skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your intuition is correct. To contextualize this, I own and operate hotels and restaurants in the US and internationally.

In this particular case, my cluster of hotels in the Bay Area have seen our revenues drop by roughly 50-60% in the first week of March and it's only going to get worse. I've seen the numbers for Seattle, and it looks like the Bay Area is about 3-4 days behind on the revenue drop.

I also own several restaurants in San Francisco and on average, revenue is down by 70-80% this past week. Along with many large restaurants in San Francisco, we're planning on closing permanently (or perhaps offering only one service per day) for the next two to four weeks.

Even though my top line revenue is falling through the floor, my expenses are largely unchanged. In the SF market, labor is my most significant cost and with our restaurants, rent is close behind. Without people to service, my direction has been to prepare for the future -- deep cleaning rooms, scrubbing kitchens spotless, constantly patrolling public spaces with cleaning solution and wiping everything down, and performing as many renovation/repairs as possible.

The worst part about all of this is that at some point, with no revenue, I won't be able to afford to keep paying my employees even if they're busy cleaning. I'll furlough them, but I know that this may cause some (many) of them to not be able to pay for housing, food, or transport in the near future. I'm currently working on contingency plans to make sure that my employees are properly taken care of, but it's been rough.
Might be better off to buy phones specifically designed for that, e.g. PinePhone or Librem 5.
What's your diet like?
Not really, no. It depends on your situation. If you're fairly young, single, healthy, and have no kids, and can live cheaply, that difference in salary will quickly amount to a lot of savings.

Basically, the US is a good place to make a lot of money, esp. in the tech sector, as long as you avoid spending like a drunken sailor or getting married and having kids. Health insurance is expensive, but the much higher salaries much more than make up for that (but maybe not so much if you're supporting a wife and 3 kids). Education isn't an issue, or shouldn't be: the scenario we're talking about here is someone who's already out of college. (But here again, having kids will ruin the advantage, if you're paying for them to go to college.) Housing is overpriced in the US, yes, but it is in Canada too. If you think anyplace outside the Bay Area is bad, try looking at housing prices in Vancouver BC.

As for retirement, there's a reason so many US citizens become expats when they retire and move to places like Costa Rica.

Where the US really falls down is if you need a social safety net, if you have health issues (which can result in medical bankruptcy in the US), if you want to retire and not eat cat food, if you want to go to college without being saddled with enormous debt, etc. But if you have tech skills and can snag a high-paying tech job in the US, you'll probably save a lot more money for that time. But you should have an exit plan. A lot of people from places like India come here and work and live for many years, saving up a lot of money, and then go back home and live like kings.
How You Should Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic
The term "false positive" is the one used in the NIH-linked article:
"Potential false-positive rate among the 'asymptomatic infected individuals' in close contacts of COVID-19 patients"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832
You did not like my answer the first time judging by the downvote lol, but it is right, so, here it goes again...We will know in the future. No one can answer your question. Because no one here is from the future, sorry.

"depending on the circumstances this summer, some or all of the batch may take place remotely over video."

Seems like you have the answer to your question.
What if they aren't qualified to do those things?
you should remove `display: block` from <table> and add `position: sticky; top: 0;` to <thead>.

otherwise the table becomes worthless as soon as the header is out of view.
Glitch employees vote to form union, joining CWA
Ebola is from the river it originated.

Zika, West Nile, etc.

It's not racist to name a virus based on its origin.
> ingrained in human linguistics

Or maybe more accurately it's deeply ingrained in Anglo-American culture?
Not disagreeing, but in your view what countries aren't going down that road, which aren't also authoritarian?
> Testing is NOT a solution

This might be right, iff testing were some kind of binary choice that needed to be made one way or the other. But why should the tool of testing be politicized and debated, rather than it simply being one resource available to doctors to use as they see fit?
The only thing that made me go back to old design is "Mark all as read" is gone.

Who thought it is a good idea to remove that button?
I'm a middle manager of a moderately sized team. 7hr meeting days are the exception (maybe 1 such day every two months). Usually its 3hrs-4hrs per day or so.
Just had some coworkers complaining the other day in slack about use of RingCentral since its rebranded zoom but software won't run well on their linux dev machines! Zoom itself they have no issues with, unless other people join using the RingCentral client apparently.

tl;dr - yes, a compelling video chat software must run well on all employee devices for real success
NARS2000, Dyalog APL, and dzaima/APL all have the Where function now. See https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Indices.
Someone I know well, who owns an engineering company, used to be a big proponent of this but has soured on it.

It absolutely is possible for people to learn complex technical skills (like mechanical or software engineering) in a professional setting. The problem is that the trainees are mostly dead weight for an extended period of time. The employers who hire them need confidence that the trainees will remain with them for long enough to provide a payoff for the initial investment. If the trainees can just leave whenever they feel like it (my friend's experience), the whole thing is a waste of time and money.

I'd be interested to know how this is handled in countries where apprenticeships are more common. There must be some combination of legal and cultural restraints on trainees bailing after the employers have invested in them.
Observability, deployments, feature flags and more with a service boilerplate
> When someone creates something they have absolute power over it until they reveal it to the world.

The vast majority of these "creators and skilled professionals" are doing work for hire for the same people who own everything else, and have absolutely no control over the product of their labor.
Neat! I'm not sure the HN crowd is your target audience though.
I encourage you to showcase your app on Reddit (/r/reactjs, /r/sideproject) and ProductHunt.
While there is evidence that viruses don't like heat, the main argument about wanting to flatten the peak until the warmer months is because the colder months also have correlation to other diseases.

This disease would spread the same in any weather but most countries would be able to cope better, hospitals have more space and people's immune systems would be stronger in the summer.
Does anyone know pricing on k9? Like could a small software shop or bootstrapped business use it?
Interesting product, but $30 per user per month just seem like too much. I don't have that pain though, is it justifiable? Is it worth for a data science team with 5+ people pay over 150 dollars a month for this? I am asking out of curiosity.
I haven't been using it myself yet, but this afternoon a colleague just said "Whoooohaa, the new notifications screen on github's great".

Seems he was very happy to be able to manager his notifications with more "fine tuning" than before.

And you, what do you think of it?
Smart home devices can stop the spread of bacteria and viruses
I was there a few months back.

If you go on the day-long Chernobyl tour from Kiev, they will take you into Pripyat as well as the Duga radar installation.

It's a very interesting trip.

I took some photos inside the radar control building. They had a lot of soviet era electronics laying around, as well as pictures of expected U.S. missiles that they were meant to track.

https://thesolidconcept.com/a-trip-to-chernobyl/
We should call the disease Li's Disease and the virus Li's Virus to honor the heroism of Li Wenliang.
I heard (from a doctor who just received an e-mail summarizing clinical results from Wuhan and Seattle) that actually the primary killer is cardiac arrest.

"This virus is way smarter than I'd imagined. Apparently people don't mostly die of respiratory failure, but of cardiac arrest. Doctors have noted that right as patients begin to recover from their ARDS (severe respiraotry failure requiring intubation), they suddenly develop acute heart failure (dilated cardiomyopathy with EF going from normal to <10% acutely, for the doctors on here) and go into VF/VT or asystole."

The mechanism for that is unknown, but apparently the virus is attacking the heart directly.
> private side changed forcing the public side to shut down or something

As far as I am aware they are purely funded by Taxes, so I can't imagine any way that these private companies could change to force the public service to close.
While it is advisable and recommended it isn't absolutely necessary.

A strong math and tech background will help you get started building the nuts and bolts portion of the project. A vivid sense of curiosity will help to pin-point problem that you can attempt to solve.

Many of the APIs might require you to register a company but they don't require specific domain expertise to get started. Once you have an MVP you can pitch it and gain partners that have domain expertise.

Great question and good luck!
Microsoft wouldn't use Mixer for something like this, they would use a purpose-built website alongside Azure Media Services[1], as they have been for their big conferences that have had livestreams alongside the in-person conference for a few years now.

Microsoft Stream is basically login-required corporate YouTube, and as you surmised wouldn't really fit this model.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/
It is still light years ahead of the slipshod UX of Gitlab.

Gitlab checks off all the feature boxes that managers love to see, but for devs that use it, it's a disjointed and inconsistent experience compared to github.
The "two strains" rumor was debunked on episode 590 of the This Week in Virology podcast.

I've posted a transcript of the relevant portion here: [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22564199
> What's the lesson here? It seems clearly incorrect and foolhardy to conclude that pandemics are good for health. Again I emphasize that the effects calculated above are just the health benefits of the air pollution changes, and do not account for the many other short- or long-term negative consequences of social and economic disruption on health or other outcomes; these harms could exceed any health benefits from reduced air pollution. But the calculation is perhaps a useful reminder of the often-hidden health consequences of the status quo, i.e. the substantial costs that our current way of doing things exacts on our health and livelihoods.
Flipside: I've encountered numerous employers (bosses) that don't seem to understand the concept of market value.

If you take someone worth X(1) and train them up to be worth X(5) on the standard market, but then pay them somewhere between X(2) and X(3), don't be surprised when common sense prevails -- eg the person realizes they can get 25%+ pay raise by walking across the street, and does so.
One distinction I see is between repair and modification.

If you own your car, and the headlight burns out, why shouldn't you be allowed to repair it back to the original factory state? Why should you be forced to pay someone else to do this?

If someone tries to argue that you're going to do it wrong, it seems like the onus should be on them to prove that your repair was bad and dangerous.
hmm .. wish they released pictures. Isolating the virus is interesting because it's possible to get good, high resolution images when you have a billion of them in one place, versus the current computer generated image everyone is using.
Grubhub won’t charge independent restaurants for delivery during the coronavirus
So I can import a European-standard phone from China that allows me to self-repair.
AlphaGo – The Movie [video]
There is a lot of long distance traveling during summer as well, with all the vacations.
I think you're slightly off track as to the frustration with lack of testing:

Let's start with widespread complacency opposed to requests to take distancing measures: people (not me, but .. read FB comments from regular people on news stories) are mad at sports events being canceled because "nobody has the virus". So we don't get the social distancing response needed.

If on the other hand we had some testing data from the general population, or even from just mildly sick people, then the requests for social distancing could be presented with "and we know this thing is here now, so these measures are going to have a significant effect".
It's not erlang-ls, but having used elixir-ls is a pleasure (for the unaware, elixir runs on the erlang vm). Pretty much everything just works as you would expect, and it's a huge timesaver. Erlang and elixir have static typechecking, which is a slow process from the command-line, but it's integrated and "just works" with the ls, and rather refreshingly fast.

I even wrote a Zig package for elixir, which plugs into the elixir compiler, and I found that the ls correctly highlights compile-time errors in my Zig code embedded in the Elixir Code. About a month ago VSCode switched to auto-code-loading (instead of hitting save) and now my Zig embedded in Elixir live-highlights mistakes (with about a 500ms delay).

So if erlang-ls is about as good as Elixir-ls it'll be fantastic.
I can't really agree with any of that.

Most red flags are actually difficult to see for rank-and-file employees, or at least subtle. Not so this one.

Further, everyone needs to pay bills but it's actually pretty rare to be in a position where it's your current job or nothing. Most people can move, either within their organization or to another one, given a little bit of time and effort.
I got competition6155.primeluck2.live redirecting to mobile-app-market-here1.info redirecting to updatelive.yourultimatesafevideoplayer.info. Which is obviously a malware download.

Fun stuff. Gives me tons of confidence TrustableTech can be trusted and certifying device security globally. Trusted Technology Mark? To me this will mean "unsafe".
By that do you mean you dislike the lack of social contact? I started a remote role in November and I'm just starting to appreciate how much I miss spending my day in the company of others.
Yeah they need to have stricter emissions tests. To be fair, I've seen plenty of surprisingly old cars in the UK, which literally billowed smoke and were visibly rusted... So it's not only Eastern Europe with these problems.

Personally I prefer used imported cars, as well haha. It's just, if it passes technical inspection and emission tests, why not? An 8 year old VW or Toyota with all the options that's been well kept for 7000 Euros seems better to me than a 16,000 Euro new base model.

For getting around a city, public transport is good enough, though.

Another problem is just the number of cars - many cities have more cars than they can handle. Hopefully more cities will ban diesel cars or all cars in some parts...

Things are changing, slowly.
Because you aren't everyone else. There are lots of people that would be hit very hard and require intense hospitalization or face death if they were to get COVID-19.

Furthermore, this would put a strain on medical resources if the number of patients is higher than medical capacity. Suddenly all the treatable conditions that require medical supervision become deadly because there aren't enough medical personnel and resources to treat everyone. Got in an accident requiring emergency care? Maybe you won't be able to get it now.

More still, all the medical personnel who would otherwise have gotten a flu shot and been immune to its spread now have to worry about catching COVID-19 and having medical resources spread even more thin, at the worst time.

You can't just think of yourself, you have an ethical duty to consider the externalities of your actions.

Edit: Maybe I should point out that panicking or worrying about it does no good and that should be minimized as much as possible. However, if people are not treating it as seriously as they should, then maybe a little bit of panic and worry would be a good thing to get people into a proper state of mind about what is going to happen.
from the press release linked to in the article (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-strengthen-...):

- All consumer internet-connected device passwords must be unique and not resettable to any universal factory setting

- Manufacturers of consumer IoT devices must provide a public point of contact so anyone can report a vulnerability and it will be acted on in a timely manner

- Manufacturers of consumer IoT devices must explicitly state the minimum length of time for which the device will receive security updates at the point of sale, either in store or online
In my experience, people who are good at things, who learned by being yelled at tend to believe this is the best way to teach people things. It's not. I've tried to teach people that way, it never works and it discourages them and makes them resent you.

People like that, myself included, tend to believe that because they can do it, it should be easy for other people to pick up. Or because other people can do it, it should be easy for me to do.

It took me a while to realize it doesn't work that way. Not everyone learns the same and not everyone has the same experience 'basic skills' as other people.

I've also been in your position, where I felt like I'm not good at something or wouldn't ever be able to do something because of someone yelling and being discouraging, that's not true either.

No matter what you're trying to learn, even if you're not good at it or you're not 'that kind of person' you can still learn with dedication and practice like anything else. The thing i've found is it's harder to get over that first 'ah I fucked up and feel stupid moment' that occurs with everything you learn and do.

I guarantee, you've had plenty of those with your computer stuff to, but they affect and discourage you less and you have more motivation to overcome those moments becauas you lack those memories and feelings of being yelled at over them.

This is just my own theories based on my observations in life, but they seem to have held true so far and there's been a few things i've actually pushed past those 'i'm a fucking idiot' moments and found i actually enjoy doing these things I used to dislike or be lousy at and i've found it's more my own fear of failing at them, than actual dislike of the activities themselves.
Ask HN: Best data sources for Covid-19?
What are the best (continuously updating) sources of data for regular folks to consume?

I've complied mine so far here (in part thanks to HN):
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-data-sources-on-Covid-19/answer/Benjamin-Stingle

But I'd love to get better ones, and to know what the best way to curate such links. I find it to be quite hard to distill facts our of the media. I figure making it easy for folks to find all this data could be helpful, and reduce paranoia.
I think it’s a big problem if a vendor of dev toolkits doesn’t use them themselves. WPF is a great example. The underlying concept is very interesting but it seems they stopped developing it before it had the chance to be really good.
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> Yup. Writing a good language server is a big task.

Language servers, along with auto formatting and debugging features should now be first-class design decisions for a new language. They shouldn’t be afterthoughts.

Something Go for right was the formatted, something that they for wrong was debugability.

New languages must make a decision to get these features right from the start.
US to Declare State of Emergency
I'm being lazy.

These solutions with UV Light - are they consumer/DIY available? Or special equipment? etc.
Ech, those conspiracy theorist... I can't even downvote. :)

> Seems like you have the answer to your question.

No, it's not an answer. So I will just wait for some official announcement.
> If the trainees can just leave whenever they feel like it (my friend's experience), the whole thing is a waste of time and money.

OK, but if you think about it optimistically, it ALSO means that you're able to hire folks that have trained at and left other places.
Thanks! Would love to understand more about your use case. What do you use to display dashboards? Is through charts inside Sheets or do you have a separate tool reading data from the spreadsheet and displaying it? We are working on a MySQL connection and scheduled refreshes. Might be able to solve your problem soon
> do not seem to be very terrifying for 99% of the population

This is a dangerously bad take. The death rate is in the 2-3% range. Hospitalization in China was 15%, with 5% in critical care.

Even if you are not personally vulnerable, please understand that those who are also actual humans, and have actual humans as family members. And if you can't manage to care about that, recognize that a pandemic of this magnitude could easily overwhelm the US hospital system: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/10/simple-math-alarming-ans...

As we're seeing in Italy, an overwhelmed hospital system leads to increase death rates from many other causes, because suddenly the level of care goes down. If all the ICU beds are full and you, say, get hit by a truck, you'll be triaged along with all the other people needing ICU. If a COVID-19 patient looks more likely to recover than you, well, you'll be left out in the hallway.
What does "blacklist" mean in this context?
>Germany also killed Walmart there via existing entrenched shops simply complaining about the price competition.

Do you have a source for that? My impression was that Walmart couldn't beat the already low prices of the German market.
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The tweet says nothing about a state of emergency.
> The courts are run by people in the same unpopular political establishment as the rest of the country.

I don't disagree, but that's de facto. Nominally, they're independent and Germany doesn't rely on judge's guesstimates as much, they are supposed to apply the laws, not create them, which is why the German Constitutional Court has been criticized for becoming politically activist instead of remaining neutral.

Since they're de facto appointed by the political establishment, you can't expect them to not be carefully selected for "obedience by accident" (they're independent, they just happen to think the same way), but you can also not do it too obviously if you don't want to shake the cage too much or people might disregard the courts completely.

Government institutions with mission creep issues that start to grow is a common problem in Germany, and the courts regularly tell them to stop, this isn't a new development.
Ooooo, Jitsi has some competition?
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