skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> "We might see something that vaguely resembles what you are describing."

No, there's a 100% chance we will see it if we don't take measures. Watch the news from Wuhan, Italy - it's apoplectic. It's really bad, and if they didn't shut everything down, it would be a zombie movie.

We know that 'shutting things down' works because in China, the virus is contained, at least for now and medical facilities are starting to be able to cope.

>>> "The morbidity rate is far less than 3%"

Source? Because every credible source and the data coming out of various countries puts the rate at somewhere near 3%, not 'far less than' 3%. Some facts [1]

Even a 1.5% death rate is existentially problematic, we're still talking millions of people dead.

Moreover, if you bother to look at the data, you'll see that morbidity rates are a function of access to care, meaning that when Hospitals are 'overwhelmed' - people die at much greater rates. In Italy, it's 5%.

But there's a bigger issue: 20% of people who get it requires specific medical intervention, and at least 5% of them 'intensive care'. COVID is totally overwhelming medical the medical system in 100% of the areas wherein the contagion has let loose; people getting zero treatment, medical staff getting infected, people dying in the hallways, in their homes.

FYI 20% of 330M Americans is 66M people, only a fraction of whom need to be infected for 'zombie apocalypse' in the Hospitals, again: see Italy, Wuhan for what will happen.

>>> Antibiotics?? Antibiotics are not part of this equation.

>>> "and if people did a few basic things like wash their hands and stay at home if they have a preexisting medical condition, then basically nothing would happen. "

No - absolutely not. Having a few people 'wash their hands' and having the elderly 'stay home' will do very little to quash the pandemic.

The evidence from other countries is writ large, the variables are established: extensive testing, restricted travel, social distancing, isolation for any sick person, aggressive operational preparation by medical staff, keeping social order, restriction on large scale events etc. etc..

This is the 'new normal' for at least a few months.

[1] https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop...
These security trade-offs are not really OK on desktop either, but Windows (and macOS) have a long tail of backwards compatibility they are trying to maintain and slowly steer towards similar security levels (as in the case of the mac app store or the windows store platform). Both of those platforms are struggling to do that although have made some incremental progress but nowhere near the degree that iOS has.

iOS was designed very early on with heavy sandboxing and as a new platform that was happy to break many of the norms of desktops. They have been very successful in having a usable platform that is heavily sandboxed and closes more of these snooping holes over time. Of course the trade-off has been flexibility and it has taken them a long time to get where they are now and have a usable OS and also have such sandboxing. (remember the first iPhone didn't even have an app store!)

To some extent most applications moving to being web-based has won a lot of this sandboxing on desktop that it wouldn't have otherwise had, and web apps cannot read from the clipboard in modern browsers.
Re-read your Chomsky, and pay attention. You've fallen far behind. You're talking about authoritarians and the "trial-by-drone" guy left office years ago. I haven't mentioned CCTV. It is a pale imitation of the much more distracting Western news business. We are endlessly terrorized about bullshit, yet somehow nothing I mentioned above was even covered. They don't focus on the vast areas of agreement between the two faces of the status quo political party.

For all that they caterwaul about surface controversies like is it worse to arrange corrupt positions at foreign firms for one's children or is it worse to investigate such positioning, Fox and MSNBC agree about everything important to the rich bastards who own both the media and the government. For instance, China: we're told constantly by both (all) news firms to fear China. In this very thread there is evidence of a widespread derangement stemming from that constant gaslighting. ("What if the masks are pre-impregnated with virus?!%?") After all, China is an independent nation with a military! USA military-industrial complex might make a lot of money losing a war with China! They must all be evil bastards bent on destroying us! Oh but they're not as bad as Russia! Or Iran! Or Venezuela! Or some random goat enthusiasts in some desert somewhere! When the topic is a war into which we haven't yet blundered, there is unanimity in the war media. (Since you're language policing, tell me: is "war media" better or worse than "MSM" that you derided upthread? On the one hand, it's evocative and focused on the bottom line. On the other, it is one more syllable... I can't decide!)
Hotspot range is small, and competing networks slow things down. You do not get a tragedy of the commons by making the networks open.

And "open" and "unencrypted" being the same thing is a historical artifact. You can have each user encrypted with a separate key, and WPA3 in fact does this.
My impression of /r/wallstreetbets in particular is that they seem to think particularly highly of crypto.

There might be an overlap elsewhere but I don't think I've seen it on wsb personally
I wish I can upvote this more than once. Very useful service and congrats on launching this.

Your challenge is, I am afraid, is in finding a manager who forces the teams to use it _constantly_ as opposed to just a few iterations and the usage fades away. Not because your product is not good, but humans often do not stick to routines. My intention is not to come across negative, but to implore you to design-solve a implicit loop inside the product.
Strictly speaking, as discussed elsewhere in this thread, ^D can cause a terminal device to signal an EOF condition; other kinds of Unix byte streams don't make this association.

For example,

$ python3 -c 'print("".join(chr(c) for c in range(10)))' | python3 -c 'print(list(ord(c) for c in input()))'

will confirm that it doesn't happen in a pipe (the ASCII 4 character there is totally unrelated to EOF).
>...so it can be difficult to disentangle private and governmental action.

It's near impossible to disentangle private and government[al] action in China. It's also not a uniquely American way to think about it. Every country uses private proxies where it makes sense in order to project power.
Canada rolled out $10B in business financing just today to give businesses like restaurants a lifeline through this challenging and unusual time. The money is being pushed out via BDC (which is like the US Small Business Administration) and EDC, an export development agency that provides guarantees so that banks can lend to risky borrowers to support exports. On a GDP-scaled basis, the Canadian financial package is the equivalent of a $90B package in the US -- nearly twice what Trump's administration is offering.
Despite what most people assume, it's mostly rich people eating wild animals, so OP has a point.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/798644707/why-wet-markets-per...
Huawei 5nm Kirin chip will start delivery in August
What will be more interesting is if they allow it in.

The US historically rejected aid from many other countries
There are a few federal tenancy laws currently. Presumably, they'd add another. Think the case would make it through SCOTUS before the emergency is over?
I don't have the link but I read Seegene is providing about 80% of the coronavirus test kits used in Korea currently.

1. CNN article (March 12, 2020) on Seegene
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...

The CNN text article is actually pretty good article and also the video is good. The company reports they used AI to speed up the development. They were able to accomplish it in 2 - 3 weeks with a few people instead of 2 - 3 months with many more staffers getting involved.

From the CNN article

The firm is making about 10,000 kits a week and each kit can test 100 patients. So it is making enough to test one million patients each week, at a cost of under $20 per test.

Seegene is now looking to export of the excess capacity to 30 countries including Germany and Italy.

2. Below is 2017 video of a mini-seminar of Seegene's solution platform at a trade show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKL5D19r6t8

The last part shows that they have a software solution for helping faster diagnosis.

As a layman, I felt Seegene's product focus is on getting as many tests done as possible by using following:
- One test vial can test multiple issues
- Integrating barcode/software to allow faster diagnosis

3. I frankly don't understand why FDA can't approve Seegene's product into US. It's not like people will be injected with liquid/medicine.
That's if those stats are even relatively accurate. The testing kits are lacking to say the least and the qualifications to use them seem very unrealistic in preventing it from spreading.
Same here. Tried to alert people in Italy. Laughed at me.
Now mad at me.

The human mind is indeed fascinating.

Still if only one person was saved because of this, it was worth it.
Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a Tech Lead Back end to scale mobility tech infra
I can recall a few articles where software felt like engineering. bits derived data needs, complexity based hardware sizing. Real solid constraints to use as foundations. rare
Maybe the cloud has bifurcated and DO is #1 within the "light cloud" market which is a lot smaller than the "real cloud" market.
The US is about 11 days behind Italy, with approximately the same growth rate (keeping in mind this is only counting confirmed cases).

Compare the "Total Coronavirus Cases" charts:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Seems novel in that they are combining the best of current rotary atomizers and electrostatic guns, and removing the need for compressed air.

If you look at current electrostatic guns, they mostly seem to use compressed air to atomize the paint. Rotary atomizers still use air to direct the paint to the surface.

So they get better transfer efficiency through electrostatics, and the rotary atomizer part probably allows them to use paints with lower VOCs further reducing emissions.

That said it does look like there already exists rotary atomizers that also use electrostatics. But also still use air.

https://www.graco.com/us/en/in-plant-manufacturing/solutions...
The medium publishing flow is weird, let me look at this and see if i can fix it.

Edit: Update, it looks like the story is not opted into distribution / should not be part of the paywall.

Can anyone from Medium chime in?
CNN article (March 12, 2020) on Seegene
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...

Seegene is in talks to export of the excess test kits to 30 countries including Germany and Italy.

No mention of US.
Sounds reductive. This person seems to be as good an expert you can ever get on zoonotic spillover events as you can ever get, and if you read the Q&A, you'll see that he clearly lays out what is probably going to happen and what should rather be happening in an ideal world.

This is not some armchair philosopher spewing racist things about Asians eating random animals being the root of all evil, but a clearly objective look at what probably causes things like this.
Just because something has changed in a way you disagree with does not mean it is destroying the "fabric of society."
Sorry if I was unclear: it's not that China is still a poor country, but people develop habits and customs generations ago. For some fraction of the people (who are now wealthier), it's variously seen as a status thing, something mystical, or whatever else. That doesn't change the reality that this probably isn't a habit that would develop today, but would persist without action. 60 years ago is a long time, economically speaking!
All the packs of cigarettes say "Smoking kills".

I presume the idea is that your Apple Foozle is safe, and so is this Famous Brand Foozle and this Obviously Rebadged Generic Foozle that's half the price of the Apple product, but the foozle your mate got from the geezer who used to get him pirate DVDs doesn't have the sticker. No surprise when your mate gets ransomware a few months later. They saw him coming.
If this was true, i suspect theirs would be better. Dialyzer doesn't seem very interesting and facebook has a good track record with making modern libraries and implementations.
Reminds me of this nice map of what tea is called across Europe: https://jakubmarian.com/tea-in-european-languages-map/

As a Swede, I can just add that the spelling come in quite many forms: te (official), té, the, thé, tea...
has never had to deal with a war on US soil since Lincoln

There were agents of both the Central Powers and Axis Powers active on US soil, and in WW2 Japan attacked Hawai'i and occupied many US territories (Alaska, Philippines, Guam, Wake).
is there any website which teaches these kind of hacking? I am interested in it but not as a full time job.
When you are involved long enough with crypto, you'll see a lot of stupid ideas. DAI is one of them.

For those who don't have time to get into the weeds, DAI is a "digital native" stable coin. It wants to create a 1-1 peg to USD using an underlying volatile asset, Ethereum. If you want to use USD, it's probably most efficient to go get USD. :) But for some ideological reasons (decentralization), DAI wants to be USD but also digital native. So they "lock" the underlying asset, Ethereum, and issue DAI coins. The premise is with intelligent computer algorithms, we can maintain 1-1 peg between a digital asset (Ethereum) and a real-world asset (USD).

Digital assets are digital. Humans are the arbitrageurs. Humans are emotional. DAI is trying to create stability on top of Ethereum volatility. It's kinda like building a stable house on a shaky foundation. Your building will either collapse or you spend so much money patching the flaws of your shaky foundation. This is a laughable idea for those who live in reality. But I guess some computer programmers/investors live in alternative realities too long. They forget about reality.

Whatever your algorithms are, you need to arbitrage risks. So you will always need to lock up more USD-ETH to account for risks. To be safe, maybe, you need 1.5 USD-ETH for a DAI USD. However, with digital scarce and volatile assets like Ethereum, there's a chance that 1.5 USD-ETH will drop to 0.9 USD-ETH. At that point, you will be underwater. Yesterday, it did. If you need to lock up 1.5 USD for 1 USD, you may as well go get 1 USD. It's a dumb idea to use 1.5 USD to get 1 USD.

DAI has a lot of jargon and technology (more layers on top of the shaky foundation). These things make it look sophisticated and fool people. The basic problem is very simple. You only need elementary school arithmetic and logic to know its flaws and inefficiency.
I would love to see you link/source.

I have watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw&t=2357s with Michael Osterholm as guest. This is not a flat out lie.
OneDrive and SyncThing allow you to set a max transfer speed, so it's definitely possible. OneDrive in particular will absolutely kill my network if it's not throttled (I have slow 10/1mbps DSL). It took a while for us to figure that out; for months we were randomly experiencing terrible Internet speeds.

I don't even bother with OneDrive anymore because our Internet is so slow that stuff was always syncing. I use SyncThing between my phone, laptop, and desktop instead, which can sync over the local network.
An actor who was really stabbed on stage
> It's a LOT better than nothing.

That's quite a stretch.

People won't see a realized benefit for years, even decades. And with this being a temporary measure, 3-6 months of no interest doesn't amount to very much - maybe a few thousand for people with somewhat larger loan amounts that are also all federal.
Very well written, I like how playfully the author talks about the subject. The metaphors are essentially correct and work to bring the level of technicality down for people who can't spend dozens of hours on the subject. Most of us want to get a quick summary where we understand something when we can't invest the time it might otherwise take to get intellectual gratification.
There's a difference between a linter that's capable of catching some type errors and a full modern static type system. Compare e.g. MyPy with TypeScript. Dialyser reduces runtime type errors; a full type system can eliminate them.
Collated.
Good idea using a large AC blower. I would think a small brand new or very clean wet dry shop, vac using the blower attachment might be even better.

It would be noisy but would allow the design to incorporate negative pressure of the vacuum side to assist with exhaling.

Maybe the shop vac could be plugged into a speed controller to improve duty cycle and reduce noise but controlling an AC motors speed is quite a bit more complicated(expensive) than controlling a DC one.
yes.

I know very few people irl that are positive about the impact, and the polls where mostly negative as well (except those done by the IOC itself, who got up to 70% support at some point, go figure)

Anectodtaly that’s the usual reaction I see about the event: https://twitter.com/audiophilefreak/status/12386270677274583...
Among the lesser clouds, I think Linode is better than DO if you just want a reasonably priced vps. I ran dev and CI workloads there while running the prod stuff on AWS and was always happy with them.
Not for the email provider. If the only authoritative identity for an account is “can receive an email at a given address” you’re just admitting that you’re outsourcing your security to an implementation detail of a few large email providers that you have no control over and a bunch of small email providers that you have no guarantee behave the same way.

A trivial example is Mailinator.
How? This is just a link to a Facebook job post.

Guess this is a good time to plug Gleam though (along with Dialyzer, which has already been mentioned), a statically typed functional programming language which compiles to Erlang.

https://gleam.run
Navient services federal student loans. They actually tweeted about implementing the change earlier:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Navient/status/123857668491329945...
But the question is whether the social distancing being implemented across the US will reduce the rate of growth. There’s been drastic action taken this past week.
Bill Gates stepping down from Microsoft board
I understand that there is critical work to be done by contractors at the pentagon, but I also don't lose sleep over lost productivity of those in the business of death.

There's also some irony here now that I think about it. ARPA net was designed in part to solve this problem.
The first US case of coronavirus was confirmed on January 20th. That's 53 days.. it took 53 days for the president of the U.S. to officially address the issue publicly. Most other countries were complacent as well.

We have had a fair opportunity to deal with it and prepare. We knew how contagious and dangerous it was. We could have screened all people coming into the United States internationally, and we could have started creating way more tests and have been testing people at a much greater degree and tracing people's connections to figure out who is at greater risk, and maybe even considered quarantining people as a precaution for a few days. The first case confirmed in the U.S. literally was in Wuhan and came back on January 15th. But we didn't do shit, and we still haven't really done shit, because we have been complacent and have been waiting to see what happens, like most other countries.

I get in concept what you're trying to argue for, but there's really nothing we can do to punish China for the corruption that allowed the wildlife markets to exist in the deplorable state they did that initially transferred the virus. And while they probably did try to cover it up for a bit, they also probably didn't know what they were dealing with at first. And they were also trying to squash it and implemented pretty draconian measures by our standards to put a stop to it.. they had many fewer cases than the U.S. currently does before implementing them.

I mean we could issue sanctions I guess.. but you would have to think about how that would affect our economy because we are so interconnected to them via trade. At this point I don't think our economy needs even more chaos and turmoil.
There's always a workaround. Use the 16th amendment: charge a stupidly huge tax for every eviction during the emergency period. Done.
He was talking about the old BASICs with line numbers, GOTOs, all global variables, and no functions or really any structures.
We had 1300 cases. Now it's over 2000. It will be well over 5000 by next week. It does not look like other countries have higher infection rates than the U.S., but nearly similar.
In modern parlance, a respect for fairness and basic logical coherence is called "whataboutism".
> It's illegal for a business to "refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of its employees".

Right, it's illegal for a company to say "we're not going to bargain with you collectively, at all" but it's not illegal to decline the bargain that employees offer. The company at least has to sit at the table and consider their option - it does not prohibit companies from listening to the collective bargain and declining to accept it.
They could in theory implement a sound device for the virtual kernel though I cannot see any information that they have actually done that from a quick search.

Some people have worked around this issue by setting up pulseaudio for windows and then connecting pulseaudio via network from WSL out to Windows. Works for both WSL1 and WSL2.
People are focusing on the "he saw it coming" aspect of the title.

I would encourage folks to read the article with an open mind as the "he saw it coming" is not really the point of most of what is said here.

This is is an expert who understands the realty of zoonotic spillover, and how it is going to become a more prevalent threat over time, and how to deal with that threat.
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Pokémon Go temporarily won’t make you leave the house due to coronavirus
Cool so we've gone from "high profile" tech unions to "a small model and symbolic inspiration". I think that's a much more effective expression of their significance (or lack thereof).
COVID-19 is going to wreck economies. We are all thinking that closures and social distancing will end in a month, maybe two. This process will unfold over many months, perhaps years. Every city and country is handling this differently. We have containment measures in some US cities and states and then Florida hosting an event with 50,000 visitors. Sure, we can reduce infections in North Carolina, but then these 50,000 will disperse and bring infections back again through out the country. The only end game here is everyone gets infected, we develop a vaccine, or in unison we lockdown every country and city for a fixed period of time, say 45-60 days (never going to happen). And if COVID-19 mutates? We restart the whole process. I bet many of us are still in lock down mode come fall 2020 and even into 2021.
In terms of hygiene...

Don't Italy and Iran both practice a kiss greeting? A ka "la bise"?

Koreans have a rich history of sharing meals and eating from the same pot.

Could hardly call those practices hygenic. But the point is they've existed forever and probably aren't about to stop because of this.

Watch throwing stones in glass houses.