skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese government utterly and completely dropped the ball for the first two whole months of the crisis. They censored and punished doctors trying to raise awareness, and suppressed news of the outbreak allowing mass gatherings to go ahead for political reasons.

After that the severe crackdown came after the virus had been spread internationally, and has precipitated a humanitarian crisis which, again, they are covering up and suppressing.

The Chinese people have been fantastic. They've put up with appalling hardships and suffered greatly for the incompetence and heavy handed ness of their leaders.
Don't forget to thank Shi Zhengli, deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, for her pioneering research, which includes engineering bat coronavirus strains to utilize human pulmonary ACE2 receptors (like COVID-19 does):

http://archive.is/M9IRO

In this study, a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-based pseudovirus system was employed to address these issues. Our results indicated that the SL-CoV S protein is unable to use ACE2 proteins of different species for cell entry and that SARS-CoV S protein also failed to bind the ACE2 molecule of the horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus pearsonii. However, when the RBD of SL-CoV S was replaced with that from the SARS-CoV S, the hybrid S protein was able to use the huACE2 for cell entry, implying that the SL-CoV S proteins are structurally and functionally very similar to the SARS-CoV S. These results suggest that although the SL-CoVs discovered in bats so far are unlikely to infect humans using ACE2 as a receptor, it remains to be seen whether they are able to use other surface molecules of certain human cell types to gain entry. It is also conceivable that these viruses may become infectious to humans if they undergo N-terminal sequence variation, for example, through recombination with other CoVs, which in turn might lead to a productive interaction with ACE2 or other surface proteins on human cells.
The way you take down a powerful leader is not by criticizing which will bring down his wrath but by excessive and ridiculous praise. Credit him with godly powers and set him up for the fall when things inevitably go bad. During the cultural revolution and before who was leading the cult of personality behind Mao? It was Lin Biao.

Those who want the crown will be the biggest sycophants.
Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of Covid-10 cases on the Diamond Princess
Saving is preservation of capital whereas investing is growing capital. At least that is my take.
Yeah, this should definitely be teamed up with corresponding fiscal and trade policies, the Fed cannot sort all of this mess by itself.
I've had great results with "boro" stitching, which doesn't try to hide the repair, but makes it a personal design element.

The key is to use nice thick embroidery thread.
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Yes that's right. Consider a TeX file test.tex containing

$\int$ \nopagenumbers \bye

or if you prefer LaTeX, containing

\documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$\int$\end{document}

If you run "tex" or "latex" on this, it will generate a test.dvi. You can look at a human-readable representation of the DVI file with dvitype or dviasm — what it says is to move to a particular position, and set the character at position 82 ('R') from the font "cmex10 at 10pt".

Then you can run either dvipng or dvisvgm (or dvipdfmx, or…) on this, which will take this instruction, read in the font (for example, it may load file /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmex10.pfb) and replace it with the pixels (at a given resolution) or shape from the font. In case of SVG, it may pick the actual description (as a path) from the (vector) font:

<glyph unicode='' horiz-adv-x='472' vert-adv-y='472' glyph-name='integraltext' d='M272 -880C259 -1044 223 -1089 166 -1089C153 -1089 123 -1086 102 -1068C131 -1064 139 -1041 139 -1027C139 -998 117 -985 98 -985C78 -985 56 -998 56 -1028C56 -1076 106 -1111 166 -1111C261 -1111 309 -1024 331 -934C344 -882 380 -591 388 -480L407 -231C421 -47 455 -22 500 -22C510 -22 541 -24 563 -43C534 -47 526 -70 526 -84C526 -113 548 -126 567 -126C587 -126 609 -113 609 -83C609 -35 559 0 499 0C404 0 365 -97 348 -173C336 -228 300 -510 291 -631L272 -880Z'/>

----

You may be interested to know where the description in the font came from. The short answer is "the font designer" (of whatever font is being used). In this case, cmex10 is the "math extension" font from the Computer Modern family designed by Donald Knuth (the author of TeX and METAFONT). He described the shape in METAFONT, etc. All that's another story :)
I listen to a stream of a Los Angeles station called KUSC all the time. It’s a fantastic station (unless they’re doing a pledge drive, but don’t worry, they just did one) and it’s comforting that it’s the same hosts no matter where I travel.

Asking to play it works across all major devices and platforms.
No, the article that confirmed only confirmed that some sort of talk has been going on - not any of the specifics.
>Fleeing the lockdown now is just going to another area that is going to be on lockdown later on anyway.

This is readily recognized.

And this can be motivation enough to relocate to a chosen area for upcoming lockdown, while some choice is still possible.
"however, if you want to make sure you have the same experience as your users, I'd recommend to add it to .gitignore."

That's just plainly wrong. Lock files are ignored in libraries so that shared common dependencies can be hoisted and number of dependencies reduced. That means that two users that depend on your library will get different resolutions for you dependencies according to other libraries that they use.
Such wide and powerful statements like yours would benefit from being factually correct.

>most of them don't even use the internet

China internet penetration is 61% according to here https://www.chinainternetwatch.com/statistics/china-internet... and similar numbers are shown elsewhere.
If you pay an extra $50 a month, it forces all the other companies to pay an extra $50 a month, and you get a fraction of everyone's extra $50. If you get 5% of the average $50 a month extra, but only employ 1% of the workers, you make money
BeyondCorp does not imply opening up your network to the entire world! If anything, it means locking down your network tighter, because not even the office is privileged. Production is a black box that you touch by authenticating through the same reverse proxy tier, no matter where outside of it you are. In effect, nginx is your “VPN” server and everyone has to use it.

Plenty of companies paid dearly for trusting every device that merely needed internet access.
I didn’t mean to imply it’s not (now or ever). I doubt that most healthcare systems need to air gapped though (actual medical equipment should be).
Big tech firms ramp up remote working orders to prevent coronavirus spread
I think it's enough to stay on top of what's going on in the house and deal with problems as they appear or even before. Old drafty houses are a bit more resilient because they can dry out relatively quickly. New houses with stuff like OSB (chipboard) will just soak up moisture and "tell you" in a variety of ways that something is wrong.

Like mold. If it appears, you got a moisture source that needs to be discovered and dealt with. Crawlspaces need to be encapsulated and have negative pressure. It's amazing how simple stuff like water leaking from a gutter can find it's way into a house with even the smallest gap at a window interface or if the drainage is bad where the house meets the ground.
It's cool to see the math/statistical analysis behind this, as it's something I've always done just intiutively I guess.

I will always have more trust for a 93% review with 1,000's of reviews, versus a product with a 100% review with only ~20 reviews. Much too easy to manipulate and/or pay for reviews to trust a product with such small sample size of feedback.
Take a look at Europe with negative rates. Every bank has a statement that if the rate goes below 0 your effective rate will still be above that.
I have to agree. A full lockdown of the country with a return to normal at the speed China achieved would do more than fooling around with interest rates. In the current situation, there's not much productive a business can do with more loans anyway.
Your point would be more plausible if you weren't responding to someone who's been "shitposting" on the internet (your "Intenet") for over 30 years and whose "shitposting" has been highly educational for generations of people, including me — especially HCI researchers, of course.
Isn't that a 'red' herring? The CCP is solidly in command of China, and no other parties are allowed.
The show had recently moved to a new, slightly smaller, venue and due to schedule constraints did not have a chance to fully rehearse one of the swordfight scenes. During the first showing of the play one of the actors was struck in the face by a (presumably dulled) sword due to improper positioning of the actors (related to the slightly smaller set). This broke the orbital bone of his eye and caused brain damage. The show was immediately ended and he was hospitalized, but he was left with brain damage. After 7 months of PT he was able to walk again, but never fully recovered and was left with limited mobility and had trouble speaking. He still is acting to this day.
> There is a strong argument that closing schools will impact the NHS, even though children aren't very at risk.

Sweden also made the same point and kept the schools open FYI
Hospitals also need beds and staff to care for patients on ventilators. They could be well-equipped with the ventilators themselves and be bottlenecked on people to operate them.
Reminds me of the Shuto urban expressway in Tokyo.
Some of the features here are honestly anti-features.

Pinned messages — the last thing I want is someone else choosing how to manage my inbox and what ends up where.

"Presence" aka more user tracking, now also in your inbox. Who in their right mind would want this, never mind paying for it?

There's also no mention of how all the rest of the concepts interface with users who don't buy into the system. Are there partial updates, are people without a subscription just cut out of comments etc?

There are many companies touting email 2.0 but I deeply doubt this is it.
Nothing - tell people close to you to wash your hands, and chill at home as much as possible. You can't nodejs your way out of this.
Uh, sorry to break it to you, but Github, Google and Amazon are not the vast majority of software companies.
>She was fleeing a potentially life-threatening virus in a scary situation in order to be with her family.

True.

>She may well be fleeing with a life threatening virus that will kill her family.

And true.
I'm intrigued as well as a bit wary/cautious of Yarn 2, in particular the move away from node_modules and npm.

"This is a major overhaul.. [T]he intention is to shift Yarn from a Node-specific CLI package manager to a platform and API for multiple languages."

It does seem timely to rethink the design and architecture of package management in the JavaScript ecosystem. Clearly a ton of thought and work has been put into it, so I'm looking forward to learning how to ride the changes.

Introducing Yarn 2 - https://dev.to/arcanis/introducing-yarn-2-4eh1
Is your implication here that SARS-CoV 2 was engineered and released in some sort of containment accident, and reteroactively blamed on a bat?
A lot of people seem to think the Fed's job evolved to include preventing recessions.

I guess the Fed isn't accountable to the US public, so their job can be whatever they want it to be?
It's not that it's necessarily "spreading panic" but that "believe whoever you want on the internet" is not an effective public health communications strategy.

But that appears to be what we've got.

The shaming approach of "you want to be part of this effort?" (whatever that means) is unlikely to be an effective communications strategy either.

I don't know why I asked, I already had my choice of various opinions on the internet (usually given from a position of moral superiority and judgement).

I seriously don't understand why the U.S. public health infrastructure is failing so horribly here; if you want to maximize compliance, it seems obvious that you should be giving consistent and pervasive instructions, there should be literally a planned "marketting" campaign, with a consistent message. If people are getting different messages from different places of course they will be confused and compliance will be less.

Instead, we have "which chain letter on facebook and/or shaming and blaming comment on HN does my gut tell me seems right?" What the fuck America.
This situation isn’t new, we’ve been watching this competition grow from an adjacent field for the past year or so. While not directly comparable (nor competing with) this, the way we solve the email problem don’t require you to use Gmail, nor giving away your privacy, since we do on-premises. (https://aether.app)
> whatever it takes to avoid a depression

Does the Federal Reserve Bank do vaccines, now? This isn't a financial crisis. Money won't fix it. People aren't transacting in big chunks of the economy because they're immobilized by a plague.

Now... certainly once the virus is under control, economic recovery is going to depend on finance and liquidity, so it's not like the Fed has no role to play. But... it's not the Fed's fight to "lose". Until case counts are down and infection risk is negligible, we're looking at a depression regardless.
The reason why not to use lock files in libraries doesn’t make sense to me.

Yes, you should ignore lock files in the .npmignore, so that they won’t be published to npm, because library users don’t consume them. As a library author, where a lot of people are collaborating on a package, you will gain the same benefits: reproducibility and easier triage of bugs. If you are concerned about updates, you can utilize tools to automatically update your lock files (greenkeeper, dependabot, renovate). Renovate has a mode to completely update your lock file in a defined interval.

Edit: your ci could also have a scheduled job which ignores the lock file (scheduled?), if you want to emulate a "integration" test and a "fresh" install
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In the context of Covid, wouldn't lowering economic activity help keep people home?

It seems more than "just" saving lives. Purely economically, wouldn't a crashed health care system hurt the economy for a longer term?
I used to love watching video but since I started reading more books I just can't watch for more than 5 minutes. Recently I discover educative.io which is like reading articles. It's great if you don't like watching videos and want to learn software engineering stuff.
It's unclear if English is your first language or not, but in case there is confusion resulting from this, quotation marks around a word is sometimes used to indicate sarcasm.

In this context, it could be read that you don't believe that Covid-19 is at all serious - that the effects are "no worse than the flu".

I don't know if you believe that, or if that is your intention, but there are some that are claiming this pandemic is a 'media hoax'. As you can imagine, that is a very emotionally expensive viewpoint to have to fight, especially when it's an at-risk loved one who is making that claim.
The taking of anti-inflammatories [ibuprofen, cortisone … ] could be a factor in aggravating the infection. In case of fever, take paracetamol. If you are already taking anti-inflammatory drugs, ask your doctor’s advice.”

Ok I'm done in this thread now
I haven't seen anything specifically related to COVID-19 and won't speculate. I'm also not a scientist or medical professional, so just think of me as some guy on the Internet saying "mycology is an interesting non-big-pharma industry that has bio-prospecting potential due to its anti-viral properties", and Paul Stamets is the source of that statement.

(Personally, I'm making a lot of Reishi tea and taking a spectrum of polypore supplements as a general immune booster, not a specific defense against COVID-19).

P.S. good luck finding cordyceps!
Containment gets harder every day we delay
Apologies, I meant ‘financial markets’, not personal finances. I’m correcting it now. (Not a native English speaker, sorry)
If this same outbreak had started somewhere other than under the CCP there is a good chance it would've been squashed within the first month or so. China's continued attemps to put a good face on things rather than admit the disaster that was happening is what caused this to be such a large issue.

It's essentially saying: China is so great for pulling out a knife so quickly. Yes the same knife that they stabbed with just before. You don't get credit for fixing a problem that your ineptitude and philosophy made significantly worse.
They're already trying to pin it on the US:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/china-launches-a-fake-news-cam...

But I doubt this will be successful, especially given how bad the epidemic is shaping up to be here. Our economy is now in a recession, and our stock market (which Trump loved to boast of), has cratered, even with the Fed injecting trillions.
Most republican administrations have displayed that "get mine and get out" behavior--causing recessions--since Teddy Roosevelt.
>The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie.

Are you on the wrong post? I never said they were spreading lies?

The only thing the German government did was confirm they and the US government were both in negotiations with CoreVac. They did NOT state that the US was looking for exclusive rights.

None of this goes against my initial post that this is a completely unsubstantiated article.

Edit: You can't cite the news as your source for the news, especially when the news itself says it is unconfirmed.
Precisely. This isn't an issue driven by obscure and multi-layers investment vehicles that can't survive when stressed. This is a decrease in the market driven by actual significantly reduced consumption and demand for a wide variety of services. The Fed keeping things liquid is important, as are things like low interest loans to small businesses. But it doesn't matter how cheap your credit is if you don't actually have any revenue coming in. Monetary policy will (hopefully) help keep the economy from complete disaster while the underlying issue is resolved, but that's the most it can do.
Strictly speaking not all music written before 1900. There was no rock or pop music of course, but I wouldn't lump folk music (the kind sung in taverns and to goats by lonely goatherds¹) under classical music. The line gets blurred at some point of course, but that has always been the case (Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is four parts rock and one part opera, and the Radetzky-Marsch has all the makings of a hit pop record — well, back in those days at least).

1: My apologies if that song got stuck in your head now. Give the Laibach cover a listen if you want it out of there.
Show HN: Fighting Harmful Coronavirus Disinformation
Hi everyone

In times like these it's important to watch out for each other. A great part of that is having access to the right information that can be crucial for everyone's well being.

I'm sure many of you have heard about people advising others through viral social media posts about dubious treatments, involving anything from garlic water to Alex Jones selling a toothpaste that is supposed to cure you. This is all incredibly irresponsible and dangerous for the world community.

I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about this, and decided to put together a Google spreadsheet, which allows anyone to list products, the claims associated with various products and references to such claims.

This way, no one is chosen as the arbitrator of truth, but rather has the ability to back up claims with a reference that either supports or refutes the claim.

You can find the spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1i_GSzKB9O7_AAUwMi93D1LgCAkRwI9dD-_81IpLEasA/edit?usp=sharing

Right now anybody can edit the spreadsheet. If it becomes gets popular, I will probably have to limit interaction to comments, in order to mitigate spam.

Stay safe out there,

Fredrik
> Printing our way out of 2008-2010 is exactly what we did that worked

It was always just a band-aid. The reason the Fed has had to take interest rates so low now is that they were unable to raise them during the lastest 'boom'.
It seems like Switzerland is also recommending this and referring to a study done on mice. I don’t have links since they most likely in French/German.

Edit: link to recommendation https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/de/home/das-bag/aktuell/news/ne...
samaltman@ycombinator.com gives a hit in Superhuman.
The biggest challenge is just addressing the constantly shifting math on what is 'good'.

So late night shifts are generally undesirable, but required to be covered and so you really want to spread them out. Having said that for some folks they'd rather do a bunch in a row, others spread them out. Some folks mind them less than others.

Just making the math decide that an even number across the whole team is 'fair' always leads to some weirdness no matter how it works out.

So a weekend night shift might be 3 days of work then 4 off. That's awesome for a guy whose vacation starts the following week because he gets more time off. He might actually WANT that. So in that case a night shift is desirable and makes the guy happier.

Another person might not want that or not have a vacation... so his point of view might differ. But maybe next weekend he feels differently.

And that's just one given weekend shift with somewhat unpredictable results.

The real key though is not just noting how the variables change wildly it is that keeping those guys happy, being flexible for them... makes them MORE willing to take a rough shift now and then. That's even HARDER to quantify, but EXTREMELY valuable.

And of course my ability to walk up to a dude, explain the situation, he trusts me because I've done this before / him favors is just something a computer that fires off an email just can't do.
That, or some tech stole infected animals and sold them at the wet market. (They've accidentally leaked SARS and other dangerous pathogens before.)

It's also possible they intentionally released it, then knowingly sent infected citizens abroad to cause a global pandemic and economic collapse to mask their own economic problems, but I doubt it. However, this would explain why they covered it up initially, and pressured other countries to not institute travel bans.
That depends on how you define "Internet". If the Chinese national TCP/IP infrastructure is largely isolated from the rest of the world by the Great Firewall then can we legitimately call it part of the Internet?
Zero Trust is the right strategy, but very few have the resources to implement it.

So they in spirit do Zero Trust, but end up without basic security controls nor full fledged micro segmentation and identity.

If you work at a startup and experience exponential growth, you know that your internal production network likely has no authentication - this is unfortunately not uncommon and can be dangerous.

What old school security controls prevent, are the script kiddie attacks (ooops, that database or Elastic Search cluster exposed on Internet) and random automation attacks - which there are plenty of examples.
This is how science works.

The user you linked to is making a more or less informed decision. It would be terrible to recommend their course of action to the entire world population.

But if they want to self-dose, at low, arguably proven-safe concentrations, then that's their business.

Biology is a messy, several-of-orders-of-magnitude more complex topic.