skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "standard" test so far is to isolate the RNA of the virus, use that RNA to form DNA, then replicate the DNA using PCR to check it against example serums or antibodies.

There are several problems with this, not the least of which is the time involved with testing. PCR replication needs thermal cycling, which takes some time, and it seems like the CDC is having some issues providing reagents (read: the sample to compare against) that give a clear result.

So, FDA go-ahead would let the various organizations develop their own tests, which would be a good thing. What's really needed is a definitive way to test someone and get results within an hour or so, the faster the better.

Barring that, even a quick test that gives a clear negative result would be good - either no, the virus is not present or maybe it is. In the case of the latter, a slow follow-up could be done.
The "Do not pass Go" mechanic effectively means some players skip income and it's not uniform inflation.

Also players selectively mortgaging properties will destroy overall wealth in the game.
It's so helpful to see this all written down - nothing quite like this out there at all
You can extract components: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components/

And you can store and access components as code snippets within your code editor (e.g. VSCode), that's how I'd store the bigger Tailwind UI components. When I need a component then I just use a shortcut and pick from a component menu.
> And surely that kind of behavior would be noticed by others and result in serious social damage, no?

Considering the official explanation of it is "avoid providing fuel to a raging fire", and those weren't the only things they were breaking, I'm not sure how an outsider would be expected to notice.
The article you linked is an example of why offering access to employees who aren’t properly vetted, don’t have security clearances is a bad idea. Further, a proper exceptional access system, in my view, will aim to reduce abuses as described in the article you’ve linked, perhaps even using a design that offers technologically enforced checks and balances against abuses.
hmm... what about MU, AMD, BYND, SHOP. you’re not paying attention.

imho, robinhood gets the most out of it. the number if issues this reddit sub has found with RH is mind-boggling
People who want to trash this study with the same old "Have they thought of $obvious_counterargument?" should first browse through their GitHub repo: https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-wheres-my-email

I did and I have gone through the mbox files and I cannot find anything that would explain the curious difference. That is not to say that there isn't a rational explanation, the probably is, but please give the study authors some credit. They aren't dumb.
I have a theory that WSB are so bad at trading that they actually do manipulate stocks due to messing up every automated trading platform that assumes there'd be some logic to the trades being made.

Someone's just bought a $1000 call option on a stock that's currently $400? Automated trading systems will probably raise alerts on that stock since someone must know something for that to happen.

This appeared to happen when WSB were meme-ing on TSLA and a whole bunch of them bought $1000 call options when it was $400. Shortly afterwards TSLA skyrocketed in value.
I've always understood that severity was supposed to be objective and defined based on the needs of the organization/project.

For example:
Crashing bugs and data loss are highest severity.
UI bugs that prevent the user from doing something are medium severity.
UI bugs that don't match the design are the lowest severity.

This should obviously change for Boeing where software bugs have deadly consequences.

When the bugs are filed, they're assigned a priority based on the set criteria. When the bugs are triaged, they're prioritized based on the needs of the organization/project. A typo doesn't actually make the software work less, but it's not something most organizations are okay to ship with.

I don't agree that severity is different if you aren't affected by it. A design flaw in a bridge that could lead to collapse isn't low severity just because I may never cross it.
New rules proposed by the FAA are a threat to drone pilots
Only way to find that out is through precedent.
I'm having trouble understanding why people would say mathematical functions are bad.

Because the vast majority of people don't know that encryption is mathematical formulas. They only know what they see from Hollywood, which is that it's a thing that bad guys use.
So there is a "techlash" against privacy abuse now, and DOJ thinks it's a good idea to push even further privacy breach by fighting encryption? How stupid is that?

Hopefully they'll get even a stronger push back.
The "airborne" transmission in that link is what I believe is called "aerosol transmission", not airborne. Because it relies on liquid droplets in the air, and not actually able to transmit on something like dist in the air.
An early 2019 review paper[0] by Chinese authors has this to say in its abstract:

During the past two decades, three zoonotic coronaviruses have been identified as the cause of large-scale disease outbreaks–Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and Swine Acute Diarrhea Syndrome (SADS). SARS and MERS emerged in 2003 and 2012, respectively, and caused a worldwide pandemic that claimed thousands of human lives, while SADS struck the swine industry in 2017. They have common characteristics, such as they are all highly pathogenic to humans or livestock, their agents originated from bats, and two of them originated in China. Thus, it is highly likely that future SARS- or MERS-like coronavirus outbreaks will originate from bats, and there is an increased probability that this will occur in China. Therefore, the investigation of bat coronaviruses becomes an urgent issue for the detection of early warning signs, which in turn minimizes the impact of such future outbreaks in China. The purpose of the review is to summarize the current knowledge on viral diversity, reservoir hosts, and the geographical distributions of bat coronaviruses in China, and eventually we aim to predict virus hotspots and their cross-species transmission potential.

Is this prescient or purely coincidental or something else?

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/11/3/210/htm
Would you do it though?
It’s odd (read: motivated by self-interest) that he didn’t make any attempt to establish the failure rate of these startups and the distribution of outcomes for employees.

Further, he didn’t even argue for a referendum on equity comp. He’s blatantly peddling the same broken model of “sell them your fugazzi so they can’t tell their talent is being plundered for (founder/investor) economic gain”. It’s downright insulting. I’d like to read Altman’s thoughts on making the cap table transparent to startup employees. I’m sure it’d be a riot.

So why is Altman saying any of this? Because he relies on the portfolio model. He doesn’t care if 99 companies fail and the employees within them end up with squat as long as the 100th is an earth-shattering home run. And he needs the world to start taking more massive risks on YC’s behalf, so they can keep making piles of bank. This is the incentive structure dictating EVERY single VC’s calculus. No one should ever listen to them without understanding this. Incentives. Incentives. Incentives.

The “mission” doesn’t matter to a rational person, for a very simple reason: the opportunity cost is the significant amount of wealth (reliably made somewhere like Google) that will afford you the cushion to do whatever you want later in life.

These guys need to get real. The highest EV play is to first get wealthy and THEN do what you want. And it doesn’t even have to take that long (most competent engineers could be there by age 35-40).

Don’t fall for their “mission” nonsense. It’s a monstrous lie designed to keep funneling tremendous amounts of money to the people at the top.
Do not overstock on masks or other supplies. Masks especially should be available to the sick. It's ironic that (I'm sure) someone out there will stock up on 10,000 masks and it will cause them to be in even greater danger because the sick people around them will have fewer masks.

The CDC recommends that sick people wear masks to keep droplets in, and that people who directly interact with sick people wear masks while interacting with the sick person (to stop projectile droplets I presume). The CDC does not recommend masks be worn generally.

Masks help remind you not to touch your face, but you can just put tape on your fingers or something for the same effect (this is just my personal idea).

(This is more of a PSA than a direct reply to your comment.)
> itself is represented by a host and port and your application's data could be stored there

All databases are represented by a host and a port. I think you mean CouchDB offers a HTTP-based API that allows queries to be run without requiring a database-specific library and that because it's HTTP, it can be accessed via a browser.
The hardware designs are open source, but we utilize off-the-shelf hardware including cellular modems which inherently are closed source at their core. I wish there was an open source modem design on the market!
An N95 isn't going to survive an autoclave...
Hi. Nice app, but what's the point of the Cookie alert?

Is this for GDPR? If so, then it's non-compliant since GDPR requires active consent (as in clicking on an "Accept" button) before storing personal information in cookies. I have no idea if other laws (California, etc) are different though...
Being lazy is the point of Electron.
There's already a vehicle to invest on "buzz" actually.

The BUZZ ETF is traded and invests based on how often particular stocks get mentioned in social media and new reporting. I'm sure they're monitoring r/WSB as well.

http://buzzindexes.com/

Disclosure, do not hold or have any affiliation with Buzz Index products. Just heard about it before.
Apple tells moviemakers that villains can’t use iPhones
I've already been preparing as a hobby for the last 3 years, not specifically for coronavirus, but here's how I'm prepared for it:

- I work remotely, so I can hunker down at home and have my income totally unaffected.

- I've close to 6 months worth of food, and I've been buying more in the last month as the news continues. I can give some tips on what I think is good inexpensive food to get in case anyone is interested.

- I'm fasting regularly, which will realistically extend my food supply. Most people calculate their food supply by 3 meals a day plus snacks, but you can go days without eating. Right now I'm closing in on 72 hours without food. I'm perfectly fine. You get used to it. The key is getting your electrolytes and getting out of your sugar addiction.

- I have lots of water stored up, although that's not going to be much of a problem with COVID-19. Several filters meant to remove viruses, though I have a distiller so I would probably just use that if I was really that paranoid about my water, which I probably won't be.

- My medicine cabinet has everything you can think of and more. I have 2 first aid kits and a trauma kit. I have what it takes to turn the entrance to my home into a decon chamber, if need be. I have tons of bleach and disinfectants.

- I have full gas masks with filters, including adapters for 3M filters, which should be perfectly sufficient to remove droplets in the air. I also have full tyvek suits in case there's a worst case scenario but I have to leave my home. I have lots of N95 masks, but obviously you can't count on those for very much. I certainly don't have the belief that even the gas masks will prevent anything. It's just hedging my bets.

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All that said, I am not paranoid. I don't even have anxiety over it. Those things I mentioned would only come into play if things went extremely bad. My life wouldn't be very different if I had to stay indoors for months on end, so long as utilities continue to operate. Even if the supply chain broke down, I would probably be better off staying indoors than trying to bug out to somewhere else.

One other thing I'm doing is trying to sell off a high value items I've been holding on to, but I'm selling them off now because the money could save me from strife if there's widespread infection and my job totally falls apart.
> Not only is the tobacco industry directly harming people by selling them poison

Everything's a poison depending on the dose. The same could be said for alcohol or junk food.

> just look at the ground next time you're walking outside to see all the cigarette butts

Or soda bottles or fast food wrappers or oil dripping from cars or...

> and then they lobby to push for these retardants to be pushed onto the furnishing industry

This is a result of TB117 being signed by CA gov Jerry Brown in 1975 [1], more than 10 years after the surgeon general's report about cigarettes and lung cancer. If any lobbyists are to blame I would tend to look at the chemical companies.

What's more, California required the retardant, so furniture companies decided instead of making california-specific furniture, they'd put the retardant into all furniture. There's at least some blame on them as well.

> This is a tax everyone is paying for some smokers to get their fix.

I'd argue it's a tax everyone pays because California's government is/was run amok.

[1] https://www.kqed.org/science/11318/its-official-toxic-flame-...
This is genuinely threatening to too many interests in the US, will not pass. Much smoke, but no heat, just like the last few times its been proposed. They will not get a master key to everything lol, nobody trusts DOJ like this. The people in power have dirt to hide too, just like you and me.
But if they offer an equal or superior product at lower price, they would have a fundamental advantage: people/businesses would be more incentivized to switch to them when money gets tight, when previously it may not have been a priority.
Yes, that's the american dream. The problem with america is too many people believe the american dream, that you can go 'rags to riches' with hard work and perseverance.

The people working 90 hour weeks and barely able to make rent apparently aren't working hard enough.
Not at all. I think the media is overestimating the effects of this virus. The world will realise that soon and everyone will calm down.
I can see this effect right now in Italy.
I in one of the affected regions and while a few people have been queueing to empty shelves at the supermarket, I'll go tomorrow for a normal weekly grocery shopping. Supermarkets are fully stocked again and everyone is doing well.
The main issue is in people's mind, at least right now.
Your example does not show that MRIs are harmful. It only shows that overreacting to the result of an MRI may be harmful. If you can just avoid overreacting then having more information can only help, never hurt. The results may seem useless now, but combined with other test results, advances in our medical knowledge, and tools like Machine Learning we may be able to draw useful inferences from that information later.
Lucky you, I usually do internal corporate applications.
This is so infuriatingly false. The mortality rate for the flu this season has been ~0.1%.

The coronavirus is over 10x deadlier than the usual flu according to early estimates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/the-flu-has-already-killed-1...
> only useful if YOU have the virus

Yes, but given the incubation period and so on, how do you know you don't have the virus?

I'm not going to wear a mask in Central Europe (at least not yet) but I probably would in Asia just in order to not be selfish.
It definitely is mostly memes, but if you're a momentum trader...it's probably not a bad sub to follow for ideas. It can also act as an inverse indicator when everyone starts showing massive gains. I wouldn't be surprised if some hedge funds or algos monitor the sub.
Batting aside "Brave Rewards" is a minuscule amount of work compared to the cognitive work that Brave reduces by blocking ads. I've been using Brave for ~6 months and I've only had to bat "Brave Rewards" aside ~4 times.
Cloudant is awesome, but it's way too expensive IMHO.
If they can influence the conversation then they can impact the price movement- the volume comes from institutional investors that get spooked by calls on meme stocks relative to normal stocks, then their algos (which aren't trained to handle meme stock banter) go nuts. That's just my theory though.
I don't understand why would someone downvote completely reasonable post, but this HN, all kind of s*it happens here.

By adding a simple utility, your css gets very short very quickly.

https://tailwindcss.com/course/optimizing-for-production/
Are You Building the Right Thing?
You need to access some OS features not yet exposed as Web API, or you might need to still have a version for browsers like IE 11.
Cool! We were actually recently talking about how well an ETF that inversed WallstreetBets would do.
I disagree with your sentiment about preppier mentality strongly. For me, it’s not about prepping to survive like THIS is a world-ending event, it’s about not getting caught in a rush to get supplies or stampedes when people panic. Tbh, that’s more of a concern than the disease.

That said, the serious complication rate is higher than the flu.

The r0 is much higher than the flu.

The disease is spread asymptomatically.

Nobody is ready if the disease does take hold and spreads widely.

Markets are/will continue to take a massive shit.
Pachyderm had the good fortune to go through YC's first Series A program, I'm pretty sure we couldn't have raised without them, we'd tried and failed before. As with everything YC does, over time they've gathered more data, refined the methodology, and I think they've probably affected some change on VC's side as well as they're giving companies a better way to communicate with each other while they're raising, and sort of collectively bargain. This should be your go to guide for raising an A.
That didn't really change enforcement elsewhere and choosing Biden for his VP, who is basically the legal architect of the entire War on Drugs, sent a huge signal.

The Obama administration did exactly nothing for prison reform, which coincidentally is probably going to be a big part of Trump's legacy (he's done more on this than any other President), and nothing for situations where marijuana possession suddenly makes other things criminal (like owning a firearm _and_ marijuana).

For as poor as Trump's record with women is, it's pretty shameful for everyone else that he's the president that made sure tampons are widely available in women's prisons.
Haha, yes, exactly. I omitted the most important part - the [HTTP-based API].
> that still allows law enforcement to do their job?

Do libraries not keeping records of who has read what books not allow law enforcement to do their job?

Do prohibitions against arbitrary searches not allow law enforcement to do their job?

Does having to make a plausible argument in front of a judge not allow law enforcement to do their job?

Do individuals not having a number tattooed on their forehead not allow law enforcement to do their job?

Law enforcement continually frames any pereceived difficulty as if it is prevents them, which is utterly disingenuous. Law enforcement's "job" is to operate within the constraints of a free society composed of innocent people, in spite of the extra work from not being able to just shoot the bad guy like in the movies. When they don't respect this, they're merely another criminal element.
For me at least this is the thing that will push me to leave and renounce citizenship. I am sure I represent an insignificant minority to them, but I can't live somewhere without my own security on my data and cryptocurrency. Over the last few years I moved basically all my assets into Bitcoin and have left the legacy banking systems behind. With a few keystrokes they can lock you totally out of all your funds and you can do nothing about it except complain. This is totally unacceptable to me. I still pay taxes and have a salary job of course. But I don't trust the banks at all.
Reducing max document size from 4GB down to 8MB seems hyper-restrictive.

For those interested, looks like the guts of CouchDB are going to be swapped out for FoundationDB.

https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0-...
The history of a second hand car is currently scattered all over the place, even with missing data. Some entities try to collect it all, but it is difficult.

Every car has a unique VIN, so imagine all data of the car is written to a blockchain. Maintenance, mileage, accidents, etc. When you buy a car, you check the blockchain and get a complete history, unable to tamper with afterwards.

Of course you have to trust the entities that write the info. But the more trustworthy entities, the harder a malicious entity can withhold or provide false info.
Send me an email (in profile.) Would love to chat and see what we can do for you.
I wish couch was used whenever users ask for an app to "sync to Dropbox". I don't know if this changes with 3.0 but couch is naturally database per user, took me five minutes to install on my rpi with docker, very good admin interface, the database is the frontend (no driver or separate process), and let's the application layer handle conflicts.
Back in the early 2000's I worked for a company that was was hired (via intermediary law firms) by publicly listed companies to investigate pump and dump schemes on Yahoo message boards (you might call that the "Reddit of the early 2000's").

It involved a lot of web scraping Yahoo with Perl (specifically LWP) and then lots of analysis by humans with some help from automated tools. For example, if you plotted a histogram of each user's posts, you could clearly see when someone was at work (posted between 9am and 5pm with a drop off around noon) and at home (posts between 6pm and 2am with a peak around 10pm).

The analysts would often find a piece of information from a 2 year old post, e.g. 'Go Cubs!', and a one week old post "I just attended my 20 year UofI reunion" and quickly be able to narrow down on who the person might be. Coupled with Lexis Nexis (which was just coming online at the time), we routinely narrowed down individuals to just one possible person.

Given that this was done back in the early 2000's using ancient servers (by today's standards) and basic statistical analysis with a lot of legwork, I would be surprised if there weren't companies also trying to find the people on Reddit today.
Easy to tell when Photoshop is sluggish on my MacBook air but Affinity Photo is as smooth as one wants it to be when just scrolling an image but the PSD format dominance is just killing the market competition when you're being sent a PSD file.
Can they be bad at trading? https://xkcd.com/2270/
Some sites have been getting smart and not doing the paywall logic client side, and will not send the entire article's text over HTTPS which allows archive.is to save it and reader mode to function. I think Longform also did this at some point.

I don't think it's about throwing away privacy for readers using reader mode, it's a matter of wanting to be compensated through the subscription model. Between the two, getting compensated won out.
Ha, I also got "msgid". Glad I read your comment first :)

FWIW, the same puzzle also included "penis", and as I'm at the office right now, I filled that one in last.