skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't meant to be directed at you, but it's hilarious to me what people are focusing on, or what supposedly triggers concern. And just what economic bubbles folks are in, with such little perspective for those around them that share common infrastructure that is going to be stressed in the coming weeks and months.

Look. I have multiple friends who have already had all of their shifts canceled for the rest of March. And guess what, nothing is going to be better April 1st. Those folks don't have investment funds to sell. They don't have 401Ks to skim from early, at great cost. They don't have friends and family with money and their emergency fund wouldn't even cover the costs of HALF of a Coronavirus test, let alone a weeks worth of rent.

We need to be talking about suspending evictions, delaying mortgage payments, nationalizing health care, and more. And if you think this is over the top, go watch and read about Italy and get back to me in 2.5 weeks. I can't wait for the rest of America to understand just what a precarious and fragile system we've built.
Yes. And it’s a real shame because if they offered lower nicotine percentages (1% and 0%) it could be a powerful prescribed treatment for nicotine addiction. Instead they just made a new market for exploitation.
I'm from flyover country. There are talented people here, and well-educated people here. This is why I live here. It's cheap and the people are nice.

But I would argue that there is also a much higher proportion of individuals who do not understand technology and who are out of the loop on this kind of thing.
I don't think how you rate yourself should be based on the percentage of features and caveats that you know, it should be more based on how effective you are using it.
Do you have a citation that police are as _equally willing_ to beat a password out of someone as they are to use existing tool to image a phone in compliance with a lawfully obtained and executed search warrant?
I hope actions like this can start to make people wake up that this is in fact serious and should be taken seriously.

Still too many people calling it a hoax and that it's no worse than a common cold.
I've felt a huge shift in public opinion in the US this week. People are finally taking this seriously. With the federal government's inept response, it's a ray of hope to see private institutions take such large measures to keep a lid on this.
You’re correct. I’d delete my previous comment but it’s stuck there, etched in stone
This is direct inflation. How is Gold not soaring right now?
Testing would allow to be way more aggressive where it matters. Also reaction time could be quicker.

Could be so, that once a certain number of people are infected, full quarantine measures will be taken anyway. So on could just jump to these measures right away. Which would leave increased transparency as the main benefit. Would still be worth it, even if actual countermeasures don't necessarily change.
That's a tenuous link to make. Vaping has contributed to harm reduction for a lot of people trying to get of cigarettes and they should be applauded for that.
There's a certain degree of survivorship bias. They do what gets the clicks, and what gets the clicks is what you're mostly likely to see.
USO is probably the biggest, most liquid one available in the US.

Almost all of these funds will hold some combination of cash, short term debt and oil futures, with the ratios depending on their target leverage.

Performance between them will vary depending on, among other things: whether or not the ETF is levered, which particular type of crude it's tracking, it's time horizon, and how effective the fund managers are at rolling their futures holdings.

NOT investment advice. Commodities are fickle.
This outbreak is a litmus test for the competence of countries. It's already shone a bright light on the fragility of global supply lines, cheap travel and open borders. These are the aspects of life most likely to change after this is all over.
You need testing to provide political capital to do all the other things that are actually necessary to respond to and treat the virus.

Otherwise politicians can hide behind relatively low numbers of confirmed cases as an excuse for inaction.
What is the difference between the states or federal government running social programs. Different states have vastly different financial capabilities, that's why they each pay into the federal government who then provides the same benefits to all regardless of their state. This prevents people in a state such as Kentucky receiving a tiny percentage of the benefits an economy like California could provide.

I get we are coming at this from vastly different perspectives but I see no issue with a social program such as sick leave, and medical care becoming permanent. I would argue this pandemic is a strong argument for universal health care. The poorest among us by not getting tested can spread the virus to those who are able to afford getting tested and treated. If I am a poor hourly worker and I get sick, I am still going to go to work because if I stay home my kids don't eat. When I am at work I likely make food for wealthier people who then get sick due to my lack of ability to afford to take time off. Guaranteed paid time off fixes this. This pandemic is not a one time event, there will be more and they could be worse.

Of course social programs are about helping people. If I am poor and cannot afford food for my family, what choice has SNAP taken from me? If I am am cold and cannot afford heat, what choice has LIHEAP taken from me?
How do we choose between two scientific ideas when both aren't yet falsified?
But interestingly, it won't affect the players' immediate economic futures, as they're all prohibited from being paid by the NCAA.
A small village/town; away from the urban craziness; where you can walk over to your neighbor’s to ask for a pound of dried beans because the just-in-time retail model and cascading supply-chain effects means your local grocery store shelves have been emptied of the staples.
- We need to unite and overcome tribalist instincts

- The GOP (the current ruling party) bears a majority of the blame for the recent screw ups (though _both_ parties are to blame for the decades-long problems with the healthcare system)

Both things are true.
There are a _lot_ of things we can do to prevent and prepare for the next pandemic that have nothing to do with curtailing freedoms. Let's focus on those.
> Honestly, nobody cares

Other programmers care. A one/two man workshop doesn't need order or processes to get things done. A ten man workshop cannot function without it. The same is true with coding - it becomes a tool for programmers to communicate intent, it's becomes important to be ordered, clean and understandable by every other dev.
> JavaFX was deprecated in Java 10 and removed 6 months later in Java 11

JavaFX is not deprecated. JavaFX was extracted from the JDK as a standalone project: https://openjfx.io/
They were vaping vitamin E from black market THC cartridges—not exactly what people refer to as “vaping”. The solution to that would be regulation of the market. My understanding is that the banning of flavored vape sales is mostly intended to cut consumption among teenagers & that it seems to have had the intended effect.
> anything over $0.00 for randomized bits on a hard drive will always seem bananas to me.

I'll happily buy the randomized bits making up your debit card number and PIN for $0.00
Ask HN: Why does Trump tweet “CoronaVirus”
Is anybody else capitalizing the "C" and "V" like he is?

I'd like to think the usage is benign.

But, it almost seems like a weird branding move...

What do you think? Has anyone else written about this?
Yeah, up to 28% in Europe, our main market.
It seems far too early to judge the degree to which warm weather mitigates this. There have been a growing number of cases in Australia and South America.

Also consider that in India, there is not only a massive population, but access to tests per capita is probably quite low. Furthermore, the background noise of other infectious diseases is higher there, so many of these cases may go unnoticed or just attributed to common ailments.
Death by infectious disease, while tragic, is somewhat more normalized there, and it might be hard to convince a lot of people not to go about their daily lives.
Cheers

And all I could think was 'it's a PATRIOT act...'
Anything could have called those mutating methods. But only those mutating methods could have put the object in an inconsistent state. I therefore have to fix the method that did that, and then let anything in the entire codebase freely call those methods.
Livenation loses 1.8B in one day as stocks tank due to coronavirus
Downvote parent all you want, but if you do - set a calendar entry to 90 days and if you are down 10-15% additional from here, please upvote my comment again. You are voting your emotions.

Link for you:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22556929
I'm specifically interested in the claim that they have spent hundreds of billions on call options.
If the system is reliant on the legislative branch to respond to a crisis then there is no doubt that it will fail. Large voting bodies are no good at all in times of crisis.
Most useful programs have state. As the program scales you need to break it up into parts (or 'modules') with clear interfaces. Usually these parts own state.

The problem with OOP is that it assumes you need lots of these parts. Whereas really, you might have a few or possibly a handful. Use, class-like constructs to represent these, and use normal functions within these, with ideally some kind of polymorphism that also doesn't require classes.

For small programs, don't even bother with this. Just use pure functions for key logic, and unit test those, and delay testing anything with state for as long as possible. When you do need to, leverage interfaces and stubs/fakes (not mocks) to test them.

That's what I do now anyway.
Actually, it was more like a return to Microsoft roots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
From the paper: "Our results indicate that aerosol and fomite transmission of HCoV-19 is plausible, as the virus can remain viable in aerosols for multiple hours and on surfaces up to days."

This partially explains how quickly this virus spreads, and why such incredible measures are required to stop the spread.
Korea is doing some robotic testing of the samples:

> Rather than a human mixing the solutions, the samples are instead put into a diagnostic machine. Inside the machine, a robot arm pipettes the solution and mixes the liquids on a number of tests at once. According to Chun, this method takes only four hours to test samples from 94 patients -- four times faster than the manual method. It also reduces the risk of human error or contamination.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-...
Nice that they will continue to pay cast member employees - good move!
We could prevent this by actually have universal healthcare, better funding to CDC, and better sick leave.

Yes, unfortunately, it have to be political. There is no escaping it, when it comes to healthcare.

It is much more urgent when country keeps on creating new viruses and we become more globally connected.
I unfollowed all accounts, deleted all my tweets and just login periodically to see what's trending or to follow a hashtag associated with a sporting event I'm interested in. And since I do that from home, I have the twitter app on my iPad but not my phone.

Nice way to keep it but throttle it.
Italy's health care system has been overwhelmed - there aren't enough ventilators available for the people who need ventilators to survive and there are now a lot of them.

Italy's aging population has increased the proportion of people needing ventilators and the infection rate increases the total number.

Moreover, Italy's total actual infection is likely higher than the figures due to Italy's failure to test and control the situation. So the true fatality ratio is probably lower but hardly gives much comfort.
Are you suggesting not using cloud for privacy concerns? Based on the feedback from people's comments here, I realize we should do more to alleviate the privacy concerns. Curious on to know your thoughts about the following aspect: As I mentioned, we only store short video clips corresponding to events that the user created (we already discard the other motion clips that are deemed as irrelevant by our models.) We also allow users to delete the the alerts they have received and when they delete each alert, we permanently delete the corresponding video clips from our dbs... would that alleviate your privacy concerns?

We actually built our first prototype using RPi, we tried 3-4 different RPi cams, the image quality of all of them was very poor. Also the final cost would much higher than the cameras we are using right now...

Supporting IFTTT is in our near term road map.
Appreciate the suggestions!
Grandmothers of civilization: How menopause contributes to our species' success
Intel Linux Patch Said to Improve Graphics Efficiency Up to 43%
If you think the necessary and proper clause can be read to authorize patents, you probably have a very different idea of how to interpret the constitution than the drafters of the constitution.
Indeed, there was a comment here a few years ago from someone who was rejected for an interview, the stated reason being "Sorry, we're only accepting candidates from top tier schools. We've never heard of Georgia Tech."

I was like "WTF? They've probably never heard of Waterloo either!"

(For anyone unfamiliar, these may not be household names, but they are definitely top tier CS schools.)
Sports betting revenue makes up a surprisingly small percent of Vegas gaming revenue, something like %1.5 last I looked.

However, I expect the general trend of people avoiding traveling and crowded places will have a massive effect on Vegas revenue as a whole.
> Next thing you know tennis matches will be canceled.

That was already announced before the NCAA cancellation.

[1] https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/28891268/atp-suspends...
meh. I've been married to a Japanese for over 2 decades now, and lived in Tokyo for many years including when Fukushima happened. I wouldn't trust Japanese politicians with their reported numbers any more as I'd trust China or the US.

There is one difference in Japan to Italy that might explain the lower infection rates: it's socially accepted to wear face masks (not only since covid but since the 90ies actually!)
A journey to waking up and searching HIBP database in 3ms/14ms, NOT 49μs
Launch: Story Widget, create and embed stories in any website
Totally agree. I think to some degree it started with the first Iraq war when the first GPS bombs made war look like a cool video game. I think it’s a very bad trend that eventually will lower the threshold to real war. Same for torture. Movies have made torture look cool and useful.
@tcharlton posted for me above.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22557599
1.0 was released 5 years ago.

Swift is younger and I think it’s a great language.

If the tooling is ready and I don’t have to fight it, I’d be fine using Rust. I just need a reason. Anyone using it for iOS development?
The article is about him being a fraud in other arenas. I’m not convinced his weak personal seamanship renders him a fraud.

In nautical matters I’d describe him more as a fanboy or foamer, with literary flourishes.
I have visited several times and even before this virus I saw people wearing masks all the time. At grocery stores I remember seeing the workers who were stocking things wearing masks and gloves, which I never see in the US. Wearing masks while sick was already expected and has been for decades. Maybe since it's already in their culture to do what they can to stop spreading diseases, they were much better prepared than the rest of the world. They could also be lying, but that seems unlikely since the information would get out very quickly.
Show HN: ThereOrSquare – Plan social gatherings with collab tools
In 1999 to 2000 I was working as a freelancer At a state agency. From the change from 99 to 00 I got paid 3 times a few days apart, always the same amount. Later turned out that the indicator that a person was paid was not working thx to y2k. So somebody clicked on payout a few times. They fixed it for the employees before but not for the freelancers. I gave back the money, which was difficult on its own as there was no process for it.
COVID19 lives for 3 hours in air. 2-3 days on stainless steel and plastic. Only 4 hours on copper, which is why all door handles should be copper! Other anti-viral and bacterial materials are available as well.
Might be the October 1998 article "Y2K: The End of the World as We Know It", but its behind a paywall and I don't subscribe.
When you say players do you mean stu-dent ath-oo-lets or slaves?
"Of the 152 cases [article dated Feb 21] that have been found in the city, the majority have been linked to a [church], where Patient 31, a woman said to be in her 60s, is known to have attended at least four services before being diagnosed."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-so...
Has anyone here used logic programming at work? I'm curious where it pops up in industry as I haven't encountered it myself yet.
Student privacy laws still apply if coronavirus just closed your school
because justice must not depend on any preexisting hierarchy
Designing the perfect TypeScript schema validation library
Is it actually true that the great majority are asymptomatic? I know the great majority of cases (currently, in the US) are untested, but they might very well be symptomatic.

Also, is it true that the great majority are as mild as the common cold? I ask just because I heard "mild" encompasses "feels like death but doesn't need hospitalization", like the kind of cold I've had perhaps twice in my life.

(Asking from the point of view of being all-in-favor of canceling large gatherings, to protect the folks that would be hit hard by the illness.)
My understanding is that the epicenter in Korea was a church whose audience skews young, which has affected the mortality rate there. Basically, if you have a bunch of young people get it, your mortality rate will look lower than if it spread through an older segment of the population.
Went to two massive church gatherings while advised to isolate, gatherings with 1000 people.
ALL of them. Tragedies are never wasted.
There is NO DIFFERENCE between investing and gambling.
Ammunition Sales Soar in United States
Is it impossible to provide a basement/bottom to these pension funds without rewarding/bailing out hedge funds & rich bankers & investors? I have no idea, I'm asking honestly.

I understand both the fact that market crash would negatively impact people's retirement, and that it really rankles to have to prop up/"bail out" rich investors when we claim to not be able to afford healthcare.

It's worth noting that if there were more baseline social services such as healthcare, it would be less necessary to gamble on the stock market for one's retirement.

Also: people nearing retirement should not be highly exposed to the worst market volatility. If they are, either they or their investment manager is mismanaging their money–you're supposed to reduce risk more and more as you approach retirement. I'm 35 & not concerned about this vis-a-vis my retirement as there's lots of time for it to recover.
They've done the bait and switch with plenty of B2B products. Eg Google Maps API and GKE.
I actually tend to agree with you philosophically. But practically the outcome of inaction on the fed's part would very likely be disastrous to regular Americans.

Think about America during the great depression. Modern fed theory and policy is all aimed toward preventing something like that from happening again. It's possible that without TARP, QE, etc. in 2008 (and onward) the great recession would have become great depression 2.0.

While a complete economic reset might be in order, the question is how well would America fare during the transition?
For others wondering about the story behind Patient 31, here’s an article with a timeline: https://graphics.reuters.com/CHINA-HEALTH-SOUTHKOREA-CLUSTER...
Disneyland Closes California Theme Parks
Reminder for those in despair...

It is merely enough to make the r0 after containment measures less than 1.

Then the problem will eventually go away.

As someone said, social distancing measures to work must be done when it seems to be overreacting.

And if they work, it will seem as if we overreacted.
I thought I heard that "without audiences" still meant family, etc. would still be allowed onsite in the stands.
So, funny thing. My problems are more important to me than the ones the company is hiring for. Especially given that solving my problems makes me more productive for the company.

Seems rational unless I'm actually trying to do the 'selling myself / interview' part.
I learnt clojure the language in a couple of hours.

Ofcourse, I am still learning the library and how to do things better in a functional way. But I was good to go with the language in a couple of hours.
Citation Needed.
I see huge opportunities for this type of technology to be used for Security operations at Houses of Worship, Sports Arenas, and Large Buildings if you're thinking of a B2B angle.

FWIW, I've seen a few other companies pop up offering a similar service to that market and are doing well. Lots of security operations centers are still manually run w/ 100s if not 1000s of cameras being monitored by a team of humans (to the best of their ability).

Good luck! This is an awesome idea!
I'd speculate that Japan isn't in the situation of the infection getting out of control.

But none of posts should be construed as "Joe's complete model of Coronavirus dynamics." There are many things we don't know and can't predict. My main argument is every country needs much testing and much surveillance of the situation - IE, the Korean model is good, that is all.
I doubt it's any more complicated to add S-Expressions than to change list parsing to take either [] or () and set a type flag based on which one it finds. Semantically, it's not more complex either, just giving one extra piece of user-defined metadata to the actual data that's still basically a list.
I don't think your "11%" is the best representation of the data.

black sheep (python): 101,508 req/sec

actix (rust): 886,499 req/sec

yes, 101508/886499 = 0.11

but your "x is % of y" doesn't seem to capture the relationship very well here IMO.

you could also say, the rust library processes 773% more requests per sec.

or, the python library processes 89% fewer requests per sec.

(using: percent change = d2/d1-1)

personally I prefer multiples in terms of the larger thing. actix does over 8x the requests per/sec as the python lib.
Waymo is (a) no longer affiliated with Google, and (b) basically a hobby project. It is comparable to Blue Origin for Bezos, any of Musk's numerous speculative ventures in fields from tunnel-digging to AI, or the original AppleTV for Steve Jobs.

People who work there are very well aware of that, and are OK with it. No one outside the company should allow their own business or career path to depend on Waymo, at this stage. It could vanish tomorrow at the whims of the Alphabet execs and/or directors, because their own business doesn't depend on it.
There is huge amount of cash sloshing around as it is. Folks like Mark Cuban have already been mostly cash. Big tech have $100B cash lying around. I think it would be disgenuous to say there is no cash available for trading but perhaps right thing to say that I rather not trad with my own cash. I presume if you trad with fed money and go on loss over long term then you can simply declare bankrupcy of your shell company and start a new one.
Not a political issue? The FDA having the power to ban things known to be a good idea sounds exactly like a political issue. A pretty serious one - excessive government regulation magnifying the effect of a crisis.