skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's anything that web devs are good at it's making it convenient to stay alone at home.

No need to minimize the value of people's skills.
He's not there psychologically.
Every single one of these tools only connect to Gmail. It's kind of a bummer.
1. The population of infected people in Italy for some reason include an incredible amount of old people. If you see the aggregates VS South Corea, they have a lot of young people infected. So you get more fatalities per people infected. (Italy population, together with the one in Japan, is the oldest of the world, but this yet does not explain the difference, it's like if the cluster here originated from people at a certain age and also due to sociality patterns of old people here, or more likely, see "2" below).

2. Italy, because of the size of the epidemic event we are facing, is sampling only people that go to the hospital in serious conditions. Other countries are sampling the more general population, finding a lot of positive cases with mild symptoms or asymptomatic at all. So there is a selection bias.

3. It also depends on the way you count people. In Italy we are counting as a COVID19 victim even people severely ill that once dead are positive for the virus.

TLDR: you can't compare such numbers.
Google is way more effective removing the monetization of a video because there is 2 seconds that sound like a copyrighted song than anything else.

Because that is a way easier problem to solve. I'm not up on modern AI, but I can imagine figuring out how to catch unlicensed material when the owners provided me a copy. The idea of understanding the factual correctness of any arbitrary video seems impossible
He's talking about after you filter them with automation.

When you have enough machines, 10 of them are always running hot.
they're building testing capacity to test everybody arriving in the country.
This seems like a cool idea, but from reading the info on the page I don't quite understand exactly what it is. Is it a mail client? I think it is? If it is an email client, does it have mobile apps? Or do I keep using my gmail app as is?

Sorry if I'm missing the obvious, but those were my first set of questions after reading the site.
Amid COVID19 outbreak Brazil president attends and encourages demonstrations
That ^^^
Germany tries to stop Trump from luring away firm seeking coronavirus vaccine
Layoffs Are Coming
Plural anecdotes, but: most folks I’ve seen on social media, Reddit, friends very much have interpreted “social distancing” as withdrawing from society. On the NYC and coronavirus subreddits the consensus seems to be that you’re a selfish piece of garbage if you leave the house for any non-essential reason.

The bully pulpit is supremely important in these situations, and no government so far seems to have used it responsibly to disseminate a consistent message early enough to citizenry. Worse yet, in the US ones politics seems to be particularly predictive of opinion on coronavirus.

My current feeling is that the virus was not taken seriously when action could have mattered, and now the goal of government and citizenry is to reduce the carnage to both medically vulnerable folks (old people) and to economically vulnerable people. The latter risk in particular scares me, as there are many folks in the US who are going to be severely impacted by politicians reacting severely way too late who are too cowardly to protect those vulnerable people adequately.
Safe is relative, sure, but not loaded. Pretty much everything can cause real problems if you have asthma, it doesn't have anything to do with PG per se.
Covid LockDown, Spain, Day 1 Of 15
Prediction: this creates more panic and the market will sell off again tomorrow.
you can do this with mathpix snip (mathpix.com). disclaimer: i'm a founder
exactly correct and amazingly this is not what bojo says.
This article is "fake news" and FUD.

Quoting the article:

> The UK should not be trying to create herd immunity, that will take care of itself.

That's a clear blatant lie.

UK is NOT trying to create a herd immunity. UK is trying to flatten the curve. And UK is admitting that 60% population will get invected. And then the UK will get herd immunity.

For example, it is explained (again) in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8

Feel free to downvote, that's a popular sport here on HN.
I spend less than $50/year and Juul are not the most popular device.
I have that feeling that I've already read this article some time ago.
It is expressly not survival of the fittest.

It is fine to state this is risky, it is. It’s unproven, also true. However the methodology is not survival of the fittest (do nothing). Don’t miss label.
That’s the bit I don’t get - what’s the end game with the lock down? Are you hoping that everyone actually gets it slowly over the course of being isolated (ish). Otherwise have you not just postponed the issue until you set everyone free again?
Right they confirmed that the US has been reaching out to companies to supply funding, which is what I just quoted. There is no evidence other than anonymous sources that the Trump admin was looking for an 'exclusive' cure only for the US.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents. They're predictable.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Dumb question: does this mean normal citizens can take out loans at near-0% interest, or something close to that? I know credit card interest rates are typically tied to “the fed rate” but a but higher?
Fed cuts main interest rate to near zero, to boost assets by $700B
When the rich people act like us proles, it's news and we give them adulation.
Yes https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_China
Federal Reserve cuts rates to zero
My instinct is that as many people were willing in the past, but with modern social media use, everyone who is willing is made aware of all the best return policies to abuse.
If you're married to someone, you still separate your finances? That boggles my mind.
MathJax 3.0 is a fantastic project and is a huge improvement over MathJax 2.0 (much faster, uses SVG) as well as Katex (by just supporting much more math than Katex).

We use it throughout our company (mathpix.com) and in fact built an abstraction on top of it to render markdown + latex together:

https://github.com/Mathpix/mathpix-markdown-it

which uses MathJax 3.0 to render math and to do math conversion.
That'd be racist or white supremacy, or something. Australia doesn't care about this.
Surely that’s not a viable long term solution?
You have to click on 'free', go to https://www.culturall.com/ticket/ists/login.mc , register an account (email/password), and then it plays in-browser. https://www.culturall.com/ticket/ists/performance_schedule.m... lists at least 11 things to stream with '0,00 €', which I assume is how they're doing 'free'.
Are there any mushrooms that have shown antiviral effects against SARS or other viruses in the Coronavirus family?

I know there are a ton of studies on this for plant-based medicine in relation to SARS and MERS, but I haven't looked much into mushrooms for this. (Even as an amateur mycologist.)

I know folks have been recommending cordyceps for COVID-19, but not because it has antiviral properties. Given that hunting for cordyceps is about the only safe thing to do in NYC right now, maybe this will be the year I actually find it for myself. (Albeit the species that's common in NYC doesn't have any history of being used medicinally afaik.)
You keep saying the aim isn't to create herd immunity, but that was the way the government introduced the delay phase.

They've pulled back a bit from it because they've seen the vehement public reaction to it.

Cummings may well be evil, but he's not stupid.
Compress your responses. A giant wall is not conducive of anything.

Unconstitutional because there is no such thing as a "fair" cost for things, and when the state intrudes on commerce in a capricious, arbitrary manner it is unconstitutional, as has been shown countless times in countless cases.

This isn't difficult. Though again you accuse me of misreading the thread. LOL.
Previous submission was wrongfully flagged as misleading, even though Bolsonaro tweeted about the demonstrations and attended one of them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584231

It is a shame that Hacker News can be so easily manipulated, particularly when it comes to a world health crisis.
Probably depends how much you walk on them and on what surfaces. I wear slippers 95% of the time indoors and none of my socks have ever developed holes. (They lose elasticity and unravel first.)
Coronavirus Mac Menu bar and Mobile Webapp – Realtime Reddit and global news
Made this overnight to have one click access to

- Number of confirmed cases worldwide as well as broken down by country (Official data, JHU CSSE dataset )

- Global top stories & recent news articles

- Realtime feed from reddit /r/Coronavirus/ as well as top stories of the day.

Mobile Webapp - https://trackcovid19.app
Mac menubar app - https://trackcovid19.app/TrackCovid19.app-0.1.0.dmg

What you think?
I agree the UI for the second point is annoying. There's a workaround though: The option you wanted is preselected. You can press enter and get the action you wanted without a mouse.
It’s not true, Italy had exactly the same deaths per day two weeks ago. They introduced the complete lockdown what will be tomorrow. They had 2 weeks of advantage compared to Italy, they already knew what the future was going to look like, and they squandered it all without doing anything.
Now uk is going to be in a much worse situation compared to Italy because of this. Just one day of delay in an exponential curve can mean possibly tens of thousands death. Here we are speaking about weeks or months of delay if they really want to infect 60% of the people.
The nazis probably caused less deaths in concentration camps than boris, but we’ll know for sure in a couple of months.
Plus the main risk is to their families, so appealing to their drive home is kind of twisted.

Plus, one defector company when all the others shut down and stop the spread gets a huge advantage, by passing on externalities to all the rest, so it is a selfish move as well.
Try https://archive.org/details/TheodoreJohnKaczynskiIndustrialS... ?
Is Leaving the China Supply Chain Due to Coronavirus a Pipe Dream?
That was an extremely long post to avoid addressing the actual concern - that there aren’t enough hospital beds to support a country that doesn’t aggressively and ruthlessly implement social distancing and contract tracing right now.
Also, for some context...

Milkdrop is a open-source music visualization engine which renders on the GPU. Over the last 19 years, about 52,000 Milkdrop presets have been created by the community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilkDrop
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26859747_Upregulati...

"Upregulation of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) 2 in hepatic fibrosis by ACE inhibitors"
Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rate to near zero
The collaborative idea is something I'm thinking about. I want it to eventually balance on "easy sharing / collab on sets of cards" with "still able to be personal", since learning is fundamentally a personal experience. I'm happy to talk about this more or setup some time to talk: please email at arh.hoskins@gmail.com
I've seen a wide variety of unique and distinguishing behavior in high-functioning autists such as those with Aspergers. Muted empathy, resistance to non-verbal cues, unusally strong emotional responses to unexpected events, etc.

I don't think it's quite fair for you to label these "flaws". I think "challenges" is a more useful term. I know these behaviors can be very difficult to deal with, but I've also been amazed at some powerful abilities that seem unique to high-functioning autism, and which possibly go hand-in-hand with the challenges.
How is it forced? In most Western countries you are free to leave the country and not pay any taxes.
Under certain assumptions, young and healthy people getting infected would be the best course of action: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/expose-the-young.html
It's a 100% chance.
Knowingly and insistently using a different jargon/vernacular from a person with whom you want to communicate isn't going to get you far.
just think of him as any other human you might encounter. He made his money one way that's all. Why do we listen to billionaries and think that money gives wisdom is itself worth considering.
The practical reality is that libaom is benchmarked against routinely. It is the benchmark.

See some benchmarks here:

https://videocodectracker.dev/

https://arewecompressedyet.com/
What other result could come from the global economy basically crawling to a halt for - best case scenario - a month or two?

Not to be glib but I think most people understand this.
>> but given the best experts in the field are openly questioning the approach, you can be... pretty sure, your gut feel about it is wrong.

Aren't there some experts making the policy decisions in the UK or are they leaving it to the interns? There can be disagreements even among experts.
CFR isn't a number, it's a function. it has a discontinuity at the point where hospitalized case count becomes greater than available hospital bed count.
It's fine that _you_ won't stand for it, but for the general population Bach _is_ considered classical and your comment reads as if you're denying that.
This timing is really unfortunate. I work as a freelance software engineer and my assignment ended a month ago. I've been looking for a new assignment, but it looks like nobody is hiring right now. I'm preparing for burning through all my saving because I don't see it change easily in the next months :(
The Fed rate is the interest rates that the Fed pays banks for their deposits in the Fed. By lowering it, they’re incentivizing the banks to loan the money and provide liquidity into the market. Since banks need to make a profit on everything, they’ll loan the money out at a higher rate for things like mortgage, car loans, and credit cards. Depending on the credit worthiness and the collateral, the rates will differ (mortgage lower than an unsecured credit card). Ultimately, the Fed lowering the rates will lower all interest rates, but you’ll never get to 0% as a consumer.
A handy one to add to your list is:

seq[0]

EDIT: I didn't see that you had already included 'jot' so removed it from my original reply.

0 - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=seq&apropos=0&sekt...
Open Source Coronavirus Risk Reduction Tactics
Where are these so called skyrocketing salaries? If a handful of companies in the valley paying people decent salaries because they generate them billions, what's the problem? There are hordes of capable tech people in the world,yet companies decide to establish themselves in the vicinity of these high paying companies and then complain about how hard it is to hire people,because they are expensive...Go figure.
There are rumors, not “some evidence.”
It’s not an exponent, it’s a logistic. That may or may not change the outcome but you can’t just ignore the part of the trace line that doesn’t fit the scare narrative right?
This is a terrible thing to do right now.
No, this is the fed fund rate, which is just for banks to borrow really short term (overnight usually) to each other. Most consumer loans are based on the prime rate, which has a few points added to the fund rate to cover the cost of borrowing.
Yeah, I misremembered the growth rate in Italy. But check out the reference that I provided, most countries are in the high 20s / low 30s, many of them for multiple weeks.

If there really was a 10% "true" growth, and higher growth was just testing capacity ramping up, you would see very few straight lines in that plot. Yet that is what you see in all cases except for China, South Korea and Iran.

Also, you can't look at the world-wide growth rate since January like that, since that includes a period where the total number of cases was totally dominated by Chinese cases, but China had slowed already. Actually, the fact that you get 15% by using this approach which substantially underestimates the growth shows that 10% is way too low.
FWIW: corporate layoffs are going to lag somewhat. For PR reasons, no one wants to be seen as dumping folks during a crisis. And for accounting reasons, the need to balance the sheets generally lags by a quarter (that is, virtually no employer is "agile" with its layoffs).

The more immediate job losses are in the service sector, and that is happening already.
Visa built its own container security solution
Related from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10473491

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904260
Sometimes I wonder if the harm reduced by "flattening the curve" is greater than the harm introduced by flattening the global economy...
My parents have been happily married for over three decades with separate finances.
Good for them, lets see how long that takes and how effectively that works at a pre-epidemic scale, and over the long term.
This is an incredibly bearish signal. The Fed essentially turned its biggest lever all the way, and there's little left in their toolbox. One can only speculate as to why they're panicking like this, but my guess is that it's largely political.

The next big thing would be for the Fed to start buying stocks directly, probably through ETFs, which is something it currently can't do. At the moment it can only buy mortgage backed securities and bonds.
In Italy they use old laws for murder when you violate your isolation and infect others.

Australia, NZ, U.S., Italy, they all see sustained local community spread. Australia is still exponentially increasing. Shutting down flights when there is local community spread is show politics, something to point to afterwards and say: We took decisive action. It is purely symbolic.

Sure, U.S. could pass emergency law and use their military surveillance systems to track, tag, and contact trace all of their civilians, as if they were Chinese spies.

But is this desirable in a free society? And what difference does it make when there are 100.000 infections in a single state, of which you will miss a 100 and start all over again 2-3 weeks later, but now with 99.900 angry citizens with guns?

One of the reasons that SARS-CoV is deemed a useable bioweapon is exactly because isolation security methods are very expensive and invasive at scale. The cultural damage would be enormous if people receive letters from the government after they had a private chat on Facebook about symptoms.
Two weeks means a significant difference in the number of people infected this season, which means a lower exponent in the rate of spread next time.
And just like how I interpret Nietzsche in the context of him being the third wheel in an open relationship, this feels like someone who is reacting because they feel let down by the promises of "leftism" or society in general. It says more about the psychic state of the author than about the truth of the world.
Fed slashes key interest rates to 0% and announces $700B QE program, dollar swap
Despite no screenshots I gave it a try.

It actually works well, it automatically read the contexts from my local kubectl configuration and it's got a dark theme. I'll be properly test-driving this for the following days.
Can someone just sell Bidets = better for the environment, and this ridiculous fighting over TP in the developed world ends.
I wouldn’t totally put it past Trump to announce it therefore forcing Google’s hand. But it also seems reasonable that someone in the Admin has a conversation with someone high up at Google and most of Google wasn’t aware of it immediately.

It clearly wasn’t straight up invented out of thin air, because the 1,700 number correlates. Someone gave him that number after talking with Google.

Either way... IMO, booting it into Google’s court (whether they truly volunteered or not, maybe we’ll never know) is a way more effective way to get the site done quickly than trying to get it done inside the government. I guess we’ll see what they stand up in the next week.

Personally I really like the idea of “Corporate America” pulling out all the stops in every way that they can to provide COVID support. Whether it’s credit cards waiving payments and interest, tech companies donating software/services, retail stores volunteering space and workers to support outreach and testing efforts. I’d love to see a massive mobilization of the commercial sector truly bringing everything they have to bear on this challenge.
Looks remarkably similar to what Front have been doing for several years. https://frontapp.com
An AI system that has been trained on survivability based on easily cheked comorbidities (age, BMI, smoker) that can instantly do triage and let hospitals know whether or not to allocate a hospital bed/ventilator to an incoming patient.
>but you’ll never get to 0% as a consumer.

Unless we see negative fed rates. Not that I think going so negative we see consumer level 0% mortgages is likely.
I get the sentiment, but consider: the economy will recover. Some people exposed to corona virus will not.
it's the most viable until a vaccine comes, so why not?
Tried using gather_facts=false and raw module to setup python ?

Example : https://yourlabs.io/oss/bigsudo/blob/master/bigsudo/bootstra...

Bigsudo ansible wrapper always plays that no matter what and as a result ansible never fails because of missing python.
Availability is actually also a part of security, complementing privacy and confidentiality...
This.... is not what’s going to happen. Much less for a skilled worker in this forum.

Glad to know this fella is a dev and not an Econ quack.
Ancedote time.

My job was ending due to bad sales, my next job is on hold until people return to work.

Our daycare said they are charging us money but we can't come (they said this week only... But this is after we complained).

The only business but really affected? My wife's company who treats people 1 on 1. But who knows even that might be slowed down from paranoid customers.
I am not sure if I'm lucky or unlucky - I recently, meaning 15 days ago quit my job. It was a decision prepared well in advance.

I'm glad because I am mentally prepared to not work for quite a while with okayish amount of savings. I'm sad because this means all my own business plans, that I prepared my savings for, are on hold.

Im still not sure is it better to go through resection with no work but with savings or just work through it.
Sorry, you are correct. I was thinking of situations like this:

fn assign(a: &mut Bar, b: &Bar) {
a.foo = b.foo;
}

assign(&mut a[0], &a[1]);

Bit contrived - next time Rust stops me doing something simple I will note it down!

Again to be clear, I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with Rust here.
It’s absolutely separate from the Verily work, because they explicitly say that.

Other than that all we know is it’s “information about COVID symptoms, risk, and testing information”. Which at least aligns roughly with what was announced on Friday.
We have ways as a society to make sure an economic downturn doesn't kill anyone. We can't say the same thing about an unchecked pandemic.
Unfortunately it's not clear cut as there is a real human cost to each.
Is that to say it's better to be dead than unemployed?

Not meaning to be glib nor overly dramatic. But I thought the whole point is that flattening the curve eases load on hospitals meaning they turn away fewer people, and thus more of them survive. So the question you are asking is: how much is preventable loss of life worth?
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Essentially employee non-compliance with a capitalist induced higher wages. What a wonder.
Waste heat production scales with system load.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586822
Shenzhen IO is also worth checking out.
you want to be a part of this effort? don't go.
Can you elaborate? The page you link to, does not say anything about censorship.