading easily and sustainably in the community (“community spread”) in some affected geographic areas. Community spread means people have been infected with the virus in an area, including some who are not sure how or where they became infected.
Can’t they fine the buyers?
No disrespect but... Karen from Amazon HR has about as much understanding of this as the average redditor (likely less than that) and 1001 reasons other than logical risk assessment and employee health to make this call...
Anybody in the Seattle area taking precautions? I’m wondering what else I can do aside from stock up on food, wash my hands, WFH, and wait this bad boy out.

(Before anyone chimes in about the mortality rate being low and me going overboard, I understand that is generally the case. Unfortunately I have cardiovascular issues, including a recent heart surgery).
This is also really overplayed.

I know many people who work at big tech companies and I've spent some time at a megacorp or two in my day. The on-campus amenities may keep you at work longer (willingly!) but seem pretty orthogonal to how much time people really spend working. Low-amenity Amazon has long hours, High-amenity Google has pretty normal/reasonable hours, high-amenity Facebook has high-ish hours, low-amenity Microsoft has normal/reasonable hours.
That's what the pattern reminded me of too.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_test
You started a wretched flamewar with this comment. We ban accounts that do this. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So why do we cancel so many million-dollars events? It seems we’re voluntarily halting our economies, stopping the production of some goods but also of some code and research, in front of a tide that will come anyway.

Edit: I see the downvotes but that is actually a question, not a suggestion to not shut down them.
as you go up the age--I know it sounds cruel--but a lot of them would be dying anyway.

So 15% of 80+ year people dying of any cause is probably not far off normal dying rates (without the virus). Anyone know the age group stats of % of people dying of any "regular" causes?
Recent link (as of this time): https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/2-new-coron...
Roll-out of newer voting procedures (all vote-by-mail,
fewer locations to return ballots) varies, depending
on what county a voter is registered in: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act/
No.

The problem is that this is a puff piece that cloaks under the guise of being "controversial" and "hard-hitting".

In reality, it is an ad with negligible technical content.
These are great icons for those that don't want to import font awesome or another library! Thank you for making these!
When all of the top epidemiologists, public health officials, and physicians from around the globe are sounding the alarm to take something seriously - it's probably a good idea to take it seriously. If it turns out that Covid-19 is a dud in terms of impact, it will be because of not in spite of the substantial steps people are taking to be prepared.
Bill Gates wrote a fairly cogent op-end explaining why we should be taking this seriously:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762

The short answer is the combination of a high transmission rate and the ability to transmit the virus while asymptomatic means the number of infected people will grow exponentially. The Spanish flu had a transmission rate lower than Covid-19 and ultimately ended up infecting a third of the world's population, and that was before mass air travel was a thing. If Covid-19 reaches anywhere near that level there will be millions of deaths.

It is true that if you are young and healthy the mortality rate is low, but a 15% mortality rate in 80+ year olds and 8% in 70-80 year olds is pretty serious.
Please don't put "Show HN" on reading material. It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) because if it were allowed, everyone would put Show HN on everything.
> I really don't get why people get so worried about this.

The virus has overwhelmed the healthcare system in multiple places (Hubei, Iran). Hospitals operate at or near capacity (empty beds don't make money), and do not have the resources to handle a 4-5x uptick in flu patients.

The mortality rate is strikingly different with and without quality medical care. You can see there is a stark difference in the mortality rate within Hubei (previously 4-5%) vs rest of China (0.4%). The mortality rate in Hubei has gone down in recent weeks (to 2.9%) as China has moved thousands of doctors/medical staff to
the area and built tens of thousands of patient beds.

> Besides, symptoms are mild for most people.

This is an extremely deceptive talking point the media has been promoting. The WHO reports 80+% of cases have been mild or asymptomatic, but 14% have been serious and 5% severe [1]. As the virus is projected to infect billions of people this year, that would lead to tens of millions of serious cases, of which many would die due to lack of medical resources.

I would strongly recommend reading this article by an Australian professor explaining why the Australian medical system will be overwhelmed in the coming pandemic. It applies to most other western countries as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/28/australian-doc...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/world/asia/coronavirus-tr...
I think it's better to just be open about it. I don't like ads so I block them with an ad-blocker. There's nothing wrong with that. I don't have a moral obligation to waste my time watching things that don't interest me or being manipulated in a way that is detrimental to my psychological and material well-being.
Same happens at dancing events... but you can't avoid touching. Usually there's hand sanitizer pretty much everywhere.
You're probably right, though even if one million Chinese are infected (the official number is stell less than 100k), this still means that only about 0.7 per mille of the entire Chinese population are infected. The chance of contracting it even if you're in an outbreak area is still pretty small.
Pro tip: regular flu also causes fever...
The alternative to the arms race is to stop having browser extensions. In a browser like chrome made by an advertising company with 80% of the browser market last I checked, the results could be devastating for the vast majority of internet users. We nerds will always be fine.

Mobile will of course fare far worse unless you root your device, for ios and android. Can't wait for the inevitable day where the unskippable 10 min youtube ad pauses if I look away from the screen...
Not all React applications use Redux.
A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
This is ridiculous! The seasonal flu virus is likely more deadly than COVID-19 [1] maybe we should ban all assemblies permanently then.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
All the headlines seem menacing but then I look at the data and stand back and say WTF.

It already is a dud. Relatively speaking, very few people die from this. 80%+ of confirmed cases are so mild you have to wonder why they were even tested. It seems to not spread as fast as the flu. No children have died.

Basically, it’s been three month and 2,000 people over 70 have died globally.

More people died from the flu LAST WEEK IN THE US ALONE.
I'd take the little minigame ads that gave you a virus over the blatant propaganda that appears today, to be honest.
It's probably the surprise factor they're going for. Some people will just be so startled that the WHO are calling them, they forget to ask questions like "does this make sense?".
Do you mean that the compiler was fast or that the generated programs were fast? Do we have a competitor for Clean?
I'm kinda fascinated at how you came to this understanding - would seem like if the child didn't know and it otherwise remained a secret, that it would be very difficult to determine in the historical record.
Sometimes it breaks a site and needs fine tuning of the settings, but its easy enough, and I've never found an ad or paywall or cookie popup or anything that I couldn't zap away.
That's useful in the specific case of debugging but as a user it would be pretty awful if all my customization disappeared every time I clicked a link from another user.

And you want screen resolution and DPI too for a proper "same look and feel" debugging experience. Which you could always hide in the URL if you want, but you shouldn't act on it by default. Do the same thing with UI settings, if you must. Include them but don't act on them.
Coronavirus in Wikipedia by Language – Visualized
Thank you to everyone replying to me.

For those (like me) not super familiar with Washington:

The two reported cases are in King County and Snohomish County. King County is where Seattle is. Snohomish is the county bordering it to the north.

So this is basically "in and around the Seattle area."

I'm around two hours or so by car from there. We get a lot of weekend vacationer traffic from that general region. This is not comforting news for me.

Edit: as of about twenty minutes ago, I have an email from Washington Department of Health saying in part:

Two people from Washington state treated for COVID-19 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane have been discharged and are now resting at home.
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> (How on earth am I supposed to quote a string like <'".>?)

Well, obviously...
"'\"."

:)
The problem with MBL deficiency which can be a problem among younger children is that it makes you more susceptible to catching respiratory ailments and suffering worse from them. So as this is still in early stages we might not know how it effects children with MBL deficiency, it might be very bad for them.
> A book recommended by YC's Aaron Epstein is The Mom Test[0]. The first 50-60% of the book is dedicated to how to discover problems with end clients/users that are worth tackling.

I can't recommend this book enough. It lists every single mistake I ever made and every lesson I learned in doing so.

The only problem is that I discovered the book after making those mistakes and learning all those lessons.

Of course, following the advice in the book won't guarantee a successful business. But I'm 99% sure that NOT following it is a sure-fire recipe for failure.
The summary of the article says 40,000 extra deaths for the cancers studied, is the 500,000 an extrapolation to other cancers?

I don’t think we can separate out the economic costs of spread prevention in comparison though. If we didn’t try to stem the spread if the virus, health systems would be even more overwhelmed and that would by itself lead to many more deaths from other medical causes, in addition to more deaths from the virus.

I think there clearly is a balance to be struck between measures to slow or stall the spread of the virus and the cost of those measures, and as you point out that cost is not just monetary but can also be measured in lives. The problem is we can’t know for sure where that balance point is.
Small threads from back then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9365150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9134541
"Can" as in "you could possibly do it, yeah", and "shouldn't" as in "really, really, REALLY shouldn't". The Venona cable decrypts were made possible by one-time pad reuse.
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The tutorial sited in that thread [0] explicitly says the opposite though.

[0] https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-effects-tutorial/blob/mas...
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I live in a country with - so far - only two reported cases. And I consider us to be at that point. So, I take basic precautions and have done so for weeks.

Of course, we need never reach the point if everyone would act with just a basic level of thought and consideration.
Sadly and infuriatingly, hardly anyone does.
I think there is just a sub population where ads are truly effective. Look at all the blatant misinformation that gets shared around sites like facebook.

Even before social media and the intrusion of internet use in our lives, people were buying enough crap off of QVC to keep that show on the air (and still are).