skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they should no longer be under contractual obligation to publish it

That entirely depends on what the contract says, which is probably why they're adding these clauses to the contracts.

The point is that there's no background "moral clause" in contract law. If you sign a contract, and then discover that the other person is a sex offender/nazi/actually Hitler, that doesn't matter. You still need to fulfil your obligations under the contract.

And we don't want to change this. Because getting on the wrong end of a Twitter dogpile is astonishingly easy to do. If the stakes were higher, and not only future careers but all existing contracts would be ruined, that would just inspire more dogpile. Then no-one wants to say anything in public, or where a journalist might hear of it, and the mob moves onto ever tinier infringements of ever more arcane moral rules.
On the website it says:

> NAB has been monitoring the evolving situation on coronavirus both in the U.S. and around the globe. Due to the public health emergency we are currently facing, we believe that it is not possible to move forward with NAB Show as planned. Please see below for a message from NAB’s president and CEO Gordon H. Smith, along with some FAQs about the decision.

So I guess 0 days!
And a surprising lack of reporting on the dozens of side channel leaks from China - videos of dead bodies, videos from leakers including the young doctor who was admonished and succumbed to the disease...

Yeah a lot of it was rumor and hard to verify but...nothing? You'd almost start to wonder whether our journalists were cooperating with the Chinese government or something in censoring everything. I struggle to come up with a legitimate excuse other than total incompetence. It was all over the internet and a lot of it (first hand accounts from Chinese citizens within China) would have been reasonably easy to verify for a journalist who knew a Chinese speaker.
No point in testing? How can you make any decisions for public safety without numbers? Numerous options like pushing jobs and schools to go virtual, cancelling sports events, conferences, etc. Even to the point of blocking roads and air travel. It's 10x worse if everyone gets sick at the same time, so slowing the spread is quite valuable... even if the same number of people get sick.

Not to mention various treatments are being tested. Gilead has a promising drug, and it looks like an old malaria drug might be just what is needed. Lots of promising results in petri dishes, none from a good double blind study... yet. A delay of a month or two might well halve the death rate, even ignoring things like over burdened hospitals.
It’s not clear yet if the new £0 rate applies retroactively to vehicles purchased before April 1st, 2020. But if it does, yes, they will be happy!
The guy you are replying to was talking about "his" school.
No surprise. We had Larry Kudlow saying a week or two ago that the virus was "fully contained" in the US. [1]

We had the CDC take down the number of folks tested from their website because it was embarrassingly low and different then the Pence / Trump narrative of a million tests. [2]

We've had a weird / crazy argument being made by at least some at the top that masks don't help with transmission reduction of a viral disease. While not perfect, they are low cost, low impact and even surgical masks, while likely not used by doctors treating patients may help general population by reducing hand to mouth / nose transmission, transmission from sick to healthy and environment when sneezing and/or touching face mouth and then environment etc. Other countries are going the other way (masks distributed via post offices, mask wearing mandatory in high impact areas etc).

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/25/larry-kudlow-says-us-has-con...

[2] - https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1234536619270688768

[3] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662657/ - Adherence to mask use was associated with a significantly reduced risk of ILI-associated infection.
Not only that, but people will need new stay at home entertainment more than ever for a while.
So, the police rioted.
Yeah, I've been to many of those places, also Chipotle quite a bit.

One thing I disliked about grabbing lunch in the area was that it mostly seemed really expensive or unhealthful.

I'm about average (I think) in terms of how healthful of a diet I try to have. But around Kendal Square it was hard to avoid crazy amounts of grease and salt in most of the meals. Okay for once in a while, but not every day.
The risk model is different based on a lot of varieties. If you're working in an office in an unaffected area, nobody is traveling and there's no high risk, it's not necessarily a big deal.

If you're in a major corporation and your coworkers fly all over creation - then yeah, time to start feigning a cough and taking a few sickdays to work at home.
Mosquitoes yes.

Bats are vital to the ecosystem though. They eat a lot of troublesome insects that would otherwise devastate agriculture.
Totally, and also it is very important. In some Turkish-speaking forums I follow, some people already blame the "Chinese way of living" for such a disaster. This disassociation has been even too late, I'd say.
Here's my question. As a technical community here.

How can we help?

i.e. I'm hearing about things like the ways for hospitals to report numbers to the CDC having just been set up.

This seems likely something any local technical person could help tackle.

Is there a place to go to find out how to help in any way possible?
Can also mean a hot stone massage for your health
As a layperson, I'm not sure I agree with your layperson perception analysis. To me, calling it an epidemic meant that efforts should be focused on containment in order to slow it down or stop its progression. That signaled just how dangerous it was. Calling it a pandemic essentially means that we've given up on that and just like the common flu, most people will catch it. Basically, it's time to just "deal with" it instead of attempting to contain. I'd rather they had kept the epidemic label a bit longer.
That's great work. Thanks! Using a reversible hash function is a good idea.
obviously its not going to be exponential forever, no one believes that. The more people get infected, the less people there are to infect. This is obvious. The problem is no one knows where the inflection point is yet, and it depends entirely on how countries react to the illness.
Classifying scifi based on ship types
Thankfully some governments do believe in market regulations and certifications.
Personal opinion, I don't think the potential consumer purchasers of the next-generation xbox or PS5 are going to be swayed one way or the other by anything that comes out of E3. Or even whether E3 exists or not.

Assuming both intend to ship for sales Christmas 2020, towards september/october of this year we're going to see a heavy marketing push with video trailers for the games they will launch with. Very similar to how Halo 3 was promoted with the launch of the Xbox 360.
It's actually not a bad thing that it's between 1% and 3% mortality. Can you imagine if this had been Ebola or MERS? This pandemic will leave us much better prepared for one that could be much much worse.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22547607
I agree, so let's assume the US doesn't intervene at all.

Exponential growth is occurring because the median person is infecting more than one other person, which right now is coming from people not knowing they have the virus and not worrying about getting the virus.

Even without government intervention, as cases increase people will start taking this more seriously and the exponential growth will stop. Even if you don't have symptoms but have the virus, you aren't going to that concert or that vacation because you don't want to catch the virus from someone else.
Meta question: @garry - Do you have a post on the your video making process and what equipment you're using? Would be curious to know if you're mostly making these videos all yourself or if you hired a video production agency to help with the recording, editing, etc. Thanks!
If that’s their thought process about a pandemic announcement from the WHO I’m not sure the conspiracy theorist is just “inside” them any longer.
Sony: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/state-of-play/

Microsoft: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/insidexbox/
Only if the tenancy laws don't have an exception for college dorms.
No, I mean China. I personally witnessed the tweet before it was deleted.

>https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/chuck_schumer_q...
Like most things, there are shades of gray and it’s not black and white.

China made some critical missteps early on in silencing doctors who spoke up about a novel virus. They also downplayed the crisis to avoid bad news around the New Years celebration (and kept the banquet in Wuhan that was a turning point in the explosive growth of the virus).

Once they mobilized, yes, it was impressive — and judging by their numbers today, it has been effective.

The US is also a mixed bag. There’s going to be _wide_ variation in the response at state and local levels. But something really stinks with the lack of testing. And despite having China and then Italy show us how seriously we needed to be taking this, we sleep-walked through a critical period and are now creating the top of the roller coaster.
How Denmark's 'ghetto list' is ripping apart migrant communities
The Roberts Court's Assault on Democracy
What are you are dismissing as "conspiracy theory nonsense" includes calls to calm from infectious diseases experts and health authorities. When we will look back with hindsight, the conspirary theory nonsense may end up being the unecessary panicking, armchair epidemiologists, "the numbers are worse than we are told", etc.
US corporate culture is primarily one of absolute loyalism. Absolute loyalty is demanded and expected all the way up the management chain and it trumps (no pun intended) all else, including job competence. What some Americans may not realize is that this isn't universally true globally.

What we have now is a president who comes from and exemplifies this culture so his administration absolutely reflects that. Jeff Sessions recusing himself on the Russia investigation instead of blocking it even if it cost him everything, personally, was an unforgivable sin to an absolute loyalist.

So I guarantee you that the prime consideration for this pandemic (which it now officially is, according to the WHO) in the US government is how this impacts the GOP in general and Trump's reelection in particular. Nothing else matters.

Go back to, say, the Watergate era and you had behaviour by a president that even his own party ultimately found unacceptable. If Watergate repeated today, it would be "fake news", painted as partisan Democratic slander aimed at the administration and defended beyond all reason.

The sad and scary part of this is that we now have 40% of the population who will absolutely eat this up and refuse to believe anything that makes the president look bad. To be fair, there are absolute devotees on the other side too but objectively we've seen nothing to the degree of GOP blind loyalism on from the Democrats (yet).

There was a time when our representatives held higher loyalties to the institutions they represent because undermining those is incredibly dangerous. Those days seem to be a distant memory as we have a mass organized effort to disenfranchise those who tend to vote Democrat (under the guise of removing "felons" from voter rolls), a refusal by the Senate to take up legislation that would pass at a completely unprecedented rate, a Senate whose only priority is filling lifetime judicial nominees with more loyalists and the refusal to even take up a president's Supreme Court nominee with flimsily-constructed justification you know for a fact wouldn't apply if the situation was reversed.

This is the trait of dictators and despots. Why do you think Trump admires Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-Un?

So yes, it should come as no surprise that the planning, messaging and response to this pandemic is being seen through the exact same filter: how does this help or hurt Trump?

And it will kill people. I don't wish ill on anyone here but it's hard not to see the irony that the most at-risk groups of death from Covid-19 are, well, Trump's core voters and Fox News's core target market for fearmongering and dog-whistle racism.

Classifying public health responses is unprecedented. Yet as long as Trump's base (40% of voters) don't hold the government to account absolutely nothing will change. And the only time that's happened that I recall is the family separation for detained illegal immigrants. Has there been any other reversal of policy like this?
I think it's more likely that low voter turnout in November (if this lasts that long) allows the administration to reject the results on the basis that "the people's voice was suppressed" - I agree they're not just going to call off the election, but I think it's pretty likely they'll try and cast doubt on the results if it goes against them.
How about a cruise to Europe? If you like deals.
Declaring pandemic requires data which the WHO simply can't have if its member states do not submit or further, do not test for it. People like to think that international organizations like the UN, WTO, WHO is somewhat superior, or above the states, but they are not.
Most countries (and leaders) and not taking this seriously until they are it HARD by it. They should learn from the nations that were first affected and not just minimize it with "They handled it badly, we're gonna be fine".
In principle, that's true, and certainly a point in the WHO's favor. In practice, it sounds like a lot of things are happening only conditional on the WHO's statement that it's a pandemic, which if true reflects a lack of local adaptability. I don't think it's the WHO's fault, necessarily, but local authorities need to have the capacity and skills to feel they don't have to rely on the WHO's judgment of such things.
Plague monuments are hardly an Austria specific thing, you can find them almost everywhere in a large part of Europe, including here in Czech Republic:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pests%C3%A4ule

(in German)
And to their (Norwegian Air) honor they provide WiFi at no extra cost (at least I had it anytime I was flying from Helsinki to London or the reverse). Fantastic airline. I wish they could expand more and take some routes from Wizz/Ryan.
What I see here is that those with critical thinking skills will do just fine. Those without the ability to winnow information sources and make reasoned judgments will suffer, relative to news organizations as gatekeepers (the prior regime).
UK Budget 2020 slashes entrepreneurs' relief
Why don't they just do it over YouTube?
See also https://www.instagram.com/pomme_queen/ for some true color photographs of heirloom apple varieties.
Second Life swamped by coronavirus-themed accessories and virus-spreading games
I'm not sure why are you down-voted. I think slowing down, consuming less, is generally good for the whole Earth and its inhabitants.
If it is a political and subjective decision as you say, then they have to balance the benefits of the declaration against the risk of the counter-narrative overwhelming it. Too early and even more people would dismiss the problem than are doing so now. And there's no "we said 'pandemic' before, well, it's 'really a pandemic' now" label that can be used.

And leaving aside the immediate difficulties...let's save this kind of retrospective criticism for after, when we're closer to being out of the woods.

If you have prospective criticism -- what should be done now and going forwards -- that would be worthwhile.
No, it's "Orthodox Christian" and "Catholic Christian", to differentiate.
Also not OP, but I really like FreeNAS running on an HP Microserver.

The older Gen8 boxes Just Work.

The newer Gen10 boxes hang the first time you boot, you need to pause it and set the hw.pci.realloc_bars loader variable to 1. Details here: https://www.virten.net/2017/10/fix-for-freenas-on-hpe-micros...
> The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified, an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government’s response to the contagion, according to four Trump administration officials.

There's the first para of the article which contradicts most of the arguments you're trying to make. This is according to officials dealing with this problem today.
Do you have citations for the “10X as fatal” comment? I am having a hard time understanding the situation because facts are hard to come by.
> So I don't buy all the hype,

> maybe the took good measures.

How do you "take good measures" without "hype"? Will people mass-self-quarantine if you tell them "it's just the flu, nothing to worry about"?
But what about the cost of the booths, the displays, the printed material, the plane tickets, the hotel rooms?

Months of planning and hundreds of thousands of dollars goes into an NAB vendor booth.
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In this regard, you are right, sorry.

I'm just tired of hearing people around me going "I had my shots, I'm going to that party / going to that event" or "It's just a flu, nothing to worry about".
For training, you need a generator because you want millions of solved examples for deep learning to work.

At test time, you usually want a test set from the same distribution as the training data (or at least related to it in some controllable way), or it becomes very difficult to interpret the results.

Suppose my test set come from a different and unknown distribution (real problems sampled in some way).

If I get good results, is it because the training worked, or because the test set was "comparatively easy"?
If I get bad results, is it because the model did not learn, or because the test set was too far away from the training examples?
Humans don’t seem to be very good about internalizing lessons across more than 2, maybe 3, generations. Especially if there’s any sort of indirect effects or abstract concepts involved.
Which is why many companies are encouraging their employees to work from home when possible.
That seems more like the best response would be to quarantine dorm residents at the first positive test, and maintain it until all cases that came up resolved. Only exception is medically necessary transport to a hospital for ICU care if needed.

Kicking the students out just risks making a larger pool of uncontrolled carriers.

Anybody in the school administration consult anyone with ANY medical experience before jerking the knee?
H1N1 mortality rate was 0.05% and that’s under rate of a standard flu season.
Thank you, even though I am honestly not sure if I can trust a Twitter thread.
For instance, this article [1] (in Italian) says that "up until now [yesterday], no patient who could have benefited from intensive care has been excluded". BUT it also says Lombardy might be headed that way if the virus keeps spreading at this rate.

Just to be clear, I do not want to downplay what is happening in any way. But I feel it is better if we stick to verifiable info.

[1] https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/03/10/coronavirus-il-c...
They're allowed to have discussion that exist off the record. Classifying things mean they are forcing such discussions to happen in secure facilities and under very specific terms in order to prevent foreign interception. That seems a bit like overkill to me.
EDIT: NAB is Official Postponed now [1]. I got the email right after hitting send on this.

[1] https://nabshow.com/2020/attend/onsite-services/coronavirus-...

I'm in the industry. Many of our most important customers have already announced they are not going. The company I work for has pulled out of the show, along with many others.

The company I work for believes the show will be cancelled, so better to cancel flights and hotels now than later.

My bet is that like a lot of shows, they have a ton of money on the line. Their insurance/cancellation policies only kick in if the government steps in a says "you may not do this," so they are waiting for that to happen. Nevada is tourist-driven, so they don't want to do it. We need some leadership from the Executive Branch.
You will either hate it or you will think whichever SoulsBourne game you play first is the pinnacle of gaming and you will play all of them and they will consume you and other games will cease to be fun. It is the curse.
> is it a good idea from a public health perspective?

Keep in mind that many of these students would need to travel at the end of the term anyways. There are benefits to shifting that travel sooner in time, especially since they're mostly-healthy right now. Get the traveling done while it's low risk, on the assumption that risk will increase over time.
Even if this turns out to be VERY bad the fear response is nonsensical. If a Grizzly bear is charging you down panicking is not going to help. If you want to see what a measured response to something like this looks like, go speak to a therapist/physiologist and gauge their reaction. Hell, go speak with anyone who has seen real combat and ask them how they feel about the general public's reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Show HN: Talk – A free video call app for the web
Good read!

This sounds similar to the work I did [1] on the Datadog Agent, especially regarding the concept of each resource having its own circuit breaker.

My implementation is a bit different though, instead based on exponential decay like BGP Route Flap Damping [2]. It matches our use case a bit better and is easier to reason about.

[1]: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pull/1458

[2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2439#section-2.3
Just to be clear, while young people like this are going to have a much lower rate of severe illness or death, it's not going to be zero. Even if we are optimistic about the death rate it still would be feasible to see a dozen students dead and several times that hospitalized out of a campus population of 10,000.
I don't know if the most significant pandemic of the last century, that could be slowed if we implement unprecedented draconian measures in time can be over-hyped.
> If they do cancel then they'll refund the cost.

Several major events have 'cancelled' this year by 'postponing' it until next year, giving no refunds. I wouldn't count on that being true.
I wonder what the criteria is for "startup"? GitHub jumped out to me as maybe not a startup anymore.

Glitch, formally fogcreek is 20 years old... Maybe has employees about the same age as the company :-p
The cheapest LEAF (don't ask me why they capitalize it) base MSRP is $31,600 vs a Tesla SR+ Model 3 at $39,900.

The LEAF S and SV with a 40kWh battery have 149mi range up to a $34,190 base price.

The cheapest 226mi range LEAF is $38,200.

Nissan offers a cheaper base price for a market segment Tesla is not playing in, which is great.

But if you want to compare apples to apples, the pricing is basically the same.

And then there's depreciation..........
https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1237503086731632640
Hello HN,

I created Hello (https://itshello.co) in 2018 and many people quickly started using it, but I have to sell it in 2019 as it was in autopilot mode and I didn't do any enhancement to it for a long time. I sold it, so that some else can pick it up and update it, but that did not happen, it's still in the same state as 2018.

Recently, there have been few enhancements in WebRTC and related APIs, but I couldn't update Hello now. So I created this separate app with those enhancements and stabilizations. I also added a stable screen sharing feature for supported devices.

Introducing "Talk - A free video call app for the web". https://talk.vasanthv.com

Though it does not get its own fancy domain name, it's stable, works 100% and supported by all the modern browsers in all the platforms (both desktop & mobile).

Check it out and let me know what you think.