skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I heard is that roads have checkpoints on them, but aren't closed for necessary trips, which would include food transport. A solo operator of a vehicle driving food to a warehouse or grocery store isn't a big infection risk, especially with appropriate precautions being taken like social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands frequently, etc.

The food production aspect though is more problematic; it can involved larger groups of people and more human contact.
My thought is that cargo capacity is down a lot without passenger jets flying around.

And cargo operations staff may be reluctant to fly to China.

Staff wouldn’t be permitted to stay on the aircraft until takeoff. And would likely violate hours of service anyway.
> Some multi-track system like this is going to be necessary or more desirable than Italy, which has shut down the part of its health care system not treating COVID patients and is still mostly watching them die.

Please don't spread disinformation, this absolutely not what is happening in Italy.

ERs are working, hospitals are working.

Planned and elective procedures have been delayed, to spare personnel and rooms and to avoid creating new emergency cases in case the procedure goes wrong.

Italy has less than 7000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Dealing with those is not a problem. Even the 1000 people in ICU are not a problem themselves, the 600 in Lombardy are. Lombardy had around 900 ICU beds before the crisis (they now have more but the extra ones are makeshift); this means that 2/3rds of the bed are needed for COVID-19 patients only, which is obviously a huge problem. In Bergamo, the city with the worst situation, some people cannot be tubed because of lack of equipment will get will get a NIV instead, which is very very bad, but it's not "wathich people die".

BTW, Italy has enforced the dual track system for suspect COVID-19 cases since at least two weeks ago.
Agreed. I couldn’t identify even one “startup” actually threatened by these changes in the article.
This sounds right but still feels wrong. You could argue that even Uber (can one imagine a bigger mobile "startup"?) is "just prototyping new features for the FAANG companies".

Any manufacturer who sells exclusively (or even primarily?) on Amazon.com (think Ring) is potentially an acquisition target from Amazon.com

Personally, I don't have any solution but it gets in the way of my dream: I'd prefer the mobile platforms (iOS, Android) require that independent software vendors submit human and machine readable source code and build instructions and have the app store build and serve binaries with its own keys (think F-droid). Probably opt-in to begin with but eventually, I'd like this to be a requirement to be on the app stores.
But also DC just published the same advisory. All events being cancelled
The best way to avoid dying in a car crash is to never get into a car, ever, but we're not advocating that, are we? Car crashes kill more people in the US than alcohol abuse.

I get that you're afraid that your kids will end up abusing alcohol, but I think you do them a disservice by painting the world so black-and-white. Avoiding alcohol can have many good effects, but it can also leave people out of many valuable social (and in some industries) business experiences, as much as it's a shame that that's still the case. Better to let them make their own decisions when the time comes without unduly influencing them with an absolute. (And many prohibitions that you lay on kids end up backfiring greatly with opposite effect, so there are no guarantees.)

Meanwhile, there are lots of more likely ways that they could screw up their life. Alcohol is just an easy bogeyman to shake a stick at.
Now do it for bad posture plz
> they don't seem to have the will to make it happen.

They have litereally hundreds of billions sunk into R&D for internal combusion engines that only made sense because it was going to provide return on investment for decades to come.

They also hae hundreds of billions invested into precision tools to cast and machine crankshafts, pistons, exhausts, transmissions and all the other components an internal combustion engine vehicle needs than an EV doesn't.

I'm sure there are tons of people working at legacy auto-makers who want to focus on EVs, but it's going to sink them if they try.
The ultra-wideband U1 chip is going to be the main push behind AirTags. As I understand it, with 3+ devices close to each other, you can pinpoint the exact location of any of the other devices, so I imagine there will be an app for finding your AirTags in AR by moving your phone's camera around.
All large non-essential events over 1000 people are prohibited in SF [pdf]
What's more interesting is since "The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous" (2015)[1] HN thinks they are experts in how AA doesn't work.

These meme bugs that infect people are the on ongoing issue you see a lot here.

They make no sense, but that's why the meme works. AA is free and you talk to people about your issues, it's hard to see why it's wrong, which is why people love the meme.

Throw in some other regulars -

Inefficiencies mean people actually use more because of "Jenkins paradox" so don't make things efficient!

You are supposed to wake up every night in the middle because some researcher in the arts read it in 300 year old documents.

People are more afraid of losses than gains.

Dumb people think they are smart.

People rise to their level of incompetence... Actually this ones true. But it does mean Impostor Syndrome is more complex than people say.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...
Interesting. I suppose it's possible. Whatever went around was incredibly contagious compared to the usual flu. Almost the entire office, including myself, came down with it over the course of 1-2 weeks.

I'd like to think you're right. It'd be nice to know that I and the people I'm in regular contact with already have some immunity.
I'm fairly sure the quality of institutions in this day and age has almost nothing to do with participation trophies/equal ability propaganda, as this kind of thing rapidly gets torn to shreds as soon as one enters the job market.

I suspect it has a great deal to do with decades of people blaming government for their problems and increasingly less faith in government institutions, to the point of some politicians running on the idea that government doesn't work. It strikes me as difficult to get competent people for your organizations when the term "unelected bureaucrats" is used as an epithet, the pay is below equivalent work in the private sector, and the people at the top are selected for idealogical reasons instead of anything related to effectiveness, expertise or capability.
Did. you. read. my. blog. post. https://medium.com/@chx/a-note-from-an-open-source-lead-deve...

> Having NO "bright-line" CoC whatsoever is preferable by far to having one which makes a project utterly unmanageable in the face of bad actors.

The only bad actors here are people spouting nonsense like this. It doesn't happen. Show me the open source project that because unmanageable because they enforced their CoC.
Finally, a 24-hour work week.
Wouldn't a bill with inaccurate line items amount to a form of fraud?
Millions of people
That is ridiculous. I was commenting on a hypothetical situation.

People own guns for defense. There's reason to believe that if people are being trapped in a building against their will, they may use them.
Yeah, that's why I'm glad the door handles in my building are brass.
I'll take China's statistics (which I've not seen to be misleading) over the US's complete censoring of any information about the outbreak, and the CDC preventing people from getting testing.

At this point, all flights from the US should be terminated. Your government is a danger to your own country and to the world.
How We Created a Brand Story for Our MVP – Part 2
>... so the only reason you'd _travel_ there to get medical treatment is because that's the only place offering some obscure treatment you want.
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When is this not true though? Of course traveling farther would be less desirable when moving between developed countries, it adds burden and costs on top of whatever you were already going to have to pay without offering much opportunity for recouping costs. The only exception might be traversing the EU but that's because of geographical convenience more than anything else. America is literally across the sea, if we're cheaper for someone in the UK then someone fucked up somewhere at the NHS.
References? I'd love to believe this is the case but I haven't seen any mainstream news to this effect and I have indeed seen desperate shared tweet.

I mean, I'm happy if this is true but if you want to reassure people, give a reference.

Edit:

ERs are working, hospitals are working.

Press I read says: ER isn't working for non-COVID cases and isn't able to deal with a substantial number of COVID cases.

The term would be overwhelmed. And I know Italian hospitals are better than a lot of American hospitals, which certainly couldn't be called "top notch".
The solution to poor leadership in crisis planning and action is not to give those same leaders unprecedented power.

This sort of outbreak is exactly the type of crisis for which we rely on governments to plan. Here we are facing an oncoming hurricane and proposing draconian, untested, and unplanned solutions and people driven by fear are willing to give up any rights they have for un-guaranteed safety.
Sorry if it's a little glib, but the first thing that came to my mind after reading this post was:

"But apart from medicine, effective sanitation, drastically higher chances of living a long life, material welfare, peace and declining violence, and a near end to famines and legal slavery, what has the Enlightenment ever done for us?"

Sure, WWII claimed 3% of the world population, but Tamerlane got 5% and Genghis Khan 10%.
I'm not sure "advanced" is what's needed for healthcare systems to cope with this. It's relatively low-tech care scaled up quickly. My fear is that the amount of institutional inertia, and where in time the inflection point of overcoming that inertia lies will determine outcomes.
All solvable problems. Even in a recession. With political will...
Part 1 is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539983
Tell that to your grandparents who had to live through polio, small pox, and other terrible diseases that have been eliminated or significantly reduced to near nil.

While you're at it, ask them what it was like trying to keep in contact with someone far away before the internet. Maybe ask them about birth complications and childhood death rates.

People who pine for the past are ignoring the facts in their face. Life has never been better.
And more on that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/us/coronavirus-testing-de...
But that's exactly why diversification works. If you have manufacturing only in China and China shuts down, you lose. If you have manufacturing in both China and Mexico and China shuts down, you manufacture in Mexico. If six months later China is back online and Mexico is in quarantine, you manufacture in China.

Having presence in multiple regions lets you keep going the whole time. Having presence in only one region doesn't.
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Hi, I'm Eduardo Lowensohn, an entry level Full Stack developer with some experience in JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Node and SQL. I was working during my studies on around ten software projects. From a puzzle and also developing different websites, such as choosing the best movie or a competition between movies that are already in a saved database and also creating data and saving it to the same database. I also have some practice to encode a Google Map API and query MySql through the backend to connect the front end. Actually I continue to learn every day working on Dockers to test real projects and find errors through Codetriage. I have been working for five years in IT repairing computers and printers, finding vulnerabilities as well as small Cybersecurity projects. Also I have a BS and a MS in Cybersecurity from University of Maryland.
I disagree. The interest rate is not entirely divorced from tangible reality. Rather it's the emergent manifestation of the aggregate behavior and preferences of investors, savers, and foreign traders across the entire economy.

A low interest rate is the direct result of indifference to inter-temporal substitution. It indicates that households are willing to shift consumption from the present to the future, that firms can readily defer capital investments, and that foreign producers are willing to cover temporary shortfalls in domestic production because they have high faith in the currency and financial system.

All of those things are physical manifestations of how and why it would be easy for Denmark to weather a temporary supply shock. 3-6 months of reduced economic output can easily be handled by relatively painless deferrals in demand. Danish consumers will shift back vacations, home upgrades and new cars until later in the year. Danish businesses have very well maintained capital equipment, and can stretch maintenance and upgrade cycles. Chinese and Russian exporters have very high faith in the Danish Krona, and will sell goods today for the promise of Danish goods in the distant future.
If the virus has spread to 0.01% of the population (33k cases), a stadium with 6932 people in it has a 50% chance of having at least one infected person in it (assuming uniform distribution).

If the virus has spread to 0.1% of the population (330k cases), an auditorium with 693 people in it has a 50% chance of having at least one infected person in it.

If the virus has spread to 1% of the population (3.3M cases), a cafeteria with 69 people in it has a 50% chance of having an infected person.

If the virus has spread to 10% of the population (33M cases), a house or office with 7 people in it has a 50% chance of having an infected person.

If the virus has spread to 50% of the population (165M cases), a fortified secret bunker with 1 person in it has a 50% chance of having an infected person.

But if that bunker dweller hunkered down back when the spread was only at 0.01%, not only would they have less chance of being infected themselves, they would also not be potentially spreading it to others. So it pays to start limiting contacts earlier.
looks like we read the same thing
A list of companies WFH or events changed because of Covid-19
A bit tangential, but I have a mild concern that the focus on hand / face transmission which is undoubtably valid may be encouraging people to overlook the fact that covid-19 is highly transmissable without any contact through air / droplets. Many cases have been documented where people were infected without contact. To avoid infection, you need to avoid being in close proximity, especially in enclosed environments, with large numbers of people.
I really hope this is the case. The biggest issue I always have with the trackers is the granularity just doesn't seem to be fine enough.

Mind you I have never tried Tile, so they may be better in that regard, but there is only so much you can do off a single bluetooth signal
I've been having these thoughts recently that app stores were just proving grounds for the corporations.
Hard Sectoring
The quote is:

“Now, the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus," and, "One of my people came up to me and said, 'Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.' That didn't work out too well. They couldn't do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. And this is their new hoax.”

It's hard to parse that, but a reasonable interpretation is to say "this" refers to coronavirus. Notably he didn't say "criticism" at all, and referring to "politicizing" as a hoax doesn't make grammatical or logical sense (which of course doesn't mean it isn't what he meant. He said "the impeachment hoax", and he was impeached so clearly his interpretation of "hoax" is different to the normal interpretation).

Either way, I wouldn't say it's misinformation.
The OP is saying a lot more than "AA at least doesn't make things worse". It's making much stronger claims about what the evidence now shows, for example that AA is not only more effective than CBT, but requires half as much time (let alone money). They're saying that a new wave of stronger, randomized studies has completely overturned the previous weak consensus.
Take a look at https://github.com/z1lc/HeadUp2 -- it's basic but it works OK
Just in time and demand for remote meetings and remote schooling. If it's a PR move, it's a damn good one.
Lets see how things start changing when people's loved ones become very ill.
November? That's a long time ago, please give me more info on that.
At the risk of compounding the problem of having posted this in several places, copying into this reply:

Taking Johns Hopkins numbers (at time of me writing this):

125,108 confirmed cases
4594 deaths
66,682 recoveries
71,276 outcomes
4,594 / 71,276 = 6.45% have died (deaths / outcomes)
Do it more often (practice!) and don't take it seriously. Who cares if you sound like an idiot. This isn't a serious project after all.
Software side there's a lot that can be proven and said about small sections of programs. I think a sibling commenter talked about an ISO standard related to that (And I think it covers some hardware bits). My layman's understanding of it is that it's a way to specify as many assumptions about how the code will be run, where, and what side effects it will have and no others. That makes for a really nice set of assertions but the end effect is that you can't say anything about certain kinds of programs; i.e. This program is safe, That program can't be safe, and then these programs are unknowable. Godel should never have been allowed to publish anything.
I don't understand this comment. A cursor is just an iterator over the results. Would you prefer "iterator" as a name? A concept like it exists in basically every database API (for row-oriented databases) so that you can start processing results as soon as they start coming in rather than having to load all results into application memory first.
"I'm still not comfortable with the fact that the government will require people to attend what is essentially a religious service as criminal punishment"

Maybe there's some kind of slippery slope there, where they eventually start sending you to church for a parking ticket. But we don't seem to be sliding to that conclusion very quickly; so if it works, just go with it.

If you want to make a big federal case out of it, you could probably win it. But I honestly don't see how anyone wins with that outcome.
HN will down rank anything getting a lot of comments, I think votes might be factored in as well. It kills a lot of good topics and often allows astro turfing accounts to kill them.
Hell, New Zealand only charge $800 (USD500) for non residents!

In New Zealand if you get tested (free) positive for Coronavirus they'll put you in hospital (free). Assuming you've collapsed and need to be taken there in an ambulance, you'll still have to pay the $98.
So, how does immutability matter if we deal with the database -- which is what holds the state, and is obviously mutable.
Tech was exciting for a time, but human history is full of gatekeepers demanding their rents and only allowing others in their turf if they aren't too threatening.

We've been living through the good parts. It is only going to get more "normal".
> For example, if localities are purely self-interested, an unaffected region may attempt to quarantine and keep all of its medical infrastructure ready for itself rather than lend it to nearby affected regions. In such cases a coordinating mechanism can be extremely helpful.

Reality is already ahead of you. [1] Switzerland is currently having trouble receiving masks and other medical supplies that were commissioned out of state:

Being landlocked, goods bound for Switzerland necessarily have to pass through a different country first, in this case Germany. Germany has a decree by which Corona-related medical supplies must not leave the country - and right now, this even applies to goods destined to Switzerland that are just arriving at a german port.

A fully "decentralised" world full of self-interested microstates would see a lot more of this stuff.

[1] https://www.thelocal.de/20200312/mask-hysteria
> me intentionally getting it now, before there are many cases might help me and my family but speeding up spread by doing so might increase the size of the peak for everyone else.

It's also possible that we'll identify antiviral treatments, etc that will reduce the impact on our health system / death rate (in which case getting it later would be better).
I think part of the decline is just from its decline in popularity. Less money coming in means lower standards and, in some cases, less-scrupulous business models.

Have you seen cable TV in the past five years? It's gone so downhill. Half of the content is still in 480p, awkwardly stretched to wide-screen. Commercial breaks seem like they're twice as frequent as they used to be. Shows being aired have drifted even further into reruns-and-reality-TV territory. Even the content of the ads has shifted somewhat, from recognizable brands to injury attorneys who look like they filmed the ad themselves.

You can see the money being drained from the husk of an industry, and you can see the increased desperation as they try to scrape together what money they still can. The same thing is happening with antivirus software.
The UK is getting rid of tax on ebooks this December
Thanks for providing context. From the links provided by the other poster with knowledge of this university it sounds like similar interactions with riot police have happened a number of times.
Please let's not dip a toe into religious flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That is the link for part 1.
We've worked as a remote team, and non-remote team. Remote is hard. I would be concerned that the quality of the experience would be lessened by not being local.

At the same time, it is probably a good excuse for YC to test if they can operate remotely, as that could push them to scale further.

I would think that if they had everyone in the batch self-quarantine for the first two weeks, that would solve the issue wouldn't it?

The other concern of course is how can they fairly accept people from countries that may be under a travel ban.

Tough decision and lots of things to weigh I'm sure.
What virtual worlds need to become real world offices post-coronavirus
For context, the UK has suffered a number of terrorist bombings over the years; explosives are controlled substances, and anyone making them without a license will have the terrorism book thrown at them. Not really much point in spending two decades in Afghanistan "fighting terrorism" if you're going to let people brew TATP in their bathtubs like the 7/7 bombers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Arena_bombing : TATP, 23 dead, 800 injured. Grimly has a disambiguation page, for the other occasion terrorists blew up Manchester in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_July_2005_London_bombings

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing : very nearly assasinated most of the government!

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/the-day-an-ira-bomb-claimed-the-... : Queen's cousin murdered by bomb

And previously https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-devastating-effects-of-a...
It will be interesting to see how AirTags is designed. I love my Tile that I got as a gift this last Christmas, but the app experience is terrible. I have been kicking around the idea of reversing the Bluetooth protocol so I can write my own that gets out of my way and stops trying to sell me stuff. I suspect that Apple will obviate that desire if AirTags don't end up coming with a three-digit price tag.
From what I understand, that's how most house brands work.