skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working from home the last couple days in Manhattan, and it's pretty depressing. My apartment is small, there's nobody around since my wife still has to go into the office. And I feel totally out of the loop even with Slack since you're not chit chatting as much with coworkers. I really hope this sooner than later.
It's really uncharitable to suggest they're "using" it then, since they don't control the pandemic. What should they do differently from what's being done right now?
> This was a joke.

That makes it worse. Some people's "jokes" are allowed, some are punished by censoring and expulsion. Selective enforcement is a central part of the criticism toward CoCs.
Google recommends all employees in Europe, MENA and Africa to work from home
Practical Challenges for Ethical AI (2019)
> hundreds more suffering permanent scarring to their lungs

Do you have a source for that?
Tax and VAT payments can be deferred
I wonder if California will close all public schools? Everything here is unfolding randomly, some Universities are closed, others are open..
It's very easy to start with so from time investment it will always be a good choice. I looked at several options for doc search and since I didn't want to invest more than 2 hours I just setup a Drone CI job to scrape and update index every night and added that search bar :) quite happy so far although self hosted solution would be preferable
I didn't see the visual joins that you can do in MS Access, though I just looked at the first page. If it's anywhere near that useful this product is way overdue.
Biden Rises, but Who’s the Phoenix?
Also the spec stuff I don't think it's a surprise to Nubank that spec is being upgraded it literally says alpha in the namespace, they have some great Clojure engineers at Nubank particularly the developer of Pathom they're really pushing the envelope in terms of distributed graphs and front end
The government doesn't remotely have mechanisms in place to directly feed millions of civilians for a long period of time. It would make much more sense to give out money (like EBT cards) that can be redeemed to purchase food through the existing private sector food distribution network of grocery stores and restaurants.
I think that everything you've described here is "fair game" and mechanisms available to all of us.
For 2FA specifically, SMS is weak because of its vulnerability to SIM swap attacks[0]. There's been a few reported incidents where attackers stole cryptocurrency from accounts protected by SMS 2FA[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam

[1]: https://btcmanager.com/sim-swap-attacks-amplify-companies-re...
They exist for compliance with GDPR, which requires informed consent before storing cookie's on a user's system.

If you have another idea of how to get that informed consent before storing a cookie, I'm sure people would love to explore other ideas.
When I go to industry conferences I have non-stop meetings with current customers, potential customers and partners. Every meal is some sort of meeting. Given the distributed nature of business today, when you do get everyone in the same place, you want to get some face to face meetings setup.
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Most big cities in Norway as well have drastic measures now. No gatherings over 100 people, encouraged to work from home etc.
Yeah we're somewhat targeting a different audience here but I also think this will end up being a much better experience even for the power users than an IDE.

I believe most data exploration just shouldn't be SQL/text based. It's just faster to do it visually if there aren't extra steps added and the interface is good/flexible enough.

Even as developers we spend most of our time in a GUI environment vs the command line. It's not just that it's easier/better for business users - it's also just better for everyone.
I mean, don't just look at the absolute numbers, arguable China has 1/5 of the world's population.

I believe the argument to be made here is that most parts in China, excluding Hubei, has a lot less cases than Korea or Italy, when Korea's population is about 3-4% that of China. In most provinces in China there were 0 deaths.

Ideally, European countires like Italty are far further away and should have fewer cases than those regions closer to the epicenter, but reality suggest otherwise.
> total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for

I guess you're technically right. But statements like these make me chuckle. They are very common, and a dead giveaway that you are not very familiar with addiction. Switch out drinking for shooting heroine or smoking crack, and see if the statement still makes sense.

The rest of your comment is dead on though. The studies are very bad at making any sort of distinctions like you mentioned. They also ignore the astounding costs of some of these other programs, whether a person is there by choice or not, whether they are trying to quit for the first time or 20th, types and severity of relapses, and many other factors.
They are not - the effect these prices have on the poor is an unintended[1] consequence of the true aim. Extracting the most money possible from insurance payors - honestly, if hospitals could bill "You owe us 50$ or as much of that that your insurance would cover" then they would. Nobody actively wants to impoverish the poor (except for a small number of utterly terrible people) but payors force cost pass on to their subscribers as a way to keep the costs from getting too crazy and and the uninsured get hit by the full bill that providers want to extract out of payors simply because it's impossible for them to under bill without getting hit by lawsuits.

That paragraph was an attempt to be really fairly voiced so just to follow up - this system is utterly rotten and terrible, the US has one of the worst health care systems in the world when it comes to the non-super rich - and even for them there are better options - and it needs to be fixed.

1. Edit note: Originally I used "unavoidable" here which was a poor word choice that's been pointed out below.
I've touched my face while testing the app way more than I would have if I weren't aware of the app at all.
I'm in Missouri. I've been sick for the past few days, then overnight obtained a pretty bad dry cough. I called the local urgent care, and they basically told me that they've got to rule absolutely everything else out before testing for coronavirus, requiring a respiratory panel that would cost over $4k.

I'm staying home and self-quarantining, but am I being counted? No. I'm willing to bet there are thousands of others like me in the US in a similar situation.
Nonetheless, the point stands: social distancing now. That's what we and everyone can act to help. There is no getting around.
>Extreme measures are likely doing more harm than good

You lost me here.

I hope we never do them in the USA, but the extreme measures taken by China absolutely halted the spread of the disease.
wrote a post on this last week; hope it helps! https://techblog.operant.io/2020/so-youre-going-to-work-remo...
Why User Profiles Are Essential to Your Ecommerce User Experience
Maybe someone said in the comments somewhere, but it kind of makes me chuckle to sit here testing it by... well... touching my damn face.
Threat of violence escalates at Greece-Turkey border
I didn't realize that old game was still going
This is unfortunately why the US is going to fail miserably at containing SARS-CoV-2.
How does your hairdresser relate to yet another hairdresser? It’s a business. People have ideas and implement them in different ways. That’s just business.
Your definition of “tech literacy” is way skewed. These people are able to use technology to do what they need: they’re tech literate. They can talk with their friends over the internet, create and layout documents, print posters, do research; they’re fluent across multiple devices and platforms; many of them interact with some sort of computer for hours each day. What more do you want them to do? (I’m in the age range you specified, by the way.)
Smart move! Ignoring the best practice of preventing loss of life during pandemics will be a costly mistake!
Doesn't Bernie's supporter base skew younger than Biden's? It seems to me the average Bernie supporter has less to fear from corona than the average Biden supporter. If anything, fear of corona should suppress turnout for Biden more than for Bernie.
Something that I heard from an epidemiologist the other day is how shutting down schools and daycares can be incredibly counterproductive, because such a high percentage of health care workers have children which suddenly are at home and need to be supervised, pulling these workers out of their duties.

I suppose its ok early on, but seems problematic if enough people eventually get infected.

Understood that schools are primary transmission vectors.
The various results for "atheists removed from AA" or "atheists kicked out of AA" on Google tell me AA works with the personal god version, not the others ones.
The reason we will fail to contain it is because we don't have any test kits. So we don't know the true rates of infection.

Policy: ignorance is bliss!

It looks better to have lower numbers.
Probably just shaking a lot of hands.

If it survives for 12 hours on surfaces, you only need 1 person to have poor hygiene to expose a LOT of people. And "normal" hygiene levels pass infection around plenty. I wash my hands when I go to the bathroom or before I prepare food. The rest of the time I'm just passing whatever I touch to whatever else I touch. I've given up on not touching my face. I'm sure I'm not the worst in these areas.

As I understand it, you'd have this sort of infection rate with the seasonal flu if there wasn't some level of herd immunity, and you certainly have roughly this level of infection with the common cold - "Con crud" is a thing - it's just not much remarked upon as unexpected.
For the most part. Travel restrictions, no conferences, WFH preparations, etc. From a policy standpoint, we're alright. Have we considered what to do if our offshore contractors get quarantined and can't WFH? Not so much.
ERs get to deal with the unwashed masses. Everything from gunshot wounds to stokes to stubbed toes to people looking for a cab ride.

You, and someone who isn't indigent, get to pay.
> Banning large conferences or sport events with people likely coming from further away seems like a good start.

I think you nailed it. Banning large meetings basically shuts down travel, but lets local events continue. This make things easier to handle without a large influx of people coming in from the outside for a show/conference/event/etc...
Admirable discipline. Work and Life tend to blend for me. It works just fine, but I truly find that level of separation impressive.
The US healthcare system is best described as a pack of wolves negotiating about whose going to eat the sheep.
We decided (slash "made the mistake") of going to the emergency room last summer. Spent less than two hours in an exam room before being dismissed with no conclusion and referral to another doctor. Got a $9500 bill about six months later and have been billed a 10% copay on that (insurance paid $5500 already at their negotiated rate). Still fighting it as absolutely absurd, but there's really no hope. This country is fucked. It's an embarrassment.
I get what you're saying, but realize many people will go without wages in these scenarios, so that has to be accounted for. Also, I've seen experts warn that however long things are shut down, once this is ended, the spread will continue. There's no conceivable span of time things will be "shut down" such that the disease will completely stop spreading.

All this to say, yes, of course shut downs must occur to stop acute problems in healthcare systems and try best to protect elderly. And this should absolutely be prioritized over financial markets (though risks here still matter). But it is going to spread.
Sigma and Chartio have similar missions but a very different product approach and functionality. Sigma also tries to bring the influence of spreadsheets into the query building/data exploration phase.

We do this though as a very flexible visual language, where you can create a pipeline of actions including merging queries from multiple different datasets and then doing some post query computation.
> China has had an order of magnitude more deaths and instances than any other country.

I don't know if you were being colloquial, but this isn't true. China has 80k, Italy 12k cases and the latter is seeing rapid increases.
I used to do something similar until I got a standing desk.

Now I just switch between standing and sitting and having a blast.
Pointing to the last Sam Harris podcast [1]. He interviewed an infectious disease specialist, who like several other infectious disease specialists I heard before, isn't particularly concerned by this event. It is serious, but not alarming.

I should note that Sam Harris is rather on the worried side of the spectrum (and felt compelled to add a disclaimer at the begining).

[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/
They are HIPAA compliant
This is an advertisement. "How to avoid SIM swapping? Get your provider to use a different authentication method (like this one!)".

In reality there is no great way to avoid it for services that have SMS as a fall back measure. Some phone companies allow a lock on transferring your SIM, requiring you to physically enter one of their stores in order to unlock, but that's about it.
I remember studying political science as an undergrad two decades ago. My professors all said the same thing about the Electoral College: “it’s a relic that has long since stopped serving a practical purpose, but people live with it because it never rocks the boat. If there’s ever an election where the winner of the popular vote doesn’t actually win because they lost in the Electoral College, there will be a huge mass movement to finally get rid of it.”

Since then we’ve had two elections in twenty years where a candidate who lost the popular vote “won” thanks to the Electoral College. And the Electoral College is still there.

In politics, never underestimate the power of inertia.
Norway got more cases than denmark (622 vs 514), and our government is still asleep. The "wait and see" attitude makes shure they are always 3 steps behind.
Young and unafraid of the pandemic? Good for you. Now stop killing people
Wall Street tumbles, Dow confirms bear market
My app works while you use other apps https://foundationlabs.io/face-no-touchy
And what if the parents said no? Their kids get left out of lessons and activities and tests?

Also, what if the parents, like most of the population, are technically illiterate and aren't aware of the consequences of allowing Google to have this data?
Why We Should Care: Common Questions and Answers about Covid-19
I'm failing to see how the "root cause", as you suggested, China, of the problem can somewhat solve the problem. It always us against the virus. Last I recall, they don't take orders from any one. Not even Trump.
One thing to keep in mind is that interest rates in Denmark is currently negative. That means that the government, and even large credit-worthy corporates, can borrow and actually get paid to do so.

That makes weathering a storm like this relatively easy from an economics standpoint. It's easy to delay revenue and cover fixed costs without incurring any significant financing costs.
For those looking for an app that works while you use other apps: https://foundationlabs.io/face-no-touchy
Yes, the newest SMB hole, besides being serious as a heart attack, is just odd. I mean, it's not like the it's anything hidden deep in the code. It's a freaking buffer overflow!
Seattle area schools just shut down, and earlier today the governor put restrictions on gatherings of more than 250 people. Seems like it’s moving pretty fast.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/inslee-or...
I haven't heard any authoritative sources talk about that. Do you have a cite?

The world is in crisis. Arguing against public attempts to contain a virus based on "Something that I heard" is more than a little irresponsible right now. Surely the point is valid as a debate subject, but it needs numbers and it needs analysis. Prima facie, social isolation works, and at this stage is our only remaining hope at containment.
Aerosol and surface stability of hCoV-19 (coronavirus) [pdf]
You're not wrong, but to be fair, the CDC has to fight for funding all the time. If Trump gets his way with his budget proposals, it'll only get worse.
The page stopped my media playback (which happens when another piece of media is played). Why?
The Overton Window has slid so far to the right that such remedies are considered to be radical. Sigh.
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Excellent. I have heard from EU colleagues that the ECB is likely to provide whatever is necessary to members to finance this sort of assistance, but haven't seen public confirmation yet.
How do you feed the people in your scenario? Many don't have more than a few days of food in-house, if that.
Meanwhile, I went to the emergency room in a hospital with my girlfriend in London two years ago and it was free for her. We're Americans.

Guess which country has better health outcomes.
What I would encourage people to consider is whether this virus is at the level that we would all be happy to allow military enforced city-wide quarantines or travel restrictions...

I understand that this is NOT the flu, but it seems like the best data we have puts the most pessimistic CFR at about 0.6% if you look at the South Korean data (who have done, by far, the best job testing en masse).

I agree that slowing the spread of the virus to help our health care workers avoid being inundated with admissions to the ICU is worth while, but I'm extremely skeptical of embracing what China has done.
With all the talk about not touching your face, I fear that sometimes this is overemphasized for Corona virus. It is a virus with a viral envelope, and viruses with viral envelopes are especially unstable outside of the human body. Keeping your distance to people, not staying long in rooms where droplets may floating in the air carrying virus is just as important if not more.

Also, after washing your hands with soap, viral counts should be so low that there isn't a danger of infecting yourself anymore, so the situation where you sit at your laptop isn't especially dangerous IF YOU WASH YOUR HANDS BEFORE USING IT (and possibly wiping the keyboard down with a wrung-out cloth that was soaked in soap water).
> For a cost-productivity sake, you'd want one or two giant companies that each make one car, but under multiple brands. Then you rely on marketing to tell customers that there's a difference. This would drive down the overhead involved in many manufacturers making different models, and push the growth potential of automaker stock more towards consumer products in general.

The common term for this is "badge engineering" and it doesn't really work long term for the simple reason that there are just too many car enthusiasts who figure out the truth pretty quickly. This problem is compounded by the fact that there is a large overlap between enthusiasts and people who buy more expensive cars.
The spread is being stopped in China. It is possible.
Totally, I hire myself and know how intensive it is to screen design and how difficult it is to train a non design to discern good/bad candidates (it's difficult even for some designers).
It will be interesting to see how these things / if they help.

The scale of impact and longevity of these shutdowns could be dramatic.

Keeping kids home certainly restricts what parents can do. Some of whom may be needed to do other things.

Is there really a lot of good data to know, this will do a thing?
Even with a timeout, the time spent waiting on the timeout is wasted utilization. Therefore, if the request rate stays the same, and each request is wasting enough utilization, the utilization required to process the request will be higher than the rate it is worked off.
What a great PR beat for Quibi. Makes it seem more like they're the next big thing, if someone is going after their patents.
my dr mentioned that he's had success with the sub cutaneous thing. it lasts a month and it seems like it's a good way to slowly taper down. and he said the bupe stays in your body for a LONG time when doing that - longer than a month after the 30 day period

it's really hard to taper down! it takes a lot of willpower not to just take more since you have it sitting around. i wonder if would be more successful with like a 1 month taper for in patient program.
You'd honestly probably have a better time, unless there was something you specifically wanted to see at SXSW. So many people come into town for it that getting anywhere in the city becomes a nightmare.
I've worked from home since 2009. Here's what has worked for me:

- Have a dedicated work space that can be closed off from the rest of the family / roommates / distractions. Bedrooms / kitchens can only work for so long. A dedicated office at home works best.

- Headphones can act like a chain (in a good way) and keep you productive at your desk.

- Keep strict work hours, 8-5 or whatever. No work communications outside of those times.

- Do not set up your work email or messaging on your phone to further enforce strict work hours and differentiate "work" from "life".

- I found no good way of keeping the casual / social in-person environment alive. The reality is that working from home is often lonely and you lose the casual office chit chat. I have filled that newfound spare time with side projects.
And Hetzner has cloud/VPS/etc offerings in Germany & Finland: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
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> On the flip side, decentralizing makes coordination harder.

Perhaps technology could help in this regard, at least to some degree. Bitcoin has proven coordination in a low trust environment is possible. Imagine if we could make coordination easier in other industries too.

> I'm not arguing that one kind of organization is always better or worse. To me it just seems complicated.

I agree, it is indeed complicated. But we need to start seriously considering concepts such as scale, systems thinking with its centralization/decentralization paradigms, and incomplete knowledge/risks if we want to design better institutions. Then we can thinker with turning the knobs one way or the other.
Absolutely this summarizes the situation.

It's worth noting that South Korea also was able to engage in such mass mobilization. Moreover, if the trends continue for a few weeks, China's not going to have an order of magnitude more death anymore.

Italy's high CFR sounds like a health care that's broken far more than the Chinese health care system, a system which essentially isn't taking any specific extreme measures (which would be building more hospitals, importing more health care workers, etc).
My guess is that flags are responsible for a lot of weird movement in the front page ranking. You flag an article and it starts losing spots - a number of people do it and the article can die entirely. The flag count is hidden to prevent bandwagoning but is an important signal. Thus front page posts move in mysterious ways as if guided by an unseen hand.

Well they are and the hand is users flagging posts. Plenty of times I've seen

Article A, 2 hours, 50 votes
Article B, 1 hour, 100 votes

Where A is ranked above B despite being older and having fewer votes (the signals we can see). I think the missing link is flags. I bet if we knew the flag count the front page ranking would make more sense.
Bizarre syntax? It's almost identical to JavaScript/TypeScript syntax. You know, the #1 most used language.