skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but let's be honest. Most users don't want a specific app. They want functionality. They'll pay for functionality in a React App while eschewing a native app without the functionality. The practice of this means solving the problem the fastest is the most important part. And if someone can rapidly build a native app so be it, but if they can only rapidly build React apps that's what they should do.

Or they can do otherwise and they'll learn.
> Am I way out of band or does that seem like a comically small amount of money for the average American?

You are way out of band. The average American can't afford an unexpected $500 bill, lives pay-check-to-pay-check and doesn't have education beyond high school. $1k month would be HUGE for the average American.

Most common jobs are truck driving, retail workers, food prep and service.

You probably just live in an echo chamber where most people you live around and associate with are college educated people in professions like IT, Marketing, Accounting, etc.
Even in China, lockdowns are starting to be lifted now after like 2 months. So buying people two months is a HUGE deal.

There are other measures in talks too, like eviction protection during the duration of the outbreak as a state-wide in California. Utility companies have agreed not to shut off power and water for those late on their bills. So $1000 would go a long way keeping people from not starving, and maybe even go further to cover all costs like you mention in your case.
"'hacker' 'news' needs their hourly reminder that people are WFHing"
I didn't say public registries.
Yeah in general, logistics needs to remain unimpeded or you hit a whole new level of problem.
Microsoft has a habit of releasing a new UI toolkit for Windows a few times a decade and then only supporting it for a year or two.
Congratulations on launch. I was initially interested in idea. I installed the app to try it out, but gave up on registration. I would use it offline and don't like the need for account. You might reconsider it as unnecessary barrier. I also avoid apps with ads.

Also, why call it DAG when it is a tree? It has a root and cannot have more than one path between nodes.
> The documentation suggests adding the AmazonEC2RoleforSSM policy to the role of the EC2 instances

Which documentation do you mean? The article mentions the policy AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore, which is the same as what's mentioned in the SSM setup guide:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
I try to not anthropomorphize companies.

They're made up of many small and hardly interconnected parts.

Whoever made some despicable decisions 25 years ago, almost certainly don't work there anymore.
I saw this and immediately and intuitively read the face.

It clicked like no other clock design I've ever seen.

I may be in a .001% of people who see this and truly grok it, but that's fine. I'd wear a watch again for this.
No, and I'm also not one to give medical advice on internet forums.
Yes. They are not updating their status page.

I am back to being mostly offline right now for multiple sites.
I’m not OP, just a concerned parent who is trying to figure things out. I have not been able to locate a single scientific study about this. Rather, the evidence all seems to be news reports of people testing positive, then negative and then positive again. Since it isn’t scientific, all the usual caveats apply - we don’t know much about how effective those tests were and again, these are news reports.

If you’re interested, I can post some news reports. Forbes actually has a pretty good rundown of the various news articles, but Forbes isn’t always the best place for facts or safe browsing, so I’ll avoid posting that one. In the interest of fairness, I can also post (much older) news reports that called HIV/AIDS “Gay Related Immuno-deficiency” and we know how good that science was.
I think you're on point.

I'd also add that beyond shared activities or goals, there's mutual need as a basis for relationships. My grandparents were born peasant-farmers (Ireland, the 20s). They had very strong social bonds. Yes, they had institutions like church and such. But, they also just needed favours from eachother all the time. Every day a neighbor would stop by to help with something. Move sheep, fix fences, diagnose crop problems, watch kids, loan tools.

Interesting point about "*do you want to be friends" approaches. The thing is, we do exactly this for dating. It's just as awkward, we just have a social context for it. These days, we have apps for it.
What's the boundary between "performing" and "behaving in a socially expected way"?
Yup. This is an _extensively_ studied problem. Money works. It works in an African village and in an Alabama trailer park the same. The main argument against giving people money is only an ideological one, that we "shouldn't" give people money rather than that it doesn't work better.
Yes, though we've had a few successful loads in the past few minutes. Started around 3:48 EDT, no requests until 3:57 EDT, when a few started trickling in.

Edit: finally an incident: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1974
Looking for Covid-safe remote job
Hi!

I am a software engineer from the EU and I am looking for a job with solid background. Weekly/biweekly payment is quite important to me, because I think the upcoming financial crash will be huge. I am doing my best to prevent my personal infection, maybe it's also a good thing to hear as an employer.

It would be nice to join a team which is remote by default or based in South-Korea or Japan (which successfully solved COVID) and/or in a sector which is reliable even in current circumstances: like Zoom or other collaboration tool provider companies, which won't go broke now. Many companies are going to sink now, I am aware of that and I appreciate the safety.

My stack/background is:
React, React Native, Unity3d, javascript, typescript, python, git, docker. I can send resume or check my dev account
on Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Ingyenes+Magyar+Szókereső+Szójáték+Játék+Magyarul&hl=en
or
in the Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/hu/developer/zoltan-peto/id1257332768

I had one of my games in top 2 word games in my region (Hungary) both on ios and android. You can check yourself online. I also know app store optimization both for Apple Store and Play Store.

In this situation I am completely okay with any job which fills my requirements: solid background and trustworthiness. I can start asap.
Hi from Argentina!

A few yeas ago when my daughter was young, we teach her English using DVDs with subtitles in English. So she could choose to see the movie with the voices in Spanish/English/Portuguese and the subtitles in Spanish/English/Portuguese. The more sane configuration to learn English are the sound in English with Spanish subtitles or the sound in English with English subtitles, but sometimes she used other configurations for fun.

Can you get a few DVDs with English/German combination? They are probably difficult to find now, and the DVD zones are painful. But perhaps you can use the idea with another implementation.

PS: From the experience of a few friends that live abroad, the real native language is the language in the kindergarten, not the language of the parents.
Bay Area Counties announcing a “virtual lockdown”
"L'enfer, c'est les autres". I don't know what "the Other" you're referring to, "the other people" seems correct to me in meaning. IANAPhilosopher tho
Their status page is finally updated: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1974
This comment from few years ago is informative https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105142
As for SUVs I pretty much agree with your sentiment, but a 'proper' for lack of a better term 4x4 has a lot of things going for it -

-You're sitting significantly higher than most traffic, giving you a much better idea of what is going on around you.

-Mirrors tend to be very large by car standards, further enhancing your awareness.

-Large wheel arches tend to allow a smaller turn radius, making them surprisingly simple to drive.

-While riding tall, they are often both relatively short and narrow, further easing your life in traffic.

-Oh, and winters.

Anecdata - my Land Cruiser is shorter and narrower than my wife's VW Passat, has more than twice the trunk space and just over half the turn radius.

The penalty paid is the fuel consumption; when Toyota found out how thirsty the engine was, they shrugged and designed a larger fuel tank.
Sounds quite foundational and may impact a lot of fields.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200312192401/https://newsroom....

Nature link:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2057-7
RT-qPCR is indeed the common detection method right now. RT (reverse transcriptase) converts RNA->DNA, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) doubles DNA by replicating it over and over in heat cool cycles. To a first approximation, you get 2^n copies of the RNA (it was converted to DNA) where n is the number of heat cool cycles. By adding a fluorescent tracer, you get the q (Quantitative), so you can see how much DNA exists at each cycle. You can then fit a curve and see how much RNA (via its DNA complement) existed in the original sample. It's not actually that slow, you can do this in a couple hours if you have the right setup. The bottleneck is you do need time for the heating and cooling cycles. You also need to extract RNA from the sample first, which could be another bottleneck. I'm not totally clear on the relative cost, a good ELISA would eventually be cheaper, but qPCR itself isn't very expensive. The benefit is that qPCR is extremely sensitive, you WILL see if there is virus in the bloodstream. You can even use swabs and avoid blood altogether. Also, the minute you have a viral genome, you can make a qPCR test, you just need the sequence. That said, if you cleared the infection you will be negative under RT-qPCR.

An ELISA works differently. In this case you would present a part of the viral protein, the patient's antibodies will bind to it, and you then use another antibody (this one is conjugated to some sort of readout method, fluorescent or biochemical) which binds to generic human antibody. Now you have a stack: viral protein <> patient antibody <> readout antibody. You read out the signal provided by your readout, usually some sort of colorimetric thing (see home pregnancy tests, also an ELISA, slightly different configuration though). This works fast, can be manufactured in bulk, BUT requires do you have a protein(s) (in this case the viral protein) that is/are universally recognized by patient antibodies. It's a little trickier to develop. You also need to produce that protein at scale which can take a little time as well. Major benefit: with a good ELISA you WILL see not only whether someone IS infected but whether someone WAS infected for some period after illness regardless of symptoms. This is essentially the only way you'll get a really good number for baseline infection rate. That said, you likely actually need a blood draw.

In short, we need both, we probably could do a lot better than we are doing with qPCR in testing volumes and we could also really use an ELISA.

Source: PhD biochemist, have personally run these assays in various forms.

EDIT: Acronym expansion, source
I think you're talking about apples and oranges.

Sure, these nations might have lower median "wealth" figures, but they also typically have lower costs of living (maybe not Sweden, but Germany does). These countries also have much better safety nets than the US. And if the German savings rate is high, that means they can weather a crisis better than the average American. Americans may make more money, but when they blow it all on an enormous car payment for a giant SUV and a mortgage for the biggest house they could possibly get given their salary, and don't save anything, that leaves them in a precarious position when they have a temporary loss of income.
What are we up to now? 5, 6?
Were they returning any amount of return?
Bitcoin is volatile. No surprise there.
Well, it's a stupid fucking idea, to begin with. If donald wants to throw money at something, he should throw it at the actual problem (implementing a vaccine for the virus, improving the shit health care system in the US, etc). Giving people money that they are too scared to go spend will do nothing, except get support for an election. But hey, donald has no interest in actually governing.
I have savings, wasn’t my point, my point was that a lot of people aren’t as fortunate and choosing between having money to live (like basic needs live) and doing the right thing in a scenario like this shouldn’t be dependent on an employer per se
Emotional distance. Talk to a doctor or criminal lawyer. An important part of the job is to work really hard without getting distracted by emotional response to the details.
One especially odious thing recently: GitHub works with ICE to round up and terrorize undocumented people and their families. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-04...
What is the cost to someone who never used GOOG-411?
The Startup's Hierarchy of Needs
Show HN: Buy a gift card and support small business
Show HN: Small gatherings, hyperlocal meetups for recovering cities
And of course the homeless are exempt.

Don't think China or Singapore have that issue...
> The order calls for the sheriff or chief of police to “ensure compliance.”

What does this mean?
To clarify, this is what the president stated about 30 minutes ago during the ongoing press conference, when asked about his previous statement. Before that we only had the unqualified phrase.
Examples:

- don't need to keep beating the dead horse about American healthcare

- cars. In most European countries a car is not absolutely vital. A lot of America is "drive til you qualify", and car issues can easily be above a grand. You need a car to go even to the closest store many times, so quarantine would not really get rid of your need for a car.
Status page updated now: https://status.heroku.com/
reocurrence of incident 1973. https://status.heroku.com/incidents/1974
In general the switch to just-in-time for everything was a fair-weather decision. You goose can your margins when things are great, too bad about your supply chain when things are less than great.

This is probably OK for ice cream and computer hardware. Less so for medical supplies.
No you're thinking too much the cause of loneliness is living alone. It 100% starts and ends at how we live in modern society. Living spaces that have shared communal spaces for essential requirements like a kitchen, dining table or a Television room will end loneliness.

I have no doubt about this. The problem is, people living in these communal spaces complain about the lack of privacy or ownership. People don't know what they want even when the answer is in front of them. Humans have conflicting individualistic needs and needs for companionship as well, the dual nature of our desires actually evolved under communal living spaces so in actuality, despite the fact that you desire privacy, you're actually healthier if you give in to the alternative desire of companionship. People do need to own things but not to the extent that communal living spaces are abandoned.

What people think is that we're designed to search for this state of satisfaction even when living things aren't actually designed to ever reach this state. There is no evolutionary advantage to a creature who is perpetually content and therefore you will never be content. That being said my theory is humans are actually designed to live in communal spaces while being a bit discontent about the lack of privacy or ownership. This is the natural state of things similar to how you have endless desires to eat greasy unhealthy junk food but your desires are not evolved to be in an environment where such food is plentiful.

The alternative is to give in to your capitalistic desires and be lonely. I believe this is the worse alternative from pure anecdotal experience and from the way humans lived anthropologically in the past.
HN has showdead and vouching, which imho substantially reduce the negative effects of shadowbanning.

I run showdead, and most shadowbanned accounts deserve it. I also rescue the occasional comment from the grave.

Do the moderators un-shadowban users if they get enough vouched comments? No idea, but they do have enough information to do so.
I think this misses the forest for the trees to the overall point I’m making: we need better social safety nets, and I for one am okay paying even more for that
> What are you going to prop up when world travel and trade is shut down?

Pretty much all restrictions only apply to people, not goods. Trade is going to continue.
Relationships naturally form when people have common activities and goals.

That is part of it but I don't think it is all of it. Relationships form when people share membership in something like a "community", a larger group of people sharing common approach of "looking out for each other", of engaging in basic acceptance of each, common language, history and "values", to various extents.

This isn't saying that a relationship can't form between people not sharing a community but to an extent, such relationships have to expand to create the things that community naturally provides (making just "common interest" relationships a little fragile).

I mean, human beings began having relationships in terms of small bands deeply sharing an entire culture. The more developed human societies made those sorts of relationship more flexible but still fall what I'd vague call "deep commonality" but form such commonality in a "market place" is extremely difficult each person is going to feel a lack of the basic loyalty that "deep commonality" implied.
To be fair though it’s hard to convey irony in text, let alone a file name.
It's not gonna be three weeks, we're not that lucky.
3 people with electricity, networks, and computers.
Are you referring to the "Invoke" Python library http://www.pyinvoke.org ? Would you please explain a bit about how you use it for deployments?
A trustworthy Microsoft is one that has open sourced one or more of their core products. Anything less is just retaining their classic hostility towards outside engineers.
Conference are nice if you have time and money to go to them. You can almost the same amount of research publishing it in a written form.
> while the current impact of the virus itself is basically nil

You should read about Italy, and how they're running out of hospital beds. Which means usually non life threatening issues are getting much more serious.

It's not a boolean choice between "saving lives" and "saving the economy"... If you don't do anything: people get sick, sick people can't work, the economy tanks, hundred thousand people die. If you do something, less people get sick, the economy tanks anyway, but less people die. As it turns out it seems like most government prefer prioritizing human life over money.
I tend to disagree. There’s all kinds of cognitive biases that show we’re bad at updating our mental models
> Also, fool me once...

To be fair, their past offerings still work fine, they're just in maintenance mode. Which is exactly what a lot of people want- they stop changing and everything you built with them just keeps working.
It is important to understand that the "one single workflow" was very much what VSTS (Microsoft's GitHub competitor before they bought GitHub) was providing. It is very evident that Microsoft's enterprise background is shaping how GitHub is evolving.

GitHub is now very much focused on the end to end life cycle now that they have "GitHub One".
Because of robust social housing policies, yes. Homeless people exist but are much more rare. A large number of homeless people is the mark of a weak, dysfunctional society.
title should be "microsoft acquires NPM"
The landlords are using the rent to pay the mortgage on the property. If the banks suspend mortgage payments, then the landlords don't need to collect rent any more.

If the landlords desperately need that rent just to do basic maintenance and repairs, and don't have enough saved to deal with a possible problem that might happen in the next month, then they don't deserve to own the property.
What you don't get is Wall St and Corporate America will come up with 2000 different schemes to extract as much of that $1000 by tomorrow morning.
Wouldn't that still fit nicely in a market concept? Considering it as a market with options (in this case: different degrees of relatedness?) where every actor tries to optimize their success works well with the valuation of options being defined by an external metric.
Wouldn't they be afraid that if the rules are relaxed the single cases would spiral up and start it all over again?
District wise Covid-19 data for Kerala
Technically the Go module _proxy_ is hosted by Google. Even if the proxy went away, you'd still be able to get access to all of the packages as they're still hosted elsewhere. It just wouldn't be as fast.
> I would encourage folks to go outside run, bike, hike, etc. There's plenty of healthy options that won't put you at risk from contracting the virus.

Except that most of the world doesn't live in an American suburb where houses are 100 meters apart. For most of the world, going outside means bumping into somebody.
They have some LEDs that shine light into your skin. You're not detecting a specific pathogen by shining UR and visible lights.
If you read "Qt" for every mention of "WinUI", all the platitudes still hold true, and you additionally gain mobile, macOS + Linux support.
Anybody know an open source version of something like Plague Inc: Evolved ?
I sure as hell am not playing computer games now. I'm going to get my crisis preparedness up properly and try to help my community. But it would be an interesting thing to have for the quarantine phase...
I've had pneumonia several times in my life (mostly as a kid--both my parents were chain smokers), and bronchitis more times than I remember. I'm not asthmatic, though it's possible I'm borderline.

Respiratory illnesses are my achilles heel. One thing I always have on hand is Primatene. The guaifenesin loosens up mucus and the ephedrine opens up your respiratory tract so it's easier to breath--both improving nasal congestion, and also, AFAIU, helping with oxygen uptake in inflamed lungs. I have to be proactive because a simple cold can lead to bronchitis, and bronchitis can lead to pneumonia.

Any doctors, please opine, but I believe that if you have pneumonia (obvious infection, shortness of breath, etc) and are unable to get medical treatment, having some ephedrine on hand might be worthwhile. A quick search through the medical literature shows that ephedrine is apparently used precisely to improve oxygenation for acute respiratory distress (not just for asthmatics, obviously, but sometimes in surgery and in other cases).

The critical question would be counter-indications. The doctors I've run my cold treatment by always remind me that Guaifenesin and ephedrine both increase blood pressure, so that's something to keep in mind. (Fortunately, I don't have high-blood pressure.) But how that would figure into an acute distress situation, I dunno. I'm sure that in any particular context doctors probably know of many other counter-indications.

Primatene, Bronkaid, and similar generics are the only way to get ephedrine OTC, and they always include guaifenesin, so be mindful of dosages for both drugs. I just picked up a box of Primatene just in case as I forgot how much I had left at home. They're usually on the front shelves behind the pharmacist; don't bother hunting for one of the placards in the store aisle.
I think someone couldn’t get mp4 auto play to work in all browsers, and just gave up and resorted to a gif to check off their requirements list.