skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Even in Wuhan, there were a total of some 80,000 cases (an overestimate) out of a population of 11 MILLION in the city alone, and 19 MILLION

You are grossly misinformed if you think that number is anywhere near correct. For a multitude of reasons - people weren't being tested, test kits ran out, hospitals turned people away, cause of death listed as pneumonia, bodies burned without being tested.

The Chinese numbers are CCP PR bullshit. Once again they would not shut down the entire GDP for two months over something so benign. They would not close down Mecca - the holiest site in the world for 1-2 billion people - over something so benign.

We'll all find out soon enough. The US is quickly approaching the high derivative portion of the exponential curve.
There has been no product shortages in China except for facemasks. Since the first days of the lockdown till today, e-commerce is still working, deliveries are still being made. Supermarkets and pharmacies are still open. There are reduced hours and the vast majority of brick and mortar shops are closed, but no one is struggling to find daily necessities.

One area that does seem to be lacking is gyms, beauty salons, barber shops etc. But really those things are luxuries - people are able to go on without it.

Lockdown really sucks but it doesn't suck because of a lack of goods. It sucks because a massive number of people in pink collar/service roles are unable to work. It sucks because the government, and other fearful people, have
essentially decided that face-to-face social interaction is not a prerequisite for a functioning society. That might sound fine to someone who is introverted and a homebody anyways, but when interactions have been forced onto the internet or behind masks and checkpoints for months, I dunno... For me it's really trying. I don't so much miss the products of life before coronavirus as I miss the society we had.
I wouldn't lump them together. There is a chasm between the adoption numbers for H.264 and H.265, HEVC failed gain the momentum AVC did --which is exactly the point GP is making.

MPEG-LA is indeed well connected to lobbying parties and Hollywood, which established HEVC as the codec for 4K Blu-ray discs. (I personally don't remember the last time I borrowed an optical disc to watch a movie. I actually don't even own any type of optical disc driver anymore!). However, VP9 dominates over HEVC in streamed media.
Homes going up, but only the rich can afford them
Makes sense. Should have happened long ago. All those old voltages date from when +5 from the power supply was used directly by the logic. Facebook's Open Compute rack delivers only +12 to the boards and drives, and that's from 2011. There's a power supply in the base of the rack that takes in three-phase AC or 48 VDC or whatever and puts out +12VDC. All other conversion is on the board. This is just catching up desktops to where the data center went years ago.
That new JS-port of HSLuv C sounds great. Would love to see it published!
>"Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat if you spot the heat coming around the corner" is a good piece of advice if you want to avoid a bad situation.

I'm pretty sure most "bad situations" could not have been helped with a go bag.

This is an interesting thought experiment, but the selling points seem silly.
I only read the ;gloss over my points you made, so drill in a bit more before I listen.

> a lot of his leaking. They found various kinds of evidence. A lot of it was covered up, but a lot wasn't.

Point still kind stands.

> I would bet the majority of people who download child pornography probably never end up getting on anyone's radar. Or at least a large percentage don't.

Oh you would bet ? well let me discard all facts then. Same shit doesn't apply when you work in CIA/FBI (not sure who looks at that shit), if it does and the agency you use to figure it out cant realise shit in their own group, then fuck me that might be more worrying than a cunt next door. The govmnt needs to do their fucking job and clean that shit up.

> Sure, I don't like that one bit, but it's a huge leap to go from

I refer to the above. You don't like it ? Bullshit, you're defending it.

End to End Encryption is perfect.

Prove me wrong.
What is terrifying of denying people acting like pigs the possibility of spreading their shit? I mean in general, not only because of the current scare. They should be TAZED by some installed automatic system.
So I guess this makes it cheaper to make lower-idling power supplies; or does a high quality current ATX PSU, like one of the Seasonic Titanium models, not meet the CEC standards for idle power?
MobileVet, as an ex-Evolution Robotics person, I might have some media you're interested in (they might have come from you, if I'm guessing correctly who you are...).

Email me at jjwiseman@gmail.com.
I see, thanks, my original comment was not very well informed.
There are reported some (20%?) cases that are asymptomatic where you don't really do anything except infect others. But that's disputed by other sources and it's also plausible that these are presymptomatic cases with long incubation period.

Out of the mild cases, some are comparable to severe flu with symptoms like cough, fever, achiness all over and sometimes (10%?) diarrhea. There's a difference in that symptoms common in flu and colds such as runny nose and sneezing are not associated with Covid-19, this is more targeting the lungs. Something like half of mild cases would get pneumonia i.e. bed-ridden with fluid in your lungs and difficulty of breathing; that's significantly beyond most cases in flu, but comparable to the complications of a bad flu, which sometimes results in pneumonia. That's counted under the mild cases, as there are no invasive procedures required and you're going to survive this without hospitalization - that is the criteria for a mild case, it doesn't imply that the patient would call it mild, it means that they'll feel shitty in their bed but not die.

Moderate cases (perhaps 10-15% of total, reports vary significantly between countries) have severe pneumonia that would require hospitalization and supplementary oxygen. If you try to go to work with a case that turns out to be moderate, that's where you can become the "videos of people collapsing" event because during that single day you can get worse and start lacking oxygen. Still, you're going to be mostly conscious and survive that if you're in a hospital, i.e. if the hospital system isn't totally overwhelmed.

In severe cases (something like 5%) you can't breathe on your own even with extra oxygen. This requires intubation and ventilation for a prolonged time (weeks), which is a limited capacity (both in terms of ventilators and of the skilled medics needed to do that), a big strain on your body, and you're going to die if hospitals can't provide that. And there are reports from Italy that even right now with just 7500 confirmed infected cases they can't ventilate everyone who needs it, and they need to triage who won't be getting it.

We have data that older people are much more likely to die. However, as far as I know, data does not suggest that young people are less likely to get hospitalized and need invasive interventions - it's just that they are strong enough to survive the ordeal. The case of Italy/Lombardy first known case may be illustrative of severe cases in younger patients - it's a 38 year old marathon runner, he's supposedly released from intensive care yesterday as he's able to breathe on his own again. He was hospitalized for a bit more than three weeks, two of those in intensive care with artificial breathing/ventilation.
Stuck at home with your kids because of school closures? Don’t freak out
How quickly is the Universe expanding?
Thoughtful and level-headed response. :)

We might ballpark the number of global deaths – in the optimistic case† at between 20,000 and 30,000 souls. Not a global tragedy, on a scale of the recent Ebola outbreak, but warranting much more drastic action.

There's a huge sense of urgency. We could have a vaccine before the next flu season in the northern hemisphere.

† assuming not every country acts quickly when the time comes nor acts as effectively as China
The FDA and Coronavirus
It requires very good engineering, from software to hardware, from Webml to pricing to OMS to connectivity to trade large order volumes during a storm.

Robin Hood took market share by being cheaper than other brokers. Cheaper rarely means better (more robust, reliable, etc). That's the price you pay for not paying higher fees.

Full disclosure: I shop around for low fees. But that's because I buy and hold boring index funds. It makes no difference to me whether I can trade into or out of a position today or even this week. If you need to change positions quickly or die, for God's sake, don't pick the cheapest supplier.
The dollars and cents of raising vc during the coronavirus pandemic
Use a builder until you have enough time and cash to pay for a serious branding effort.

SquareSpace is good, but there are lots of static site hosts/builders that are tailored to early startups and will have better landing pages for your purposes.
> Seems strange that the market is kinda able to be manipulated like that.

You might consider it manipulation, but these circuit breakers have been in place for a long time now, IIUC ever since the major market crashes of the 80s when there was no way to slow down the drop. The idea is to potentially lessen panic selling by allowing more time for more information to come to light which might mitigate some of the volatility.

Of course, there is no guarantee that better news will surface in the meantime, but even if the eventual slide will be much larger, its better that it takes place over several days to allow counter-measures to be put into place.
Serious question, perhaps I'm misunderstanding something:

So long as bond yields are positive, they cannot depreciate in value, can they? As in if I pull out X dollars from the market and into bonds, assuming yields stay positive, I'm guaranteed X dollars out?

Or have I totally misunderstood how bonds work?
Subheading: "With cost of building, only luxury housing makes fiscal sense, builders say"

"To get anything built other than market-rate housing, which is running north of $1 million in Silicon Valley, said Schoennauer, requires some kind of subsidy."
WPEngine, a hosted WordPress provider, is great for blog type sites. If you're selling stuff with e-commerce, Shopify is easy, too. Both have plugins for A/B testing and other things you are likely to want.
> May, difficult

I have an interest in this (I booked a business trip to Italy end of May / beginning of June), but my gut feeling is that the country will not stand for two months of complete lockdown. Two weeks, sure; a month, probably; two months is a very long time to keep so many things on hold. Italy is not China.

I expect some measures will stay in place (particularly about large gatherings), but not all.
This is a key point. Especially if we actually start doing something about CO2 emissions, which will mean reducing energy consumption for the next couple of decades. Stock market growth has historically been tightly linked with energy consumption growth.
Seriously, how much mask training do you think healthcare professionals get? Nothing that a 2 minute YouTube video wouldn’t cover, I’d guess.
DOH! Replace the word transient with continuous.
Living in Milan.

Given the nature of this outbreak the real issue is not 'when' it is gonna happen anywhere else, but 'when'.

Italy has been hit first and I must say the reaction of the regions has been uneven, but in the future if the virus doesn't stop with the warmer weather, maybe your country is gonna keep people from flying abroad, so I think it's very difficult to make proper plans right now and, as far as tourism is concerned, 2020 is gone.
That's very cool! Could you explain a bit about what the colors mean? I'm especially intrigued by the painted road markings, which are clearly visible.
> The DJIA is asinine

It is superficially "asinine" because it is so narrow. However, the DJIA, S&P, Russell, etc all track/correlate each other.

> Look at any other index instead.

Or better yet, inlay the graphs of DJIA, S&P, Russell, Nasdaq, etc on the same chart for comparison. You'll see that the graphs all look similar. Meaning they all go up and down at around the same times.

It would seem that the broader indexes would better reflect the market as a whole. But in the real world, DJIA does good enough a job as the S&P, Russel, etc for a bird's eye view of the market.
The stock market was moving irrationally higher since November, and were not even at 52 week lows right now. So not necessarily.
I use Rover all the time, we have had a number of dog sitters offer themselves as a personal dog sitter off the Rover app for a small discount.

We always politely decline because of the layer of perceived security Rover offers with their insurance.
When I see how absurdly complicated these front-end JS frameworks are it makes me really hope that Blazor can deliver. But for some reason it also feels similar to times in the past where a word for promising tech was never more than a word. But please work, I don’t need or want two routing implementations and an entire MVC stack to manage on the damn client...
The biggest factor in what does or doesn't get upvotes is randomness, so you can't conclude anything from a single data point.

In that case (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22274728) also, the article wasn't in English, which makes it off topic here (we deeply respect other languages, but HN is an English-language site).
Depending on major he really isn’t wrong.
I agree - Flybe is the British Alitalia, they would have cracked at the first crisis anyway. Still, I'm happy to bet that, by June, they will not be the only airline to have folded.
I am sorry about hijacking this, but I don't know what's happening in Bergamo. Particularly hard flare of the virus, or something else? Tried searching for news, didn't get far.
Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic
Am I the only one who can't get this damn thing to run on macOS 10.14, Debian testing, or SL7-rolling? Despite pandas being installed I still get 'ImportError: No module named pandas'

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh well
Yeah and what happens when a false negative happens and you get an embarrassing unjustified alarm?
> are you suggesting that this is a double-layered conspiracy

No, I am not, I'm saying that it's possible someone had a bad reaction to the leaks so decided to (allegedly) plant data.

If you had a bit of common sense you would be able to read that.
Padlet (YC W13) is hiring engineers in San Francisco and Singapore
I disagree. I learned so much more in college and it opened me up to various fields I would have never even thought of. I had truly no idea about sociology, psychology, or philosophy before entering university and needing to take them to fulfill my general education requirements. Those classes opened my eyes up more to this world than anything before or after taking them.
> PSU vendors don’t want to release ATX12VO products for DIY builders until there are motherboards that support ATX12VO. Motherboard vendors don’t want to create products until power supply makers support them.

Seems like that could be addressed with one of two adapters:

- A passive adapter cable with a female ATX connector (with the 3.3V and 5V pins disconnected) and male ATX12VO connector

- An active adapter cable/board with a female ATX12VO connector, the necessary circuits to step voltages down to 3.3V and 5V, and a male ATX connector.

One or both of these could happen today and immediately solve that chicken-and-egg problem for the custom market, no?
Yes, now I see what you mean. Yeah HSLuv is not good for that. The SO answer @mark-r pointed gives a good information.

Gradients are complicated beasts, and are often rendered wrong, even by popular softwares like browsers.
> Conspiring to crash planes into financial and government buildings on 9/11

What are you talking about ? A little uncalled for on all accounts.

Cunt
> much more kept under-wraps than the previous quarantine of Northern Italy

Without that irresponsible leak, and the irresponsible reaction of people trying to "escape", this total lockdown would probably not be necessary.

People sometimes are right shits.
We can start with US Surgeon General (https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321... - "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus")

And off the first page of duckduckgo:
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-face-masks...

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/how-to-avoid-coronavirus...

But yes, many media companies are giving an appropriate message of either why there's little reason to wear a mask right now (little chance of random community spread today) or about the allocation of scarce masks to people who need them more.
OP here. Interesting, thanks for sharing!

I haven't read the book you mentioned, but have come across it a few times previously.

If you're wondering how the S4F course is different from this book (or other sales resources, such as Steli Efti's amazing content on early-stage sales), maybe this analogy will help:

Most sales resources are like programming tutorials - they'll teach you how to write a for loop, for example.

The S4F course, by comparison, doesn't teach you how to do sales prescriptively, so much as helps you debug how you're already doing sales reactively.

This is (in my experience after several iterations of the course) much more effective at helping you get sales results - as the real difficulty isn't in working out how to do sales, but instead in diagnosing what has gone wrong in the first place.

Happy to answer any questions (also about sales more generally).
> Most random doodads (e.g. internal fan controllers) have moved from using molex connectors in the past to SATA power connectors now.

They have? I've literally never seen this in the wild.
Or Borders...
> I would recommend reading the documents. Yes, some are long, but they're much more informative than completely blind speculation from HN commenters going off of nothing but a thread title.

I recommend you go and learn how to read. While you're at it, grab a history book.
"Just walk out" is what workers do to protest Amazon. What a strange name choice.
This was what my old boss had to deal with a couple years ago. With 18 direct reports, there simply wasn't enough time for 1:1s with everyone regularly, and he had some entry-level folks that really needed the weekly attention. He finally got management to fund the structure underneath him, divided the org into service groups, and added managers. It was a difficult transition for the people being moved into those groups. My advice: handle your transition sensitively, especially with people who have worked for you for a long time. It's hard not to perceive a move like that as a demotion, so be gentle and receptive, and involve them as much as you can in picking the new managers.
I made that up a while ago. It seems obvious, which doesn't mean a study would be uninteresting! Unless they repeated it too often.
You will see in the coming weeks that medical services across country's simply can not cope and have not had the foresight to stockpile medical resources apart from FEMA who have stockpiled many many coffins as viewers of Prison Planet will no doubt know about. It seems the lessons of the 1918 Spanish Flu have been forgotten yet this infected 27% of the planets population 100 years ago. Sure only 2billion people were on the planet back then unlike now where in just 100years the population has increased 4 times, but they didnt have planes or cars to move around more quickly or easily to spread the virus like today. Spanish Flu also went on for 3 years back then, so all our Just In Time manufacturing and supply chains with high efficiency means little spare slack. How quickly increased demand can be met will be interesting to watch, but in Italy in some hospitals its reported that those with best chances of survival are being put on respirators and others are being left to die, and in the UK they are only testing for Covid-19 once someone has developed pneumonia so many people could be infected and transmitting it. The reason is that the test needs a certain viral load before it will register so its possible for people to be infected and a subclinical result ie tests negative is returned when in fact they are not negative so it wastes a test. The UK also only has 25% of the accident and emergency beds that Germany has despite having similar population levels which probably explains why they want people to self isolate at home. I am reminded of the Denver airport murals though.
Counting the DRAM row buffer as a separate cache layer is interesting because it has meaningful performance impact, but mainly because existence of such an thing is good counter argument to people who think that DRAM chips have RAS/CAS multiplexed address pins only to save package pins.
The SwagUp Guide to Bootstrapping to 8 Figures in Under 3 Years
Yeah, it's not perfect, and I suspect we don't see colors the same way (monitor not calibrated the same way, and even our vision might be different), but it is "good enough" to avoid common pitfalls like having white text on yellow.
Like how they rolled out call center in a box on AWS which both on boards more to AWS and helps train speech and linguistics models.
Perhaps I should've said "actual value" rather than "actual price", but my point otherwise still stands.
In China we have been on economic halt since late January. The hospitals stay open, utilities are running, food deliveries, all of that is still working. There is no shortage of food or other daily products.

What has changed is that almost everything is being delivered from online store or purchased from supermarket or pharmacy during restricted hours. Anybody who worked a pink collar job before has no job now. Anybody who owned a brick and mortar business before is hoping that the government grants will cover the rent and allow it to reopen if/when things finally go back to normal.

Lockdown like this is no doubt devastating to the economy. I don't think we've seen the worst of it yet. But so far it hasn't affected supply of food, clothing, shelter.
Regulating technology is difficult. You can easily set up a mechanical seatbelt test that tests a mechanism 1000 times, but how would you test an algorithm? Also, many people died before seatbelts became mandatory; so much for "back in the day".
What happens when France and Germany and Spain reach Italy totals? Who will be left to help out?
I use gmail that way too! Never made the connection to the git thing though.
> It's better than WebP by a bigger margin than WebP was better than JPEG.

Depending on certain definitions of better. Image quality is certainly superior in JPEG than in (lossy) WebP.
So, maybe this will be the exception, but:
- Amazon bookstores have never been successful, that I've seen; I recall the headline "Amazon sucks all the joy out a physical bookstore"
- Amazon took Whole Foods over, and from what my wife tells me it is now kind of a creepy vibe because so many shelves aren't full

People don't just go to retail to get stuff; if that were all, they would all have gone delivery long ago. If the vibe at a store is wrong, they won't go in, for reasons that have more to do with subconscious than conscious reasoning.

I am skeptical.
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You can read this report from a doctor there (translated in English on reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_...

(the original links in Italian are at the bottom of the post if you prefer that)
And some recent examples are a terrible fit, I remember them aligning much smoother. A clear sign that manufacturers consider them second class. And nobody will complain, because it just strengthens the pre-existing assumption that the new plugs are better.