skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well right now the trailing 12 month PE average for S&P is 20. So still above historical norm after this 20% drop. I wouldn't say things are oversold, rather everything was way overvalued.

And people are overlooking the fact this is just the herald wave, and probability of a catastrophic 2nd wave this fall/winter is pretty damn high. This isn't going away. This more than likely will move through the population a few times over the next few years until the vulnerable are "sifted through" so to speak. I want to believe in our scientific and technical capabilities but nobody should hold their breath for an effective vaccine in the next year or two. This has the potential to fundamentally and structurally change more than just the economy.

But I feel you..99x out of 100 you're spot on. Unfortunately, it's looking like the potential reality we might be facing is something most can't or don't want to comprehend. It at least deserves real consideration and thought.. we'll get through it and move on, but I don't think people grasp or want to believe what might be to come.
I'm in Seattle. While there may be official "kits" for this, the protocol can be run in any competent lab set up for this type of assay. DNA primers specific for covid-19 would need to be ordered, but this is routine.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-detecti...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/rt-pcr-panel-p...

ETA: I'm having trouble locating positive control template sequences.

I am happy for S. Korea running 100,000+ tests, and embarrassed that the US has maybe run 1000s at this point. I also think that the virus is widely dispersed in the US and the best we can hope for is to keep the case load at a level manageable by our health care system. I'm pretty worried about that though.
I've noticed that BI's articles are full of typos. Not sure if they just rush things out or what, but some of them are so obvious if anyone did a round of proof reading they would've spotted it.
Checks price of the Pro Display XDR.
I thought half life alyx wasn't released yet?
Denaturing and/or adulterants (bitterants). These or the alcohol could be distilled off.
> Whatever defines "large" isn't that interesting

Some people get excited about huge datasets; I don't get it myself, but "big data" is a successful buzzword because it pushes people's buttons.
Even with an exclusive contract, a nation such as the US should be able to quickly ramp production of all the test kits, masks, latex gloves, respirators, oxygen concentrators, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals that we need.

Yet we can't.

That's crazy and it has to change.
> I heard from friends that they had to sign an NDA just to interview

Is this not standard practice? I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't sign an NDA before interviewing.
Thank you for the anecdote. It was well written and I think it’s very applicable to the current topic.
Why not ? Algolia is a YC company. YC is invested in Algolia’s success.
Was thinking like dark matter, you can't measure it directly, but you can infer its size from other signals.

Also it's not just asymptomatic cases, it's also symptomatic but not tested. Some people ignore it since it can present as a minor cold. Some people want a test but can't get one.
I found a bill with a mistake on it, as one of my kids was charged twice for a single procedure. I called to get it fixed, but instead of dealing with it they just immediately sent it to collections.
The bitledger-as-a-router/gateway/firewall was more of a joke, but replacing TCP/IP on the LAN only changes how we interface with the network without changing any of the building blocks in place.
I was actually thinking of Alan Cox!
It's so dumb, immediate family members not applicable -- so check-in agents are now going to be in the business of examining birth certificates?
Sorry I mean anywhere else in China, in other words we can’t just blame the authorities in Wuhan.
Cool project! Made me actually check out Crystal Lang - looks like a much nicer, modern version of Ruby without the cruft.

Found a straggler "CrystalVue" substring in the main .cr file, you should give 'er the old find-and-replace all to change them.
There may well be flights. Crew are exempt, so at least for slot-controlled airports it's probably worth flying anyway to keep the slot; you'll have some US citizens / permanent residents and their families, and you can fill the belly with cargo since you have spare weight. Might be worth it even for airports that aren't slot-controlled.
I thought it was a reward for our big beautiful breakfast
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Crew are also exempt.
What do you propose be done instead of a travel ban?
IANAL, but while lawful permanent residents do not have the same protections, they still have certain protections that make it legally unclear whether the president can categorically bar entry without an immigration court proceeding for each individual:

"Section 212(f) can certainly apply to applicants for immigrant visas. Whether it can apply to an LPR who is returning and not seeking admission is questionable. This is because under section 101(a)(13)(C), an LPR being covered by a Presidential Proclamation under section 212(f) would not cause the LPR to be considered to be seeking admission."

http://myattorneyusa.com/scope-and-history-of-section-212f-p...

"An alien returning to the United States who has been granted lawful permanent resident status cannot be regarded as seeking an admission and may not be charged with inadmissibility under section 212(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a) (2012), if he or she does not fall within any of the exceptions in section 101(a)(13)(C) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(13)(C) (2012)."

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/file/478111/download
COVID-19 is a disease. The virus is SARS-CoV-2. You're not even right at being pedantic. Illnesses don't need to be treatable or curable to be called diseases.
Many organizations don’t use or want to use git. This is another convoluted solution, trying to fit a square peg in round hole.

Another reason not to use sourcegraph is it’s proprietary (with some open source parts), unlike opengrok fully open source.
What's happening is an appropriate response. Sure, anyone blaming individuals / residents is being out-of-line, but this _needs_ to happen.
They don't need to be routed through a non-European destination. Crew are exempt. The airlines will just deny boarding to people subject to the ban (which is non-exempt people who have been in Schengen in the last 14 days, not people who just came from there).
I realized that Shopify has a bigger market cap than Uber and has grown like wildfire in the last few years.

Looks like a great company with a good culture and a great product.
I live in the US, and the healthcare system is the primary reason I want to move to another country.
AR has no use case. None. Feel free to name one.

So better than VR, doesn't need generic human level artificial intelligence, and wouldn't work as well from just talking in your ear.
It's not a flight ban it's based on the physical presence of the traveller
Half Life Alyx was amazing when I play tested it. The only thi g lacking was that they hadn't turned hard mode yet so I have to play through on normal, which was still challenging and exciting.
Sadly the monitors I have at work are 1k each =(
The great thing about Herman Miller refurbs or used is that you can get parts. Sure, you can get a cheap office chair from target or so, but they'll last you a couple of years before the padding is compressed to nothing, parts are breaking, and it's time to throw it out. The Aerons are incredibly durable, and if something fails or I damage something, I can get replacement parts easily. I've gotten new wheels for different floors, replaced a small pad that deteriorated, and replaced the original hydraulic. I've had mine about 10 years now; who knows how long the previous owner had theirs. It's an investment for sure, but one I think holds it's value well.

(My wife has a Steelcase Leap, which I can say similar things about.)
I live on the strip and, so far, not much has changed just yet. Bars are still full of people, restaurants are full, people walking around having fun, pretty much the usual.

However, they are starting to close things (MGM buffets, for one) and likely this type of shut down pattern will pick up in speed soon.

This coming week is usually really busy, as its spring break, march madness, and St. Pattys day all in the same week. Honestly not sure how that will go, but wouldn’t be surprised if it’s still pretty busy.

We will be going out as usual, mainly to support our friends who are out there working and rely on visitors for their income.

But obviously, its much different coming here from outside if you have to go through all the airline process and exposure, reside in a hotel, and eat out for every meal.

I think either choice makes sense. There’s a chance that you may regret traveling, or a chance you look back a year from now wondering “what were we so scared of again?”

All I can tell you is that, so far, it’s pretty much normal here...as of today.
Intel starts using facial recognition technology to ID workers, visitors
80% minor/asymptomatic doesn't mean 20% critical.
This might actually come in handy for the project I'm building! Currently working on a personal database to store data from external APIs like Gmail, Spotify, etc. I was going to use RXJS but the schema requirements seemed like it would get in the way of rapid integration. If there was an easy way to just drop in a JSONSchema like how DefinitelyTyped does with Typescript it would be super helpful. This is definitely a step in the right direction.

Link to the project for context: https://github.com/aspen-cloud/aspen-cli
>Only vs. China, Iran and Italy.

What are you on about? We have fewer deaths than far more countries than that (France and Spain for instance) and per capita we are doing even better.

The US has fewer deaths than the following countries per capita:

Italy,
Iran,
China,
S. Korea,
Spain,
France,
Switzerland,
Hong Kong,
Albania,
Lebanon,
Netherlands,
Belgium,
Panama,
Ireland,
Iraq,
Bulgaria,
Japan,
Australia,
UK

Country Population and coronavirus numbers can be pulled here:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
People dying isn't the only consideration; public policy isn't made with the assumption "save human life at all costs", otherwise e.g. private cars (which kill 1-2 million people per year and injure tens of millions more) would be banned by now.
Apple+release+iPhone+11+and+Series+5+Watch+-+Reliable+Sprout
Try to imagine my shock and dismay when, after working with Russ for a few years, I discovered that we were the same age.
I live on an island. There are all sorts of weird legal things that play out on these bits of rock. I suspect that there are all sorts of lawyers reading interesting bits of definitions of treaties and history right now.
If you want to do code search on your private git, mercurial, svn, cvs and other repositories try a fully open source opengrok (https://github.com/oracle/opengrok).

It’s easy to self install and use, with good documentation with added bonus very fast.
I’m one of the people without healthcare and everyday I pray for my family, “I hope we stay in good health and don’t have to see a doctor or the hospital, one small thing and we’re likely to be bankrupt”
Are you available for hire of analysis of research?
Well, maybe? I guess a couple of things:

1) Innovation doesn't have to be in creating new products, and can very well be in incremental improvements to existing products.

2) "new products" also doesn't need to be externally visible. There could be lots of innovation but just for things that aren't visible to customers.

Netflix hasn't come out with a new product since streaming started. But there are definitely a lot of new things that are built that are at least arguably innovative.
If you crack open developer tools and watch the API requests go by, you'll be able to confirm that it's the same thing :)
The president didn't say that the virus is a partisan hoax. His actions clearly indicate he doesn't believe it is a hoax.

The president did claim that some criticisms about his handling of the situation were a "new hoax" in the same way he has labeled previous unfounded criticism and accusations as hoaxes.
Well, first: no. The vast majority of cases are no worse than a head cold.

But more importantly, you’re not dying and not clogging up a hospital. That’s what’s relevant to this discussion.
The OP's relayed complaint was that they would not tell him what he would be working on. A good reason not to accept a job.
I'm guessing we're going to get a lot of these sentiments over the next couple weeks (months?), about how these restrictions are interfering with the comforts of modern life.

Let it stand as a reminder of how good we have it, and how fragile things actually are. It's a pandemic. There's going to be some bumps.
Alan Cox is in his fifties!
@mdorazio - agreed that helicopters today are largely reserved for the commutes of the wealthy, and they are also too loud for most cities (outside of NYC and Sao Paulo) to tolerate at any meaningful scale.

My team and I published a whitepaper in 2016 that goes into detail on the cost projections for electric VTOL: uber.com/elevate.pdf.

You don't quite need a 10x reduction -- helis are ~$10/passenger-mile today and an Uber X is about $1.50, so you need a 6-7x reduction to be on par. You get ~30% from the new vehicle (electric, more efficient) and you get the remainder from higher utilization and low factors enabled by the lower cost and noise. Scaled manufacturing and autonomy get you to ~$0.50/passenger-mile which is on par with the variable price of car ownership.

The FAA is extremely supportive of certifying these aircraft -- here is the Administrator Dickson speaking to that directly yesterday: https://evtol.com/news/dickson-faa-15-evtol-aircraft/

Add -- the utilization and load factor efficiencies apply to helicopters today, we are proving that with Uber Copter in NYC: https://www.uber.com/blog/new-york-city/uber-copter/ -- ~$200 from Manhattan to JFK
The only online stores where I see hand sanitizer or masks in stock & for sale are banggood and ali express. FWIW.
You might like to the top, it's not quite as much exercise as boxvr or beat saber but still a decent bit, and fairly minimal space requirements.
It's reasonable to warn less-experienced people about Google's historical behavior.

People build their businesses on Google products and services like this, not realizing the 90%+ mortality rate over 5 years or so.
Oh please. Who else in the history of (say) physics would you expect to be the biggest detractors of new physics? Botanists?

Cantor works as an example. Who was it that eventually adopted his ideas?

Experts aren't infallible, but they are (almost definitionally) the ones doing the work to move their field closer to truth. They may miss the mark sometimes, maybe often, but they're also the only ones hitting the mark.
On a personal note, I consider the university class where I learned about Lagrangians for the first time to be a pivotal moment in my life. It was the first time I experienced a fundamental sense of awe and beauty about a mathematical construct, in physics or otherwise. I'd thought physics was useful and interesting before that, but seeing derivation of and application the Lagrangian formulation to mechanical systems was, and is, simply gorgeous to me. And as someone who recently began dipping their toe into neural networks, this is really very cool.
Unfortunately, too little, too late, indeed. Too late for obvious reasons - handling a crisis in a reactive way and with a serious delay is levels of magnitude more difficult than to prevent one in the first place. Too little, because IMO travel restrictions should have been set up much earlier and, more importantly, much wider than China and Europe (i.e., Schengen Area - BTW, excluding UK is ridiculous: viruses don't care about politics, do they?). By the time people realized all seriousness of the situation, there have been 100s and even 1000s of known cases in countries like Japan and South Korea. As far as I know, travel from those areas has not been restricted at the time. I certainly understand that all that implies a huge global economic and mobility impact. However, I believe that people's health and well-being is incomparably much more important than any potential economic, lifestyle and other adverse effects from making such hard decisions. Having enough information, advice and warnings from health professionals and scientists at the time, not limiting international travel (as the very major channel of this viral transmission) early enough and comprehensively enough is extremely irresponsible, whereas doing so would have been an act of true leadership.
Probably related to why the database has millions and millions of rows in the first place. Maybe someone read about denormalization in "Super Webscale SQL!" and blew up a trivial database. Or they're hoovering up vast quantities of garbage data and running it through a BI tract to produce bullshit.

I worked at a company that bilked the government for vast sums of money by doing all this and charging them for the hardware. The guvvies knew what was going on, but their little empires were more important if they got a bigger budget, so they went along with it.
I'm curious to the downvoters, do you generally believe it's a good idea to make public policy decisions without considering the downsides? It's like people who want to ban encryption because it could marginally increase the number of terrorists caught.
This is a global recession, spending is drying up. You may or may not have seen the dot com bust, but this to me looks like that except across the globe. Many companies will die because they rely on cash flow and that will dry up. Restaurants, and entertainment venues will be dead until May 2021, unless we find a vaccine that treats this. As more and more celebrities get infected and possibly die it will hit the psyche a lot more than the financial crisis ever did.

It really is different this time, and it frightens me, not the virus itself but the economic ramifications.

The best case scenario is that summer stops the virus from spreading, panic lessens, and then a treatment is found before September that is effective and quick. Then a vaccine comes out next March 2021 and everyone is happy again.
http://madisonseating.com has been a reliable supplier for years.
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A colleague and myself were pondering this today. He mentioned the 'bow', and general cultural aversion to physical contact. I found that interesting and plausible to consider.
> but there are likely hundreds of other pneumonia-related deaths going on right now who might well be undiagnosed covid19.

Let's just throw around blatant speculation, that will help.

Speculation aside that is extremely unlikely to be the case for a variety of clinical reasons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22553193
A few projects have configured kythe for at least one language. See bazel, go, gvisor, kythe, and tensorflow.
The most important detail that was missed, it seems, is that this doesn't go into effect until midnight on Friday 03/13.
Indian Govt says facial recognition software used to identify rioters
I am getting a networkError when attempting to fetch resource on any instagram links...
I love the idea, and maybe this works well for them in a position of relatively lax performance.

The truth is that all abstractions around data fetching are inherently leaky; making an API call does _not_ have the same runtime characteristics as reading from a file. Different access patterns have different performance implications across different data sources.

I would love if somehow we could put runtime performance characteristics in the type systems. Implementing readFile<T extends Readable, S extends SomeRuntimeCharacteristic> would go a long way towards sealing those leaks.
Serious question, why can’t individual states rollout single payer healthcare ?
The UK is an Island nation with entry controls - passports are required even from the EU and there is at least token screening at the airports and docks of people with fever or other virus symptoms.

Not that it’s the same thing, but being an island (so no walking traffic) and having some screening in place means that the UK simply doesn’t have certain diseases (like rabies) that are at least somewhat common in Europe.

Honestly though, the UK is one of, if not THE, staunchest ally of the US and banning its citizens would cause some minor political issues.
Agree. Only heard positive things and the CEO seems like a pretty straight dude.
How long do you estimate we will be able to use this before google inevitably kills the project?
> After the initial cover-up got public, the West couldn't get enough of reporting about it, and how this is the reason it could spread so fast, how irresponsible it was, and how it's typical for evil China. Now we have that virus here, plus two month of knowledge about it, and we're still mostly being reactive instead of proactive. In China's defense, when they tried to cover it up, much less was known about the disease, like it's asymptomatic spread. Now the cards are on the table and we're being ignorant, as if ignoring a problem makes it go away. But hey, when things are getting really really ugly for us, we can still go back to blaming China for their initial cover-up.

I think you're combining two largely-unrelated factors. The news in any country is only going to be interested in the most salacious stories in countries 12 time zones away. This is just how the market operates. A tiny percentage of china dying from a new kind of flu is not as headline-grabbing as people dying due to govt misbehavior.

Meanwhile our govt isn't blind, they have people and plans in place for everything and they think they are ready and in control. Then, it turns out it's a clusterfuck anyway that takes way longer than expected to implement. They need to have dealt with the exact same disaster in recent years to get it right. It's a problem with implementing a large-scale system you can't test until it's needed.
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Correct; it's an incorrectly worded, flippant, emotional response to my view of my country's (the US) response to the crisis and not a statement that those that are/were travelling to Europe shouldn't.
Best I could find is this handy interactive map/graph from the CDC: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

No "massive uptick" yet, but there are quite a few every week, so it could be that it's still blending in with non-COVID pneumonia cases.
Still some of the remote-only companies remained constrained to citizenship and legal right to work in the company's HQ country.
Hexagonal, Domain-driven, Onion, Clean architecture are all synonyms at this point.

Core libraries for shared utilities and domain objects, next layer is business logic, then outer layer of interfaces to everything else like databases and webservers.
Seattle chef Tom Douglas closing 12 restaurants temporarily because of Covid-19
I like the one-touch volume and brightness sliders. I have in the past run custom bars with BetterTouchTool but it did not feel polished.

Where is built-in support for the menu bar, and perhaps a CMD-hold for sysinfo on the right (time, CPU, memory, energy, drives, network) and contextual information (transcoding, SSH session, lint, Xcode simulator stats, etc) on the left so I can go full-screen on more apps? I thought that was where it was going, but it's been stagnant since release.

Apparently a "pro" system means quicker access to emojis, browser tabs and predictive text.