skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Resorting to unsubstantiated xenophobia in times like this really says more about you as a person than anything else.

Give it a rest.

Hospitals in Asia generally demand payment before checkout, so I wouldn't want to find myself a semi-conscious plague patient with no cash left.

What do I mean by demand? They post a guard outside your door until somebody pays the bill in full. God help you if you say you can't pay, especially if there's a lineup of new patients. You actually could get a bag over your head.

If you want to read more about how hospitals work in China, google "big sickness". There's some socialized medicine, but cancer and organ transplant bills are similar to what an uninsured US citizen would face - sign over the house.
Not only how many, but also how they are sampled. A random sample across the entire population will, likely, discover fewer cases than a sample of hospital personnel and that, fewer than a sample of patients with pneumonia.
PWAs can show notifications but Apple refuses to implement notifications for PWAs on their platform. You can use Chrome on macOS to get notifications working there but on iOS you're stuck with Apple's decisions. It wouldn't make sense to add notifications for them since PWAs would obviously cut into their profit margin so don't expect PWAs to work on iPhones or Safari in general.

I use my Home Assistant as a PWA and the notifications work well on all platforms I use. Firefox is behind on desktop though, they don't seem to see PWA support as a priority like Chrome does. On mobile it works fine.

Twitter is already a PWA (though they don't advertise it much) which you can install on any modern browser onto your phone. I've installed it in Firefox on my phone and I've never considered downloading their app since. Outlook.com also has some pretty good PWA support. Those are the ones I know off (aside from a few local websites/web apps only available in my language).

I don't know about other social media though, twitter is the closest thing to social media I follow.
For those in the UK, I recommend Studio Modern (https://studiomodern.co.uk/) for refurbished chairs. I have only bought one chair from them (Mirra 2), but was originally recommended it by someone who has bought dozens for offices.
Another way of thinking about it is that there are other non-coronavirus interventions you can perform that will convert money into lives. if you spend money performing coronavirus interventions then you retard your ability to perform these other interventions that might be more efficient at converting money into lives.
They are in some places. In Spain gatherings of over 1000 people have been banned.
I wonder how much they regret not selling to FB
The failure of supersymmetry proves the need for bottom-up science [video]
> 4a) pandemic, action, it works -> government was "right", saved lives, spared the economy -> reelected

This is too optimistic. If it works then people see a tiny death rate and a shutdown forced by the government. The greatest success will look like an overreaction.
Just give some money to an old person, then.
The article's title says "top 100" and the first sentence says "between 51th - 100th place." Please correct your misleading HN post title that says "Top of QS World..."
Whipsers from around corner Pssst, hey kid... Wanna buy $500M of Snapchat stock?
At this point, the writing for the USA is on the wall: either institute a national quarantine policy, or face a mass die off of hundreds of thousands of the elderly in the next couple months.

We need to start the national quarantine before things blow up to Italy and Wuhan level proportions. Yes, it will be extremely costly. But riding on imaginary hopes that the virus will just disappear for no real reason is extraordinarily irresponsible.

The details of what it looks like will take time to figure out--it will be a complicated collaboration between the federal, state, and local authorities, with the justice system and health sectors being deeply involved. That's reason to start figuring those details out now, and not two weeks from now.

Donald Trump was elected because he said he was a risk taker willing to do what needs to be done despite criticism from everyone. A national quarantine is needed now, and we need bold action to get it started. This is his moment to make a difference.
Apple has taken its customers hostage
Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics
The reason native apps are used isn't because they are in any way superior than web apps.

The are, but that's not the reason for the majority of the apps, probably under 10% need this superiority.

The reason is marketing and prestige via the app stores and that they are easier to create walled gardens for customers.
They can set their salaries however they want I guess - none of my business. And it must work for them if they're hiring the people they want.

But I looked at GitLab's compensation recently when I was switching job, and even when I maxed every thing out (not saying I'm that good) the pay for the UK was terrible - completely unworkable for a professional software engineer on the global market. I think they had the UK as having lower cost of living than places like the Czech Republic. I know for a fact that cost of living in the UK is not lower than in the Czech Republic. But worse than that they had these little islands of reported higher cost of living. Individual cities like Bristol. I suspect someone influential lived there and wanted to be paid more and they managed to get a special case.

I think I earned more as an intern while a university student with another company, than GitLab's top-tier engineer salary.
As a side-note: I saw the forms that my great grandparents had to fill out when entering the US from Europe back in 1905 or thereabouts. There was a checkbox for "anarchist"

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
There are countries besides Belgium and the US (thank God!). Sou5 Korea seems to be doing ok, Italy is certainly doing the right things, even China did pretty well, especially considering they didn’t get advanced warning.

In the US, a lot of the action is at the state level, and WA, for example, seems to be doing fine.

The federal response, and especially the testing situation, is complete amateur-hour bordering on negligence-in-the-criminal-sense, yes.
Not too bad? This is a post from a guy who, from his Twitter, "has been thinking for the last few days" and somehow he knows the thinking of ruling elites?

Honestly, I am really surprised that this post is being upvoted at all. Empty speculation for no reason at all.

It's also very wrong, as it depends on what measures are required for each curve, and as it seems clear, this guy does not seem to know the possible measures at hand, their feasibility and effectiveness.
After Y2K I tried to raise this point that all the work did pay off. I guess people were expecting a control case somewhere, like a random power station in the middle of nowhere crashing, to show what happens if a system remained unpatched. After a while, I started to doubt myself as well. Even going to "Y2k was a hoax", for a brief period. But talking to more programmers from that period snapped me out of it.
The originality is not really relevant. I've seen this type of thing take place before.
Should check that the repo has code before posting...
This is exactly why we will also take no action on climate change.
Unless there are other countries that had more serious problems.
This (the recirculation part) is likely less tragic than it seems.

Air recilculated on the airplane goes through a HEPA filter and the whole air is exchanged every 3 minutes. HEPA filters are able to catch the virus as far as I know.

source:
https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/630300-coved-19-recircul...
> 1.) While latency (in terms of how quickly you finish task) will increase, your bandwidth will increase too

It has to increase to make up for the round trips you can't afford: you try to communicate more information in one batch. Whether this is good or bad really depends. On one hand, I think it just forces communication to be better, on the other hand you might waste time communicating things that you'd immediately find to be unnecessary if you were interacting live with the other party.
What jurgemaister said. If you don't have another trust mechanism (like Web of Trust) to validate if this is a correct key then HTTPS gives at least some assurance that no intermediaries between you and avast changed the key material.
I've written multiple PWAs and native apps for a variety of clients, and they're basically two different things at this point. As the author points out, iOS especially lags behind.

Right now, PWAs will not replace native apps in their current form. In particular:

- Companies want to have an "app" in the "store". The app store is a huge search engine, and if you don't have an app in the store, then you're missing out

- iOS limits the amount of offline storage you can have, and will just start deleting your data if you go over the limit, so you can't reliably store offline data

- There are a bunch of APIs (especially on iOS) that PWAs don't have access to (there are a number of sites that show that, including the ones the author linked to)

So: PWAs are ok for some things - but will in no way replace native anytime soon :/
How about 99% of your income? Your assets? How much is a stranger’s life worth to you.
just keep hitting ESC immediately after opening the link. it kills the javascript on the page :)
Good to know that the only thing that can get the two parties to work together is invasive, constitution violating, spying legislation.

Hooray for bipartisanship.
I think we should not attribute to malice what we can explain by not being able to get your sht together. Belgium did't have a government for a very long time because they couldn't get the sht together. I think they are just overwhelmed and scared.
Some observations on this:

- There were JS rich and data driven web applications in the 1990s. E.g., there were all those text feeds for news etc, formatted for use with terminals. Client side reader applications for these were essential, since servers were not that powerful yet and suffered easily from load. And it could be done using the tech of the day, using hidden frames for loading what we now call padded JSON. (You had to be more on the defensive side regarding latency and loading order, since the app was dispersed over a couple of frames, but it could be done.) The main difference here was that these were dedicated applications for reading or browsing information. There was a rather strong dedication to the specific task and its mood, instead of an all over marketing approach.

- There were strong influences that are now pretty much forgotten. Especially CD-ROMs and Adobe Director. While this was on its own rather experimental and hadn't found a common form, the influence was strong. We would have loved to go full screen and immersive, like CD-ROMs, but couldn't. (Here, JS had still lacking.) I, think, if it hadn't been for JS, wide portions of the web would have been taken over by Shockvave Director plugins and Lingo. (Compare what happened later with Flash, as it became more mature.)

- There hadn't been a well established way of doing things yet. As a developer, as a designer, you pretty much wanted to contribute something new, something never seen before to the web. It was a race for the best, the coolest site, for best organization of content, etc. In light of this, the entire idea of having standard tools and templates, to be served to every customer, was just ridiculous. How could you innovate, or convey individually, or express the uniqueness of the customer to audiences by such a Stalinist approach to the web? (Compare this to nowadays, where, with a bit of bad luck, surfing – is this still a word? – is much an affair of changing color pallets.)
Yes the Eu has directives about employment law which are implemented locally.
Most large multinationals do not pay everyone the same. Remote or not:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21127827

Google uses pay scale based on your location. I'm sure hundreds of others do as well.
The 1999 Yahoo, like the site in the article, is a directory, of course there are going to be a lot of links. The 1999's main flaw is a complete lack of headings (and the "buttons" on either side of the logo are image map links without accessible names).

The site in the article might have overdone it with links, having two links close to each other both going to the same destination, but from the images I think they overdid the number of headings. There are headings that are nothing but film titles and no content following. But the film title headings are heading level 4 so Simon could choose to ignore them and only read the level 2 headings which do seem to be for identifying groups of content within the page.

Simon can use Ctrl-F to look for particular text in the page, same as anyone else, if he's looking for something in particular. If he's just browsing, he's going to have to read all the links until he finds what he wants, same as anyone else. He can't visually skim in two dimensions but his screen reader can read the text much faster than a inexperienced user could understand.
That is normally irrelevant where it is true.

Some binary blobs are just firmware, and so you just need to know how to load it into the radio - this is generally trivial to port to something else. However you still need to know how to access the blob and that is often restricted.

Even where it needs to run in the local OS, it is physically soldered onto a board - nobody is going to put it in a different phone so the CPU is already know. As such it isn't hard to write an emulator for the parts of the host OS it needs. *BSD can run linux apps as if on a native linux kernel (they are generally a few years behind the latest linux kernel but that is typically good enough), and Wine allows running windows apps: the same thing can apply to blobs that need to run in your OS. However you need to know how to access the functions in the blob which is often not known.

Of course it is possible for a blob read/write to random places in memory in a way that works only for a specific kernel. If a blob does this it is very difficult to port to anything else (you have to figure out where it might write and ensure you never use that memory). This is rare and evil enough that if a blob is caught doing this kernel developers will make changes such that the blob won't run (blobs that do this tend to have bugs such that the entire OS is unstable and users blame the OS not the blob)
> So, politicians choose (1), no action, as the most likely winning scenario.

I have serious doubts about this model, but will play along.

What explains:

(a) The exceptions - some countries are acting and doing well. Others are doing better after a delay.

(b) Past, more aggressive actions - many countries, the US included, have responded much more quickly and competently to acute disease crises.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323590.Facing_Love_Addic...
I work in Healthcare IT and am interested in joining. Any reason we can’t migrate to zulip or mastodon?
I've had 2 mirra chairs at home for years, I think they were ~£120 off ebay each and are ridiculous value for money.
Yeah I'm not so sure. In Poland the actions are on the "extreme" side so far, and not many people complain, because sights and news from Italy are constantly brought up as comparison. It's constantly "unless we want to be as screwed as Italy is, we need to do X" and not many people complain about X.
They gambled on a profit-less company IPO and lost. I'd say there was some hindsight.
Google does the same thing, they just aren’t this transparent about it. In fact every company I’ve worked for has a COL multiplier in their comp plan. It’s odd seeing everyone bandwagon on this about Gitlab as if it’s an uncommon practice.
Surprised it isn't Lebanon! https://www.kcur.org/post/kansas-town-being-geographic-cente...
Show HN: Refactoring-aware code reviews on GitHub
I built PWA for https://talksub.com
Please check it out on mobile as well as desktop.

I spent about one or two months optimizing for mobile.

There are still a few critical features missing from PWA.
1. Mobile Notification - probably the most important feature missing from PWA
2. Navigation / History - How history and navigation works are fundamentally different between mobile and web. For example, mobile app keeps independent history for each tab.
3. Pull to refresh - Not as critical, but people are used to this behavior.

Other devices features and native apis are also unavailable.
For basic apps, PWA is pretty good though.
Amazing how brainwashed the HN community is... Kobe-911 is an obvious scam. Just go test old blood samples, they will test positive too. Seasonal flu you sheep!
for things I use all the time and don't want to fuss with the disaster that is mobile browser tabs, native apps are vastly superior. I have even bundled up and sideloaded "apps" that are just a web view that is pinned to a specific page for some things just so I have a button I can press that always takes me to the same thing and has no potential for extraneous functionality
It's mostly related to employment entity complexity vs. organizational demand for that location.

To operate legally as a business in most of those countries on that list adds complexity that leadership has deemed "not yet". Doesn't mean forever, just means, not yet. I've seen countries come and go off of the list.

Source: 3.5 years at GitLab.
airtable seems to be dabbledb du jour
Sending Data from BigQuery to Intercom Using Google Cloud Functions
Not sure I understand.

The IPO of Snap raised $3.4 billion w a valuation of $24 billion.

Evan Spiegel has (maybe not this month) a net worth of over $2 billion.

Zuck was offering $3 billion.
Nevertheless health care outcomes on average are pretty good, if you look at things like life expectancy...
Nothing in your analysis makes any sense.

First, there's no "no pandemic" case. Not anymore.

Second, your conclusion says that "politicians choose (1)" but that is not the case at all - almost every country in Europe, Asia, middle east had taken measures, with varying severity, and significant economic cost.

Last but not least, the whole framing is extremely simplistic and follows the "politicians are evil" reddit-like logic.
I work at a remote company and this is normal, but obviously Shopify has a much better PR team than us.
I am also close to their hq. Would love to get together and talk tech. Email in profile.
That's the generally accepted advice, unless you have shortness of breath.
Japan has the same limitation, but the government put out a "strong recommendation" for schools to close and all the local governments complied.
If its only economic factors, don't you think that having an active workforce would make more sense to them?
Not attributing it to malice is white-washing, after Steven Miller or somebody equally racist ordered an immigration judge Christopher Santoro to issue an order to take down all Spanish Coronavirus prevention posters from immigration courts. In their way of thinking, the more immigrants who get the virus, the more Trump can say "I told you so" about his border wall. It's biological warfare, in support of a lie.

That and giving smallpox-infested blankets to Native Americans was 100% genocidal malice, not a lack of having their shit together. The problem is that they DO have their shit together, and it's racist xenophobic mendacious destructive shit.

The Trump DOJ’s Crazy Back-and-Forth on Coronavirus Prevention Posters

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/what-was-trump-dojs-...

CDC director breaks with Trump on claim that border wall will help stop coronavirus

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/10/cdc-director-border...
Is it?

Just compare countries with similar properties that took measures at different points in time.

Japan and Germany might not be the best to compare here, but consider:

Japan, schools closed etc. at 200 cases. 8 days later: 400 cases.

Germany, no action whatsoever at 200 cases, 8 days later: 1600 cases.
Highly recommend it. I got mine on ebay for a little cheaper. I'd expect costs might go up though given the increased demand.
I have not seen any evidence either way. At this point it is too early to have any.
All of the advice here is good but it's also convincing me that I really don't want to be working from home long term - I just need a better office environment and a shorter/more pleasant commute.
At the risk of being down-voted, I'm not trying to start a political debate. I'd just like to know, as someone outside the USA, how this is affecting the election campaigns there.

Are personal costs of the pandemic encouraging people to support subsidised healthcare, and therefore a left-wing party?

Or is the xenophobic rhetoric of "blame China/Europe/travellers/etc" causing people to support a right-wing party?

I also haven't seen a full discussion of the chain of cause and effect. There was a shift from the primary sector to tertiary services, which led to urbanisation to find demand for services. Young people living in cities can make more friends than before, and this is good! It also means that there are more people living in close quarters, who can spread disease more effectively. I'm willing to face the risks of urban life instead of subsistence farming, but I wonder if other generations resent that.
Good news keeps on coming. Yikes.
24" at 4k is difficult to read. Larger screen real estate really helps those of us who have already spent too much of our lives staring at screens.
For anyone with historical interest, here's that last HN post by kuro5hin's owner:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609308

> Hey so this is Rusty -- What happened was basically that Internap shut down the data center we were in and had to move the servers, and I conspicuously failed to Deal With Things around that. The content is probably not gone foreve
With no offense intended to the poster, the inferences are a little sloppy by mathematical standards and most of the hard work is done by introducing ("noticing") the set notation to the definition of min.
Observation by individuals going about their business is a vastly different thing than machine-generated, correlatable logs of your activities.

The amount, granularity and specificity of detailed information routinely gathered about people is in no way comparable to small town life. I grew up in a small town. The busy bodies knew gossip about me, but did not have timestamped lists of my reading materials to go with my purchase history.

Also, it is possible to opt-out of small towns.
The same rules apply: if company can't measure work and its outcomes, there's no hope for this to work. I It is easier for some,while harder for other jobs, however it's not impossible.But I do agree that there migh be some attempts to just have an easy time at home
Skip links are mainly for people who don't use a screen reader but do solely operate the computer by keyboard (or keyboard emulator, like a switch). Screen reader users shouldn't need skip links because page content should be organized within landmarks (header, main, search, footer, etc.) and have headings identifying different parts of the page and their logical hierarchy, the screen reader gives them tools to list and move to those semantic structures.