skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super lazy night mode, paste this in your console:

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Penguins freed to roam in Chicago aquarium
If you're referencing Apple's mandate that WebKit be used as the engine for all iOS web rendering, then yes, that's a poor policy ostensibly made in the name of security. Not sure if that's what your point is, though.
Without even looking at the article I guessed he was a javascript developer. And I was right.
GitHub must not be able to remove user accounts nor individual repositories without:

1. Demonstrable just cause for removal, fully communicated to the removed user.

2. Due process - before and after the removal (some kind of prior notice, ability to challenge claims against you, adjudication mechanism, appeal mechanism etc.)

3. Community notification about the removal - no axing accounts in secret.
I wasn't previously part of the discussion, so it would be strange for me to post that.
Each virus is different, and apparently it is easier to find a vaccine against covid19 than HIV. Covid19 is similar to SARS and other cororavirus, so virologist have a good guess about how much time it will take. Probably not less than a year, don't expect to see it next month magically as other people. Here says 18 months approximately https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/16/when-will-a-co... I guess it will take longer, like 2 years.
Tell them to vote for someone else next time and cross your fingers.
Who's funding the S3 bill? Took a peek around crates.io but didn't see anything about it.
The union operator also produces incorrect distances for the interior of the union volume, which is a problem for things like shadow cone tracing. See http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/interiordistance/interior..., I've actually been struggling with this in my SDF implementation.

I'm still a big fan of the union operation since GPU rasterizers can trivially hardware accelerate it, which means you can render a bunch of objects in one go and know that it will be performed at near-optimal efficiency by the GPU. I've been combining that with a packing technique to render 3 depth slices at once in RGB (plus an extra duplicate slice in A) so that I can accurately sample any point in space with a single bilinear texture read.
I had about a week of alarming, severe back and joint pain and shortness of breath/elevated pulse that I thought was a pulled muscle in my back just making a bunch of stuff act up. After hearing the account of the nurse in Colorado I now feel I may have been suffering from the Coronavirus, but now that I feel healthy the direction is not to get tested as far as I can tell. I guess I'll find out once a test is developed for antibodies.
I think "flattening the curve" is often misunderstood, because on diagrams it looks like both scenarios will lead to similar number of infected people. But in reality, the flatter curve can actually lead to significantly less people infected overall, because exponential growth is difficult to control if the disease is everywhere. So it is even possible, it seems to me, that the countries that flatten the curve more vigorously will actually deal with the problem faster. But, as other people noted, we will see.
Those of us that were using non-MS OSes like Linux or FreeBSD or Solaris back then hated it that sites were made to work correctly only on IE.
I suppose it makes sense to have an explicit discussion of this trolley-style problem. Given an choice between $9.6 trillion damage to the economy and the deaths of a million mostly elderly people, which would you choose? An economist following the most recent US figure cited on the "Value of life" Wikipedia page [1] would say this is break even. A particularly selfish young person would say it's a good deal. I personally would not take it, but that might just be my own personal biases.

As with such trolley problems, real life is rarely so clear-cut. If done intelligently, massive loss of life can be prevented, and the economy can find smart ways to adapt.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
I don't disagree logistical challenges will present themselves, although if China can't move those products out of country, they will likely deploy locally to keep their economy running. I think we'll all agree, a metric ton of CO2 emissions avoided is a metric ton avoided.

Also, my hope is that low oil prices drive US frackers out of business (US shale needs ~$40-90/barrel to break even, current WTI price as of this comment is a bit below $30/barrel); this will cause the price of natural gas to spike, causing utility scale battery storage combined with renewables to become immediately cost effective against quite a bit of current natural gas fired generation. Battery storage is already replacing the most expensive "once through" peaking plants (these are essentially jet engines bolted to the ground), and as the economics become more marginal for more efficient combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), battery uptake will increase. That firm capacity is permanently clean moving forward.

These are "one way ratchets" we need to find every opportunity to pull. I will concede that low oil prices do not help with efforts to electrify transportation; the fight continues for a carbon tax and outlawing combustion whenever possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic... (Jurisdictions with planned fossil-fuel vehicle bans)

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019 (Levelized Cost of Energy and Levelized Cost of Storage 2019)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/renewables/what-... (How Inexpensive Must Energy Storage Be for Utilities to Switch to 100 Percent Renewables?)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/wind-and... (Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world, analysis finds)

https://pvbuzz.com/renewables-capacity-overwhelms-coal-gas-o... (United States: Over the next three years, renewables will add nearly 50,000-MW of new capacity and be more than a quarter of total, while gas, coal, oil, and nuclear will drop by 4,200-MW)
> Consumer price inflation is mostly a monetary phenomenon. The increased money supply is only one side of the equation. We must also subtract the deflationary effects of debt defaults. Banks create new money by issuing loans, and when debtors default the banks are forced to write down the value of those loans. Thus money which formerly existed in the financial system vanishes.

> So for the next year or so as defaults accelerate I expect that deflation will be a larger concern than inflation, and central banks will try to counter that by large, frequent injections of new money.

The flow of new money creation is not evenly distributed throughout an economy, and this is called the Cantillon Effect (which can also be applied to deflation).

The new money creation has been going strong for some time now, but hasn't been flowing into sectors measured by the CPI. This has kept CPI increases relatively low in comparison to the increases.

However, send $1000 per month to every American and nearly all of that will go into sectors measured by the CPI, which will then go up.
Again, irrelevant. Capacity increase is lives saved. Flattening the curve is a multiplier on that, and is thus also lives saved. "Enough" doesn't matter as much as the fact that "more" scales linearly. Every bed of capacity you add is at least one life saved, even if you never get close to enough.
If you're the only car on the road, it's substantially safer too. The roads won't be completely empty of cars during the lockdown.
Can anyone help me explain the mad rush to make discord servers for everything? Is it gamified somehow?
Yup. And the worst-case scenario is infections peaking next winter to coincide with regular 'flu season.

An Imperial College paper [1] out today predicts this under its most stringent suppression scenario; see the chart on page 10.

[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...
I cannot define it because I don't know. I'm hopeful that there will be much more testing done which would shed light on many things. We also have a couple of countries with more positive news about the virus spread and in some places the number of deaths is still zero despite having thousands of cases.
I’m ok with seeing a shoe ad if I google shoes. It’s fine to do a geo lookup of my up to show a local offer too. That’s context from the request. That should be enough. I’m not ok with seeing anything that requires them storing information I don’t want them to store (eg search history, behavior on other sites such as past purchases). I’d rather have worse results. Google works great in a private browser using a vpn, I don’t need whatever extra they can bring with my info.
> - major lockdowns and panic (running to the store to stockpile toilet paper, for some reason)

Americans use lots of toilet paper.
But you need actual testing in order to get real data
Even the most die-hard libertarian economist believes in Pigouvian taxes to address externalities. If vacant buildings are an externality cost, they should be taxed.
I found two pretty damn quickly. They're 3 of the top 5 most upvoted comments on the announcement thread...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221640

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221656

> I'm legitimately curious as my use of GitHub hasn't led me to notice any change

Nor I. That's not that point.

For the record, I think Microsoft has done wonderfully for the dev community in the last 10 years. I don't see any reason that they are going to "f it up", but big businesses get desperate when environments change and profits get impacted (look no further than what Oracle is doing). Microsoft is not immune to that.
I assure you that people will be so desperate for jobs that carbon management will not enter their thoughts even one iota.
It's both - but the supply side could take up to a year to fix. I work a small company but our lead times have tripled.
U.S. markets should stay open despite turmoil, says top securities regulator
I agree completely, that’s what I had in mind, but wasn’t really precise enough - basically whatever’s South Korea doing right now. Access to testing, test all suspected cases, quarantine and isolate, and the economy can sort of be back to pre-pandemic order of magnitude.
No matter how many, some people will complain about this. There is a huge recesion in the entire world and a company is willing to hire more people and haters gonna hate.
> If there is a second wave it will only be because of overly aggressive quarantining.

Common cold causing coronaviruses have recurring waves every 2-4 years. If they don't mutate like flu it means that immunity is not that long lasting.
> As hard as it sounds for the economy to adapt to extreme social distancing for a short time and moderate for a long time, it seems like a better bet to me than trying to increase intensive care capacity

The article is saying do both which makes sense. In the case of CV19, we don't need to build new state-of-the-art ICUs. We only need to prepare a temporary overflow capacity that can handle a relatively brief surge of a very particular (and largely similar) kind of patient which is a still-challenging but much more tractable problem.

Space - Large circus tent-like temporary buildings used for conventions can be erected in hospital parking lots in a day.

Beds - While $5,000 robo-beds are wonderful, CV19 patients needing hospitalization have pneumonia symptoms and need to be at a constant ~30% incline - so La-Z-Boy lounge chairs are actually a decent option.

Mechanical Ventilators - The U.S. has about 160,000 ventilators. The key here is to get them where they need to be when they are needed. The chances that CV19 surges will happen everywhere at once in an area as large as CONUS are essentially zero. In Italy, while Lombardy in the North was running out of ventilators, there were hospitals in the south with unused devices. 98k of our national 160k vents are mothballed older versions in storage. Preparing some portion of these for rapid deployment, such as positioning them in FedEx / UPS overnight hubs in the central U.S. can have them ready to be wherever a surge begins to build in less than 18 hours.

Ventilator Operators - Becoming certified to operate a ventilator usually requires six months and the next gap will be having enough qualified operators where and when they're needed. An experiment was already conducted where various medically-trained, but not vent-trained, people from RNs to pediatricians to veterinarians were run through 2 days of intensive vent training and tested for apprentice-level proficiency. The winners were the veterinarians, outperforming the other specialties in performance (go figure). The resulting model showed one certified vent op can supervise six apprentice-level ops who each handle X beds (I forget the exact numbers). But you get the idea and fortunately, we have a lot of vets in the U.S.

We still have some low-digit number of weeks before likely patient surges start cropping up in different areas. Neither spread-reduction nor surge capacity increases will work perfectly, but by pragmatically working both issues together it's likely we can avert many preventable deaths.
If they fail and there’s a market for flights their assets will be bought and operated by someone else. Let them fail.

Given climate change, air travel is not a public good we should be prioritising.
Sadly, I think a more representative title would be "How long will UNIX survive?". macOS is the only widespread version of UNIX left, and as it converges with iOS and loses its command line ecosystem, it will be the effective end for UNIX.

Ignoring the parallel universe of Mainframe computing, server UNIX has been replaced almost completely by server linux. The Free/Open/Net BSDs are knocking around both desktop and server spheres, but they are not common. Desktop macOS is the only recognisable strain of UNIX you are likely to encounter.

I agree with the point made by the OP of course, and I've swapped my MacBook to Ubuntu for this reason.
author here, some background:

kind was originally built for developing kubernetes itself, as a cheaper option for testing changes to the core components.

it wasn't really meant to compete with minikube et. al, but complement for differing usage, but you may now find it useful as a lightweight option with a slightly different feature set.

it's also the only local cluster that is fully conformant as far as I know, because conformance tests involve verifying multi-node behavior, at the time minikube did not support
- building kubernetes from a checkout and running it
- docker based nodes
- multiple nodes per cluster

These days they've gotten more similar, we're both shipping docker and podman based nodes.

I think one of the most interesting things about kind is that the entire kubernetes distro is packed into a single "node" docker image, it's very easy to work with fully offline.
That's life in a cost center.

It is hard to contemplate just how destructive the "cost center" / "profit center" distinction has turned out to be. For us, though, it means we had better stay the hell out of cost centers.

A business performing the duties of another's cost center, where costs may be amortized over multiple customers, can shift identically same tasks into a profit center.
for someone to be able to sell, another one has to buy.
Coronavirus Is Hiding in Plain Sight
It took me 4 years to recover from burnout post business failing. I moved to the mountains, did a lot of meditating and snowboarding and was able to start a now-successful company after that 4 years.
I'm doubtful about your first statement. People are resilient - I find it hard to imagine a maybe 2x increase in annual US deaths causing such widespread and complete shutdown of economic activity.
What happened to yarn is they released a v2 with some backwards incompatibilities... and for this reason we should be glad facebook didn't buy npm? (Also facebook doesn't actually own yarn). Well I'm confused.
Parts of the US have total quarantine? Which parts?
Those Darwin award winners will be the first to get it.
There's more than one definition of antisocial. The second definition from Oxford is "Not sociable; not wanting the company of others".

This usage is colloquially extremely common.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/antisocial
The problem is that certain industries now just assume they will be bailed out during crisis. The airline industry, the financial industry. It’s almost baked into their mode of operation at this point.
The purpose of the lockdown is solely to prevent emergency services from being completely overwhelmed. Not make it go away.
Does Reiki Work?
It threw me at first, but I think it is supposed to make this point: Although this kind of forced economic shift would feel very new for most of us, humans have managed it before. Specifically, and most recently, in WW2.
AFAICT, this doesn't seem to fix the performance issue of the modern Windows UI, even though it claims so. I've always been saddened by the modern Photos app taking several seconds to boot, compared to the good ol' Picture and Fax viewer taking a blink. Considering this brand new UI toolkit is just a rehash of the framework Microsoft were using internally, and probably also used by the Photos app, how can we expect to gain a performance boost from WinUI, when they cannot fix the performance issue of their own apps?
The majority of Singapore's cases for the past week plus have been imported, not local transmission. They already imposed mandatory 14 day quarantines on most visitors a few days ago, plus Malaysia just unilaterally sealed the only land border, so those will go down soon.
> Over the past couple of days the federal government has done more to try to fix the markets than they did during the entire housing crash, but compressing it all into a weekend.

One minor point the Federal Reserve has pulled all of their levers to keep credit moving.

The Federal Government has yet to do any fiscal stimulus, which is what's really needed here. If the US government decided to go into $2T+ of debt over the next few weeks and directed that spending at individuals instead of industry bailouts, then I predict the economic consequences of this event would be much shallower than it would be otherwise. They can borrow this money at damn near zero interest right now.

> And here we are, staring into the abyss.

Just in the Seattle area, we've had 10's of restaurant closures announced. The Tom Douglas restaurant group has laid off a good portion of its 800 employees. So the Seattle area alone has probably lost >2,000 jobs already. That's probably seriously on the low side.

I truly think we're looking at a staggering number of unemployed in this country within a few months. Like, great depression staggering. The GFC was terrible, but every neighbourhood service business did not suddenly have 75% of their business disappear or were forced to close. This is much, much different. These jobs will go away in a flood and come back in a trickle. Without a vaccine, we will need to hold some level of countermeasures for up to 18 months - nobody will go out to eat, etc.
As a European it seems like the US markets are a step behind and seemed to trade pretty optimistically last week and especially the week before even though the situation was bad in Italy, for example.
rumors are dead as it really happened : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22599579
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You know what they say ... there is no I in EEE.
Parent is probably referring to the "Covid19 with distancing" simulation.

Some feedback: these are very simplistic simulations and obviously not aiming for accuracy but please consider changing the default 20% "reinfectability" parameter.

All evidence and medical knowledge indicates that reports of reinfection are either:

- issues with testing (false positives/negatives)

- extremely rare

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covid-19-reinfection/
By what reasoning is macOS "Unix", but GNU/Linux isn't?
Agreed. And the frustration is that we are seeing tons of government action to prevent loss of life, but the effort to protect against the economic damage is basically non-existant. Couple a lockdown with something like a moratorium on rent collection and a widespread effort to help feed everyone and it would feel much less one-sided.
I am not sure why it was flagged, but the Reuters article was edited after publication without a notice of such a change. Specifically the following can no longer be found in the article.

> Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag."
Isn't this similar to a typical antibiotics regimen? The abx kill a lot of bacteria with an X-log reduction and the immune system takes out what's left?

I'm not an expert on this, just curious.
> During the 2018 eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo outbreak, four investigational treatments were initially available to treat patients with confirmed Ebola. For two of those treatments, called regeneron (REGN-EB3) and mAb114, overall survival was much higher. These two antiviral drugs currently remain in use for patients with confirmed Ebola.

How is this not a cure? If you mean that the cure doesn't save 100% of those who take it, than we have no cure for bacteria as well.
On what basis? I see operating income between AWS and retail being relatively similar. The margins for AWS are much better, but retail is still driving a huge amount of profit for Amazon.
JustWatch has been such a game changer for me! Really awesome job. Great UI, intuitive layout, responsive. You guys must be getting a barrage of well deserved traffic lately.
If you live in the bay area there's a non-trivial chance it's illegal for you to won firearms:

Before everything shuts down tomorrow please fill out this form and grab a weapon (legally).

https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/firearms/forms...

The recent bans on alcohol, firearms and more are proof that this is not just for "the health" of the population - typical nanny state nonsense.

Authoritarianism has no place in this country.
What mad rush are you talking about?
Those aren't permitted in the US... yet.
It is disappointing how unaware many urbanites are of the realities of life in rural areas. After the travel restrictions are lifted we would do well to get out of our bubbles and see firsthand how others live. That could help reduce the current political and cultural divides.
I think you just gradually make lockdown less strict to throttle number of cases so that it's on the level your healthcare can handle and do that till most of your population already had the virus. And hope for new treatments, vaccines and that immunity from already having the virus lasts at least a year or two.