skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is you are an extreme introvert or a recent college grad.

When I switched to working from home five years ago, the biggest thing I missed was random social interaction with other adults.

Sure I have my wife and kids, but my wife has heard all my stories and my kids aren't the right audience for most of them.
China isn't an information blackhole nor do they have perfect censorship. If the outbreak were still accelerating in an exponential fashion it'd be impossible to hide it from the world. They have successfully hit the inflection point on their logistics curve of viral spread (for now, anyway).
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If you plan to compete using their feature set, then yes. But that's a terrible idea.

Find something that Algolia or Stripe won't or cannot do (for deep reasons) and offer that. Stripe has a list of "Restricted Businesses" each of which is a market that would be delighted to be served at all, let alone with some polish. Of course there are complicating factors... but you don't expect this to be easy, do you?
We use Mattermost and are quite happy with it. It's free for the vast majority of use cases and open source. Runs great, rock solid stable, and has decent usable mobile apps.
It's not clear to me, but this looks like a SaaS offering and not a client I can run in my own environment? If that's the case, I'm sure there's a market, but definitely not something I could use.
And that in itself is a huge accomplishment that will save many lives.
Creating and issuing these kinds of statements – which includes getting it vetted by the company's legal team and its executives – are one of the main functions of a company's public relations department. That is not new.
Find yourself a quiet corner at home, invest in quality chair, desk and monitors. Keep windows open most of time, fresh air helps to stay concentrated. Block news sites, YT (/etc/hosts) or whatever you use to spend time on a computer.

Dedicate a time slot to go outside, for a walk, do not submit to pressure to keep working a day long.

Lift weights, helps you keep in shape. Invest in a backup internet line, etc.
If you try to live by the letter rather than the spirit of rules in soiciety, that is how you get Martin Shkreli aka "Pharma Bro".
>"G Suite for Education allows schools to control account access and requires that schools obtain parental consent when necessary,"

Money quote from Google, it's a good headline but a weak case. Still sad imo though. Teens have grotesquely little data agency considering how commonly they get hyped as the most tech literate group in American media dialogues. The real problem though is parents, American parents love products that let you be your own nsa so the majority will never advocate policies that might jeopordize this new status quo.
University of Virginia moves all courses on-line; urges students to return home
I have a PinePhone running PostMarketOS. Issues (remember its alpha software): A bunch of programs did not open at all such as the image viewer, web browser and some others. Camera program opened but couldn't connect to camera. No cellular radio support means no calls, mobile data, or sms. Wifi works so you can do all the fun admin and developer tasks. USB OTG also doesn't work so USB things like keyboards, mice and USB sticks plugged in via a USB C->A adapter didn't work. Sound didn't work for me But those are all solvable problems.

I haven't booted it in two weeks but I was able to get it to build and run drawterm (plan 9 terminal emulator) without much effort save for downloading a few libraries. No input as KDE Plasma uses a different input method than x11 so until a shim or patch, x11 programs probably won't work out of the box. In the case of drawterm, it connected to my CPU server and displayed the login prompt. But tapping the screen did not bring up the keyboard so I could not log in.

Conclusion: Owning a modern open smartphone is liberating. It feels like a PC in the sense you can just download distro images, write to SD, boot from said SD and even install to mmc. Once things progress you can do all of that right on the phone so you can test new mobile OS's on the go without plugging anything in. KDE plasma feels like a real mobile OS and worked surprisingly well. Updates for the entire OS are done from the alpine package manager. Building software on the phone felt liberating. My phone has a compiler and developer tools. I really hope the Pine Phone is my daily driver within a year or so.
I think you probably want to hold off your decision till this ends, moving out of China to be more resilient only works if You can be sure the country you are moving to won’t have the same issue
I'm not sure, but I can say anecdotally that I spend less time waiting for a same-day appointment or drop-in here in Canada than I did in the US when making an appointment in advance with my PCP at my regular doctor's office. So the deterrent effects of private pay & shitty insurance bureaucracy didn't seem to reduce wait times in my area of the USA.
Okay, I wasn't aware of that... all the same, would be nice to be able to actually buy one to work against. The list of supported platforms and being able to develop (near-locally) are what are really needed.

Haven't really looked into it... it's on my todo list to look at cross-platform builds to target Raspberry Pi devices, will probably setup containerized cross platform builds for at least node, rust and .net core for my own use.
Based on how most nations are responding to the threat of Coronavirus, I think your expectations of China and its leadership are way too high. The Chinese are just people, like the rest of us. Some mistakes were made. But I think there’s a reasonable case to be made that the rest of the world has a lot to thank China for, too.
This site leans incredibly libertarian and most people are not going to have a problem with this at all. I've seen people objecting to CDC existing on the basis of federalism and the right of assembly and all kinds of other stuff and that's just so far off the reservation of well-decided legal doctrine that it might as well be freemen on the land.

It's frankly a very good idea. I'd even say to lower the number to 50 or maybe 100 at most. Some of the gatherings in South Korea that are believed to have been super-spreading events have been less than that (that church group).
Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools
From my experience stressing that you are working from home and unable to do household chores during the day is very important. Sometimes there is this weird switch that happens for partners, roommates, etc that I've experienced when I do not commute to an office daily.

I like the suggestion about commuting by walking around the block, I'll add that.
Having a dedicated space makes a huge difference in concentration. However, it also helps you feel relaxed in other parts of the house.

I lived long in a single space studio and worked everywhere in the flat. After a few months I ended up hating just being at home and had to work at coffee places (noisy, productivity killer).

Now I have a slightly larger flat with a designated office corner. Not only it is more convenient, but when I saturate I go to the reading corner and switch off more effectively.

I also found buying a cheap monitor and an external keyboard to plug the laptop a huge productivity improvement.
The obvious corollary, given the tone of the announcement, is that they want people to be more panicked now.
We are in March. China has been already almost 3 months in thus situation and still everything is going on. So count 3 months from now at least, and you get June easily.
The pricing is a bit too high – if I'm reading correctly it starts at $200/month. It's hard to justify such a spending for a startup where utility of the tool is unknown and 14 days trial is not enough to evaluate that. It makes sense to charge that much power users, but to get involved I'd love to see a cheaper plan.
Everybody has. There is Chinese New Year, always surprising companies exporting from China every year like Christmas, and than at the same time Corona. Now there is a huge backlog of produced goods in Chinese ports, a huge order backlog at Chinese manufacturers amyd not enough shipping and production capacity. Ultimately things will revert to normal, so. That Corona is now hitting the destinations of these backlogs doesn't help, obviously.
Considering the lack of action, or the very delayed manner in which we, the West, start to put up measures to prevent spread, I very highly doubt so.

Consider the incubation time of 5 days avg, 14 days max during which you're already infectious. Even if China had reacted quickly, not trying to cover it up, we still wouldn't have known about that for a while. Even without the Chinese new year, I'm pretty sure given how dense and large Chinese cities are, this would have spread eventually either way. And I doubt the rest of the world would have reacted any different in that alternate reality than now. We still have travel with China and Italy today. Why would that have been any different had China handled that differently? It would have been slower, but it would have spread to other countries, I have no doubt about that.
Seattle public schools just announced a two-week closure starting March 12 as well.
Exercise can be done without gym or special equipment. Healthy food does not mean Vegan-gluten free-paleo-ethically grown, it means balanced eating and minimally processed, the only extra thing it costs is convenience.
Where Do You Go If You Get the Coronavirus?
I think there are health-specific AWS clouds; are they strictly client-side, or is there a managed instance you can deploy from AWS marketplace?

https://aws.amazon.com/health/healthcare-compliance/?nc=sn&l...
We made a list of recommendations and best practices for our company, Codacy[1]. Tips to avoid boredom, routine and unhealthy habits:

Leave the house, stretch your legs: Without disregard to government recommendations and instruction and provided that you keep safe from gatherings and other groups, going for a walk to get some sun will help make you happier and clear your mind;

Walking 1:1s: We all love walking 1:1s, and this is a great opportunity to keep doing them, but instead of walking side by side with your teammate, you can do it over a phone call;

Work-life balance: Working at home can make you more productive, but do not forget to set limits for yourself. Know when to finish work and start enjoying your day, even if you do not leave the same physical space.

Home office: Set up a small office at home, preferably in a place where you usually do not use to relax and use it just to work. This way you can have a clear distinction between your workspace and mindset, and your own time.

Virtual coffees: Even if you don’t have a random coffee planned for today or this week, try to connect with your teammates outside of work topics. We are social creatures who need social interactions to be happy. Take this as an opportunity to engage with people you usually wouldn’t.

Do not overuse pyjama days: Although it feels great to work in your pyjamas sometimes, using normal clothes as if you were going to the office, helps to change the mindset from being at home chilling to work mode.

Communicate proactively: We won’t be able to engage with each other on our work interactions in person, so regardless of the tool we use to communicate make sure you keep doing that, proactively, remotely. Be part of what glues us as a company.

1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nEnE1OYPULy8x0ng5hcuLjoY...

The team at Notion also did a good compilation: https://www.notion.so/Remote-work-wiki-1b21ef5501714fffa9f5c...
>To be fair, they seem to be handling this crisis better than we are so far.

"seem" being the operative word. You only know what the CCP wants you to know.
>Please enter your business email address. This form does not accept addresses from yahoo.com.

But my business address, right now, is @ yahoo.com

Or, I don't want to give you my real business address yet because I don't want spam at that account.

Or...
High social connectivity, particularly with people in the medical field, who in turn have high social connectivity with the infected.
I'm positive you can find many therapies and other methods that end up working better than AA.

I went through some of those methods and they are very effective. It also cost me around $10k, and that's after very good insurance.

Many (most?) alcoholics are not in a position where they can spend 10k on treatment. So it's really a moot comparison. Further confounding many of the studies is that AA is filled with people who are there by court order or other reasons. It's not at all a fair comparison. In most of these studies, someone who slips up and has a single drink after 2 years of sobriety is bucketed in with someone who only has a week of sobriety total.

I've actually talked to my addictions therapist about this, and is his opinion, every single study done surrounding AA has been absolute garbage.
Thanks for the kind words! We've definitely seen a ton of small companies that started out with spreadsheets and internal tools. That's why we wanted to mimic the ease of use of Google Sheets while providing out-of-the box features that support teams usually ask for, like forecasting.
I don't know that it's any worse off than anthropology, or any of the other social sciences.

There is certainly the temptation to engage in the naturalistic fallacy (i.e. "just because something is natural that it is therefore necessarily moral").

At the base of it, evo-psych rests on the premise that for a behavior to persist, it must have a purpose. Asking what that purpose is, without ascribing a value judgement, seems like a reasonable avenue of inquiry.
What about if elderly people, relatives for instance, they come in contact with die?
The trick you're using is that Alibaba is essentially a wholesaler and most non-boutique US wholesalers don't list prices on their websites because bulk customers negotiate. I can't even find one that lists wholesale prices for that kind of sweaters.
I've worked from home full-time in the past. Many of the suggestions about having a work space and keeping a regular routine are excellent suggestions.

One thing I used to do was have regularly scheduled office hours when I would keep a persistent VC up and people could drop in and ask me any questions they had or discuss something with me in "person".
Come on, Microsoft Is it that hard to update Windows 10 right?
Looks like a modern version of Microsoft Access :)
There's lots of other viruses making the rounds in winter. This timeline doesn't add up; December is way too early for COVID-19 anywhere except Wuhan. It was something else.
Also, all public sector employees who do not perform critical functions will be sent home on paid leave, and all private companies are recommended to do the same.

On top of this all public gatherings of more than 100 people is discouraged, and it is alsp encouraged for all bars and nightclubs to keep closed for now. These are expected to be signed into law within the week.
That's the whole point. If you slow it down you can avoid the rapid spike in severe cases that overwhelm the system. It's like traffic -- once you surpass a certain volume, the system locks up and throughput drops.
We already have a live product using servers from a host that specializes in HIPAA. I'm not asking about how to host HIPAA-related data. I'm asking specifically about being able to use this tool. I'm not going to hand over credentials to our database to an untrusted party (meaning, not our company). So the hope is that we can either self-host this tool, or use it as a desktop application.
Reminds me a lot of DabbleDB, acquired by Twitter long ago.
As if the constitution matters nowadays.

If the government wanted, they would lower it. In fact I would bet my money on them lowering it again in a week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trafficking_and_emerg...

I have no doubt that there are cases of wealthy people consuming exotic meat as a delicacy, but I would bet pound for pound it is largely people in poorer regions without much alternative.

Unfortunately I'm looking for real stats but am having trouble as most of the trade does not keep records, is illegal, etc
Hindsight is 20/20. It’s hard to know ahead of time whether you should cancel your nation’s equivalent of Christmas + Thanksgiving because you have preliminary and incomplete information about a disease outbreak somewhere.
Yeah, right. So now you have an outage, the cause could be, say like database is having corrupted data in it. Now, you're saying, we should not fix the corrupted data, instead, we should keep changing the front page, make many happy faces and harts there and hope the database corruption goes away automatically?

It's very obvious what you are playing here, we all know Chinese propaganda very well. Now instead of looking into the root cause, we have to send out "heartwarming" (暖心) messages to the world, like all those video people forced to dance to show the world they are happy there in the big quarantine area. By doing that, make it a distraction to what people saw, the corruption of WHO and CCP.

That's pretty much over, now many people in the world who pay enough attention would notice the same out-facing Chinese propaganda (大外宣) pattern appears again and again. And your post suddenly got up-voted to the first place is also very strange. We all know how many bots Chinese government is using.

So in short, it's an on-going problem, they are still covering up, even for now. The western world have been looking away from this for too long time, they think that's not my problem, well, now it's our problem right now, everyone's problem, unfortunately.
It was a joke referring to the FAQ on donttouchyaface.com

> 9. I looked up your code because you don't know how to hide it and have made my own cloned app for some reason.

> - Nobody liked you in high school, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.
this sounds like a dog whistle
"The CDC is choosing not to test the population for Covid"
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I appreciate the feedback. We are discussing a few different pricing models, and if your team size is below the 5 seat minimum you can reach out and we're quite flexible there.
Resilience doesn't come from moving out of one place into another, it comes from having operations in multiple places.
I would honestly much rather have a powerful IDE where I write my own sql and my query output is visualized than any of this UI stuff.
But hey if you were selected for jury duty come on down to the courthouse!

https://www.sfsuperiorcourt.org/divisions/jury-services/jury...

(To be fair, this morning they added a note saying call first if you are "experiencing any acute respiratory illness")
Congratulations, looks like a really nice product!
As many people here ask for a self-hosted solution, Apache Drill and SuperSet might be an alternative.
Two modes of cascading failure here: Request of Death, and cascading failures. If a request kills a particular server you should let the error flow upstream, otherwise it will just bounce from server to server until it's killed all of them.

For the latter, someone related a real-world example of this to me the other day. Say you have a bunch of people managing customers. Every employee has 4 customers, and those take up all of their time.

You get a new customer. Instead of hiring a new rep, you give someone a 5th customer to manage. They struggle, and eventually they quit. Now, all of your employees have 5 customers. Sooner or later one of those will also quit, and then it's a race to see who can get out the door fastest.

The moral of that story is that all the load balancing in the world is for naught if you haven't done your capacity planning properly. And once the system starts to buckle it may be too late to bring new capacity online (since startup usually consumes more resources).
The standard of living in China has skyrocketed over the past 20-30 years. It's not as cheap as it used to be.
..and I'm in no way suggesting that the US has a good track record on whistleblowers. I'm simply saying that it's a major stretch to argue that China has done a better job managing the Coronavirus outbreak given all of the reports of suppression that we've seen come out of there.
This is classic Sergio, and it is written as he would see things, as a financier working w/ first-tier automakers.

His observations are spot-on, and it's true that half of what you're paying for in the development of a new car are things that are invisible to most consumers. Quick, can you name the company that made the AC system for your car?

Things that make carmaking expensive/difficult:

1.) Huge regulatory burden (safety & environmental) on R&D

2.) Low margins (for mainstream cars)

3.) Vast capital requirements

4.) Very vulnerable to consumer confidence

5.) Globally segregated market (much as we might wish it away...)

6.) Mature market

If I knew nothing else, this would make carmaker stock unappealing from a growth perspective. If that's the only way you can get more capital, then that's a problem. For a cost-productivity sake, you'd want one or two giant companies that each make one car, but under multiple brands. Then you rely on marketing to tell customers that there's a difference. This would drive down the overhead involved in many manufacturers making different models, and push the growth potential of automaker stock more towards consumer products in general.

We sorta had this, in the US, with GM in the '60s and '70s.
It was so big it was almost a monopoly...and yet, in the long term, that didn't last. Mostly, for reasons that escaped Fred Donner and Jim Roche back then, and that I don't think Sergio ever grasped.

In the end, a global auto oligopoly that answers to Wall St. and to gov't regulators, and to only those two, is going to be bad for consumers in the long term.
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself, therefore all progress is due to the unreasonable man.

Yes and no. There is value in recognizing the things that can't be changed (at least at the time).

From Musashi:

"What a fool I’ve been,” he exclaimed aloud. “I tried to make the water flow where I thought it should and force the dirt to stay where I thought it ought to be. But it didn’t work. How could it? Water’s water, dirt’s dirt. I can’t change their nature. What I’ve got to do is learn to be a servant to the water and a protector of the land."
Who cares where a virus starts? This is essentially a random event that is going to happen more as human density increases. How we prepare our societies for pandemics (and how we respond to this one) is far more important than allocating blame or litigating damages.
Worked on this a bit years ago. Can confirm that it's no longer maintained. We eventually gave up and just moved over to Slack.
Are businesses being provided lines of credit or other funding sources to continue paying employees while their income might decline in the short term? Or are they able/expected to pay out of cash reserves or existing business credit lines?
If they did their job, I'll give them the "you did your job" 5 stars.

Even if the company has systemic problems, they still need to pay bills as long as they still have the job.

Finding another company is a smart option. I'd also write to the management to explain why that problem is blocking you from doing business with them, without mentioning who you spoke with.
Yep -- was going to say the tagline should be, 'If grandma dies, grandma dies.'
What people don't understand is that this can be stoppped so much faster if we just learn from china and do everything we can from the first moment. Gradual escalation of measures is useless.