skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful with SSM in general. The documentation suggests adding the AmazonEC2RoleforSSM policy to the role of the EC2 instances you want to access via Session Manager. This role grants read/write to all S3 buckets in your account (amongst other things). See this article for better steps and unavoidable risky things: https://cloudonaut.io/aws-ssm-is-a-trojan-horse-fix-it-now/
The precedent from European countries has been to exempt people who commute across the borders from the shutdown; I imagine that Canada is likely to go the same route here.
I’m surprised that no one here is mentioning the example of South Korea. [1]

They are not in total lockdown, but they are doing extensive testing and contact tracing, and substantial isolation of anyone who might be contagious.

Once we get testing infrastructure ramped up, this is not an unreasonable plan in the United States.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51836898
or a knife. or an open window.

if you do everything wrong, like keep guns and ammo associated, or just keep a loaded gun in your nightstand, maybe.

then again, many of us rural folks grew up hunting and shooting from age six. somehow we never decided to blast a friend or family member in the face. chalk it up to family values and gun safety lessons I guess!

most of the increased mortality related to gun ownership, is from suicide.
That's some atmospheric shoegaze. Very nice!
I really don't see how anyone expects this to be over by June.

Exponential growth at the current rate would have it burning through the global population by the end of June, but since exponential growth becomes logistic growth after an appreciable fraction of the population is infected, June is probably closer to the halfway point than the end date.

And that's assuming zero curve flattening. The entire point of flattening the curve is to draw it out so that hospitals continue to function for longer. But this also makes the pandemic last longer.

A vaccine isn't expected for over a year, and even then, I'd expect at least a few months of logistical difficulties getting enough manufactured, distributed, and administered, especially given the state that hospitals will likely be in.
You're right, a thousand bucks a person won't save those things. But the people who /were/ working at those restaurants/bars/etc now have a way to buy food for the month. People aren't leaving the house but they sure still need to spend on food, rent, basics.
And I'm saying I've never experienced any sort of retribution for flashing my highbeams at people with bright lights (which I do habitually.) I'm sure it happens to some people some times, but it's clearly not very common.
And parts of the US
> Bitcoin is fundamentally not a cash alternative

Funny, I built a fintech startup on helping the cannabis Industry from their supposed 'cash' problem(s): predominately having too much of it and not having banking, or having thier cash taken indefinitely by the bank/paypal upon closure of their account(s). While also doing B2B transactions where banks/CC companies failed to lend them services, despite having Local/State laws permitting so. None of which Cash seemed to prove as useful as you think it is.

I think you're looking at this the wrong way: rather than looking at it as a paradigm shift in what programmable money can do, you are measuring Bitcoin by how it fails to function (or dysfunction) as your local Fiat currency does.

That's a very poor measure/metric, as for being able to use it day-to-day, provided you're willing to operate within a KYC/AML system, you can have Visa Credit Cards that draw from your source of BTC in real time/previously loaded, depending on what service you use.

Merchants who accept Bitcoin is a constraint, mainly a tech related one, but just like how many restaurants now take UberEats/Doordash/GrubHub that amount to a growing/large(r) percent of their revenue (moreso when States are limiting restaurant hours or outright operation to online orders only [1]) you will see new use cases appear which Bitcoin's layer 1/2 can utilize natively as a private p2p system.

I think its very telling that despite guy's like Jack Dorsey backing Bitcoin, who I think understands the fintech landscape, and has been orientating Square to be integrated and compatible with it many of you still refuse to see the shift has already happened.

Price drops happen in Bitcoin, I've been in this long enough that it doesn't phase me anymore; and is the only real antidote to the supposed 'what about the early adopter whales' issue people bring up, personally I'm using some of my discretionary budget to buy more.

I'm not here to convince you to use Bitcoin, or why it would work for you/your business: I'm just pointing out why what you said is skewed and not framed correctly. Otherwise you'll have to do what IBM did: offer a good salary for consultant fees to do so. :)

[1]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/03/15/corona...
Actually your data shows that both rich and poor saw a significant decrease in cancer deaths, the wealthy just saw a bigger decrease.
If you don't know what's causing the issue, how do you know the problem isn't on your end? Switching providers won't fix that.
I prefer boring that works vs. new that doesn't work.

What would be cool if the new thing worked really well and it was different/interesting.

This design is only the latter, hence the slight disdain. But, I applaud the work that went into it.
Trucking - food. I think they need time to sort out changes to allow certain types of travel. Blocking all traffic except for business would be trivial to bypass, and making more categories isn't going to happen on a whim.
Treatment won't be completely effective but can reduce death rate. There are hundreds of trials ongoing, 1 or 2 or 3 may work well enough to give to people.
This is fantastic!

It would be nice to have a select input with countries that would update the population input based on the country selected. e.g. "United States of America - 327,000,000". It also may be nice to have a text input along with the range such that you can choose to either manually key in a value or use the range.
Then what's the difference between total quarantine and major lockdown?
Actually, the manifestation of science..

Science is about testing (experiencing) your hypothesis not memorizing dogma. If someone says: “gravity is a thing” then as a scientist you think through the consequences, if something doesn't align with your expectation then you design an experiment. This way you realize the truth yourself, problem is that people use the word 'science' as 'that thing that other people do to find out the truth' (where 'truth' is the thing you are supposed to believe unquestioningly since you are not a priest, sorry.. scientist).
Evangelization is "preaching"; it's essentially advertising or marketing.

There's no one way to preach or advertise. One can take a number of different approaches. Presenting technical information is one way, the most common way. It's how most languages are promoted. But most languages never succeed with this approach. Most languages never gain much mind share.

So the author has taken another approach, something that is seldom attempted. The programming competition is an original and clever idea.

I'm not sure how one can "demonstrate the benefits" of a programming language. Most languages have been used successfully in software projects (e.g., Crystal, Elixir, F#, Haxe, Julia, Nim, etc.). Does trotting out these projects prove anything?
It is the black and white thinking. The mask is either useless or perfect. The case where it would lower probability is considered "useless" cause it is not "perfect".

Imo, this all or nothing thinking is contemporary issue that plays out in many contexts and we collectivelly really should get out of it.
I'm sure the are different types of flu tests, but the last one I had at the doctor's office about 2 years ago was two swabs of my nose, which the doctor put into a test kit, and a few minutes' wait for the results to develop in the kit. No idea how much it cost, though.
Would it be a bad idea for the government to have a reserve for healthcare workers for the next time this happens? To slowly sell off what is there, and to restock to create a buffer. And in a time of crisis, have a large amount that can only be bought by healthcare workers.
European Union, home of borderless travel, to shut borders
According to Singapore Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxpvDVo_NI
Very robust, if we just ignore the irreversibel damage done to pretty much every ecosystem in the world in the name of profi or billions of people living in the waste of the wealthy.

Business as usual.
Or take palladium for instance, which price almost doubled over last year. Its price has plummeted 43% in 18 days!
In normal times, the demand for palladium (automotive catalytic converters) far exceeds the supply. Wait another week or two and it will be a very, very good investment, believe me!
https://www.apmex.com/palladium-price
They already found another Bob to take Bob Iger's place.

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/bob-chapek-named-chief-exec...
I may be biased, but I work at a competing processor called Adyen. We process payments for many of the world's leading e-commerce companies (Uber, Netflix, Spotify, FB, MSFT, etc...).

Merchants switching to Adyen from Stripe generally experience increased performance (higher authorization rates, no downtime), and more transparency into what's going on with their transactions. We've put a lot of effort recently into making our APIs and documentation more developer-friendly-- an area where we know Stripe excels.

Feel free to reach out directly if you'd like more info! eric [dot] jacobs [at] adyen [dot] com
From the gene-centred view, it follows that the more two individuals are genetically related, the more sense (at the level of the genes) it makes for them to behave selflessly with each other [1]

[1] Richard Dawkins - Selfish Gene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene)
What's the client support for it?

There does seem to be a general push for it, including AV1:

* https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc-svc/
Good propaganda piece.

Italy's open borders could place it at a significant disadvantage in handling the virus in contrast with the united states more closed border policy.

But that will never be mentioned when propaganda is the goal.
But the author literally took inspiration from web frameworks…
politicization of politics

That's a good one, it reveals an unexpected, deep truth.
Because masks don’t reduce transmission. Communication on this has been very clear. Masks don’t help. Frequently washing hands, avoiding contact with others, keeping your surroundings clean, and not touching your face does help. Masks give a false sense of security and reduce supply for those that need them.
> It depends on what the alternative is.

Ruby Gems, PHP composer, PIP, etc. would all like a word with you....

https://rubygems.org/pages/sponsors

https://www.python.org/psf/
Check the ESA Satellite imagery here (Northern Italy) to visually appreciate what has changed (this is mainly about nitrogen dioxide):

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/03/Coronaviru...
Romney and economic disaster for the working class seem to go hand in hand.
This CDC document was an interesting read. I found this part particularly fascinating.

>RNA isolated and purified from upper and lower respiratory specimens is reverse transcribed to cDNA
and subsequently amplified in the Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument with SDS
version 1.4 software. In the process, the probe anneals to a specific target sequence located between
the forward and reverse primers. During the extension phase of the PCR cycle, the 5’ nuclease activity
of Taq polymerase degrades the probe, causing the reporter dye to separate from the quencher dye,
generating a fluorescent signal. With each cycle, additional reporter dye molecules are cleaved from
their respective probes, increasing the fluorescence intensity. Fluorescence intensity is monitored at
each PCR cycle by Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast Dx Real-Time PCR System with SDS version 1.4
software.
Though you can actually get ssh through ssm: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
you're afraid people will murder each other in times of strife?

if you really think this will devolve into violence, then you aught to understand what the firearms are being bought for. it's not to go mad max on somebody.
> replacing github with hosted gitlab would simply replicate the problem

How so? A hosted gitlab instance makes you immune from the administrative whims of any particular corporation.

It's possible that gitlab the company stops maintaining the free editions but that's not very much different from other pieces of software going unmaintained.

All the older project hosting software suites like sourceforge/gforge/savannah are still available.

Git itself is very easy to use in a distribute manner, but I guess some form of distributed issue tracker is missing?
Would rather wait for my surgery than pay six figures for it
Maybe a lesson learned from all of this is that being rich can't buy you herd immunity, and the health of millions of uninsured people will affect your life. And when overwhelmed hospitals are triaging in the moment based on who has the highest chance of survival, it's unclear that a credit score is going to factor in to the decision.
It's not just rare cases. 12% of the people in hospital in Italy are under age 50.
It's not so much a grudge as a reaction, call it an immuno-type response. I shed my MS-OS Windows Desktop addiction over 20 years ago to become a desktop Linux user and I still see my co-workers struggling every day with many of the same issues I haven't had to cope with anymore since then.

Ever since I have been able to get the Microsoft out of my systems, I find myself naturally predisposed to keep it out. I am not against Microsoft, I really am a fan of a lot of the open and developer-focused things they are doing, certainly not least of which is their support for Kubernetes through Azure, but this does not make me more receptive to going back to living in a Microsoft OS-flavored ecosystem today, it just is not happening for me and it's nothing to do with holding a grudge or similar.

I use a Mac now because it was provided by work, if they offer me a trade for a Windows machine I would probably consider it because of the progress made by WSL2, but our group policy lags somewhat behind and certainly not on insider ring, so none of my coworkers have been able to try WSL2 on their work-provided Windows machines, or likely will for some time, and that makes me seriously think twice about it.

My natural inclination is that I would much rather install Linux as the host OS so I have control over things like when updates get applied, or whether a reboot needs to take place immediately, in spite of the struggle that sometimes comes with that, it is really much better to have the source and keep the capability to control your own hardware. And then only run Windows in a VM whenever it is really needed. (In other words, to be able to occasionally run Windows apps in a similar way as I do when I have to use them on a Mac.)
Why would NPM run out of money? NPM is the primary vendor for worry-free distribution and management of private JavaScript packages for $7/month/user. In a time where bandwidth is basically free (outside AWS/Azure/GCP) that should surely pay for server costs and a handful of developers.

It probably isn't going to 20x VC money, but it sounds like it would be profitable to run as a business.
Dual citizen here. Most of my life I've lived in the US (Massachusetts and California) with excellent medical care though I often got lots of charges, out of network fees, co-pays, etc. Then the last decade I'm in British Columbia. Despite all I heard when I lived down south I've found the Canadian care to be, yes, excellent. My spouse just got a new knee, very fine treatment start to finish, out the door cost was $0. I can see my GP w/in 24hrs. No one asks about money, no one asks what insurance plan, everyone from the CEO to the very poor are all on the same plan. It's so much more civilized in Canada.
I would say never use either. Strive to be plain. By plain, I mean both clear and unpretentious. This kind of writing doesn't have to sound informal.

This advice is not my own. It is ancient, and you could say it is the gist of books like The King's English by the brothers Fowler (1906), The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (1959), On Writing Well by William Zinsser (1976), and The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker (2014).

Bureaucratic language to me means wordiness, vagueness, and indirection. Conversational is often wordy too and likewise short on substance. But while bureaucratic sounds like it came from a robot, conversational puts the writer too much in the spotlight.

The reader comes to a piece of writing to learn something. The purpose of writing is to help the reader, as quickly and clearly as possible. The techniques in the books I mentioned, or on plainlanguage.gov, are meant to help you do just that.
That comes very close to being an act of war.
Oneworld,SkyTeam and Star Alliance call for governments and stakeholders support
Was this the article you were reading with the 3600 days analysis? I just read it. Not sure what to make of it yet.

https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-dea...
Most (all?) of the stimulus is loans that will be repaid.
One word...

Summer..

once the summer starts and we see 30c or above , i think the spread will be limited and the quarantine might end.

But, worrying part is what comes next, without a Vaccine, coming Winter might be lethal, and we may end up with same cycle..

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3074131/coro...
Well, here in Czech Republic (in between Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia):

- state wide quarantine from Monday morning, people can go only to work, to get groceries or to hospital/doctor

- all puliblic gathering over 30 people banned, but probably moot due to the above

- borders closed, foreigners can't go in and citizens can't travel travel out

- cross border trains/buses shut down, flights stopped

- schools closed for ~week already

- only food, medicine and drug stores are open, all other shops are closed

- there is a new exception for stores selling fabrics and clothes, as people are using clothes/fabric to manufacture their own protective masks

- all restaurants closed, only food takeout is allowed

- public transport is generally running, but the driver is extra-protected to not be in contact with riders (no selling of tickets, etc.), in some cities public transport is free to avoid any contact with riders and personnel at all

- everyone who arrived from the outside from an at risk country needs to do 14 day quarantine or else get crazy fines and possibly jail time

- a couple towns and villages (around 20k people) have got extra quarantined due to of-nominal number of cases, people can't leave the are for at least 14 days

- the army is helping out the police with patrolling the border crossings and to distribute medical supplies, army aircraft also just went to a round trip to China for more medical materials from Shenzen

- hospitals are clearing of any non essential surgeries and patients who can go home

- medical school students have been drafted to help in hospitals

There is a nice Wikipedia page summarizing many of the restrictions and overall progress (case numbers, etc.):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_t...

Pretty tough and so far surprisingly well executed measures I would say. People are generally respecting the special rules and there is a rather low amount of grumbling, considering this is Czech Republic.

Also a lot of solidarity - theaters sewing face masks, universities enrolling computer labs to Folding@Home, teaching student taking care of children of medical personnel, middle school student doing grocery shopping for old people who are most at risk, etc.

Now let's hope this all works and we can get this over with in a reasonably time in good shape.
Right now, being able to stay in your home IS healthcare.
I think the biggest obstacle is actually doing the testing of the tests to see if they're far better. Putting an ineffective or highly false positive/negative test out there could do more harm than good.
> Tbf Microsoft have won back a lot of good faith with developers due to projects like VS Code and TypeScript, even for those of us who remember their past.

Those are great until they're not. It's why it's called "bait and switch".

> And we're yet to hear of any negative impact of their Github acquisition (afaik - correct me if wrong).

ANY?! Heh, do a quick search just on HN and you'll find it pretty quickly.
yeah I read an article on ars a while ago about this. very cool. I sort of worry how those systems will age though. perhaps in 2035, audis from 2020 will be performing light shows wherever they go.
Curious about the network's capacity to respond to a downward trend in hash power (which doesn't seem inevitable, but possible).

Does the difficulty factor of new blocks get dropped in response to losing hash power? Is the fee / mining reward balance predictable? Does the network become non-functional for xfers below a certain value at some point?
I don't think this question is in good faith, but the answer is no.
Covid-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (Cord-19)
What are examples of medically necessary procedures (i.e. not elective plastic surgery or elective botox) that aren't covered?

I'd argue that "when I need it" is true, for non urgent matters that might not be when I want it. Personally I've had good experiences on the when I want it side too, but I know that does vary a fair bit.
Use yearly vehicle inspections to check on this. If your car has blinding headlights, it cannot pass inspection.

Meanwhile, there are people who think driving with high beams on is safer (I had an Uber, or was it Lyft?, driver who thought so, and I left him a bad review because of it and his unwillingness to turn them off for me). Inspections won't help in that case -- only law enforcement (fines) can. But I'm not sure how much effort police put into that sort of traffic violation, or if it even is a traffic violation (if not, it should be). I'm guessing it's just so much easier to give tickets for failure to stop, or for speeding, than for any of the rest of the annoying and dangerous habits drivers have.

Another thing to do is PSAs. Educate the public.
I understand how that would work for Mortgage payments as they are controlled/facilitated by banks, and the government has the ability to coordinate with banks (in an ideal case). But how might the federal government enforce suspension of rent payments? Rent just goes to landlords (regular people) and is part of their gross income filed on their taxes. If you don't have to pay your rent, wouldn't we just be moving the buck from renters to landlords in terms of finnancial needs?
There is a high probability that at least many candidate vaccines could have induce a deadly autoimmune reaction upon exposure to the virus, because of antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), which is shared by other coronaviruses like the previous SARS. At least one paper I read trialing multiple vaccine candidates on animals reported failures in all cases due to autoimmune damage to lung tissue.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X1...
Which means that Microsoft now owns NPM. Is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing?
From the article:
Mologic and the Institut Pasteur have joint capacity to produce 8 million tests a year
It sounds like in essence, what you are asking for is we rollback the invention of the juridical person.

I've read about this view a few times but cannot find any relevant reference at the moment.
What sideband to use on 10Mhz?
Them: "Hell is Other People"

Me: Why would you say something so controversial, yet so brave?
Given that some countries have negative bond rates: sure you can.

It's not like this cash is doing much of anything else.