skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Your demonization of China based on its political system is based on stereotypes of what "evil communists/authoritarian states" are in theory, not on what they actually are in practice. China is not comparable to the Soviet Union.

My demonization of China is based on two months of observation of the Chinese political machine, shutting down critical whistleblowers and locking down all information behind the red firewall. My observation is based on a recent Soviet ancestry and knowledge of human nature.

This is not a comparison between the US and CCP. US has its own glaring problems.

>have family in China, if things are out of control instead of getting better, I would know it.

Then you should know better than anyone here that even your family is strongly incentivized by an Orwellian surveillance system with a social credit score system to lie even to you.

I also do not believe that you are arguing in good faith - it is no secret that Chinese astroturfing is all over the internet.

>being overly cynical and declaring all governments as evil -- is the right answer. Now is the time for both people and governments to learn about what cooperation and good governance is about.

This is literally the government that is imprisoning millions of ethnic Muslims and at best forcing propaganda down their throats. The Soviet union, which is literally the blueprint for the CCP, only fell some 30 years ago. Do not by swayed so easily by shallow propaganda in the form of aid donations - this does not mean that China is actually recovered. The Chinese propaganda apparatus is in full swing.

Now is not the time for naivety. This feel good "we're all one people" BS is exactly the kind of well meaning but misguided sentiment that propagandists the world over take advantage of when operating in the west. How could you possibly justify having Chinese news reporting that Americans are racist for closing the border? Why is China saber rattling right now about how the US was the origin of the virus[0]? Open your eyes, I implore you.

0.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/false-claims-sources-coronav...
Lol, you're right, misread that
Exactly. For weeks people have been clamoring to get tested, including outside of the Bay Area. But whatever they’re launching will not help provide this in the short-term. That is the point.
Vulnerable people are being told to isolate themselves until herd there is herd immunity. The policy protects that elderly.
Yes, the German government confirmed the statements in the original article.
Can you touch the text to scroll? I managed to workaround to explore
Even young people end up in ICU like this 16 year old:

https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/5056536/se...

As the classic asks: Do you feel lucky, punk?
Probably gonna need to install gnu-sed... the system one isn't very good.
we know it isn't, we can tell because of genetic sequencing that it isn't.
Good Interview
Typically it means that immutable data is being looked up by hash key. The mapping between the hash key and the data never changes, so the cache is never stale. When there is new data, it's given a different hash key.

Whether or not data is in the cache can change, but if the data is there, the result is always the same.

An example of stateless data would be a video on YouTube or a particular version of a file in git.
A better way to find the 2020 equivalent of $5.00 would be to look at the change in Consumer Price Index (CPI) over the past century.

The CPI changed from 9.9 in 1913 to 255.7 in 2019. So $5.00 dollars in 1913 is equal to about $130.00 in 2020.
Phones Could Track the Spread of Covid-19. Is It a Good Idea?
> If you thought capitalist society was good at distributing goods, just look at what happened to hand sanitizer. Everybody needs it now, yet it has been bought up by the few that got to it.

Our country is trying the other approach. Ban the sale of protective gear, and distribute it centrally. It's not working great either. GPs don't have any protective gear anymore and can't buy it on the market, as they did up to now, and talk of shutting down their practices soon, because most GPs are run by old people, and they're literally putting their lives in danger by practicing. They're only getting promises since January. They are now trying to get protective gear on black market to at least have any. They're begging the government to lift the ban so that people who're trying to get them protective gear from abroad are not doing so illegally/in great legal uncertainty.

Of course no other profession exposed to masses of people daily like cashiers, have any chance either to have protective gear, under the current system.
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome at any time on HN and certainly not now, so please don't post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you also broke the guidelines with a personal attack here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341594. If I had seen it at the time, I would have replied. We ban accounts that post comments like these, so please don't.
Mortality in 2009 was 0.03%, not 30%.
The reason is because the school districts that have closed have specifically almost all said that they'll be closing for a period of two weeks.

They do this because they don't want to panic people, despite knowing almost certainly that this will last far more than two weeks.
Ask HN: Recommendations for combined CRM/support software?
Hi everyone,

Maybe this is more of a dream than a reality, but I am looking for software that can act as both a CRM (categorizing leads, people, keeping track of follow-ups) and support software. So at one glance, I could see every communication that my team has had with a person, since the beginning.

Right now, we are tracking this with email and Zendesk, and it's becoming cumbersome. Is something like this out there?
The UK has declined to show their math.

Add in the fact that that hospital overload is easily hit with small percentages of the population infected and that even relatively young people die at high rates when they can't receive critical care, I am extremely doubtful that they calculated much of anything here.

If large amounts of working age people die because of overloaded hospitals the negative economic effects will be tremendous.

Moreover, they now appear to be walking back their plan, suggesting that they will actually trying to slow the progression as much as possible... which is what almost everyone else is doing (as full containment isn't possible).
I am questioning accuracy compared to https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...

e.g. czech republic has 0 cases in the infographic which is false, at the time of writing this comment there are 253 cases

source: ministry of health
https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/0fd3a4d8-1fec-4414-8... (which is from https://onemocneni-aktualne.mzcr.cz/covid-19 )
You'd let the marauder escape, like always.
It'll be (at a minimum) months with no new outbreaks in an area before social behavior starts to return to what it was before an outbreak. New outbreaks won't look the same as the first ones.

I think it is still early to say we know, but it also looks like there is a period of immunity after infection. So there's a fair chance that will also slow the spread of each repeated outbreak.
I see that same line being peddled out of context like this frequently these days. When you point out the young people factor you really also need to point out why that was the case and it wasn’t because of the mutation of the virus...
I would guess, from experience of people doing things the hard way, at:

* John A. Kunze's jot and rs

* John Kerl's mlr ("Miller")

* jq

* join and comm, as mentioned

* fmt

* ex

And, given what you just wrote:

* printf
I type "grpe" instead of "grep" all the time.
sed & awk for life
Did you also factor in the fact that this is America, where people own guns and believe they have a god given right to use them?
Interesting. I wonder if we could get Kei Cars more common in North America if there were sufficient incentives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car
I've had the opposite experience. Darn Tough has replaced a half dozen pairs of socks for me because I end up with big holes in them in about nine months. Which is a shame because they're quite comfortable.

For pants, I was using lululemon for a while and just accepting that their build quality made them last about 18 months to 2 years, while the warranty was five years, so I would just have the company swap them out for new ones on a regular basis. I'm trying some pants from prana and arcteryx now that offer equal freedom of motion but hopefully will be a little more robust.
The bullshit about COVID-19 coming out of SARS/MERS research.

It's a zoonotic disease. It came from wildlife and jumped the species barrier.
Loads of SF streets are hyper industrial and have no trees. It's strange what an effect it has. Walking through SOMA feels weirdly like being in a concrete video game. Walking through my neighbourhood in Glen Park is lovely and charming.

I work near the new building at 1550 mission and they've put trees down in front of that building and the street is instantly nicer.
Right there in the text:
Author: Marie Sklodowska Curie

So why the are you people still changing her name to just Curie?
Often not in practice. These sort of tools to triage input data for human review generally means the humans will just auto-approve what the computer tells them to.

Yes, they'll catch some extreme cases, but anything that looks like the normal bad case will go by unnoticed generally more so than if the human is doing all of the review work.
Using the advanced summarizer, I got this -

On March 9th America’s government awarded a trio of firms $39.7m to design “microreactors” that can supply a few megawatts of power to remote military bases, and be moved quickly by road, rail, sea and air.
The idea of small reactors is as old as nuclear power itself.

In July 1951, five months before a reactor in Idaho became the first in the world to produce usable electricity through fission, America began building USS Nautilus, a nuclear-powered submarine.

A report by the army in 2018 said that Holos, a prototype mobile nuclear reactor, would be 62% cheaper than using liquid fuel.

NASA is developing smaller “Kilopower” reactors for space missions, designed to power small lunar outposts.
> Most people assume they'll be fine. And they're right. Even those that get it, the vast majority will survive it, like they survive most illnesses.

This assumes that you can get comprehensive treatment from the healthcare system. If you can't, the numbers get very scary, even for the young (relatively speaking). If we really want the "herd immunity" strategy to work, we should still start containment now in order to flatten the curve, accounting for long lags due to the incubation period. "Wait and see" is not a viable approach, and other countries were mistaken in trying it.
> but it's orientated at C# use.

It's oriented for MSBuild. The package creation tooling is aimed at .Net. It's certainly possible to create high quality C++ Nuget packages (that are also huge because you have to provide multiple binaries).
Thanks looking for service like this
Is this for real? Even Trump isn't that stupid. It's not something that could be a secret if it worked.
> The temperature spike should have been the first alert. The throttling should have been the second alert. The high error count should have been third.

This is a completely backwards. What you are describing is caused based alerting, which is strongly discouraged by SRE. SREs prefer symptom based alerting (e.i are users seeing errors) because you only get alerted when you know that there is a problem that effects your business. If you only have caused based alerts, you will get false alarms and un-actionable pages all of the time.

Imagine being an SRE who manages the GFEs in this situation. Now imagine getting a page telling you that the tempurature in a rack where your job is running is hot. What are you supposed to do? Is the issue effecting users? If so, how many? Is it anomalous? Now go poke around the system and try to figure out what is wrong. What would be the first thing you check? Probably error rate/ratio, the thing that you actually care about. If that is your workflow, why not just alert on your error rate in the first place and figure out the rest as you go along?

Edit: typos
The problematic bits here are the word "exclusively" and the phrase "but only for the United States".

Viral pandemics don't respect frontiers.
Those of us using a different random username and/or email address for each sender do it for two reasons:

1. If whichever identifier is used for login (eg. email address) is exposed/leaked, it cannot be used by the attacker to lookup accounts in other leak dumps.

2. It allows to detect which site/service/entity is selling or leaking email addresses to third parties which send spam. I no longer need or have a spam folder. The moment I receive a spam email from someone I don't recognize, I can lookup which site/service that email was for, and choose how to act; eg. update that site/service's to use a new email address and blackhole the old one; maybe unsubscribe/close the offending account if it happens again. Of course since setting up my unique-email-per-site setup, I haven't been victim to third-party spam yet; likely because I no longer have a personal email in public Github commits.
In his book Shop Class as Soulcraft Matthew Crawford makes the point that Ford's employees found the work alienating. Many had been crafts people with a great deal of autonomy and they naturally found the production line unbearable. It took a lot of effort to change peoples attitude to factory work.
The problem is that the 20% or so that end up in severe or critical condition and need hospitalization are too much for the medical system to handle. The more they can slow the spread the better they'll be able to help all those that will need medical care.

In Italy the number of people that end up in ICU is 10%. Now think of the population of people that are in your area and how many intensive care beds that are available to them... do you think your local hospitals can handle 10% of that number? Probably not. This is what makes it a big issue.
It's not a direct synonym but it's also where my mind went after reading the title
As distastrious as it might be that this may be part now of US American culture, it doesn't need to start happening here nor be tolerated. The nature of this place is that we can talk with reason and share facts based on evidence. If people seek to disturb that, for whatever reason, I advocate for corresponding moderation.
And yet, we generally agree on some baseline human standards. Sure, maybe you can find examples of people who would think this is morally reasonable, but I would guess they are a pretty extreme minority.
You are right. But many people want something different. They are used to getting their problems solved and they just can't accept the reality that you have put your finger on. They are demanding action now when that fails to work (either because there is action and it fails, or because there is not perceived to be enough action) they will get angry.

I wonder if there will be a process of grief leading to acceptance about this event, I feel we are in denial now, tending to anger. Next will be bargaining (I think evidenced by isolation and hording) or maybe not - maybe the population will simply fail to process this.
> I don’t ever want to work with a Turing-complete build system ever again.

so do you instead write custom additional executables that may require a cross-compilation step for whenever you have to perform custom pre/postprocessing tasks on your code (e.g. parsing it, etc)
They probably would have ended up there after catching the flu.
Depending on the rate of infection, there might be time for 20-80% of the population to be vaccinated before being infected.

Whatever the number, it would be nice to save as many lives and as much potential long-term damage to people as possible.
killall5 is the most bizarre command that I learned recently.

Read manpage before trying it.
Have you followed the situation in Europe lately? It's a mess. Also during these times, no coordination of the EU at all. When it comes to it, every country is on its own. But worst is that European leaders are afraid to quickly take (tough) measures, something American leaders have shown to do much easier.
Normally a comment like yours lacking any kind of reasonable explanation or arguement would be against hn's rules, but I'm assuming in this time of crisis this will be ignored.

That doesn't explain how it's more deadly. More deadly implies it kills more people faster. This is very much not the case no matter how much it's spread and by comparison, it's still contained more than both of those other pandemics were. Those each affected millions of people over a few months.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

We're at 167,543 with a total of 76,590 recoveries as of this comment.

For a website full of people used to dealing with big numbers there sure seems to be a lot of blind just ignoring of said numbers in exchange for emotional reaction.
> I'm not changing anything unless I get ill.

The whole point of the social distancing strategy is that it's not just about you.
It generally manages this pretty well. You usually need a Perl interpreter installed (wtf) and then everything works.
It's 2-5% of the general population. It's much higher among the elderly. And once the hospitals gets overrun it could easily be even higher than that.
Oh interesting! So you made the summarization algorithm?
Lockdown would not have been needed if aggressive testing was done from the start. And infected people and those they had interacted with been isolated. Lockdown comes a lot later.
On the other hand free healthcare!
Roughly 20% of people who get infected require hospitalization. For multiple weeks. And though a majority of those being hospitalized survive, they often incur damage to their lungs and organs.
Just look at the Scandinavian countries
No, that's the point[1]: it's dubious to think that the worker's wages should bear any relationship to the finished product.[2] That's all the author is establishing there.

Yes, paying workers just enough so they can afford a paperclip is obviously a bad idea.

Yes, paying workers just enough so they can afford a 747 is obviously a bad idea.

Yes, it's still a bad idea when an efficient wage would be just enough for them to afford the same product (here, a Model T) you're producing. Even if that is a good idea here, the standard -- pay workers enough to buy the output -- is a bad one, because the output could be anything from a cheap consumer good to a megaproject.

[1] which, full disclosure, I've made myself: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2012/01/mr-ford-meet-boein...

[2] even under general mechanisms by which "price tends to cost" and intelligent uses of the labor theory of value, a worker might be contributing a valuable input (engineering design), or a not-so-valuable input (cleaning services for the offices).
I tried using “TLDR this,” (trending on Show HN today) but it only summarized the first preamble. Darn.

I guess C++ is package / build hell? I’m not a C++ developer so I’m not too familiar with the dependency story there. Anyone have a short take on what’s the problem and whether DDS is a promising answer?
I'm scrapping off some old brain cells here but I believe it's before the language (Pascal) and it was like a linter, but more like rustc's behavior.
Please poke holes in my Covid-19 math (SF Bay Area)
That paper was retracted due to lack of evidence.
Ok. I will reduce my public opinion about this single person and retract myselve from further comments on the subject.
High-stakes security setups are making remote work impossible
Okay, I understand. I have never heard that being called a stateless cache though, in my experience that is called a public cache. That is also what it is called in the http cache-control standard.

I get what you mean, but calling a cache "stateless" seems like a contradiction in terms to me.
No. Did you actually watch the press conference? What Trump announced is what Verily is building. But he implied it would be nationwide. It’s not.

> Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information.

This sounds like it’s in addition to what Verily is building. So I doubt it’s the diagnostic and get to testing site function that Verily’s working on.
The bottom line is that every virus strategy is going to be "risking lives". From the "do nothing and hope it goes away" strategy to the "shut everything down and hope it goes away" strategy, through all the "flattening the curve" strategies in between, they're all going to be risking lives, given no-one really knows how this is going to work out.

But one thing I do know is that now is not the time for political grandstanding or international conflict. We're all in this together as a planet, and our best chance of getting through it is by working together.

And I also know I would prefer to listen to a group of people who have spent their careers specialising in studying how infectious diseases spread. As the original article says, this list has "no leading experts in the science of the spread of diseases", and if anyone has taken the time to look at the list it is largely maths PhD students and the like. Which I guess is still better than the Silicon Valley charlatans and wannabe social media influencers who seem to be getting a disturbingly uncharacteristic amount of airtime on HN at the moment.
The pie chart is fine. They can be bad when one wants to compare several similar categories, but they are fine when used to compare a part to a whole. Also it has a hole in the middle, which mitigates the problem of visual angle comparison.

It's not good to blindly follow rules, just because it's fashionable to say a certain thing. Especially in the fields of data visualization and user experience, which are mostly pseudoscience bullshit anyway...
but they're no where nearly as likely to catch the flu as they are this virus, which no one is immune to.
I don’t think wake up is the right sentiment. In South Korea, Germany, the diamond princess, in fact anywhere that’s not Italy or Wuhan the death rate is lower.

The higher death rates have occurred in places where the health system was overrun.

Of course with the current trajectory the UK health system will be over run.
tylonol is safer than ibuprofen if you have covid19. But you don't have to believe me as I read and don't make bibliographies in all of my posts.

But I will make an exception for you.
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
The modems take firmware updates from the cable line side without prompting you.