skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do believe that parasitic load probably has significant effects on a variety of psychological variables and preferences. But the web of causation here is extremely complex; neither do I think testing this hypothesis by looking at state-level governance is particularly useful. Instead, you would want to attain individual psychological response measures related to preference or acceptance of authoritarianism, and related that to individual parasitic load within a particular community; even better would to get longitudinal data showing that within-individual changes in parasitic load are correlated with changes in preference (controlled experiments here face ethical hurdles four obvious reasons). Even then, you are going to have to account for factors that may be correlated with the likelihood of getting parasites and having attitudes that are favorable to authoritarianism.
Is it possible to remain effective and productive even working from home?
I had some Levi's 501s that I got at a farm supply store for $12 when I was in college (early 80s). I wore them regularly for about 15 years then occasionally until a few years ago. They had no holes when I donated them. Newer 501s don't last anywhere near that long.

Carhartts are more functional for me now, but they wear out after 5-8 years depending on the style (model?). I haven't noticed any change in durability since I started wearing them 18 years ago.

I have several pairs of Injinji socks that are close to 10 years old, and still in great shape. I have also worn out two pairs of those socks after about 5 years, and the newer ones are softer so I suspect they'll be less durable.
Lol, this. Put a tablespoon in a full cup of water.
I have noticed this as well. Simply not putting my clothes in the dryer has made this problem go away.
I almost said this to a friend who is, hopefully, visiting in May. I changed "back to normal" to "the new normal". I think there is going to be a fundamental shift in how societies operate.
The best chance we have against this thing is international cooperation.

This doesn't bode well, if the US government thinks it can spend its way into getting the vaccine before everyone else.

"Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: "We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.""
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-trie...
> Why are you putting severe in quotation marks?

Because I don't know the official terminology.

>What makes you feel qualified to give medical advice on an Internet forum?

Because of where I work I have been given "primary sources", but of course you are free to not believe me. This is my own sentiment, feel free to look things up yourself.

> no official guidelines exist. Only internet stories.

Not in the US, maybe, but such guidelines definitely exist where I live. Again, you do you
It's already considered unsafe to take NSAIDs when suffering from influenza. In fact it's even been hypothesized that the Spanish flu pandemic was so bad because of widespread use of (the new) aspirin.
The S**T Might Be Hitting the Fan but Somehow It Doesn't Feel Real
Thanks, I didn't realize that.
That limits the mobility (and viability) of people who live there and decreases value of apartments which results in lower ROI.

That's not forward-thinking, it's just fanatical greens playing games with other people's money.
Coronavirus infection may be worsened by a common household drug (NSAIDs)
Skillset that'll get me a remote job if I live overseas:AWS,webdev,data science?
besides having years of experience, which of these skillsets would most likely get me a remote job if i live in a developing country and was looking for a foreign employer ?
Ah neat -- 15TB/s or /d? Single GPUs are at TB/s levels, so interesting locality + pricing implications here!
I recently moved back to New Orleans, which has tons of sidewalks that become obstacle courses when you are near the oak trees that fill the city. I thought it was annoying when I was a kid here but now that I've lived in more concrete-bound places it's a tradeoff I'm happy to make for more trees.

When there's multiple trees along most blocks, and something like a 25% chance the sidewalk will be buckled next to the tree, you get used to it and habitually scan the sidewalk every time you pass under a tree.

Passing them in a wheelchair is probably a bit more of a problem though; it's not uncommon to see people in powered wheelchairs/scooters going down a side street instead of an oak-lined boulevard's sidewalks.
Why would the company need to exclusively sell to the US? Is the supply expected to be limited? Once the drug is discovered, can't it be licensed around the world for mass production?
> shorthand for heightened fear response and lowered empathy

Isn't it plausible that those are related? Fear takes the driver seat and pushes empathy into the backseat.
Not on a fault line it won't. Also vastly more labor intensive to build or redevelop as needs change.
> Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump's goal was to get everyone to dislike the US, out of some misguided sense that "if you're good, everyone hates you, therefore if you make everyone hate you that means you're good".

Is he seriously trying to profiteer off the pandemic?
> Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”

Why?
In time of need, you know your friends.

How would you explain Trump's "America First" when the solution isn't coming from the US. I hope he gets what he asked for, having to admit that the possible solution is coming from a ally.

( I'm not talking about Americans in general fyi. I hope the vaccine will be available to all)
Ask HN: Covid-19 on Children
Anyone with links about how children are faring with the new coronavirus? There is a lot of information about how the elderly and those with underlying conditions but none whatsoever that I can see about children. Are relatively health children able to withstand this new disease just like relatively healthy young adults? I know it is too early for evidence at this point. However, any leads would be appreciated.
Toilet paper shortage? Learn how to hygienically clean your butt without it
I imagine that the authors are so likely to be aware of this fact that you can take for granted that they are.

Having said that, there is absolutely a valid question of did they incorrectly rationalize their approach, or rely on studies that did so, such that they in their own minds thought they addressed the issue when in reality they hadn't. My sense is that parent comment to which you replied probably didn't read the study, the original studies, or consider the point I'm making (sounds like a shot from the hip after reading the title), but the viewpoint isn't necessarily invalid.

Given that some authors have a very real and emotional attachment to ideas they are trying to prove out in such studies... the rationalization error is one to watch for...
The fact that the CEO was fired with prejudice and replaced by the former CEO unfortunately speaks for the theory that this was about an exclusive deal with the US, where the offer was coming from the highest level of the US administration. IMHO, if true, that would be batshit crazy.
You can easily put your fist through drywall. That's just the decorative coating on the inside. The framing is treated 2x4, mostly, and good luck putting your fist through that.
I feel like the line between computer user/operator and computer programmer used to be fuzzier. I've always wanted to better understand how and where that distinction has shifted over time. To this day, IBM calls mainframe operators, "systems programmers."

I suspect that shifting narrative may tell a chapter of the story of how women were gradually pushed out of our industry.
1 week delay can mean 1 million deaths
Yup.

Also, would love to hear how I, as a quarantined software developer in an apartment in one of the densest metro areas in the U.S., can "help make and deliver food" in a way that doesn't kill even more people in the process.
Generate a random password and change your hn password without saving it anywhere. Remove your email address as well. Now you’re locked out.

However, not sure what stops you from simply not using HN. If it is addiction then you’ll probably get addicted to something else..
ERs in the US primarily act as triage and stabilization centers for emergencies. Treatment for chronic illness or preventative care can't reliably be found in an ER.

An anecdote, the last time I had to go to an ER in the US was when I cut the flexor tendon in my pinky, I knew it was severed but since it wasn't life threatening they stopped the bleeding, put some liquid stitches in the cut, wrapped and braced it and sent me on my way.

I had to wait until the weekend was over to see my primary care doctor which I have access to because I have insurance / money.
It's pretty hard to get a false positive from the Coronavirus PCR test we're using. False negatives happen, but false positives are extremely rare.
Covid-19 drains your T-Cells possibly making re-exposure even more dangerous
This isn’t a performance optimization but rather an accuracy optimization. Even if the requested output is a double (64-bits) the intermediate calculations often need to be done to higher precision to get fully accurate answers. Note that the desktop calculator on Android does the same analysis by using computable numbers.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2911981

Is a nice overview.
Tesla's new traffic light icons hints at automatic stopping
It doesn't depend on Python.
Internet Research Agency used social media to target black communities in US [pdf]
It's a constant mystery to me why 90%of webSDRs have such terrible UIs.

Has nobody considered creating one which looks like, oh i don't know a digital shortwave receiver?
People are sitting at home on their ass because they've been told that if they aren't, they're helping spread the virus.
Why doesnt everyone just eat cake?
Why are we doing this, especially to our allies? If it was a Chinese company even then with their history it might feel justified but then why piss off any country that might have a fix to something hurting you economically. Surely we can’t be that short sighted. This sounds like another attempt for Trump to claim he’s a hero in a situation after totally fucking it up initially. I say this as an American who didn’t vote for him and saw him for what he was and is, he’s a bigger asshole than I had ever imagined and I’m sorry.
"This is a far bigger response than any country has achieved so far (and it's extra difficult because the at-risk groups are probably the most dependent on external aid, as well as already lacking social contact)"

How have they achieved this?
What concrete measures?
Any suggestions for preventive maintanence / monitoring? Do you put moisture sensors in the walls? Low-power dehumidifiers on infrequent cycle?
Someone else previously submitted this to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575971), but it wasn't a direct link and used 'IRA' to confuse things. It's an interesting read so re-submitting it.
Show HN: Stories – train skills crucial for remote work
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Today, we are launching with two courses that will explain techniques of increasing Listening Skills and EQ.
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Nice landing page. If you Google "summarizer", you will find dozens of similar services for free. The mechanism behind it is very simple. A couple a years ago I built one from scratch in about 2 hours, then I accidentally deleted it and rewrote it in 15 minutes. Here's how most of them work:

1. Split the text into words

2. Rank each word based on how many times it appears in the text. For example, a word that appears 10 times gets 10 points, and so on.

3. Rank sentences based on the sum of the scores of each word inside them.

4. Return the top N sentences by score (N is up to the user), in the order in which they appear in the text.

For extra fancyness, exclude the most common articles and prepositions and give 2 points to proper nouns.

Works surprisingly well.
Instead of competing bids, US & Germany should be pooling funds for a cure, and carrying out the research wherever the firm feels is most time/$ efficient.

If anything, the agreement should be conditional on vaccine being distributed to all funding countries, in order of some index of global health priority.

I'm not loving this, especially since things haven't even gotten as bad as they're likely to get.
Probably he sees this as a way to win the election not about selling it for more money. He gets the vaccine and then trumps to his base that how americans only have the vaccine because america is so great etc and he got the vaccine for them.
"America First". That's why :/
I used this (or a variation of this) for years. In the end, its inability to handle changed passwords was its downfall. If your bank doesn't let you use the specific password this generates because of some random stupid rule ("your password can't contain two numbers in a row"), you're out of luck, there's no way to generate a compliant password without remembering either a completely different master pass or that the counter for that site is now set to 2/3/whatever.

I switched to BitWarden and am much happier now.
Conceit and Contagion: How the Virus Shocked Europe
I'm actually surprised that we haven't had a government try to access that kind of data. They've been generally going at it for all kinds of "small" stuff, burglary, riots, and they're not trying to get their hands on it to combat a pandemic?
As an American citizen please Germany don’t be submissive in your response to this. Publish the emails, the phone calls, sanction us, go to the press. We deserve it.
Please share your data and calculations for this claim. I understand how exponential growth works, and I realize there is an incubation period, but this really just feels like unnecessary fear mongering considering we're at less than 6000 deaths worldwide as of now.

https://talksub.com/covid19
If your competitor can't restart his economy but you can then you have a massive advantage over them.
Halbach array AKA fridge magnet.
Politics. He would love to present this talking point among all his other ones, such as Google having 1,700 engineers working on a website.
You really have to understand that this government hires "superpredictors". It's not malice, it's just incompetence. They're making decisions based on how "truthy" they sound to them.
> Assuming that the product will be designed by those who lack credibility or that such equipment might not be of sufficient quality of design, construction, or that it may be misused is unwarranted.

Given the number of software engineers who have written detailed and strongly opinionated analyses of the situation rather than relying on expert opinions... I'm not so sure we can assume that this project is operated by experts.
If you read the study, this is obviously addressed - please try to provide specific feedback on the methodology they used that you feel do not address your concerns rather than assuming the authors did not consider obvious points.
https://forio.com/app/showcase/nurse-scheduling/nurses.html?...

Thursday, 02:00 to 08:00 — Emergency
Thursday, 08:00 to 12:00 — Oncology
Thursday, 12:00 to 18:00 — Oncology
Friday, 08:00 to 12:00 — Emergency
What are you even saying? A lot of those people forced to "sit home on their ass all day" will be the ones who primarily work in service jobs that have been greatly impacted by the virus due to companies downsizing or worse, shutting down completely in response to less foot traffic and demand. They cannot remote into their cafe and make coffee for anyone. Actually, a good number of them might not even have a home after this. They are not going to suddenly be able to start working or volunteering for free(lmao) to "make and deliver food".
Yeah. I was there in 1997 and 2007. I guess I must suffer from old school disease, because it just doesn't have that sense of danger that 90s fringe culture had. Lots of people sitting around in lawn chairs in front of their RVs drinking beer in 2007.
I do know..and most who care and plan ahead know. Acting out ignorance (whether deliberately feigned or even true ignorance) isn't advancing productive discussion. Of course testing is currently rationed for the most vulnerable/susceptible..you are not a consumer ordering a Big Mac in that drive-thru line, at least not yet, although that frequency and ease should be the outcome of widespread testing effort.
There’s a lot of discussion about flattening the curve to lessen the impact on healthcare providers and hospitals. Wouldn’t the same sort of thinking apply for grocery stores and food supplies? It seems like people need to stop stockpiling and hoarding food so the most vulnerable people from an economic standpoint (who likely don’t have the means to stock up for weeks or months) can still have access to it.
Large corporate American represents some of the most logistics-capable organizations to have ever existed on the planet. I don't understand the disdain.
Sadly NERD doesn't refer to you, but to the disease ;P
None of the things you're talking about exist within the repo tool, it sounds like these are all things that you had to layer on top with a separate CI system.

It's been 12 years since the Dream was released and we're still not to the same level of perf/features as just stuffing the whole of AOSP in P4. I get that git has advantages, and it's an awesome tool when used appropriately but the desire to use it to solve every SCM problem under the sun is a bit misguided.
Seemed like a good idea at first, but I can quickly think of many shortcomings:

I wouldn't know wtf my password is. And in case a login to one of my sites fails, I wouldn't be able to manually copy paste the password and go step by step?

What if the domain name of the site changed?
How is it supposed to work with mobile versions like m.Facebook.com?

Or how would it work with apps?
Is there a way to tell a login applies to multiple sites?

I'd be stuck in this stateless non-transparent world without knowing wtf is going on I guess. And not to mention I cannot maintain things like notes/cc info etc.
I mean that either means that the CEO was fired for accepting the deal or that (s)he was replaced with someone that will do so.

I am loving how this epidemic is exposing all of our system's flaws.

Edit: the old CEO was American, he was replaced with a German founder. So that narrows it down.
Don't Triage Me A 78-year old entrepreneur's message to ER docs
"America First" is the administrations primary guiding principle.

There will be production shortages/delays. This would mean Americans would get vaccines first.
I mean, it is... THat is the plan at least.
It should probably be noted that the Park dictatorship was overthrown by another dictator, General Chun Doo-hwan, who's party controlled South Korea until 1988. So the demise of the Park regime was not the end of authoritarianism in South Korea.
Links:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stories-study-easily/id1437541...
https://story-board.pro
No, people don't talk in technicalities and prefer plain language. This is the problem most engineers have in talking with people.
> I recently figured this community is not good for me and I want to leave.

Where you think you're going?

Once you create an account on HN, it is there forever.

All your posts stays right here and there is no way you can delete anything on HN after it is created. It is unfortunate but that's that.
New England houses that have survived 150+ years are the exception to this rule. They're extremely overbuilt compared to today's wood-frame construction and you get some survivorship bias effect (the ones that didn't make it have been replaced). They're also mostly not on fault lines, and the climate may or may not be beneficial to the longevity.
Because that's what the word "exclusive" means.
This would be true now, but over several weeks and months serious damage will be done (layoffs, bankruptcies, regulatory disruption) that will result in a permanent reduction in economic activity. The economy will repair itself, but the longer it takes, the less likely we will get a V-shaped recovery and the more likely it will take us much longer to get back to where we were.
Per my comment, it could be but I haven't seen a shred of evidence that that's true. There isn't, in fact, any way to refinance the national debt or anything analogous to refinancing debt. In the past he's suggested we could default on some debt the way he has with his myriad failed businesses, but that would be an obvious disaster. I have never seen any public or private statements that indicate he has any understanding whatsoever beyond his nonsensical public statements. The only stuff we've seen leaked show the exact same levels of ignorance. His official actions all support the theory that he is truly an ignorant moron.

Show me any evidence to the contrary.
A viewer/navigation tool for the original Xerox Smalltalk-80 virtual image (C++)
The earliest a vaccine will come is a year from now. The good majority of deaths will happen before then. So a one week delay won't be that costly.
Good point. The most important part of the speech is the number of engineers working on it. If we have 1699 it might not work but if only we could know we had 1700 then we would all be saved /s.
That sounds like a terrible way to play the iterated prisoners dilemma.

If the USA tries to screw over Germany like this, Germany could equally try screw over the USA - and they're the one with the vaccine company.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22584108
You do realize that the Trump administration has been blocking international cooperation and had done everything to MAGA / America First.

The problem now is that it backfired ^2, since one of the possible solutions isn't coming from the US.

Let's let Europe do it's job and show to the world again that they are a trustworthy partner.
Funding for Covid-19 Projects