skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who lived in Vermont and who has been on the Akwesasne reservation - yea, sure, but there still is a border. It isn't like folks in the grey zone can constantly wander across willy-nilly penalty free.

There certainly are places where you can just walk across a border in northern Vermont, and it's illegal to do so - so not many folks will cross the border.

Remember, we're not at walking-dead levels of societal collapse, we can still generally assume people are following orders given by governments, so just saying the border is closed and letting folks through on a case-by-case basis should be fine.
Microsoft wants to host as much information as possible so it can collect data on developers and users. It is very hard to avoid giving data to Microsoft. GitHub, NPM, LinkedIn, Office 365, Teams, the lock-in is still alive.

A decentralized web or a non-for-profit like Wikipedia is a much better model for these infrastructure projects.
In my experience this is often the case, confirmed by the fact that only one of the lights is blinding.
I'd imagine a lot of key pathways of trade don't really stop at the border. I'm sure that trucking, for example, doesn't hand off goods. They probably drive straight through after a short border check.

Unless they think they have significantly fewer cases than the United States, it doesn't make sense to block travelers.
I've been there. If you want to chat (and maybe even work on something together), mail me.
(Only watched a video trailer.) More gunz! E.g. homing missiles, proximity mines, etc.
Just to add on sibling's comment.

IntelliJ IDEA is the original tool from the resharper guys (jetbrains).
You will find pretty much every feature of resharper natively on IDEA with java/kotlin. Those were ported into resharper.

Jetbrains usually have very good IDEs, I've not used them all, mostly just IntelliJ which looks like the one they prioritize onto, so I recommend you to take a look if you liked the resharper experience.

Also, they have their own C# IDE: Rider, that should have all resharper niceties.
That's still not a false positive rate of the test.

But I agree that 0% false positive rates are going to be nearly impossible to achieve (for just about anything that isn't mathematics).
Yes, why is this not titled "Microsoft acquires npm"?
I anticipate that sooner or later the economic costs of staying on lockdown will overwhelm the benefits. We will probably begin to loosen restrictions and we will probably see periodic outbreaks in various places.

I don't know if that simply continues until a vaccine is viable or some other factor intervenes.

But this new reality won't be short-lived.
It still can
> The endgame is to figure out the least cost sustainable measures of getting R0<1

The question assumes this has already been done: "single cases here and there, maybe even 0 cases".

It seems to me that the key question at that point is, if there are no active cases--everyone exposed to the virus who is still alive has either never developed symptoms in the first place, or has recovered from whatever symptoms they had and is now asymptomatic--is there still a risk of spreading the virus further?
You're within the statistical margin of error.
First, since when collective responsibility became a good thing? Being responsible for things you never did is not something you want for yourself, so why want it for others?

Second, it's not only that guy who's at loss, it's also all the people who used or might use his software. Are those people responsible for Russian government's actions too?
If tensions ease too quickly and we release everyone into the wild, it could cause another outbreak. I don't personally know the parameters of that risk, I just know it is a risk.

But on the bold assumption that we somehow contain the virus, we have a global economic collapse to tend to.
Bay Area ‘shelter in place’ expected
I mean... git repositories can be cloned. People that depend on libraries can vendor them, or outsource that job to someone else (like Google's go module cache / checksum database). Using git does not make your project vulnerable to the whims of Github, and it doesn't make your users vulnerable to the whims of Github.

Ultimately, people that get banned from a site usually complain about it because they want something the site offers that they can't build themselves. People can distribute the source code without Github's help; what they offer is nice, but not essential. The community is hard to clone, though; and the community is a great way to get pull requests, bug reports, manage permissions, setup CI sandboxes, etc. (It reminds me a lot of YouTubers complaining about YouTube. The reason they don't self-host videos is not because it's hard to put an mp4 file on a webserver and let people download it. The part they can't reproduce is YouTube's steady stream of viewers and advertiser relationships. That is why they whine when YouTube demonitizes a video, but they don't leave the platform -- YouTube has something that they can't make themselves. Github is similar, though in my opinion, a lot less important.)
> This article has only one real tip: create a high school programming contest for it.

Yes, but this "tip" was demonstrated by an example. The example is a Pharo-based programming competition, so it's reasonable to say a few words about Pharo. Otherwise, the article would be pretty darn brief!
Don’t they get unemployment checks?
Maybe I'm wrong, but whenever I look up the topic there seems to be contradictory information. Maybe the latest in QM is too new to be stable?

For ppl in the know, here is a simple (maybe) question:

I can model "spin" of a photon such that two photons added with opposite spin direction will result in a polarised profile: but I can also add two polarised photons that produce a rotating pattern.

polarisation always seemed unnatural to me - do "real" photons spin (one way, or another) and only combinations result in polarisation? Because photons are often depicted as elementary (not the result of combining multiple photons), but also polarisable..
I don't really distrust Microsoft per se.

I just find it tragic that the only way GitHub could survive (I guess) was to be BOUGHT. Like why couldn't they stay smaller, focus on what they were good at, and standardize with the community all the integrations in an orderly manner?

Although, Microsoft has shown they care more about the developer community than Apple as of late. So for that, I can at least say my trust is rising. But it's a bit too late for me, I'm happily running Linux for most of my daily life.
I would hope the lockdown gives us enough time to do thorough testing & tracing of the virus. Also a lockdown + messaging should convince people to take this thing seriously and follow the precautions.

If we know who has it well enough then we can focus care on them, wait until they can fight off the virus and go back to normal after. That is assuming people don't transmit the virus after recovering from it.
> forcing anyone who uses your project, even on a server and not distributed to end-users, to contribute all changes back.

Actually, it doesn't quite do that. It treats "providing access to via a network" as "distribution", and requires the source to be provided, under the AGPL, to users who ask. For example, if Hacker News was AGPL'd (and not copyright owned by Y Combinator), I could ask Y Combinator for the source and they'd have to give it to me… but they wouldn't have to provide the original developers their patches.

If, say, this AGPL Hacker News was only available to people within Y Combinator, I wouldn't be entitled to receiving a copy of the source from the company. I'm not a user, you see. (Notably, the original developers aren't entitled to Y Combinator's fork, unless they're also being provided the software.) But I could ask a friendly employee for a copy, and they could get it for me, and then I could give it to anybody who wanted it as per normal GPL rules.
It sounds a little too serious for b.

If you develop symptoms you may need serious medical attention (intubation) in order to survive regardless of age.

Wether or not you develop symptoms you can develop serious organ damage that results in life long chronic health problems (due to damage to lungs, kidneys and testes.)

It sounds to me like this virus is in fact much more serious than most people thought even with the hype.
What terrifies me is the massive deregulation all the states are going to do to recover from this, likely causing ten times the damage the slight pause in toxic practices spared (fracking, etc)
well that and they can't afford a temper tantrum from the orange idiot. gotta tell him it's his idea or something.
If you only employ 1% of the workers and you pay an extra $50/mo, the rest of the market isn’t necessarily going to keep up with you. You’re probably just gonna end up hiring the top 1%. (Which also had a lot to do with Ford’s success, to be fair!)
Canada is a hefty, relatively normative, English-speaking country, I always assumed it'll be the obvious temp. shelter in hard times.
If masks curb transmissions. And everyone wore masks. Wouldn't there be a benefit as a whole?
Trump reportedly offered $1B to poach coronavirus vax for US use only
I’d be curious to see for each country the average stage at which a persons cancer was detected, and the average personal financial impact for treatment.
> He can literally git push to any webhost and they can literally git pull from there

I agree, he could (at least for the code itself--he can't do that with other meta-information, as another commenter pointed out). But apparently he isn't since Github locking his account appears to be such a big issue for him. (Unless he is already up and running on Gitlab--he says he's moving to there.)
South Korea Put into Place the World’s Most Aggressive Coronavirus Test Program
Mid Oct 2009 -- Github ceased gems.github.com to focus on source control
Critical Care Beds Per Capita

8 vs 34.7

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-012-2627-8
Parent comment seemed to connect the topic of loneliness to wall flowers and shy people, implying they are lonely. Parent then explained that trying to engage with them is difficult, which may explain why they are lonely.

You have offered explanations for why they are difficult to engage with. This seems to miss the point. If they are lonely because they are difficult to engage with, excuses are not relevant or compassionate. What might be a solution?
Isn't it about flattening the curve instead of eliminating the curve?
I was actually thinking Trudeau is telegraphing from his talks with other G7 countries, that other countries are going to close borders soon, and if you want to come home you should move now.
I am sorry to disappoint you, but a serious depression lasting years is already inevitable no matter what.
There is a pretty stark difference between British Columbia and Washington State right now (10x cases, 42 vs 1 death)
Props for full backwards compatibility. Are they simply using VM?
Bitcoin price crash forces miners off network
It should be a monthly payment. This single 1k cash handout is a joke. The gov announced over $2T worth of measures to help the "economy", average Joe is about to get less than 1/6th the amount.
Your vehicle is not safe to drive.

Presumably you know this already but think it's ok because it's unlikely that you will end up in an accident as a result.
Your data for most of Africa does not exist
Smaller wealth, but larger safety nets.

Swedes and Germans aren't going to have to pay a $13k deductible if they have an unexpected surgery, for example.
Sorry mate. It's cheaper to make it from syngas, cow poo and other biomass. Even cheaper yet to buy it from the Saudis. It's doable but not from atmospheric CO2. We need algae of floating ferns to fix that one.
If he was demonstrating much needed leadership at the moment, he'd have taken bold action, calmed people first which might have calmed the markets. Also, Trump's tax cuts and constant threats to the Fed chair to cut rates (imagine if Fed had cut rates to 0 last year as per his demands) have left us with no levers other than ones which could potentially be catastrophic in the future. I don't think there's any shortage of non-corrupt politicians but I can't point to a single non-corrupt politician on the right (maybe except Romney).
It's true insofar as VS Code is widely loved by web developers.

So it "furthers my intended point".
Why not change rail/truck crews/drivers at the border or stations closest to the border?
Uncertain. Four days have elapsed since I first showed symptoms, but unclear how long I had it before then since it normally has a long incubation period and I doubt I actually caught it whilst running round a park in the evening on Weds which was the only time I crossed the threshold that day

Best guess is I caught it last Monday (train ride through London). Would prefer that to earlier since I was travelling back from seeing my parents and my brother's young family in a lower risk area then...

Also possible I caught it from a coworker the previous week when actually in the office: she is self isolating but exhibiting very different symptoms.
First human trial for coronavirus vaccine begins Monday in the US
So if you are just above “poor” what happens then?
The problem is that most of the inappropriately-tall consumer vehicles get that way after the fact. I.e., people modify them. If this is only getting enforced at the manufacturer level, instead of the vehicle-inspection level, it's not going to accomplish much in that category.
Constantly threatening someone that they'd be fired will not make someone want to stay at their job. Just saying.
I thought this interview was illuminating for post-lockdown life in China https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1238604080571772928?s=2...

It shows just how far behind we are.

TLDW: Temperature checks everywhere. Fever clinics optimized for quarantining the potentially infected.

China is trying to actually contain the virus. The only way out for us unless we significantly ramp up testing and lockdown is to admit defeat and simply optimize for slowing down the onslaught.
These rates are tricky to evaluate because they depend a lot on screening philosophy (i.e. (a) in one country, a non-aggressive cancer is never detected and never counted. In another, it is detected and counted as "survival". (b) some lethal forms of cancer have fairly constant distribution of survival time, so if you detect them earlier, you can take credit for higher survival rates without actually having altered the course of the cancer in any way).
Medical assistance is ‘supportive’

This means:
If you come to hospital, we give you oxygen. Initially through nasal prongs, then progressively through mask and then straight to intubation - ventilator.

If the lungs are completely unable to oxygenate, we will put you on ECMO which can work quite well whilst the lungs recover.... unfortunately not many of them.

We will also take bloods and give IV fluids. If your blood pressure crashes, you may be given inotropes/vasopressors but the case reports about people who make it this far are not good to date (frankly, anyone who needs an ICU bed even today has a 30% mortality rate so there’s always the baseline comparison)

Once ventilated, you will usually be in antibiotics to prevent opportunistic infections.

We have no other ways of helping those who are otherwise able to breathe on their own, besides symptom control (ie fever/aches and pains) however if I were to get this I would ride the fever out (heightened temperature activated immune system, trial in ICU of permissive hyperthermia shows survival benefit, although this is in sepsis patients)

If you have a productive cough (cough usually dry) then chest clearance, breathing exercises may be helpful, but should consider seeking antibiotics for secondary bacterial pneumonia
BC had 3 more over the weekend, now 4 deaths. And quite an up-tick in cases. :(
Gas purchases might have a bit of spike before a lagging downtrend. Everyone in my area has been panicing and stocking up on whatever they deem essential. I certainly succumb to the panic as well. Though, I bought cheap shelf stable dry staples. I also filled my tank in case the gas supply chain gets disprupted.

I don't expect failures of the supply chains. But I do expect there to be some unexpected problems that lead to very bad situations for some. I've prepared my home to be wholly self sufficient for a week without power, water, sewer, internet, gas, etc. I don't expect disruptions to any of these, but I also didn't expect people to panic by toilet paper of things.
> It's cheaper to make it from syngas, cow poo and other biomass

Agreed.

> cheaper yet to buy it from the Saudis

Agreed. This would need to be a cost caused by regulation.
Oil prices seem to be about half of what they were in Jan - but gas prices don't seem to have fallen as much. Any idea why?
References which may be helpful to understand some of the factors mentioned:

- debt worldwide hits 86k per person [ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683923]

- people buying cars using financial products they don't understand [ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14476381]

- rollback of federal oversight [ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/congress-passes-...]

- wage stagnation [ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19253364]

- how consumers and lenders pursue consumer debt [ref: https://www.propublica.org/series/unforgiven]
I read the comment as referring to how the infrastructure is set up, not the care itself.

For me this covers how payments and insurance are organized.

Most people who are used to free healthcare aren't ready for the type of bills that come from an accidental visit to a US hospital.
The standard could be improved, and they don't prevent everything, but in general they are effective.

https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/iihs-recognizes-semitrailer...
I always try to maintain a safe following distance, but the folks behind me in their lifted trucks are not always so courteous :/
Epidemiologists say to stop buying masks only because there are not enough of them for the healthcare system and general population.
They are 100% entitled to those choices. I can't disagree there.

The only thing I disagree with is that I should have the choice to not pay for other people's choices of not doing nothing. If they want to be like that, they can as long as they don't interfere with everyone else's choice.
CMSD Will Feed Kids While Schools Are Closed
I too was curious about how much the acquisition cost. According to TechCrunch:

> GitHub, the developer repository owned by Microsoft, made a little deal of its own this morning when it bought JavaScript packaging vendor npm for an undisclosed amount.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/github-nabs-javascript-pac...
If social distancing can bring the number of cases down to a manageable level, you can switch to a traditional public health approach: Test anyone showing symptoms, and aggressively trace and test any contacts of known cases.
Great tool, what did you build this with?
It's Time for OAuth 2.1 (2019)
I'll add my own plug to this http://blag.fingswotidun.com/2016/05/evolved-images-using-sh...

Here I use 2D SDFs along with random mutation to generate images rendered from 1k of data.
It's the Mona Lisa evolving thing again only using SDF shaders.
I think that GP's point is that signed distance functions are not the ideal way of representing geometry. If you are clever, and that's the whole point of the demoscene, your can design a good looking scene in a very small amount of space. However, when it comes to model real world objects or an artistic vision, they are not as effective as triangle meshes.

An alternate method of rendering could use the marching cubes[1] algorithm to convert the signed distance field into a triangle mesh and then render it using more conventional techniques (rasterization).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes
Because we have functional universal healthcare, safety nets that let people stop working when ill, etc.

I've lived in both, I am very happy I am in Canada instead of the US right now.
Show HN: Completely new approach in social networking
Model Solves Mystery of How Gas Bubbles Build Big Methane Hydrate Deposits
I have only ever gotten to githubs via goggle...
You didn't really have to reply either. Judging by the upvotes on my original comment, my point did come across.
Hazelcast Jet – Open-Source Distributed Stream Processing
> forcibly prevent competitors from arising by leveraging their control over resources or a legal advantage

User visibility is a resource. While overwhelming popularity is not the same as a Monopoly (since they are from 2 different perspectives, they can't be equated), the effect is often the same.
Mediocre developers? Please. The arrogance here is astounding and not needed.
Agreed, some very smart and ruthless people sell packaged tap water
Trump=scum
What's the current best false negative rate of any coronavirus test?
Social networks shed light on how genomes are organized
Reviewing the Chromebook Google sent me for free after 2 years
On the other hand, it's just as easy to say "I told you so" and name a thousand factors that we've cried wolf on. We are working on small data and can't draw conclusions despite our human desire to so
How much is coronavirus spreading under the radar?
I just meant it as a joke of south vs north.
"Unlike sacrificing everything for the sake of not getting coronavirus, that can actually go on indefinitely."

Not even remotely true.

If people go back to normal (against the advice from every agency with experience handling communicable diseases) the disease will spread at an exponential rate. Healthcare systems across the globe will be overwhelmed (like Italy and China but vastly worse) and people start suffering and dying from curable illnesses due to lack of capacity.

Then, once people start dying by thousands, everyone will quarantine themselves anyway.

There is no scenario where this doesn't ripple.
Url changed to that from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2057-7. Thanks!

For something like this where so few readers can understand the specialist article, it's preferable to link to the best popular summary.
Italy.
They say that so we, the dumb animals, don't stockpile them like we do with toilet paper (can't find any for 2 weeks straight in my area of Berlin for example).

Of course masks are useful, but they're more useful in hospitals / on health care workers' face, than on the average citizen which won't be in contact with the virus that much now that most of the world is starting to get locked down anyway
Not sure the UI is working the same for me -- dragging anywhere along the time axis, including the first death and hospitalization peak waypoints, scales the amount of time shown on the graph. It doesn't appear to affect the model.
The Mohawk Akwesasne council covers parts of New York, Ontario, and Quebec. The international border crosses islands in the St. Lawrence River as well as mainland areas, with tribal members going back and forth to visit family, go to school, get healthcare, go to work, etc. It's very complicated to monitor and regulate, with various tribe, state, provincial, and national authorities involved. There already is at least one COVID19 case being tracked: http://www.akwesasne.ca/mohawk-council-of-akwesasne-and-sain...

Further west, the bridges over the St. Lawrence connecting New York and Ontario get lots of daily cross-border workers, usually Canadians working in New York, as well as the normal flow of trade and tourism going both ways. Shutting it down would have a huge impact on the economies of both countries, but particularly Canada.
I didn't want to write it out again but you took the words out of my mouth.

All of the worst [pending] peer reviewer papers are gradually being confirmed, it seems. The news has been getting consistently worse for literally two months now and we now have at least a dozen countries on lockdown, and growing.
Not that many companies had proxies when leftpad was taken down.