skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd have put this quite as emphatically as you, but there's a very important point here about the principle of free speech as compared with government suppression of speech.

While nodding towards quite real problems involving, let's say for example vaccines, I don't think any of that troubles the principle of free speech in the slightest. Practically applying it is difficult and as error-prone as is anything else, but the principle is enlightening in that task.

There does exist a principle of free speech that is not the same thing as the various legal principles, constitutional rules, laws, or rules of thumb that say government suppression of speech is worse than other kinds. Crucially important though those have been, it's still true that suppression of speech itself is uniquely bad: Fundamentally, knowledge is not infallible, all problems are caused by lack of knowledge, and speech is the means of correcting all other mistakes. Practically, we find it all too easy to socially suppress good ideas. It's hard to see the true extent of that because it's impossible to see the upside that hasn't happened as a result of that suppression.

I hardly need to refer explicitly to some of the specific ideas of the not-distant past about social control that we have since learned, though they were certainly obviously good, were not good.

Practically, it's hard to escape the idea that taking seriously the millennia-long stream of historical failures of ideas -- and their replacement with better ones -- does entail treating ideas that are obviously wrong with considerably more flexibility and humility than is tempting.

I recommend David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity to shake up anybody's ideas about this, no matter where you start from.
> Which is kind of it's primary function, to declare things and publish reports so the governments can act on them

Thanks for clarifying, I thought the WHO was more like a global CDC.
> If you are approved for an extended stay or housing over spring break, you are permitted to stay.

That statement is pretty vague though. At my university you had to apply to stay in the dorms during breaks and I think there was an additional fee involved. I'm sure most of the students were planning on leaving, but now they have 4 day gap between when they have to leave and when they were planning on leaving. At my university, I believe only students in the condo style units with personal entrances were allowed to stay by default. Navigating the bureaucracy of an institution like this can be difficult for a young person, especially one with a busy schedule and short notice.
That's sort of proves my point. Many apps these days are just a web app with a launcher for your homescreen.

Lets say we have https://dynalist.io/. If you are going to open their web app in Safari and then open their iOS app - you will notice that UI is identical. Because it is the same UI! In one case you have to access it via a browser and the app is just the same frontend delivered to you as an iOS app.

PWA or something similar - is the future. Hence all those APIs in browsers.
It's not as rare as you might think, but yes, I'm sure Garry's (well deserved) reputation was a big part of it.

I noticed one dubious upvote making it past HN's anti-voting-ring software, but that's not enough to push a story onto the front page, let alone to #1. It's also extremely common. I didn't notice evidence of any "network for upvotes".
Minor English correction! You should say: Great advice. (It's an uncountable noun.)
Finally we can discuss politics on HN!
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantin... (CDC: Legal Authorities for Isolation and Quarantine)

TLDR Legal and constitutional.
H1N1 spread far faster and killed far more people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H1N1
What do you think about the video? :)
It doesn't have to be (and likely wasn't) intentional.
Economic pressure will twist gravity towards specialization and supply chain consolidation. You need meticulous surveillance and testing combined with authoritative regulatory control to counteract these pressures and maintain a resilient supply chain (which doesn't necessarily need to be in-country).
I've heard that the CDC has stopped collecting statistics on total tests and positive/negative counts. Are there other government agencies collecting this data?
The supply chains that you rail against have successfully delivered the greatest levels of prosperity to the largest number of humans in all of history.

They were created not by some mysterious force, but by individuals making rational choices about how they want to allocate their time, their energy and their resources.

The "suicidal deindustrialization" you refer to is the result of people making informed choices that you happen to disagree with. They didn't want a $400 locally knitted sweater, made from neighborhood sheep. They wanted a $40 sweater that was made as efficiently as possible, and $360 of change.

Please don't mistake your belief that you could design a better society for an actual analysis of reality.
Not only that, but they had intentions of using `Clojure for everything`. From configuration management (currently using ruby if I recall correctly) to deployment, they want to use Clojure on all fronts.
Good. End crowds everywhere, right now. Do it before things get worse.
Ask HN: Any boinc (SETI HOME)-like projects for Covid-19?
I have quite a few spare PC's in my home and I'm wondering if I can contribute with them to a boinc/seti@home-like project in COVID-19's case.
If this will reach the same infection numbers as the flu the deaths in US would be many millions. Do you think that it’s the same thing?
So only 16 kids would die, hundreds more suffering permanent scarring to their lungs.
> who decides what’s [intolerable]?

A fantastic first step is to eliminate anyone who reserve the right to unilaterally use violence in the name of religion.

After that, exclude those who want a special deal for their faction that they wont grant others.

See, easy.
Something something emergency powers...
UD has explicitly said international students can stay in their dorm rooms -- see https://udayton.edu/studev/health_wellness/healthcenter/coro....
Tea Boy to Tattooed Trader: A Secret Tipster’s Life and Death
Can you post exact numbers you are talking about?
> I’ve never even heard of anyone meeting the buyer/seller for any length of time

Yes, that's my point. When I bought and sold my house I was in the same room as the other private party. We made chit-chat and it was neat, but there was no reason we had to be there other than paperwork convenience. As paperwork continues to move online I don't see why that is necessary.
Laurie Garrett: 'Why America has no idea how many people have Covid-19'
Well that's a shame. Guess I'll visit Austin on some other day.
Red Hat working is more remote than you'd think from the pure numbers, since even if you're working in an office your team won't all be in the same office. The team I'm in has people working in offices in CZ, around the US, the UK, Australia, and in China. So we work using remote tools anyway.
It's like you haven't done your homework. The most surprising thing to me over the past year is how strong demand has remained, as subsidies phased out. All 3 of my Model 3 referrals, in fact, happened in Q4 of 2019, and all from friends saying "hey, I'm gonna buy a Tesla, don't you have a referral code or something?" It had nothing to do with me talking about the car, or giving them rides, or anything. Just totally out of the blue.

I was one of the many folks who (probably like you?) was thinking, once summer 2018 turned into fall 2018, and Tesla worked through the backlog of Model 3 orders (and the well-publicized cancellations and demand for deposits back) that there wouldn't by much demand left. I guess that shows my blind spots as a car person, I just assumed everyone knew about most new vehicles on the market, and what they had to offer. But their prevalence in the market has only driven demand harder.
More like 900% to 2900% worse (10-30 times).
Personally, I use the trick of substituting myself or someone I like in the position of the accused when trying to determine ethics/morality.
We went ahead with integration with providers like GitHub and GitLab to have these checks in a central place as it is the easiest way for a team to adopt a tool like ours. Also, just having a local or IDE plugin doesn't ensure these issues never make it to trunk unless everyone in the team follows it strictly.

That said, for the convenience of developers, we're working on the ability to run the analysis and the fixes using our CLI. [1] This opens up doors to use the CLI and build IDE plugins in the near future.

[1] https://github.com/deepsourcelabs/cli/issues/15
> festering in cesspools of animal & human waste

have you ever even been to china?
I sorta disagree here - it's neigh impossible to argue but I definitely feel like it didn't take a visionary in 2005 to predict that the web would be the next transport/distribution layer for software.

My argument: I was in HS from 2001-2005 and when I started it was the end of the Win98/IE era with highspeed internet being one of those things few people had (middle class Iowa). When I got out of HS nearly everyone lower-middle-class and above had a broadband internet connection, online gaming was booming, we were seeing offerings like Gmail, Google Docs happened, online courses were starting to be a thing, blah blah...

If you were an educator of the era trying to prepare people for a real-world career in CS you ABSOLUTELY shoulda had your fingers on that pulse noticing that the internet use was growing exponentially for everything from business, to socialization, to entertainment.

If anything, they shouldn't have been discriminatory against a student's choice to specialize in it saying "software on the internet isn't a thing" when it clearly already $#@%ing was with an obvious growth trajectory.

TLDR: "Software users" - totally agree don't expect them to have seen the wave coming in 2005. Collegiate computer science educator claiming to prepare students for real-world careers should have seen it coming from a mile away if they weren't tone-deaf to the industry (they were).
Synthesized Paired Data Boosts Facial Manipulation
Small samples sizes make outliers more likely.
What about WWDC?
My god, at the end of the day these are still human beings. "Only" a million, thats a massive number.
Dorms tend to have shared bathrooms and common areas.
Also the local news - and a lot of twitter videos - make it look like a party. Beer and everything. Like the opposite of 'limit crowd contact' adding in a ton of germs from drunk college partiers.

https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/police-responding...
Ah, missed that. I'm glad for them.
Same measures got taken everywhere, in Switzerland it was 12 days ago [1]

[1] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/coronavirus_switzerlan...
I wonder if they'd still be doing this if they weren't dead last place in the league.
that's nonsense. sxsw is cancelled, the Houston rodeo is cancelled, the list goes on. People in TX are taking it seriously.
It didn't look a lot like flu. China doesn't shut down their entire country for months over the flu.
Who made that claim?
The whole reason you have the alarm though is for a situation specifically like this. This is a once in a century pandemic, and they missed it.
> Italy has locked down 60 million people

Please don't exaggerate. In another thread here on HN someone from Italy posted exactly what it's like. They go for walks, they go to bars or restaurants and maintain 1 meter distance between people, and if they need to care for a relative or someone else they're permitted to travel to other towns/cities.

Sure, people's lives are a bit different, but say they're on "lockdown" is simply not true.
Because only the Bad or Stupid kids get Held Back. That was a fate worse than death in my eyes, and I don't think my parents would have supported it.
What happens when you can manufacture from raw materials, but your raws themselves come from offshore?

There is still lots of manufacturing of high quality here. However they're costly and smaller in scale versus overseas.
The word violence in common usage used to have a meaning. Now it can mean anything you want it to mean. There is no solid ground down this path.
This will kill 2 orders of magnitude more. Sounds good to have 30-70 millions deaths?
No, that’s not along the lines of what I’m suggesting at all.
I agree that housing density is an issue. However, universities are likely to be subject to lawsuits in situations where they keep dorms open or shut them down. There must be something that can be done here that's better than those two extremes, event if it isn't perfect.

We could:

1. Find alternative housing for some fraction of the students to lower the population density within the dorms--sending 1/3 of students elsewhere reduces population density to ~65% of what it would have been before

2. Retrofit current housing to help minimize spread of disease

3. Allow students to opt-in to remaining at the dorms with agreement to adhere to much stricter health and sanitation standards

4. Allow students to remain with the understanding that they will be quarantined until such a time that they can call be tested

None of these are great ideas, I'm sure, but I can't imagine any of them being worse than the current situation we see these students in.
I'm looking to my state government. Unfortunately, I don't think there is a path for this administration to regain trust for many.
Edit: edit. Much better take.
I'm very worried (and in Texas) but when people hear me talk they somehow walk away with "just the flu" anyway. My theory is that people feel cognitive dissonance between the seriousness of the situation and the mild-seeming precautions that are recommended. Cancel nonessential international travel, wash your hands. For most people (talking about the U.S. here) international travel seems extraordinary and optional, if not downright weird, so it's really just wash your hands. It's hard for people to understand that there's a crisis and all they're supposed to do about it is wash their hands, no matter that I say things like "unprecedented mortality and disruption in our lifetime."

Other obstacles to perceiving it as a big deal:

- Not grasping that a fraction of a percent mortality can be a big deal. Numbers under one percent make it sound indistinguishable from flu, even if it's 10x as deadly as flu.

- Having AIDS and Ebola as your mental prototypes for dangerous infectious diseases and feeling relieved when you hear COVID-19 is nothing like either one.
Well, if 30 years of public service Bernie has performed are any indicator, absolutely nothing. Bernie's full of these big, revolutionary, expensive ideas, but he's really accomplished very little in his career. Look at Vermont... second thought, don't look at Vermont (hint: business abandoned the high taxes of Vermont decades ago). Economically, VT is a basket case, do you want Bernie to work his magic on a national level?
Thanks for pointing me towards that. Looks like a very nice “graceful ajaxification” library.
I know several people that would have not been able to reach adulthood 100 years ago but have now reproduced and have passed on their diseases to their offspring. There is no doubt that natural selection in humans is much weaker now then in the past.
Took a stab at addressing this in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22548989
There's only 3 confirmed cases of the virus in Ohio. UD is being very proactive here.
They were going to get kicked out for spring break anyhow. Then again at the end of the semester. It's temporary housing.

I do empathize with the minority of folks for whom this represents a real challenge.

But having been enrolled at this particular university not all that long ago, my experience is that the vast majority of these young people are members of families that are fairly well-off - they were able to send their kids to a private university (with a reputation as a party school).
I would absolutely not. My university was just cancelled and I would not like that to happen lightly.
But that would be utterly deceitful. If you're going to imagine that sort of interpretation, why believe anything I say in the first place?

When I say we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or YC startups are involved, the word "moderate" means all of the above: boosting submissions, downweighting submissions, intervening in comments, and so on. When I said we didn't touch this post, I meant we did nothing to affect its rank.

There's an important thing to add, though. "Less" does not mean zero. We still moderate—we just do it less. Mainly we try to be consistent with how we moderate other submissions, in order to be fair. In this case, for example, I just reduced the effect that flags are having in driving this post down the front page. But I reduced it by less than I would have if the post were non-YC-related. If that sounds scandalous, please re-read the previous sentence.
The Pennsylvania State University has also moved to remote education
Yeah, many engineering blogs fail because of content reasons, not organisational ones. In many of the smaller places I worked at there weren't any institutional obstacles to posting content to the blogs. It was a matter of not caring much about the blog or writing the wrong content (stuff that isn't helpful or interesting).

For a successful corporate blog (engineering or otherwise), writing blog articles needs to be a foundational part of the company culture, the different teams must work together to create the best/most useful content possible, and there must be a schedule beyond 'whenever we feel like it'.
Fair enough: actual murders or direct threats thereof.
React-tweenful: Animation engine for React
Not sure, I can't reproduce the timeout. I'm seeing "5829.85 [#/sec] (mean)" on my (nearly 10-year-old) computer which is doing other stuff. Not too shabby, I think.
Title should indicate that "riot police were called" but not that the students rioted - it looks more like a demonstration and large crowd.
I used to think recumbent bikes were ridiculous until I rode one. They are insanely fun! You look silly but there is a reason people still ride them despite that =)
You are diving into conspiracy theories of the world's second largest economy and a massive multi-billion dollar pandemic over just $20 million?
Competent authorities in Texas are taking it very seriously.
Too bad Activity Stream (https://www.w3.org/Social/ and https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/) never succeeded or else your project would be easy for anyone to implement.
The WHO themselves said that there is no longer an official criteria for something being a pandemic.
We‘re now down to 150 in most cantons. In the Ticino (bordering Italy) they are closing down schools now.
In Hungary it's 500 for outdoor, and 100 for indoor events https://index.hu/english/2020/03/11/hungary_state_of_danger_...
Why does it require a compiler stack?
I was excited to roll it out at the Linux Foundation. We are no longer rolling out new instances and Hyperledger[0] is looking for a replacement due to an issue[1][2].

[0] https://chat.hyperledger.org/

[1] https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/15583

[2] https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/15391
Tests show new coronavirus lives on some surfaces for up to 3 days
Right now it's spring break at many colleges, and in many others it's right around the corner. Students will disperse everywhere and will go partying, someone will catch it somewhere. If coronavirus isn't on campus yet it'll be two weeks after spring break ends. They'll have to shut down the university once the first cluster of cases appears (three weeks after end of Spring Break), and then everyone goes home and spreads it in their hometown.

There is much pressure on administration from faculty now, some of whom have an actual risk of dying, to close down teaching activities. What will also happen is that some faculty members will refuse to teach because of justified fear of catching deadly disease. Best to do an orderly shutdown now than panic a month from now.
At least on its surface, I'm kinda okay with this 1000-person rule for several reasons:

- I've already accepted that fire codes can legitimately limit the number of people in a building.

- The rule is agnostic with respect to the purpose of the meeting. E.g., it's not obviously being used to suppress political or cultural movements.

- It has a real, plausible purpose for public safety.

That being said, I can also see some valid reasons against it:

- It sets precedent, which is a powerful factor in the U.S. court system.

- The 1000-person rule seems a bit arbitrary. I would think the number needs to be much smaller for the effect to be meaningful. And I'm guessing something more nuanced is what's really needed, for example spacing between persons, air recirculation / flow rates, frequency of surface cleaning vs. # persons present, etc.

- It implicitly discriminates what kinds of groups can meet as before. One salient example would be that Christian mega-churches and really large Roman Catholic parishes couldn't meet as before.

- It also potentially prevents mass protest marches, depending on the wording of the ordinance, and how willing protestors are to ignore the ordinance.
Also other cities across Europe.
Curious, what's the end goal? And when does it end?
Yes, so with the same numbers that catch covid it would be 2-5 millions US deaths.
Wait till you read about what will happen to you if you decide to get TB and not take your meds. You'll be sovereign citizening your way into DOT before you make a new XDR strain for us.
According to the CDC.

IME, it's somewhat common for those in positions of authority (employers, municipalities, etc.) to simply assert a legal position that benefits their leadership, without mentioning that courts may disagree. In most cases there are no repercussions for being misleading in that way, aside from eroding the trust of those lied to.
> If you had a random six months of your education removed from your memory, how long would it take you to relearn it? If it was prior to high school, would you even bother relearning it?

Due to a mistake in the records, I skipped an entire year of math (pre-algebra, which I was supposed to take in 8th grade). My algebra teacher decided the first month was going to be review, because she didn't expect most of the students to need a refresher after summer break.

Turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to me, at least for that subject - not only did I have no issues catching up, turned out that was close to my natural pace. The topic was no longer boring and became one of my favorites after that.
This is awesome, I've been meaning to code some sort of intranet for my home with something like this for myself. Maybe now this one will just be a link within my intranet. Still havent worked out what I want for my intranet entirely. There are so many web based solutions you could make your own (internal) cloud OS.
The problem is people judge this by outcomes, and sounding the alarm at the right moment will have the same outcome as sounding the alarm too early.

There's no way to win this. Going by public perception you either sound too early or too late - never "on time".
Covid-19 virus originated in Wuhan "wet market", where freshly-slaughtered wild meat is preferred. It's a perfect setting to facilitate virus movement from animal to animal and from animal to human.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/25/coronavi...

And it happened before, with SARS in 2003:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...
Not 256 G of RAM... Just 256 RAM. I bet the delay is they're having trouble getting it to boot...
are you talking to yourself?
The warriors will play tomorrow night with no fans in attendance.

https://twitter.com/TheSteinLine/status/1237805678023999495

Also is there something significant about a limit of 1000 people? Why that number?