skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s why you need to look at their actions.

- The emergency hospitals in Wuhan have all been closed.

- Factories are starting to ramp up production.

- The Chinese government has donated millions of masks, testing kits, and other medical supplies to various countries.

- Today, a team of Chinese doctors along with several tons of medical equipment just arrived in Italy to help.

All of these actions suggest China has their internal situation under control now.

> This is what a “save face” culture does to you.

From my experience, this is an overly used trope. Besides, are you suggesting South Korea and Japan are also lying?
If you look at the models, it's not so much an abundance of caution thing as a basic public health duty. (In California, large conferences are more or less guaranteed to result in spreading.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226562
That's an insanely vague message. I don't even really know if the HN title is correct.
I could see this being used in the synth-core realm quite comically.
imagine what this population would do to the budget and _resources_ of a single payer system.

it's bad news for everyone.
People with Thunderbird are not their target. They want the Outlook people.
What development teams, please go back and reread my original post, I am talking about operations, not development.
WTF? Maybe we could just shoot all the old people now and get even a quicker competitive advantage? (yes, it's sarcasm but this line of thinking is evil).
Stop trying to train a Neural Net to ascend for you. The gods don't take it kindly, Plus, the Amulet of Yendor runs a cryptocurrency miner when picked up by AI's. /s
Probably only works for non chronic forms - but I have seen some one shut down their kidney function by mixing zinc tablets with prescription meds.
> I never knew about how soap dissolves the virus's outer coating

That's not true for every type of virus, but it is true for corona viruses.
I'm enjoying War and Peace on my Kindle.
Most MCUs don't have a persistent real-time clock and thus if power is lost, there is a good chance TOTP based 2FA will no longer work.
Bokeh is both a feature and a bug. I kinda figure if cameras never had bokeh we would never miss it.
Stop politicizing, work together. Now is not the time.
> you controlled the layout

You don't control the display which is the entire point of a hypertext reflowable render engine.

There were a ton of crappy designery flash sites with inscrutable navigation and "works best in 800x600" inflexible layout.
No. The engagement will be governed by a contract, and those contracts will often require they staff a certain number of people for the engagement - especially if it's a "butts in seats" kind of engagement, which this looks like it is.

There will be provisions for backfills if/when people quit and the like, but otherwise they would have to have agreement from FB to alter the contract to have nobody billing for some period of time.

Whomever is managing the engagement from Accenture is shitting the bed and communicating poorly, for sure, though.
This is an extremist position that isn't useful.

Testing is critical for contact tracing which still plays a fundamental role even in mitigation phase.

Infinite social distancing isn't practical. Some people still need to work and we need to know who has just a damn cold vs covid-19.
Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread
Does anyone have any info regarding childhood asthma and coronavirus?
Screw phone cameras; help people with visual impairments see better!

Phone cameras are already twice as good as they need to be.
Thanks, there's slightly more information there.

The messaging is still sickly over-positive. There is not a single mention of the cancellation of the physical WWDC. It's merely alluded to.

This is weak sauce. I don't really understand the motive. Would the stock market be more upset if this message spelled out things clearly?
GitHub has revamped their notifications UI
I have been using it for a few weeks and really like it actually. It's much better than Github's old notification system, where I would click on something that I couldn't resolve there and then, it would get be marked as seen and I would inevitably forget about it. Now I am in control of what I see as done and I can easily unsubscribe from things I don't care about without unsubscribing from a whole project.

I also don't get on with Gitlab's system at all. Haven't tried git.sr.ht but this new Github design is way better than anything I have used before.
Well, the point of having a government at all is to be able to step in when businesses can't afford to do something, or aren't incentivized to.
Here's what I'm worried about.

Italy has a population of about 60 million. We are expecting "40-70%" of people to get Coronavirus in the next 6 months or so. The serious symptoms can last for several weeks. With approximately 15,000 confirmed cases, their hospitals are completely overrun.

How is Italy going to deal with e.g. 5-10 million concurrent cases?

Note: this applies to every country, not just Italy.
Maybe you'd enjoy reading - and perhaps contributing to - Draft ETSI EN 303 645 https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/303600_303699/303645/02...
Why Ld_library_path Is Bad
For a fun dive into the wild days that were early-50s aeronautical research, check out the Hiller Flying Platform [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee]. It was basically the segway of the skies. Bay-area folks can actually go see the original at the Hiller museum next to the San Carlos airfield.
Good Lord that site is illegible from ads and nonsense on mobile. How did the internet get this way? I can’t even read what you are trying to say! It’s like the episode on Aqua Teens.

https://youtu.be/pBLkLwz4Oyo
Adam, (person posting on behalf), my family, friends and I appreciate your hard work, but it is obvious in your speech at Hillsdale that you favor Trump. That’s your prerogative, but please don’t water down the important job you have taken on by playing favorites. 50% of the country does not like him and we need 100% to hear you.

On one hand, you talk about politicians making promises they do not keep, yet on the other, you seem content with trusting the words and promises of politicians. When the VA in Palo Alto was called out for purchasing two sculptures worth $700k, why did another promise by a politician satisfy you? Who was fired? What happened to the statues? What was the Palo Alto VA’s spending report in 2019?

I checked out your app and was disappointed that it has not been updated from 2014. It’s 2020. Have you been in a court battle with California this whole time? And if so, please announce that with a banner or something on your app.
The label could have a simple grade, along with a QR code leading to the governmental agency approval DB page for the product in question.
I agree and sent my own feedback, where before I had one button to click "Mark all as read" but now it's three clicks and hidden, I actually didn't know it was possible until just now when I tried it out again.

Also what does "done" even mean? If I'm mentioned in an issue but it's not closed should I mark it done?
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
Looks like a Wordpress hack. I've dropped a note to the site maintainers and heard back already -- they're on it.
My apologies, I misunderstood the question then.
There is no good evidence that there are different strains.

That Chinese paper suggesting two strains has been withdrawn for lack of evidence.

Enveloped Coronaviruses have RNA proofreading mechanisms to lessen mutations, so it is unlikely there are multiple strains.
Indeed there was life before cells, too :)
Peer reviewed citation for the above:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006291X1...

"We also generated monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV spike proteins and observed that most of them promoted SARS-CoV infection. Combined, our results suggest that antibodies against SARS-CoV spike proteins may trigger ADE effects. The data raise new questions regarding a potential SARS-CoV vaccine, while shedding light on mechanisms involved in SARS pathogenesis."
List of Quantitative Investment Firms
Benchmarking 8 ways of concatenating an array in JavaScript. Who won?
Introductory walkthrough guide into Docker and DevOps for PHP developers
In Germany you will be VERY lucky making 100,000 euro / year. Germany has the lowest

software dev. salary / average country salary

ratio of all countries on planet.
Theory: as you ban a set of pins, for each pin the user wanted to enter, they will enter some similar pin that is not blocked, so the set of easy to guess pins is just a transposition once you know the banned pins and after some study understand what are the most obvious variations users will pick.
> I'm not sure how that is relevant to the right of being allowed to swap parts. If you can't make parts yourself but you can take salvageable parts from a broken device. Why should you be prevented from doing this repair?

As I stated earlier in this thread, you should absolutely have the right to attempt such repairs. I just don't believe that there should be requirements to make devices use more modular components, at the potential expense of other desirable properties.
Schools are open in CA also. There needs to be a stimulus that subsidizes paid time off or these organizations will go under.
some, not all.
This of course is great for public health, but I feel real bad for the hourly workers who depend on these conventions to get work.

The folks they hire to check people in, guard the door, move furniture around, hang signs, etc.

Those folks probably don't have much to fall back on.

Working in the service industry already sucks -- it's a lot worse when there is no one to service.
Bad headline. Editorial/opinion. Does not align with the factual statements of the article.
Best papers I've seen on the weather - virus link so far

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3551767

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550308
But AC is very common in the US too. So shouldn't we expect spread in US summer to behave more like Qatar than Africa? Europe on the other hand may slow down since I think AC hasn't caught on to the same extent.
More gin and tonic == less coronavirus. Got it. That's some specious logic I can get behind.
There are not two strains - that turned out to be bogus.
Two Women Fell Sick from the Coronavirus. One Survived
You may have missed Spanish flu being used a few times in this thread. Please also fight racism against Spanish people. You are doing important work. Gracias!
The purpose is not for you to fix your phone motherboard, a competent repair person with access to tools, schematics and repair software would do that. If bad quality of batteries are on the market the solution for fixing that is not to prevent people replacing the phone batteries, it would be like if bad petrol is sold somewhere and then car manufacturers use it as an excuse to force you to buy "genuime petrol" so your engine would continue to work.

Also if we want to prevent fires because of batteries then we should make Apple products illegal because it happened that Apple products had issues too https://support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall
This is neat. From time to time I use a thing I call livedisplay. It is a http endpoint that you can send json message to an it will forward it to web interface via websocket. Obviously much more overhead than 16 Counters, but works on network and cross platform.
Ask HN: How has Coronavirus affected hiring at your company?
Feedback sent via their contact form. Nothing further to discuss here really, happy reading everyone.
The checks and balances don't work as designed, and haven't for a long time. Any time there's a government shutdown that lasts for more than a couple of days, that's proof that this is simply a system too flawed to keep.

A better system is a parliamentary system: in those, you don't have conflicts often between the branches, because the executive is chosen by parliament itself. And in the rare case there is a conflict, you can dissolve parliament, have a new election, then the new parliament can choose a new PM and life continues.

There's a reason every stable, advanced, democratic republic in the world has a parliamentary system instead of one like the US's. The US's system is more similar to those in Russia and Turkey.
> How is Italy going to deal with e.g. 5-10 million concurrent cases?

By rationing healthcare. You save who you can. And try to ease the suffering of the rest.
The sad reality is that it won't, people will be left home to die. If you think about it they are already preparing for that by telling people to not go to hospitals but to call their doctors first.
Spanish government declares state of alarm
I've been on the Internet for 20 years now, and I've noticed the following trend:

1. Browser multimedia tech (Java applets, Flash, Silverlight) comes along that allows browsers to do very advanced things, like high-performance 2D and 3D graphics, cross-platform, multimedia, performant code execution, mic/webcam and other device access, etc..

2. For some reason, the Web Dev community FUDs on it, criticizing security, accessibility, open-sourcedness, etc...

3. The preferred Web Standards body of the year comes up with a plan to replace the plugin-based tech with new JS features, asm.js, wasm, web assembly, etc...

4. The multimedia tech dies a slow death, setting back browser capabilities by a decade, while Web Devs continue to try to squeeze performance out of JavaScript, and to this day fail to achieve feature and performance parity with what Java/Flash/Silverlight could do 10 years ago.
> There you go, anti-misinformation rules being used to delete inconvenient discussion.

... or possibly misinformation. We haven't seen the thread, so we don't know, do we?
Humidity makes flu less contagious, likely
because something about the wet heavy air deactivates airborne viruses.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/27533-f...
I believe travisoneill1 was confusing the government weather service DWD with the firm filing the suit, WetterOnline.
"It's famous in the roguelike world but I dislike that it is practically pretty much impossible to win without spoilers [0] (which means you have to read about it in wikis and co. to find a strategy that works)."

In my own case, I found the reading of the spoiler documents to be nearly as interesting and fun as playing the game.
Why Don’t We Treat the Climate Crisis with the Same Urgency as Coronavirus?
All the other illnesses in the world are still here, too.
29 states have declared a state of emergency due to COVID-19...

It's not so much about certifying it as disease free and more about certifying it as unsafe.
"Spanish flu" was coined and popularized literally over a century ago, and it's a bit late to affect what it's called. COVID-19 is still fairly new, and we can use what we've learned in the last hundred years to avoid the mistakes - linguistic and otherwise - of the past.
It's not in anything now. It's 404'd which is concerning.
That’s sad. The developer community is really awesome to meet with in person during these events.

I was hoping it would be moved to later in the year, not moved online.
Interesting thought, if cameras (and generally optics) wouldn't have bokeh, our eyes wouldn't have to focus either and wouldn't have bokeh in unfocussed areas as well.

In that case, we truly woulnd't miss it.
You are correct on all points, thanks for letting me know about the changed proposal.
> While you’re at it, file a complaint about them making you drive to work in a car.

If your employer forced you to drive through floodwaters, you'd probably have a valid OHSA complaint.
Thank you..
I actually stalk you on here so finding this thread was easy. I have this link bookmarked and check it most days.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lisper

I've watched your QM video several times and will do so many more I'm sure in hopes that someday I will understand it.
It may not be 100% true, but quanitfying the accuracy certainly helps.
Easy, the math is so simple but not obvious to able-bodied people. Anyone who knows how the anti-vaxx crowd mindset is broken against the elderly and disabled has enough of a clue here.

Threaten the ablebodied, they feign understanding accessibility. Do you have any legitimate questions, or was your point entirely bearing towards short-term effects like purchasable goods and not healthcare for the (probably) doomed?

Your flippancy isn't improving your point. The panic for staying away is commendable, the impending panic to get to healthcare probably unnecessarily will be what makes the mortality rate resemble a very unwelcome sharp upward curve for the duration of time that we have bodies to expire or reinfection can be stemmed. Whatever comes first.
The problem with that statement is 'entirely'

You don't need to replace people entirely. You need to give them tools to increase productivity by 50%, then magically observe as 1/2 the workforce disappears.

The world is sloowwwwww to adapt. If everyone put one month of attention into learning basic python, we'd see a massive productivity increase for back office functions that would make tens of thousands of people redundant. Of course, that will never happen, but the tech literacy of the average young person is increasing by the day...

I disagree with your second premise too. Reducing the number of people in a profession increases the profits to the ones that make it in, thereby making it more desireable. Probably less candidates as you say.
> people are reluctant to speak to him because he's in (too) high demand. So we grind our projects on our own and only reach out if we can justify interrupting his work.

Sounds like your company needs to hire and retain more senior engineers. What happens if this person ever decides to leave the company?
I was a computer operator in the late 1970s and I used to read ComputerWorld which was the biggest enterprise tech "journal" (actually a newspaper) of the day. In the late 1970s they had a number of articles commenting on the need to fix the Y2K problem. So smart people were planning for it well ahead of time. On the other hand memory and storage were so limited then it was probably hard to get permission to allocate two more bytes for a 4-digit year. But people were definitely thinking about it for a long time before the year 2000.
Sure and each month I get labs done and review them with my renal doc. She advocates a plant based diet and has seen her clients stave off dialysis for over 20 years through diet. It took awhile to find such a doc as all others said there's no hope or nothing can be done..getting ready to decline further. Nope those docs were fired!
Novel error-correction scheme developed for quantum computers
Apparently Apple is pouring a million dollars into the local area to compensate a bit for the lack of business.
Dr. Vincent Racaniello was a guest on a Twitch.tv podcast hosted by Ethan Evans (Amazon VP) and Devin Nash (CMO @N3RDFUSION)

They talked for 2 hours and pretty much covered a bunch of questions about this subject, there is so much misinformation and panic going around

Here is a youtube link if anyone is interested @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWNuDT4t-TM

Also a Pastebin with the highlights https://pastebin.com/8juyjNFq

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Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D. (@profvrr on twitter) is Higgins Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Columbia University Medical Center. He has been studying viruses for over 40 years.
From what I have observed, the shift away from apprenticeship and on-the-job training to "must hire on with every imaginable skill already" corresponds to the corporate shift from 5 to 10 year views to quarterly views (the almighty quarterly earnings pet share report).
You're missing the point.

Buildings can be constructed, beds and associated equipment and I did mean beds as in hospital beds with associated equipment (ICU or otherwise) - where are you going to educated and train doctors and nurses to manage 3X.

Also, a common argument would be 3X is for such black swan events. What will happen to those beds, hospitals and manpower in a normal situation, especially with costs associated with educating and training medical professionals.

Don't get me wrong, I'm onboard with the fact that something fundamentally needs to change all over the world.
"mainly baseline lung damage" could you expand on what you mean there?
These are stickers; I was hoping they would be cryptographic labels that you could validate over the network.

Still, it's a start.
All I've heard regarding #1 thus far is "we don't know". Do you have source that states otherwise? Based on the responses so far, I'm not alone in wanting to review it.
These tests test for the presence of viral nucleic acid. You can still have detectable levels of viral nucleic acid in you after the infection has ended.

What actually matters is whether or not you have virus replicating in you. The presence of viral nucleic acid is an imperfect proxy for that.
I haven't worked with L4, but have worked with other microkernels.

There are parallels between secure kernels and real-time kernels. If you randomly build a system on top of a real-time kernel, you don't have a real-time system. If you randomly build a system on top of a secure kernel, you don't have a secure system.

However, if you want to build a real-time system, and understand what that requires, you will use a real-time kernel (assuming you have use for a kernel).

If you use a verified kernel (or any component for that matter) and accidentally break the requirements for the security proofs, then you weren't going to be successful building a secure system anyways, because you aren't doing enough systems security analysis. If you are going to do the security analysis, the pre-existing analysis of your kernel is something you can re-use, and your analysis will include evidence that you have met the requirements for reusing that analysis.

Similarly in real-time systems if you use a real-time kernel but don't do some sort of time-based analysis (e.g. rate monotonoic analysis), you won't end up with a real-time system. However, those sorts of analyses are not possible with a kernel that lacks proper real-time features.
Wont extreme social distancing just lead to another outbreak in the near future?
Threadroll from Front Line Seattle Dr Fighting Covid
WWDC presentations and half-remembered quotes from engineers in sessions.
Hopefully, Italy's lockdown is successful at slowing down the spread.

Politics aside, China has shown that it can work:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/
Coronavirus: Chinese supercomputer uses AI to diagnose patients from chest scan
There are multiple failure cases. It certainly could have been worse. On the other hand, it obviously could have been handled better.

I suspect the only "right" way to handle things like this is by the automated system having certain pathways that require human interaction for edge cases. That way "student X dropped out" and "student Y died" can be treated differently without needing a workaround or complaint. If the system tracking dorm allocations notes a vacancy, it can also note "but I can't handle this one" and assign appropriately.
It's hard for me to think of a situation where a dorm-room vacancy-notification email to a student would be a good idea. I can think of only sad situations that would produce a vacancy, in addition to the one in the article (for example, someone having to quit or pause college due to a family crisis, or running out of money to pay for college, or flunking out.) At best, this kind of email should go to a college employee to look into the matter, not to a student occupying the room.

This aspect of their system was not designed with much empathy in the first place. Dorm rooms should not be treated as warehouses to be filled with inventory. At the very least a manual override was available.