skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could the "intruder" have been Joe from sales who came back the night he was laid off using his secondary keycard, which IT hadn't quite gotten around to deactivating yet, and grabbed his old rolodex?
Seems like the larger correlation in deaths is related to societal status - farmers, laborers, and retirees have much higher death rates.
Don't forget the "service charge" (different to a tip, akin to Ticketmaster) I've started seeing on deliveroo in the UK
The business model is strong and is hugely successful in Asia. But the fees will decrease with competitive pressure.
This article makes me angry because it doesn't consider the effects of Cov2 going pandemic. It could become another seasonal flu and kill people like the current flu kills people. It would add to the deaths.

Having just suffered through a flu infection, I absolutely don't want another strain in the wild.

Granted, that is assuming that Cov2 proves as resilient as Influenza. Maybe it will just flounder coming summer and be extinct by next winter. But it's not something we want to find out the hard way. We fight it now and if it turns out weaker than expected that's good!
There’s something off about Iran. According to Wikipedia [0], Spanish Flu killed a much higher percentage in Iran too, in comparison with the rest of the world:

“The World Health Organization estimates that 2–3% of those who were infected died (case-fatality ratio).

[...]

In Iran, the mortality was very high: according to an estimate, between 902,400 and 2,431,000, or 8% to 22% of the total population died.”
— source, Wikipedia, see [0].

I wonder if it’s genetics (immune system reacts differently?), or cultural (habits - kissing on cheeks, handshaking, large religious or non-religious gatherings) or climate, or a mix.

References:
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu

Edit: admittedly, it’s too early to draw conclusions. It’ll take a few weeks to have more realistic numbers.
What hysteria is that exactly? Arent easy to implement countermeasures such as avoiding crowds if you can and coughing in your arm and washing your hands more regularly good things without any downsides?

Calling everyone thinking of how to keep virus-free hysteric is hysteric.
More like aceton? Gummi-bears
This isn't even a strange adapter, I'd be surprised if this didn't exist. Why not get excited about cassette tape to 3.5mm adapters (very real and also very useful)?
He is dangerously well informed.
Just curious, how extreme weather do you get where you live? We have some rough weather at times, but I've never heard of closed anything due to bad weather.
That is a simpler explanation and it's certainly true that firefighters want to see fires prevented. But the point is that they were historically persuaded that flame retardants are safe. They have recently discovered they're not and the new contaminants group is determined to remove them from home products like upholstered furniture.
Instead prevent "injections" by using innerText instead of innerHTML and parameterize SQL queries instead of concatenating strings.

But you always want to sanitize user input! Ever wondered how the average age of your user base was so high, only to discover that some users claim they are several million years old. You don't want to sanitize, you want to sanitYize. People writing their e-mail as street address and vice versa.
My tinfoil hat wonders if he actually died from other causes.
I have the opposite opinion. As long as you know it is the good decision, do it. Even preventing one class contamination could be crucial for preventing the epidemic to spread.

He announced it late in the afternoon but I even consider irresponsible to make that from next week and let the schools open tomorrow if you consider the situation so dangerous as to warrant school closures.
Farmers — likely crappy rural healthcare.

Retirees — obviously age-skewed.
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> higher viral load

What is "higher viral load"? Isn't it binary - you are either infected or not?
Yeah, I would trust an MR tech's tried and tested parameters way before trusting any fancy algorithm or even a new sequence.
This is a site devoted to business as much as technology.

The details of HOW markets work are vital to understand for people doing business in a market. For example, understanding how the revenue is distributed amongst all the participants in a value chain is relevant and highly interesting.

Thus, the article, the upvotes, and the discussion.
US government has been lying to its population for centuries. For example, all of the bioweapons testing on the domestic US population was done without consent and no whistleblower came forth until the programs were declassified. On the world stage, the US may lie more than China, review our last dozen or so manufactured narratives to engage in regime change...mostly propaganda.

We don't seem to use the same ruler to measure the honesty of both countries. Historically speaking, a lot more people end up dead when the US lies. See Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Vietnam, Syria, Korea, a lot of South/Central American countries, etc....
There are examples of enduring competition of all of those bar city streets within a single city, never mind nationally. Even streets aren’t a natural monopoly. If they were you wouldn’t have patchwork metro areas divided up between different municipalities. The benefits of consolidated ownership would be so great that the Bay area would have unified like New York’s boroughs did to form the city of New York. Private towns and streets work fine. For very large examples see Davis in California or Gurgaon in India. The below quoted text is about utilities like water or electricity grids. The US does not have one freight railroad operator even now. If rail was a natural monopoly that would be unavoidable. NYC’s subway system was built by five or six companies. Local monopolies occur in lots of places but they can’t charge profit maximizing prices because of the threat of entry from other firms. The powerlessness of that threat is a necessary part of the definition of natural monopoly. If it doesn’t hold; if the threat of potential entrance of competitors holds down prices you don’t have a natural monopoly.

> The Myth of Natural Monopoly

> In his 1986 book, Direct Utility Competition: The Natural Monopoly Myth, he concludes that in those cities where there is direct competition in the electric utility industries:

> Direct rivalry between two competing firms has existed for very long periods of time — for over 80 years in some cities;
The rival electric utilities compete vigorously through prices and services;
Customers have gained substantial benefits from the competition, compared to cities were there are electric utility monopolies;
Contrary to natural-monopoly theory, costs are actually lower where there are two firms operating;
Contrary to natural-monopoly theory, there is no more excess capacity under competition than under monopoly in the electric utility industry;
The theory of natural monopoly fails on every count: competition exists, price wars are not "serious," there is better consumer service and lower prices with competition, competition persists for very long periods of time, and consumers themselves prefer competition to regulated monopoly; and
Any consumer satisfaction problems caused by dual power lines are considered by consumers to be less significant than the benefits from competition.

https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
Wow, I feel really stupid now. That means I have misunderstood how does it work and have evaded it needlessly till now (not that I do much web app development).
This isn't a political discussion forum.

You are expressing your political opinion about someone you dislike. You are not expressing fact. Just stop.
There are s-expression syntaxes in various lisps. True hard problem is designing an alternate syntax that still gives you access to all the features of your database.
...the GP didn’t ask a yes or no question. :P
Nice work. Simple to use. Well written structure.
Ask HN: Is the stock market (DJIA included) being gamed by FUD in social media?
So I just saw the stock market fell 500 pts. this morning.

I was wondering if traders are hyping each other up to reduce confidence in stocks in order to short them. Does fear-mongering seem the probable proximate cause of this? Is it some sort of culture of paranoid over-reaction or defensive portfolio calculation?
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> ''But at this stage of my life I don't do it for the money,'' said Mr. Adler, who just sold his Upper East Side apartment for $2.5 million. ''I'm really a dilettante, and this is like going to a university and getting paid for it. I love it.''

Love it.
It's the bailiffs decision not the guard dogs.
Obvious response to this rn in the country is "but parents has jobs, especially healthcare workers, the fuck are you thinking"
My web app was hacked today
Incentives make it easier to care as there is a payoff of some form for doing so. Compulsion eliminates choice and has an attached penalty for not complying. It doesn't make it easier to care, it eliminates the choice entirely. They're nothing alike.
> someone from their party

That seems like basically an extension of election then, as you're electing someone who then appoints someone from their party.

Judges in the UK (source of this article) are never part of a party - they're politically neutral.

Judges in the Supreme Court aren't even allowed to vote in normal elections themeselves (they're lords.)
And as long as both are honest and well argued, that's incredibly rich.
Hong Kong budget to hit record deficit of HK$139b with HK$10k relief
What's the NAP? In any case, we rely on the state to uphold those rights, and since we cannot expect the state to work for free, we accept a percentage is needed for the maintenance of those right.
What would explain kids being so immune? ~1000 confined cases under 19 year old while you have 10 000 50-59 year olds?
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No snow days? I weep for your childhood.
And how was Joe "patched"
In large swaths of the US, schools (especially grade school and high school) typically close for some number of days each year due to snow. There can be other weather events too but snow's the common one.
Exactly! If the threat of competition holds prices below the profit maximizing levels for a monopolist you may have a local monopoly but it’s not a natural monopoly.
The author should have priced out a $50 order as well.

Most delivery only makes sense if you're buying a big meal, because the marginal cost of delivering a second pizza is almost zero.

Of course, this is also why tipping by percent is stupid system for delivery.
PostGraphile is free, try it!
Situation: :-/

Answer: Hahaha. :-P
I can't speak for the op, but in Minnesota (in the northern part of the US), there are days in the winter when the temperature gets as low as -30F (~ -35C) with very high winds. This can make for very dangerous travel. Occasionally there are snow storms that make the roads impassable for part of the day.

On these sorts of days, the schools are sometimes closed to keep people off the roads.
Whenever you think about creating a new “regulation”, by which I assume you mean a new law, try to think of what the phrasing for that law would be and then think about the enforcement mechanism, the implications of the law as written, and the possible, even probable complications from the enforcement mechanism.

If you come up with something that isn’t going to unfairly penalize startups and small businesses, you might even have something there, but if you find the exercise difficult, there’s a decent chance all of Congress or your State’s legislature or your country’s Parliament and all of their aides are also going to have trouble coming up with a well written law, let alone one that will survive the political process, and the most likely result is something that entrenches existing businesses, ultimately reducing your possible future choices. Actually the most likely result is a law not even passing, and if it does, getting distorted along the way into something that will likely reduce your possible future choices.

It’s not that lawmakers should never pass laws, a new law should be judicious and necessary, something that can’t be handled by the Courts from the existing body of law, and something that ought to be handled by law rather than some other civic institution. There’s a lot of ideas for laws out there that doesn’t meet any of this criteria, but we still hold onto this idea that “regulations” are magic and will almost always have their intended effects rather than almost never.
Do big brands realize a positive ROI from stadium naming rights?
what css artifact is causing the last "e" in "Rate" to be consistently out of the bold formatting?
This made me recall reading about Douglas Engelbart's project from SRI (whence the computer mouse originated) that used a 5-key chording keyset that had pneumatic actuators for using the keys to output a data stream to the user haptically (from my reading it was unclear if this functionality was ever intended to be put in the mouse as well, which was used in the opposing hand). I wonder if anyone is aware of any existing modern (DIY?) projects to bring such a thing back to life?
Mostly yes. But a lot of these companies are operating at big losses funded by VC money.
“Is it” was the core of the question, which can be yes/no. ;-)
21st century tech companies: "If we fuck up, too bad for you." All the profits, none of the responsibility.
I guess you mean "Making Netflix save bandwidth". You will get the same amount of data to watch the ninja turtles regardless if you use IPFS or not.
There are quite a few ongoing attempts at creating a JS fluent client for GraphQL.

We covered a bunch of them here:

https://hasura.io/blog/fluent-graphql-clients-how-to-write-q...
Anecdatum:

With skipthedishes in my town, all the big chains mark up their prices and send smaller portions than you get in the restaurant itself.

Whereas, the smaller independents seem to charge the same amount, but they blatantly try to get you to switch to ordering yourself by phone and picking up yourself. They advertise deep discounts when you call them directly.

It seems obvious that the smaller places want to use meal delivery as a sales tactic, but then convert as many customers as possible to a direct relationship.

The big chains, on the other hand, seem to have their own major sources of revenue and don’t appear to want any part of taking orders directly.
To be clear, our experience using gcsfuse and friends to do basically the same things was extremely painful and a performance nightmare. The HDF format was designed for a world where seeks are free which makes cloud access very high latency and very low throughput.
I assume he's saying, in a tongue in cheek way, that it's ostensibly "voluntary" (but not really).
Iran said it had no cases up until the moment it announced 4 people had died. Its safe to assume that the scope of the infection in Iran is either far greater than they have been able to track, or far greater than they are willing to admit. I think its less likely that the virus is killing more young people in Iran, and more likely that there are thousands if not tens of thousands of cases in Iran that simply haven't been counted/reported.
Yes I did. ;-P

(Face saved.)
Seems like the author has an "issue" with this group using the adjectives in his title "greedy" and "profane" ?
I thought that ipfs is about high availability, fault tolerance, including some resistance against addressed censorship.

It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?
Compared to South Korea, the company's take is insane. SK's minimum wage is $7+ and it's not unusual for delivery person to make $3000+/month. Customers pay reasonable fee of a few dollars and no tip.
I wouldn't put too much faith in the data coming out of Japan at the moment. People are being told to only report to doctors if they are showing serious symptoms associated with the illness. Japan has a "gaman" (perseverance) culture, so I'm worried a lot of cases are gonna be people sitting at home trying to power through what they think is just the run of the mill flu.
That sounds like a broken datastore API. In a properly designed API, you don't need to escape anything, because the API implementation ensures your data doesn't get read as code.
Exponential means your input is the exponent, eg y=2^x or y=e^x.
With extreme prejudice.
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I gave it a try, to be honest, I feel it too cumbersone, I expected it to use already available mutations not just copying existing types.

What I really want/need is custom logic that run IN the resolvers of already available query/mutations with the request as input and the possibility to either return an error or modify the payload before it hit the database

but I know is still in preview, will check it again when released
I think you're pretty far off the mark here.

>90% of people have healthcare coverage in the U.S.[1]. Those that don't are likely illegal or homeless or in some way don't qualify for medical coverage (I also don't know how prisoners are counted in the data).

Many people I know visit the doctor way more often than they need to or should (I know those who receive it free to purchase it to use employer insurance - like myself).

People will seek medical treatment and in this case will overwhelm the system if they get nervous they have this disease.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26...
That's because food is cheap, wages are low and cities are dense enough to cover by motorbike, PMD (hoverboards etc) or even bicycle.
It's hard to find up to date records filtered by country, but they might have higher count of the ACE2 enzyme which is thought to be an entry point for coronaviruses. Asian populations have much higher count than other populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme_...
A case of tone not carrying in text. They're not being as negative as it might first appear.

I find it a bit obnoxious,personally, but whatever. No tone in text.

I would recommend everyone spend enough time on 4chan's more interesting boards (or similar) that they get inoculated to most text. Makes the internet into a pretty calm place, like how meditating in a storm might train you to be unfazed by smaller distractions.
The point of epidemiological containment is to reduce the R value such that R<1. Once this is done, eventually, inevitably, the epidemic will burn out.

Yes, more people will become infected, yes, some will die.

But the level of person-to-person transmission will have fallen below the level necessary for the epidemic to sustain itself, and it will slowly decline and fade out.

Perfect containment, 100% effective vaccines, 100% vaccination rates, (neither of which apply here: there is not yet a vaccine), 100% travel and contact curtailment, 100% sanitation, 100% filtration, are not required. Only sufficiently effective methods to reduce transmission.

Of which, strong, effective, and widespread gathering and travel restrictions within or from epidemic zones are a very sensible tool.
> the vaccine temporarily lowers your immune system

Medical science seems to disagree with you.

Edit: And HN disagrees with me. Have we become Reddit? On second thought, don't answer that. Bro science has a long tradition on HN just like anywhere else.
> There’s something off about Iran.

Iran is a theocratic authoritarian regime under extreme international sanctions. Might have something to do with that. Iran also only has 0.2 hospital beds per 1k people.
Repository, https://github.com/tannerlinsley/react-query
> which means that in the real world you have to learn and deal with all of it.

This is not what happens in the real world though.

While I agree that you have to deal with whatever is in your codebase at a given point, it also doesn't imply that you have to use everything and that everything can be useful for your project.

As standards keep coming and features get added, it's still increasingly prevalent to see guidelines and awareness around the topic of choosing your own subset of C++ to work with.

The main drawback is mostly that it incurs a cost in terms of brain power to discipline yourself to keep your work within a restricted set of language and standard library features.

It's extremely rare (and even debatable) whether a single person masters all the aspects and features of C++ (and if there's one, it's probably Alexandrescu).
Hey Samuel, Mustafa (other co-founder) here.

> ...self-hosted option.

Yes. We can run the platform (data and code) in your AWS account. Let me know if you would like to talk. (We are based in Germany)

> low-code

With DETA you only write business logic.

> auto-gen form

We had a POC but weren't happy with it – we'll be using a different approach and hopefully launch in a few weeks.

Drop me a line and I'm sure we can help: mustafa ät deta.sh
Thank you!

I am using Amazon's Product Advertising API to retrieve prices from Amazon. There are a few hoops to jump through in order to get access, but it's the most legitimate means of acquiring their pricing data, so that's why I took that route.

I have not done much keyword research at this time, but I definitely should. I get very little traffic currently -- but I do find the website useful for myself, so that's enough to keep it going!
I was just about to ask HN to come up with some communication devices using only ancient technology.

Although your rubber duck system would require less manpower than a system of signal fires, it would be MUCH slower, and probably even slower than the chains of horse riders that delivered messages Pony Express-style across the Roman Empire. In an emergency, a message could be transferred over 100 miles a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursus_publicus
I havent seen the first social worker proclaiming to everybody that she is not in for the money.
> There's html in your text input? - error out

How do you detect HTML? Less-than/greater-than signs? Users are now banned from entering Less-than/greater-than signs?
Sad to see no option for having both nvme drive and 10GbE at the same time.
The US IRS can and will jail you if you do lie, so that might not be the best analogy.
One goal is to slow the infection rate, so hospitals are not overburdened. Never too late to do that.
The only way to patch.
I can't as not out there myself, equally you need to factor in cost of living as 40k a year in a city that costs 20k a year to live is worse of than 27k a year in a city that costs 5k to live. Then taxes..... many factors.

Equally, front end and marketing are not my area's.

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/estonia-front-end-devel... may be of some help for you though.
It's good that they're on top of it. Better to be too cautious than make 2020 another list of pandemics wikipedia entry rounded to hundreds of thousands of dead. This one is especially bad because the carriers are asymptomatic while spreading it, and then suddenly most older men are being admitted to the hospital fighting for their lives.
"resistance against addressed censorship" does not work at all when all your traffic is made public.

People can be prosecuted or otherwise harassed for sharing contents on a P2P system.

> It never looked like an anonymizing tool to me; did anybody advertise it as such?

You are confusing "anonymizing" with "leaking a lot of information to the whole world".

They constantly "forget" to tell people about the huge security impact.
I have one and use it. Want to add an SSD to your Apple ][? Boom.

https://www.reactivemicro.com/product/reactivemicro-drivetur...
Only a few months ago, after over 10 years of poking screwdrivers at FP headers, it finally occurred to me that, since it's all standard sizing, I could just cut one of the 100s of dupont jumper cables I have lying around the EE lab and solder a push button to it.
It took a whole 3 minutes of work (including waiting for the iron to heat up) and I have no idea why it never occurred to me before...
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