skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find many "wallflowers" have deep passions that they'll love to talk about if they think they are being taken seriously. But many of those same people often haven't cultivated the ability to chat about non-passionate topics (small talk) -- and it takes purposeful effort to build up the small talk muscles and do it well and not everybody takes the time to do it.

A source of loneliness can be not readily finding other people who share the same deep, unique, passions and that can turn into a vicious cycle that feeds the loneliness monster.
(author here) - that is correct, those aren't sliders, just waypoints
This is a great illustration of the problems of corporatization for online content providers. A similar story is playing out over at YouTube, where channel's, and people's livelihood's, are facing increased surveillance and pasteurization for the sake of advertiser friendliness.

As for this case, I don't know what's going on, and can't tell from the article, but a user 1) from Russia, 2) with a "drug name" in their handle is not the picture perfect story of corporation friendly. Too bad for his users!
> A big problem is trucks and SUVs in general are being elevated with higher and higher ride heights

Honestly, this problem has been getting better in recent years due to two factors:

1. Newer vehicles, particularly SUVS, are increasingly not of a body-on-frame design that is trivial to lift. It is rare to see aftermarket-lifted unibody SUVs on the road in the US.

2. Automakers have started cooperating in increasing the crash compatibility of their vehicles. For example: the Enhancing Vehicle-to-Vehicle Crash Compatibility Agreement of 2003.
So... Meghan Markle can go back to Vancouver Island to be with her child, but Prince Harry is trapped in the UK?
This is great news for people forced to use Windows. JavaScript being a 1st class citizen on MS platforms is being even more cemented. It'd be great if Microsoft moved faster with Python integration into the MS ecosystem like SQL Server.
Maybe login would be better. The setting could be x y or z or "set automatically based on performance" with the last being the default
My wife’s factory low beams On her 2019 gmc Acadia get us flashed non stop. It’s definitely no just aftermarket.
Science, business, and innovation in big pharma: Novartis CEO (2019)
I'd like to see Microsoft bring Ryan Dahl (original author of node) back in the fold by sponsoring/buying Deno with TypeScript. It's a good fit.
Shutting down trade would be stupid, but it wouldn't have any effect on the legitimacy of the government. We are pretty damn secure about the legitimacy of our electoral process.
Yeah please contact me. I have been around in mount silly for years and might be able to help out other sillyheads

My contact info is at

sloev.github.io (about)
At the risk of sounding somewhat naive, I think people do have the capacity to grow over time. Perhaps part of the reason why Microsoft has seemingly turned over a new leaf in recent years is that upper management has learned from their past mistakes? I do see your point though, and I think it's stuck in the back of a lot of our minds.
Puzzle shmuzzle, what superpowers did they gain ?
> The only way out for us unless we significantly ramp up testing and lockdown is to admit defeat and simply optimize for slowing down the onslaught.

This has already happened. “Flatten the curve” takes it as written that most people will be exposed to the virus, and thus aims instead to just spread those exposures over a long enough period to avoid overwhelming the health care system.
Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak
This is definitely false. Many companies are going to have layoffs. Supply chains will become disrupted. You can't just hire those people in two weeks and get production running up to 100% right away. If we actually go into a recession due to this (if we're not already), then people won't be willing to spend as much money right away either.
Git was designed to be decentralized from the start. Is there a way to revitalize that heritage?

Discoverability and pull requests are two big benefits that GitHub has offered. Could we create decentralized open source solutions to provide those benefits? Are there other benefits that we’d need to provide to have viable alternatives to centralization?
Reminds me of what happened with Cloud9 and VS Code. First, Cloud9 was awesome for allowing devs to code remotely. Then once VS Code became the best editor out there, they added remote host support (among other things) and now Cloud9 caters to a different audience entirely.
Rackets are used everywhere to suppress wages. Employers usually subscribe to services that tell them what other employers are paying in their area for a given job, which they use during salary negotiations to give themselves a stronger bargaining position.

Any difference in information between two parties is exploitable to drive the price in the direction favored by the more-well-informed party.
I can relate to the author's curiosity of how such a random movement ends up doing a near perfect clean in the given time. I have tried to understand how my basic Roomba works as well. One simple algorithm could be that it is simply storing the path it travels randomly like a criss-cross, zig-zag path and ends up filling a imaginary polygon with those zig-zag movement. That's probably the reason it does not get stuck doing the same part of a room again and again.
> I might get laid off this week too

If you don't mind my asking, what do you do? I'm under the impression that most people on HN are in STEM and I would expect the majority of that group to be fairly insulated from the turmoil as far as their jobs go (obvious exceptions being things like Airbnb and Uber).
I used to be excited when I made predictions like that. Then I realized that my correct predictions, plus $4.15, would only get me a Venti Latte at Starbucks.
Apple Card holders can skip March payment due to impact of coronavirus
Their stock has been hit hard since Feb (trading at 42) to currently trading at 7.
Super well done. Have you shared this with epidemiologists who have validated it? Hard to avoid some bugs no matter how careful you are!

What are the default values representing out of curiosity?

Seems the biggest bit here is the pause to intervention and how big your R0 is after intervention. Anything over 1 for the US population and it seems to get ugly fast.
> I just don't see how these closures

It almost certainly will. But there's a reason virtually every macro-economist is forecasting a rapid V-shaped recovery after the quarantine eventually ends.

At the end of the day, 90% of the population will still be working through the quarantine. And most of the rest will still receive unemployment benefits. Think about all those people collecting a paycheck, and just sitting at home. Now what happens when the quarantine ends?

They take all that money they've built up, and unleash it all at once. All those big-ticket purchases, vacations, and events, that got deferred happen in a short burst. All those people cooped up at home, will flood into restaurants, stores, and concerts. Think Chicago on the first warm day of spring. It's likely to be the greatest one-time surge in consumer spending in all of recorded history.

That's virtually guaranteed to jump-start the economy near instantaneously. And unlike 2008, the chance of systemic financial contagion is extremely low in today's environment. Banks are extremely well capitalized, and the vast majority of risky investment has been moved to non-bank entities, like corporate debt markets, private equity funds, and CLOs.
In theory but never overestimate human competence or underestimate the value of good defaults.
If this isn't expanded to include Sonoma, Napa, and Solano it might as well not even take place, as it will continue to spread and as soon as the order is lifted everyone will be infected again. Really should be the whole state with no border crossing except for necessary cargo. The more seriously it is taken the quicker things can resume as normal.
Yes, we need more details about how to take care of yourself if you do exhibit those symptoms. Do we just address the symptoms? Anti-fever meds, cough drops?
I'm not sure I like the continued consolidation of all things tech around just a few large companies.

That's generally not a good place to be.
I've heard an epidemiologist say that if a vaccine becomes available in 18 months it'll be a record.

Experimental treatments are being researched, but with only very small numbers of patients. It'll take quite some time for those treatments to become widely available.

It's unlikely that we're going to even begin to see things return to normal in a month or even three of isolation, especially if that isolation isn't as effectively and universally enforced as in China.

Afterwards there has to be extremely aggressive testing, tracking, and monitoring, or the outbreak has a very good chance of starting all over again.

In addition, the health care system itself has to have time to recover and replenish its equipment, ICU capacity, and healthy and able medical personnel.
Byw supernihil, sloev and johannes valbjorn are one and the same (occationally nihil as well)
Yeah I guess that is prob true.
"my country" is not the US.
Fixing a country is very difficult. I've long accepted that "fixing my country" is not something I can do. Grabbing my kids and hopping on a plane, otoh, is fairly easy.

(as to your question - no)
Yes. The market lens is deeply distorting, frequently obscuring more than it illuminates.

You can try to shove anything involving scarcity into the economic analysis framework. And doing so might tell you something interesting! But it frequently will say nothing about other major aspects.

Taking a strictly biological view of relationship formation is just as valid. And doing so might tell you something interesting! But...

For some reason, a lot of folks get econ brain worms and start discounting other modes of analysis. It is really too bad; economic analysis has a lot of non-obvious insight, but ends up frequently being blinkered.
Rematerialization in autodiff is super interesting! XLA does rematerialization optimizations, so you get those automatically under jax.jit. There's also the jax.checkpoint decorator (https://github.com/google/jax/pull/1749) which lets you control reverse-mode checkpointing yourself; you can use it recursively to implement sophisticated checkpointing strategies (see Example 5 in that PR, which is the classic strategy for getting memory cost to scale like log(N) for iteration count N but requiring log(N) times as much computational work). It'd be interesting to experiment with heuristics for deploying those strategies automatically (e.g. given a program in JAX's jaxpr IR) but one of JAX's core philosophies is to keep things explicit and give users control through composable APIs. Automatic heuristics can be built on top.

Another goal is to make JAX a great system for playing with things like this!
Ask HN: Environmental impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown?
Has anyone, or is anyone, taking into account the environmental impact of the global response to COVID-19?

Reduction is cars on the road. Cancelled flights. Many restaurants and bars are closed. Cancelled events. And the list goes on.

I am spitballing factors here, but I am curious what our current CO2 emissions are and if it is measurable in any real way.

Curious if anyone has a take on this.
I really hope governments will realize what a bad investment bailout money to airlines would be, given their doomed future as one of the main CO2 villain industries. (Not to mention casual air travel's role in spreading epidemics)
A direct antigen test can work if enough virus is shed. For example, there is a coronavirus fecal antigen test for dogs. The technique is ELISA, like for antibody tests.
I can see the difference between Microsoft and some of those companies. I'm not sure that some particular company won't act in Microsoft's way. May be there's some regulation above those companies that they must let their customers to move domains if they don't want to work with them? That's what I asked. Other than that, those are just anecdotal cases.
Do Norwegian students have access to Medicaid? If they have travel insurance, would they be covered, or will an exclusion kick in?

In many socialised healthcare countries, tourists will get treated for free or cheaply (although you should always have insurance: and you really really want to avoid many facilities in poor countries because they often lack funds to give decent care).
Some governments are stepping in and making it illegal. Austin is banning evictions and utility shutoffs for the near future: https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2020-03-13/utilit...
Finally, we start talking about the real issue. \s
Microsoft has 7.5X the market cap of Oracle; why on earth would they want to be like Oracle?
I remember when it was first gaining traction and the reason against immediately locking down and nipping this in the bud was that "but it's the new year and everyone is going to travel." I thought that was the stupidest reason in the world.

I get it, it's like Christmas here in the US. And if we were in the same position, I'd call to cancel Christmas.

I saw this coming a mile away and I'm angry about it, because stopping it could have been so simple had China taken preventative measures immediately.
Ask HN: Is anyone keeping statistics about internet usage during COVID-19?
As many countries are in lockdown it will be really interesting to see some usage data....
There will be lots of cheap planes to buy if you want to start competing though.
US sales of guns and ammunition soar amid coronavirus panic buying
A practice resembling this is featured in dystopian literature and has been written about since at least the early 1900s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#%22Kafkaesque%22
Keep to the regular ceremony of it.

Wear pants. Wear your whole work uniform, be that jeans and a button up or a suit.

Start at the same time every day. End at the same time.
Also though this may be falling into speculation but trying to account for total # of beds and peak hospitalization and adjusting outcomes when in that zone may add another important element when trying to reason about this.
Something like this will get rolled out, piece-meal, throughout the country. As has been the case since the beginning of this, a lack of federal guidance and leadership means every jurisdiction will have to get ahead of this as much as might still be possible.
I saw a statistical analysis of the flatten the curve idea but assuming we couldn't ramp up the number of intensive care beds, it took 3600 days to fit everyone in under the "available health care" line.

It's still a good strategy for right now because it gives us some extra time to ramp testing and healthcare up.
They should never be there anyway, Bitcoin is a waste of time.
"People are stupid" is not a valid argument to move towards a solution. "Developing and establishing Standards, training appropriate authorities and giving them the right tools/equipment to measure/identify violators, legislate appropriate fines" is. Hand anyone who does this a $1000 fine, and see how fast the whole country falls in line.
Total quarantine isn't happening in any western country
Take your xenophobic yammering elsewhere please.
What do you think of Tailwind - about to pull the trigger and buy it
Calm down. It's just a cultural cliche holdover from the Vietnam War when draft dodgers ran to Canada to avoid serving.

Like when all those celebrities in Hollywood swore they would move to Canada if Trump was elected, and then completely failed to live up to their promises.
I have tried to access his account and seems to be working now: https://github.com/catamphetamine. And It's also indexed on github: https://github.com/search?q=catamphetamine
Emerging Trends: word2vec (2016) [pdf]
Right now we're WFH until mid-April but planning for it to last as late as July or even longer.

China started quarantines much earlier than we did, so our infection curve will get much higher. When public transport was shutdown in Wuhan ~Jan 23, there were only ~500 cases there (and just a small handful outside of Wuhan). The entire city was shut down soon afterwards.

There are currently 700+ cases in both New York and Washington, 3800+ throughout the US, and people are still out and about and many aren't taking it seriously. A week or two from now we will look much like Italy, Iran, Spain, and France do right now. They will likely look worse than China did when the virus peaked there.
What happens if they do not "accept" the loss? It will just happen to them. They will lose cash, that's it.
There will always be some people that will disagree with the defaults. plus metrics/telemetry is disliked by many users and is not built into the software. Knowing what settings are changed often could help, though it depends on project, I see many GNOME users changing defaults with adding a system tray extensions and nobody cares.
Assuming they didn't have a WFH policy in place before, it sounds like they're remaining level-headed while everyone else is panicking, which is respectable. Although, hopefully that won't continue to hold that line if things get bad enough. All this assuming it's not already located in one of the few areas with a high number of confirmed infected.
This is my line of thinking too. Let's face it, the entire economy can't be shutdown till vaccines are available. Use this borrowed time (when we can afford total lockdown) to mass produce tests, medicines, ventilators, build hospitals, train staff etc. Relax restrictions slowly. Test everyone. Lock down specific areas where outbreak occurs. I really hope our leaders have experts in their staff who can model this.
It's basically a doomed industry in the medium to long term (unless humanity collectively decides to fly straight into a wall wrt global CO2 emissions). Any politician using tax money to prop this up is acting irresponsibly and unethically.
IMHO it’s futile to try to keep the economy “on the up” at a time like this, we’re basically throwing good money into a fire. Just take the hit and try to keep people alive; as soon as the emergency phase is over, the market will rebound on its own. Humanity existed before capitalism, surely it can live a few months without it.
If they were practically useless, then health care workers wouldn't use them...
A simple JVM implementation in Lua
Starting a business right now probably isn't a good idea either, so if that's the position you want to take, then there's no practical advice right now.
I'm talking about on the host, so if you mess up your IAM policy there is still an authorization layer on the host to get privileged access.
You're treading dangerously close to collective punishment.
The reason economic recessions kill people is because our system doesn't currently guarantee people the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, and health care. This is a political choice to let people die in order to preserve the status quo -- it is not an inevitability.
Not open center but https://www.klokers.com/en/3-watches

Add few zeroes to the price and you probably could get a skeletonized one too
I try to keep a long view. Not just weeks and months and years. But centuries and millennia. Watching paleontology pop sci vids help.
The OP and this response are both very useful for us to read.

This is speculative but what process would you expect them to follow for these next steps of expanding the scope of testing volunteers?

Would they prioritize higher-risk people like medical? Older people? Healthy people? Some random combo? Volunteers?

There are going to be a lot of volunteers.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/ “Any type of general mask use is likely to decrease viral exposure and infection risk on a population level, in spite of imperfect fit and imperfect adherence, personal respirators providing most protection. Masks worn by patients may not offer as great a degree of protection against aerosol transmission.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19193267 “We found that adherence to mask use significantly reduced the risk for ILI-associated infection”

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD... “Surgical masks or N95 respirators were the most consistent and comprehensive [physical intervention] supportive measures.”
Rental relief has to work its way through the whole system, if anyone reneges on it they can bring the whole thing down. The lease company leasing aeroplanes to the airlines might have buildings they lease, hangars maybe. Suppose they spend lots of money re-possessing _all_ their aeroplanes because of non-payment (no one travelling). What now? They have no income from rental (and a heavy delay on people setting up new airlines to cover routes that have no people able to use them yet), they've spent heavily to re-possess, and now they also can't pay their own overheads. So, they too will go out of business, surely.

Then the company they got loans from has a repayment deficit, they can repossess the leasing companies assets, and pay to store them, and try to sell them ... but they're going to be getting pennies-on-the-dollar (who wants to pay to store aeroplanes they can't fly for profit?). Duplicate that over the other loans they called in in other industries; now they're burning cash as well??

If the top of the tree, the banks or capitalists, can hold out then they stand to make a tidy packet when markets rebuoy but even then there'll be a huge lag if they laid off multiple tiers of companies.

Either we all have to agree not to force each other to close down, or we all do each other over. It's not pretty.

I'm wondering what happened in 1918 with "Spanish Flu", people instigated social distancing then - closing down schools and churches - so presumably there were businesses too that couldn't pay their rents? I imagine things were less severe because more businesses would own their resources, and would be part of communities that would collapse if they called in what they were owed.
The good news is after this is all over we'll see exactly which healthcare systems are "functional" in a pandemic, ones flush with cash or ones starved for cash. We don't know that quite yet.
Demand-side stimulus, especially to middle- and lower-class citizens tends to have very high multipliers. The intent isn't simply to say "here's $1000 so you can live the high life" it's $300B worth of fresh aggregate demand to keep businesses in business that will turn into more $500B once it's finished circulating.
Because we have functional universal healthcare

You'll have to define "functional" for me, as someone who frequently hears advertisements on Palm Springs radio stations for hospitals offering to perform medical services on snowbird Canadians that they can't get done at home.
Cheap and fast screening tests for a number of health conditions are commonly available. However the sensitivy and specificity of these tests tend to be lower than the PCR, for example. Once a person tests positive in the first screening test, a second confirmatory tests is then ordered. This test should thus be one such fast screening test and would certainly help in a place like Africa.
Run and operate multiple meshes in one Kubernetes cluster
Microsoft always took care of the developers.
There have already been multiple items here over the past weeks indicating that China's CO2 emissions dropped tremendously after Wuhan and the surrounding areas went into their lockdown.

Measurable, yes, some of the items linked to satellite imagery showing before and after results and it was quite obviously measurable.
One of my friends laughs about blinding everyone in cars with his truck.