skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For God's sake please use another font. I don't understand this minimalism trend that emphasizes on thin fonts. Stop it.
Asia has way more experience dealing with these outbreaks than the west though. Think MERS
It seems very likely that many people (especially in areas with lots of travel to/from China) who had "a bad flu" followed by a chest infection in January or early February actually had COVID.

We are unlikely to ever find out, because we won't have a reason to give everyone antibody tests
Agree. In the US it makes sense to eliminate cars; consumers have voted for SUVs. I guess Detroit will need EV SUVs. I find pharma's roic and ebita suspiciously high; pivot to healthcare cost inflation. And I am surprised by retail numbers. Still the OP's point stands ... A damn interesting read btw. There are other articles talking about what Tesla has done to Germany. Their combustion based cars are falling in sales. The number 1 purchased EV is tesla not German. Yikes!
Yes I was wondering if it is normal for companies to just declare a sale price like this. I don't pay much attention but I can't remember hearing much about that (apart from implied valuations like Snapchat saying 'no').
As someone who's monitoring the situation over in Germany because I have family there, Germany is definitely not doing "something right". There is a lack of direction in handling the situation, as well as information for the citizens.

People are calling 116117 but getting hang up on, and the weaker central government (due to obvious historical reasons) means that the response differs state to state. Much like in the US.
Why don’t they include a keyboard with a pointer stick? Seems like a no brainer given their market segment is thinkpad junkies.

Compaq, toshiba, and other companies seemed to be able to include them in 90s laptops by just using a different color bud (like green).
Right RDP traffic is not using more than 1.5-megabits/second.
force majeure
>A 2% annual risk of death is catastrophic compared to normal life risks:

as the article also points out, life is not lived in the aggregate. If you're in good health and not very old you should adjust your perception of risk according to your personal circumstances.

For reference, the chance of a 40+ year old woman to get breast cancer every year is about 2%. I don't see all of them in perpetual state of panic. Someone on twitter tried to figure out by how much the corona virus worsens the average 'baseline' risk to die in any given year and I think it was about 5%. Puts things into context.
That sounds like the subtext
You can buy a Herman Miller refurb on Amazon for $500. It's a great deal. You also need a second monitor, mechanical keyboard, webcam, headset. $1k is plenty for all of that
> Assuming prevalence is equal in the US and Europe, you gain exactly nothing.

That assumption is wrong, the prevalence will not be equal. One will be better off, one will be worse off. There is no scenario where the prevalence is going to be identical across such massive populations with such dramatically different cultures, population densities and healthcare systems. The US and various European nations will not act the same, they will not quarantine the same, death rates will vary, and so on. In fact, it'll vary considerably just within Europe, as we're already seeing.

It's better to separate accordingly, for both sides.
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You forgot to read the PDF
You can sail across the Atlantic in 4-5 days on an ocean liner
Sourcegraph only support git repository so it's not very useful for enterprise with mercurial, svn or other distributed version control systems.

There is another open source application for code search opengrok [1] (it's completely open source unlike sourcegraph and supports multiple version controls beside git).

Take a look. It's easy to install and operate on bare metal, cloud and containers, instead of convoluted sourcegraph way of kubernetes or docker.

[1] https://github.com/oracle/opengrok
Are you saying people have big backyards, eat loads of tskeour and order stuff online, in Scandinavia?
Have you ever lived in Scandinavia?
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I've actually enjoyed watching the XFL so far. Great rule changes
> You're comparing lifetime risks with an annual risk.

And? People tend to develop immunity to diseases the've had in the past (although this is TBD in this specific case) so lifetime risk could easily be a reasonable comparison metric. My point is we do very dangerous things regularly, but because we're used to them, we largely ignore them.

Cigarettes kill 480,000 people in the US alone each year [0]. The flu kills 61,000 people in the US alone each year. Alcohol kills 88,000 people in the US alone each year. Opioids kill 77,000 people in the US alone each year.

There are 6 million car accidents in the US each year of which 2 million people receive permanent injuries and 36,000 die.

nCoV-19 is on track to kill 100 in the US.

> And your third paragraph is so full of misinformation, I almost believe you're intentionally trolling.

How so? The mortality rates are clear: under 10, 0% chance of death. 11-39, 0.2% chance of death. 40-49, 0.4% chance of death. [1] Older folks, higher rates, but of course, H1N1 kills 10% of elderly folks that get it too. And these are CFRs -- numbers which go down, sometimes dramatically, over time as we gain a fuller perspective on the situation.

If you're young you are fine. Children are basically unaffected, that is, they catch it, and it goes away. Often they don't even notice they had it.

> And Bruce isn't discussing a failure to assess the risk of COVID-19 (the article is from 2013).

I never said he was. The quote was pretty clear and free-standing: people are bad at assessing risk of unlikely or one-off events. It terrifies them.

In my opinion the essay evaluates one set of strategies people use to avoid risk at all costs: technological, but it's the realization of the underlying that is relevant here.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se...
I wonder how risky just walking outside is if you don’t talk to or touch anything and you’re not in a crowded area. Certainly more than sealing yourself in a room but I wonder if walking past someone briskly with your hands in your pockets has a significant risk of transmission?
People with mechanical keyboards in conference calls can jump in a lake. haha
Wait, is this the same XFL from back in the day, with all the trash talking like wrestling?
[EDIT] Since the downvotes have started pouring in, I have to ask. Do you really attribute to this error to malice rather than stupidity? Given that the administration immediately (within minutes? edit: [0]yes, within minutes) made a correction I find it difficult to believe it was deliberate misinformation.

I mean, miscommunication happens. Trump didn't invent the plan, he was advised by others and gave the go-ahead. Then, his advisors drafted all of the details of the plan (probably in very short order). And of course, he didn't write the speech, someone prepared it for him. Afterward, the speech changed hands numerous times until some staff member loaded it into the prompter.

Someone definitely messed up, but it's hard for me to see how anyone could blame the speaker for this one. Assuming there's no partisanship, of course.

[0]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/11/trum...
hey mods, the link should be changed to the white house proclamation, news sites are having some trouble with accuracy.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
Nice! Didn't even know this exists.

I'm a bit confused, tho: the only real content is:

> This license gives everyone as much permission to work with
this software as possible, while protecting contributors
from liability.

This doesn't really sound unambiguous to me (but maybe that's because English is not my native language). As comparison from The Unlicense:

> Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
means.

Somehow that's much clearer to me.
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Right and it wasn't the president's decision. Not sure what your point is.
Taiwan has millions of visitors from China and only 45 coronavirus cases. How?
I get it where you are heading, but I'm more a "showoff" person. I can talk about the things I have done and things that I want to learn and definitely need to learn.

If you look at my GitHub, there are some things missing, like CI/CD, MSFTStudy with powershell, AWS and Azure things.

I follow the books that have exams in them, but I don't the exams.
More importantly the year when Rusty gave up on trying to fix the site.
Tom Hanks is what gets you, not the U.S. suspending all travel from Europe for 30 days?

I don't get people.
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Even if they won't close, you can still pull your kid out when you believe it's prudent to do so, right?
The financial hit from this and other event closures, travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, and lost wages is going to be massive.

Asset prices and employment reports do not in any way reflect what's in store.
The US can't restrict its own citizens from returning (although it could certainly impose a quarantine), and I didn't claim or imply that they should.

The point is that the action is farce. Those flights to and from Wuhan were always full of primarily Americans, and continued unabated. Just as Americans can still fly to and from Europe, though obviously carriers are going to drastically cut the flight counts.

Regardless, it is without an ounce of doubt that COVID-19 is spreading, completely uncontrolled, throughout the US. Italy is a week or so ahead of the United States, but sadly the most probable outcome is a catastrophe in the near future.
Sounds like you are off to a good start!

Another tricky problem I thought of would be a double trailer that can be side loaded would take a single dock, but a double trailer that has to be rear unloaded would take two docks. Also zoning docks so a refrigerated truck can't dock at a dry goods dock, or customers may want to make sure certain suppliers use the dock closest to where they need the goods. As in you wouldn't want to unload the truck and then have to move the pallets hundreds of metres to the storage location.
AOL got the "masses" on-line in 1993. That caused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September.

All of the sites that you named except Usenet postdated that event.
That's typically a proxy problem. The intermediate certificates are automatically downloaded by all decent X.509 clients such as Windows, Firefox, or Chrome.

However, if the proxy is occasionally dropping requests or replacing them with one of those stupid "log on to the proxy here" pages, then the chain discovery will fail randomly and you'll get these issues.

It's also common in environments where the security trolls have blocked HTTP (as in, TCP port 80) because they think it's "insecure", but this just causes X.509 issues like this because it uses only HTTP and never HTTPS for CRLs, OCSP, and intermediate CA certificate downloads.
The relevant part of the CDC quote was "because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from food products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks" and the study preprint you linked showed that in the worst case (polypropylene surfaces) no live virus at all was detected after 72 hours while on cardboard it was more like a third of that time (with large error bars).
I'll second Metafilter. It's even from the same era.
I'm not sure why you wouldn't adjust your standard waking time, if you feel the urge to snooze.

Sleeping for me means the same time to bed and to rise as I can make it to avoid disruption.
Same founder/owner (Vince McMahon) but different league with different teams. No wrestling gimmicks and no cheerleaders this time around.
If it's for work, see if you can get your company to order if through whoever they get their office furniture from. I know my previous company paid around $650 each for the Herman Miller Embody
This is superb! Such great work to see.
There isn't any that I knew of.

http://kr5ddit.com/ tried to do it but went down as Alpha Racks went dark. Now it is a chat forum.
No idea. I’ve never liked any non-Lenovo pointing sticks I’ve tried, though.

One possibility is that none of the manufacturers they’re rebadging from offer this feature.
Counterpoint: I think the typography is wonderful and highly readable as is.
How is this going to help? They can get in from Africa, Canada, Mexico, India? Ban them all later???
One thing I question is the assessment that what's under the hood is unimportant to the customer ... Now many guys and most wives surely don't care unlike a mechanical engineer until it doesn't work. In the early 90s Japanese cars cost more but consumers saw quality. JP took 30% of the US market as a result. Wouldn't this be better examined in terms of how repair costs factor into customer assessment of car desirability?
I think there's always been cycles.

It starts off as a toy, a side project. "A news aggregator hosted by a venture capitalist, hah!"

But toys and side projects attract the intellectually curious. It becomes a hub. More and more people start to migrate to it.

Eventually it gains prestige. People who care a lot about prestige join. They start flexing, shooting down ideas and discussions. People no longer feel safe to share ideas. It gets locked into an echo chamber.

The intellectually curious migrate to other places. Some stay here.

I've seen several crop up and die. Some die from the above. Many die because they can't hit critical mass.
Which would be consistent with the risk being low for goods shipped from Europe or Asia to North America, right?
me getting lost too, op suggests China should just let loose?
Less gross stuff like sending cameras into the cheerleader locker room. More of the cool stuff like players climbing up into the stands and high fiving fans after a TD
"An observation of something that was presently occurring that had some relevance to the discussion".
There are a LOT of businesses running on thin margins and making just enough to cover costs each month. Even one month of things going to zero will ruin a whole host of restaurants, sole proprietors, real estate speculators, and on down the chain. I hope I'm wrong, but this kind of instant systematic reduction in the economy feels unprecedented within the last 50+ years.
I think maintaining 6 feet of separation is actually possible at a lot of XFL games
A lot also got bought up by roboticists and hackers, though in the grand scheme of things, those users were probably still just a drop in the bucket.
Haha, I kept getting e-mails asking me to take a 3 month contract in "Plantation, Florida"

Yeah, right
Ask HN: Do you use the TouchBar for anything useful?
Our office just closed too. We're using it as an experiment for wider work from home in the future. This could have widespread impact on work culture.

If it works out, that $1k/person could pay dividends in savings if they can reduce office space.
Why would you assume total travel is constrained? Restricting travel from Europe to US will just eliminate that portion of travel, not concentrate it in the US.
Not at all the most important thing, but mechanical keyboards are going to be sold out so fast. There are tons of people who want them, but just don’t want to bug people in their office. WFH will change that. And it’s mostly small suppliers who won’t scale that fast. I imagine they use some Chinese parts, too.
How is engine idle running a drivers home appliances and hvac statutory tachtime?

(ymmv linguistically I suppose depending where you haul from/how much time you spent in freeway lay-bys fixing your pickup/bandmobile/trabbi but there's a lot of important social going on in these times and at least in the past Indy drivers got themselves booked and did their paperwork meanwhile)
Fleeing California
Assuming you should already own a chair that shouldn’t be worth less than about $1k (or a bit less than that second-hand) is a bit extreme.
I thought that in a presidential republic the head of state can't write laws themselves?
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1237941455693533184

The travel restriction applies to foreign nationals who have been in 26 European countries with open borders agreements, in the last 14 days.

UK is not included because it has never been a part of Schengen ("26 European countries"), which is targeted for refusal to impose travel restrictions.
There are so many knock on effects of all this -- people will be unemployed with limited unemployment at best. They'll potentially lose their healthcare, and in the worst cases their homes. Schools are closing in Seattle, and they won't have lunch programs running until Monday which means a lot of kids are likely to go without adequate food.

We need to fix the safety net in our country, so when things like this happen we can all chip in to cover each other. Basic healthcare, affordable or public housing, eviction protections, food programs. These aren't radical ideas, we ought to be out here looking out for all of us.
100x yes.

Questions to be made on data are always an afterthought, after the systems to gather and produce this data have already been designed.

The idea that it’s ok to just give a BI tool to business people later, and not involve them at the beginning to inform the system and data model design, is maybe why we’re in the tar pit.

A really excellent process/tool would help business figure out what kind of questions they need answered, and work backwards to the data model and implementation.
What did you use for a UI?
That's a ridiculous assumption.

You're pretending we live in the 1400s. We don't.

You're pretending we will take no measures to control this at all. That's simply not the case.
> ethanol (from hardware/paint department...)

Be careful with this. I checked the denatured alcohol available in the paint section of Home Depot and it said it may contain methanol. Everclear does seem like the next best thing after isopropyl, if it's available in your state.
I'm thinking early investors have largely written this off in their mind. They would probably be happy to take small fraction of $2 billion they put in at this point. Realistically, would they even get $200 million?
Pretty crazy. They got away from the WWE model and instead are using it as a testbed for new rules. It is actually very exciting to watch.
Meta was a joke. Magic Leap's technology has always been far better, and their primary competition is Microsoft and Facebook (and maybe Apple if rumors are true).

Unfortunately for Magic Leap, it's just too early for AR headsets to be viable. The technology needs another decade or so to mature before it can be truly mainstream, probably. It can only survive in research labs with funding from some other source, not as a standalone business.

Timing is everything for startups and Magic Leap was too early. I've been saying it for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17829798
Again, you're assuming a 100% infection rate, which is an absolutely absurd assumption. Also, you are basing your mortality rate on a subsample of the population, not the whole population.

In short, you're lying with statistics.
In regular conversation, would you call cargo shipments “travel”? Probably not. Commerce, trade, or shipments would probably be used.
It's the "up to" bit that I take issue with.

It's a half-life thing. The larger your initial sample, the longer the sample can go and still have enough infectious ability left.

Scenario: Infected person sneezes over a large area and deposits over a wide area. Then you come by 6 hours later and touch a deposited surface and then 10 minutes later touch your eyes.

Each transition only picked up a fraction of what was left.

And each time period left only a fraction of what was there.

More important to limit travel, limit direct/close contact and clean commonly used surfaces frequently.

And better to avoid replicating the environmental conditions that created the "up to 9 day" figure: low temperatures and low humidity.
This is a simple, and thus great, way of using Makers incentive structure against itself.

While specific to the MakerDAO ecosystem, it effectively highlights the complexity and challenge in adequately creating a decentralized governance structure.

Essentially, to remove centralized control, you must structure incentives such that the system ultimately acts as intended, but there is always going to be ways to subvert the incentive structure. The goal is that costs of conducting such activity are too much to be reasonably conducted.

It seems that these systems will take years and years in the wild before their incentive structures are iterated upon enough to finally get to a point where truly large business value will flow through it. Exercises like this are useful in either disproving this whole concept or incrementally improving it.
The best thing we can do to stop the spread is things like this, unfortunately.
>All reductions in (non-essential) travel are good in a pandemic.

All travel is essential to somebody. All restrictions on movement also have a cost, and any analysis that only looks at the benefits of something without looking at the costs cannot hope to be correct.
I would've said yes to Florida at some point in my life. Florida is my backup state.
Not sure how Kuro5hin was, but tildes.net may be something of interest.

I have 10 invites available right now, and I am not affiliated with them — just enjoy the discussions and community that are growing.
The founder may very well have walked away with 200,000 bitcoins, so was it really cursed for the founders?
Ask HN: What source control system do you use? GitHub? Bitbucket? Gitlab? Other?
GitHub? Bitbucket? Gitlab? Other?

Do you self host or use a cloud solution?
How does the Japanese of the 80s and early 90s (before their problems recently) differ from now? JP took some 30pct of the US market in an industry that is/was largely beholden to the same constraints you mention. Honda and Toyota we're good investments then.
You weren't watching a game _that hadn't started_ when it was canceled.
The hurdle would then be that it’s the feds’ responsibility to prove that this is the smallest infringement that would accomplish the government’s intention.
You mean the same foreign affairs experts that look the other way at human rights violations and other massive crime for the sake of politics?

No thanks.
Page is up on his website, but no content there: https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
There's only a few studies on this I could find via some google & google scholar:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean...

https://evesdrift.com/2014/01/01/change-in-human-social-beha...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1349985915923183693...
> like Rusty of kuro5hin found out the hard way, poor guy.

What happened? I haven't even thought about kuro5hin in many years.
> VR is light years ahead in terms of practical potential

i agree VR is light years away (it's been just around the corner for years), but i don't even understand its potential. what are the big applications? i just can't get around its usefulness for anything but maybe video games.