skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on man, you think that Germany directing a foreign country to freeze assets during the lead in to a war is a more likely way for a Jew in Nazi Germany to lose their hidden savings as compared to them trying to smuggle a USB wallet as they get stripped of all their belongings, clothes, and dignity and loaded on a train? Are they gonna hide it in their butthole and hope they don't have to take a dump until they get out of the concentration camp 7 years later and can finally get around to a computer so they can plug it in and access their bitcoins?

Get the fuck out of here.
That's beyond weak.

Laid off service workers don't need job training or resume assistance.
I read it somewhere a long time ago... if I recall, it supposedly helps get vocal cords to the right tension and maybe gives them a slight coating.
Serological test would reveal how many people got the infection, with no or mild symptoms. Or those who had the infection in the past.

Current testing approach doesn't reveal those cases.
Zero social distancing going on either, busses crammed to the hilt and E. Hastings is wall to wall addicts outside right now. Someone I work with his wife is a health worker under potential exposure quarantine and he showed up to work today. I guess we are aiming for the full Italy version of this pandemic.
>It's your typical pandemic response:
- denial

- placating measures

- minor lockdowns

- major lockdowns and panic (running to the store to stockpile toilet paper, for some reason)

- total quarantine

- life slowly returns to normal

When in the last 100 years has this happened that you're basing your 'typical pandemic response' examples on?

It certainly hasn't happened in my lifetime...
What's the delta in average daily throughput and peaks at your exchange points at different COVID milestones (China quarantine, Italy quarantine, France quarantine, US national emergency declared)?

I assume traffic utilization has jumped, just curious by how much.
It literally doesn't matter what the courts say.

"The Constitution is not a Suicide Pact". Lincoln got away with throwing out Habeas corpus during the Civil War.

California will get away with this on the grounds of an unprecedented national emergency.
"Clinical characteristics of 24 asymptomatic infections with COVID-19 screened among close contacts in Nanjing, China." - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11427-020-166....

It seems asymptomatic patients can test negative multiple times on RT-PCR assays but be diagnosed other ways.

I've read somewhere that at least in China, the specificity of the PCR tests is only 60-70%, leaving ~30% undetected.

From the Discussion section of this paper: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020200642:

"According to current diagnostic criterion, viral nucleic acid test by RT-PCR assay plays a vital role in determining hospitalization and isolation for individual patients. However, its lack of sensitivity, insufficient stability, and relatively long processing time were detrimental to the control of the disease epidemic. In our study, the positive rate of RT-PCR assay for throat swab samples was 59% (95%CI, 56%-62%) which was consistent with previous report (30 - 60%) (6). In addition, a number of any external factors may affect RT-PCR testing results including sampling operations, specimens source (upper or lower respiratory tract), sampling timing (different period of the disease development) (6), and performance of detection kits. As such, the results of RT-PCR tests must be cautiously interpreted."
The people who will start flooding the hospitals in the next few days are infected now. This action assumes these emergent cases are about to hit and will be followed by a leveling off of demand and increase of resources (e.g. temp hospital space).
> I hope they're finding ways to help keep them safe in the process.

Amazon's track record with workers suggests this is unlikely, to say the least.
I cannot help but mention Jacob Collier, who self-produced an album (called "In My Room") and won 2 Grammys with it. https://youtu.be/4v3zyPEy-Po?list=PLHX_dBxnc8z-EeR431dUujzqe...
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But given that it only applies to a limited geographical region with free movement in and out not restricted it is unclear it will have the desired effect. This policy needs to be at the state or national level to be effective.
No, right now government money is debt that has to be repaid plus interest by us or our children.

I don't want to get money for the same reason I don't want to go and run up personal debt.
This is the kind of weird freedom-at-all-costs libertarian fetishism that the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for.
Ah the API that is frozen in Windows XP cryogenic state.
Ask HN: Use location history to build a predictive rating of Covid-19 potential?
I would absolutely be willing to share my location and contact history and even OK with a government agency having taken a copy of my history to build a model to understand current infection potential on a per person basis. Clearly there's many assumptions to make with regard to contact proximity, virus load, incubation, but as data is gathered with the onset, the backfill can correct assumptions and "clean" the model thus resulting in a model that continues to improve clarity and hone in on people who are likely to be infected.

These people should be prioritized to quickly get tested and then continue running down the list as tests become available. This seemingly appears to be the only way to get out in front of it. I do believe lockdown efforts will slow down the spread, but if we can't afford to have every single person take a test within a short period of time, we should be making a very educated guess as to who we should be ensuring aren't infected and if they are, are staying isolated.

Is anyone working on this?
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Thank you for your suggestions, and specifically on the microphone one. I wanted to get a new one but I was having some difficulty choosing a good one for me. I will look into this. And thank you for your nice words!
I don't see how that's relevant. Upgrading is the point - previously the user's PC was sufficient, and now it is not as it is runing slow. Now the user has to buy a new computer. In the past they might have to do this to use the lastest games or such. Now it's necessary in order to run Spotify and Slack.
The really funny thing about this thread is that:

* google appears to make all of our data available to most of its developers

* we complain that brave wants to boost its reputation

wtf, seriously, wtf?

I mean, granted, brave sucks and wants to have an easy buy-in to some folks, but still: what's hiding behind this is huge.

If I were google I'd buy brave for this kind of burying.
Unsure why this is downvoted - the government restricting citizens' right en masse isn't something that happens often and definitely runs up against our Constitutional Rights. Even if in this case, it is for the greater good.
If you are a service worker and your hours have been cut you need to file for unemployment immediately. You should be able to receive partial unemployment for the missed hours.
Do you think gun shops will close? I read in the news a lot of people were lining up for guns recently in California. With that 10 days wait law, a lot of these people would not get their purchase before the stay in shelter takes effect. I also know the 2nd amendment is a big deal in the USA.
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How are the Netflix contents used to time after corona?
> California will get away with this on the grounds of an unprecedented national emergency.

Can we at least wait til the US body count reaches 3 digits before saying stuff like this?
Alright, thanks. I'm pragmatic enough to see some value in that (easier to transition, no retraining), but man, I would not be happy.
Where is the comment here on billionaire taxes?

Literally Amazon is the only company because of which I feel comfortable right now sitting in my house vs. panic buying.
34 year old healthy male, non smoker and no relevant medical conditions. Not tested [govt policy] but it's a completely unfamiliar infection of the lungs picked up in a major European city, so go figure...

No proper fever [some of my sleep is the slightly fitful
sleep I'd associate with fighting off mild infections, but my temperature is normal or very close], I've coughed only a literal handful of times and not painfully, so clearly sufficiently mild to miss those characteristic responses, no headache and only occasional feelings of fatigue and a bit more sleep than usual. Just inflamed lungs which are more uncomfortable than painful. Back when I felt completely healthy last Wednesday and went for a 3k outdoor run (no more uncomfortable or slower than I'd have expected considering I haven't run much this year) I obviously felt like I was breathing a bit too shallowly and breathing deoxygenated air at the end. This is basically that same feeling coming back the following day, except with a normal breathing rate [and heart rate]. I can still take a deeper breath whenever I want and I'm far from worrying I'm about to run out of oxygen, but just feels uncomfortable and I can imagine how it can cause much more serious problems for people with more severe symptoms, pre-existing lung conditions or immune system issues. It's been steady for the last five days.
Even if it is legally questionable (not sure it is, I'm not a lawyer) what jackass would bother suing over it?

This is a completely reasonable order given the emergency situation. No reasonable person should object to it.

(I did not downvote you)
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Keep in mind that, if it comes to it, California can declare martial law to maintain order. This is certainly an emergency of enough severity to warrant exceptional measures like this.
It says here https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/uwp/toolkits/winui3/ that .NET core is not supported, but maybe they'll fix it by Nov.
I 100% agree. The fact that Google app on iOS can tell me where I parked my car is very useful to me. The fact that my docs and emails show up in Google search results is damned handy. And, as a Xoogler who has worked at a number of other large tech companies, I feel that Google has state-of-the-art controls over access to user data and logs. By no means is it a free-for-all.
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Australian researchers discover how body's immune system fights Covid-19
Maybe people won't like this question. Is there a point at which does "social distancing" do more economic damage than it does health good?

(Not saying we're there yet, just asking if such a point exists, and when.)
Sanders is actually proposing reforms that would actually reign in the financial sector, but that ship has sailed. There is no comparison between him and Trump or Biden.
They are suppressors of symptoms/disease management helpers not cures.

Ebola patients either die or their immune system fights off the disease.
That's what I'm seeing too. Even more, based on the mandated closings and limits on business, there'll be some future econ. damage to restore. How do we lately do that? Stimulus packages, bail-outs, QE. The very same thing that drove us to the [still] frothy highs and ticked up the external debt.

It is a global issue, but at the end each economy will be affected locally.

Let's just hope the human cost could be contained.
The USA is absurd.
Yeah, when everything is a bubble it’s bound to pop sometime.

Probably just too much free cash for banks.
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Others see that as an upside. ICE today, who knows what tomorrow. The sort of activists who wanted that have all kinds of random targets. No company wants to deal with suppliers suddenly blacklisting them because the hard left decided they're evil.
https://www.eucalyptus.cloud/
I bought SDS which is an ETF for shorting S&P500 2x. It's up 41% since I bought it. The trick though is knowing when to cash out.
> last rights

rites
If there's anything I learned about this virus is that my pessimistic predictions were way too optimistic.
It was, initially. Message boards would attract like minded people, and as the community grew, a culture of sorts would form. Still, people would set up in-person meetups, as there is that desire for deeper connection, as you mentioned.

With social networks, that went out the window. Interactions become performative, particularly among those that build up enough followers to become influences.

How many time have we seen posts like "What would you do in this situation?" with a meme image attached, or a "How's everyone doing this Monday?" type Instagram story. The poster doesn't care what the answer is, or who is answering. They just look to maximize the number of responses so their engagement score increases.
when economy shuts down, more people die of malnutrition than of the virus.
Wouldn't a far less specific test do the trick as well?

If we had a cheap test that tells us whether we have some kind of illness, corona-flu included, then I'd say that would be tremendously useful.
Oh I think it's very possible we'll know.

"Remember in 2020 when everyone lost their jobs and their houses and their retirement because some octogenarians died from a bad cold?"
It's not only this reason. Even N95 masks are rated only to .3 micron. COVID-19 is .1 micron. It will prevent droplets from those already infected but I don't see how it would help in the healthy much. Maybe it slows down the air breathing out? But I don't see that helping a lot.
School is a bigger issues because children are usually are much closer together, are in the same room with far more people, and have far more interaction that adults at a typical job.
I accept the ingenuity of people.

Though, if 1% of your planes have issue that causes them to stop working midflight after 1 year, at worst you'll lose a few pilots and fix the issue by inspecting rest of the planes.

Backtracking and fixing issues after giving a vaccine to millions of people is a bit more problematic. Not just technically, but also in gaining the trust back, etc.
What are they buying, precisely? Open source software?
By that time we may not even need it anymore.
Not to be pedantic or anything but that's an incorrect use of the word "anti-social".

anti-social = disruptive or destructive to society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour)

asocial = lack of desire to be social (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asociality)
> How I recorded an album on my own, in my room

Didn't read the article, but a Windows/macOS computer with a DAW + audio interface (for recording instruments + if you decide to get nice headphones that require a pre-amp) + midi controller + some virtual synths/samples, and you should be good to go.

There are plenty of decent free synth/samples, so I wouldn't count it as an absolute necessity to spend money on synths.

The only reason I say "Windows or macOS" is because of driver compatibility with your equipment + choice of DAWs, with the most widely used ones being macOS/Windows only.

Even thought you have a piano that is midi compatible, you might want a separate MIDI controller, so that it is smaller + has pads + knobs to control various parameters. I have a piano with MIDI-out as well, but found it to be super inconvenient to work with compared to an actual midi controller. My personal affordable recommendation that isn't just basic barebones stuff is Arturia Minilab MKII (currently $109 on Amazon). Got it myself a couple of months ago, still very happy with the purchase.

Regarding an audio interface, Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is very robust and is heavily recommended (currently $159 on Amazon). It might be a little bit more than the basic needs, but it gives you a bit of a room to grow. And the basic version is just $109 (Scarlett Solo), so I feel like an extra $50 is worth it, given that you probably won't have a need (but def might be tempted to) to buy another one pretty much ever.
It would be better to have a coordinated response on this. But as a wise leader once said, “You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
They're talking about bike riding for fun/training, not as transportation.
The thing about especially some of the more recent efforts is: the approach might have made sense when Microsoft was a monopoly and there was lots of interest writing software for Windows.

But suddenly targeting Windows is much less interesting, but they still have the monopolist's arrogance: "You will rewrite your app to work on our new UI framework, right? Right...?" What actually happens is that every deprecation and every new thing weakens their ecosystem. Their biggest draw is in legacy software, and they variously want to throw out their legacy support, or create tomorrow's legacy today with new frameworks that end up abandoned.
WinUI is still UWP, just made portable across multiple Windows 10 versions.

Basically it is the UWP version of Android's Jetpack.

Win32 is done, frozen in Windows XP view of the world, the future keeps being UWP.
Read this: https://reason.com/2020/03/16/can-the-government-just-close-...

"American constitutional jurisprudence has long recognized a vast authority on the part of the states to regulate private social and economic activity in the name of the public welfare. Dramatic measures to address the spread of disease has long been a part of those police powers..."

That's coming from a libertarian writer in a libertarian magazine that both likely wish the truth were otherwise.
This seems to be for employees only. Are there benefits that are accessible to independent contractors like gig economy workers?
Same in Seattle
You are an awful person, please look at what is happening in Europe, we are WAY past the moment to act.
> Disposable face mask can only be used once.

They can be cleaned. It's not ideal, but very likely better than nothing. Sorry, can't find link, but they tried a variety of different techniques to hit on one that worked.
You forgot </sarcasm>
A great suggestion, I do this also. It helps to cleanup packaging in one fell swoop as well.
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What advantage does waiting provide? It’s not like the disease is less deadly because 100 million people have it vs 100 thousand.

Theoretically the most efficient approach might be to quarantine only the sick or elderly, but that’s unlikely to work well. Doing absolutely nothing would cost millions of lives. So, I really don’t see any good options only some hard choices ahead.

PS: The only state without known infections is not testing people. Exponential growth is a bitch at this point.
You likely couldn't panic buy anyways, stores are limiting what you can buy. Online and offline.
The parent’s point rings true to me. It’s not so much the spread from country to country as it is the confined space that would concern me. As such, safety of domestic flights and trains should be considered as well.
Excuse me. This is a rather dispassionate note that the government has likely done something it is not authorized to do, and that its orders are at risk of being overturned. It does not assign value to the order, nor declare it worthless. It does not decry the violation of civil liberties, nor does it declare the violation meaningless.

If merely raising the issue in such a note is sufficient to count as "freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism" these days, then by all means, sign me up for freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism. In the meantime, I am confident that our government is strong enough to withstand mild observations of this nature.
The have flattened the curve
Can independent contractors (e.g. gig workers) apply for unemployment benefits?
No, that's what "exponential growth" means. By the time the body count is in three digits, you're way, way too late. Frankly this should've happened at least a week ago as it is.
Not sure why everyone is hammering me on that one, since I don't think of relationships as transactional and I was just continuing the language of the analogy presented in the article.

Conversations however, which are almost ubiquitously a prerequisite for friendship and connection, ARE heavily transactional on a fundamental level.

I do think that it is important to consider what you look like to other people though. Are you offering them positivity, wit, humor, etc.?
No, because the current US body count isn't relevant?
About ten years ago, a relative came to Ontario and had to pay the cost of an emergency room visit (about $400 to see a doctor and get a cast). The bill was sent about a month afterward (to our address), but I could see a tourist being made to pay immediately.
Any job not performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book is non-essential.
This is exactly the reason why I switched careers from audio tech to development. Funny seeing this posted here.

I believe there was a post last night on mass amateurization - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_amateurization

But yeah, you do not need a lot of professional equipment or specialized knowledge now to create great records. I am not at all bemoaning this fact, I love that creating music is more and more open for all, music is a very human quality we should all have access to.
Because seriously this a relative non-issue.
He doesn't have to, he can just point to the official Government of Canada webpage describing Canadian Royal Family:

Canadian Royal Family:

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-fa...

His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry:

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-fa...

Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex, Rachel Meghan Markle:

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-fa...

But in all seriousness, immigration is a separate issue. Being a member of the royal family, unless your are the Queen herself, does not guarantee you any rights in Canada, including right of entry.
> I said I wouldn't be surprised, not I think they will.

Fair enough.

> I think the fed can bail them out. I also think that requires printing money so inflation will be high.

If things go that way, I don't think it has to result in inflation. The thing is that, when a bank collapses, some money disappears (because of fractional reserve banking). If the Fed prints exactly the right amount of money to counterbalance that, it doesn't have to be inflationary. (The Fed could mess it up, of course...)
I still find interesting being able to target 85% of desktop systems, including laptops and 2-1 detachables out there.

And a large majority of factory and laboratory automation control systems.
There most certainly is a pressing need for sites such as HN to start care about stuff like this.

If people start to care about being exploited the content will move to a more ethical site. Or it might influence medium.
We are publishing data on our blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/covid-19-impacts-on-internet-tra...

Stay tuned.
Fixed it by deleting the database entry rather than actually making the Rails app handle this case gracefully?