skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 to 3 days is what we've seen in most countries during the exponential phase. Some countries in Northern Europe have had values down to 2 days or less, but that was when they were ramping up their testing like crazy.

(3 days was also the number I used one week ago to state "at least two of France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland will be in lockdown and with hundreds of deaths one week from now"[1], and boy was I right).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528433
I can see why this comment is downvoted, because it's mostly superficial, but also, there's some truth to this perspective. Microsoft's acquisitions raise questions for what the open source ecosystem of tomorrow will look like. Chrome seemed to answer a lot of issues with browsers when it came out, but look how many people today are uncertain now that the API's powering the uBlock extension will be deprecated. It would be short-sighted for us to look at Chrome's history, and then say "nothing could ever happen to Open Source" without giving the perspective a serious consideration.
It might be better to say that you can clone the project, including ex. issues, as a single thing, rather than just the "repo" of code
You can have many companies to choose from in the market and can choose to avoid the one run by idiots. You only have one government, so if it is full of idiots, you're pretty much screwed.

I'm not every talking about government funding. I'm talking about government having too much power and control. That said, just throwing more money at the government gives zero guarantee that it will run any better. It usually will run just as poorly, but wasting more money than before.
I mean. It's a subsidiary. I understand your sentiment but mentioning Microsoft would be like signaling that GitHub doesn't have any autonomy which is quite the contrary to what Microsoft said when buying it. So don't expect sudden sincerity on this. There's a reason why they haven't added Microsoft branding to areas like the footer.
Airlines are companies like any other, and they have a lot of employees that aren't flight crew. Someone has to negotiate benefits, write HR handbooks, forecast the weather, dispatch flights, update their website, "reimagine cabin interiors", etc. I am sure you can end up with a very large organization outside of people that show up at the airport to deal with customers.
Condoms!
Please try 1Password or LastPass before you shoot yourself in the foot with something so unjustifiably insecure and functionally-hobbled as this. You'll see those apps are no hassle at all, this stateless approach really doesn't gain you anything but does cost you a lot.

What are the upsides to a stateless approach? Convenience/simplicity? When you look at the guessing game you have to play to get the right login with this, or the eventual personal state management you'll need to track exceptions, it's certainly not simpler in practice. Price? LastPass is free for personal use. Works offline? So do LastPass/1Password so long as you set them up first. AFAIK there are literally no upsides to this.

What are the downsides? Review this thread, all the big ones have been mentioned and there are more:

- Master password cannot be changed

- If master password is compromised, all your passwords are compromised, regardless of device. (For proper password managers, master password gets access only on the physical devices on which it's been synchronized and you can revoke a stolen vault's online authorization remotely.)

- Rotating a compromised password requires remembering you did it, or a guessing game to find the right iteration of a counter variable.

- Master password must be typed in full every time to get a site password. This will encourage you to have a short master password.

- Doesn't autofill login forms for you, requires copy/tab/paste.

- Master password is typed into a web browser for every single password. Browsers are generally a less secure runtime context than a native application.

- Doesn't remember the email/username you used for services.

- Exceptions to password rules imposed by websites (length/character requirements or exclusions) cannot be tracked

- It's not always clear what the name of the site/service is to use for the hash function inputs. Is is mybank.com or secure.login.mybank.com? Another guessing game.

- Many items above mean you will end up wanting some kind of state to track the stuff this doesn't deal with, and now you've implemented your own state solution which is surely far worse than what LastPass or 1Password have built.

One "upside" people might claim is that LastPass/1Password state servers can be hacked (LastPass was hacked once I think?). But this actually isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. If attackers get a bunch of (encrypted) vaults, they still have to brute force every vault individually. Furthermore, these providers have everything to lose in terms of reputation if they are hacked, so are financially incentivized to maintain the highest degree of system and software security. Compare that to this solution, which in every way trades aways security and has basically nil financial incentive for secure implementation.

I keep editing my post to add more reasons not to use this thing. Don't use it.
Yeah, I was confused when I first heard of it because it seems like an odd couple to "join" one another. However, it makes perfect sense for github to purchase npm.
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll keep track of all suggestions here :)
Is presentation the cause of loneliness? (2017)
For commercial trucks, there is a law - search “Mansfield bar” or (possibly NSFW image)
https://sparebumper.com/the-mansfield-bar-jayne-mansfield-an...
> If still angry then I would create a liceasd that doesn't allow Microsoft/github/etc to use your product in anyway. Share to lib users with self hosted link.

This would actually cause your project to no longer be open source. AGPLv3 is probably the closest you can get, forcing anyone who uses your project, even on a server and not distributed to end-users, to contribute all changes back.
> Cheap flying is utterly unsustainable

It obviously is, even though these companies operate at minimum margins (which is why they go out of business so often). Nothing is sustainable during a global shock like the current one.
It was already consolidated. The vast majority of public npm packages are already hosted on Github. The dependency on them has been there since the beginning.
thanks! i like the style of boro stitching, and have 5-6 pairs of jeans i need to repair, so it seems like a good time to dig into it.
I feel bad for the employees...not so much for the airline. Norwegian was the worst nickel&diming airline I've ever been on.
I see many vehicles on the road where the bulb in one headlamp is not properly seated, which leads to a lot of glare from that particular headlamp. One would think that state inspection would catch that problem, but they ignore it.
And everyone will learn once again to take big risks because if it hits the fan you'll get bailed out...
I'm in a similar situation as the OP, and have heard that argument used for me. I don't like it. In order to live frugally and responsibly, I was lucky to have the upbringing that taught me to do it, and to not have anyone depend on me so that I could focus on getting to this point. I was lucky to live in a relatively wealthy country during a relatively stable time.

I made a couple of good decisions, and put in some effort, sure. But a lot of people work harder than me and make harder decisions every day, and they are doing a lot worse than me. What separates me from those people? Luck, mostly.
How many years of operating expenses should a business keep on hand in your view?
How so? Github could simply say "we're required by law XYZ to hide your account. If you feel this is an error, please click here and reach out to our specialists who will review your case".

Instead, they chose the Google route and simply offer zero support and no way to challenge the (likely automatic) decision. I doubt that secrecy is part of the law, if their reason even is a law.
I never understood list comprehensions, and was always slightly resentful of (in my mind) their illogical ordering until I realized they were mimicking mathematical expressions.
Huh? I'll have to ask my mother about this one (she also has IOLs), but I thought those replaced your lenses entirely; why would they cause an effect like that? That sounds like a complaint about radial keratotomy (PRK).
i'd bet you're in the minority there. anyone could just copy and paste the text to tweet it if they wanted to. multiple "calls-to-action" are definitely trying to drive user behavior
This sounds like pure fantasy. A quick google search says the industry uses ~6.9*10^10 liters of jet fuel per year. Energy density of jet fuel is ~35 MJ/L. You would need at 100% efficient conversion ~76GW of continuous power to produce that. Realistically probably like 10x that... Current installed solar capacity is like 650GW world wide and it is not sunny all the time.
I have no sympathy for the airline as an abstract corporate entity. I do have tons of empathy for the many people who lost their job.
Why domains are different? If I bought domain and registrar suddenly don't want to do business with Crimea users, just banning them, is there anything I can do?

I guess, the only safe way to host something is to use onion network.
Or the dotcom bubble. Rates were kept too low after that and we got the mortgage crisis.
I had to look that up. ESR is Eric Steven Raymond.
This method is good when you want people to go out and shop and spend the money.
What happens when millions of American's now have money to go out and eat and go on vacation? That's the opposite of what we want.
They should get props for TypeScript & VSCode.
Shameless plug - But if you are interested in 2D SDFs and some interesting ways they may be practically used in games, I wrote a bit about it here: https://blog.sb1.io/intro-to-2d-signed-distance-functions/
I wonder why your (entirely reasonable) comment got down-voted so much. This is exactly the risk why people prefer a distributed and decentralized internet over one where all open source is stored in one central Microsoft subsidiary (e.g. GitHub).
Every time my 78 year old mom climbs down into the passenger seat of my Model 3, I am reminded of the appeal of SUVs/crossovers/etc.
Wasn;t it determined that no one actually spent that money and just paid of debt instead?
I agree with other comments here about unclear.

The juiciest part is the animated gif, but all I want is a lot of screenshots and bit of text explaining each feature.

(Now I need to take my own advice and revisit my projects. hahaha)
That's definitely a risk. And I think the NHS in the UK allows them to better respond to that risk by triaging patients and selecting who needs to stay at home and who needs to be admitted.

But the point I keep hearing from knowledgable people is that rapid spread is inevitable at this point. So many or most of the dramatic actions taken by state and federal governments now are security theater.
Yes. Constant legal sniping is endemic in some industries, but it's pretty rare in tech. As far as I know, Google itself has never demanded that its competitors should be fined.
Yes, DDIA is the bible for this stuff with regards to getting a good overview to modern practices.

There's also good resources here, even though it is interview oriented:
https://github.com/checkcheckzz/system-design-interview
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Sometimes I wonder what the business world (and the internet) would be like if mergers and acquisitions weren't allowed. Like, if businesses had to be sustainable or they'd just die, rather than capturing a whole market while eating VC money, maybe we'd all be better off? All of the really embarrassing stuff coming out of SV would just go away? Just Pinboards and Sourcehuts and Mastodons ruling the web?

I'm capitalistically illiterate, so somebody please tell me why this thought is stupid.
> Any form of UBI should 1000% be in the form of benefits, goods, housing, or other physical goods.

We've tried this and it's a dumpster fire. The government builds low income housing which is 100% people in poverty and it turns into a slum. The government subsidizes home loans and student loans and it raises the cost of housing and education. The government subsidizes food and then restaurant workers who already have access to food can't use the money to fix their car or whatever it is they really need right now.

People know what they need better than bureaucrats do. If you give them money and they need food, they buy food. If you give them money and they need transportation, they buy transportation. If you give them food and they need transportation, you messed up, which is what consistently happens in practice when you don't give them money.
Minnesota actually has a formal program for this called Roadsides for Wildlife: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/roadsidesforwildlife/index.html
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My understanding was that financially they were not going to last long doing what they were doing.
> 95% don’t need to go to the hospital

Including people who get at asymptomatically, maybe. Of people who get any symptoms, it's 15 - 20%.

And even if you're not in that 15 - 20%, you may still have permanent or long lasting lung and heart damage. Stay inside; your grandparents were asked to go to war for several years, you're just being asked to spend a couple months playing video games.
White House drafting financial package for U.S. airlines: sources
The markets have been looking for a reset for a while anyhow. I think the market is well capitalized right now and this looks much more like a reset than some fundamental crisis. There isn't any underlying financial event triggering this, and I think we know roughly how bad this can and will get and it is not financial crisis worthy. The world governments are already injecting cash into the markets to stabilize them. I generally agree with the Goldman Sachs memo on this event (except how it subtly downplays quarantine/self isolation efforts)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/03/16/the-priva...
Tons of small airlines in europe have failed in the past decades, but not because they couldn't be profitable. they usually exploit every cost-cutting corner, so they fail easily when oil prices or other rules change. They seem to be designed for that
Doesn't this example contradict your point? The assassination of Franz Ferdinand is widely seen as what started WW1 by the general public.
This is really cute and appropriately written for preschoolers. Thanks for sharing.
I am starting to think that only the partly/fully state-owned airlines will make it out alive.
FYI the Apple parent company had a massive balance sheet but issued debt against it. The subsidiaries in Europe and/or the Caribbean held that cash so as not to “re-patriate” it which would incur the US tax rate.

In practical terms, they didn’t hoard much and what they did was invested in financial instruments, so it was still increasing money velocity in the economy.
You know why they have to turn on their high beams when they're approaching you, right? :)
I am genuinely worried that the plan of shutting everything down and instituting a quarantine will turn out to be disastrous if it continues for months on end.

The stock market is just the beginning - what about the millions of people making ends meet as waiters, Uber drivers, AirBnb hosts, retail store clerks, and every other in-person job? HN might not feel this much, as the tech industry is making a pretty easy switch to working remotely. But do not be blind to the facts: the overwhelming majority of the workforce doesn't have an emergency fund and won't be able to ride this out easily, if at all.
Github will not, of course, miss any one user. That doesn't mean that every user shouldn't act on their own conscience and pragmatic evaluation, nor that such evaluations don't accumulate to a larger effect.
How does this acquisition relate to Package's support of npm artifacts? Or, I guess, how will Package's npm support change after this?
Similar headlights are used in the current 911, Panamera, etc.
meanwhile, everyone who used your project in the past now has broken builds.
As gumby says, the Space Cadet keyboards, being Microswitch Hall effect-based, were a bit spongy due to the big plastic case, but the switches themselves were dreamy.

But the whole experience was still not as satisfying as the original Knight keyboards, I suspect because the Knight boards used the original, larger switches, while the Space Cadets used the smaller. Chyrosran22 on Youtube explains all this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdN4Vzg6_g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw).

By the way, after 40 years of despairing over the loss of Hall effect switches (I nursed a Space Cadet Livermore Labs clone from a group buy for some years into the mid-80's), there are now two keyboards using this technology, and I'm loving the one that's actually available.

Steelseries Apex Pro is what's now shipping, and it's a dream. (https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke...)

The Input Club Keystone is still coming, slowly (https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keybo...), but I'm also really looking forward to trying it.
> Instead of tweeting that, he could have tried to build cheap CPAP/respirators in bulk, on short notice and deliver them to hospitals.

Could he have? How long would it take to retool and retrain whatever resources are needed to be able to do that and actually start producing something? What capacity would he be capable of putting out, given that his his facilities are probably configured for a much difference scale (cars and large semi-bespoke aeronautical components)? If it's a 5% increase in CPAP machines 6 months from now, how helpful is that?

What if doing so means that 20% of the workforce no longer has work to do? What if not producing their actual product and CPAP machines instead leads to enough loss in money/market they need to let some amount of their workforce go?

At some level I don't think asking Musk or Tesla/SapceX to do this is really any different than asking you to work half days for three months and donate the other half your time to helping with Coronavirus issues in some manner while living off savings to help supplement less pay. If during or at the end of that time you don't have a job anymore (either because you weren't there or general market recession), or some major problem came up that you were unprepared to address because you've been reducing your savings, was that a smart thing to do? Did it help more than it hurt? What if you have a family to support?

Musk's responsibility is to his stock holders and employees. He should do his best to make sure his company runs well and is profitable enough that he's not laying people off, or causing the stock price to drop any more than it might because the general market is in free fall, which also negatively affects many (including retirees and pension funds).
If Obama was President this would be a footnote on the Coronavirus page.
Ryanair is an amazing business. In their 25+ year history, they've never issued debt or shares to raise capital. Thye've grown through cashflow alone.
Ah, but what I like about React Native for desktop is that I can render native AppKit controls and create an application which looks truly at home on macOS. Flutter, as I understand it, doesn't aim to provide access to native controls. Just as an example, it would be quite challenging to duplicate the effect of the blurring effect view used by macOS sidebars and the hyper-saturated "vibrancy effects" of controls on top of it: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
This isn't clear yet. It is a reasonable assumption based on the biology but not verified.
That should be fixed. Thanks for flagging it.
Yes. Lots.

Delta and Southwest, say.
... and everyone knows that big corporations always speak purely from their open heart when they sign large acquisition deals.
Or we could provide universal healthcare, but that would be crazy.
Factor out logical units early and often.

DO NOT try to generalize and abstract until the third time that you are writing something. (Having written it for other companies counts.) Until the third time your guesses about the right generalizations and abstractions generally work out badly.

Focus on simple over clever. I cannot count how many abstract systems that I have seen which were designed to achieve some general purpose reusability. They almost never actually achieve the asked for dream and almost always become a barrier to comprehension by other developers.

FOLLOW ALL STANDARDS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION. Code review. Unit tests. Formatting. Naming conventions. Doing what you think is the perfect thing is almost always worse than staying consistent with other developers.
I installed Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 on an older machine just now. The MSFT of today is definitely a far cry from the MSFT of yesteryear. Such a thing would have been unheard of 15 years ago.
Show HN: A simple COIVID-19 dashboard
That is one way to get CO2 emissions down, perhaps more will follow their lead.
As I recall, this was actually enforced maybe 10 years ago, at the NHTSA / US Customs level. They worked with ebay etc to remove such listings, stop bulk shipments coming in, etc. It wasn't fully successful, so eventually they just gave up.

Obviously cops could pull over and ticket people with terrible headlights, and sometimes they do (I've actually been pulled over for "failing to dim" in Colorado. My low beams were inoperable and I was roadtripping and so had to reach somewhere to camp). But in general there doesn't seem to be an enforcement will, even against patently ridiculous colors (blue, purple, yellow, pink, etc) that are quickly distinguishable as non-DOT-conforming.

You would think pulling people over based on headlight color would be even easier than having to look at a radar gun, but apparently not. Maybe the problem is there's no alert to make cops look up from their phones.
Alert Resolution Platform
If this person is persona non grata for U.S. and GitHub blocked him in order to comply to OFAC policy, can we expect this article to be removed from Medium for same reason?
Couldn't be subsidized by VC money forever.
I would definitely prefer free hands IF I also have access to hand sanitizer. I would be much more confident that I have successfully covered my entire hand in sanitizer than if I were to sanitize gloved hands.

I would admit that I would probably feel safer with a mask on though, despite the problems with wearing masks as well.
I would expect that moving git repos is easier than replacing NPM?
The tech industry will feel this if quarantine continues, it'll just be delayed. People here shouldn't fool themselves.

Apple stores are closed. Ad spending will collapse for Google and Facebook. Future financing rounds will dry up. Unless this is a short term quarantine effort, layoffs are coming for tech too.
I agree. The best thing would be a modern debt jubilee, coupled with direct payment for public labor with debt-free money from the government. This was implemented by a certain unmentionable and won him the widespread adulation of his country despite his other rather significant faults.
Some people have taken to flashing anytime they find your lights bright, even if it happens to be the moment they are in the center of the beam pattern due to things like hills. I can understand the temptation to retaliate with "No, smartass, this is what brights actually look like."
Is there no video compression algorithm that lets you drop every third "line" or something from a higher resolution feed, to let you downscale video efficiently for bandwidth savings, but using only little CPU, and providing okay-ish quality?
Thank you for the hard work!
US Airlines are now looking directly for assistance as well:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/us-airlines-seek-more-than-5...
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